Below are the modifications I have made and some are pricey, some are cards i would like to keep in it. The PROBLEM I am running into is, its SLOOOOOOWW. 1 v 1, not bad. a 6 player game, and this deck doesnt work. I am PRETTY SURE it doesnt have enough focus, but I am afraid that the entire deck will get torn down. I came here for help though, so by all means, constructive criticism.
Is it possible for me to have multiple focuses?
Avacyn / Board wipes
Nahiri / Equipments
Tokens
You don't have enough artifact support. Mono colored decks are often lacking in one or more areas and need artifacts to supplement this. You need some card advantage from things like Mind's Eye, Trading Post, and Loreseeker's Stone.
Auras in a non-voltron deck are not worth it at all. You don't need Spirit Link if you have Loxodon Warhammer. If you intend to use it as pseudo-removal by playing it on an enemy creature, you have so many better options in white. Path to Exile or Reprisal come to mind.
As a personal preference, I don't like token makers that are only good if you already have a boardstate (Nomad's Assembly). There are lots of wraths hanging around in EDH and this card encouraged overextending into them.
You have Angelic Overseer, but only 6 humans and no access to one in the command zone. This card is unlikely to be incredibly useful.
Serra Avatar brings up good memories of kitchen table lifegain decks, but in reality, it's just a non-evasive fatty. Couple this with the fact that your equipment don't really give any evasion and you get someone that gets chump blocked endlessly.
Loyal Sentry is largely meta dependent. It is a rattlesnake, but your deck looks like it wants to be proactive. I'd run something like Fiend Hunter or Duplicant over this guy if you want removal on a creature.
since nahiri makes tokens for u, u might wanna cut down on the total creature count and add up on equipments. things like skyhunter skirmisher don't do very much aside from being an efficient french-vanilla.
mauybe some white-ramp? tithe, land tax and the like?
Im working on getting the swords however, I purchased Avacyn, Angel of Hope, Iona, Shield of Emeria and a few others in the deck and it was kinda pricey so ill have to wait. Do you think i can keep Iona and Avacyn and some choice creatures in the deck, while removing mentioned cards for board wipes? as for tutors to get things like, board wipes, avacyn, land tax, how about Skyship Weatherlight?
Do you think i can keep Iona and Avacyn and some choice creatures in the deck, while removing mentioned cards for board wipes? as for tutors to get things like, board wipes, avacyn, land tax, how about Skyship Weatherlight?
I like the Skyship, especially in decks with a decent equipment focus, but be careful with the board wipes you choose to use. If the Skyship gets blown up and you kept an important piece there, it's gone forever! If you're mostly using it for equipment I would rather have the cheaper one-shots that krichaiushii mentioned (Enlightened Tutor and Steelshaper's Gift) over the Skyship. Avacyn is absolutely a fine piece to keep in when you rely heavily on permanents; again, beware some of the wraths you include, because while she works well with traditional destroy wraths, some of them do exile.
A few other ideas that I like, personally, for token decks:
Mirror Entity - great buffs. Coat of Arms - if you've already got a handful of tokens on the field when this drops, they all get tribal bonuses from the matching tokens. Spawning Pit - free sac outlet for extra value from wraths and removal. Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite - might be a better option over Iona, depending on your meta. Iona is great if you're shutting out mono-blue, or other players who want to mess with your board state, but sometimes she just doesn't pull her weight, and by the time she comes out if you name the wrong color, someone will have an answer, especially in multiplayer.
There are a lot of utility lands you might consider to make your manabase slightly more powerful. Ancient Tomb, Secluded Steppe, Flagstones of Trokair, Eiganjo Castle, Windbrisk Heights. Endless Horizons is solid ramp as well, just be careful for the same reasons as the Skyship.
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Is it possible for me to have multiple focuses?
