I have been brewing something really close. But I am playing1 daybreak coronet with 4 curious obsession as my auras. I am also playing just 1 azorius herald. I would play more, but it's a nonbo with aether vial. The unblockablability is great, but even better with drawing cards off of curious obsession. I am also playing 1 teferi hero of dominaria. when you untap 2 lands at your end step(from his +1), you can use that extra mana to activate moorland haunt, or flash in a spirit off of rattle chains
Glad to see tallowisp, but I was hoping for the build that plays the blue and white shoals. I played that deck for a while, you get so many free wins off of those cards and tallowisp negates the card disadvantage. It's probably not as good, but it's super fun
actually I havent had too much trouble with the mana base, and in the matchups that a painful mana base would be an issue, spirits are generally a solid answer to. decks like burn or scapeshift are hosed decently by wanderer, squeller, and hexproof overall. souls provides a fast clock that makes up for the life lost from a greedy mana base. it is also a great answer against lantern, where the pain from the lands doesnt matter either. heres a list if youre interested: www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/1203481#paper
versions other than UW already have trouble with blood moon, and this mana base runs the same amount of basics as bant generally does, but with more fetches so it actually has better chances against blood moon than the bant deck.
To be honest, this looks like a completely different version of the majority of blue/ white spirits decks I've seen thus far. They've eliminated the other creatures such as Phantasmal Image and one Selfless Spirit to include more enchantment-based strategies. So now we have four variants of Spirits. U/w Spirirts, U/w Enchantment Spirits, Esper Spirits, and Bant Spirits.
I have played against Traft with curious obsession pants at an FMN. I punted my removal in order to play a bitterblossom on my second turn. After that I couldn't get ahead of the enchantments to do more than chump block. Faeries hate hexproof and cavern of souls.
When you do Esper spirits a card I would highly recommend is a creature from Guildpact called Souls of the Faultless and let me explain why. As we’ve seen with deck lists like Sorin Tribal and Obzedat’s Revenge the ability to drain for a decent amount of life is actually very powerful in the current modern meta. The mana bases are very versatile, but it comes at the cost of usually between 3 and 5 life. PLUS the majority of combo decks and burn decks can really be tripped up if you gain say, six life off something like Souls of the Faultless’s ability.
Seth, you need some temporal isolation for this deck, i play this in my tallowisp spirits. Its amazing as tutorable pacifism/ enabler for geist of saint traft
Sensei buh this deck has lands, critters, enchantment, instants, and an artifact not likely to die. You'd need opponent to kill an enchanted creature or destroy a Vial. Or add some sorceries
I love spirits. Also, what do you think is the most optimized version of U/W spirits? I was planning on making that over bang because I wanted to pick up vials anyways, and I don’t have anything close to a three color mana vase. But are steel and Geist good enough to run With the package over other cards? Love the deck though, definitely bookmarking
Off topic: is the corpse counter from Isareth the Awakener the condition for exiling a creature reanimated with it after it dies? If so, wouldn't it be much fun to play it with solemnity?
Dear Seth Manfield (hope didnt spell it wrong), I love your decks, the tech you do, but, there is one great but... Why do you support banning of that lgs? they didnt nothing wrong? I would be really glad, if you could answer this question :)
Playing Spirits and not have Eidolon of rethoric or Kataki in the sideboard seems Just a terrible deck building and lack of knowledge of the archetype to me
Guido M splashing red just for Eidolon seems a bit stupid imo. I think this is more going for aggroish UW with lots of counters. It doesn't need the red mana. I think your analysis shows a lack of understanding the wincon of this deck.
Guido M apparently Zan syed who just got 4th in an open with spirits has lack of knowledge and terrible deck building since he didn’t play kataki or eidolon either. Oh wait. He got 4th. You’re just an idiot.
I love how you call this "enchanted" spirits deck whereas it's just a UW Spirit Tribal deck with some Enchantments thrown in. Honestly would have wanted a little more Enchantments in the deck if you're calling this "enchanted" spirits.
