Esper Control 
Esper Control Penny Dreadful decklist played by cantos at League December 2025 (1 Jan 2026).
- Player
- cantos
- Finish
- 1-2
- Event
- League December 2025,
- Archetype
- Esper Control
- Staples
- Esper Control
- Format
- Penny Dreadful
- MTGO
- Paper
- Source
- Penny Dreadful
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Main deck (60)
Sideboard (15)
Main deck (60)
Creatures (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Instants (14)
Sorceries (9)
- 2 Ancestral Vision
- 2 Castigate
- 1 Damn
- 1 Day of Judgment
- 2 Vindicate
- 1 Wrath of God
Enchantments (4)
Lands (26)
Sideboard (15)
Compared with the average Esper Control list
Average of 6 decks in the 30 days up to Jan. 1, 2026, the day of this tournament.
Main deck
More than usual
- +3 Horned Loch-Whale (4 vs 1.0)
- +3 Deduce (4 vs 1.3)
- +2 Ancestral Vision (2 vs 0.3)
- +2 Castigate (2 vs 0.3)
- +2 Celestial Colonnade (2 vs 0.3)
- +2 Detention Sphere (2 vs 0.3)
- +2 Search for Azcanta (2 vs 0.3)
- +2 Temple of Enlightenment (2 vs 0.3)
Fewer than usual
- -2 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel (0 vs 2.0)
- -2 Master of Death (0 vs 1.8)
- -2 Plains (1 vs 2.5)
- -1 Swamp (1 vs 2.3)
- -1 Dihada's Ploy (0 vs 1.3)
- -1 Drowned Catacomb (0 vs 1.3)
- -1 Gifts Ungiven (0 vs 1.3)
- -1 Obsessive Search (0 vs 1.3)
Sideboard
More than usual
- +3 Pithing Needle (4 vs 1.3)
- +3 Flashfreeze (3 vs 0.5)
- +2 Kaya's Guile (3 vs 1.0)
- +2 Castigate (2 vs 0.3)
- +2 Scavenger Grounds (2 vs 0.3)
Fewer than usual
- -2 Intervention Pact (0 vs 1.7)
- -1 Unmoored Ego (0 vs 1.3)
- -1 Collective Brutality (0 vs 1.0)
Most unusual list in this period: coaxmetal in League December 2025 (32 cards away from the average)