MTG Salvation

hey, so I have been off the salvation sites for a while, but been chugging away at relearning my esper roots after a long time on the jeskai train, made a esper miracles and went 5-0 in my first league, it is the power of terminus in a esper shell
I plan to run it thru a few more leagues and refine the list some but overall it felt pretty solid

So wafo tapa placed second in the modern challange yesterday playing on his old WAtoo account! List looks fun as hell if not 100% perfect.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-challenge-2018-04-01

Im back to cast esper charms, since its good agian..... damn you amalek and your good lists

The list is pretty good, and since I switched to jeskai I have been enjoying. Having gearhulk as. Solid body plus spell so I can see it being prime in our list cause free charms are the *****.

So some sweet new esper decklist action was posted on the 5-0’s:
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/866123#online

I love the list, double gearhulk zero secure seems off but perhaps it’s a evolution of the list, not to sure but willing to test the list out.
And discuss.......

Queller allows it to flex the tempo/control tight rope skills it needs in the current metagame

Looks like Ben nikolich is in top 8 with his jeskai draw go list, I seen he was on nahri over ajani which is interesting.

For anyone that wants to join the discord group;
https://discord.gg/d9Aktf
It’s a great way to have casual discussion on the fly so I would highly recommend you download the discord app and start chatting with us.

So I h e had about 2 and a half leagues worth of play through with The list Mout 4-2’ed the challenge with and I must say I have evoked the play patterns and the Gideon/walker package in most games. My only changes were to the secure going back to wsz because it’s my pet card and I still love it as a late game trump vs the normal versions of Tron which are climbing back up in popularity.
I also added a runed halo to the sb over the third thoughtseize as I love having such a clean catchall to things.

I managed to grab a 5-0 with it and was hoping we would get posted but alas need to grab another to get it up.

The invite seems to have expired...

Would you mind sharing your latest list Kody?

I tend to agree scapeshift is not that scary of a matchup, it's akin to classic to classic non eldrazi in that it can be dicey if you draw the wrong half of the deck at wrong time but post board their a dog to our sb power.

I tend to use ambush vipers only when I feel the need to apply pressure To try and take out a premium two drop they have attacked with, aka bob or scooze or something but more often then not I hold the snap to get value. Playing three snaps also adds a bIt if insurance in using the first one as a pressure cooker instead of only value.

Ya I hadn't him in chat a few weeks back he mentioned he was bogged down with work so hopefully it lets up soon, gonna be a great fall I think with opt being a much needed tool.

Also enjoyed a great match this afternoon against ari lax, he was playing amulet which I hate as a deck just cause it has way to many triggers and such ok modo for my liking but g1 he got when I drew lots of mana and then no counters.
G2 I open with 6 lands esper charm and proceed to see 5-6 more lands after a snap charm and finally get enough stuff to battle when the dudes come, he had me scared when I had a cryptic and logic with 6 mana he resolved a green pact and found ruric thar and had the cavern to go along with it, proceeded to rip a verdict like a boss. It was then a long slog fest with him resolving a titan and a thragtusk and I had to cryptic chain for a couple turns into Verdi and then rev for 7 and then 8 to stay alive but he eventually ran out of threats and scooped with a minute and half on clock, G3 I push his t3 tireless tracker into cryptic cryptic time out, it was super satisfying to beat name players even if it's only on modo.

I'll be streaming this weekend, I might try and do an earlier stream Saturday perhaps in the morning if I skip my normal late night stream, perhaps even fit in the modern challenge for once? We shall see.

This is where I plan to start with my list and go from there.