Hi guys! I'm new to the forum but I'm an old Magic player. Actually I haven't played for several years, but I recently thought about completing my old and overlooked decks. One of them is a mono-white flanking deck. At the moment, it's a mess. This is what I came up with:
- Mirror Entity is the special guy of the deck: with the help of Sidewinder Sliver it may gain flanking (and then be affected by Cavalry Master too), but most of all its activated ability gives additional instances of flanking to knight creatures (plus, it's a useful mana sink). So a creature can have 9 instances of flanking at best. Sinew Sliver is here to make the combo even more powerful;
- Nemesis Mask works extremely well with a multi-flanker;
- Honor of the pure, Always watching and Akroma's Memorial for pumping and other sweet treats;
- Oblivion ring to deal with dangerous threats.
Personally, I would cut the bigger creatures and anthem effects for more 2-power creatures and run four Dusk // Dawn. Dusk spares all of your creatures, leaving your opponent with just their little guys against your flanking knights, and Dawn is a great late game card advantage engine.
Thanks that's a cool card, but unfortunately that would mean getting rid of Cavalry Master which is pretty essential in a flanking deck.
At the moment I'm thinking of switching Honor of the pure with Always Watching in order to remove the defenders and make these changes:
- 4x Benalish Cavalry
- 3x Order of the Stars
- 2x Angelic Wall
+ 4x Sidewinder Sliver
+ 4x Mirror Entity
+ 1x Pentarch Paladin
With the help of some slivers, Mirror Entity may gain flanking (and then be affected by Cavalry Master too), but most of all its activated ability gives additional instances of flanking to knight creatures (plus, it's a useful mana sink since I don't have one yet). I think it could be pretty fun (at best, a creature can have 9 instances of flanking) and give the deck that certain something that now is missing.
Update: I made some other changes to make the mana curve more balanced. The main change consists of 4 Sinew Sliver, which can make the combo even more powerful. Then I replaced Prison Term with Nemesis Mask as a secondary combo with a multi-flanker.
4x Benalish Cavalry
4x Knight of the Holy Nimbus
4x Outrider en-Kor
4x Knight of Sursi
4x Cavalry Master
2x Pentarch Paladin
3x Order of the Stars
2x Angelic Wall / Wall of Swords / Wall of Reverence
4x Honor of the Pure
4x Oblivion Ring
2x Prison Term
1x Akroma's Memorial
22x Plains
EDIT: current deck idea:
4x Sidewinder Sliver
4x Knight of the Holy Nimbus
4x Outrider en-Kor
2x Knight of Sursi
4x Cavalry Master
2x Pentarch Paladin
4x Sinew Sliver
4x Mirror Entity
2x Honor of the Pure
2x Always Watching
3x Oblivion Ring
2x Nemesis Mask
1x Akroma's Memorial
21x Plains
1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Mirror Entity is the special guy of the deck: with the help of Sidewinder Sliver it may gain flanking (and then be affected by Cavalry Master too), but most of all its activated ability gives additional instances of flanking to knight creatures (plus, it's a useful mana sink). So a creature can have 9 instances of flanking at best. Sinew Sliver is here to make the combo even more powerful;
- Nemesis Mask works extremely well with a multi-flanker;
- Honor of the pure, Always watching and Akroma's Memorial for pumping and other sweet treats;
- Oblivion ring to deal with dangerous threats.
So what do you guys think?
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At the moment I'm thinking of switching Honor of the pure with Always Watching in order to remove the defenders and make these changes:
- 4x Benalish Cavalry
- 3x Order of the Stars
- 2x Angelic Wall
+ 4x Sidewinder Sliver
+ 4x Mirror Entity
+ 1x Pentarch Paladin
With the help of some slivers, Mirror Entity may gain flanking (and then be affected by Cavalry Master too), but most of all its activated ability gives additional instances of flanking to knight creatures (plus, it's a useful mana sink since I don't have one yet). I think it could be pretty fun (at best, a creature can have 9 instances of flanking) and give the deck that certain something that now is missing.
I had same problem in my white weenie deck so I went back to Retribution of the Meek.
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