This is my 5-color angel deck. I know it isn't much at budget with some of the expensive cards in it, but I am more of the casual player. Am looking for critique and ideas to improve it. Please and thank you.
Needs moar Maelstrom Archangel, just because every time I see it I'm super pissed that it's not legendary and can't be the general of the most awesome, angel-themed, 5-color EDH deck ever :mad:, so it should probably at least be played in a 5-color angel deck. Oh, and it's ability is actually pretty nice, too, and would probably realistically make a functional improvement to the deck :p.
Wow, angels are awesome. So is the theme you've managed to pull here. I'd love to pilot this deck someday if it weren't so pricy.
The biggest issue I see with this deck is your landbase. Even with all the mana rocks you're running, 32 seems is a little low, considering there are 5 fetches in there. And Cathedral of War seems bad in a 5-color deck in which colorless mana often equals to useless mana.
By the way, your curve is very high. See this more as a statement out of mild amusement than as a complaint. It might not bother you, but I'd consider adding Emeria Angel so you have something you can do before you can start dropping your bombs, or Kaalia of the Vast so you can cheat some angels into play early.
Besides that, I could see this deck having sort of an enchantress subtheme. You already have Bruna in there, and that's quite a start. Then we have the dragon aspects cycle (Scales, Fangs, Breath and Shadow), which should work because pretty much all of your creatures have CMCs over 6, and Greater Auramancy, which works very well with the above. That's starting to drift completely from your theme, though, so perhaps you should leave it for when you decide to do a Scion of the Ur-Dragon tribal deck.
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Commander:GB Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (list) - U Talrand, Sky Summoner - GRU Maelstrom Wanderer
1 Progenitus
Creatues
1 Admonition Angel
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Angel of Jubilation
1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
1 Blinding Angel
1 Bruna, Light of Alabaster
1 Gisels, Blade of Goldnight
1 Herald of War
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Iridescent Angel
1 Jenara, Asura of War
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Lightning Angel
1 Maelstrom Archangel
1 Platinum Angel
1 Radiant, Archangel
1 Razia, Boros Archangel
1 Reya Dawnbringer
1 Selenia, Dark Angel
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Serra Angel
1 Sublime Archanangel
1 Tariel, Reckoner of Souls
1 Voice of All
1 Warrior Angel
Spells
1 Angel's Grace
1 Celestial Dawn
1 Chastise
1 Concerted Effort
1 Debtors' Knell
1 Defy Death
1 Descendant's Path
1 Devouring Light
1 Divine Deflection
1 Eldrazi Conscription
1 Exile
1 Lightning Helix
1 Mortify
1 Pariah
1 Reciprocate
1 Sinstriker's Will
1 Spirit Loop
1 Teferi's Moat
1 Terminus
1 Unmake
1 Vindicate
1 Worship
1 Wrath of God
1 Akroma's Memorial
1 Angel's Tomb
1 Azorius Signet
1 Belbe's Portal
1 Boros Signet
1 Coalition Relic
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Golgari Signet
1 Lotus Bloom
1 Moonsilver Spear
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Paradise Mantle
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Selesnya Signet
1 Sol Ring
1 That Which Was Taken
1 Urza's Incubator
1 Vessel of Endless Rest
Land
1 Arid Mesa
1 Azorius Chancery
1 Boros Garrison
1 Cathedral of War
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Command Tower
1 Eiganjo Castle
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Marsh Flats
1 Maze of Ith
1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Orzhov Basilica
1 Plateau
1 Prahv, Spires of Order
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Savannah
1 Scrubland
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Seraph Sanctuary
1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
1 Temple Garden
1 Temple of the False God
1 Tundra
1 Vault of the Archangel
5 Plains
R.I.P. Sundering Titan (6/20/12) and Braids, Cabal Minion (9/12/14)
The biggest issue I see with this deck is your landbase. Even with all the mana rocks you're running, 32 seems is a little low, considering there are 5 fetches in there. And Cathedral of War seems bad in a 5-color deck in which colorless mana often equals to useless mana.
By the way, your curve is very high. See this more as a statement out of mild amusement than as a complaint. It might not bother you, but I'd consider adding Emeria Angel so you have something you can do before you can start dropping your bombs, or Kaalia of the Vast so you can cheat some angels into play early.
Besides that, I could see this deck having sort of an enchantress subtheme. You already have Bruna in there, and that's quite a start. Then we have the dragon aspects cycle (Scales, Fangs, Breath and Shadow), which should work because pretty much all of your creatures have CMCs over 6, and Greater Auramancy, which works very well with the above. That's starting to drift completely from your theme, though, so perhaps you should leave it for when you decide to do a Scion of the Ur-Dragon tribal deck.
Pauper: UR some horrible homebrew izzet deck
I have more +'s than -'s, right now, so some decisions have to be made.
+Angel of Despair
+Adarkar Valkyrie
+Baneslayer
+Crypt Angel
+Deathless Angel
+Emeria Angel
+Empyrial Archangel (Pariah + angel)
+Karmic Guide
+Malach of the dawn
+Sunblast Angel <--Makes Vigilant Angels Better
+Kaalia of the vast
+Magus of the Disk (combos well with Avacyn)
-Serra angel
-Warrior Angel
-Bruna
-???
Most of your spells have more efficient versions avaiable...
Though, i'd keep Terminus, Mortify, & Vindicate
+Path to Exile
+Swords to plowshears
+Terminate
+Putrefy
+Malestrom Pulse
+Day of Judgement
+Damnation
+Counterspell
+Explore
+Unburial rites
+Maelstrom Nexus
+Quicksilver Amulet
+Planar Portal
Add in some plainswalkers
And up the land count to 37-38.