Esper Archon (Standard)

Standard Competitive Midrange WUB (Esper)

Booch138

Land (24)

• 3x Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 4x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 2x Fabled Passage
• 2x Island
• 3x Plains
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Temple of Deceit
• 4x Temple of Enlightenment
• 3x Temple of Silence

Enchantment (20)

• 2x Banishing Light
• 3x Doom Foretold
• 2x Elspeth Conquers Death
• 4x Omen of the Sea
• 1x Omen of the Sun
• 4x Riddleform
• 4x Treacherous Blessing

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis

Sorcery (9)

• 3x Agonizing Remorse
• 3x Bloodchief's Thirst
• 1x Emeria's Call  ^Flip
• 2x Shatter the Sky

Creature (5)

• 3x Archon of Sun's Grace
• 2x Yorion, Sky Nomad

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Eliminate
• 2x Heartless Act
• 2x Negate
• 1x Soul Shatter

Enchantment (3)

• 2x Ashiok's Erasure
• 1x Omen of the Sun

Creature (1)

• 1x Kenrith, the Returned King

Sorcery (5)

• 3x Duress
• 2x Shatter the Sky

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This is my post-Zendikar Rising Standard Esper Midrange deck focused on Archon of Sun's Grace and Doom Foretold (which are both among two of my favourite standard cards still despite not being top-tier). It's actually decent and has many lines of attack whilst maintaining control and dodges a lot of Sorcery-speed removal with Riddleform and getting pumped by Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis. Unfortunately, it doesn't really hold a candle to most flavours of Omnath decks but assuming those get some kind of ban in the near future (if Grand Finals were any indicator), this deck will be able to breathe then. Their card advantage game is insane even though this deck refuels well with Treacherous Blessing. Despite all that, this deck isn't a complete pushover to those decks and handles itself decently against a lot of other decks in the field even if this build pays more respect to Omnath, Locus of Creation especially in the sideboard. If the field gets more aggressive after that, there may be consideration for things like The Birth of Meletis again. Until then, if you're looking to play something that isn't super prevalent but doesn't have many horrible matchups (and no good ones either) then this is great. It has particularly succeeded well in Bo1 games but it's sideboard is to account for things like Rogues, Gruul and MonoGreen aggro and Dimir/Sultai control which I run into a lot in ladder.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 1 Mythic Rares 34 - 5 Rares 12 - 3 Uncommons 5 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	Angel Warrior 4/4 W, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Pegasus 2/2 W