Espirit de Corps

Standard* Aggro Spirits

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Instant (3)

• 3x Essence Flux

Enchantment (9)

• 4x Always Watching
• 2x Ongoing Investigation
• 3x Stasis Snare

Creature (25)

• 2x Archangel Avacyn  ^Flip
• 1x Gisela, the Broken Blade  ^Meld
• 4x Mausoleum Wanderer
• 3x Nebelgast Herald
• 4x Rattlechains
• 3x Reflector Mage
• 4x Selfless Spirit
• 4x Spell Queller

Land (23)

• 7x Island
• 8x Plains
• 4x Port Town
• 4x Prairie Stream

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Sideboard

Instant (9)

• 2x Ceremonious Rejection
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Insidious Will
• 2x Revolutionary Rebuff
• 2x Skywhaler's Shot
• 1x Summary Dismissal

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Collective Effort
• 2x Fragmentize
• 1x Fumigate

Creature (2)

• 2x Aerial Responder

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Maybeboard

Instant (10)

• 1x Blessed Alliance
• 1x Dispel
• 2x Negate
• 2x Select for Inspection
• 2x Unsubstantiate
• 2x Void Shatter

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Declaration in Stone

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon

Artifact (1)

• 1x Skysovereign, Consul Flagship

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Dovin Baan

Creature (8)

• 2x Angel of Invention
• 2x Bygone Bishop
• 2x Elder Deep-Fiend
• 2x Thalia, Heretic Cathar

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White Lightning... Moonshine... Fast Spirits... Flying and disruption, sounds like fun! You know, except for all the dead people. The true 'espirit de corps' in this case is a more aggressive approach to playing Spirits. And now modified for Kaladesh Standard. The Bant version, Esprit de Corps, is what I use now, with Tamiyo, Field Researcher and Permeating Mass.

Creatures:

• Rattlechains allows for all spirits to have Flash, so you can wait until the last second on their turn to use your resources.
• Reflector Mage, Spell Queller, Mausoleum Wanderer , Nebelgast Herald , and Selfless Spirit all mess with our opponent's plans. Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit makes the spirits tougher. Thraben Inspector provides clues for that turn 5 - 7 extra mana that this deck seems to have.
• Archangel Avacyn   for the big finish.

Other Spells:

The Human decks have shown the value of Always Watching (great with Ojutai). Essence Flux helps save and pump up the Spirits, but is also good with Reflector Mage. Declaration in Stone has been particularly helpful against CoCo decks (i.e. Sylvan Advocate, Spell Queller, and Tireless Tracker multiples).

A Few Things:

• Bluff. Draw too many lands? Only play what you need. Have cards in hand and mana up on their turn. I've had opponents not play CoCo or Liliana because Spell Queller might be in my hand.
• Mausoleum Wanderer is good in 2s. Attack and pump them with a flashed in Rattlechains.
• CoCo players are pretty routine about turn 4, so wait to counter flash Spell Queller or sac Mausoleum Wanderer .
• Rattlechains lets you flash in the Wanderer and sac it immediately. Same with the Selfless Spirit, sac it between blocking and damage.
• Spell Queller is great and well known. Thus players will throw some of their lesser creatures under it's bus. Essence Flux can repeat the quelling another time. Some players will just activate abilites in the face of a possible Spell Queller, (i.e. Duskwatch Recruiter   or Call the Bloodline ) which is a pain if you were hoping to play it. Play it anyway on their endstep, and Essence Flux it later.
• Nebelgast Herald is good, don't leave it out. Tap their attackers before combat, with it and a flashed in spirit friend.

Copy it, try it out, make it work, and tell how it went. This list is now very similar to Leighann Hunt's version from GP Portland. Sideboard is different. There probably needs to be room for Archangel Avacyn   too.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 4 Rares 14 - 7 Uncommons 0 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.49
Tokens	Clue