Esper Draw...No...

Modern Control Counters WUB (Esper)

DaDannyWay

Creature (3)

• 3x Snapcaster Mage

Land (26)

• 3x Celestial Colonnade
• 3x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 2x Glacial Fortress
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 3x Island
• 2x Plains
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Watery Grave

Instant (28)

• 3x Cryptic Command
• 4x Esper Charm
• 1x Fatal Push
• 2x Logic Knot
• 1x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Negate
• 4x Path to Exile
• 2x Remand
• 2x Secure the Wastes
• 1x Spell Burst
• 1x Spell Snare
• 2x Sphinx's Revelation
• 4x Think Twice

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Supreme Verdict

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Sideboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Stony Silence

Artifact (1)

• 1x Engineered Explosives

Instant (4)

• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Dispel
• 2x Surgical Extraction

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Collective Brutality
• 2x Lingering Souls
• 2x Thoughtseize
• 3x Timely Reinforcements
• 1x Wrath of God

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This is my build of Esper Draw-go. This deck may look weird and off compared to other control lists in the format but, this is only because this deck is true control. Don't hate it till you try it (took me a while to consider looking at it despite my friend's suggestion). The deck works like this. Survive past turn 4? Great, now is the turning point for you. Turn 4 depending on the situation you want to either Supreme Verdict to reset the board or hold up the Cryptic Command to counter draw, counter bounce, etc (all situation dependent). Sometimes you may have killed their gas by that point and you just flashing back a Think Twice at the end of their turn. With this deck you are playing a hard control game, so draw-go means draw-go. The card choice is designed so you go into every opponent turn with your mana up, always representing countermagic. The only things you should EVER be doing on your turn are land drops, swinging with your tokens, Snapcaster Mage's, or (once your opponent has obviously lost all hope in the game)Celestial Colonnade. With that being said, making land drops with this deck is CRUCIAL. Land drops are how we keep the strong card advantage up against or opponent through Think Twice, Esper Charm, Sphinx's Revelation, and our can-trip counter magic. This is why the deck does run 26 lands. So for us to succeed to a point where we can do multiple of our spells in a turn we need our land drops. It feels good to Esper Charm turn 3 at the end of their turn and draw 2 cards, then flashing it back with snap caster mage to empty the rest of their hand on the end of turn 5. As we draw cards and hit land drops we are able to lock our opponent out of the game through our card advantage, utilizing the Cryptic Command counter spell and bounce our Snapcaster Mage for more flashback spells, and when we find it late game (or Mystical Teachings for it) our Spell Burst with buy back, we can then Secure the Wastes for our win condition. Lastly, this deck is going to have long games. Similar to Miracles in Legacy this deck requires the pilot to make fast smart decisions and understand when it is a good time to close the game.The bottom line is if you like a true control deck, drawing cards, saying "No", or the look of hopelessness and despair on your opponents face as they are topdecking against a full hand, then I would suggest giving this deck the light of day!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 8 Rares 10 - 6 Uncommons 7 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.32
Tokens	Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Warrior 1/1 W