Esper Walkers

Modern Control Superfriends WUB (Esper)

Overcannon

Land (24)

• 2x Celestial Colonnade
• 4x Field of Ruin
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 2x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 2x Marsh Flats
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Planeswalker (8)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
• 2x Gideon of the Trials
• 1x Jace, Architect of Thought
• 2x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Sorcery (9)

• 3x Serum Visions
• 3x Supreme Verdict
• 3x Thoughtseize

Artifact (1)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds

Creature (4)

• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 2x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Vendilion Clique

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Detention Sphere
• 2x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 4x Spreading Seas

Instant (7)

• 3x Esper Charm
• 4x Fatal Push

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Sideboard

Instant (10)

• 1x Ceremonious Rejection
• 1x Countersquall
• 2x Disenchant
• 1x Logic Knot
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 3x Surgical Extraction

Enchantment (5)

• 3x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Oath of Gideon
• 1x Oath of Liliana

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Planeswalker-centric Variant of Esper Control. Designed to leverage the new Planeswalker-Legendary rule to generate incremental advantage through repeated ability activations, and close it out with either token, Gideon, and Celestial Colonnade beats, or a few devastating ults. In order to survive to mid-game, the deck uses a mix of hand disruption via Thoughtseize and Esper Charm, mana-denial via Field of Ruin and Spreading Seas, and removal from Fatal Push, Detention Sphere, and Supreme Verdict

You may note the conspicuous absence of Path to Exile. It was a painful choice to cut it from this deck, but it has strong anti-synergies with both Field of Ruin and Spreading Seas

The walkers themselves:

• Jace, the Mind Sculptor is an auto-include now that he is legal. Brainstorm is great with this many fetches (12 if you count Field of Ruin
• Venser, the Sojourner is the secret all-star of this deck. Flickering Oath of Liliana for sacrifices, Oath of Gideon for more tokens, Spreading Seas for card draw, retargeting Detention Sphere, or flickering other Planeswakers for loyalty restoration. His ultimate is gross.
• Jace, Vryn's Prodigy   / Jace, Telepath Unbound loots, stalls the board, and gives flashback, and gives you a mill-related out to win some otherwise unwinnable games
• Elspeth, Sun's Champion - A token engine with an extra boardwipe stapled on.
• Gideon, Ally of Zendikar - Another token engine with the ability to inflict serious beats on his own.
• Gideon of the Trials - Beats, damage prevention, and a "Can't Lose" emblem. Very potent at a low cost.
• Jace, Architect of Thought - Slow down your opponents beats (in a manner very effective against wide decks), card draw, and a win condition against decks with a big payoff creature (Tron, Tooth and Nail, Jeskai Nahiri, etc.)

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 18 - 8 Rares 16 - 2 Uncommons 4 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.53
Tokens	Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Gideon of the Trials, Emblem Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Knight Ally 2/2 W, Kor Ally 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Active Modern Decks