Painful Truths

“Why would you put Shardless Agent in your deck and hope for incredible luck to hit Ancestral Visions when you can just play Painful Truths?”
-Owen Turtenwald

Patrick made a new Esper Control deck in Legacy featuring Painful Truths and four copies of Monastery Mentor!

This episode of Top Level Podcast largely focuses on Patrick’s deck and card choices:

Monastery Mentor

Monastery Mentor is a weird sleeper card… It’s been legal for about a year, but has not yet broken out to the degree that is probably worthy. Patrick talks about the massive amounts of damage that Monastery Mentor is capable of doing in a short period of time.

“Monastery Mentor is not the same as Young Pyromancer” says Patrick. The 1/1 Monk tokens are substantially better than their Young Pyromancer cousins; when given the chance to kill a 1/1 Monk or a Deathrite Shaman, it is often correct to let the Deathrite Shaman live!

Esper Control by Patrick Chapin

2 Cabal Therapy
2 Painful Truths
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang

4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Gitaxian Probe
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Ponder
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Spell Pierce

4 Deathrite Shaman

1 Council’s Judgment
4 Monastery Mentor
4 Swords to Plowshares

1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
1 Karakas
2 Island
1 Plains
1 Scrubland
1 Swamp
1 Tropical Island
2 Tundra
1 Underground Sea

Sideboard
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Cabal Therapy
1 Painful Truths
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Flusterstorm
1 Vendilion Clique
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Misdirection
1 Notion Thief
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Zealous Persecution
1 Containment Priest
1 Council’s Judgment

For a huge discussion on this great new Legacy deck (aka basically just Patrick’s Standard Esper deck from last week) check out “The Painful Truths about Monastery Mentor”

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