Esper Slitherwisp Flash

Modern Competitive Control Flash Tempo Value Engine WUB (Esper)

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Land (21)

• 4x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 2x Marsh Flats
• 1x Meticulous Archive
• 1x Plains
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Undercity Sewers
• 2x Watery Grave

Creature (20)

• 4x Orcish Bowmasters
• 4x Slitherwisp
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 4x Solitude
• 4x Subtlety
• 3x Tishana's Tidebinder

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Teferi, Time Raveler

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Dress Down
• 4x Leyline Binding

Instant (6)

• 4x Counterspell
• 2x Fatal Push

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Lorien Revealed
• 4x Prismatic Ending

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 2x Dovin's Veto
• 2x Force of Negation
• 1x Hibernation
• 1x Kaya's Guile
• 2x Stern Scolding

Creature (3)

• 2x Containment Priest
• 1x Tishana's Tidebinder

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Pest Control

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Dress Down
• 1x Rest in Peace

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Maybeboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Flare of Denial
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Void Rend

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Lorien Revealed

Creature (4)

• 1x Brazen Borrower
• 1x Cunning Nightbonder
• 1x Errant and Giada
• 1x Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x The Wandering Emperor

Land (1)

• 1x Sunken Ruins

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Spontaneous Mutation

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I will play this card in modern and no one can stop me.

This is a deck that plays similarly to other control decks in modern, but instead of using Omnath or walkers, we are using Slitherwisp as our card advantage engine of choice. With the zero-mana pitch elementals, we can get instant value from Slitherwisp, and then use our overwhelming card advantage to grind our opponent out of the game.

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Notes for self (obsolete, since cutting green) Show

Possible SB cards: Hallowed Moonlight, Spell Pierce, Supreme Verdict, Cursed Totem, Leyline of the Void, Rest in Peace, Damping Sphere

Manabase:

These values are pre-temple garden swap for overgrown tomb.

Can cut down on W and G, need slightly more UB. Trim Temple Garden for Marsh Flats? UB filter land value isn't shown by this method. Filter land also doesn't help domain.

• 17 {W}, 19 {U}, 16 {B}, 13 {G}

• 22 {WU}, 18 {GW}, 20 UG, 21 {UB}, 22 {W}/{U}/{G}

• Ice-Fang Coatl: 13 {U}, 13 {G}, 21 {GU} (adjust by +1)

• Slitherwisp: 13 {U}, 18 {B}, 23 {UB} (+1)
• Fatal Push: 14 {B}
• Counterspell 21 {U}
• Brokers Charm: 12 {W}, 12 {U}, 12 {G}, 18 {WU}, 18 {GW}, 18 {GU}, 23 {W}/{U}/{G} (+1?)
• The Wandering Emperor: 16 {W}

Other Notes:

• Attach the red source to UB, and green source to UW, or the other way around?
• Ex) Xander's Lounge + Spara's Headquarters vs. Zagoth Triome + Raugrin Triome
• Ice-Fang Coatl has no effect on this decision since both produce UG. Brokers Charm means the latter should be better, since G not attached to UW makes it easier to cast WUG.
• Sunken Ruins: For Counterspell adds 2 extra nonfetch sources (Swamp, Godless Shrine); for Slitherwisp adds 5 extra nonfetch sources for {B}{B}

Top Ranked	Achieved #43 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #33 position in Modern 1 year ago Achieved #2 position in Modern Tempo 1 year ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 3 Mythic Rares 32 - 7 Rares 10 - 5 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.15
Tokens	Orc Army, Spirit 1/1 WB