I love your content Seth, however, the recent events involving fire and dice lgs has made me realize I cannot support someone who fronts outrage mobs. Hopefully in the future you might turn around. Thanks for all the videos and entertainment, but I’m unsubbing for now
Saffron Olive I always enjoyed your videos and commentary but sadly I am going to have to unsubscribe as I cannot support someone who would do what you did to that store owner. Posting memes on the store wall as a joke is not something you should lose your WPN status and likely your business over. You caused that family great harm and damage because of your actions. And your lack of sympathy/empathy is honestly quite shocking and saddens me. You lost a subscriber
I'm unsubscribing from your channel because of your direct signal boost on the Fire and Dice situation. The kekistani flag is not an alt right symbol. It's a shitposter, cringelord, /pol symbol. You just aided in putting out a community of over 200 total mtg regulars at this shop. At least try to not destroy the foundation of the game you benefit from. It's not the woke brigade that supports you but just regular magic players. I'm a big fan of the modern format. But I'll NEVER buy new product as long as you and people like you close to WOTC burn players over memes. Especially if you don't even understand the memes origin. I'm sick of this shit in my favorite hobbies. Stop appropriating nerd culture and come up with your own intellectual property to run into the ground.
Unsubbed, nice deck techs but destroying people's livelihoods over a meme, especially when they have children (an interracial child at that, because that matters to you) is beyond fucked up
Hey seth, im sorry about this but im unsubbing. I cant support what happened to that store because of you signal boosting a witch hunt. The owner did nothing wrong.
Tyler not a single thing. Wizards could have handled this all better but it is truly seths fault for being offended about a meme in a store he doesnt attend
YourSoulisYummy he shared a reddit post that was about a store owner having a sign that was vandalized and a meme flag in his store. The post gained a lot of attention and wotc revoked his wpn licence. Now the store is going to suffer for something that wasnt a big deal in the first place
Crimson Envec the modern card pool is larger so there’s obviously more potential for stronger synergies. Supreme phantom doesn’t do much in standard, anyways.
Oh wow, another braindead Aether Vial deck, 4 copies of the 1 Mana Artifact and all creatures, what a skill. Can't wait to see 5,000 of these until they finally wake up to themselves and ban Vial for being the garbage card design that it is, which they'll do eventually once enough bad players make enough bad decks (like this one) and RNG themselves into relevance.
The cycle of spirit avatar auras from shadowmoor/eventide are definitely pet cards of mine. +1 for including one!
I have been brewing something really close. But I am playing1 daybreak coronet with 4 curious obsession as my auras. I am also playing just 1 azorius herald. I would play more, but it's a nonbo with aether vial. The unblockablability is great, but even better with drawing cards off of curious obsession. I am also playing 1 teferi hero of dominaria. when you untap 2 lands at your end step(from his +1), you can use that extra mana to activate moorland haunt, or flash in a spirit off of rattle chains
Glad to see tallowisp, but I was hoping for the build that plays the blue and white shoals. I played that deck for a while, you get so many free wins off of those cards and tallowisp negates the card disadvantage. It's probably not as good, but it's super fun
I’ve been having tons of success with 4 color spirits, splashing black for lingering souls. I think the deck has a lot of real potential
i can see that being good but does the inevitably much more painful manabase cause any problems?
The manabase of Spirit is already painful, it doesn’t change much
Sounds like it's more vulnerable to blood moon
actually I havent had too much trouble with the mana base, and in the matchups that a painful mana base would be an issue, spirits are generally a solid answer to. decks like burn or scapeshift are hosed decently by wanderer, squeller, and hexproof overall. souls provides a fast clock that makes up for the life lost from a greedy mana base. it is also a great answer against lantern, where the pain from the lands doesnt matter either. heres a list if youre interested: www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/1203481#paper
versions other than UW already have trouble with blood moon, and this mana base runs the same amount of basics as bant generally does, but with more fetches so it actually has better chances against blood moon than the bant deck.
Hopefully we have room for esper in the roster too! I really wanna see that version of spirits as well. ;)
I really love to see this deck be played
To be honest, this looks like a completely different version of the majority of blue/ white spirits decks I've seen thus far. They've eliminated the other creatures such as Phantasmal Image and one Selfless Spirit to include more enchantment-based strategies. So now we have four variants of Spirits. U/w Spirirts, U/w Enchantment Spirits, Esper Spirits, and Bant Spirits.
While it is slightly different in a few cards, this type of Spirits build has been around for at least a year now if not more online
I think piloting and Enduring ideal deck would be really fun to see
I'm really interested in spirits in modern now, literally any spirit deck, please play it
I've never seen curious obsession in modern. It seems risky with how efficient the removal is as it could lead to 2 for 1s.
Yeah, usually you have to make sure to have counter back up (Wanderer or Spell Queller) or just put the aura on Geist.
