W/U: Flying tokens

by Muktol on 08 November 2018

Main Deck (63 cards)

Sideboard (8 cards)

Creatures (2)

Sorceries (2)


Instants (4)

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Deck Description

Basic Idea:
Don't know what the trigger for this deck was but somehow I simply thought "Lets build a deck with flying tokens"

Building it:
I first started by adding Favorable Winds and Intangible Virtue. After that I started a search for cards with "tokens" and "flying". I did take a look a other colours than white and blue but in the end I simply wanted to add a third colour...not even for Lingering Souls. So the first cards where added, nothing spectacular here: Spectral Procession, Talrand's Invocation and Midnight Haunting. Divine Visitation was added to make tokens that enter later in the game really fearsome. Even a simple Doomed Traveler becomes a creature that nobody want's to block. Notorious Throng can quickly increase the number of tokens you control tough you can't cast it for the prowl costs due to a lack of rogues. Pride of the Clouds was added to make advantage of a high number of creatures while Twilight Drover is supposed to make use of tokens that get killed. Last Rune Snag and Unsummon was added to give the deck a little control element.

Price without special lands: 48$ (Mid value)

Tests:
At the moment this deck exists only on this site and has never been played against another deck. Regardless I'm open to all suggestions and ideas that may help to further improve this deck.

How to Play

Doomed Traveler, Rune Snag and Unsummon should be used to keep the game under control early on until you get some tokens on the board.
Favorable Winds and Intangible Virtue give those tokens more power and allow you to attack without letting your guard down.
Finally Divine Visitation converts entering tokens, like Doomed Traveler's spirit token, into fearsome 4/4 Angels.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Azorius
  • Flying
  • Untested

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for W/U: Flying tokens

Maybe too expensive. But I just realized Dovescape seems great with Favored winds and intangible virtue giving your own birds and massive advantage over your opponent.

Battle screech is an obscure card these days but and old school All-Star in token decks.

Emeria Angel seems like another decent budget option. And really good.

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Posted 12 November 2018 at 09:52

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I didn't use Dovescape because in my opinion it makes more problems than it solves. Spectral Procession is a card that would really profit from, Notorious Throng will depend on the number of creatures (and +1/+1 enchantments) you've got on the field. The big problem comes when you opponent casts a creature that you need to get rid of else you loose (there are enough of them) and you can't use Rune Snag or Unsummon to counter this threat.
Battle Screech isn't modern legal which this deck was designed for.
Emeria Angel is an option instead of Twilight Drover. Costs 1 more mana but counts for Pride of the Clouds tough when using it this deck will need some searchlands like Evolving Wilds to make it trigger more often.

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Posted 12 November 2018 at 10:10

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