Esper control • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Soldier Giant

$18.99 $16.53 $15.46

Commander

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Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$57.99 $46.62 $44.79

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$89.99 $55.03 $55.93

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay

. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant

$20.99 $11.86 $11.10

Counters

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Decree of Silence

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, counter that spell and put a depletion counter on this enchantment. If there are three or more depletion counters on this enchantment, sacrifice it.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may counter target spell.

Enchantment

$24.99 $20.51 $13.54

Cycling

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Cosmos Elixir

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.

Artifact

$4.49 $2.78 $1.68

Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays

, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact - Human Soldier

$69.99 $55.35 $53.25

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$4.99 $3.33 $2.28

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$74.99 $68.30 $69.29

Draw

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Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.99 $0.40 $0.29

Caves of Koilos

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.69 $0.82 $0.46

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.59 $0.35 $0.20

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$1.49 $0.45 $0.31

Flooded Strand

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$21.99 $15.26 $15.51

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.29 $0.18

Godless Shrine

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Swamp

$13.99 $8.61 $8.31

Hallowed Fountain

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$10.99 $7.06 $6.64

Island

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Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

Marsh Flats

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$44.99 $37.40 $35.01

Plains

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: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

Polluted Delta

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$44.99 $30.37 $27.87

Raffine's Tower

(

: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Swamp

$22.99 $14.69 $13.98

Reflecting Pool

: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land

$---- $---- $----

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $4.67 $4.16

Serra's Sanctum

: Add

for each enchantment you control.

Legendary Land

$499.99 $521.73 $356.36

Starting Town

This land enters tapped unless it's your first, second, or third turn of the game.

: Add

, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land - Town

$21.99 $13.36 $13.25

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.29 $0.68 $0.57

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Legendary Land

$74.99 $56.10 $52.10

Watery Grave

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

$14.99 $10.29 $9.20

Land

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Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$7.49 $5.21 $4.01

Lifegain

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Angel's Grace

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Instant

$4.99 $3.30 $1.33

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$7.99 $6.08 $5.35

Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature - Human Cleric

$27.99 $18.84 $16.91

Karmic Justice

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls destroys a noncreature permanent you control, you may destroy target permanent that opponent controls.

Enchantment

$3.49 $1.89 $1.22

Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment

$6.99 $4.57 $2.05

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment

$24.99 $25.21 $20.94

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.99 $2.30 $2.22

Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Instant

$16.99 $11.23 $8.30

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant

$57.99 $46.66 $41.64

Windborn Muse

Flying
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Creature - Spirit

$1.29 $1.19 $0.71

Protection

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Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$1.49 $0.63 $0.36

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.73 $0.25

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$8.99 $4.88 $4.16

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost

more to cast.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$17.99 $17.39 $15.63

Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment

$21.99 $16.65 $16.66

Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Legendary Creature - Rogue Halfling

$10.99 $7.86 $5.63

Lotus Petal

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$42.99 $40.11 $37.45

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $2.04 $1.30

Will, Scion of Peace

Vigilance

: Spells you cast this turn that are white and/or blue cost

less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$1.29 $0.99 $0.39

Ramp

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

$4.99 $2.99 $2.98

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant

$4.49 $1.94 $1.59

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$3.99 $2.09 $1.96

Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost

more to cast.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment

$8.49 $6.09 $5.62

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $3.99 $2.40

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$42.99 $38.41 $37.25

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$23.99 $20.83 $18.58

Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.99 $1.33 $0.90

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant

$0.59 $0.39 $0.15

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$5.99 $4.03 $2.86

Farewell

Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery

$32.99 $25.04 $22.65

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$84.99 $64.98 $64.33

Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$69.99 $51.46 $50.01

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant

$2.49 $1.71 $1.18

Permission Denied

Counter target noncreature spell. Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells this turn.

Instant

$17.99 $14.09 $13.53

Render Silent

Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

Instant

$4.49 $1.68 $1.45

Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$3.49 $2.22 $1.79

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$2.99 $4.48 $2.58

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$15.99 $12.91 $12.47

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

$2.49 $1.96 $1.30

Utter End

Exile target nonland permanent.

Instant

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Void Rend

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant

$0.99 $0.36 $0.23

Removal

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Drannith Magistrate

Your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.

Creature - Human Wizard

$15.99 $12.00 $10.54

Opposition Agent

Flash
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature - Human Rogue