Looking for some critiques and ideas on how to improve this Darien build. I'm a big fan of White Weenies and Soul Sisters in Modern/Pauper, and wanted to see what I could do with the archetype in EDH.
Enchantments: Land tax is extremely powerful
I'm not sure what you'd take out, but I think you'd find dictate of heliod would perform exceedingly well.
Creatures:
Consider jazal goldmane, when he comes down and you have 9 mana, someone is almost certain to die. 5 1/1 creatures suddenly swing for 30 instead of 5.
Of all the cards in the list, I'd put deploy to the front as one of the first cuts, I've found it doesn't work that well.
I'll second the recommendation of Expedition Map if you want to run Karma and Royal Decree. Those cards are almost dead without Urborg, so you might as well run a tutor which can fetch it.
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A sort of pet card in my darien deck is Jinxed Choker. In a multiplayer game that thing gets passed around player to player building up counters pretty fast and it usually doesn't come back to you. If it does come back to you, you get tokens......if it doesn't it can win the game on it's own.
Since you have caged sun and the other two artifacts that double land mana production, I highly recommend Pulse of the Fields. With darien you end up nearly killing yourself in a lot of games, and I couldn't tell you how many games I've won on thanks to it. In a multiplayer game somebody is bound to have more life than you so it's pretty much always live. They'll often swing for lethal and then BAM, suddenly you've gained TONS of life. Heck, with a pearl medallion it might as well read "WW: gain 4 life". It's also pretty sweet with my favorite removal spell, Wing Shards
And another card I couldn't live without in darien is Spawning Pit. It's a sac outlet that creates tokens, whats not to love?
Thanks for the advice! Here's the updated list (I unfortunately didn't keep track of what I took out, so I don't have a neat changelog). I'd really like to add Jinxed Choker, as well as Scout's Warning, but I don't know what I'd take out for them. I'm seeing a possibility to push this into a stax-oriented list, but I'm very much enjoying the white weenies nature of it.
In case you lost all your weenies and a other Player is speeding up with creatures, then is a mass removal always Handy.
Since you Play with weenies is Martial Coup maybe something that you could add. Saved my booty already a few times. :3
Works also well with your Eldrazi Monument^^
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Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Karma/Royal Decree is a neat little combo that hurts your opponents and gets out tokens.
Altar of the Brood + Blasting Station is another combo that allows you to mill out your opponents.
Other than that, it's pretty straight forward - get hurt/hurt yourself, make tokens, make them bigger, swing:
1x Darien, King of Kjeldor
Creatures (18)
1x Angel of Glory's Rise
1x Brimaz, King of Oreskos
1x Captain of the Watch
1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1x Field Marshal
1x Frontline Medic
1x Grand Abolisher
1x Healer of the Pride
1x Hero of Bladehold
1x Intrepid Hero
1x Knight-Captain of Eos
1x Mentor of the Meek
1x Odric, Master Tactician
1x Preeminent Captain
1x Requiem Angel
1x Soul Warden
1x Soul's Attendant
1x Sun Titan
Instant (8)
1x Blood of the Martyr
1x Condemn
1x Enlightened Tutor
1x Path to Exile
1x Return to Dust
1x Rootborn Defenses
1x Swords to Plowshares
1x White Sun's Zenith
1x Ajani, Caller of the Pride
1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
1x Elspeth Tirel
Artifact (15)
1x Akroma's Memorial
1x Altar of the Brood
1x Angelheart Vial
1x Blasting Station
1x Caged Sun
1x Coat of Arms
1x Eldrazi Monument
1x Extraplanar Lens
1x Jade Monolith
1x Lightning Greaves
1x Mana Vault
1x Skullclamp
1x Sol Ring
1x Swiftfoot Boots
1x Well of Lost Dreams
Enchantment (11)
1x Angelic Chorus
1x Cathars' Crusade
1x Divine Sacrament
1x Endless Horizons
1x Honor of the Pure
1x Intangible Virtue
1x Karma
1x Luminarch Ascension
1x Militia's Pride
1x Royal Decree
1x True Conviction
1x Ancient Tomb
1x Arcane Lighthouse
1x City of Brass
1x Emeria, The Sky Ruin
1x Ghost Quarter
1x Grand Coliseum
1x Kjeldoran Outpost
1x Nomad Stadium
25x Plains
1x Secluded Steppe
1x Tarnished Citadel
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Windbrisk Heights
Sorcery (7)
1x Decree of Justice
1x Deploy to the Front
1x Hour of Reckoning
1x Increasing Devotion
1x Mass Calcify
1x Retribution of the Meek
1x Steelshaper's Gift
Lands:
myriad landscape
nykthos, shrine to nyx
strip mine
blighted steppe
fetchlands like flooded strand and marsh flats
Sorceries:
-1 intrepid hero +1 austere command - You have very little to answer artifacts/enchantments
Instant:
One to consider is benevolent offering
Artifacts:
-1 angelheart vial +1 sun droplet
konda's banner fits surprisingly well
Assuming you add lands above:
expedition map
crucible of worlds
Enchantments:
Land tax is extremely powerful
I'm not sure what you'd take out, but I think you'd find dictate of heliod would perform exceedingly well.
