Bant Spirits (Half of Primer Here)

Modern GWU (Bant) Primer Spirits

Guardians

Land (23)

• 4x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 3x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Moorland Haunt
• 1x Plains
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Temple Garden
• 3x Windswept Heath

Creature (29)

• 4x Drogskol Captain
• 3x Geist of Saint Traft
• 4x Mausoleum Wanderer
• 4x Noble Hierarch
• 2x Phantasmal Image
• 4x Rattlechains
• 4x Selfless Spirit
• 4x Spell Queller

Instant (8)

• 4x Collected Company
• 4x Path to Exile

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Steel of the Godhead
• 1x Worship

Artifact (1)

• 1x Engineered Explosives

Creature (1)

• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

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Hi there this is my Bant Spirits Primer.

Why play Bant Spirits?

You should play Bant Spirits if:

You are a tempo player.

You like swinging in with little Flyers for big amounts of damage.

You enjoy making control decks miserable.

You like Collected Company

You like creatures with evasion

You like 2(ish) for 1s.

You played Bant CoCo when it was still in standard, and you still have your playsets of Spell Quellers, cocos, and Selfless Spirits

You played U/W Flash when it was still a good deck, and still mourn the banning of Reflector Mage .

Why not play Bant Spirits

You are a control player

You enjoy playing more spells than creatures.

Black or Red are your favorite colors (Go and play Death's Shadow, you!)

You like playing graveyard-based strategies.

You like playing go-wide strategies that muck the ground up.

You like playing on your turn usually.

Creatures

White

Spirits:

Selfless Spirit

Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit

Eidolon of Rhetoric

Kami of False Hope

Kataki, War's Wage

Bygone Bishop

Most of the white spirits are sideboard cards, with specific uses against certain decks. Selfless Spirit and Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit are the only cards I would consider using, with Anafenza being only a one-of at most, and Selfless Spirit being a four-of cornerstone of the deck. The sideboard spirits, however, are more interesting. Eidolon of Rhetoric is a great card against Storm, ad nauseum, and other decks looking to cast at more than one spell per turn, or combo off using spells, Kataki, War's Wage hoses affinity, and Kami of False Hope is a mediocre sideboard card, only usable in the narrowest of circumstances. I probably would not play Bygone Bishop, as it is Lightning Bolt-able, and dies very easily without netting you a clue.

Non-Spirits:

Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Thalia, Heretic Cathar

Aven Mindcensor

Normally, I would not put these non-spirit cards in a Bant Spirits list. I have seen some people run 1-3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben in the main. Thalia, Guardian of Thraben is a sideboard card that some people use, as it is very annoying against Storm, Burn, ad nauseum, and other Blue control decks. Thalia, Heretic Cathar is good against decks with lots of Fetchlands, and Can be helpful in beating company decks with lots of creatures to block yours. It and Aven Mindcensor are both fringe sideboard cards that are rarely seen.

Blue

Spirits:

Mausoleum Wanderer

Rattlechains

Phantasmal Image

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Nebelgast Herald

Blue's Spirits are helpful at protecting your creatures from removal, and are great early plays. Mausoleum Wanderer counters troublesome spells, Rattlechains protects your creatures from removal and allows you to flash in Geist of Saint Traft and Drogskol Captain end of turn. Phantasmal Image is usually a two-of, copying Drogskol Captain with it is amazing. Not truly a spirit, however. It can be an honorary one. Nebelgast Herald can sometimes be used, as it is helpful at tapping down big creatures like Tarmogoyf, Death's Shadow, and Wurmcoil Engine. Kira, Great Glass-Spinner is also sometimes played, but it kind of fights with Drogskol Captain for a three-mana protection spirit.

Non-Spirits:

I'm not exactly sure what would fit in here. Blue does not have any non-spirit creatures you'd want to play. Maybe Spellskite for the sideboard?

Green

Spirits

So Green doesn't really have many spirits. Green isn't really in to that whole flying + disruption thing. I guess you could make a Hana Kami deck, or throw Strangleroot Geist or Jugan, the Rising Star in to a deck, but those don't really fit here. Oh how I wish I could put Permeating Mass in. Oh, the tears.

Non-Spirits

Noble Hierarch/Birds of Paridise

Reclamation Sage

Noble Hierarch or Birds of Paradise, if you want a budget mana dork, are the turn one plays this deck wants. Hierarch lets you speed up your clock with exalted, play turn-2 Quellers or Geist of Saint Trafts, and turn-3 Collected Company, and is a great card to see in your opening 7. Reclamation Sage would be a sideboard card, however I think most builds of this deck would want Qasali Pridemage instead, as the three-drop slot has a lot of amazing creatures compared to Reclamation Sage.

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 4 - 0 Uncommons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.19
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Spirit 1/1 W