Es-spare me your whining.

Modern Competitive Control WUB (Esper)

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Land (24)

• 2x Celestial Colonnade
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 2x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 3x Island
• 1x Plains
• 3x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (20)

• 4x Cryptic Command
• 4x Esper Charm
• 3x Fatal Push
• 3x Mana Leak
• 2x Path to Exile
• 3x Remand
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation

Artifact (2)

• 2x Batterskull

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

Creature (7)

• 4x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Tasigur, the Golden Fang
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 2x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 3x Supreme Verdict

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 2x Ethersworn Canonist
• 3x Kor Firewalker
• 2x Meddling Mage

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Supreme Verdict

Instant (3)

• 1x Disenchant
• 2x Extirpate

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Favor of the Mighty
• 2x Stony Silence

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Ojutai's Command

Creature (1)

• 1x Dragonlord Ojutai

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This is a different type or Esper Control. Most control of this type of full of clunky walkers, and not running heavy on blue. I prefer to be heavy in blue and run a lot more counter.

IN PROGRESS

Card Choices

Creatures

Restoration Angel

• blinks snapcaster for value. Is also an instant speed wincon. helps me dodge removal on my wincons as well.

Instants

Cryptic Command

• Can counter, tap down creatures, return annoying things to your opponents hands, and draw a card. Blue is fun.

Esper Charm

• Kills unfun enchantments Cough Cough Blood Moon, Choke, Waste Not, anything in boggles, etc. Probably the most underrated effect. Other options are instant speed Mind Rot and Divination.

Mana Leak

• counters most things in modern. The 3 mana also makes the opponent choose if they want their spell countered, or be able to play another spell.

Path to Exile

• Kills a creature and accelerates your opponent slightly. usually by the time you cast it, it does not make a huge difference.

Remand

• Screws up your opponent's tempo, draw a card. Woo! Also amazing if you opponent has an addition cost to their spell.

Spell Snare

• modern is full of 2 mana spells. Spell Snare hits these. The downside is having 2 in hand sucks.

Sphinx's Revelation

• draw a lot of cards, gain a lot of life. all at the end of your opponents turn.

Artifact

Batterskull

• gains life, lives through a board wipe, can returns to my hand to be cast as a creature or avoid removal, and turns my snapcaster that kills most things in modern.

Land

Celestial Colonnade

• A win condition on a stick. also produces 2 mana colors. It is the only land that enters tapped, so it tends not to matter a whole ton if it enters tapped. side note, has flying and vigilance

Flooded Strand

• Can pick up Hallowed Fountain, Prairie Stream, Watery Grave, and Sunken Hollow, Island, and Plains at the cost of 1 life, and 1 less land in your deck. also fills up the graveyard.

Glacial Fortress

• can produce white or blue mana. most of the time does not enter tapped, but that is mainly due to the low count of them.

Hallowed Fountain

• 2 life for blue or white mana. Very useful the first couple of turns when you need all the colors fast, also is nice because it can be fetched.

Island

• produces blue mana.

Plains

• produces white mana

Polluted Delta

• Can pick up Hallowed Fountain, Prairie Stream, Watery Grave, and Sunken Hollow, Island, and Swamp at the cost of 1 life, and 1 less land in your deck. also fills up the graveyard.

Prairie Stream

• can be fetched, and is very nice to curver out turn 3 and 4. fairly underrated for modern. Very rarely do i ever get these lands tapped.

Sunken Hollow

• can be fetched, and is nice when you top deck Inquisition of Kozilek fairly underrated for modern. Very rarely do i ever get these lands tapped. Primarily used turn 3 for Esper Charm

Tectonic Edge

• very nice addition, but it is meta dependent. nice against TRON, titan, and hits other nonbasics as well. very situation, but almost never bad.

Watery Grave

• 2 life for blue or black mana. Very useful the first couple of turns when you need all the colors fast, also is nice because it can be fetched.

Help is always appreciated, and suggestions are loved.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 11 Rares 16 - 3 Uncommons 3 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.77
Tokens	Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
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