Esper Sojourners

Artifact Creature — Vedalken Wizard

When you cycle Esper Sojourners or it's put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may tap or untap target permanent.

Cycling {{2,U}} ({{2,U}}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (2)

landofMordor on When to Combo Off

7 years ago

So, I've long had a couple questions concerning timing combos. Especially when you're ready to commit to combining off. Take the following scenario:

You have 2 tapped Swamps and New Perspectives on the field, with two Esper Sojourners, Resounding Thunder, and 2 Shadow of the Grave in hand. Your opponent is at 18, and you know you can kill her by cycling your hand, untapping your Swamps, and then Shadow-ing twice to get a total of 18 Resounding damage. However, your opponent has 1 unknown card in hand, 2 untapped Islands, and has not played any of her Negates.

How do you stack the triggers here to minimize damage if your opponent is waiting to Negate your Grave? The question revolves around who gets priority and how to mitigate the risks of getting blown out.

Any strategies here would be most appreciated. I'm used to being the one with counters, so learning to avoid them is new.

2gherkins on Making a janky standard deck …

7 years ago

So there's this card, right, New Perspectives, that is seeing play in a standard combo shell. The way that combo works is you cycle all of your cards with cycling after dropping New Perspectives (faith renewed, Shefet Monitor, and the cycle dual-lands). Sometime during this process or before this process begins, you enchant one of your lands with Weirding Wood. You then use Vizier of Tumbling Sands to untap and float as much mana as possible with the wood.

Once you've run out of most of your gas (viziers and monitors), the deck uses Shadow of the Grave to get it all back. Then rinse and repeat. Eventually, you will have so few cards in your deck and so much mana you will be able to cast Approach of the Second Sun and have it go right back to the top of your library. Cycle into it again and then recast to win.

So, modern. is a lot for a modern combo piece. The lucky thing is, the deck is built to combo off tapped out. Additionally, a modern New Perspectives deck doesn't need Weirding Wood - it can just win with Laboratory Maniac, and has extra Vizier of Tumbling Sands in the shape of Esper Sojourners , which have the added bonus of tapping our opponents lands. Modern also opens us up to Resounding Wave, which is just too. Much. Fun. We also get Angelsong, which I would consider a strict upgrade over Haze of Pollen.

So the modern deck needs to figure out what it wants to be. It has two options: it can try to ramp into its New Perspectives, or it can delay the game until it hits New Perspectives. Any thoughts on where I should take this?