Giants of Faith

by maskedmakrel on 03 November 2012

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Instants (1)


Enchantments (4)

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Deck Description

This is a deck I played at a free FNM event. It went like 2-5.

Some of its weakenesses are a lack of overall boardwiping capability. I also opted to sideboard Manor Gargoyle over Curse of Exhaustion owing to my understanding of the meta.

Nevertheless, I wanted to put together a deck with humans and giants. Eliza Dushku enjoys listening to They Might Be Giants, so I thought why not work with the Palisade Giant/Ghostly Possession combo.

She also played Faith, so I included Bonds of Faith. Perhaps I should, as others suggested, have used Faith's Shield as well.

Overall, it is very fun to get the combo of Palisade Giant and Ghostly Possession into play, but it is a difficult combo to pull off as it almost certainly requires two turns to complete.

As for the FNM experience, I made plenty of mistakes in play. Some of those were due simply to fatigue as I played until 3 a.m. Somewhere around 1 a.m., I accidentally played Bonds of Faith on my own Spectral Rider. Some rounds were plagued by mana flood and drought- but that happens in Magic.

The final match was particularly terrible as I accidentally forgot to restore my sideboard and forfeited the first round to my opponent after disclosing my mistake to him. He won that match 2-0. These are the kind of unfortunate mistakes we make at 2:30 a.m, but he took it in stride.

We even played a friendly game post-match (which I lost again).

Like most people, I imagine I'm going to make plenty of mistakes at that time of night and it left me wondering why anyone should have to play at such a late time.

Despite my poor performance and playing mistakes, I shared plenty of laughs and some good conversation with people at the event.

Anyway, here is the deck for your consideration.

Deck Tags

  • Casual

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Card Legality

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

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