Foretelling Curses

Historic Control Counterspell WUB (Esper)

wirsindallein

Land (26)

• 1x Detection Tower
• 3x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 3x Godless Shrine
• 3x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 2x Plains
• 3x Raffine's Tower
• 3x Shipwreck Marsh
• 2x Swamp
• 3x Watery Grave

Instant (23)

• 2x Archmage's Charm
• 4x Behold the Multiverse
• 3x Dovin's Veto
• 3x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Memory Deluge
• 4x Poison the Cup
• 4x Saw it Coming
• 2x Void Rend

Enchantment (5)

• 3x Curse of Leeches  ^Flip
• 2x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Doomskar

Artifact (2)

• 2x Midnight Clock

Creature (2)

• 2x Accursed Witch  ^Flip

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Sideboard

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 2x Cry of the Carnarium
• 2x The Elderspell

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Teferi, Time Raveler

Instant (3)

• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 2x Tale's End

Artifact (1)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage

Creature (1)

• 1x Alrund, God of the Cosmos  ^Flip

Land (2)

• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Field of Ruin

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Strategy

The basic idea here is straightforward if grindy. We focus on controlling the field, while building up foretold options from turn 4 onwards. We ideally want to be able to drop a Curse of Leeches   around turn 5 or so, which lets us keep the two mana open needed for Dovin's Veto or a foretold Saw it Coming.

From here, we use Midnight Tower to prolong things while we continue to take control of the board and ping with curses. At some point, our opponent is going to run out of options of their own and its going to become night; When that happens, we swing with the transformed leeches to end.

Sideboard

• Cleansing Nova: We run this card against creature/artifact/enchantment heavy decks, where Doomskar alone isn't enough. Most notably here, I am thinking of those Izzet artifact decks that spam thopters all over the board.
• Cry of the Carnarium: Exiles weenies. Good vs Aristocrats and Dredge.
• The Elderspell: We have this mostly for superfriends
• Dreadhorde Invasion: This is an alternate win condition that we can bring out against other Control decks. Probably, replacing some of our removal.
• Alrund, God of the Cosmos  : Another alternate wincon
• Teferi, Time Raveler: Also here for matchups against other Control decks.
• Dovin's Veto: For vs control + tempo
• Tale's End: Also for Superfriends
• Grafdigger's Cage: More anti-dredge
• Detection Tower: Are they running stuff with hexproof? We should slot a second one of these in.

One of the things I like about this deck is that it is not very meta at all. I think that has certain strengths— It throws some people off. It also has some obvious weaknesses—Obviously, these things aren't meta for a reason.

Anyways, I'm open to feedback and suggestions.

Date added	11 months
Last updated	11 months
Legality	This deck is Historic legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 1 Mythic Rares 33 - 10 Rares 17 - 4 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Day, Night, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	Arena Historic