Creatures:
Consider jazal goldmane, when he comes down and you have 9 mana, someone is almost certain to die. 5 1/1 creatures suddenly swing for 30 instead of 5.
Of all the cards in the list, I'd put deploy to the front as one of the first cuts, I've found it doesn't work that well.
Blood of the Martyr
Jinxed Idol
Angel of Jubilation
Daru Warchief
Since you have caged sun and the other two artifacts that double land mana production, I highly recommend Pulse of the Fields. With darien you end up nearly killing yourself in a lot of games, and I couldn't tell you how many games I've won on thanks to it. In a multiplayer game somebody is bound to have more life than you so it's pretty much always live. They'll often swing for lethal and then BAM, suddenly you've gained TONS of life. Heck, with a pearl medallion it might as well read "WW: gain 4 life". It's also pretty sweet with my favorite removal spell, Wing Shards
And another card I couldn't live without in darien is Spawning Pit. It's a sac outlet that creates tokens, whats not to love?
As for card suggestions, I ran Darien a while back. Here's some other card that have worked for me:
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
Reconnaissance
Scout's Warning (nothing better than a surprise Darien)
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1x Akroma's Memorial
1x Altar of the Brood
1x Blasting Station
1x Caged Sun
1x Coat of Arms
1x Darksteel Ingot
1x Eldrazi Monument
1x Expedition Map
1x Extraplanar Lens
1x Gilded Lotus
1x Jinxed Idol
1x Konda's Banner
1x Lightning Greaves
1x Mana Vault
1x Pearl Medallion
1x Skullclamp
1x Sol Ring
1x Sun Droplet
1x Swiftfoot Boots
1x Well of Lost Dreams
Instant (7)
1x Blood of the Martyr
1x Condemn
1x Enlightened Tutor
1x Path to Exile
1x Pulse of the Fields
1x Return to Dust
1x Swords to Plowshares
1x Ajani, Caller of the Pride
1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
1x Elspeth Tirel
Creature (16)
1x Angel of Glory's Rise
1x Brimaz, King of Oreskos
1x Captain of the Watch
1x Daru Warchief
1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1x Frontline Medic
1x Grand Abolisher
1x Jazal Goldmane
1x Knight of the White Orchid
1x Mentor of the Meek
1x Odric, Master Tactician
1x Preeminent Captain
1x Soul Warden
1x Soul's Attendant
1x Sun Titan
1x Suture Priest
Enchantment (11)
1x Angelic Chorus
1x Cathars' Crusade
1x Endless Horizons
1x Honor of the Pure
1x Intangible Virtue
1x Karma
1x Land Tax
1x Militia's Pride
1x Reconnaissance
1x Royal Decree
1x True Conviction
1x Ancient Tomb
1x Arcane Lighthouse
1x City of Brass
1x Emeria, The Sky Ruin
1x Ghost Quarter
1x Grand Coliseum
1x Kjeldoran Outpost
1x Nomad Stadium
25x Plains
1x Secluded Steppe
1x Tarnished Citadel
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Windbrisk Heights
Sorcery (5)
1x Austere Command
1x Hour of Reckoning
1x Mass Calcify
1x Retribution of the Meek
1x Steelshaper's Gift
Since you Play with weenies is Martial Coup maybe something that you could add. Saved my booty already a few times. :3
Works also well with your Eldrazi Monument^^