Iklanon

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It looks like your mana base needs to be fixed. With 18/18/25 W/U/B symbols, you need a lot more black producing lands. You also want to hit B turn one, while you can't even use W until at least turn four, needing to hit WW turn five, so you can take some of the white producing lands out for more B. You also have too many wincons, in my opinion. Ashiok can be taken out, as can one Elsbeth or the Pearl Lake Ancient. Replace them with two/three Banishing Lights from the sideboard, along with another Dig Through Time. Read the Bones also seems wrong, you don't have enough lifegain to justify the life loss. Divination or Jace's Ingenuity both seem better choices, maybe move a Despise to the main. As far as the sideboard goes, you definitely want four Drown in Sorrows against aggro. So the changes are:

Mainboard:

-1 Pearl Lake Ancient
-2 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
-3 Read the Bones

+2 Jace's Ingenuity
+1 Dig Through Time
+2 Banishing Light
+1 Despise

Sideboard:

-1 Despise
-2 Banishing Light

+2 Drown in Sorrow
+1 Utter End/Disdainful Stroke/Doomwake Giant

Lands should be:
3 Swamp
3 Island
2 Plains
4 Temple of Deceit
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2 Flooded Strand
2 Radiant Fountain
4 Polluted Delta
3 Temple of Enlightenment
3 Temple of Silence

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Posted 08 December 2014 at 03:40 in reply to #519048 on Standard: Esper Control

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