MTG Esper Deck Ideas
If you wish to become a powerful sorcerer in the "Magic the Gathering" card game you will have to master the use of mana to summon creatures and cast spells. While standard cards require one or two different mana colors to cast, the Shards of Alara set features cards that require three different mana colors to be used. The Esper subset focuses on white, blue and black mana in summoning; meaning your deck will have to work within the boundaries of these colors to succeed.
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Balanced Esper Deck
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Ignore traditional lands in your deck and instead fill it with Esper Panorama and Arcane Sanctum lands. The Panorama adds one colorless mana to your pool when tapped, while Arcane Sanctum adds your choice of one white, black or blue mana to the pool. Use the versatility of these lands to have a straight Esper deck.
If you are playing this balanced deck add Brilliant Ultimatum, a sorcery card that allows you to cast up to four spells at once without paying mana cost. Add creatures such as Esper Stormblade, which gains +1/+1 and flying, if you have another multicolored creature in play. Use the 5/5 Sharuum the Hegemon in your deck for its attack potential.
Odd Man Out Deck
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Black and blue cards work well together, and blue and white cards work well together, but white and black cards are complete opposites. Rather than trying to balance your Esper deck between all three colors, leave one out of your planning. Try to keep the complimentary colors together and pepper your deck with the interruption spells from the blue side, such as Deflection and Rebound, which causes your opponent's spell to affect a target of your choice instead of his.
Use white spells and creatures that restore life like Perimeter Captain, who gains two life points any time he blocks. Add powerful black creatures that focus on brute strength, such as Bringer of the Black Dawn and Abyssal Persecutor, to the deck. Choose two of the three colors based on your play style.
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Esper-Artifact Hybrid Deck
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Ignore the limitations of needing three different mana colors and pair up your Esper cards with Artifacts for an Esper-Artifact hybrid deck. Artifact cards require no set color of mana; meaning that regardless of the color mana you have in play, you can summon your Artifacts into play.
As a bonus, add the Mox Sapphire, Mox Pearl and Mox Jet into the deck. These Artifacts add one blue, white or black mana respectively to your mana pool when tapped.
Use this extra mana to summon powerful Esper cards such as Magister Sphinx, a creature that sets any player's life point total to 10 when it comes into play. Keep Master of Ehterium in your Artifact deck, as this Esper creature's attack and defense are equal to the number of Artifact creatures in play.
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