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bringing my love of w/x midrange/tempo to oathbreaker. Chose Serra the benevolent because i enjoy angels and well she's Serra. Also who is more qualified to face off against nicol bolas (my friends deck). Also looking forward to creating some custom angel tokens. the deck is loosely based off of my commander deck and shares many cards as well.

The plan of the deck is to play lots of disruptive flying creatures and then angels. there is a blink and recursion subtheme as a lot of the efficient angels have effects for that and one of the fun things in mono white is the ability to reuse etb effects. The deck also runs an equipment tool box to grab various effects like card draw, ramp, and protection. i find this is useful for dealing with the weaknesses of mono white.

The signature spell is flexible haven't decided on one yet.rootborn defenses saves the team and duplicates an angel. Open the armory guarantees access to the decks toolbox and can grab the aura removal spells . And you cant really go wrong with swords to plowshares or teferi's protection in white.



maybe board of cards i want to put it in but wasn't really sure how to make them fit.


any suggestions are appreciated i've never played oath breaker before so not super sure on how to balance my deck construction. trying to stay fairly budget with the list and cant spend to much right now. pretty much own the whole deck at the moment already which is nice.

I’m going with Abzan not only for unearth wich is great. But also wasteland stranglerand tidehollow scullergive you hand distribution and some 2 for one opirtunities. Like blinking a big thing of the opponents and killing a smaller thing. I do not run siege rhino. I prefer running restoration angel as a 4 drop with blade splicer. mainly because blade splicer can be unearthed and resto reuses any etbs effect in the deck. The rhino could be decent side board against burn and Aggro though. Though kitchen finks is also quite nice.

Haven’t played the deck at an fnm yet cause mainly a casual player and intended it to be a casual budget deck but it was to much better than my play group. So now considering going to fnm if I can get the mana to work cause I’m in love with the deck.

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I’m building a serra, the benevolent oathbreaker deck based of of my avacyn angel and taxes deck. To play oath breaker with a friend who’s interested and playing a nicol bolas deck. Who better to be the the antithesis.

Trying to decide on my signature spell. One option I’m considering is steel shaper’s gift as part of the strategy is to use utility equipment to overcome the weaknesses of mono white. However I’m not sure if tutor in the command zones a
Is unfun. Also considering some sort of card that either makes angels or is some sort of mono w protection, wrath or removal. could run all in the deck but still wondering what people’s opinion on a tutor as a signature spell is.

My current Avacyn, angel of hope list. Running avacyn because she’s my favorite Angel and there isn’t really an orzhov angel I like much yet so mono white it is. It’s a mono white control list loosely inspired by death and taxes. The strategy is to play ramp and hate bears early then get to smaller angels and wrath’s to stall to getting avacyn+wrath’s and/or a recursion engine online. To support the deck I’m running an equipment tool box to grant access to protection ,ramp ,and card daw and a win con. I’m hoping this helps mitigate the drawbacks of mono white some what. So I tried to include a good amount of flying creatures.

Deck was on a budget but I already had a lot of the cards in my collection.





Haven’t had a chance to play the deck much yet hopefully get to commander night soon. but did perform well against my Edgar deck in 1v1. Changes I’m considering are expanding on the blink or angel theme. And Adding more spot removal. Also considering putting together a less mean more aggressive version with sephara that’s more token based since I’m already building a Serra oathbreaker list. So could have the token support as well.

Not exactly what you mentioned but I’m thinking of making a sephara, sky’s blade flying/angel deck that can be run ass a serra, the benevolent oathbreaker deck.
Going to be running flying tokens flying “hatebears” some angels and utility equipments that damage on combat.

does loyal sentry work like i think it does with astral drift and blink effects? cause it triggers on block so im pretty sure if drifted before damage but after blocks it should kill their creature and come back. If im right it could be a strong inclusion.

been thinking about this deck since it was spoiled such an exciting card turns lands into a cloudshift that draw cards a dream come true.First time i pre ordered anything.

