Adam Haggerty's Esper Walkers
 
Type: Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍)
modModern
Approx. Value:
$255.53
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Avg. CMC 2.6
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Edge of Eternities
releases on August 1, 2025!

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Edge of Eternities
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Main Deck - 60 cards, 28 distinct
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Name  Ed. Price Type Cost P Modified
Rarity Color
Creature (3)
3 Snapcaster Mage
$12.16 Creature - Human Wizard 2 04-Oct-2017 17:37
Instant (8)
2 Esper Charm
$0.38 Instant 04-Oct-2017 17:40
3 Fatal Push
$0.79 Instant 04-Oct-2017 17:37
3 Path to Exile
$1.22 Instant 04-Oct-2017 17:37
Sorcery (16)
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
$0.46 Sorcery 04-Oct-2017 17:37
4 Lingering Souls
$0.28 Sorcery 04-Oct-2017 17:37
4 Serum Visions
$0.64 Sorcery 04-Oct-2017 17:37
2 Supreme Verdict
$1.67 Sorcery 04-Oct-2017 17:37
3 Thoughtseize
$5.75 Sorcery 04-Oct-2017 17:37
Planeswalker (9)
1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
$1.62 Legendary Planeswalker - Ashiok 04-Oct-2017 17:40
1 Gideon Jura
$0.36 Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon 04-Oct-2017 17:37
2 Gideon of the Trials
$1.58 Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon 04-Oct-2017 17:40
2 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
$0.86 Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon 04-Oct-2017 17:38
2 Liliana of the Veil
$4.34 Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana 04-Oct-2017 17:40
1 Narset Transcendent
$4.47 Legendary Planeswalker - Narset 04-Oct-2017 17:39
Land (24)
2 Concealed Courtyard
$1.07 Land 04-Oct-2017 17:40
1 Creeping Tar Pit
$0.35 Land 04-Oct-2017 17:37
1 Darkslick Shores
$1.62 Land 04-Oct-2017 17:40
4 Flooded Strand
$13.15 Land 04-Oct-2017 17:37
1 Ghost Quarter
$0.54 Land 04-Oct-2017 17:37
1 Godless Shrine
$7.26 Land - Plains Swamp 04-Oct-2017 17:39
1 Hallowed Fountain
$10.00 Land - Plains Island 04-Oct-2017 17:39
1 Island
$0.08 Basic Land - Island 04-Oct-2017 17:39
2 Plains
$0.07 Basic Land - Plains 04-Oct-2017 17:37
4 Polluted Delta
$16.15 Land 04-Oct-2017 17:37
3 Shambling Vent
$0.29 Land 04-Oct-2017 17:37
2 Swamp
$0.07 Basic Land - Swamp 04-Oct-2017 17:39
1 Watery Grave
$7.56 Land - Island Swamp 04-Oct-2017 17:39
Sideboard - 24 cards, 17 distinct
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Rarity Color
Creature (5)
3 Geist of Saint Traft
$0.62 Legendary Creature - Spirit Cleric 2 04-Oct-2017 17:37
1 Kor Firewalker
$0.17 Creature - Kor Soldier 2 04-Oct-2017 17:43
1 Vendilion Clique
$2.49 Legendary Creature - Faerie Wizard 3 04-Oct-2017 17:37
Instant (10)
1 Anguished Unmaking
$1.83 Instant 04-Oct-2017 17:38
2 Blessed Alliance
$0.12 Instant 04-Oct-2017 17:37
2 Countersquall
$0.91 Instant 04-Oct-2017 17:37
1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.10 Instant 04-Oct-2017 17:42
1 Disenchant
$0.13 Instant 04-Oct-2017 17:37
1 Flashfreeze
$0.15 Instant 04-Oct-2017 17:41
2 Surgical Extraction
$0.88 Instant 04-Oct-2017 17:37
Sorcery (4)
2 Collective Brutality
$0.36 Sorcery 04-Oct-2017 17:37
2 Supreme Verdict
$1.67 Sorcery 04-Oct-2017 17:44
Artifact (2)
1 Engineered Explosives
$1.09 Artifact 04-Oct-2017 17:42
1 Pithing Needle
$0.35 Artifact 04-Oct-2017 17:43
Enchantment (3)
1 Rest in Peace
$1.18 Enchantment 04-Oct-2017 17:42
1 Stony Silence
$0.84 Enchantment 04-Oct-2017 17:43
1 Story Circle
$0.63 Enchantment 04-Oct-2017 17:43

Notes
 
This is my version that I am testing. The original package resolved around using narset to rebound supreme verdict, lingering souls, esper charm, and serum visions. This shell was recently modified on MTGO to play gideon tribal. Besides the emblem, the strength of having multiple gideons in play after a sweeper is devastating. I'm playing the mashup.

The strength core of the deck is the hyper efficient esper disruption package with snapcaster to get to parity, and then having planeswalkers in a neutral field. Each planeswalker compounds the battlefield, and when there are no resources to work with they are exceedingly difficult to navigate. The Gideon's are solid board control, and then turn sideways for so much damage. This ability to turn the corner is also reinforced with manlands, and lingering souls which kind of embody this whole aspect. Esper charm is also a solid way to get your opponent out of resources, or pull ahead from no resources, and is extra fun with snapcaster and narset. It also has the fringe benefit of blowing up pesky enchantments, like blood moon. I've pretty much just optimized the best elements currently of two lists I've seen, with a slight innovation of adding Ashiok. i've always been fan of the vastly misunderstood and underated planeswalker, and I remember how much it overperformed in Fredo's list, and when I cast it in modern. If it is currently lack luster, then it is likes Narset number two.

Positioning in the meta is interesting, as creature based and attrition decks suffer against it, and it has a surprisingly robust plan to close the game quickly against the big mana strategies. It also has good game against the combo decks, it the disruptive tools. It's a fine deck, with much versatility in tools, and a solid mid range game plan. It's no auto win, and does not have game against some combo's, but it very easy to sidestep into any game.

Also, Ari Lax is an idiot. Jaded, pessimisstic, and rigid. He did not test the deck with an open mindset, and tried to play it like a grixis death shadow or control deck, which it isn't. it doesn't do those things particularly well. It shreds your opponents current plan and then utilizes the window to snowball threats and advantage. Esper mid range is it's own style of deck, and most folks misplay it, wishing it to be an archetype they are more familiar with. It does a little but of everything, and is more controlling than Jund midrange, but much closer to Sultai than Jund.
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