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Very true, it's pretty slow tho, sets you a turn back and my deck's pretty aggro but it's something you need if you're really going 3 or more colors mine's just splashing red so I don't really need it

Don't use Entreat in this deck, most of your ramp is gonna come from the sage as you'll likely only get 1 and maybe 2 pilgrims out in a game so it would be wasted, Sigarda is a good option tho.

Pacifism... That's a tough one, I've never once drawn an O-Ring and said to myself "I wish this was a pacifism" but I have said the opposite, I can understand it if you decide to go for Planar Cleansing as your board wiper but other than that I don't see it working too well. Moral of the story I like Oblivion Ring alot better but it's up to your playstyle, I hate to see planeswalkers on the other side of the field. I don't know what you mean about Mana Screwing tho, not unless they're using Mana Dorks since O ring can only hit non-land permanents.

What are you missing in green you ask, why the best card in M13, Rancor!! Yes I will continue to blab about rancor until you're sick of it, but it wins games there's not much to argue about that.

Honestly Nevermore is an ok sideboard card but usually decks don't rely on one certian card and if you're able to get up to 3 mana and your opponent 1 doesn't have a delver out and isn''t able to leak your nevermore they have no idea how to play delver, lol

Speaking from experience, ground seal is junk, I hate to say it because it seems good but literally the only thing that it can stop is Snapcasters and in that case you're still better off with Grafdigger's Cage, I found that out the hard way

Scroll of Avacyn is interesting, I've usually found that it's not worthwhile, by the time you actually get an angel out you'd better hope that you don't need that extra 5 life and card cause it usually won't be enough.

Defy death seems to me more like a sideboard card as Anti-Mill, casting a 10/10 Avacyn for 5, sounds good to me, lol

This deck looks pretty similar to my original Humans and angels deck, I've found that Naya actually works out alot better, especially looking at non-rotating cards, if you're willing to lose a little trade value/cash, Huntmasters are amazing, it's like card advantage stapled to card advantage every time it flips. I also love Gisela, and I would recommend just putting one in, it's usually worthwhile as a 1 of since it ends games way faster than Avacyn does. If you decide to add Gisela I'd at least consider Birds of Paradise, they're really important if you decide to go for 3 colors but that's just me plugging what's worked out for me, I think GW can be awesome on its own, The overseers are really awesome

Finally a couple of the white soulbond humans are awesome in GW humans and angels, namely Silverblade Paladin and Nearheath Pilgrim

Well that's my rambling 2 cents, hopefully something in there helps/makes sense, good luck!

I tried a BG deck based on deathtouch, prey upon and Bladed Pinions, it didn't work out, there was no real way to get damage through, I tried Tormented Soul but that didn't work out too good. I'll be interested to hear how this one works out for you, in BG Glissa the Traitor is pretty sweet

I'm interested, feel free to take a look, I don't know what your looking for tho

I agree with TyWooOneTime on this one, the deck doesn't seem to have a direction at all, you're just getting lots and lots of mana which I assume is to be used on Kamahl, Fist of Krosa's second ability, so that even like 2 of your creatures can swing for lethal but I'm not sure. I definitely think you need a focus for all of that mana, I don't think it's primal surge tho, not if you're using more than one copy of legendary creatures and planeswalkers, it seems too risky to me. Omnath however seems like a really good idea and Hurricane with some sort of a life gain mechanic could be pretty sweet. Things that come to mind are Dark Sphere or for the more epic finish Intervention Pact (assuming they don't have counterspells)

It also matters that after rotation there aren't many good or even decent board wipes around, Terminus, Mutilate, Sort of Devastation tide, and Bonfire, (probably others I'm not thinking of) plus bonfire is a one sided wipe that's seeing play in non-standard formats

I completely agree I would run x3 vapor snag / unsummon x2 rewind and at most x2 Geralf's Mindcrusher, (I know he's very nice but I think you're better off cutting him and the Closets to make room for board control spells like Mana Leaks and Unsummons and maybe even Devastation Tides if you have some)

Also this looks like a very solid milling deck, I think you'll have a pretty decent chance to do well at FNM but it all depends on the meta, some stores get people who drop 700$ on decks they found online so if it doesn't work out right away don't get discouraged at all, this is a very solid looking deck. If you're looking to improve it for the future (Trade for more expensie cards) more Jaces is better since they will get killed pretty quickly and Sword of Body and Mind is something to consider but since it's about to leave standard probably not worth it

I've read a couple articles written by people from Wizards and the same theme seems to come up, at the beginning of magic creatures were overestimated and non creature spells were underestimated. The idea was you need to win through damage and creatures achieve damage so they're the best and spells that make you lose life can have really powerful abilities since the drawback is so huge, however this isn't the case.

Another factor is that creatures are pretty simple so new players will want to build creature heavy decks so they want to make amazing creatures that are extremely powerful so new players will strive to get them.

In summation, creatures IMO are getting too powerful, they're not to that point yet but they could get there, the idea of "Mythic Rare" I think is a terrible idea, it makes things too good for the cost. But all of the most powerful cards are from early sets, Black Lotus, the (original) Moxen, Time Walk, Time Vault, all of the insane cards, they're all from older sets, but most of the other cards in those sets are garbage compared to what we have today.

Hardly, I didn't want a discussion about my deck I wanted a discussioon about how to make an interesting Talrand deck and I'm very happy with the results, I've been putting too much effort into making a boring standard deck and I want to spend some time working on a deck that's just fun that probably wont win alot but will be really fun to play either way

Only thing I see right off the bat is that you might be better off with Think Twice compared to wild guess cause instant speed flashback can really catch your opponents off guard and in general I like to run more color balanced decks but that might just be me