The overview found Esper Blink but placed it in Legacy with very limited data (1 entry). Let me check for a Modern version specifically and get the meta report to find the right archetype.
Good, Esper Blink is confirmed in Modern. Now let me pull all the key matchup winrates against the top archetypes simultaneously.
Here is the Esper Blink matchup matrix for Modern over the last 60 days (May 28 - Jul 28, 2026). Overall record: 297W-297L-18D, 50.0% WR across 612 matches.
FAVORABLE MATCHUPS (Esper Blink favored):
Yawgmoth 70.0% (7-3, 10 matches)
Living End 69.2% (9-4, 13 matches)
Broodscale 66.7% (18-9, 27 matches)
Goryo Reanimator 60.0% (30-20, 50 matches)
Domain Zoo 57.1% (8-6, 14 matches)
Azorius Blink 53.8% (7-6, 13 matches)
Boros Energy 53.0% (35-31, 66 matches)
ROUGHLY EVEN MATCHUPS:
Amulet Titan 48.0% (12-13, 25 matches)
Grixis Reanimator 45.0% (9-11, 20 matches)
Ruby Storm 46.4% (13-15, 28 matches)
Prowess 44.9% (22-27, 49 matches)
UNFAVORABLE MATCHUPS (Esper Blink disadvantaged):
Affinity 33.9% (20-39, 59 matches)
Boros Ponza 31.3% (5-11, 16 matches)
Tron 31.0% (9-20, 29 matches)
Azorius Control 25.0% (5-15, 20 matches)
The headline takeaway: Esper Blink is well-positioned against the format's combo and creature-based strategies (Goryo, Broodscale, Yawgmoth, Living End) and even holds a slight edge on the format's most-played deck in Boros Energy (53%). Its clear weak spots are the big mana and pure control shells - Tron, Azorius Control, and Boros Ponza all post sub-32% WRs against it, and Affinity is a significant problem at 33.9% across a strong 59-match sample.
Sources: Data drawn from 95 Modern tournaments (63% MTGO, 37% Melee). Recent examples with Esper Blink representation: