3rd

Esper Knights typal/reanimator-midrange deck built around Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir. It plays a white/blue/black Knight shell with tribal payoffs like Knight Exemplar, Kinsbaile Cavalier, Herald’s Horn, Vanquisher’s Banner, Kindred Discovery, and Roaming Throne, while using cheap interaction and countermagic to stay ahead.

The deck aims to win by swarming the board with Knights, generating value through combat damage and tribal draw engines, then leveraging reanimation to cheat key Knights back into play. Entomb, Buried Alive, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Living Death, and Patriarch’s Bidding work especially well with Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and Sidar’s attack trigger. It can close games through anthem/double strike pressure from cards like Knight Exemplar and Kinsbaile Cavalier, wide token/combat boards from Adeline and Worthy Knight, or a big finisher like Moonshaker Cavalry.