Hey guys, sort of a newbie here. I recently lucked into a sizeable collection of around 300 cards, not including lands, and have no real knowledge on how to go about building a deck from scratch. I cobbled what looked like a competent deck and wanted to see your guys opinion, and see if I made any glaring mistakes. I'm not even sure if this is a standard deck, to be quite honest.
Yeah a good 75% is not standard legal. I've asked the mods to move it to the casual section for you.
As far as deck building goes, you have the right idea and it's good that you have an attack plan with a white weenie deck. What I would do is go down to 60 cards and up the land count to 22-23. I would take out all the high cost cards at 5CMC or higher like Kor Entanglers and Silent Sentinel, and cards that don't do anything for you like Purify the Grave and Skybind. From there take out 2-3 more cards of your choice for the lands. Look through your collection to see if you have any more cards that pump up your creatures' attacks. That would put use to all the creatures you are playing.
I was looking at the remaining collection, and I was wondering If I should splash in Sorin, a few swamps/evolving wilds. I guess I could trim out Ajanai's Chosen too. Thanks for the tips, mate.
Yeah, I guess it doesn't serve too much of a purpose as is. When I first built the deck, I had in more high mana cards like Silent Sentinel and I thought since my mana curve tended towards 3-4+ before I could really start to use my tokens efficiently I was putting in cards like Skybind and Sigardian Priest to help control the board before then, and I saw Wall of Omens as a decent filler that helped towards that same end.
I opened a Captain's Claws today that I'll sub it out for to help push it towards aggro, thanks for pointing that out.
You have three main themes here that I see. There's a white weenie theme, a heroic theme and a token theme. There's some crossover, but you should probably consider how much you want to focus on different ones. If tokens are your thing, you want 4x lingering souls, 4x spectral procession, and maybe even midnight haunting. Phantom general should be intangible virtue in that case.
If you care more about the weenies, you'll want more more boros elite, and probably want to look into daring skyjek, porcelain legionnaire, or other strong 2 cmc creatures. As for heroic, you don't have enough stuff to proc it right now, though phalanax leader is amazing. you'd want to increase the number of spells that trigger it and the number of heroic creatures you run.
Focus on getting more copies of the cards you want to run, and dropping ones that don't contribute to your goal or cost 4 cmc or more. This is really a deck that wants 3-4 of any card it runs. You don't want inconsistent draws.
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1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
Creatures (23)
1 Boros Elite
1 Phalanx Leader
3 Fencing Ace
1 Guardian of Pilgrims
1 God-Favored General
1 Serene Steward
1 Twilight Drover
2 Healer of the Pride
2 Banisher Priest
2 Crusader of Odric
1 Odric, Master Tactician
3 Phantom General
1 High Sentinels of Arashin
2 Mausoleum Guard
1 Ethereal Guidance
2 Spectral Procession
2 Lingering Souls
Enchantment (3)
1 Blind Obedience
1 Gift of Immortality
1 Indestructibility
Instants (4)
1 Reprisal
3 Dauntless Onslaught
Artifact (2)
1 Traveler's Amulet
1 Captain's Claws
17 Plains
4 Swamps
2 Evolving Wilds
Trimmed the deck down to 60, switched in a few cards to splash in Sorin and Swamps for added synergy.
As far as deck building goes, you have the right idea and it's good that you have an attack plan with a white weenie deck. What I would do is go down to 60 cards and up the land count to 22-23. I would take out all the high cost cards at 5CMC or higher like Kor Entanglers and Silent Sentinel, and cards that don't do anything for you like Purify the Grave and Skybind. From there take out 2-3 more cards of your choice for the lands. Look through your collection to see if you have any more cards that pump up your creatures' attacks. That would put use to all the creatures you are playing.
Standard: BG Golgari Midrange
Modern: U Merfolk GWUBR 5 Color Humans UBW Esper Gifts GW Bogles
I opened a Captain's Claws today that I'll sub it out for to help push it towards aggro, thanks for pointing that out.
If you care more about the weenies, you'll want more more boros elite, and probably want to look into daring skyjek, porcelain legionnaire, or other strong 2 cmc creatures. As for heroic, you don't have enough stuff to proc it right now, though phalanax leader is amazing. you'd want to increase the number of spells that trigger it and the number of heroic creatures you run.
Focus on getting more copies of the cards you want to run, and dropping ones that don't contribute to your goal or cost 4 cmc or more. This is really a deck that wants 3-4 of any card it runs. You don't want inconsistent draws.