Esper Grave Knights
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:30 am
Hello! I'm trying to modernize an old Esper deck of mine, a deck that focuses on graveyard synergy.
The core cards are Haakon, Stromgald Scourge, Necrotic Ooze, and Cairn Wanderer. In short, fill the graveyard with various creatures and reanimate/copy their effect via Haakon, Ooze, and Wanderer. The deck only utilizes roughly twenty creatures (many being knights by default) and 20+ instant/sorcery partly due to Dralnu, Lich Lord/Morphling being in the deck as well. River Kelpie and Secrets of the Dead provide tremendous amount of card advantage.
Some may recognize this deck idea by now. It came from Scoeri at MtGSalvation thread six years ago. He used Ertai, the Corrupted as his commander, while I modified it to suit Chromium, the Mutable. Recent cards like Maskwood Nexus, Guardian of Faith, Nymris, Oona's Trickster, Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools, Gravebreaker Lamia, Vile Entomber, and Oriq Loremage are all potential upgrades to his idea, Eldraine also provided many more knights for the theme.
I'd love to hear everyone's ideas on this direction. Some might suggest Zur the Enchanter and Varina, Lich Queen being better commanders for it, but I want to stick with Chromium and Ertai, or Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant/partners.
EDIT: Forgot to add, There's also Nameless Inversion and Crib Swap to further Haakon's power.
The core cards are Haakon, Stromgald Scourge, Necrotic Ooze, and Cairn Wanderer. In short, fill the graveyard with various creatures and reanimate/copy their effect via Haakon, Ooze, and Wanderer. The deck only utilizes roughly twenty creatures (many being knights by default) and 20+ instant/sorcery partly due to Dralnu, Lich Lord/Morphling being in the deck as well. River Kelpie and Secrets of the Dead provide tremendous amount of card advantage.
Some may recognize this deck idea by now. It came from Scoeri at MtGSalvation thread six years ago. He used Ertai, the Corrupted as his commander, while I modified it to suit Chromium, the Mutable. Recent cards like Maskwood Nexus, Guardian of Faith, Nymris, Oona's Trickster, Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools, Gravebreaker Lamia, Vile Entomber, and Oriq Loremage are all potential upgrades to his idea, Eldraine also provided many more knights for the theme.
I'd love to hear everyone's ideas on this direction. Some might suggest Zur the Enchanter and Varina, Lich Queen being better commanders for it, but I want to stick with Chromium and Ertai, or Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant/partners.
EDIT: Forgot to add, There's also Nameless Inversion and Crib Swap to further Haakon's power.