Dead or alive, true leaders can inspire an entire army.
Spirits
Aether Vial for cheating Spirits into play.
Supreme Phantom and Drogskol Captain for lords, the latter also granting hexproof.
Mausoleum Wanderer for a one-drop that can get bigger and a Spell Pierce on a stick.
Spell Queller for exiling early-game spells (CMC 4 or less) from the stack on a flash/flyer.
Skyclave Apparition for exiling nonland/nontoken permanents (CMC 4 or less).
Spectral Sailor for a one-drop flash/flyer with late-game card draw.
Rattlechains for protection against targeted removal that also gives other Spirits flash.
Shacklegeist for tapping down threats.
Selfless Spirit for wrath/removal protection.
Kira, Great Glass-Spinner for additional protection against targeted removal.
Moorland Haunt makes Spirit tokens out of creatures in our graveyard (great with self-sacrifice effects and against decks with a ton of removal like Burn/Jund).
Sideboard
Burrenton Forge-Tender for protection against Burn/Prowess.
Sanctifier en-Vec for protection against red/black decks, with some graveyard hate stapled on.
Kataki, War's Wage for Affinity/Tron hate.
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade for Tron/Suspend hate.
Path to Exile for creature removal.
Mystical Dispute for a counterspell against blue decks.
Rest in Peace for graveyard hate.
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Bogles |
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Burn |
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Death's Shadow |
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Dredge |
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Elves |
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Hammer Time |
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Heliod Company |
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Humans |
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Infect |
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Jund |
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Merfolk |
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Mill |
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Ponza |
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Prowess |
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Scapeshift |
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Storm |
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Maybeboard
Planeswalkers
Ashiok, Dream Render for shutting down Titan decks and some graveyard hate.
Creatures
Remorseful Cleric for graveyard hate.
Cemetery Illuminator for a sort of graveyard hate and sort of card advantage on a 3-toughness creature.
Unsettled Mariner for another Kira-like effect on targeted removal/hand disruption.
Nebelgast Herald for tapping down opponents threats when Spirits come into play.
Deputy of Detention for nonland permanent removal.
Phyrexian Revoker for shutting down activated abilities (mostly Ballista/planeswalkers).
Kor Firewalker for protection against Burn/Prowess.
Eidolon of Rhetoric for shutting down Storm (also Looting/Snapcaster).
Collector Ouphe for Stony Silence on a creature (for Vial).
Gaddock Teeg for shutting down Tron/other X spells (Chord).
Phantasmal Image for a clone effect (preferably for lords, but pretty much everything is good with Image/Vial here).
Giver of Runes for protection against colors.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben for the only non-Spirit, but her tax effect is amazing and she's a great first striking ground blocker.
Remorseful Cleric for additional/mainboard graveyard hate.
Hanged Executioner for two flying bodies and a creature exile effect.
Empyrean Eagle as a possible 9th/10th lord effect.
Geist of Saint Traft for a quick mainboard clock with hexproof.
Spirit of the Labyrinth for a Rule of Law effect on a stick.
Nikko-Onna for enchantment removal that can be replayed.
Auriok Champion for protection against Burn/Prowess/Phoenix.
Spells
Force of Negation for an often free Negate (for additional protection against removal or stopping noncreature combos).
Prismatic Ending for nonland permanent removal.
Echoing Truth for bouncing troublesome permanents (Ensnaring Bridge, Worship, etc...).
Deicide for removal against Heliod (but can also hit other enchantments).
Disdainful Stroke for a counterspell against Tron and other things a Queller can't hit.
Annul for a counterspell against Heliod (but also other artifacts/enchantments).
Ceremonious Rejection for a counterspell against colorless spells (also for Ugin, other Tron stuff).
Spell Pierce for a cheap additional counterspell (mostly for stopping T4 Ugin).
Settle the Wreckage for instant-speed mass removal.
Hurkyl's Recall for all the artifact-heavy decks.
Dovin's Veto for an uncounterable Negate.
Negate for an additional counterspell.
Unified Will for a counterspell for which we'll usually always meet the criteria.
Dispel for winning counter wars or against Burn/instant-speed removal.
Blessed Alliance for a combat trick or lifegain.
Disenchant for artfact/enchantment removal.
Fragmentize for destroying Ensnaring Bridge, other troublesome artifacts/enchantments.
Enchantments
Leyline of Sanctity for hexproof (against Valakut/Mill/Discard).
Worship for an out to the mirror as well as Burn/Storm/Humans.
Stony Silence for artifact/activated ability hate.
Curious Obsession for a small pump and card advantage when attacking with evasion.
Mark of Asylum for protection against burn spells (especially "free" spells like Gut Shot/Lava Dart).
Detention Sphere as an alternative to Echoing Truth.
Artifacts
Relic of Progenitus for graveyard removal and card draw.
Damping Sphere for Titan/Tron/Storm hate.
Portable Hole for efficient removal.
Grafdigger's Cage for additional graveyard hate on turn 1.
Pithing Needle for shutting down activated abilities that Phyrexian Revoker cannot (mostly for Blast Zone).
Lands
Mutavault for a Spirit on a land.