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SHE FINALLY FOUND HER WAY HOME
Description completely outdated since Stoneforge's glorious unban. Might update it after being done reworking my other archetype of heart, Death and Taxes...
1. Overview of the achetype
The Esper Blade deck is a heavy control deck based on low cmc but powerfull creatures and token, enhanced by powerful equipment and protected by an incredible arsenal of instants and sorceries to prevent your opponent from winning the game, or even do anything that would bother you.
2. How can one wield the Tarmoslayer blade?
This deck indeed have plenty of competent wielders who are waiting for you to grant them the right to slay the most evil Liliana of the Veil or her most fidel Dark Confidant s. Let's have a look at them:
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Geist of Saint Traft : when he was alive, Saint Traft was the most skilled swordsman of Innistrad. Now that he's dead, he became a powerful beater thanks to the help of his guardian angel. His main weakness relies in his thoughness: giving him a new blade should strike fear in the hearts of your ennemies.
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Mirran Crusader and Phyrexian Crusader . They never liked each other, but there are both powerfull and hard to kill beaters. After winning many battles, they earned the right to wield your most powerful weapons.
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Brimaz, King of Oreskos : a king without a sword? Don't ever even think of it. Being a 3/4 for a low cmc in a meta where Lightning Bolt reigns supreme is an amazing advantage. Sometimes, it is better for him to allow one of his kitten minions to wield the sword: the opponent will not be able to choose wich one he needs to deal with first.
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Tokens: Vengeful spirits, sneaky fairies, or ferocious tigers, the power of the blade can be given to them, to reward their Intangible Virtue .
3. Help your swordsmen in their quest!
With an Esper Blade deck, you're both a skilled blademaster and a powerful wizard. Not a single soul will be able to stand in front of you, and here's why:
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You can read their mind: your skills in Telepathy are perfected beyond mesures, at a point where you can made your opponents forget the spells they were trying to cast: it's the perfect Thoughtseize . It will gave you to right to Silence them.
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Even if the Thoughtseize wasn't enough, their spells aren't going to makee it to the board -after all, you saw it coming. You will counter Remand everything, and make your ennemy's Mana Leak from his fingers!
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I the case they did in fact succesfuly cast a creature, send it back with a Vapor Snag , or do not show any mercy while sentencing this creature to Geth's Verdict .
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But you are not the only God in the multiverse, and you know this. That's why, when all seems deseperate, you know hot to unleash your Supreme Verdict upon them. Don't worry about your own creatures: they will come back from the dead as spirits, thanks to Lingering Souls 's flashback.
To conclude...
Esper blade is a very competitive archetype, especially in Legacy thanks to cards like Stoneforge Mystic and Umezawa's Jitte . But even if those aren't usable in this format, the control power of Esper is far enough to bring us a deck that won't be easy to deal with especially since aggro decks aren't 90% of the meta now.
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Revision 22 See all
(5 years ago)
| +1 | Batterskull | main |
| +2 | Fatal Push | main |
| -2 | Intangible Virtue | main |
| +3 | Jace, Vryn's Prodigy Flip | main |
| -2 | Mirran Crusader | main |
| -2 | Murderous Cut | main |
| -1 | Steelshaper's Gift | main |
| +4 | Stoneforge Mystic | main |
| -1 | Stonehewer Giant | main |
| -1 | Sword of Feast and Famine | main |
| +2 | Teferi, Time Raveler | main |
| -2 | Telepathy | main |
| +1 | Thoughtseize | main |
| +3 | Unearth | main |
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| Date added | 9 years |
| Last updated | 5 years |
| Legality | This deck is Modern legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 13 - 3 Mythic Rares 24 - 2 Rares 14 - 8 Uncommons 5 - 2 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 1.95 |
| Tokens | Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Monk 1/1 W, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W |
| Folders | Cool Modern Decks, Decks found on T/O, Modern Ideas, CCCAWBLADE, Interesting, Others Decks, My favorite decks, interesting builds, Esper Lyyyyyfe, Modern |
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