Spirit of the Night

Spirit of the Night is a hard-hitting demon that wants to come down and immediately threaten the table with evasion and aggressive keywords. The challenge is that it costs nine mana, so your deck needs efficient ramp to get this flying trampler out quickly enough to matter in the midgame. Once it's attacking, first strike and trample make it a combat powerhouse that's surprisingly hard to block profitably.

Your gameplan revolves around ramping into Spirit, then using its haste to attack the turn it lands—this means the deck should include mana acceleration like Dark Ritual, Cabal Coffers, and creatures that ramp. Protection from black is a peculiar bonus since most black removal targets it anyway, but it does dodge some tribal or color-specific tricks. You win by dealing commander damage and general combat pressure; think of this as a big-mana tempo deck that occasionally goes over the top with a 6/5 flyer.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.