I've been wanting to build a deck where I could ignite the Gifted Aetherborn for a while now. I've had a deck where I could ignite Kalitas, even played it in the Steam Showdown tourney, and it was a lot of fun. It seems better now that we got the gods, so here goes. The main idea is to bite and to ignite, so we have a lot of deathtouch and lifelink creatures in here. The problem with deathtouch-ignite is that your other creatures die as well. So we have some gods and vehicles in the mix.
3 x Narnam Renegade
2 x Renegade Map
1 x Blossoming Defense
3 x Gifted Aetherborn
2 x Scrapheap Scrounger
3 x Nature's Way
2 x Rabid Bite
1 x Bontu the Glorified
2 x Graveblade Marauder
1 x Rhonas the Indomitable
2 x Tireless Tracker
2 x Aethersphere Harvester
2 x Cultivator's Caravan
1 x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
1 x Hazoret the Fervent
2 x Woodland Wanderer
1 x Diabolic Tutor
1 x Verdurous Gearhulk
1 x The Gitrog Monster
2 x Chandra's Ignition
1 x Greenwarden of Murasa
3 x Swamp
1 x Mountain
3 x Forest
2 x Hissing Quagmire
2 x Smoldering Marsh
2 x Woodland Cemetery
2 x Rootbound Crag
2 x Dragonskull Summit
3 x Aether Hub
4 x Evolving Wilds
This is not a fine-tuned list, I'm still tweaking and open to suggestions. Some notes:
* Fling is not great here, because the damage is dealt by Fling rather than the creature.
* The Scrounger is here to give us a better chance vs control. It's also an OK biter and can crew the Caravan, which is somewhat hard in this deck because most of our deathtouch dorks have low power.
* This deck might want 3x Fatal Push. I think I'll try to replace Bites with Pushes and see what happens, although that loses a lot of flavor for the deck
* Bontu is on a cut watch. It's a good biter/igniter, but we don't usually have a lot of spare sacrifice fodder for it.
* Verdurous Gearhulk is a slot where you can experiment. You can have Samut instead. I'm also entertaining the idea of Mirrorwing Dragon. Imagine biting with it or igniting it when you have a bunch of other stuff like gods on the table! That's a lot of damage to the opponent's face. It does suck vs enemy aggro pump spells though, and it sucks like a vacuum cleaner vs Harnessed Lightning, which is a very common spell in the meta. Sigh... It makes me a sad Johnny.
* The maps are here to fix the mana (we need double black early for the Aetherborn) and also pump the Narnam. I'm satisfied with their performance.