We have been doing the playtest for the Esper Legends deck in the Magic: the Gathering Arena format with the new set including The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. This is to consistently test the deck build and try some new components.

We faced some old previous deck archetypes as well as new strategies, in particular some tribal decks introduced in Ixalan. It is quite interesting to see these builds that look like a standalone list with a few mana fix support from previous sets.

One specific tribal Standard deck that I am going to share for today’s blog post is my matchup against Izzet Pirates. This tribe is one of the recognized powerhouse aggro decks during the Ixalan Standard days and seeing it here again is no surprise.

See the video below of the MTG Arena Standard matchup between Esper Legends vs Izzet Pirates.