Modern Esper Control

by slothosaurus on 19 June 2018

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (3)

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Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Modern Esper Control

I like that you have three different sweepers in here maybe a copy of some big drop win the game card like griselbrand or something.

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Posted 20 June 2018 at 02:32

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I think it's shaping up to be a mildly playable deck. I still think that Jeskai is strictly better than Esper, but I like playing esper a lot more.

I agree that I'm pretty short on win-cons, but I'm not sure I would want to put more than 2x in game. I like griselbrand, but I also like grave titan and wurmcoil engine. They're just expensive and really leave me open to attack. I could see an argument for playing 2x death's shadow as well. By the time I'm stabilized, I'll likely have lots quite a bit of life, and it given the low cost, it means I can play it and still leave mana open for other spells.

On the other hand, I could see putting in a go-wide strategy too and play 2 elspeths or like a sorin, lord of innistrad or something. They give me blockers and also a win-condition (and sorin even gives life-link to help stabilize).

I'm just not sure... I cut serum visions and opt out. It really hurts not to see them in the deck.

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Posted 20 June 2018 at 02:44

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I like that go wide strategy during elspeth and sorin's respectable standard runs, they could get you there and I think they can get you there in this deck to man. Ashiok them to death seems fun lol. Desecration demon, Gideon Jura, and drogskol reaver all get honorable mention in my brain while reading your comment lol. I would like to see how this deck goes for you.

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Posted 20 June 2018 at 03:06

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I'm currently playing this UB control :

https://www.mtgvault.com/slothosaurus/decks/modern-ub-control/

That I made after I got tired of grixis death shadow. Thinking of converting the deck into the esper control posted above, or maybe into a weird mill deck like this one I've been theory crafting around with tonight:

https://www.mtgvault.com/slothosaurus/decks/modern-mill/

... I'll probably do both though :) The mill conversion is a lot cheaper though, so I'll probably do it first

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Posted 20 June 2018 at 03:30

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