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Emakrul tends to counter gifts ungiven, so it is best if he is left out entirely.

Unburial rites is a definite, and for fatties, I agree with Iona though my personal favorite is Elesh Norn.

This is seriously aggressive. If you can play entomb or anything as such. I can't remember the other, buried alive or something, it may be quite effective, or at least a decent sideboard.

Best of luck to you!

Speaking of the tree of redemption shenanigans, a very powerful addition would be Vizkopa Guildmage with the lifegain/loss ability, though that would require a black mana source. It may be worth it to rework the deck as such.

Best of luck to you!

"Technically", it does.

On the gatherer for Rhox Faithmender it mentions if your life is set to a certain number you actually gain life to make up the difference. Since the tree sets it equal to a value equal to its toughness, you hence would gain life if your previous life total was less than the new one would be, and you would gain double the difference between the two. Though, if you instead have more life than the tree's toughness, you actually lose life, which Rhox Faithmender has nothing to do with.

Activating tree with six life and a toughness of thirteen and Rhox Faithmender would set you life total equal to twenty and the tree's toughness to six.

For a direct reading of the rule, you can check out the second ruling on Invincible Hymn.

(Rhox Faithmender) http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=279987
(Invincible Hymn) http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=175039

I'm sorry to be that person, but Best of Luck to you!

I very nice production of storm! I would love to see how our variants would go up against each other.

Wakestone Gargoyle may be a good addition. There's also an artifact(equipment(?)) with the same ability somewhere which I cannot remember.

Gideon Jura may also be a good sideboard.

Best of Luck to you!

I don't know exactly how to fit it in, but Phantasmal bear is a early game powerhouse, especially if you can get A lord onto the field on turn two. Without any way to massively boost Phantom Warrior, his unblockable ability may not be as worth it as an early Bear.

Only my two cents, do whatever you wish with it. And best of luck to you!

I thought as much, but mainly Crusade isn't modern legal.

I thought I heard something about Empty the warrens being banned, but that may be a different format. I would if it didn't have such high a mana cost and if the tokens had haste.

Edit: Banned in Pauper, not legacy. Though, the mana cost and lack of haste is still aggravating.

I would suggest Panoptic Mirror as it is an infinite turn engine with any instant or sorcery that gives extra turns.

Also, limiting your black lotus and time walk to allow it to be legal in any format may get a bit more attraction to it, or removing them entirely to allow legacy legality.

Best of luck to you!

Gosh, I wish I could be more helpful and do specifics, but my competitive deck knowledge is limited to not much more than commander. I suggest trying to find something with flashback, so a discarded card is not just cast aside, much like how you have the phoenixes. Plus I love Chandra's Phoenix, so extra points there!

I have thought of that, and indeed, I had kruin striker before foundry, but from a mana perspective, the one extra could be make or break when it comes down to it. Do you have any suggestions for mana acceleration beyond my own?

I had it sideboarded, just in case Gamble wouldn't be enough to search for what i need, though putting both in seems much more effective, plus with so many kill cards, I think one of the more expensive could be sideboarded instead.

I almost hate to say it, but a Snapcaster Mage to help out with high tide could be useful.

Sadly, most mana acceleration is red.
But if you wanted to go Izzet......
Isochron Scepter + Final Fortune + Sundial of the infinite is a red infinite turn engine and allows access to all the wonders of seething song, Simian Spirit Guide, and all the other piles upon piles of red mana acceleration. Plus Braid of fire, with infinite turns allows for up to infinite mana (roughly)

Just little things here and there:

Tribal decks feast off of the ability to build on a specific type of creature, (the exception for soldiers being Hero of Bladehold for obvious reasons.) Though your title is soldiers, you seem to be smashed between soldier, and human tribal abilities. Doomsayer, though efficient at boosting up Champion of the Parish, isn't a soldier himself, nor are the tokens he makes. Just as Transient Master, Mikeaus the Lunarch, and Mirran Crusader are not soldiers either, though being human.

If I were to work on the creature list, I would say:
For all: Adaptive Automaton, add. Add more Honor of the pure. Mono white swarm based decks cannot get enough of them! Remove Ajani, he is underpowered and takes up a valuable card slot. (I like him too, just never has been actually worthwhile) Oh, If you have a few Cavern of Souls, those are killer too.

Option 1: Human. Double Champions of the Parish, throw in four Gather Townsfolk, possibly an Increasing Devotion as the killer. Keeping Thraben doomsayer and Mirran Crusader, but likely scrapping Hero of Bladehold, field Marshal, and the Elspeths too. Transient Master generally requires a huge ramp into him to make him worthwhile, and he could easily be Exiled even after reaching indestructibility.

Option 2: Soldiers. This would suggest taking out Mikeaus(?), Transient, Crusader, and Thraben Doomsayer in favor of more Drop One's, such as Champion, Loyal Sentry, or even (Doomed Traveler/Boros Elite?) More Preeminent Captains, a second Hero of Bladehold, and more Field Marshalls.

I built a deck much like this one, maybe it'll help make sense of where I am coming from.
http://www.mtgvault.com/cjreedemption/decks/going-a-weenie-bit-modern/

Best of luck to you!

I might suggest Copper Gnomes if you have interest in accelerating into Elbrus, the Binding Blade faster, that or Stoneforge Mystic, though Stoneforge requires white, and I do not know how attached to Elbrus you are.

Either way, Best of luck to you.

Combos and alternate win conditions makes it all an interesting place to be. Like winning with Biovisionary in EHD! Felidar Sovereign, Helix Pinnacle, Darksteel Reactor, things like that are openly awesome!

I don't go to tournaments anymore just from the lack of creativity, but that's pretty much because the only tournaments around here are either standard or vintage. Were there modern, I'd have a hay day.

EDH always seems to be full of creativity! Until you meet someone who plays Zur, the Enchanter, but that's something completely different.

I have heard of Riku, actually bought the deck (which I regret only because I chose it over the last Kaalia deck at the time) but could never get into Riku that much. His deck got scrapped almost immediately. I think it had to do a lot with him not having white in his color identity. I eventually ended up trading him away for something or another.

I love this deck! This could get totally ridiculous for multiple reasons.

The first thing I thought when I saw this Was Nirkana Revenant and Crypt Ghast. They don't work with your color scheme, true, but might make a good variant. But as your deck is primarily based on creature gained mana, neither they, nor Vorinclex have a very useful effect.

What is a sure thing, is if you are using fastbond, you can use Doubling Cube in the format. Doubling cube might as well make everything that much easier. You might also look at doubling season which would do wonders for both your tokens to get mana and the part where it would only take half as much mana to get the 100 counters you need to win.

Best of Luck! This setup is phenomenal.