So, I recently got my siblings into magic and have decided to build them decks for Christmas. We started with the Game Night box to find out what everyone liked and now we're ready to move on to real decks. My brother is going to be playing G/B Saprolings and I'll be playing R/B Madness Vampires. My sister liked the board wipes in blue, enchants in white, and the big creatures in green, namely, hydras. With this in mind, I thought I'd try to build a midrange G/W hydra deck after realizing G/R hydras was no go and that G/W control would be too oppressive for our playstyle. The idea was to use elves to ramp into hydras, and use the other creatures and enchants to generate draw/protect the hydras.
Since it's just kitchen table magic, I'm trying to keep everyone's deck relatively equal in power and cost (30-40$) Unfortunately, I'm not great at deckbuilding. I haven't played since college and I only ever made a handful of decks for casual play. I know my focus is too broad but it feels like all of these cards are necessary and I can't figure out how to narrow it down. I'm open to any and all suggestions on what to do about it, changing colors, themes, etc. Here's what I have so far:
Since it's just kitchen table magic, I'm trying to keep everyone's deck relatively equal in power and cost (30-40$) Unfortunately, I'm not great at deckbuilding. I haven't played since college and I only ever made a handful of decks for casual play. I know my focus is too broad but it feels like all of these cards are necessary and I can't figure out how to narrow it down. I'm open to any and all suggestions on what to do about it, changing colors, themes, etc. Here's what I have so far:
2x Ancestral Mask
2x Avacyn's Pilgrim
2x Banishing Light
2x Boar Umbra
2x Canopy Cover
2x Colossal Majesty
1x Death's Presence
2x Dromoka's Command
1x End Hostilities
1x Frontier Siege
2x Gift of Orzhova
2x Heliod's Pilgrim
2x Herald of the Pantheon
2x Journey to Nowhere
4x Llanowar Elves
3x Loxodon Smiter
3x Managorger Hydra
2x Prey Upon
3x Protean Hydra
1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
2x Solidarity of Heroes
2x Spider Umbra