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It really does look great 
Although I'm a little confused by trading opportunities part 
I'm sure I'll figure it out.
Also the "Approximate price of cards you need from"... says the same thing under both sections in trading opportunities. Not sure if you noticed that yet or not.
Now that all of the RtR spoilers are out, the following are changes that I am making for Junk Tokens:
-1 Garruk, Primal Hunter (not needed, was in for card draw)
-1 Sublime Archangel (has weaknesses (chump blockers, spot removal))
-3 Crusader of Odric
-1 Plains
+3 Wayfaring Temple (Crusader of Odric with Populate)
+2 Trotani, Selenya's Voice (great life gain with cathar's crusade)
+1 Overgrown Tomb (more green now, more black mana could be useful)
Sideboard gets Rootborn Defenses.
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I don't think any changes need to be made to the Esper Version
I want to get some opinions on this deck. See if there are some other things I could use.
http://deckbox.org/sets/231116
The idea is to ramp into Angel of Glory's Rise or dump it and copy it with Body Double
Thanks sebi! That will help a lot.
When looking at another person's profile. There should be a Trade button next to their name.
I guess I should have specified a little more. What I meant was, "while already enchanting your creature" if the "creature" is removed from the battlefield in any way...
Yes, the combo works. However, you would only get 4-5 spirit tokens after the board wipe because Requiem Angel doesn't count itself. Also it would be better as a side strategy to a token deck used in the typical way.
I have constructed three 3-color Standard token decks with some ideas from the current RtR spoilers I think should be included upon rotation. Let me know what you guys like/dislike.
All three of these decks are Black White token decks with a 3rd color splash.
The idea here is to combine the power of Hellrider with tokens to produce mass amounts of damage fast. To that end I also included Rally the Peasants, Bonfire of the Damned and Burn at the Stake for the red splash.
RtR Spoiler Choices:
- Rootborn Defenses (Bonfire and Supreme Verdict might see a lot of play, for token decks this may be a staple at least for the sideboard)
- Guttersnipe (token decks typically play quite a few instants/sorceries to produce their tokens. It could speed up the theme of the deck)
- Dreadbore (maybe)
This build focuses on producing tokens with flying as much as possible. This includes Geist of Saint Traft, Moorland Haunt, Midnight Haunting, and Lingering Souls. Delver of Secrets and Sublime Archangel were also included. The reason why is because of Favorable Winds. It is an Honor of the Pure for flying creatures. Also, with Drogskol Captain, the amount of creature buffs is higher than average for UW decks.
RtR Spoiler Choices:
- Rootborn Defenses
- Phantom General (maybe)
This build focuses on some combos. Using Rancor to boost and provide trample to the various creatures that get bigger with the more creatures you put out. To help with that I included Parallel Lives. I also added a little insurance to make sure my creatures can connect in the forms of Champion of Lambholt and Odric, Master Tactician. If my opponent's creatures become a problem, I added Prey Upon to solve that.
RtR Spoiler Choices:
- Rootborn Defenses
- Abrupt Decay (uncounterable removal)
- Wayfaring Temple (more fun with rancor than crusader of odric)
- Trostani, Selenya's Voice (life gain, populate)
I will agree about including more Birds and Rancors. Those cards are great. Rancor is not affected by any type of remove from battlefield effect regardless of destination.
Many of the cards I suggested are 5 mana, so having more Birds of Paradise will be important for getting those earlier plays. Somberwald Sage might be a thing to.
Sillvva wrote:Also, Return to Ravnica will see more token and Delver decks.
I could not disagree more, Dryad Militant alone hoses traditional delver-snapcaster strategies and can be played in a very large number of decks and while a delver on its own is strong, there are no good counterspells spoiled yet, and nothing for control in general, with the loss of ponder, mental misstep, gitaxian probe, and mana leak, blue doesn't look too great, at least not the way it does now. This is all without mentioning the Swords...
What I was saying is that many of the people I know are saying that Izzet is going to be their favorite strategy. Far more of the people I know will be going for it over the other guilds. Since Delver is sticking around, I do not see why it won't be included in a majority of them since it is so good.
