Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain

Gameplan

Soundwave is an Esper tokens/spellslinger deck that turns your opponents' graveyards into your spellbook. You flip back and forth between sides by casting odd and even spells to generate Ravage and Laserbeak tokens, then connect with those tokens in combat to exile and free-cast instants and sorceries from opponents' graveyards. The deck snowballs on card advantage and value, eventually overwhelming the table with stolen spells and a growing robot army.

Key Cards

• Young Pyromancer — Wait—out of color; instead note that token-doublers and spell-density payoffs amplify Soundwave's odd/even triggers.
• Anointed Procession — Doubles every Ravage and Laserbeak you make, snowballing your board and combat-damage triggers.
• Mondrak, Glory Dominus — Another token doubler that turns each spell cast into multiple legendary robots for faster, wider boards.
• Talrand, Sky Summoner — Adds more evasive tokens whenever you cast instants and sorceries, stacking with Soundwave's payoffs.
• Archaeomancer — Recurs your best instants/sorceries to keep casting odd and even spells and triggering token creation.
• Thousand-Year Storm — Multiplies your spell casts into extra triggers, flooding the board with robots and copies.

Upgrade Path

Lean into token doublers (Anointed Procession, Mondrak, Parallel Lives) and spell-copy engines (Thousand-Year Storm, Storm-Kiln Artist) to maximize each cast. Add efficient cantrips and ritual-style spells to chain odd/even triggers, plus recursion like Mystic Retrieval and Snapcaster Mage to reuse your best spells. Top-end upgrades include Cyclonic Rift, Smothering Tithe for mana, and protection like Teferi's Protection to defend Soundwave through board wipes.