Venturing forth (Esper venture)

Standard Combo Competitive FNM Venture Into the Dungeon WUB (Esper)

Blackgate

Creature (24)

• 2x Acererak the Archlich
• 4x Dungeon Crawler
• 3x Gelatinous Cube
• 3x Hama Pashar, Ruin Seeker
• 2x Krydle of Baldur's Gate
• 3x Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
• 3x Nadaar, Selfless Paladin
• 4x Triumphant Adventurer

Land (22)

• 2x Deserted Beach
• 4x Grimclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 4x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 4x Island
• 4x Murkwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 3x Plains
• 1x Swamp

Instant (10)

• 3x Fateful Absence
• 3x Infernal Grasp
• 4x You Come to a River

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Fly

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Barrowin of Clan Undurr
• 1x Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
• 1x Iymrith, Desert Doom
• 1x Selfless Glyphweaver  ^Flip

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Paladin Class

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Fates' Reversal
• 2x Humiliate
• 1x Inscription of Ruin

Instant (4)

• 2x Fracture
• 2x Negate

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Maybeboard

Creature (12)

• 2x Black Dragon
• 1x Blue Dragon
• 1x Ebondeath, Dracolich
• 1x Icingdeath, Frost Tyrant
• 1x Ludevic, Necrogenius  ^Flip
• 1x Sea Gate Stormcaller
• 1x Shadrix Silverquill
• 1x Valentin, Dean of the Vein  ^Flip
• 1x Valki, God of Lies  ^Flip
• 1x White Dragon
• 1x Yuan-Ti Malison

Instant (7)

• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Divine Smite
• 1x Fading Hope
• 1x Fracture
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Vanishing Verse
• 1x You See a Guard Approach

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Borrowed Time
• 1x Cleric Class
• 1x Rogue Class
• 1x Warlock Class
• 1x Wizard Class

Artifact (3)

• 1x Dungeon Map
• 1x Eye of Vecna
• 1x Mimic

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”You must gather your party, before venturing forth” - Balur’s Gate dungeonkeep, to wide eyed adventurer.

Deck{W}{U}{B}:

Play the role of a D&D player and venture into this dungeon crawl with a variety of cards that aim to gain a steady stream of incremental advantage with the venture into the dungeon mechanic.

Overwhelm your opponent with value-added venture triggers and complete dungeons to gain grand rewards and +1/+1 anthem effects with Nadaar, Selfless Paladin. Finally, resurrect your fallen adventurers with finisher Liesa, Forgotten Archangel and recast them so they may continue ... venturing forth!

Preferred Dungeon: Lost Mine of Phandelver

Adventurers & monsters (creature spells):

• Dungeon Crawler (complete a dungeon: recursion)
• Triumphant Adventurer (deathtouch, conditional first strike, venture when attacking)
• Krydle of Baldur's Gate (2 mana venture enabler via unblockable ability, Krydle’s venture*)
• Acererak the Archlich (3 mana venture enabler, token generator)
• Hama Pashar, Ruin Seeker (when venturing, rooms trigger twice)
• Nadaar, Selfless Paladin (ETB venture, venture when attacks, complete a dungeon: +1/+1 anthem effect)
• Gelatinous Cube (conditional removal)
• Liesa, Forgotten Archangel (flying, lifelink, creature recursion)

Journey onward (venture enablers):

These cards help keep your venture engine running when you have mana to sink.

• Krydle of Baldur's Gate. Make another creature with venture unblockable or make Krydle unblockable and hit your opponent for combat damage to activate *Krydle’s venture: deal 1 damage to opponent, opponent loses 1 life, opponent mills 1 card, you gain 1 life, you scry 1.
• Acererak the Archlich

Dungeon master (finisher):

• Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Traps & secret doors (evasion, removal, control spells):

• Fly (flying, venture)
• You Come to a River (unblockable OR return target nonland permanent to owners hand)
• Fateful Absence (removal)
• Infernal Grasp (removal)
• Gelatinous Cube (conditional removal)

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy playing the deck! Feedback and suggestions are always welcome and appreciated -Blackgate

Top Ranked	Achieved #21 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #5 position in Standard 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Standard Combo 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Standard FNM 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 1 Mythic Rares 30 - 6 Rares 15 - 5 Uncommons 4 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.45
Tokens	Clue, Dungeon: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Dungeon: Lost Mine of Phandelver, Dungeon: Tomb of Annihilation, Goblin 1/1 R, Skeleton 1/1 B, The Atropal, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B