Im thinking of abzan as the colors if the mana works mainly because of unearth being an additional way to reuse a creature while also being a cycler. the 2 for one potential with wasteland strangler and astral drift is also nice. there's also mangara of corondor in other colors. but he doesn't combo with tidehollow sculler and has to stick around a whole turn.

a card im considering that i haven't seen mentioned yet is judge's familiar. At least for the side board. to give some way to interact with less creature dependent decks along side tidehollow sculler seems extra nice due to being recurable with both unearth and eternal witness. Also being a flying blocker is nice. also was thinking of cards like thalia, guardian of thraben and dovin, hand of control. however thalia slows down resolving astral drift. And dovin while nice being a one sided tax and an additional fogging effect is a three drop and this deck is very three drop heavy so not fan of him either. hes just to slow

for creatures to blink i agree with the two drops of nest invader and the walls. good value and defence. For three drops im partial to kitchen finks and blade splicer. because they can be played turn three used to get a block and astral drift cycle blink one of them can be the turn 4 play. i also like the team of strangler and sculler for this reason as well. and of course eternal witness. flickerwisp serems nice due to being able to use the end step flickerwisp tricks but i'm not sure if there's room.

My main issue with the deck is how much it wants to use the three drop slot so trying to decide what goes there to start while still having enough early plays to not lose before turn 4.

Having a problem where I just sort of stale mate because i can’t afford to attack but can turbo fog for days. Couldn’t draw win cons and just sort of Couldn’t get out any threats. Basically today I won through boredom.

Thinking I should probably main board some fumigates or routs. Not sure which is better. And maybe a second copy of akroma’s vengeance. Because I can blink out eternal witness in response to Rebuild faster.

Debating knight of the reliquary as a win con. I had her out but got my grave exiled repeaditly by the graveyard hate dessert. So sort of again couldn’t win and just durdled. But I like her for the ability to tutor ghost quarterand bojuka bog and rogues passage. also combo potential. However I’m not sure if this is any better than something like running more blade splicers and flipping akroma angel of fury. Who are harder to hate out.

Also considering restoration angelas she’s a back up blink effect and I can use her in the fog trick and when she comes back get another etb. Also beats down and just like the card. Now that I’ve typed this I’ve decided she replaces the knight.

I guess I’m in the minority but I enjoy the regular art more. Preordered cause of that and blinking eternal witness and bladesplicer.

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My favorite decks to play generally are either control decks or themed decks. But people I play with a lot find it frustrating. i don’t play super broken cards or prison pieces just lots of interaction and recursion or card draw. Always budget as well. Only one I felt was generally unfun was ashen rider pox reanimator. Most decks I play against are creature based and I do Skew my deck for that but make sure I can interact with other things. We also use side boards only sometimes trying to get it to every time.

My main control decks I’ve played are Orzhov wich was just random removal and fliers. Ashen rider land destruction. BU pirates. And a blink deck which was basically the blink half of death and taxes with some things like akroma thrown in. Currently I’m working on an astral drift deck wich is proxied at the moment but did preorder astral drift so it is getting made. The pirate are considered least frustrating though there more tempo. My favorites are the blink based ones.

I played the astral drift deck today with my dad and the first game I sort of durdled and did nothing and mulled to 5 and misplayed. So didn’t really manage anything. The second game I went off and bored him because he couldn’t attack with his dinosaurs and I kept spending a bunch of time drawing and recurring at his turn. I personally enjoyed the deck a lot there were lots of desicion sand strategy I had to do to get it to do what I wanted. So want to make it work.

So like how does one make a control deck that’s fun to play against. I personally enjoy playing against control but not everyone feels the same. So how can I make it more fun because I enjoy the style.

Working on a budget astral drift blink control deck. Card I’m most hyped for in the set cause flickering blade splicers and eternal witness by cantripping.

The strategy is to abuse ETBs and Mangara of Corondor to stall the game and get value until I land one of my finishers.

Currently the deck has a lot of splits in card choices as it’s a WIP. Going to proxy it up and see what I like more. Also considering a blue or black splash. Astral slide is in as a place holder for astral drift.

The deck list astral drift

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budget mono white control deck inspired by death and taxes. With equipment theme due to good budget tutors that can find utility equipment or worldslayer. Running the deck with avacyn as the commander is she is one of my favorite cards. The plan is to stall the game enough with hatebears and wraths when needed to win the game with avacyn+nevyniralls disk effect or mld. Also trying to run some angels where i can as i like them.

Currently trying to make cuts to get to 100 cards. currently like at 108. budget list to start so no suggestions over like 5$ currently the cards i need about at budget a little over 100$. Already own some of the expensive cards.