Esper Teachings

Modern* Control Creatureless WUB (Esper)

Nitanking

Instant (30)

• 2x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Consume the Meek
• 3x Cryptic Command
• 4x Esper Charm
• 2x Fatal Push
• 2x Logic Knot
• 3x Mystical Teachings
• 3x Path to Exile
• 1x Rest for the Weary
• 3x Spell Snare
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 4x Think Twice
• 1x White Sun's Zenith

Land (26)

• 3x Celestial Colonnade
• 3x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 2x Glacial Fortress
• 3x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 2x Plains
• 3x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Watery Grave

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Supreme Verdict

Creature (2)

• 2x Snapcaster Mage

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Sideboard

Instant (10)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Devour Flesh
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Extirpate
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pulse of the Fields
• 1x Ravenous Trap
• 1x Shadow of Doubt

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Duress
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Timely Reinforcements
• 1x Wrath of God

Creature (1)

• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

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Maybeboard

Instant (12)

• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Far / Away
• 1x Fracturing Gust
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hallowed Moonlight
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Retaliate
• 1x Slay
• 1x Spell Burst
• 1x Sultai Charm
• 1x Whispers of the Muse

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Teferi's Moat

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Creature (2)

• 1x Vendilion Clique
• 1x Voidmage Husher

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Raven's Crime

Land (1)

• 1x Mystic Gate

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Not your average everyday control deck. This deck focuses on the card Mystical Teachings. 32 of the 34 nonland cards in the deck are instants or have flash, allowing you to get whatever you need. This allows for a lot of one-of's, and makes your post sideboard games much stronger. However, this is a 4 mana card that just gets you another card. To survive until the late game, you have 3 Path to Exile and two Fatal Push, stoping early aggression. The one Rest for the Weary is there to be fetched with Mystical Teachings to help you stabilize against burn or other fast decks, and you have two sorcery speed and one instant boardwipes to kill their creatures. Logic Knot is the closest you can get to a Counterspell in modern, and the fetch lands allow to fuel the delve early on. Use Snapcaster Mage for value, using whatever spell you need again, increasing the redundancy a bit more in this inconsistent deck. Eventually win with Celestial Colonnade or White Sun's Zenith x=a lot.

I'm considering running Utter End, and going over 60 cards. Utter End doesn't hurt you, but an extra mana can make a big difference. As for card count, it's general wisdom you want 60 cards, so you can draw the ones you need when you need them, but with Mystical Teachings I can use the extra card slots for specific answers. Any opinions?

Date added	8 years
Last updated	5 years
Splash colors	G
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 3 Mythic Rares 32 - 6 Rares 13 - 2 Uncommons 10 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.56
Tokens	Cat 2/2 W, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	Competative