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Yeah I was referring to it being better in a traditional human deck. As it stands, being a life gain deck avacyns collar is better. Sorry should have specified that.

I personally am more partial to herald of torment. I'd rather lose 1 life in an aggro deck then give the opponent an even bigger card advantage. That's just my preference though.

The easiest way to get into tribal building is pretend your building a sports team. Figure out the strengths of the creature type and go from there. Like I said before humans are one of the only creature types that can race with goblins in an all out aggro war. So use Serra ascendant as a prime example. Is it a bad mofo? Yes, it certainly is. Next question, does it fit the "teams" style of play? Ehhh not really.... Is it better than other human one drops? It is in a life gain deck, but wait, this is a human deck.. Champion of the parish fits better, he's our star quarterback. Were going to trade ascendant to the life gain team for some cheap pulverizing humans lol. You can always add a few cards that grant you extra life but they need to offer more than life gain. Like path of bravery, or prevent damage with acolyte's reward and throw it right back at opponents face.

That being said, I'm not knocking this deck. It's a good life gain deck and with a couple additions it could be a deadly life gain deck. It still gets +1 like from me. :)

P.s. it's my personal opinion that doomed traveler is better than Avacyn's Collar. You still get the flying token when it dies but it takes up the spot of a creature and sure it's reusable but you have to keep using 2 mana which could be used to cast more creatures or pay to draw a card using the mentor.

That's why "mark of the vampire" is +2/+2 and gains life link. If there was a "mark of the human" it would give +1/+1 for each human and protection from a color.

The only problem I see with a few decks in the series is this; I'll use humans as an example, you choose humans and then you make it mono white. That's all well and fine, the problem is life gain is not a major component to humans. They're more about boosting and protecting ie champion of the parish, goldnight commander, elder cathar, mikaeus the lunarch, mother of runes, grand Abolisher, unruly mob etc etc. While white is good for life gain this series is suppose to be about what creatures are the strongest on their own. Not what color is more effective. When it comes to slower game and life gain. That trait belongs purely to vampires.

http://www.mtgvault.com/abcdefu96/decks/control-yourself/

So I decided to make a full on Esper control deck.

Ok, spike jester is in. I don't want to remove fanatic of mogis for desecration demon though. Mainly because I only have four and I hate switching them from deck to deck already. Don't really want to add another deck I have to add them to all the time.

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Thanks

Very valid point

I was gonna use shred-freak but it doesn't typically last long enough to benefit the devotion. Pack rat can boost itself so it doesn't die to a 1/1. I still haven't decided on spike jester or pack rat though. 3 damage is pretty good turn 2, what do you think about Hellhole flailer?

Eater of hope, desecration demon would be great in Shadowborn deck with athreos

There's some good standard demons.

Is it standard?

Thanks, I think it would be more competitive in a modern format but I really wanted to use gempalm.

Haha! I try not to over think about card selection. I get an idea and go with it.

Sounds fun. Good combo

http://www.mtgvault.com/abcdefu96/decks/look-in-the-mirror/

Decided to go boros with it.

http://www.mtgvault.com/abcdefu96/decks/look-in-the-mirror/

I decided go Boros with it.

I still have to get 2 more kruphix and the scourge hydras. I have an extra athreos that is feeling a lot more like trade bait now.

He said mock deck so I'm assuming anything goes?