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I'm eyeballing creatures with enter the battlefield effects for my Bant Flicker deck. Thragtusk i think is just what the doctor ordered (gain 5 life when he enters the battlefield, poops out a 3/3 when he leaves). Ajani will have to have a home in that deck too i think. Turn my mana dorks into bigger creatures to block with, give something that's going to break through double strike and then all the 2/2 tokens i can shake a stick at :)

Yeah, Thragtusk looks to be OBSCENE in Flicker decks. Haven't seen the stats for Ajani yet... new Planeswalker, I'm assuming? (new version, I mean)

So, here's what I'm thinking so far....

4 x Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 x Champion of the Parish
4 x Kessig Malcontent
4 x Attended Knight
2 x Captain of the Watch
2 x Odric, Master Tactician

4 x Cloudshift
4 x Captain's Call
4 x Cleaver Riot
4 x Oblivion Ring
4 x Caravan Vigil

10 x Plains
4 x Forest
4 x Mountain
2 x Gavony Township (or Cavern of Souls, if you've got them)

THoughts?

Ajani, Caller of the Pride 1WW

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control
-3: Target creature you control gains flying and double strike until end of turn.
-6: Put X 2/2 Cat tokens onto the battlefield where X is equal to your life total.

4 Loyalty

Liliana of the Dark Realm 2BB

+1: Search your library for a swamp and put it into your hand, shuffle your library after.
-3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn where X is equal to the number of swamps you control
-6: You get an emblem that says, Swamps you control produce 4 black mana.

3 Loyalty

Then the other 4 Planeswalkers are reprints. (Jace, Memory Adept, Garruk, Primal Hunter, Chandra, the Firebrand, Nicol Bolas).

Now what about Champions of Lambholt for your deck? Creatures with power less than the number of +1/+1 counters on him cannot block your creatures. Silverblade Paladins maybe? Nearhearth Pilgrims? Just some food for thought. Judging from the amount of good humans/soldiers coming in i forsee G/W humans being a real contender soon.

o_O That Lilliana needs a home in my Zombie deck NOW!

I hadn't thought about Champions of Lambholt or Paladins, or Pilgraims, because I don't have any. I will have to look into acquiring a few. Champions would have a home for sure. The others, maybe as well. I kind of need to keep the Pilgrims, and at least a couple of Caravan Vigils, because the deck tends to run a little mana heavy for the otp end (like Captains of the Watch.... maybe they don't need to be in....)

im already running tokens, so im looking at modding that, this is my current deck;

2 mikaeus, the lunarch
2 sorrin, lord of innestrad
4 honor of the pure
4 intangible virtue
4 oblivion ring
1 increasing devotion
2 tragic slip
1 timely reinforcements
1 blood artist
1 despise
4 lingering souls
4 midnight haunting
4 gather the townsfolk
4 doomed traveler
19 land
3 vault of the archangel

I'm on an extreme budget.:( and there will be no ratchet bombs!!!:D {jumps for joy}, so I'm considering keeping the cards after rotation and doing something like this;

3 mikaeus, the lunarch
2 sorrin, lord of innestrad
2 Odric, Master Tactician
4 intangible virtue
4 oblivion ring
1 increasing devotion
2 tragic slip
1 blood artist
4 lingering souls
4 midnight haunting
4 gather the townsfolk
4 doomed traveler
3 break of day....?
19 land
3 vault of the archangel

Anyone have any thoughts/suggestions on that?

PS, i want to see someone make a b/w exalted deck, maybe ill set a challenge...

I finally packed a champion of lambholt and i was incorrect on his ability. It's creatures with power less than CoL's cannot block (so outside power modifiers also make it harder to block). Another thing, since you are running a lot of humans...what about Mayor of Avabruck? 2 cmc and pumps your humans. If he flips, he makes wolves that he pumps, he flips back? Pumps your humans again.

Something i was considering is the following:

4x Champion of the Parish (INN)
4x Avacyn's Pilgrim (INN)
2x Gideon's Lawkeeper (m12, until it rotates)
4x Nearheath Pilgrim (AVR, soulbond lifelink)
4x Mayor of Avabruck (INN)
3x Knight of Glory (M13)
4x Silverblade Paladin (AVR)
3x Fiend Hunter (INN)
3x Attended Knight (M13)
3x Sublime Archangel (M13)

Spells
3x Gather the townsfolk (DKA)
3x Safe Passage (M13)

4x Sunpetal Grove (M12, hopefully also M13)
6x Plains
6x Forest
4x Cavern of Souls (AVR)

Sideboard:
3x Riders of Gavony (AVR)
3x Oblivion Ring (M12/13)
2x Kessig Cagebreakers (INN) (just something to pop out when those control decks get out of hand)
2x Angel of Glory's Rise (AVR, anti zombies please and thank you)
3x Angel of Jubilation (AVR, until birthing pod cycles out this is in all my white sideboards, 3-4 people at my local meta play birthing pod religiously)
2x Sigarda, Host of Herons (AVR, also comes in for birthing pod, everybody at my meta using birthing pod pods into Sheoldred)

Naturally my sideboard choices are based on my local meta, but i feel ive got my bases covered fairly well with that set up. Generic removal, mass pro X creature type, wipe recovery, anti zombie, and anti sacrifice. Birthing Pod players at my meta throw fits when they cant actually use their birthing pods :)

Interesting choices. Frankly, now that I've seen the complete spoiler list, I am.... less than enthused about 2013, and am hoping Return to Ravnica fixes some things (for instance, I will wager double or nohing right now that Cancel is in return to Ravnica).

I've been toying with a new deck build... a U/B infect deck, but I'd like to find a way to make it BUG, so that is can take advantage of the cards in AVR that can give hexproof. I think, with some of the more "out there" cards in M13, that there will be some serious meta chanes. For instance, I think Delver is going to get weakened at first, because there isn't a ton of instants/sorceries (in my mind) in the new set to make Delvr such a monster.

Here's my list for the summer(also abusing the thragtusk blink love):

--Naya Midrange--

2 blade splicer
2 Daybreak Ranger
1 borderland ranger
2 Thragtusk
2 Acidic Slime
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Huntmaster of the Fells
3 Zealous Conscripts
2 Spellskite
1 Sigarda, Host of Heron
4 Restoration Angel

4 Cloudshift
4 Green Sun's Zenith
2 Rampant Growth

2 Cavern of Souls
6 Forest
2 Mountain
2 Plains
3 Copperline Gorge
3 Razorverge Thicket
3 Sunpetal Grove
3 Rootbound Crag