Isperia's Lantern

Commander / EDH Budget Control Flying Sphinx Tempo WU (Azorius)

Futuremonk

Land (38)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Ipnu Rivulet
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 11x Island
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Moonring Island
• 1x Moorland Haunt
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 7x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Ondu Inversion  ^Flip

Removal (8)

• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Disempower
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Unexpectedly Absent
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Divide by Zero
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Skymark Roc

Shuffle (6)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Lantern of Insight
• 1x Commit / Memory

Anthem (4)

• 1x Favorable Winds
• 1x Empyrean Eagle
• 1x Thunderclap Wyvern
• 1x Inniaz, the Gale Force

Tokens (4)

• 1x Moorland Haunt
• 1x Not Forgotten
• 1x Skycat Sovereign
• 1x Inspired Sphinx

Protection (3)

• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Jubilant Skybonder
• 1x Sephara, Sky's Blade

Steal (3)

• 1x Chaos Wand
• 1x Dazzling Sphinx
• 1x Inniaz, the Gale Force

Draw (16)

• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Dakra Mystic
• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Divide by Zero
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Dream Trawler
• 1x Sphinx of Enlightenment
• 1x Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1x Inspired Sphinx
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Windreader Sphinx

Ramp (12)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fractured Powerstone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Watcher of the Spheres
• 1x Warden of Evos Isle
• 1x Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

See Top (6)

• 1x Moonring Island
• 1x Dakra Mystic
• 1x Lantern of Insight
• 1x Psychic Surgery
• 1x Wizened Snitches
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Bounce (5)

• 1x Failure / Comply
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Divide by Zero
• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Skymark Roc

See Hands (4)

• 1x Glasses of Urza
• 1x Telepathy
• 1x Wandering Eye
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Board Wipe (3)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Ondu Inversion  ^Flip

Double Strike (2)

• 1x Duelist's Heritage
• 1x Fireshrieker

Commander (1)

Top (16)

• 1x Ipnu Rivulet
• 1x Moonring Island
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Dakra Mystic
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Bell
• 1x Lantern of Insight
• 1x Pyxis of Pandemonium
• 1x Dimensional Infiltrator
• 1x Mindshrieker
• 1x Mist Intruder
• 1x Nascent Metamorph
• 1x Not Forgotten
• 1x Psychic Surgery
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Wizened Snitches
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Life Gain (6)

• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Dream Trawler
• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Resolute Archangel
• 1x Sephara, Sky's Blade

Tuck (6)

• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Disempower
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Unexpectedly Absent
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Commit / Memory

Graveyard Hate (4)

• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Not Forgotten
• 1x Remorseful Cleric
• 1x Commit / Memory

Utility (4)

• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Failure / Comply
• 1x Not Forgotten
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Win (1)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun

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Maybeboard

Other (28)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Hushbringer
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Reprieve
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Warrant / Warden
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Wispmare
• 1x Angel of Finality
• 1x Battle Angels of Tyr
• 1x Major Teroh
• 1x Sanctum Gargoyle
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Archon of Justice
• 1x Kangee, Sky Warden
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Sphinx of Clear Skies
• 1x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• 1x Thryx, the Sudden Storm
• 1x Ethereal Forager
• 1x Requiem Angel
• 1x Sage-Eye Avengers
• 1x Shepherd of the Cosmos
• 1x Sunblast Angel
• 1x Tunnel Vision
• 1x Angel of the Dire Hour
• 1x Angel of the Ruins
• 1x Angel of Deliverance

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Isperia the Inscrutible has a unique ability: Whenever she deals combat damage to a player, you name a card, then they reveal their hand. If the named card is in their hand, you get to tutor for any creature with flying in your deck.

But how will you know what is in your opponents' hands before you damage them?

That's where Lantern of Insight effects come into play. If you can see the cards on top of your opponents' libraries before they draw them, you'll know that they are in their hands before you hit them with Isperia. Or you can just look at their hands with the Telepathy effects in the deck.

Since you'll be peaking at your opponents' hands and the top card of their libraries, the deck also has several ways to counter and/or mill. Also, basically all the removal and counters either bounce cards back to their owners' hands or put them on top of their owners' libraries. Furthermore, there are a few ways to cast the top card of your opponents' libraries as well.

Also, since you should often know the top card of opponents' decks, the deck runs a few ways to cast or otherwise get value from them, like Chaos Wand.

Lastly, since Isperia cares about creatures with flying, the deck runs a bunch of cheap creatures-with-flying-matters cards.

As for winning, attacking with big flyers is the main strategy. Plan B is to steal your opponents wincons. But as there are so many ways to skim cards off the top of decks and bounce spells back to players' hands or the top of their decks, this is also an Approach of the Second Sun deck.

The result is a fairly unique flying, controlling, tempo, and budget deck.

Suggestions welcome!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Cat Bird 1/1 W, Manifest 2/2 C, Plant 0/2 G, Spirit 1/1 W, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	Gift Exchange, commanders, 2022?