#esper control

[magical-leak]

[magus-of-the-color-pizza]

It feels really, REALLY good to banefire 5 for lethal an arrogant esper control player and watch them cast Absorb whilst you have Tybalt on the field. Bye bye friendo, say hello to Teferi for me.

[intrepidguardian]

Testing with Esper Control be like

[magical-leak]

[sinister-resonant-bell]

Okay Real Talk

I am not excited for Rotation this Fall with Zendikar Rising

I am going to be very very sad to lose all the GRN and RNA cards. Even some cards from WAR are sweet.

The Guilds block- especially the first 2- were what made this last standard the best in so long. And I’m thankful I got to play it for most of its entirety. I’ll remember it forever, no meme

[absurdheroine]

Beating esper control with jank

[jace-beleren]

Qs & As: A Control Primer

Welcome back to the Battleground weekly article segment! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday, however you chose to spend it. We too

It was my turn for a weekly article, and they let me talk about control. I played Esper Control at GP Milwaukee, and this article focuses on the importance of matching answers to threats, and how to navigate the current Standard meta!

[intrepidguardian]

Standard RPTQ Prep

I’ve been grinding Arena Competitive Constructed matches with Esper Control trying to get ready.

So far I’m 10-3 over the last two days. 

It’s paying off (I can tell because of the little tweaks I’m making here and there), but it’s exhausting. And all the pros that I would turn to are too busy arguing about the Hall of Fame vote (which is a completely different topic I’ll talk about next week.)

Anyway, here’s a live look-in at my testing process:

I am very ready to X- 2 this RPTQ.