MTG Salvation

I was looking at the Sun Titan deck that gives you card advantage with Jace Beleren and I came up with an idea for a neat deck core...



The idea is to make an Esper deck that acts like Jund Midrange once did with Bloodbraid Elf creating an explosive board advantage. Although unlike Jund's aggro style beat down, Esper offers us more control based actions as we aim to hit that T4 or 5 Rites giving us a 6/6 beater and hopefully a Lilly if not a Jace or Clique depending on the board state. As for utility, Snapcaster is here to abuse the filled graveyard and Confidant is the obvious card advantage. I'm also considering dropping Tidehollow Sculler.

I haven't chosen what I want to use to fill my graveyard yet but I'm assuming it'll just be a few dredgers and some T1 discard power.

So yeah, lemme know what you guys think and please throw me some suggestions. I'm hoping that in these colors I should be able to create enough tempo to slow the game down for myself with cards like Remand and other early counters/removal.

With a high end curve like that, dark confidant is going to wipe the floor with you. If you feel a need to run a black card drawer, run phyrexian arena. Note that you're currently running 4x 5 cmc+ 4x 6 cmc (unburial rites/sun titan) which equates to a lot of pain!

You don't want Dark Confidant as taking 6 off of Sun Titan is not so hot.

Here is the last deck I know of that did well as Solar Flare.

(Aaron Snover, SCG Inv 04/15/12)



Now the deck is supposed to focus on filling up the yard and bringing out a big beater, which this did well. Our Modern version should do the same.


Here is a deck by Tim Woodard winner of his state championship on 11/05/2006 when Solar Flare was in Standard before Innistrad.




These deck ideas should help us mold a Modern version of this archetype.