** About the Deck **
If Enchantress, Spirits and Bogles got together and had a baby, this would be the offspring. This is an experimental deck I have been working on for the past few months for Modern. It is a culmination of ideas that I have had kicking around in my brain for some time but am finally getting around to building a list that feels solid in practice.
What is Spiritess? It's built around the idea of a spirits deck using Tallowisp (much like Ghost Dad) but with more elements of control built in and with more of an Enchantress feel in playstyle. If one of your favorite things to do in MtG is draw cards, this deck will be fun to you.
The biggest problem with Auras has always been the danger of getting two-for-oned. Bogles, in all its Vontron-y glory gets away with this by trying to be difficult to disrupt. But it is also boring to play and if your opponent has the right sideboard, basically rolls over and dies.
This deck tries to deal with this inherent weakness with Auras by replacing each Aura with new cards in hand. The deck runs a whopping twelve creatures that function as hand fillers. Your enchantresses are Kor Spiritdancer, Sram, Senior Edificer and Tallowisp. Tallowisp tutors up 'enchant creature' Auras every time you play a Spirit while the other two draw cards off Auras being cast. If not addressed, this deck can quickly run away with the game in sheer card advantage. Even if you only draw a card or two off of one of these creatures, this is often all you need to bounce back and keep plugging away in a game after your opponent plays some disruption.
The deck runs a suite of disruption and tempo-plays as well in 'On Thin Ice', 'Mark of Eviction', 'Oppressive Rays', 'Weight of Conscience' and 'Soul Tithe'. These can also be recurred with Hall of Heliod's Generosity. Dumping multiple Auras on your opponent's stuff then allows you to capitalize on Ethereal Armor and All that Glitters.
In my mind, All that Glitters is what makes this deck possible. A deck like this needs to be able to run around 8x Ethereal Armor effects and before All that Glitters that wasn't possible.
The outcome is a deck that is fast, goes wider than Bogles, draws an insane amount of cards and finds way to interact with the opponent's board as well. It's a lot of fun and surprisingly powerful in my testing.
Here is a link to the Orzhov version I'm tinkering with to test out some of the new Theros Beyond Death cards: Orzhov Spiritess
Hateful Eidolon and Aphemia are both very interesting cards and may merit a look at running an Esper build.
