MTG Salvation

I just started playing Pauper, and was wondering how a Soul Sisters-type deck would play, and came up with this:



So far, I've only played one game (against Mono-U Aggro), but it did rather well.

The most obvious miss is Kor Skyfisher. Veteran Armorer and Lumithread Field are also necessary in your 75.

What would you remove? And what makes Veteran Armorer and Lumithread Field so detrimental?

I would remove the Kemba's Skyguard and Niveous Wisps, those seem pretty bad.

isn't the point of soul sisters to also use Soul's Attendant?

Kabira Crossroads seems like a really good choice for your deck as well.

The point of the deck is to gain so much life that you can just outrace other aggro decks. In that light, you don't need so many defensive cards, I think the 8 Soul Sister cards plus Lone Missionarys and a 4-of of Suture Priest will be more than enough. You can start adding threats like more Razor Golem and Porcelain Legionnaire as well as Squadron Hawks. Use some equipment like Bonesplitter and Slyvok Lifestaff and you've got a mean deck!

Here's a deck by XBM Yosho that I think you'll find very interesting: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/blog.php?b=8481

The deck has derived from the Soul Sisters idea, thus the removal of Soul's Attendant. Niveous Wisps actually did a good job of clearing the way for an attacker, and is a cantrip. The Skyguard also served as an efficient beater, but may need to come out. Thanks for the decklist, I'll check it out.

The deck list that was provided works very efficiently at gaining life like nobodies business and simply overwhelming an opponent with more and more creatures. It eventually makes the opponent not want to put creatures down for fear of you gaining 2-3-4 life per drop.

Admittedly though the sideboard needs work, I have left it unchanged as my meta hasn't (at the time) required any changes, but I think I will tweak it to be more in line with my White Weenie sideboard though.

I think I should point out though that my deck lists are all constructed for my paper Pauper meta, so it's ability to work in an online Pauper setting may pose problematic since I do not know the online meta.

I really like your list, I think I may base a new deck on it. I'm with you in the lack of knowledge about the online meta, so if any one can help with a sideboard that'd be great.

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I really like your list, I think I may base a new deck on it. I'm with you in the lack of knowledge about the online meta, so if any one can help with a sideboard that'd be great.

I appreciate the like of my list, I am most likely going to change the sideboard to include my White Weenie setup as I mentioned which normally includes:

• Dust to Dust
  
• Kor Sanctifiers
  
• Standard bearer
  
• Holy Light
  
• Sunlance
  

In general these cards should allow the deck to deal with most situations, figuring out the correct numbers and what to run is up to what you face though.

I'll most likely play Dust to Dust, Standard Bearer, Holy Light, and something to shut down Post decks. Cease-fire perhaps? Other then that, MBC may be a problem, but I think the speed of this deck should handle it.

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I'll most likely play Dust to Dust, Standard Bearer, Holy Light, and something to shut down Post decks. Cease-fire perhaps? Other then that, MBC may be a problem, but I think the speed of this deck should handle it.

I don't see Cease-Fire stopping any 8post deck. Try a good old removal spell like Unmake. If you're fighting Fissure-post, I not sure what you can really do to fight that in mono-white.

Are Dust to Dust and Holy Light available online?

I didn't realize Unmake was common, thanks.

And yes, through Master's Editions.

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I don't see Cease-Fire stopping any 8post deck. Try a good old removal spell like Unmake. If you're fighting Fissure-post, I not sure what you can really do to fight that in mono-white.

Are Dust to Dust and Holy Light available online?

Unmake is fantastic! I am a big supporter of this card as it exiles like Oblivion Ring and Journey to Nowhere but it doesn't leave a card behind.

As for Dust to Dust and Holy Light, they should be as they are commons in MTGO Masters Edition.

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The most obvious miss is Kor Skyfisher. Veteran Armorer and Lumithread Field are also necessary in your 75.

Truth. Without any way to get your dudes out of Electrickery territory you will have some matches you simply can't win.

I've messed around with a g/w deck running the 12 essence warden variants and it can be downright oppressive life gain but it just folds over flat to decks running sweepers if I can't keep a toughness booster on board.

The other very real problem is a lack of card advantage.

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Truth. Without any way to get your dudes out of Electrickery territory you will have some matches you simply can't win.

I've messed around with a g/w deck running the 12 essence warden variants and it can be downright oppressive life gain but it just folds over flat to decks running sweepers if I can't keep a toughness booster on board.

The other very real problem is a lack of card advantage.

The lack of card advantadge was the main reason I had Niveous Wisps in the original list, as I couldn't find card advantadge that wasn't a cantrip.

And I'd compelety forgotten about Electrickery, thanks.

If you're going to use a toughness pumper, I think Veteran Armorer is the better choice.

If not, how about Reinforcements to fight Electrickery?

I think I'd prefer to use Armorer, but Reinforcements looks good. I fear that three creatures is going to be too low a number at times, and Armorer provides a 2/2 body.

Just remember in practice that Electrickery players also have Electrostatic Bolt for the Armorer. Lumithread Field dodges this, but full disclosure: I play Armorer too.

Hopefully Apostle's Blessings will help combat this.

There are definitely some cards you should try out for a life gain shell such as...

Martyr of Sands
Aven Riftwatcher
Seraph of Dawn

Some pauper personality posted a life-gain-centric deck probably around a year ago which was interesting. I think it was Chris Davis for channel fireball if you want to look it up.

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There are definitely some cards you should try out for a life gain shell such as...

Martyr of Sands
Aven Riftwatcher
Seraph of Dawn

Some pauper personality posted a life-gain-centric deck probably around a year ago which was interesting. I think it was Chris Davis for channel fireball if you want to look it up.

Pretty interesting choices. Seraph of dawn is especially cool for its big defense. It makes attacking profitably quite difficult for the opponent. Makes you want to put some Vigilance on that.

I'm not sold on Martyr of Sands. Seems like it's an amazing turn one drop, but the rest of the time, it's fairly mediocre, sometimes even useless.

Aven Riftwatcher pairs very well with Kor Skyfisher.

I tried out a mono-white extort deck recently with lot's of lifegain. Extort seems like a decent win condition for decks that don't attack very well. A single Kor Skyfisher and you can kind of "go-off". Also included a couple copies of Righteous Aura cause it seems like it could be sweet with a lot of life hanging around. Something fun to try if anyone's looking for a new angle on the lifegain deck.