Avacyn / Board wipes
Nahiri / Equipments
Tokens
1 Nahiri, the Lithomancer
CREATURES
1 Adarkar Valkyrie
1 Sunblast Angel
1 Angelic Field Marshal
1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
1 Jazal Goldmane
1 Silverblade Paladin
1 Geist-Honored Monk
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Grand Abolisher
1 Requiem Angel
1 Serra Avatar
1 Flickerwisp
1 Twilight Shepherd
1 Kor Sanctifiers
1 Twilight Drover
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Kemba, Kha Regent
1 Mentor of the Meek
1 Loyal Sentry
1 Skyhunter Skirmisher
1 Stonehewer Giant
1 Angelic Overseer
1 Puresteel Paladin
1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
1 Sun Titan
1 Angel of the Dire Hour
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Nim Deathmantle
1 Sword of Kaldra
1 Deathrender
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Godsend
1 Moonsilver Spear
1 General's Kabuto
1 Loxodon Warhammer
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Quietus Spike
1 Skullclamp
1 Argentum Armor
1 Masterwork of Ingenuity
1 Worldslayer
1 Sword of Vengeance
ARTIFACTS
1 Sol Ring
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Phyrexian Processor
ENCHANTMENTS
1 Cathars' Crusade
1 Spirit Link
1 Honor of the Pure
1 True Conviction
1 White Sun's Zenith
1 Martial Coup
1 Wrath of God
1 Increasing Devotion
1 Day of Judgement
1 Comeuppance
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Spectral Procession
1 Fell the Mighty
1 Return to Dust
1 Wing Shards
1 Nomads' Assembly
1 Oblation
1 Midnight Haunting
1 Condemn
LANDS
1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
1 Karoo
1 Temple of the False God
32 Plains
Hope this helps.
mauybe some white-ramp? tithe, land tax and the like?
oh and one piece of awesomeness to tie the game up: cataclysm. if you have something like avacyn, angel of hope, worldslayer, true conviction, i doubt you could lose after popping a cataclysm.
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Nomad's Assembly
Geist-Honored Monk
Angelic Overseer
Serra Avatar
Loyal Sentry
Im working on getting the swords however, I purchased Avacyn, Angel of Hope, Iona, Shield of Emeria and a few others in the deck and it was kinda pricey so ill have to wait. Do you think i can keep Iona and Avacyn and some choice creatures in the deck, while removing mentioned cards for board wipes? as for tutors to get things like, board wipes, avacyn, land tax, how about Skyship Weatherlight?
Enlightened Tutor and Steelshaper's Gift provide more fetch; the latter is even easily affordable!
More ramp can be found in Gift of Estates, Knight of the White Orchid, Oath of Lieges, and Tithe/c]. Since you'll be adding Land Tax, add a Scroll Rack to run alongside it.
Does this deck really want Worldslayer to work? It kills lands, too, which this deck appears to already have a hard time with.
Cheers!
Krichaiushii on PucaTrade.
I like the Skyship, especially in decks with a decent equipment focus, but be careful with the board wipes you choose to use. If the Skyship gets blown up and you kept an important piece there, it's gone forever! If you're mostly using it for equipment I would rather have the cheaper one-shots that krichaiushii mentioned (Enlightened Tutor and Steelshaper's Gift) over the Skyship. Avacyn is absolutely a fine piece to keep in when you rely heavily on permanents; again, beware some of the wraths you include, because while she works well with traditional destroy wraths, some of them do exile.
A few other ideas that I like, personally, for token decks:
Mirror Entity - great buffs.
Coat of Arms - if you've already got a handful of tokens on the field when this drops, they all get tribal bonuses from the matching tokens.
Spawning Pit - free sac outlet for extra value from wraths and removal.
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite - might be a better option over Iona, depending on your meta. Iona is great if you're shutting out mono-blue, or other players who want to mess with your board state, but sometimes she just doesn't pull her weight, and by the time she comes out if you name the wrong color, someone will have an answer, especially in multiplayer.
There are a lot of utility lands you might consider to make your manabase slightly more powerful. Ancient Tomb, Secluded Steppe, Flagstones of Trokair, Eiganjo Castle, Windbrisk Heights.
Endless Horizons is solid ramp as well, just be careful for the same reasons as the Skyship.