Esper Spirits

Standard* Spirits Tempo WUB (Esper)

macaroniman

Creature (15)

• 4x Doomed Traveler
• 4x Drogskol Captain
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 4x Geist of Saint Traft
• 2x Obzedat, Ghost Council

Land (24)

• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Glacial Fortress
• 4x Godless Shrine
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 2x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Moorland Haunt
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 2x Watery Grave

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Call to the Kindred

Instant (12)

• 4x Azorius Charm
• 1x Negate
• 2x Syncopate
• 3x Thought Scour
• 2x Unsummon

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Lingering Souls

Unknown (2)

• 2x rootborn defense

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Sideboard

Instant (3)

• 2x Essence Scatter
• 1x Negate

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Appetite for Brains
• 4x Duress

Unknown (1)

• 1x rootborn defense

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Just a deck i've been fiddling with trying to get a tempo-ish feel with Geist of Saint Traft in Standard. I'm pretty pleased with this list, it hits the curve very nicely, but as always it takes some intelligent mulliganing.

I put Call to the Kindred in this deck because of the amount of hexproof flying around. Just put it on a hexproof spirit (Geist of Saint Traft or a spirit token with Drogskol Captain out, and then have fun with your free Obzedat, or Drogskol reaver.

Rootborn Defense serves three purposes: as a combat trick against aggro (Saint Traft alone is terrible for blocking), preventing board wipes against control, and populate works on Geist's angel token (free 4/4 flier please?)

For those people with money: replace something (like doomed traveler) with Snapcaster Mage and add another thought scour main board. To give it a more tempo feel.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 12 - 6 Uncommons 12 - 5 Commons
Cards	59
Avg. CMC	2.48
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Spirit 1/1 W