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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:06 am 
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Yay!
I have just the thing, time ago I built a deck around Sorin here is where it is atm

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:22 am 
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Ehehehe! You trying to get Barney to quit? XD

I'm def in on this one. Already got a deck plan in mind and its gonna suk soooo bad!


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:55 am 
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hehe, so the only restriction is to have at least a dozen lifegain cards, right?

I'll go through my decks and see if I have anything. I got up to over 40 life the other night playing something but I can't remember what it was. Was it Flaky's White Priveledge? I honestly can't remember.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:32 am 
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So my initial idea is something like:

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Told you it was gonna suk! :D


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:48 am 
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i played against some ally lifegain deck the other night which kept putting +1/+1 counters at instant speed when there was lifegain. It was a real pain, those things got big.

...then I bounced them back with Baral's Expertise several times with Nighthawk's Emerge deck. fun


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:03 pm 
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I tried forever to make a BW ally life gain deck, they're just sooooo sllllooooowwww. And annoying. Once you get into lifegain + counters you just spend hours twiddling your stack, it makes me want to rage quit my own combo.

Think I'm going with my Cartouche build. Just had to add an abbey to make it qualify. Might need to tweak a land, will test further.

Creatures (22)
4 x Sacred Cat
2 x Selfless Spirit
2 x Sram, Senior Edificer
2 x Glory-Bound Initiate
3 x Lone Rider
2 x Wharf Infiltrator
2 x Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun
2 x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
3 x Reflector Mage

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4 x Cartouche of Solidarity
2 x Smuggler's Copter
4 x Cartouche of Knowledge
2 x Aethersphere Harvester
3 x Trial of Solidarity
1 x Trial of Knowledge
1 x Gideon, Ally of Zendikar

Land (21)
9 x Plains
5 x Island
2 x Prairie Stream
2 x Glacial Fortress
1 x Westvale Abbey
2 x Sandstone Bridge


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:06 pm 
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ah yes I think it was Kel's cartouche build that made me a ton of life


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 1:33 pm 
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I tried forever to make a BW ally life gain deck, they're just sooooo sllllooooowwww. And annoying. Once you get into lifegain + counters you just spend hours twiddling your stack, it makes me want to rage quit my own combo.

Think I'm going with my Cartouche build. Just had to add an abbey to make it qualify. Might need to tweak a land, will test further.
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That looks interesting, I have my doubts on the wharf infiltrator is it there only to dump the cats to the graveyard?
have you tested Oketra monument on that deck?

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 1:42 pm 
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I was thinking that maybe i should write 12 nonland spells. I mean Westvale Abbey doesn't count for the requirement, it's not reliable. But the main reason is Shambling Vent, this card obviously should count, but it is already a must in orzhov, so it basically makes a 2 cards discount for orzhov only, while any other combination of colors has to go up to 12. Not sure if it's ok or unfair, that's why i'm thinking about nonland spells.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 1:46 pm 
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Blessed Alliance and Sorin count?

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 1:48 pm 
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yes 100%

anything that reliably gives you life should count

Sorin, Shambling Vent, anything with Lifelink, NOT Westvale Abbey (the land doesn't give life, and the flip is rare), Pulse of Murasma, Nissa's Renewal, even Noxious Gearhulk, etc

joker, i'd leave it as 12 cards that give life. Shambling Vent should count. So should that stupid white land that gets sac'd for life based on number of creatures.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 2:22 pm 
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That looks interesting, I have my doubts on the wharf infiltrator is it there only to dump the cats to the graveyard?
have you tested Oketra monument on that deck?

Infiltrator is great with embalm, but here it's more for churn while going wide. Also works with copter and I guess trial of knowledge (but that's too slow to really be useful), smooths out mana and makes extra legendaries useful. The skulk can really help finish a game against a mid-range build that's starting to stabilize as well.

Monument is too slow and expensive here. T3 ideally I want to be flipping a Rider or getting down a 3cc creature/artifact. Plus everything's so cheap that the cost reduction doesn't really get me all that much.

Giocher, I guess that's fair. Abbey is definitely a cheat; as I mentioned in the Cartouche thread I don't even like it for this deck. I'll find something else.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:30 pm 
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Hey cool, this reminds me of when I built a really wacky Defiant Bloodlord ramp deck a long time ago...

My first Instinct would be to go orzhov, but since other builders are already going that route, I'll try :g::b::w: ramp and see how that goes...

This is the list I'm gonna start off with:
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I may have gone a little overboard with 24 lifegain cards... But I had to cut plenty to get to 60 cards.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:32 pm 
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Wow, that looks incredibly annoying. I hope I don't actually meet any of these on the ladder while testing.


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 5:47 am 
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Oh heck. I am still thinking whether I participate; and if I do with what.

Like, there are options to go full-jank mode with Defiant Bloodlord+Blighted Steppe...

Or you could just build Orzhov Control goodstuff with Blessed Alliance, Kambal, Essence Extraction and other fun things.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 7:26 am 
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The ramp deck is a dud and isn't nearly as much fun as I hoped...

So I made a mono-black that is wrecking face. :D

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 11:13 am 
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Haven_pt wrote:
The ramp deck is a dud and isn't nearly as much fun as I hoped...

So I made a mono-black that is wrecking face. :D

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Good call, I tried it a few rounds against AI and agree with your assessment. This one looks properly mean.


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I tried several decks this weekend. I wanted to use Annointer Priests to get some big sustained lifegain. I tried Zombies and also a Mysteries deck. Zombies was decent, but not quite there for me. Mysteries was fun, especially when it would go off, but too many games it was just a pile of junk.

So...I ended up with something that is less focused on lifegain as a main theme/ Regulating Lifegain to a secondary theme in an established archetype has been pretty successful so far.

Anyway, here is the deck. I may still adjust a bit (Wish Offerings were Cast Outs, but needed 1 more life gain so Solemn got the spot. Needed for Flagship and Mirror matches.)

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I was going back and forth on the Solemn Offerings, I really wanted them to be Sages. So I made them sages. I added 2 Blighted Steppes to get back to 12 Lifegain sources. Also took out Thalia and a Familiar to make room for an additional land. This is almost what I normally run for this deck. The non lifegain version is currently +3 Aven Wind Guide to get damage through (or block), -2 Familiar, -2 Blighted, +1 Plains.
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2 x Hanweir Militia Captain
2 x Selfless Spirit
4 x Aviary Mechanic
4 x Annointer Priest
2 x Filigree Familiar
2 x Bygone Bishop
3 x Trophy Mage
3 x Reclamation Sage
3 x Reflector Mage
2 x Spell Queller
1 x Angel of Invention
3 x Cloudblazer

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2 x Dusk

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3 x Oketra's Monument

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2 x Prairie Stream
4 x Plains
3 x Island
2 x Canopy Vista
1 x Forest
2 x Glacial Fortress
2 x Hinterland Harbor
2 x Westvale Abbey
2 x Blighted Steppe
4 x Evolving Wilds

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 7:00 am 
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Yeah, there's not much payoff in duels just for gaining a bunch of life; it seems most useful to buy a little time for another strategy.

By my count you have 13 lifegain sources there (don't forget angel of invention has lifelink). You could swap one offering for cast out.


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