Plus, all Dryad Militant beats is Snapcaster Mage and the various Flashback I/S cards. Delver remains unhindered by it. And for UR Dryad Militant (2/1) is easy to kill, so I doubt you'll see less Snapcaster Mages because of it. Also if it does become a big problem, Nivmagus Elemental is an easy 1 mana fix.
Each of these includes a Delver deck. Some other article writers mention that Izzet will be their favorite as well.
Electromancer Delver in Standard
Standard Deckbuilding Featuring Return to Ravnica
Basically, this means that pros and non-pros alike are believing Delver strategies to still be strong enough to compete in Standard.
I will admit, however, that Izzet is not going to be one of my favorite strategies. Control is not my cup of tea and I've never been very good at it. I prefer Aggro decks and sometimes combo decks. Which is why I will be building token decks.
I will be updating these with Return to Ravnica once deckbox has them in its database
Esper Tokens (UWB)
Junk Tokens (GWB)
Chavest Tokens (RWB)
I might even build a bant version without Lingering Souls.
I have not looked at the angel deck yet.
I definitely think you had some very creative ideas in the other one. Personally, I'm not real fond of the dragon; however, you might have wanted to consider some of the following things. Roaring Primadox gave me many interesting ideas after just seeing the card once.
- Huntmaster of the Fells
2 life and a 2/2 token every turn
- Champion of Lambholt
- Counts when any creature hits the field under your control
- Works with the same cards you used to buff your dragon
- Works with the Huntmaster combo (2 creatures per turn)
- Acidic Slime
- I saw this mentioned in the comments at TappedOut. In my opinion one of the better ETB effects in Standard
- Thragtusk
- The synergy is almost too good to be true
- Zealous Conscripts
- Get yourself a sac outlet and have some fun
- Green Sun's Zenith
- 'Tutor's are very, VERY important in combo decks. It can tutor any of the above except Zealous and recycle itself.
- Conjurer's Closet
- Same concept, but free re-enter
You're looking into playing in standard, think big because standard is a fast format right now. Also, Return to Ravnica will see more token and Delver decks. While ponder is rotating out Izzet is bringing more support for instant/sorcery based decks. GB Zombies might be a thing too. Be prepared for all of these.
Just tell people to look at your inventory instead of your tradelist until you manage to finish updating your tradelist in the meantime
Normally you could have entered them directly into your tradelist and they would also be added to your inventory.
I led him toward GW because he said in his original post that the goal of the original deck was to put out as many tokens as possible. So I figured having access to more token production and the populate mechanic was the right way to go.
Also, in the new standard, uncounterable spells are going to be somewhat popular. So siding counters would be better than maining them. Especially since the better counters are rotating out (Mental Mistep and Mana Leak). There is still Dissipate though, which could be useful against Zombies since it exiles them. However so is Sever the Bloodline.
If he likes UW, then yes control is a theme you can choose. However, you can still be aggro with cards like:
2 Geist of Saint Traft
2 Drogskol Captain or Snapcaster Mage
3 Delver of Secrets
1 Sublime Archangel
3 Blood Artist
3 Detention Sphere (RtR, better than oblivion ring, still nonland permanent, but all with same name)
3 Intangible Virtue
3 Favorable Winds
4 Lingering Souls
3 Gather the Townsfolk
1 Entreat the Angels
4 Midnight Haunting
2 Rootborn Defenses (RtR)
3 Artful Dodge (this + Sublime or Geist = trollface)
2 Moorland Haunt
1 Vault of the Archangel
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Isolated Chapel
3 Drowned Catacomb
4 Plains
3 Island
2 Swamp
I hope they release a land that populates 
Abrupt Decay is looking to be a little spendy (about $15 each), so from my current list I would recommend -3 Abrupt Decay and +2 Blood Artist, +1 Midnight Haunting for people with tighter budgets.
From what I have seen, Blood Artist is amazing. It makes your opponent think twice about casting things with Wrath effects, which is pretty good for token decks. Because of an increase in token support, I expect we'll see more Wrath effects once Boros returns.
