Jeskai Control (Standard)
Standard deck list · by Tester1
This Jeskai deck operates across two distinct but overlapping strategic shells: a tempo-aggro shell built around cheap cantrips, spell-matters creatures like Slickshot Show-Off and Eddymurk Crab, and a pure control shell leveraging card advantage engines like Gran-Gran, Jeskai Revelation, and Tablet of Discovery. Both variants use the Jeskai color combination's removal suite to answer threats while accruing incremental advantages. The tempo builds aim to establish a proactive threat early and protect it with cheap interaction and bounce effects, while the control builds grind opponents out with superior card quality and board control. Boomerang Basics and Multiversal Passage provide utility and land disruption as tempo tools.
Decklist — 60 cards
Creatures (10)
- 2Balmor, Battlemage Captain
- 4Enigma Drake
- 2Ghitu Lavarunner
- 2Gran-Gran
Lands (22)
- 2Hallowed Fountain
- 2Inspiring Vantage
- 2Island
- 1Mountain
- 2Mystic Monastery
- 1Plains
- 2Sacred Foundry
- 4Spirebluff Canal
- 4Stormcarved Coast
- 2Temple of Epiphany
Instants (14)
- 2Combustion Technique
- 4Lightning Strike
- 2Negate
- 4Opt
- 2Syncopate
Sorceries (10)
- 2Boomerang Basics
- 2Chart a Course
- 4Sleight of Hand
- 2Stock Up
Artifacts (2)
- 2Tablet of Discovery
Enchantments (2)
- 2Stormchaser's Talent
Sideboard (15)
- 2Annul
- 2Banishing Light
- 2Essence Scatter
- 1Fumigate
- 2Get Lost
- 2Pyroclasm
- 2Rest in Peace
- 2Soul-Guide Lantern