Sans Green Control
Also known as: Esper Red Control, Jeskai Black Control, WUBR Control
Commonly known as Jeskai Black or Esper Red. While this deck generally shares the same core of Ancestral Recall, Mystical Tutor, and Terminus with its 3-color relatives, the addition of a fourth color is often for improving specific matchups. Adding black to Jeskai grants additional disruption against fast combo decks through hand attack and Opposition Agent, whereas red grants Esper more efficient creature removal and closing speed through Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury.
Sans Green Control has excellent average card quality through playing the best-in-class options among cantrips, removal, counterspells, and threats with graveyard synergies. It is a solid choice into larger unknown metagames due to its stable matchup spread and strength at finding matchup-appropriate answers through card selection.
Example Decklist
Jeskai Black Control
By: GenghisPrawn
Event: Discord Webcam Weekly - Top 2
Date: 2026-10-03
Points (10): Time Walk (5), Forth Eorlingas! (1), Psychic Frog (1), Reanimate (1), Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar (1), Treasure Cruise (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
- 1Teferi, Time Raveler
Creatures (23)
- 1Deathrite Shaman
- 1Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
- 1Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar
- 1Ajani, Nacatl Pariah // Ajani, Nacatl Avenger
- 1Baleful Strix
- 1Bilbo, Thief in the Night
- 1Dreadhorde Arcanist
- 1Emperor of Bones
- 1Orcish Bowmasters
- 1Psychic Frog
- 1Snapcaster Mage
- 1Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
- 1Abhorrent Oculus
- 1Barrowgoyf
- 1Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft //
- 1Opposition Agent
- 1Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
- 1Aragorn, King of Gondor
- 1Deadpool, Trading Card
- 1Subtlety
- 1Quantum Riddler
- 1Solitude
- 1Murktide Regent
Sorceries (19)
- 1Chain Lightning
- 1Duress
- 1Flame Slash
- 1Gitaxian Probe
- 1Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1Ponder
- 1Preordain
- 1Prismatic Ending
- 1Reanimate
- 1Serum Visions
- 1Sleight of Hand
- 1Thoughtseize
- 1Expressive Iteration
- 1Flow State
- 1Forth Eorlingas!
- 1Time Walk
- 1Stock Up
- 1Lórien Revealed
- 1Treasure Cruise
Instants (20)
- 1Brainstorm
- 1Cling to Dust
- 1Consider
- 1Erode
- 1Fatal Push
- 1Flashback
- 1Lightning Bolt
- 1Mental Misstep
- 1Opt
- 1Path to Exile
- 1Spell Pierce
- 1Spell Snare
- 1Unholy Heat
- 1Counterspell
- 1Daze
- 1Drown in the Loch
- 1Force of Negation
- 1Invert Polarity
- 1Force of Will
Enchantments (1)
- 1Leyline Binding
Lands (36)
- 1Arid Mesa
- 1Badlands
- 1Bloodstained Mire
- 1Cori Mountain Monastery
- 1Darkslick Shores
- 1Drowned Catacomb
- 1Fiery Islet
- 1Flooded Strand
- 1Glacial Fortress
- 1Gloomlake Verge
- 1Hallowed Fountain
- 1Island
- 1Karakas
- 1Marsh Flats
- 1Misty Rainforest
- 1Mystic Sanctuary
- 1Otawara, Soaring City
- 1Plateau
- 1Polluted Delta
- 1Raugrin Triome
- 1Scalding Tarn
- 1Scrubland
- 1Steam Vents
- 1Swamp
- 1Thundering Falls
- 1Tropical Island
- 1Tundra
- 1Undercity Sewers
- 1Underground Sea
- 1Verdant Catacombs
- 1Volcanic Island
- 1Wasteland
- 1Watery Grave
- 1Windswept Heath
- 1Wooded Foothills
- 1Xander's Lounge
