“Jeskai Control leverages a layered card advantage engine — cycling through Stock Up, Consult the Star Charts, and Tablet of Discovery in the early turns to hit land drops and find answers, while Jeskai Revelation serves as the primary mid-to-late game value engine that compounds card quality over time. The deck uses a suite of flexible, mostly-singleton removal spells (Pyroclasm, Day of Judgment, Fire Magic, Sear, Erode) and light countermagic (Negate, Three Steps Ahead, Flashback) to neutralize threats on a reactive basis, keeping opponents off-balance without committing to dedicated removal packages that can be stranded. Great Hall of the Biblioplex functions as a mana-sink win condition in long games, ensuring the control player never runs out of resources even when they've exhausted their spell-based draw.”
Missing sideboard cards? The full 15-card sideboard runs about $20.87.
Buy sideboard on ManapoolBRG is a grindy value midrange deck full of sacrifice synergies and card advantage engines like Obsessive Pursuit and The Sackville-Bagginses, so Duress proactively takes away removal or key noncreature pieces before they can be deployed. Strategic Betrayal is a one-sided answer that strips both a creature and their graveyard, disrupting any recursion plans from cards like Lively Dirge. Nowhere to Run is less appealing here even though many of their creatures (Biotech Specialist, Umbral Collar Zealot) die to -3/-3, and Together as One is too slow against their steady stream of incremental value plays.
Izzet Spellementals leans on cheap cantrips (Opt, Sleight of Hand) and growing threats like Hearth Elemental and Eddymurk Crab, so proactive countermagic is much more valuable than removal that lets them keep filtering. Disdainful Stroke catches their expensive Sunderflock and Traumatic Critique when X is 2 or more, while Flashfreeze counters any of their red spells like Prismari Charm, Burst Lightning, or Impractical Joke outright. Annul is a lower priority here since their deck is mostly creature and instant/sorcery based rather than artifact/enchantment-heavy, but it can still snag a stray Ghost Vacuum if boarded in from their side; keep only two copies as a light include. Nowhere to Run and Together as One are cut since removal is much worse than proactive disruption against a deck trying to go over the top with card selection.
Mono-Green Landfall floods the board with mana dorks and landfall creatures like Mossborn Hydra and Mightform Harmonizer that quickly outgrow -3/-3 or two-mana-value removal. Day of Black Sun is a full sweeper that can be sized to strip abilities and destroy their whole board regardless of counters they've accrued. Ghost Vacuum lets us exile problematic graveyard recursion targets and grow into a late-game mana sink. Nowhere to Run and the extra Requiting Hex are too narrow against their bigger, counter-laden threats, so they make way for the sweeper plan.