Another thing to consider would be Sublime Archangel
That is an interesting idea. However I would probably try moving towards GW Token Humans
Reasons
- Champion of Lambholt is amazing with tokens
- Access to Rancor (synergy with Champion of Lambholt, Wayfaring Temple (RtR), and Wild Beastmaster (RtR))
- Champion of Lambholt is not restricted to human creatures, unlike Champion of the Parish. This means you have access to more than just Gather the Townsfolk, Thraben Doomsayer and Increasing Devotion for token production
- Access to Mayor of Avabruck, Gavony Township, and Parallel Lives (sure to see more play since GW tokens will be more common)
- I'm sure that even more support will be announced for RtR soon
If you really want to play UW Humans, you have less token production by focusing on human tokens. The upside is that most of your tokens will have flying by not focusing on human tokens: Midnight Haunting, Moorland Haunt, Doomed Traveler, Geist of Saint Traft
EDIT: Here is a rough draft I put together in about 30 minutes. I didn't really test it, but it seems solid enough. And like I said, more support is sure to be released.
2 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
3 Champion of Lambholt
3 Wayfaring Temple
2 Blood Artist
2 Avacyn's Pilgrim
3 Rancor
2 Parallel Lives
3 Intangible Virtue
4 Gather the Townsfolk
4 Lingering Souls
3 Rootborn Defenses
3 Midnight Haunting
3 Abrupt Decay
4 Temple Garden
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Sunpetal Grove
2 Gavony Township
4 Isolated Chapel
2 Swamp
1 Plains
2 Forest
Are you planning on keeping this deck in standard?
http://deckbox.org/sets/228641
I thought I would build a simple artifact life gain deck. Anything you guys like/dislike?
Looking for 2x Mirage or 6th Edition versions of Enlightened Tutor and 1x Sacred Foundry
Notable Haves:
1x Savannah
2x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1x Orim's Chant
1x Liliana of the Veil
1x Wurmcoil Engine
Tradelist
Trades In Progress
3x Sacred Foundry for 2x Noble Hierarch
for the record I appreciate your post. Even if it is just communication failure, waiting a month for cards to be shipped from 45 minutes away is a little ridiculous.
I feel the same way
I decided I needed more ways to beat creature "light" decks and creature-less decks. That's why I included the bonfires and chandra. I'm thought about coming up with a sideboard for that, although I don't play competitive so I usually don't build one. I guess I can see taking Chandra back out again. Perhaps Shrine of Burning Rage would be better than chandra for this deck?
EDIT: I made some changes:
-2 Chandra, the Firebrand
-1 Mogg Infestation
-1 Plains
+2 Shrine of Burning Rage
+2 Enlightened Tutor
I don't like the Swans of Bryn Argoll in this deck. Unless you plan to do enough damage to it to mill your opponent, you're doing nothing but give your opponent card advantage, which is never a good idea. Opal Guardian or Silver Knight may be better choices, and both have the added benefit of improving the deck's mana curve. Otherwise, it seems like a solid build, although testing would be the only real way to know for sure.
Swans of Bryn Argoll doesn't only make my opponent draw. Every time I hit it with Slagstorm or the like I am the one drawing cards. See where it says "the source's controller" In other words, I am pretty much the only one gaining benefit from it. Not to mention it has flying and 4 power. Also because it prevents the damage dealt to it, I don't take any whiplash from Repercussion.
Updated with Volcanic Fallouts and Chandra, the Firebrands
When you say it's universal does that include Android, because I would pay for this app as well. If not, I guess I could get it on my iPod Touch.
This isn't for me, but for newer players who are probably on a tighter budget. The ability to search out decks by price range would definitely help new players find deck strategies that fit their budget.
Count the number of mana symbols of each color and use that ratio. If you have a color that is hardly present, you could still shift the ratio a little in that color's favor to help with consistency.
Also the deck builder's statistics page here on deckbox also has a feature that will tell you how many of each basic land you should use. It uses the same technique I mentioned.
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