Esper GPG

Standard Twence

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Competitive Updates —March 6, 2018

Moved a lot of pieces around in order to accommodate the addition of the Marionette Master / Metalwork Colossus combo, alongside more draw/discard spells. Picked up The Scarab God for better late game against non-aggro.

magicsheep says... #1

What about Vraska's Contempt or Hour of Glory? Lost Legacy is effective, but against some decks that have different indestructible creatures, I always use one of each for removal. Also, here's the strategy of most Gift decks: Use Minister of Inquiries to get a God-Pharoah's Gift into your graveyard, then use 4 mana to use Refurbish. 4 Refurbish are essential, and also you should probably add a Spell Pierce to defend your artifacts from removal. Remove Seekers' Squire, because you're not running an explore deck and Dusk Legion Zealot is a lot better. Great deck Twence! (You might want to put this deck under the hub "Esper" :)

I look forward to seeing (if) any changes. I have my own Esper deck, maybe I'll try this out at FNM and get back to you.

March 5, 2018 10:24 a.m.

Twence says... #2

Hey magicsheep, thanks for your comment!

Seekers' Squire is usually a 2/3 about 60% of the time, and if not, gives me the ability to either toss a creature I don't need into the graveyard or to hold it at the top in order to draw it the next turn, or thins my deck by immediately drawing me a land. This also lets me hold my ground against aggro while I dig for Gate to the Afterlife (which in turn will result in God-Pharaoh's Gift being played). Refurbish only does something if God-Pharaoh's Gift flies into the graveyard, which would have meant that I have it in my hand... 1/30 chance. It's a redundant card if God-Pharaoh's Gift isn't in the graveyard. However, I understand that it might work in a deck with rapid digging (i.e. Strategic Planning, Chart a Course ), but that's not the flavour of this specific Esper Gift!

Vraska's Contempt and Hour of Glory are fine replacements for Lost Legacy. It's a slightly budget deck (as shown with the lack of The Scarab God ) and Vraska's Contempt is quite expensive. Good insight!

Negate and Spell Pierce might sound interchangeable, but since you're fighting against Control (when you sub in Negate), you rarely want to allow the opponent to have a leeway out by paying excess mana (which is typical of Control to play their spells on your turn).

March 5, 2018 11:08 a.m.