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my goal is to go nuts with weenie guys and soldier tokens iona is in there in case i get lucky and get her of a windsbrisk heights. any suggestions would be great

I would definately consider adding Congregate, as well as any lands that deal you damage like Tarnished Citadel or City of Brass so you can generate creatures with Darien in play.

thanks for the suggestion i completly forgot about those those.
wish i had the cash for a elspeth. been testing with her in mws and complely own when she comes on the field.

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// Lands 1x Windbrisk Heights 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea 1x Maze of Ith 1x Strip Mine 1x Flagstones of Trokair 15x Plains (5) 1x Karoo 1x Thawing Glaciers 1x Mishra's Factory 1x Remote Farm 1x Fountain of Cho 1x Forbidding Watchtower 1x Drifting Meadow 1x Icatian Store // Creatures 1x Akrasan Squire 1x Aven Cloudchaser 1x Aven Squire 1x Ballyrush Banneret 1x Captain of the Watch 1x Celestial Crusader 1x Crovax, Ascendant Hero 1x Darien, King of Kjeldor 1x Field Marshal 1x Goldmeadow Harrier 1x Icatian Javelineers 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria 1x Kazandu Blademaster 1x Kithkin Harbinger 1x Kithkin Zephyrnaut 1x Kjeldoran Guard 1x Knight of Meadowgrain 1x Kor Aeronaut 1x Kor Duelist 1x Kor Hookmaster 1x Kor Outfitter 1x Kor Skyfisher 1x Magus of the Disk 1x Martyr of Sands 1x Mirror Entity 1x Mosquito Guard 1x Preacher 1x Preeminent Captain 1x Rhox Pikemaster 1x Solemn Simulacrum 1x Soltari Champion 1x Valiant Guard 1x Veteran Armorer 1x Veteran Armorsmith 1x Veteran Swordsmith	// Spells 1x Abeyance 1x Angel's Grace 1x Angelsong 1x Armageddon 1x Cataclysm 1x Conqueror's Pledge 1x Day of Judgment 1x Disenchant 1x Enlightened Tutor 1x Surge of Thoughtweft 1x Swords to Plowshares 1x Wojek Siren 1x Wrath of God Artifacts 1x Angel's Feather 1x Coat of Arms 1x Lightning Greaves 1x Lotus Bloom 1x Lotus Petal 1x Loxodon Warhammer 1x Nevinyrral's Disk 1x Oblivion Ring 1x Scroll Rack 1x Sensei's Divining Top 1x Skullclamp 1x Sol Ring 1x Umezawa's Jitte 1x Veteran's Armaments Enchantments 1x Empyrial Armor 1x Crusade 1x Faith's Fetters 1x Glorious Anthem 1x Honor of the Pure 1x Island Sanctuary 1x Land Tax 1x Mark of Asylum 1x Militia's Pride 1x Sunspring Expedition

my goal is to go nuts with weenie guys and soldier tokens iona is in there in case i get lucky and get her of a windsbrisk heights. any suggestions would be great

Ok, cool, soldier theme. Do you think you could get things like Mobilization, Door of Destinies, Cenn's Enlistment, Cloudgoat Ranger, Decree of Justice (probably expensive), Elsbeth you mentioned, Even the Odds, Martial Coup, Raise the Alarm or Stormfront Riders?

The abilty to add soldiers to the table at instant speed is very, very good:
-Someone Wraths the table and plays a creature: EOT Even the Odds!
-You have Door of Destinies in play? Stormfront Riders is a +3 to your entire team on top of whatever on on there already. It's also very nice with the Empyrial Armor you have in there, giving you +1 cards in hand if you bounce back the Riders and a card soldier (rather than a token.)
-Your play group keeps wiping the table again and again? What about soldiers that never go away? Cenn's Enlistment gives you two for every land you can discard.

Speaking about land, you only have 28 and only 1 permanent mana source in your artifacts (Sol Ring) A 60-card soldier deck would have 22-23 mana sources meaning that your aim in a 100 card deck should be about 36-38 at least.

Loxodon Gatekeeper seems like it would be a good addition. It's not a weenie really, but it is a soldier with a good effect to boot. And if you're willing to buff your weenies at the expense of giving your opponents some buffs as well then you could try Divine Sacrament.

To expand further on the City of Brass idea, this could be the first deck to ever use Nomad Stadium! Also, Ancient Tomb would help add some acceleration to the deck.

What about Knight-Captain of Eos?

I always prefered Armored Ascension to Empyrial Armor (though you could run both).

Hey dude, we're doing similar decks I just noticed. Ha! Maybe we can help each other lol >_>.

Anyway, I don't know why nobody has suggested it, but if you can find a Kjeldoran Outpost, I think that would be just what you're looking for.

Might I suggest Humility? It wins games by itself and is very good if you go nuts with soldier tokens.

Scout's Warning and/or Winding Canyons could let you flash out Darien for a trick.

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-You have Door of Destinies in play? Stormfront Riders is a +3 to your entire team on top of whatever on on there already.

Door of Destinies gets counters when spells are cast, but the tokens are not cast, they are put into play. I think you only get 1 counter - however, you can bounce the Stormfront Riders back to put more and more counters on the Door.

Card draw? Weenies empty your hand fast, how will you fill it back up? In the past, I've played Mind's Eye in my Darien deck, but that card has one of the biggest targets painted on it in EDH. Instead, I'm currently testing:
Slate of Ancestry
Illuminated Folio

Slate is sick the turn after someone swings at you with Darien in play, but in general it's pretty easy to get at least 4-5 soldiers in play. Plus, I'm running Mistveil Plains and Emeria, the Sky Ruin, so there's a chance the stuff I discard will come out later or get recycled back into the deck.

Folio has been pretty good. It's no Mind's Eye at 3 cards a turn for 3, but then again Mind's Eye hasn't been sticking for me long enough to get much use out of it.

The next draw engine I want to try is Farsight Mask, seems like a good deterrent if you have it and/or Darien in play, but it's probably less reliable for drawing actual cards then the other options above.

Depending on how much you use Darien and protect him, Konda's Banner may be better than Veteran's Armaments (especially since we have no trample so that really fat soldier just gets chump blocked by a Kobold or something stupid). Both may be even better in your deck, with the Kor critters.

Good luck with your deck! This is probably my favorite deck to play as soldiers are both flavorful and can become incredibly overwhelming quickly.

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To expand further on the City of Brass idea, this could be the first deck to ever use Nomad Stadium! Also, Ancient Tomb would help add some acceleration to the deck.

What about Knight-Captain of Eos?

I always prefered Armored Ascension to Empyrial Armor (though you could run both).

added a knight captian and a nomad stadium.

the mishra's factory will be a mutavault when i get one. thanks for the sugesstions everyone ill update the main list when i get a chance

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