I have played against Traft with curious obsession pants at an FMN. I punted my removal in order to play a bitterblossom on my second turn. After that I couldn't get ahead of the enchantments to do more than chump block. Faeries hate hexproof and cavern of souls.
What about ojutais command for a budget style ?, you can jank some hexproof, indestructible or +1/+1
When you do Esper spirits a card I would highly recommend is a creature from Guildpact called Souls of the Faultless and let me explain why. As we’ve seen with deck lists like Sorin Tribal and Obzedat’s Revenge the ability to drain for a decent amount of life is actually very powerful in the current modern meta. The mana bases are very versatile, but it comes at the cost of usually between 3 and 5 life. PLUS the majority of combo decks and burn decks can really be tripped up if you gain say, six life off something like Souls of the Faultless’s ability.
Souls of the Faultless seems sweet!
This modern is going to get spirited!
This deck is awesome.
In my UW spirits I max tallowisp and add a play set of daybreak coronet which is ridiculously fun!
This looks fun. I’m still waiting for Esper though.
This feels like magic Aids deck
PLEASEE PLAYY
Seth, you need some temporal isolation for this deck, i play this in my tallowisp spirits. Its amazing as tutorable pacifism/ enabler for geist of saint traft
Temporal Isolation does sound sweet. The deck could probably play up the enchantment theme more.
Could u do a Sarkhan Tribal deck tech?
Do we have enough Sarkhans?
MTGGoldfish I think we are up to 5 with core 19
Yes please!
Oh hey, this is pretty much an upgraded version of my UW spirits deck I sent you about a year ago.
Artiamus Imura nice!
would topplegaust be good in spirits?
Luke Kruenegel what would you take out in deck above to slot it In? How would you guarantee delirium to ensure it is most effective?
I've seen Magic Aids play with that in his version. It's pretty good
Sensei buh this deck has lands, critters, enchantment, instants, and an artifact not likely to die. You'd need opponent to kill an enchanted creature or destroy a Vial. Or add some sorceries
Jay Kilian Please read my comment
Steel of the Godhead is a Great pauper Card combined with esper Stormblade or Bant Sureblade
Temporal Isolation... for Geist of Saint Thraft ;D?
I love spirits. Also, what do you think is the most optimized version of U/W spirits? I was planning on making that over bang because I wanted to pick up vials anyways, and I don’t have anything close to a three color mana vase.
But are steel and Geist good enough to run With the package over other cards?
Love the deck though, definitely bookmarking
Why only 2 shocklands?
Off topic: is the corpse counter from Isareth the Awakener the condition for exiling a creature reanimated with it after it dies? If so, wouldn't it be much fun to play it with solemnity?
Simone Gio the counter is just a reminder
He forgot about HOLLOW ONE and BRING TO LIGHT
seems interesting
Please play this one!!
Saffron i need this deck for standard!!!!!
i hate to tell you but SoI rotated a while ago :(
Dear Seth Manfield (hope didnt spell it wrong), I love your decks, the tech you do, but, there is one great but... Why do you support banning of that lgs? they didnt nothing wrong? I would be really glad, if you could answer this question :)
Billy Kid he wont. Try his social media
hey yo saffronolive isn't seth manfield
I don’t like what Seth did either but he’s not Seth Manfield
+First Last thx, i fucked up and changed names and people, sorry for that
Playing Spirits and not have Eidolon of rethoric or Kataki in the sideboard seems Just a terrible deck building and lack of knowledge of the archetype to me
Guido M splashing red just for Eidolon seems a bit stupid imo. I think this is more going for aggroish UW with lots of counters. It doesn't need the red mana. I think your analysis shows a lack of understanding the wincon of this deck.
Steven Lee I think you don't know Which Eidolon I'm talking about
Steven Lee I think you should try to look up the card “eidolon of rhetoric” and see that’s it’s white.
Guido M apparently Zan syed who just got 4th in an open with spirits has lack of knowledge and terrible deck building since he didn’t play kataki or eidolon either. Oh wait. He got 4th. You’re just an idiot.
Lol. Splashing red for Eidolon would be stupid since (as others have pointed out) EoR is white. : )
Please play this
MagicAids did it first
Parker Hero sure did
Parker Hero sparkle sparkle
Of course, since he invented UW Spirits.
