This is my own personal brew of UW "Spirit tribal" deck for Shadows over Innistrad standard - actually, it's half tribal, half good stuff, that's why I rather call it UW Flash Flying or, my personal favorite, "Of Angels and Geists" - I just like the indie folk-pop Iceland band "Of Monsters and Men" way too much, couldn't resist.
We have good tempo control creatures in the form of Rattlechains
+
Topplegeist
, and a couple of lord/anthem effects: Always Watching
+
Thunderclap Wyvern
. Also, Bygone Bishop feeds clues to Angelic Purge, so we don't have to sacrifice any relevant permanents unless we really want to activate Delirium. Reflector Mage is just too good to just not play it. And, on top of all that, we have
Invocation of Saint Traft
, which also gets affected by
Thunderclap Wyvern
.
As a side note: Ormendahl, Profane Prince
cries like a baby everytime we play Reflector Mage.
This deck is way more agressive than the average UW decks, colors that usually try to control or tempo out their opponents, just because our guys get so much pump.
I'm very proud of this deck, and yet can see some upgrades (for instance, Archangel Avacyn
), but for a budget cost this is enough. On the sideboard, lots of counter spells against things like Duress and removal.
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Update (11/04/16): Took away 2x
Spectral Shepherd
and 2x
Thunderclap Wyvern
for 4x Essence Flux - turns out, the cards I took where too slow, and Essence Flux
+
Reflector Mage
or Essence Flux
+
Rattlechains
is just nuts. Also, replaced 1x Anticipate for 1x
Eerie Interlude
, so our creatures can escape boardwipe, or just for the reason's I gave for Essence Flux.
Update (11/04/16): Took away 1x Essence Flux and 1x
Invocation of Saint Traft
for 2x
Thunderclap Wyvern
. Sometimes Invocation and Flux just didn't did the trick for me, and felt like the Wyvern was always a good option. The format is slow enough, in a way, to accommodate those choices. I would even consider taking away Invocation completely, just 'cause there are so many removals - even GW Tokens and Bant Comapany decks use Dromoka's Command, and they just have to choose to make their guy fight the creature we enchanted to get rid with both - but if played on curve it's still massive pressure on the opponent. Also, having 3x Essence Flux + 1x
Eerie Interlude
should be enough, even against BW with their 4x Languish + 1x Planar Outburst - if we are able to save something and they end up with nothing, it's almost garanteed we should win, specially after we start piling up those
Always Watching
.
