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and eadickesmikel

My extra Nissa 'walked away in another trade now too...

A few quick thoughts.

Let me begin by saying this looks like a pretty good build.  It's certainly kept close to the theme well enough to be effective.  You have a good mix of flyers and some spot removal if you need it.

But I see two things that could be improved.

1) You're sitting with almost HALF of the deck as lands, and yet you have no additional means to draw or speed up your drawing.  Since your curve tops out at four (with the exception of one card) that translates into a LOT of dead land draws, turns where your opponent won't just be sitting around.  Sadly, white doesn't have a lot of help for you here, or at least nothing that's really coming to mind.  Even something as simple as Jayemdae Tome or Trading Post (if you prefer a little added flavor/flexibility) will help in this department, as you won't be short on lands by any means, but speeding up your draws will win the game.

2) For as powerful of a mechanic as exalted is, it has a TON of flaws.  Most notably being, the chump blocker.  Without trample, a single Fog Bank brings this deck to its knees for the most part and then you're simply trying to overrun the enemy, which, to be honest, isn't the goal here and could be done much more effectively with a different white build.  BUT, white does have something in spades that would work well with exalted that can influence the game in another direction - lifelink.  Then when you swing and your creature gets pumped to 20/20 and chump blocked, you at least gain 20 life, putting you further out of reach.  Options here are numerous - Ajani's Sunstriker and Seraph of Dawn both come immediately to mind.  That then guarantees you're getting SOMETHING out of your exalted attacks until you can land Akroma's Memorial.

I don't imagine any of those changes would cost more than a dollar or two in total... so that should help.

Thanks Laura!

And a third... edressescheap

I've gone ahead and dropped the BOPs, and Reassembling Skeletons to make it post-rotation.  I also dropped one Exquisite Blood so now we're sitting at 60 cards.

So I guess the question now is, thoughts on the deck?

Predatory Rampage is going and Champion of Lambholt will be dropped to 3x to add 1x Craterhoof Behemoth - for those late game situations where other strategies have failed and you just need to overrun them.

Done. 

Fog = Gone and I've dropped one Forest and one Swamp.

Still sitting 11 high... This is going to cost some critters...

Note that I think we should keep at least 3x Champion of Lambholt as that's one clear win condition (pending we don't just overrun them with creatures).  They also work so well with the Gutter Grime.

Should we try to make it rotation safe?  That could buy us some space.  (But on a side note, I LOVE the thought of Reassembling Skeleton in here... I hope they give us another creature with the mechanic that it actually goes to the graveyard and can be brought back).

Any other moves? 

I'm adding 2x more Champion of Lambholt to the mix, as it will just be nuts with all those ooze tokens coming and going. 

That will put us at 49 cards, so we need like 2-3 more and then we'll figure out the mana and try to narrow it down to work.

Oh I'll agree, we're going to just see the same Delver whatnot with tiny tweaks in mainstream play.  But c'mon now, how many of my decks are mainstream .

It'll be interesting to see the rulings on his ultimate ability, because it doesn't say WHEN you can cast them or how it all works.  For instance, what if I pull a Strangleroot Geist out of the opponent's deck and Worldfire out of mine.  Since they're both sorcery speed, if I opt for Worldfire first and Strangleroot second, he would enter the game after the fire resolves and I can swing for the win, right?  Or do the spells resolve simultaneously since it's a product of his ability?