MTG Salvation

After Blot out the sky as the BW mythic spell I am super envious of Inkshield, the fact I can't play it in BW tokens in modern really depresses me.

Vow of Unity and Scholarship Sponsor are pretty good Cunning Rhetoric is interesting tech. Fain the not planeswalker. These cards I like a bunch they are giving, but still keeping you safe. Inkshield the super fog also Tempting Contract.

Not WotC swinging in with a theme of "When one or more creatures attack you or a planeswalker you control ..." triggers for WB as I develop a custom set idea with that being the exact theme in white and black. I really do dig most of these cards. Bold Plagiarist and Nils most of all. Great stuff here.

Couple things:
Why was Nils not given art by Nils Hamm?
Fain looks exactly like Loki.

I'm actually mildly disappointed with this deck. Fain is about the most exciting thing I see in it, as a Trading Post on a stick. Felisa is sort of okay, I guess, but it seems messy to mash together tokens, counters, and aggro strategies onto one card.

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Couple things:
Why was Nils not given art by Nils Hamm?
Fain looks exactly like Loki.

I'm actually mildly disappointed with this deck. Fain is about the most exciting thing I see in it, as a Trading Post on a stick.

So like uh? NOW WHERE IS AGATHA????

new cards look fineish, but deck is MEH

So it seems like the majority of cards in this deck are not so much political as they are pillow fort variants. It's not about "if you let me do this, there's something in it for you too", it's about "Your opponents are the other two, not me".

There's something quite unappealing about your commander deck being built on an abundance of non-interaction and defense.

Scholarship Sponsor seems like great land ramp hate. If it sees play, it might lead to a trend of increased use of mana rocks.

I can see Shadrix Silverquill getting better with some of the cards in this deck, particularly the bird that stops Inklings from attacking you.

I was just thinking of updating my Queen Marchesa deck to have more political stuff, and a lot of these will slot in nicely. I enjoy Cunning Rhetoric and Inkshield a lot, and Nils and Promise of Loyalty are cool designs. The reprints, though, are def a little meh, with Selfless Squire, Duelist's Heritage, and Mikokoro being the standouts for me.

Some of the new cards are amazing, but the reprints are fairly disappointing. I was really looking forward to this deck, too.

Promise of Loyalty is a fun boardwipe.

Inkshield can be a game-ending fog.

Cunning Rhetoric and Author of Shadows are really interesting "what's yours is mine" cards.

Oh hey Rootha ex-gf got a card.

I really like Promise of Loyalty as a boardwipe even if I'm not into political decks a lot.

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Oh hey Rootha ex-gf got a card.

I really like Promise of Loyalty as a boardwipe even if I'm not into political decks a lot.

It's not even that political. It's essentially a tragic arrogance type of wipe but with more upside because whatever they keep can't attack you.

There's a surprising amount of white "catch up" cards in this deck, clearly contributed by Sheldon, and a welcomed one.

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Felisa, because Edgar Markov needed to be even stronger.

Felisa cares about nontoken creatures with counters on them dying, which then generate tokens, and Edgar makes tokens that get counters. Yeah, they're both vamps, but their intersectionality seems very limited to me.

The reprint highlights

(gameplay or $)

• Knight of the White Orchid
  
• Boreas Charger
  
• Stalking Leonin
  
• Sunscorch Regent
  
• Necropolis Regent
  
• Gideon, Champion of Justice
  
• Victory Chimes
  
• Mind Stone
  
• Curse of Disturbance
  
• Duelist's Heritage
  
• Debtors' Knell
  
• Bojuka Bog
  

Utter End (well not a highlight ever since strixhaven and a few other removals just here since still $2)
Tragic Arrogance (Now no more mentioning this card mitch (commander quarters).)
Ghostly Prison (the kaldheim art)

The best Reprints are.....
Deathbringer Liege $13 (its only this high because its only 1 printing and its the lorwyn block)
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea $6
Selfless Squire currently $5.50
Windborn Muse currently $5.60

Wow nice. A couple of very cool cards in this deck!

This deck looks like a PITA to play against. Too much to remember about who can attack who and who can't attack someone. I'll politely not want to play against this. Magic is supposed to be fun.

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This deck looks like a PITA to play against. Too much to remember about who can attack who and who can't attack someone. I'll politely not want to play against this. Magic is supposed to be fun.

Dude, all the cards stop aggression just toward the player of this deck. I’m not seeing anything that stops attacks against any other player.

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Quote from DanzBorin »

This deck looks like a PITA to play against. Too much to remember about who can attack who and who can't attack someone. I'll politely not want to play against this. Magic is supposed to be fun.

Dude, all the cards stop aggression just toward the player of this deck. I’m not seeing anything that stops attacks against any other player.

While that's true, what is the end game of this type of play? What are you going to be doing that will ensure you win by keeping attackers away from you? Are there any combos present in the deck?

@neuroticneurok: fair point. I feel that this type of deck is aupposed to finish out with a combo when fully realized... though fairly few precondition could be called anything close to “fully realized” out of the box. This deck just spams flying tokens and slowly strengthens its creatures until it can take out does the slow and inefficient way.

Also, am I wrong in thinking that Combat Calligrapher can trigger multiple times per combat if multiple opponents are attacked (as it doesn’t say “if one or more of your opponents” or “at least one of your opponents”)? If so, throwing this down for 4 mana and instantly pooping out 2-3 attacking inklings isn’t terrible even if this card doesn’t last a full round. Not optimal for any competitive builds but still fairly cost-efficient.