Like Junk/Jund, this deck generates card advantage through tempo plays and pressure from various angles. It's pure card quality. Top decks are rarely dead. Even Leak gets better when you go with 2 Go for the Throat, 1 Cut, 1 Pact, 1 Utter End + 3 Snapcaster Mage. This plan also allows you to call Path to Exile with Mage.
That being said, Esper Charm, Sphinx's Rev, and Jace, AoT is enough card draw. They are big ones, too. Esper Charm + Snapcaster Mage is huge too.
Vs Junk, a player playing my deck recently reported that he Seized Noble, Maged his Goyf (3 in hand), IoK his Decay, and that put him significantly behind after he played Geist. Scooped.
Vs Burn, IoK, Sculler, Mage, Leak, + Esper Charm is enough to put them behind without ever having to gain life.
This is a very different beast than UWR Geist. It's nowhere near comparing traditional Esper Geist to UWR Geist. Look at the board too. This deck can also transform into Esper Walkers and Esper Charm is a blowout here, especially after you manipulate their sequences with IoK, Seize, TS, Mage, etc.
It may not have burn spells, but it has a lot of ways to deal with Creatures and Walkers.
Videos will be up soon of my match up vs BW Tokens and Affinity. 2-0 each. TS/Mage are great vs both and this deck almost constantly dominates Infect. In 4 sets vs one player playing UG Infect, I went 8-0. IoK/Seize hit the Creatures/Pumps, Sculler grabs more, Mage calls Vines/Rancor, Esper Charm blows up Rancor or their hand, and soon after - GG.
[quote from="TheNoob »" url="http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/tier-2-modern/579970-buw-aggro-control-esper-midrange?comment=317"]@my previous post
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Stopped reading here: "I actually wouldn't say it has any 'bad' matchups, but it has a few that are more challenging than others, namely Abzan, Sultai, and Jund, followed by Grixis Delver"
Well having a tough time against 2/3 decks you definitely wanna beat and face is likely just game over in my opinion.
There is no deck in modern that has a "favourable" or good match up against all the tier 1 decks.... if there was it would be tier S and dominate the format.
And saying they are challenging is vastly different than saying they are bad or unwinnable....
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Why play this pile if there are decks that are at least having 2/3 good matchups out of the 3 you want to beat?
Of course the creator doesnt bash his creation and says 2 of 3 tier decks are horrid.
Have you watched this SSG matchup esper mentor vs little junk? They talked about the same thing. Mentor tries to do similiar things but having weaker individualcards. With this i dont want to question the obvious power of the deck (original japanese mentor), but with consideration that jund will be a top contender the next gp, I would be careful to play this brew at a big event, thats all im saying.
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That argument is much more thought out and useful than "Stop reading at ...."
This deck is different than Mentor though on a few different axises.
1) Geist is hexproof and a serious clock all by itself. The removal/discard/counters provide a good way to protect him.
2) Geist is great in a format that relies on a lot of targeted removal, which is what Grixis Delver/Jund/Abzan do; they play almost no sweepers relying on effective cheap removal.
3) Decks like Grixis Delver and Jund play on the lighter side of threats, relying on their cost efficiency to make up for it, disrupting that slows them down, which combined with a great clock can be extremely effective.
I am not saying this is the next greatest deck, but i think it is an interesting take on the meta and i am sleeving it up for the next few weeks to put it through its paces
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Thanks for sharing. Correct. This is a very different deck than Esper Mentor and even Esper Control. Closer analyzation of the deck's various angles will allude this.
It has favorable match ups where Esper would typically have a difficult time against, such as Junk and Jund.
Great points, TheNoob. It's not perfect, but no deck is. The foundation, however, is very strong.
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Like Junk/Jund, this deck generates card advantage through tempo plays and pressure from various angles. It's pure card quality. Top decks are rarely dead. Even Leak gets better when you go with 2 Go for the Throat, 1 Cut, 1 Pact, 1 Utter End + 3 Snapcaster Mage. This plan also allows you to call Path to Exile with Mage.
That being said, Esper Charm, Sphinx's Rev, and Jace, AoT is enough card draw. They are big ones, too. Esper Charm + Snapcaster Mage is huge too.
Vs Burn, IoK, Sculler, Mage, Leak, + Esper Charm is enough to put them behind without ever having to gain life.
The deck is designed to punish mulligans too.
It may not have burn spells, but it has a lot of ways to deal with Creatures and Walkers.
Videos will be up soon of my match up vs BW Tokens and Affinity. 2-0 each. TS/Mage are great vs both and this deck almost constantly dominates Infect. In 4 sets vs one player playing UG Infect, I went 8-0. IoK/Seize hit the Creatures/Pumps, Sculler grabs more, Mage calls Vines/Rancor, Esper Charm blows up Rancor or their hand, and soon after - GG.
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Thanks for sharing. Correct. This is a very different deck than Esper Mentor and even Esper Control. Closer analyzation of the deck's various angles will allude this.
It has favorable match ups where Esper would typically have a difficult time against, such as Junk and Jund.
Great points, TheNoob. It's not perfect, but no deck is. The foundation, however, is very strong.