W/G Lifegain Snowball

by Sheyla on 28 November 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (17 cards)

Creatures (2)


Sorceries (3)


Instants (7)


Enchantments (1)

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Deck Description

Casual deck built around using lifegain to generate +1/+1 counters on your creatures.

How to Play

Best play is T2 Wall of Omens, T3 Cultivate, T4 Ageless, T5 True Conviction. If they don't die to the double striking Ageless (8 damage the first time it swings, 32 on the next turn, 96 damage on it's 3rd swing) an Archangel of Thune will allow the rest of your creatures to snowball rapidly.

Solemn Offering works well with Angelic Accord, letting you play a T4 4/4 Angel Token if you are having bad luck with draws.

This deck is very powerful in long games, due too being able to Harmonize for card advantage, and then Elixir so you don't deck yourself, and can resist milling from blue.

Bow of Nylea is virtually always best used for traditional lifegain to pump your creatures, or in concert with another small lifegain (Greypelt Refuge) to spawn angels with Angelic Accord. It can also be used as an anti-milling card against a blue deck.

Angelic Accord is very strong against decks with lots of creature removal, or cards that force sacrificing of your own creatures. By turn 8 or 9 you can be spawning 2-3 4/4 angels essentially every turn, which are in turn activating Trostani's. If you have Thune and Trostani's out, and get two angel tokens, you will gain 8 life, and each token will become a 6/6. (keep in mind, the tokens also have flying.

You can sideboard in Spike Feeder. This will give you an infinite life and damage combo that can be pulled off as soon as T5. (Spike Feeder T3, Serra Avenger or Trostani T4, Archangel of Thune T5 into an infinite combo. Remove infinite counters from Spike Feeder, gain life infinite times, infinite +1/+1 counters on Serra Avenger, swing for infinite damage.)

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Casual
  • Life Gain

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for W/G Lifegain Snowball

Nice deck ever thought of Wall of Reverence or Ajani Pridemate

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 08:36

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I would like to put in some of both of those, not sure there is anything I could take out without breaking the deck though.

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 16:42

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Remove naturalize for 1 Wall of Reverence and 2 Ajani Pridemate. Also I don't see too much reason in Angelic Skirmisher so maybe replace it with True Conviction or one more Wall of Reverence and one more Pridemate. IMO

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 18:12

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Not really digging wall of Reverence. Trostani's is overall more usefull. Did put in the Ajani Pridemates. Like those giving the deck a bit more upfront speed.

And True Conviction is very cool. Much more aggressive than Angelic Skirmisher. I like. (sets up very very nicely for massive damage on T6 or T7 with Ageless)

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 19:47

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How about 1 or 2 chalices of life? could be great in this deck, it gives you speed with all that lifegain!

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 11:44

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take out wall of hope. add wall of omens. itll make it modern

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 14:36

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Nice idea. Done.

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 16:35

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Graypelt Refuge over the Guildgate

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 18:41

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Also done. Didn't know that existed.

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 19:44

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I just recently found it myself. Cheers.

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 21:36

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Maybe a kalonian hydra to double the +1+1 counters?

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 20:37

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http://store.tcgplayer.com/magic/magic-2014-m14/kalonian-hydra

That? It's a thought. Perhaps drop Avacyn and 1 Thune. Would seem to be somewhat diluting the deck though, too add too many diffrint 5 CMC creatures.

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 20:40

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Maybe drop cradle because in my opinion I rather have a trampler than pay 2 mana to get +1+1 counters

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 20:48

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Interesting rules question... Do you gain life from Trostani's when you play Kolonian?

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 20:52

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Also you could add advent of the worm

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 20:53

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I'm not sure I would think so because kalonian says "Enters the battlefield with 4 counters"

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Posted 19 January 2014 at 20:58

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You would get the life from the hydra entering with having a Trostani out, as kalonian would also evoke your evolve creatures when he enters the battlefield... That was so poorly written

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 01:53

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Hmm, cool. Don't think I'm going to use it though, as Trostani -> 8/8 Ageless -> Swing with True Conviction -> 24/24 Ageless on T7 is way scarier.

EDIT: Also, I don't own a Kalonian, and it's the only Mythic in this deck I would have to buy, so I might as well save the money.

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 05:08

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Don't blame you for wanting 2 save $

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Posted 22 January 2014 at 03:52

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All I'm saying is that Spike feeder and archangel is infinite life combo.

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 02:58

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well huh. Thats nifty. It's both an infinite life and infinite damage combo at the same time.

Cool.

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 03:29

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And legal in modern :P

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 03:47

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Added Spike Feeder to the sideboard on the off-chance I am playing someone I really don't like.

My playgroup tends to frown on infinite combo-y type things, but this is awsome enough that I could probably get away with it once or twice without anyone getting pissed.

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 05:24

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Why? It's a combo that can be easily stopped, doom blade, essence scatter, spell snare, path to exile, abrupt decay etc.

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Posted 22 January 2014 at 03:25

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Alright, made some changes. Much more agressive now with the addition of Cultivate, able to put out an AAoT or AE on T4. Also much cheaper(both mana wise and as far as $$), with a more forgiving mana curve.

Plays pretty much the same but with a heavier emphasis on hitting hard with Ageless and AoT boosted by True Conviction on T5

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 03:19

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I liked it better before all those updates, just doesn't seem heavy enough on creatures to justify true conviction and thune, I don't have any suggestions, but it seems like it needs a couple of creatures to be more effective

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 04:02

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I may add back in a few Serra Avengers as alternate T4 drops, but I'm going to wait until I get the True Convictions(the main card I am missing) to playtest it.

I'll probably drop Chastise, because with Path to Exile/Swords to Plowshares (depending on whether it needs to be Standard legal or not) Chastise is alot less useful. Right now it is very heavy on creature removal.

EDIT: yah, just did that, and I like the look of it alot more. There was really no need for 6 creature removal spells.

Also, keep in mind that around T5/6 you can start generating LOTS of tokens with Angelic Accord and Trostani (trostani can double up. Play a creature, gain 4 life, generate a 4/4 angel, then tap Trost and Populate it next turn, THEN gain 4 more life from the 4/4 angel entering, and gain 3 or 4 in 2 turns. Potentialy all boosted by Thune if that is what you played to trigger the first one)

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 04:20

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Interesting combos

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Posted 22 January 2014 at 01:37

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Maybe try throwing in doubling season if its not meant to be standard just to speed up counter production. also id personally run the pridemates instead of the serras so your not restricted by turn count and it functions similarly to the AE as well. Ans maybe oblivion ring instead of path so your not assisting the opponent in any way if I'm remembering path right anyway

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Posted 23 January 2014 at 00:59

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