MTG Deck of the Week: “Esper Control” – Who Needs Creatures?
Check out the current trending decks in Magic: The Gathering! This week, “Esper Control” pulls a Red and lets spells do the work.
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 Control” by Tunaktunak, which is currently trending on TCGPlayer. The deck came in first place during the MTGO Standard Challenge on July 16th.
Decklist
3 Adarkar Wastes
1 Caves of Koilos
3 Cut Down
4 Darkslick Shores
3 Deserted Beach
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Dissipate
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1 Farewell
2 Go for the Throat
3 Make Disappear
4 Memory Deluge
2 Mirrex
1 Negate
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Plains
4 Raffine’s Tower
3 Shattered Sanctum
3 Sheoldred’s Edict
1 Shipwreck Marsh
1 Silver Scrutiny
3 Siphon Insight
3 Sunfall
1 Swamp
2 The Celestus
4 The Wandering Emperor
1 Underground River
2 Void Rend
Sideboard
3 Chrome Host Seedshark
1 Disdainful Stroke
2 Duress
1 Farewell
1 Negate
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Siphon Insight
1 Sunset Revelry
1 Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim
2 Temporary Lockdown
Deck Notes
I try to always be candid with these reviews, so I’ll be honest; I’m not sure how this deck took the top chair. It has a lot of removals and a few fun pieces, but it doesn’t really DO anything that I can see. Now, I will fully admit that is not a commentary on the deck; it won the challenge, so there’s something there I’m not seeing. I just feel like it takes more than a few tokens to secure a victory. Then again, I suppose that’s what the Sideboard is for.
