Queza turns every card drawn into a 1-life drain, so this Esper control deck wins by drawing heavily while it controls the board with counterspells, spot removal and sweepers. Cantrips, burst draw spells, X-draw spells and creatures that replace themselves feed the drain. Lifegain then loops back into more cards through Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel, which pays that life to draw that many cards. Token makers and passive upkeep drains add pressure from a second direction and keep the table's life totals falling. How it wins: Repeated Queza drains from mass card draw, ideally a huge Mathemagics or an endless Niv-Mizzet lifegain-to-draw loop, push opponents' life totals to zero, backed by upkeep drains and flying token armies. Key roles: - Draw-to-drain fuel: Cheap cantrips and burst draw make each turn several Queza triggers, and X spells can draw enough cards to drain a whole table at once (Mathemagics, Brainsurge, Occult Epiphany). - Lifegain-draw loop: Queza's lifegain makes Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel pay life to draw more, which triggers Queza again. A second drain-on-draw source and lifegain-triggered Angels make each loop stronger (Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel, Starving Revenant, Ob Nixilis, the Ascended). - Control suite: Counterspells, flash interaction and cheap exile effects protect the engine and stop threats, and several of these spells also draw cards (Counterspell, Ertai Resurrected, Reprieve). - Sweepers with built-in recovery: Board wipes reset combat, and several of them leave tokens or a large body behind for this deck alone. Propaganda slows attacks on the player while the drain works (Martial Coup, White Sun's Twilight, Sunfall). - Token pressure and payoffs: Token makers build fliers that finish games. Token-synergy cards turn each new token into extra cards or extra drain (Shark Typhoon, Staff of the Storyteller, Mirkwood Bats). - Passive upkeep drains: Recurring life loss and monarch draws keep opponents' life falling between big draw turns, and the monarch adds a free card each turn (Court of Ambition, Tithing Blade, Warlock Class).

Queza, Augur of Agonies decklist

• Arcane Signet
• Azorius Chancery
• Azorius Signet
• Bleachbone Verge
• Brainstorm
• Brainsurge
• Caves of Koilos
• Circuit Mender
• Command Tower
• Contaminated Landscape
• Council's Judgment
• Counterspell
• Court of Ambition
• Currency Converter
• Dark Ritual
• Despark
• Dimir Signet
• Disdainful Stroke
• Dreadhorde Invasion
• Drowned Catacomb
• Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• Ertai Resurrected
• Evolving Wilds
• Exotic Orchard
• Fabled Passage
• Fact or Fiction
• Fatal Push
• Fatehold Charm
• Fellwar Stone
• Fetid Heath
• Flawless Maneuver
• Glacial Fortress
• Godless Shrine
• Grand Crescendo
• Great Hall of the Citadel
• Infernal Grasp
• 3× Island
• Isolated Chapel
• Lingering Souls
• Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• Martial Coup
• Mathemagics
• Memory Deluge
• Metropolis Reformer
• Mind Stone
• Mirkwood Bats
• Mulldrifter
• Mystic Gate
• Negate
• Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
• Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
• Occult Epiphany
• Orzhov Basilica
• Path to Exile
• 3× Plains
• Ponder
• Prairie Stream
• Preordain
• Propaganda
• Reality Shift
• Reflecting Pool
• Reprieve
• Restless Anchorage
• Secure the Wastes
• Serra's Emissary
• Shark Typhoon
• Shattered Sanctum
• Skrelv's Hive
• Sol Ring
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Staff of the Storyteller
• Starving Revenant
• Strix Serenade
• Stroke of Midnight
• Sunfall
• Sunken Ruins
• Supreme Verdict
• 3× Swamp
• Swords to Plowshares
• Talisman of Dominance
• Talisman of Progress
• Terramorphic Expanse
• The Modern Age
• Thought Vessel
• Tishana's Tidebinder
• Tithing Blade
• Toluz, Clever Conductor
• Underground River
• Warlock Class
• Warren Soultrader
• Watery Grave
• White Sun's Twilight