I'm currently trying to create a radiant, archangel deck, but I feel its missing card draw, but I can't seem to pinpoint a good one. Suggestions? What do you use?
Anvil of Bogardan + Geth's Grimoire is a nifty combo. The anvil alone increases card quality and the grimoire deters discard effects from your opponents at the least.
Unfortunately every try hard from Sacramento to Shanghai preaches from the top of their 27 lands + Mana Reflection that Tooth and Nail and Time Stretch are fine to play in the same turn but Armageddon is unfair.
As you can see, there is very little pure white card draw, it's all about card advantage, and this is normally achieved with small engine made up of all ready good cards. For instance, if you run any form of life gain, you will run well of lost dreams, and Jitte works amazingly with that. Synergy!
I have always had a soft spot for ETB abuse white :P. I just went to my Lin Sivvi list, and went to the engine section. Interesting find with mobilization.
Snow mana base + Scrying Sheets. It's not a draw engine really, but it gives you use for those turns when you wouldn't have been able to do anything else useful with your mana.
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I like to use SinfireTitan's list to find some on-theme or synergistic colorless draw, and then just look up "o:draw c:w" on magiccards to find on-color draw spells.
I used to use some weird equipment to draw and add flying; however my current deck revolves around wall of omens and galepowder mage, to exploit the enter/exit the battlefield abilities
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Emeria, the Sky Ruin is really nice.
Stonehewer Giant is a great continuous source of cards.
Skullclamp or Mentor of the Meek plus something like Sacred Mesa, Mobilization, Militia's Pride, Springjack Pasture, Kjeldoran Outpost, or Darien, King of Kjeldor can draw you a ton of cards.
Mentor of the Meek also works well with Urza's Factory and White Sun's Zenith.
Stonehewer Giant, Stoneforge Mystic, and Steelshaper's Gift can fetch you Sword of Fire and Ice, Mask of Memory, and Diviner's Wand. You can recover them with Argivian Find, Open the Vaults, and Sun Titan. Emeria, the Sky Ruin makes sure you always have something to equip. Sun Titan and Emeria, the Sky Ruin can recover each other. See the engine?
Land Tax plus Scroll Rack is pretty good.
Oblation can work alright on a spare land or token.
Survival Cache can gain you a card if you have a lot of lifegain.
Armillary Sphere at least gets you 2 lands.
Wall of Omens plus Erratic Portal or Mimic Vat is an engine. It's also good with a sac outlet and a way to revive it each turn.
There's Phyrexian Vault, Carnage Altar, and Culling Dais if you run lots of tokens.
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth is easy to cast if you run mana doublers.
Eye of Ugin is good advantage, finds you Kozilek, and can be found with Expedition Map.
Infiltration Lens plus Nemesis Mask is silly, but you certainly have the equipment tutors to make it an option.
You can also do something like Chromatic Star or Origin Spellbomb plus Sun Titan.
Crucible of Worlds plus a fetchland, Gargoyle Castle, or Buried Ruin can give you some advantage.
Crucible of Worlds, Buried Ruin, Emeria, the Sky Ruin, and Sun Titan protect each other, all of your creatures, artifacts, and cheap permanents. Mistveil Plains ensures that you always have access to them in an emergency.
And then there's various other stuff like Tower of Fortunes that aren't bad if you run mana doublers.
Mono Red's Strengths and Mono White's Strengths
Liar's Pendulum is hilarious.
As you can see, there is very little pure white card draw, it's all about card advantage, and this is normally achieved with small engine made up of all ready good cards. For instance, if you run any form of life gain, you will run well of lost dreams, and Jitte works amazingly with that. Synergy!
Edit: also, Stormfront Riders. Clamp fodder and ETB abuse!
Eiganjo Free-Riders. Great catch! Is quite good with Mobilization as well.
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