Creatures
I believe it was the summer of 2013 that I got back into Magic, playing some kitchen table Magic with some friends, and realising how much I enjoyed building decks and playing with them. It was a wild time of deck-building; zombies, angels, merfolk (of course), and a big stompy green deck that I think ran 80 cards for some reason; and I eventually found my jam with some 'blue white flyers' that had good synergy with each other, and got an extra bonus when I equipped them with a Steel of the Godhead; making them unblockable and gaining me life in the process.
After a year or so of experementation, I started to flesh out what would become a Modern-legal deck, with some competitive ambition. By early 2015, I had found the fairly devastating (at the time!) combination of Geist of Saint Traft equipped with the aforementioned equipment, would prove pretty tricky for opponents to win against. So I decided to test my mettle by travelling to Copenhagen in June 2015, and took part in the Grand Prix event there.
Whilst I never expected to be competitive, I did thoroughly enjoy immersing myself in games of Magic over that weekend (and buying a few sweet cards along the way). By the time I returned to a GP in Stockholm, 2018; I still played a version of this deck - but also got involved in a memorable chaos draft and an especially memorable Commander game featuring an earlier version of my Operation Mindfunk deck that lasted several fun hours.
The last outing of the deck was at a Spotlight (the revamped Grand Prix format) event in Utrecht 2025. Whilst I knew by then my deck wouldn't be competitive at all, it was still an enjoyable weekend - getting some good reactions from folks saying 'this person is playing Geist!', and just generally enjoying giving the deck a good send-off.
The deck itself, in it's final form, still aims for the Geist plus Godhead combo for a fairly unbeatable victory, but attempts to counter all manner of spells that the Modern format has become, and clearing a way for the combo to happen. To be real, it's not competitive at all; and I knew that going into the Utrecht weekend. So don't net-deck this list for your next attempt at the Modern format; I keep it here purely for nostalgia purposes.
Oh and if you wanted to watch some games with an earlier version of this deck, you can do so when I accidentally got drawn as a featured match at a local game store PPTQ; I even remember someone from the commentary team having to come and ask what on earth Pride of the Clouds was and did!
