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3/11/2025
Esper Grandeur
Deck Size: 60
Modern
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Est deck cost: $506.75
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Counters

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Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Mana Leak (2x2) 58

Counters

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Oriss Lock

Qty: 7 Price: $42.13
Oriss, Samite Guardian

{T}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. Grandeur — Discard another card named Oriss, Samite Guardian: Target player can't cast spells this turn, and creatures that player controls can't attack this turn.

Creature
Oriss, Samite Guardian (fut) 28
Sword of Light and Shadow

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Light and Shadow (acr) 100

Oriss Lock

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Stax

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Meddling Mage

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Spells with the chosen name can't be cast.

Creature
Meddling Mage (plst) ARB-8
Phyrexian Revoker

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Revoker (clb) 868
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben (vow) 38

Stax

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Discard

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Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Thoughtseize (2xm) 109

Discard

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Protection

Qty: 2 Price: $3.98
Gideon of the Trials

+1: Until your next turn, prevent all damage target permanent would deal. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon becomes a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn. 0: You get an emblem with "As long as you control a Gideon planeswalker, you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game."

Planeswalker
Gideon of the Trials (akh) 14

Protection

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Tokens

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Gideon, Ally of Zendikar

+1: Until end of turn, Gideon becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn. 0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token. −4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."

Planeswalker
Gideon, Ally of Zendikar (bfz) 29

Tokens

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Land

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Concealed Courtyard

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Concealed Courtyard (kld) 245
Creeping Tar Pit

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {1}{U}{B}: This land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

Land
Creeping Tar Pit (wwk) 134
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 277
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rtr) 241
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 281
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mm3) 239
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 277
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (drc) 167
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (drc) 174
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 285
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 291

Land

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Recursion

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Liliana, the Last Hope

+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-1 until your next turn. −2: Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. −7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is two plus the number of Zombies you control."

Planeswalker
Liliana, the Last Hope (emn) 93
Snapcaster Mage

Flash When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Snapcaster Mage (mm3) 50

Recursion

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Mill

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Corpse Churn

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Corpse Churn (clu) 107

Mill

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Removal

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Extirpate

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Instant
Extirpate (tsr) 114
Fatal Push

Destroy target creature if it has mana value 2 or less. Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has mana value 4 or less instead if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn.

Instant
Fatal Push (aer) 57
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (mb2) 15
Surgical Extraction

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Instant
Surgical Extraction (2x2) 94

Removal

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Sideboard

Qty: 15 Price: $90.69
Asylum Visitor

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Asylum Visitor (inr) 96
Gideon, Ally of Zendikar

+1: Until end of turn, Gideon becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn. 0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token. −4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."

Planeswalker
Gideon, Ally of Zendikar (bfz) 29
Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature
Grand Abolisher (m12) 19
Liliana of the Veil

+1: Each player discards a card. −2: Target player sacrifices a creature. −6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice.

Planeswalker
Liliana of the Veil (mm3) 76
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (mb2) 15
Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard. Draw a card.

Instant
Remand (j25) 349
Spell Snare

Counter target spell with mana value 2.

Instant
Spell Snare (plst) DIS-33
Stony Silence

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Enchantment
Stony Silence (mb2) 21
Timely Reinforcements

If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Sorcery
Timely Reinforcements (plst) M12-40
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (roe) 53

Sideboard

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Deck Info

Deck stats

23 pips - 15 cards
10 mana - 10 cards
9 pips - 9 cards
8 mana - 8 cards
13 pips - 11 cards
8 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 0 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 0 cards
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0 mana - 0 cards
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Description

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