PLEASE NOTE: I would like to keep this legacy legal (no skullclamp, colored artifact lands, etc)
Puresteel Paladin is a card that's always interested me, so I though I'd try and make a deck with it. I've always imagined playing puresteel with a bunch of cheap 0-1 drop equipments to just draw through my deck and generate card advantage. , so I figured fitting the deck into an affinity shell would work best. Here's what I've got right now:
Deck Summary:
The basic idea is to plop down efficient beaters and swing in with equipment ASAP. Turn 1 Kor Duelist into Turn 2 Bonesplitter is pretty wicked. The idea behind puresteel is to help you draw into more weenie equipment to just stack on a beater or two.
Deck Analysis:
From initial testing the deck has worked pretty well, though I have found ornithopter to be a little underwhelming in the starting draw, especially in multiples. The exception to this is if I also have a cranial plating in my opening hand, but that's usually not the case. I'm thinking of replacing the thopter with something else but I'm not sure what at the moment. I'm currently tweaking and adjusting the creature to equipment ratio in my deck as sometimes I find I draw too many weenie creatures with no equipment, or sometimes I draw all equipment with no creatures to equip to. I think Ideally I would like to find more starter creatures like the duelist so that even with 1 piece of equipment I can start putting out some serious damage.
I posted this because I'd like suggestions and I'm curious to see what kinds of builds others have done with puresteel. For example, Another way I thought of taking the deck was focusing more on the card draw/cycling through your entire deck aspect by making the deck a little more midrange and throwing in a playset of Vedalken Archmage and/or Riddlesmith. Currently Thoughcast fills my secondary card draw slot, but I'm wondering if it might just be better to shift the deck into a mid-range deck and throw in the archmage instead.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Anything is appreciated here!
Would Memnite work as a one-for-one replacement with the Thopter? I guess it sort of depends what the problem with the Thopter is - Memnite can attack on its own, but it isn't evasive, so it might not really get you anywhere. Auriok Glaivemaster and Kitesail Apprentice are one-drops that get a little buff when they're equipped, and at two, you have Sunspear Shikari and Leonin Den-Guard. Any of those seem like they might help you get there a little faster, but I'd be leery of too many two-drops in a deck with such a low land-count.
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Puresteel Paladin is a card that's always interested me, so I though I'd try and make a deck with it. I've always imagined playing puresteel with a bunch of cheap 0-1 drop equipments to just draw through my deck and generate card advantage. , so I figured fitting the deck into an affinity shell would work best. Here's what I've got right now:
4x Ornithopter
4x Kor Duelist
4x Vault Skirge
4x Puresteel Paladin
//Equipment (20)
2x Flayer Husk
4x Bonesplitter
4x Trusty Machete
2x Golem-skin Guantlet
4x Paradise Mantle
4x Cranial Plating
2x Mox Opal
3x Dispatch
4x Thoughtcast
//Lands (15)
4x Glimmervoid
4x Seachrome Coast
3x Adarkar Wastes
4x Darksteel Citadel
Deck Summary:
The basic idea is to plop down efficient beaters and swing in with equipment ASAP. Turn 1 Kor Duelist into Turn 2 Bonesplitter is pretty wicked. The idea behind puresteel is to help you draw into more weenie equipment to just stack on a beater or two.
Deck Analysis:
From initial testing the deck has worked pretty well, though I have found ornithopter to be a little underwhelming in the starting draw, especially in multiples. The exception to this is if I also have a cranial plating in my opening hand, but that's usually not the case. I'm thinking of replacing the thopter with something else but I'm not sure what at the moment. I'm currently tweaking and adjusting the creature to equipment ratio in my deck as sometimes I find I draw too many weenie creatures with no equipment, or sometimes I draw all equipment with no creatures to equip to. I think Ideally I would like to find more starter creatures like the duelist so that even with 1 piece of equipment I can start putting out some serious damage.
I posted this because I'd like suggestions and I'm curious to see what kinds of builds others have done with puresteel. For example, Another way I thought of taking the deck was focusing more on the card draw/cycling through your entire deck aspect by making the deck a little more midrange and throwing in a playset of Vedalken Archmage and/or Riddlesmith. Currently Thoughcast fills my secondary card draw slot, but I'm wondering if it might just be better to shift the deck into a mid-range deck and throw in the archmage instead.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Anything is appreciated here!