The irony is strong with this one
I love how you call this "enchanted" spirits deck whereas it's just a UW Spirit Tribal deck with some Enchantments thrown in. Honestly would have wanted a little more Enchantments in the deck if you're calling this "enchanted" spirits.
Hmm, fair point, Enchanted Spirits was the name it came with :)
the idea, i think, is to use the tallow wisps to tutor what you need. it could have more of toolbox feel though if you wanted to try that Simmons.
Monored spirits anyone ?
Kamigawa lovers here ?
This is a joke ofc, no offense to those who actually like Kamigawa
you're also better known as shutting down an LGS for a flag
I love your content Seth, however, the recent events involving fire and dice lgs has made me realize I cannot support someone who fronts outrage mobs. Hopefully in the future you might turn around. Thanks for all the videos and entertainment, but I’m unsubbing for now
Hi my name is Seth, proooooobably better known as Saffron "You had better bow down to me or I'll get you and your store banned" Olive.
This is just another magic aids deck but with supreme phantom.
@ all black this was done before him even.
Glad to see basically magic aids deck
Cleric well there isn't much variety in spirits tribal :P
Cleric and it's actually magic rainbow now so.....
Andrew sparke sparkle
Saffron Olive I always enjoyed your videos and commentary but sadly I am going to have to unsubscribe as I cannot support someone who would do what you did to that store owner. Posting memes on the store wall as a joke is not something you should lose your WPN status and likely your business over. You caused that family great harm and damage because of your actions. And your lack of sympathy/empathy is honestly quite shocking and saddens me. You lost a subscriber
Seeya.
I'm pretty sure it had less to do with Saffron Olive and more to do with the KEK flags and the pretty blatant exclusionary rhetoric.
2nd
I'm unsubscribing from your channel because of your direct signal boost on the Fire and Dice situation. The kekistani flag is not an alt right symbol. It's a shitposter, cringelord, /pol symbol. You just aided in putting out a community of over 200 total mtg regulars at this shop. At least try to not destroy the foundation of the game you benefit from. It's not the woke brigade that supports you but just regular magic players. I'm a big fan of the modern format. But I'll NEVER buy new product as long as you and people like you close to WOTC burn players over memes. Especially if you don't even understand the memes origin. I'm sick of this shit in my favorite hobbies. Stop appropriating nerd culture and come up with your own intellectual property to run into the ground.
twoof spirit-based enchantment tutor? aether vial to not work with it? twoof each enchantment? this is... not gonna get played
FIRST
Hi Saffron, I've been actively following this channel since 2015/16 sage of hours AtO. I'm writing to let you know you just lost a subscriber. Bye.
Why did you unsub, @Icenri?
Yeah, actually curious about why you unsubscribe
Prolly the store of fire and dice "controversy." Check out unsleeved media. They have some videos about it
Icenri same
Michael Chronister have you not heard
Unsubbed, nice deck techs but destroying people's livelihoods over a meme, especially when they have children (an interracial child at that, because that matters to you) is beyond fucked up
Hey seth, im sorry about this but im unsubbing. I cant support what happened to that store because of you signal boosting a witch hunt. The owner did nothing wrong.
Tyler not a single thing. Wizards could have handled this all better but it is truly seths fault for being offended about a meme in a store he doesnt attend
It’s annoying I want to watch mtg and play but yet I have to hold to my values
I support this. To quote True Detective: "God, everybody's a drama queen these days".
What are you guys talkimg about?
YourSoulisYummy he shared a reddit post that was about a store owner having a sign that was vandalized and a meme flag in his store. The post gained a lot of attention and wotc revoked his wpn licence. Now the store is going to suffer for something that wasnt a big deal in the first place
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Come on can we get more type 2. It’s been nothing but modern
Crimson Envec the modern card pool is larger so there’s obviously more potential for stronger synergies. Supreme phantom doesn’t do much in standard, anyways.
Crimson Envec eh modern is best format atm. I never watch standard any more
Modern fucking sucks
x Miiasma why?
x Miiasma I didn't think opinions could be wrong, but yours is
Oh wow, another braindead Aether Vial deck, 4 copies of the 1 Mana Artifact and all creatures, what a skill. Can't wait to see 5,000 of these until they finally wake up to themselves and ban Vial for being the garbage card design that it is, which they'll do eventually once enough bad players make enough bad decks (like this one) and RNG themselves into relevance.
sorry seth you lost another subscriber... stick to the game and stay out of the politics.