Esper Tempo Delve

Modern Aggro Competitive Delver Midrange Tempo WUB (Esper)

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Land (20)

• 2x Drowned Catacomb
• 3x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 2x Marsh Flats
• 2x Plains
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Creature (9)

• 2x Geist of Saint Traft
• 4x Gurmag Angler
• 2x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Vendilion Clique

Instant (11)

• 3x Fatal Push
• 4x Path to Exile
• 4x Thought Scour

Sorcery (14)

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Lingering Souls
• 4x Serum Visions
• 2x Thoughtseize

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Elspeth, Knight-Errant

Artifact (4)

• 4x Mishra's Bauble

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 2x Ceremonious Rejection
• 2x Countersquall
• 2x Disenchant
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Surgical Extraction

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Collective Brutality
• 2x Flaying Tendrils

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Stony Silence

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Artifact (1)

• 1x Nihil Spellbomb

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Reflector Mage

Instant (1)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking

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Fast paced Esper (UWB) list designed to disrupt the opponents hand with cards like Inquisition of Kozilek and Thoughtseize, while sifting through your deck with cards like Thought Scour and Serum Visions. Allowing you to get out your large delve threat of Gurmag Angler as early as turn 2.

I chose an Esper shell over the more preferred Grixis shell because of the access to fast tempo cards like Spell Queller to protect my main threats Gurmag Angler/Geist of Saint Traft, as well as the cheaper/better spot removal of Path to Exile. This also opens up the sideboard in white for some of the best sideboard cards in the meta imo.

While I lose the added reach of red spells like Bolt/K command. I gain the added ability to protect my threats through counterspells and interruption on any high costed threats like JTMS.

Currently Running 2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant and 1 Liliana, the Last Hope in main until I can afford 2 Liliana of the Veil

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	RG
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 1 Mythic Rares 23 - 4 Rares 19 - 6 Uncommons 8 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.45
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Emblem Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
Based on	Esper Tempo Trix NekoSenpaiGaming MDN