The Gain & Pain

by stezie on 27 September 2012

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Deck Description

Based off quite a few other goodies I managed to pull at prerelease: Trostani, Worldspine, Wild Beastmaster, and Collective Blessing as well as stuff from the Selesnya Pack. Basic idea is to use life gain as a means of pumping, with ramping thrown is a means of throwing down giants.
Three pronged attack:
1. Use the lifegain and card draw to pull out weenies and to cling onto opponents' attacks, then swing with armadillo cloaks, collective blessing, overrun, and beastmaster.
2. Use the lifegain to pump a pridemate to oblivion, and swing with a giant.
3. Use a mixture of the lifegain, card draw and ramping to send out a worldspine + trostani

All this mixed with a bit of my signature tutoring, in the form of Congregation at Dawn. With three creatures, you can pull out a Mentor for card draw, any ramper, and top it off with a giant.

And when I pulled Trostani, I just knew that it comboed with Serra Avatar, and even better with the Avatar token supplied by Ajani. Each populate doubles your life total, which in turn doubles the strength of the token.
Edit: This combo is just food for thought, the Ajani card would just blow a pretty sizeable hole in my budget. Swapped it out for Storm Herd

As always, any suggestions for card substitions is greatly appreciated.

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  • Life Gain

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Card Legality

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

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