MTG Deck of the Week: “Esper Midrange” – Riddle Me This
Check out the current trending decks in Magic: The Gathering! This week, “Esper Midrange” has already seen your future, and it’s not looking good.
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Decklist
2 Underground River
1 Caves of Koilos
2 Seachrome Coast
3 Dennick, Pious Apprentice
2 Deserted Beach
4 Wedding Announcement
4 Shattered Sanctum
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
3 Make Disappear
4 Raffine, Scheming Seer
3 Raffine’s Tower
2 Destroy Evil
2 Cut Down
1 Adarkar Wastes
2 Plaza of Heroes
1 Loran of the Third Path
2 Go for the Throat
4 Darkslick Shores
1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
4 Virtue of Loyalty
1 Plains
1 Restless Anchorage
2 Subterranean Schooner
2 Tishana’s Tidebinder
4 Deep-Cavern Bat
Sideboard
2 Disdainful Stroke
2 Duress
1 The Wandering Emperor
2 Destroy Evil
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Loran of the Third Path
2 Gix’s Command
1 Negate
2 Tishana’s Tidebinder
Deck Notes
I love Esper, and this is a version of it I haven’t seen before. Usually, Esper wants to slow down your opponent’s plays while elevating yours, but this one seems to be here for combat. Raffine can get obscenely strong, and Lord Skitter gives you plenty of bodies to empower. Even burn spells hold no sway, because you always have a way to dig out your best spells.
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