I am working on a casual multiplayer deck which features Silverblade Paladin. The idea is to have creatures such as Pride of Lions and rhox reach my opponent and deal lots of damage. In order to prevent them from dying, I also use Dolmen Gate.
The problem is that the deck is too slow and rolls over most of the time before I can setup the various pieces. Also, I am trying cloudshift to change the soulbound target in surprise but so far it sits most of the time in my hand. I may have too many land ramping cards, not sure if I should cut some.
I need better creatures (1, 2 and 3 Cmc) that work well with Silverblade Paladin (or Nightshade Peddler). Do you have some suggestions that would make the deck tick better?
Here is a list of creatures that might be worth a try, but nothing stands out as really amazing. Any thoughts?
If youre using Silverblade Paladin, you're generally building a knights deck around Knight Exemplar. He's a decent card on his own, its true. But little pairs better with knights than.. other knights. That and Angelic Overseer, a good and inexpensive beater that compliments a deck with a lot of humans.
I'l also throw out there one of my favorite cards, Angel of Glory's Rise. If you adjust your deck a bit, it can easily be a 'humans matter' deck.
I see your choices mostly on a budget, so if you happen to won any, Knight of the Reliquary or Land Tax would add a boost to the speed and reliability.
Anytime you are building a deck designed around combat damage, I think at least one copy of Rogue's Passage is a must.
Another strategy you could consider is to use soulbound on creatures that don't stick around that long. Maybe they get sac'd at EOT or something ect. Friend of mine runs a Silverblade Paladin deck that combos with Geist of Saint Traft to soulbond the 4/4 angel each turn. Then you can soulbond whatever creature you want each turn.
I registered just to post on this thread. Champion of the Parish, Honor of the Pure and Silverblade have synergistic qualities and have access to brave the elements. Turn 4 goldfish is Champion-> Honor, Swing for 2-> Silverblade, Swing for 6-> Brave and alpha swing for 12 for a grand total of 20 damage to the face!
I registered just to post on this thread. Champion of the Parish, Honor of the Pure and Silverblade have synergistic qualities and have access to brave the elements. Turn 4 goldfish is Champion-> Honor, Swing for 2-> Silverblade, Swing for 6-> Brave and alpha swing for 12 for a grand total of 20 damage to the face!
Thalia's lieutenant is a fine card. Personally my deck falls back on windbrisk heights, spectral procession and hero of bladehold as responses to losing early momentum. Thalia's Lieutenant will consistently give you a higher ceiling for damage on board with a pure human theme, but incorporating the lieutenant will make your deck harder to rebuild from opponents actively taking out the strongest piece on board and it will become highly probable to use Thalia, guardian of thraben herself to slow your opponent's control. Granted my advice is purely from my experiences as a tryhard kitchen table warrior, but for me I stopped relying on drawing Thalia to win and I went with spectral procession to get the job done. Well that was more information than needed!
I.e. cards that (for the most part) benefit from creatures as opposed to enchantments. After all, enchantments don't trigger Windbrisk Heights nor benefit from Battle cry.
I am working on a casual multiplayer deck which features Silverblade Paladin. The idea is to have creatures such as Pride of Lions and rhox reach my opponent and deal lots of damage. In order to prevent them from dying, I also use Dolmen Gate.
The problem is that the deck is too slow and rolls over most of the time before I can setup the various pieces. Also, I am trying cloudshift to change the soulbound target in surprise but so far it sits most of the time in my hand. I may have too many land ramping cards, not sure if I should cut some.
Following is the latest version:
8 Plains
2 Selesnya Guildgate
4 Dawning Purist
4 Nightshade Peddler
4 Pride of Lions
4 Rhox
4 Silverblade Paladin
2 Serra's blessing
3 Cloudshift
1 Cultivate
1 Journey of Discovery
2 Safewright Quest
I need better creatures (1, 2 and 3 Cmc) that work well with Silverblade Paladin (or Nightshade Peddler). Do you have some suggestions that would make the deck tick better?
Here is a list of creatures that might be worth a try, but nothing stands out as really amazing. Any thoughts?
Glass Asp
Caustic Wasps
Centaur Rootcaster
Precinct Captain
Spawnwrithe
Thanks for the help!
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I see your choices mostly on a budget, so if you happen to won any, Knight of the Reliquary or Land Tax would add a boost to the speed and reliability.
Anytime you are building a deck designed around combat damage, I think at least one copy of Rogue's Passage is a must.
Another strategy you could consider is to use soulbound on creatures that don't stick around that long. Maybe they get sac'd at EOT or something ect. Friend of mine runs a Silverblade Paladin deck that combos with Geist of Saint Traft to soulbond the 4/4 angel each turn. Then you can soulbond whatever creature you want each turn.
Why Honor of the Pure over Thalia's Lieutenant?
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I.e. cards that (for the most part) benefit from creatures as opposed to enchantments. After all, enchantments don't trigger Windbrisk Heights nor benefit from Battle cry.
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