The deck will have a better version (between Coco and Vial) at some point. When this is cleared up, we'll see the full potential of the deck.
I believe Nebelgast Herald is better than GosT in the Vial version. It's very important to tap Vault Skirge, Mantis Rider, Lingering Souls in order to win games (and not to lose races). The fact it has flying and haste where Geist has no evasion by itself (and lords don't give one either) is the definite argument to me. Geist gets chumped and forced to stay back in too many MUs.
I have the same reasoning about Mutavault, not being sexy on the paper, while some Ghost Quarters can be clutch in some MUs.
About Moorland Haunt, there's a chance the deck wants to play more copies. I'll start with this 60 :
Remorseful cleric, on the other hand, seems to me a worse version of rest in peace, maybe i will end up splitting the number of copies but so far RIP hoses many more strategies than the Cleric.
Cleric can be protected in this deck, be a proactive clock, be vialed in at instant speed (or when you're stuck at 1 land), be found off Coco, has synergies with lords and Haunt... That's a lot of flexibility for one hate card.
After all every gy-matter deck has stuff to deal with RiP, but they may fall short VS a flash hate. The split seems pretty easy to make (RiP is redudant in multiple too).
Wouldn't running the full 4x Cavern of Souls along side 2x Moorland Haunt be too risky? Cavern is fine on turn one for anything but Path to Exile(which isn't cast on turn one usually); however, drawing colorless lands instead of actual color producing lands seems like it would interfere with Paths and Haunt later on in the game. Not to mention the fact that moorland haunts themselves are colorless and you're also running 2x Ghost Quarter.
I think you likely only want to see 1-2 colorless lands per game, so having 8x may be bad for your mana base.
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Hmm... Maybe a sideboard card to replace Rest In Peace, on curve, and doesn't mess up our Moorland Haunt activation? Probably not the 2 drop we were looking for, but it's still a 2 drop spirit with flying. It can be vialed / flashed in.
Also, Hi everyone! I've been following the old thread and now this primer for a while. This is my first time posting.
Wouldn't running the full 4x Cavern of Souls along side 2x Moorland Haunt be too risky? Cavern is fine on turn one for anything but Path to Exile(which isn't cast on turn one usually); however, drawing colorless lands instead of actual color producing lands seems like it would interfere with Paths and Haunt later on in the game. Not to mention the fact that moorland haunts themselves are colorless and you're also running 2x Ghost Quarter.
I think you likely only want to see 1-2 colorless lands per game, so having 8x may be bad for your mana base.
Hmm... Maybe a sideboard card to replace Rest In Peace, on curve, and doesn't mess up our Moorland Haunt activation? Probably not the 2 drop we were looking for, but it's still a 2 drop spirit with flying. It can be vialed / flashed in.
Also, Hi everyone! I've been following the old thread and now this primer for a while. This is my first time posting.