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I'm coming back to MTG after a few year hiatus. I put together the above Angel deck and wanted some input and constructive criticism on it.
I want to start building it as soon as I get some feedback.
infiniti425
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Posted 28 May 2012 at 22:35
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seras
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here's my initial advice: drop all those artifacts, drop blue.
bump the lands up to 24, focused mostly on white and green, add 4 birds of paradise to help splashing red for gisela.
gisela and sigarda are the only legendaries you really want to be playing
Herald of War, Seraph of Dawn are quite good. Angel of Jubilation is great but will be hard to run with so many colours.
think about adding some Restoration Angels...and despite not being in-theme: since you're splashing red, run 4 Zealous Conscripts.
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on second look i do like the Bruna/Kindred interaction ...so you could take the deck in that direction instead...but then i wouldn't bother with green or red...just do a solid blue white control deck and run some elgaud shieldmates to help protect bruna.
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Posted 29 May 2012 at 15:12
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infiniti425
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Terrific. Thanks for the advice.
Question, is Avacyn, Angel of Hope not a legendary I should run too?
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Posted 29 May 2012 at 15:14
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seras
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no she's just too expensive to be playable without a way of cheating her in(like in a re-animator deck)...and even if you do get in her play, she doesn't have such a big an impact on your board state.
she's what's called a "win more" card....if you're able to play her(and keep her in play) you're probably already winning anyway...so she's not a game changer that will turn a loss into a win, she's a card that makes your wins look fancier.
think of it this way, while her ability seems really strong, there's tons of ways to get around it in the current standard meta: imagine what a blow it'll be if you spend that many resources and time to get her in to play, only to have a 1 mana spell like Vapor Snag reset all your efforts by sending her back into your hand. or even worse, your opponent plays zealous conscripts and steals her away.
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Posted 29 May 2012 at 16:05
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Vengeance
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Have you thought about using Seraph Sanctuary its a land that synergies well with angels.
I know the artifacts were said to be scraped but there are a few good ones for angels, like bladed braces.
Scroll of Avacyn works well with angel decks too.
I think you have all the Angels I would recommend.
Angel of Glory's Rise has helped me against zombie decks but its kinda expensive, I usually play it thru Heard of War tbh though.
I think your biggest problem is land gain, perhaps also consider 24 lands.
Since you have green you can consider Khalni Heart Expedition, Explore, Harrow, and Recollect (to an extent).
Just my humble suggestions don't take them as you "NEED" to do this.
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Posted 29 May 2012 at 18:02
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zakuryu
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I would throw some humans in there for some 1-3 drops. Emancipation angel is a nice cheap angel fo sure. I would also only use 2 moon spears or whatever, I only use 1 in my angel deck. Granted mine is mono white with non of the legends, and more humans for a better start of the bat.
Good luck
oh, and deff. get 4 seraph sancuary's (the land) scroll's of avacyn (at least 2) and cavern of souls if you insist on multi color creatures. :)
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Posted 03 June 2012 at 10:02
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Vengeance
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[QUOTE=Zakuryu]oh, and deff. get 4 seraph sancuary's (the land) scroll's of avacyn (at least 2) and cavern of souls if you insist on multi color creatures. :)[/QUOTE]
I support this idea!
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Posted 04 June 2012 at 05:17
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