MTG Deck of the Week: “Esper Midrange” –
Check out the current trending decks in Magic: The Gathering! This week, “Rakdos Evoke” is back…but only long enough to burn you.
Welcome Magic: the Gathering players! We’re back to showcase one of the top decks of the week for competitive Magic. We have the top lists being played on MTGO, what’s winning, and the decks that won the major events this last week. So get your playmat ready, set your spindown to 20, and dive into the data, brought to us by TCGPlayer.com.
Our deck of the week is “Esper Legends” by Jean-Emmanuel Depraz, which is currently trending on TCGPlayer. The deck came in first place during the 29th Magic World Championship on September 24th.
Decklist
3 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Blood Crypt
2 Blood Moon
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Dauthi Voidwalker
4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
1 Fatal Push
4 Fury
4 Grief
1 Kroxa, Titan of Death’s Hunger
4 Not Dead After All
4 Orcish Bowmasters
4 Polluted Delta
4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
3 Swamp
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
2 Terminate
4 Thoughtseize
2 Undying Evil
1 Verdant Catacombs
Sideboard
1 Blood Moon
3 Chalice of the Void
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Fatal Push
1 Kolaghan’s Command
1 Kroxa, Titan of Death’s Hunger
3 Leyline of the Void
1 Pithing Needle
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Terminate
Deck Notes
It’s really nice to see this deck up at the top. Rakdos has had a stranglehold on the top spot in several Modern events, but it’s always draw punish. This feels like true Rakdos, a powerful deck that moves fast, does damage, and is happy to sacrifice its own stuff. I love it, and I hope it keeps going forward.
