[Standard] Preeminent Captain + Soldiers (Page 2 of 2)

I drew several sample hands using deckbox's utility and the curve seems off somewhere, but i'm not sure exactly where. It got more playable hands than unplayable ones though. 

The 1 drops look bad if you can't play them turn 1 and with all the lands that come into play tapped IDK how that's going to work out.  Turn 2 heral/mystic isn't nearly as good as turn 1. You'll have to play it and see.

I think i'd make getting the right lands a priority if you want to play the deck seriously.

This thing looks like it has gone off the rails.  For one, you've dropped too far off from your soldier tribal type theme.  If you're going to stray from that path this much there's really no point in Preeminent Captain being in here.

As for smoothing the curve, Elvish Mystic isn't going to do much for you here as the majority of your curve isn't based in green and, unlike some decks, is overwhelmingly colored symbols - most prominently white.  T1 Elvish Mystic doesn't help you get to a T2 Brimaz or even T2 Anafenza.  In fact, T1 Mystic means neither of those are possible and, in reality, you'll be casting Anafenza behind the curve and would need to hit your white/caryatids perfectly to even cast Brimaz on curve.  The issue here isn't a matter of mana quantity so much as getting it in the right colors.

Speaking of colors, I'll be just straight to the point here, four colors is very unlikely to work outside of control builds that are splashing for the 4th color.  The manabase here is a literal mess and will either a) deal a TON of damage to you or b) involve a TON of ETB tapped lands... this slows you down even further than you already were.

At this point I would say to either a) move back toward the soldier tribal bit - likely focus on prominently white and MAYBE work in a second color, or b) just drop the soldiers and figure out where the next idea lies as I don't see this one really getting there.

One of the most challenging, but also best things one can do as a deck builder/brewer is to sometimes just recognize that the idea won't come together, clean the slate, and start over again.

It's true that hitting double white or double black, or double green on turn 3, can be hard, even when running a full set of dual lands, which your not here.

@ ty

I stand by my suggestion of ramp cards. caryatids are better, but mystics will do if you don't have the caryatids.  The abzan midrange deck benefits greatly from ramping into larger threats, and everything OP says is that he like's the removal, likes the sorin, likes the colors, but like I suggested a couple times, the soldiers don't work, and the tribal strategy forced in these colors.  It really just needs to be a standard abzan midrange deck if he wants a removal/board control centric core. This is him needing to decide what direction to take the deck not of the strategy being flawed in and of iteslf.

And btw, Turn 1 mystic can produce turn 2 anafenza if you drop the mystic with a llanowar waste, but this strategy is better if you're running courser of kruphix over brimaz.  I've seen a handful of abzan decks run courser/brimaz/anafenza without too much trouble given the proper manabase though.   Just like in temur, sometimes, i'll hit a turn 2 savage knucks/courser/goblin rabblemaster... it doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it's beautiful. 

@ OP again, Like I said, the strongest soldier decks around are the heroic ones, anything else is just forcing a theme to work in places where those aren't the best options.  To put it another way, whites a fairly week color atm out side of a handful of cards, and the insistence of staying in these colors with this strategy, just isn't going to work like it could in other colors.

IMO, either stick with soldiers get into heroic and do that right, or get rid of the soldiers and head into a midrange abzan deck (honestly the way you talk, and the cards you have, talking about removal) you seem like you want the midrange abzan more, but you're stuck on making soldiers work.