Topic: Feedback on Accelerated W/G Human/Angel Deck

Hi, so I'm pretty new to to this game. I got a foil Descendant's Path and it looked so cool I decided to make a deck around it. But then I figured "why stop at one?" So I've created a white/green deck to try to maximize the potential of this card in Standard format. The basic idea was to get lots of good, synergistic, expensive cards out early and often. To do that, I focused on speeding up both my rate of manna drawing and card drawing.

To help with manna acceleration I added Borderland Rangers, Farseek, and Boundless Realms to get all my land out of my deck and onto the field. I also have lots of Avacyn's Pilgrims to get more manna for some of these angels (and for Boundless Realms), even though they don't remove land from my library.

Scroll of Avacyn helps with general speeding up of the deck, while having 4 Descendant's Path would build me an army pretty quickly and cost effectively, especially since my deck is mostly angels and human creatures anyway. I also have 2 Call to Serve to help cheat Descendant's Path into playing angels from my deck before I can afford to play one from my hand.

The humans and angels play well with each other, but that's pretty straight forward and well established.

Here is the ideal version: http://deckbox.org/sets/321123?s=t&o=a
And here is the version made from the limited number of cards I own: http://deckbox.org/sets/320062

I haven't been able to test out the current version yet, though not having a ton of cads to work with I doubt it would get very far, and I would need to drop some $40 to make the ideal version into a reality. Nevertheless, if any of you have any feedback on this deck idea I'd appreciate hearing it. Is it viable and sound? Are there any specific changes you would make? Thanks for your time.

Last edited by xlebec (2013-02-19 00:05:27)

Re: Feedback on Accelerated W/G Human/Angel Deck

Sadly, Descendants' Path will end up shorting you more often than it will pay off.  I tried a humans to angels build that worked with it that you can see here:  http://deckbox.org/sets/215062

You'll likely note that even in that incarnation of the deck, the path was removed because it just didn't cut it.

More generally, the "ideal" version has far too many 1-off cards.  Further, you don't have much of anything at the one or two drop.  Why not toss in Avacyn's Pilgrim?  It would definitely speed things up.  Somberwald Sage and Herald of War can also be useful on that front.

BUT

If you're just into cheating out expensive angels and like the path, a much more effective card is Call to the Kindred, which lets you look through the top 5 cards during your upkeep to find a creature with the same type as the enchanted creature - thus, enchant an angel and BAM, go get an angel if it's in the top 5 cards.

I could offer a lot more suggestions regarding specific cards in the deck, but really, I hate to be the bearer of bad news in saying that the current strategy isn't likely to work outside of kitchen table competition.

Re: Feedback on Accelerated W/G Human/Angel Deck

Thanks! Don't worry about bringing bad news; as long as the feedback's useful, I'm glad to hear it.

I do have 3 Avacyn's Pilgrim in there already, but I guess a 4th would still be helpful, so I dropped it in. Brings the "ideal" deck to 6 one cost creatures, same number as the one you linked to. Somberwald Sage and Herald of War both look pretty useful, and I'll think about replacing them in later.

Re: Feedback on Accelerated W/G Human/Angel Deck

Whoa I just reread that Call to the Kindred card. That's way better. The color doesn't seem to fit with my current deck though. Maybe a blue/green deck would make more sense if I'm basing it around casting expensive creatures for free.