I found myself watching Modern Dailies today, and stumbled upon a player named "sacakewalk" playing a really cool blue-white Tallowisp Aura deck. He was running Geist of Saint Traft, Academy Researchers, Arcanum Wings, Eldrazi Conscription a small toolbox of auras, etc. He 4-0'd a daily with the list, but it wasn't featured for that day, so I can't see his actual list. Anybody ever seen that before? I want an idea of what else was in it, it seemed like a really cool deck to try out.
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people have brewed aura swap decks before, they're not consistent, this is just a worse version of bogles
I tend to take what you say as pretty on point, any way to to make this a deck archtype that isn't second fiddle to boggles?
I've been thinking about how to resuscitate ghostdad type lists for a while in modern but I'm not the hottest deck builder and don't really have enough time to test in modern as I'd like.
Tallowisp suffers from lightning bolt syndrome :(.
I used to run a Tallowisp/Geist deck and found that a combination of Shining Shoal and/or Disrupting Shoal really helped to protect Tallowisp without giving yourself a card disadvantage.
If you play cards that are only good with tallowisp in play you have a problem :). Also the deck doesn't work well against liliana. Just don't waste time with it.
I agree, the deck isn't consistent. AJ, if he was the pilot, is one of the best magic players in the world. Ghost Dad decks are fun, but they play "fair" games. They work on tempo and card advantage. But the card advantage and tempos are narrow and not redundant. So you have very different games with and without a Tallowisp in play. Enchantment removal still tends to be one for one. So you get less situations where you can actually tempo or control your opponent enough for you to win before your opponent wins mostly because your opponents will be trying to do "unfair" things in Modern.
Boggle lists are doing unfair enough things to be quick enough to win, but they don't try to tempo their opponents. If you want a consistant controlling list you should look at the Zur Control lists. They will work, but they don't run a huge amount of auras.
It's not exactly Ghost Dad, but I've seen a pretty sweet Ghost Husk variant on cockatrice. It's running some targeted discard and bobs, but also Lingering Souls, Timely Reinforcements, and some sacrifice outlets (Bloodthrone Vampire, Plagued Rusalka, and Nezumi Bone-Reader out of the sideboard). It's not Tallowisp, but it seems sweet and it's not too many degrees of separation away.
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Favorite card quotes:
[card]Pinpoint Avalanche
[/card]"Some solve problems by thinking and talking. Others use rocks." --Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith
Fodder Cannon
Step 1: Find your cousin.
Step 2: Get your cousin in the cannon.
Step 3: Find another cousin.
people have brewed aura swap decks before, they're not consistent, this is just a worse version of bogles
I tend to take what you say as pretty on point, any way to to make this a deck archtype that isn't second fiddle to boggles?
I've been thinking about how to resuscitate ghostdad type lists for a while in modern but I'm not the hottest deck builder and don't really have enough time to test in modern as I'd like.
I used to run a Tallowisp/Geist deck and found that a combination of Shining Shoal and/or Disrupting Shoal really helped to protect Tallowisp without giving yourself a card disadvantage.
Boggle lists are doing unfair enough things to be quick enough to win, but they don't try to tempo their opponents. If you want a consistant controlling list you should look at the Zur Control lists. They will work, but they don't run a huge amount of auras.
AJ Sacher's List:
2 Reach through Mists
4 Serum Visions
2 Arcanum Wings
1 Curse of Chains
4 Tallowisp
1 Unflinching Courage
4 Academy Researchers
1 Drift of Phantasms
4 Geist of Saint Draft
1 Kira, Great Glass Spinner
1 Gigantiform
4 Eldrozi Conscription
4 Disrupting Shoal
2 Island
2 Glacial Fortress
2 Celestial Colonnade
1 Moorland Haunt
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Scalding Tarns
3 Verdant Catacombs
3 Hallowed Fountain
2 Temple Garden
2 Breeding Pool
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Leyline of Santity
3 Kataki, Wars Wa
3 Unflinching Courage
2 Dispel
3 Path to Exile
Here is an old Ghost Dad article from when it was in standard: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/bb59
RGOmnath, Locus of ManaRG
URThe Locust godUR
Modern
UWMiraclesUW
Legacy
BGIce Station Zebra (Living Fins)BG
UBRGrixis ControlUBR
RGLandsRG
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