Value / Grindy - Nevinyrral Esper Control

Commander / EDH WUB (Esper)

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Land (43)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Raffine's Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Shattered Sanctum
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Silverquill Campus
• 4x Snow-Covered Island
• 5x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (34)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Angelsong
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Archmage's Charm
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Behold the Multiverse
• 1x Borne Upon a Wind
• 1x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Darkness
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Glimmer of Genius
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Graven Lore
• 1x Inkshield
• 1x Lost to Legend
• 1x March of Otherworldly Light
• 1x Memory Deluge
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Negate
• 1x Quick Study
• 1x Quicken
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Silundi Vision  ^Flip
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Summary Dismissal
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Vanishing Verse

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Damn
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Devastating Mastery
• 1x Doomskar
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Hallowed Burial
• 1x Ondu Inversion  ^Flip
• 1x Rout
• 1x Search for Glory
• 1x Silver Scrutiny
• 1x Sunfall
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Wrath of God

Planeswalker (6)

• 1x Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
• 1x Kaya the Inexorable
• 1x Narset Transcendent
• 1x Professor Onyx
• 1x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Creature (2)

• 1x Arena Rector
• 1x Snapcaster Mage

Artifact (1)

• 1x Expedition Map

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Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant - Primer

Archetype

Control deck that aims to be a non-threatening player in the early game, just focusing on hitting land drops. We have most of the best esper control tools from magic's history. But multi-player requires you to navigate the politics craftily, since becoming the archenemy early makes your likelihood of winning much less promising. But survive to the late game, and your victory is all but assured. The best approach in most pods is to sandbag your board wipes in order to avoid attention. You dont need to answer every threatening permanent; let the table decide how to address problems. You can leverage spot removal and fogs to avoid taking lethal swings, which is easy to justify as self defense. Take random hits freely, but be wary of voltron threats setting up too powerfully. The most worrisome card in the game for us is Robe of Stars. We want to destroy or counter it before it can be activated multiple times per turn.

The game should eventually reach a point where you can wrath away the board a few times and your opponents will be essentially out of resources. Even their commanders will become hard to redeploy once you tax them enough. We have a liberal amount of card draw and filtering, with half of our planeswalkers drawing cards, and spells like memory deluge and sphinx's revelation refilling our hand, and filtering from castle vantress. We should have more gas than everyone else, and our commander's quirk of being a board wipe on a stick gives us a fallback option if we need to answer multiple threats. Our sweepers pave the way for our planeswalkers to land and regularly procure us emblems. From there, it should be a breeze to cross the finish line.

Your main combo and reason for running this commander:

Cast Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant, hold priority with the enter-the-battlefield trigger on the stack and sacrifice Nevinyrral to Phyrexian Tower, use the mana from Tower to pay for Nevinyrral's dying trigger; create zombies. This is a one-card combo that just needs your commander. You can also tutor Phyrexian Tower through Search for Glory, Tolaria West or Expedition Map.

How do we win? ...

Win condition 1: Show

Make a lot of zombies with Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant and attack the opponents with them.

Win condition 2: Show

Make a lot of inklings with Inkshield.

Win condition 3: Show

Bolt the table to death with Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (slowly).

Win condition 4: Show

The table concedes because they can't stick a board.

Win condition 5: Show

If somebody doesn't want to concede even after you have one or more planeswalker emblems, keep tucking Teferi, Hero of Dominaria back into your deck and win by your opponents running out of cards in their libraries.

Win condition 6: Show

Play your commander as a beatstick and kill people with commander damage. This might be a consideration if you have an opponent with infinite life or depending on some other corner case game states.

Note:

No path to Exile? Show

Path to Exile is an amazing card. One mana to deal with a creature forever is an incomparable rate. This card should be an auto include, definitely put it in your list. I just don't like giving an opponent a land, it's a free resource. I'm weird.

No sol ring? Show

Yes, because our commander and planar cleansing effects destroy it. In my opinion, the acceleration isn't worth effectively stone raining yourself later in the game. But I wouldn't fault a player for playing sol ring. If you have to play a mana rock, this is the one to include.

45 Lands? Show

Yes, we can't afford to miss land drops in a deck with zero mana rocks. And this deck is very mana hungry. This deck also needs to double spell on turns to play around opponents' countermagic with our own.

Worth finding room for if you have access to these cards, but not necessary by any means: Show

Force of Will, Force of Negation, Solitude, Cyclonic Rift, Demonic Tutor, Subtlety

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.47
Tokens	Emblem Jace, Unraveler of Secrets, Emblem Kaya the Inexorable, Emblem Narset Transcendent, Emblem Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Incubator, Inkling 2/1 WB, Phyrexian 0/0 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B