Today we take a long in-depth look at what Esper could be in Standard, taking a special look at a long forgotten card- Sculpting Steel. The deck also features various Esper bases including Master of Etherium, Etherium Sculptor, Tezzeret, Salvage Titan, and other artifacts for mana production and to feed Master of Etheriums power or churn out Salvage Titan including Springleaf Drum and Ornithopter.


kid you’re super smart but fix your audio buy a mic it hurts my soul.
Here’s the decklist transcript, for those interested (as I was):
1 Vivid Marsh
9 Islands
5 Swamp
4 Arcane Sanctum
1 Mystic Gate
2 Sunken Ruins
1 Vivid Creek
4 Etherium Sculptor
4 Ornithopter
3 Master of Etherium
4 Salvage Titan
3 Tezzeret the Seeker
3 Eyeblights Ending
3 Removal Soul
3 Springleaf Drum
3 Negate
4 Sculpting Steel
4 Crytpic Command
I would probably want to play Agony Warp over Eyeblights Ending and I would want Mind Stone in this deck for the great synergy with both Master of Etherium and Salvage Titan.
Yeah, my apologies about the list, I should’ve gotten that up, but lacked the time to do so, thanks for that though
no problem, I happen to be bored at work : )
What do you think about my suggestions? Springleaf drum just seems very mediocre, I would rather run Mind Stone or Chromatic Star (if you think 1cc is crucial). I realize start doesn’t accelerate, but drum really only works well with the the ornithopter anyway. Star digs you deeper and puts an arty in the yars for Titan.
On the casual side, I can envision a fun deck that replaces Ornithhopter/Counterspells with utility artifacts and runs March of the Machines…
Next time you do a game walkthrough, please let us know what cards are in your hand – at least in the hand that you keep. During the early turns of the game, all we knew was that you had mulled down to 5 cards, and you slowly revealed what they were as you played them.