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In my opinion, one of the most overpowered and under-rated creatures in the game is Nacatl War-Pride. I've loved it since its spoiler for Futuresight. Ever since then I've wanted to build a deck that could truly take full advantage of its insane ability. To that end, I'm happy to announce that my Nacatl War-Pride deck has made the front page.

That begin said, my deck certainly isn't the be-all and end-all of the potential ways to use this card. You can look at the sideboard to get ideas of what other cards synergise well with it, and I'm sure you can come up with many ideas of your own.

My deck is here:
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=381605

How would you take advantage of Nacatl's amazing and unique ability?

While building your decks, make sure to remember Nacatl's vulnerability. It is a 6 CMC 3/3 creature. It doesn't usually get into play very fast, and if it does you still need to get it through to the attack phase in order for it to work. This is especially tricky because by the time you have the mana to hard cast it, your opponents generally have the mana to deal with it.

It is a favorite target for blue counterspells, black creature removal, white exiling, and is even weak enough that many small red direct damage spells with smoke it! Thus you will have to build methods into your decks for dealing with its vulnerabilities, otherwise your decks are likely to fall apart when playtested in a practical environment.

Remember, protective artifact equipments and enchantment auras can't outrace instants!

How will you break the War Pride?