Is There A Ghost (redux)

If I'm going to take apart the Omega Supreme deck, maybe another deck can benefit. (Going back two years for this nonsense. Wild.)

3 Forked-Branch Garami
4 Loam Dweller
3 Kodama of the South Tree
2 Suture Spirit
2 Changeling Titan
4 Chameleon Colossus
4 Elder Pine of Jukai
2 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Angel of Flight Alabaster

2 Shining Shoal
2 Unchecked Growth
4 Crib Swap

3 Sungrass Prairie
5 Plains
7 Forest
1 Gavony Township
2 Stirring Wildwood
4 Fortified Village

2 Terashi's Grasp
2 Enshrined Memories

It doesn't have to be like this, right? So many weaksauce spirits and there are so many more options now!

What if I tried this:

3 Kodama of the South Tree
4 Chameleon Colossus
2 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Angel of Flight Alabaster
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
2 Rampaging Baloths
3 Kura, the Boundless Sky
3 Kodama of the West Tree
1 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
2 Selfless Spirit

4 Jugan Defends the Temple

2 Shining Shoal
4 Crib Swap

3 Sungrass Prairie
5 Plains
7 Forest
1 Gavony Township
2 Stirring Wildwood
4 Fortified Village

2 Enshrined Memories

The hiccup now is, I believe, Rampaging Baloths. Sure, they're cool but I'm not cheating the card out soon enough to make it worth it. I think a couple copies of The Wandering Emperor might be in order here. 

(Ed. I got to play a couple games with this version and mana was just savage. I mulliganed down to 4 in multiple games because I could not find any land. So hiccup #2 is: Enshrined Memories. Cutting those for a land and perhaps a 3rd Wandering Emperor is more helpful.

Unfortunately, Jugan Defends the Temple is also bad, and needs to be something else. I'm actually considering Invasion of Moag, because my experience with Oath of Ajani has been very positive! I have some fliers to help me destroy the Invasion so it's worth mucking around. 

I want to use Prizefight as a way to help eliminate creatures, but I just don't think I've got the creature suite for it. 

In some ways, this is reflective of a problem I'm starting to have with the game: the best things have been set and what shakes that up? Not much, that I can tell. I don't want all my G/W decks to start with the same base 10 cards, or any U/x decks to start with the same base 12. That's what it seems to come down to though, and I'm feeling discouraged).

Visitations

Is There A Ghost? still has some issues.

In my first matchup, vs a U/W/r wall deck, I probably played a bit too slowly; I was getting greedy and though I had two Chameleon Colossus on the table and the mana to boost them both, along with a Kodama of the South Tree, I didn't have the mana to cast a spell, making them 5/5s and then boost them.

In short, I should've been playing to win, instead of playing to win overwhelmingly. I got worried because my opponent (stonethorn) had 4/4 and 5/5 walls but I should have been more concerned about how much time I was giving him to set up and win. He didn't but he could have and the point is: I should've made the best play.

The Angel of Flight White did its job very well though, returning to me many a spirit and keeping this deck going when other tricks were failing to arrive. Eventually, that was the key to winning: the fact that I just kept getting creatures back.

My next game was against against a G/B birthing pod deck. We played two games; both of which had me getting out a Chameleon Colossus and riding it's protection from black ability to victory. I think there was a slight miss by everyone with Primordial Hydra, as I seem to recall it being cast for 1 and staying at that power/toughness until I ran over it with Colossus beats.

That said: I managed to cast Enshrined Memories once and it got countered, so at least I know that it was important enough to counter. I had plenty of mana thanks to the Elder Pines and as a method to refill my hand with creatures, stonethorn felt it was a big enough problem to stop. Plus, the manlands were effective as a consistent threat I could bring out if everything else went awry and I could easily activate them without feeling a mana pinch.

Still, this deck feels like it's lacking a big push, the element that makes it scary. Perhaps it doesn't need that but with spirits being one of the tribes in Innistrad block, I am going to keep my eyes open for other spirits that may help this deck. As it stands, the Changeling Titan might come out for more Flight Whites because of the evasion and durability they bring to the deck.

Ghost Tweak

After the last tweak to Ghost, the stage was set for further improvements.

-1 Mosswort Bridge. This card made sense when I could dig up an Avenger or Molimo and reliably get creatures with 10+ power on the board. Now, who knows?

-1 Elfhame Palace. Removed to make room.

-1 Forest. Removed to increase threat density.

The additions were as follows:
+1 Gavony Township. This was added because the engine that lays lands in this deck are two small creatures. The opportunity to make them large should not be avoided.

+1 Stirring Wildwood. If I had two Wildwoods I would have removed both Palaces for them. I do not and while they are cheap, the My Money rule kicks in because I have a:

+1 Treetop Village. O.G. manland baby!

With these three cards, the manabase becomes part of my threat count and having to overlook creatures because I'm drawing lots of lands becomes less of a drawback.

I still need creatures though and now I need them in multiples, since I ditched the big guns.

Enter Enshrined Memories. This is one of those cards that I look at and think: How did I not know about/use this card before? It's scalable, it gets me what I want in a green deck: more creatures and I have five copies of this card. Five!

That's why I love the weird cheap rares that nobody cares about, pulled from the .50 bin. Suddenly I find the perfect fit for the card and anyone who plays me has to read it twice to remember what the hell I'm doing.

That feeling is sometimes more satisfying than winning.

So, -2 Worldly Tutor and +2 Enshrined Memories. Now to test it out!