Agree about Phantom. After giving it more thought, the Cleric will probably see play outside of Spirits, too—it’s an elegant Chord target for the toolbox decks, for instance.

Damn I didn’t notice that. Makes it a little tricky.

But I still do think Jace seems solid just to loot through some legends/dig for them and works with doran at least

You won’t generally want both effects for the same match but maybe the combination covers off enough matches to earn it a spot.

Or they’re just priming the pump for a twin unban…

Also the little gy hate spirit cleric will be quite good in the sideboard since it leaves our own graveyard intact for moorland haunt. Benefitting from the tribal synergy, like being able to flash it, or just beating face until we really need to crack it, makes this a big improvement over RIP, i think.

Amulet looks more like an absurdly specific Rending Volley for storm. One ability hits Grapeshot and the other hits Empty the Warrens.

As I said on reddit recently, given the delay between set design and printing, it’s likely that the M19 cards were being finalized while the Modern metagame was GDS, ETron and Storm (remember when everyone was speculating over which of those three decks was going to dominate the PT and eat a ban?) Infernal Reckoning is even more overspecific than Amulet: it’s an anti-ETron card for non-Shadow black decks (the lifegain clause looks like intentional dissynergy with Death’s Shadow)

It’s more that 5’s a lot bigger than 4. But apparently I misread the new Doran and it only gives the toughness flip to actual defenders, so the concept definitely needs an overhaul!

It also seems to me like nyx fleece ram would be far less important than wall of omens. Is lifegain really important when you can pretty safely block just about anything forever?

Also amulet of safekeeping seems designed to beat mardu pyromancer