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1 year ago  ::  Nov 26, 2011 - 8:38PM #1
majickal
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Date Joined: Nov 19, 2010
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Little bit of background on this deck first:

1. I'm trying to keep this one as "flavorful" as possible, and also keep the power level reasonable. I realize there are a lot better card choices out there ( Hero of Bladehold ), but I want this one to be a spirit control / aggro deck. Going home for Christmas and some family members want to try out MTG. I have several casual creative decks such as exploding goblins, rogues, saprolings that are fun to play and I want to make another easy to play deck that's interesting but won't crush the competition.

2. As a result, I'd like to keep the cost down (no Geist of Saint Traft s for me )

On to the deck!
Creatures:
Creatures x 17
2 x Geist-Honored Monk
4 x Kami of False Hope
3 x Doomed Traveler
2 x Mausoleum Guard
2 x Angel of Flight Alabaster
2 x Twilight Drover
2 x Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar

Spells x 14:
4 x Silent Departure
2 x Feeling of Dread
4 x Midnight Haunting
2 x Brainstorm
2 x Oblivion Ring

Enchantments x 8:
3 x Honor of the Pure
3 x Promise of Bunrei
2 x Mind Unbound

Lands:
3 x Moorland Haunt
Plains and Islands

Synergies that I like:
Kami of False Hope and Angel of Flight Alabaster
Twilight Drover + tokens

Concerns:
Lack of suitable card filtering / draw until 6 CMC
Lack of viable 2 drops. Accorder Paladin would be great, but doesn't fit the theme.
I REALLY wish Promise of Bunrei generated white tokens. I'm not sure that Honor of the Pure is worth the slots as a result.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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1 year ago  ::  Nov 26, 2011 - 10:02PM #2
MTA-Pandemonium
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Intangible Virtue will pump the tokens, but not your other creatures.
Spectral Procession Sorcery speed haunting with an additional token, although very white intensive.
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1 year ago  ::  Nov 27, 2011 - 6:10AM #3
majickal
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Nov 26, 2011 -- 10:02PM, MTA-Pandemonium wrote:

Intangible Virtue will pump the tokens, but not your other creatures.
Spectral Procession Sorcery speed haunting with an additional token, although very white intensive.




Intangible Virtue is a great call! I did consider it during an earlier iteration of this deck, but it didn't make sense back then. Now it does, I just hadn't thought about putting it in there again. The flavor fits perfectly too - the definition of a rattlesnake card.

Doomed Traveler -> Intangible Virtue -> Promise of Bunrei = Attack me, and instead of having a 1/1 I'll have 5 2/2 flying vigilance creatures.

Spectral Procession I'll have to think about. If that goes in, Silent Departure is getting swapped out for the instant speed bounce back Vapor Snag just because I want to have some combat tricks... or something else is getting swapped, as I don't want to remove too many creatures cards due to the awesomeness of Moorland Haunt . Mausoleum Guard , despite its flavor, is not that great a card so it may need to be cut.

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1 year ago  ::  Nov 28, 2011 - 7:36AM #4
majickal
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Updated and Synergized DeckList!


Creatures x 15:
4 x Kami of False Hope
3 x Doomed Traveler
2 x Geist-Honored Monk
3 x Twilight Drover
2 x Sun Titan
1 x Angel of Flight Alabaster


Spells x 12:
2 x Vapor Snag
2 x Silent Departure  
4 x Midnight Haunting
2 x Spectral Procession  
2 x Feeling of Dread

Artifacts x 2
2 x Skullclamp
  
Enchantments x 9:
3 x Intangible Virtue
4 x  Promise of Bunrei
2 x Oblivion Ring  

Lands x 22:

3 x Moorland Haunt
4 x Seachrome Coast
4 x Glacial Fortress
7 Plains
4 Islands
  
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1 year ago  ::  Nov 29, 2011 - 5:47AM #5
ReveillarkAbuser
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Date Joined: Sep 22, 2009
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i think belfry spirit would have plenty of synnergy with ur deck.
Also skullclamp is one of those cards that u play 4 of or none (unless its singleton format) so up that count 
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1 year ago  ::  Nov 29, 2011 - 10:52AM #6
majickal
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Nov 29, 2011 -- 5:47AM, ReveillarkAbuser wrote:

i think belfry spirit would have plenty of synnergy with ur deck.
Also skullclamp is one of those cards that u play 4 of or none (unless its singleton format) so up that count 




Belfry Spirit is a great suggestion for the feel of the deck! I'll take out 1 of the Kami's to add in one of these - in testing, I don't need to stall as much as I thought I would.

Regarding skullclamp, that may be upped later - it kind of cheapens the deck imho, but it was such a good draw engine for the deck I put two in... I still feel bad about it. If the deck gets stomped too often I will up it.     

Updated Decklist!
3 x Kami of False Hope
3 x Doomed Traveler
2 x Geist-Honored Monk
3 x Twilight Drover
2 x Belfry Spirit
1 x Angel of Flight Alabaster
1 x Sun Titan

Spells:
2 x Silent Departure
2 x Vapor Snag
2 x Feeling of Dread
4 x Midnight Haunting
2 x Spectral Procession

Artifacts:
2 x Skullclamp

Enchantments:
4 x Promise of Bunrei
3 x Intangible Virtue
2 x Oblivion Ring         
                   
Lands:
3 x Moorland Haunt
4 x Glacial Fortress
4 x Seachrome Coast
Plains and Islands

The Sun Titan is ridiculously good, but it doesn't fit the theme well - so reverting it to being a one of. I've been very happy with this deck so far in play testing! The Drovers might need to become a 4 of, but the cheap control package keeps the deck alive and in control long enough to overwhelm most opponents.  Massacre Wurm would suck to run against...      

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1 year ago  ::  Nov 29, 2011 - 1:42PM #7
froofroo
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may I sugest suture priest and just to go in the theme of the deck, witchbane orb
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1 year ago  ::  Nov 29, 2011 - 2:49PM #8
sage62
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I'm working on a spirit deck of my own, and I really like Sandsower for it, works well with a lot of tokens
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