QSP and me both built budget MTGO decks today. Here was his list (budget esper):
1 Orzhov Guildgate
1 Omenspeaker
2 Plains
1 Prognostic Sphinx
1 Tithe Drinker
1 Divination
1 Essence Scatter
1 Crypt Incursion
1 Azorius Guildgate
1 Triton Tactics
1 Island
1 Daxos of Meletis
1 Inspiration
1 Opportunity
1 Artisan of Forms
1 Treasury Thrull
1 High Priest of Penance
2 Island
1 Swamp
2 Swamp
2 Plains
1 Dimir Guildgate
1 Island
1 Nightveil Specter
1 Negate
1 Devour Flesh
1 Dimir Charm
1 Doom Blade
1 Merciless Eviction
1 Far/Away
1 Hands of Binding
1 Yoked Ox
1 Plains
1 Soul Ransom
1 Lavinia of the Tenth
1 Rootborn Defenses
1 Hidden Strings
2 Swamp
1 Psychic Strike
1 Clone
1 Ultimate Price
1 Riot Control
1 Pontiff of Blight
2 Dimir Guildgate
1 Duress
1 Azorius Guildgate
1 Island
1 Orzhov Guildgate
1 Wall of Frost
1 Voyage's End
1 Gods Willing
1 Island
1 Colossal Whale
1 Gift of Immortality
Sideboard
1 Codex Shredder
1 Orzhov Keyrune
1 Selesnya Keyrune
4 Prophetic Prism
1 Elixir of Immortality
My list you can see here in this screenshot:
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Anyway, we faced off.
Game 1: I got him down to 1 life and he came back with pontiff of blight, a 2/7 that gives all creatures you control extort. Couldn't recover from that as I was just drawing lands.
Game 2: I drew all my lyev skyknights, and counters at the right times. I had 3 aetherize in my hand so I kept him from ever attacking.
Game 3: I turn 2 countered his daxos and he conceded.
I have played a couple other games with other people with this bant flash list.
I played bant flash last standard season with restoration angel, thragtusk, sphinx's revelation, farseek being the 4 key cards for that deck.
This deck had some remnants of the deck. A horizon chimera with opportunity is like a sphinx's revelation. Since this was budget MTGO, I only had enough tix for 1 advent (total deck price is 2 event tickets).
QSP can comment more on how his own deck did. I can say though, I was watching a game where he was playing vs esper control (powered and expensive version) and ended up winning the match despite the board looking like this:
I had more screenshots of our games but they are just black screens. I don't know why.
