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Some friends of mine have some decks with big creatures that hit hard and early. I wanted to put together something that would mitigate the uber damage they were doing. Let me know what you think, help is always appreciated!Cheers!
The idea is to stall damage long enough for you to take advantage of Luminarch Ascension's ability. You'll need to play a damage prevention spell four times for the ability to start kicking in. Once it does, start pumping out 4/4 Angels with flyin. Use Angelsong, Dawn Charm, Ethereal Haze, and Holy Day to keep damage from counting. Gideon Jura has a perfect +2 ability in this regard. Force your opponent to have his creatures target Gideon and then swat away the damage with one of the aforementioned instants (or Comeuppance if you wanna really piss 'em off). Stall and stall a little longer and get out the two big angels for your win. For those of you who would like to see this as modern legal, replace the Comeuppance with a full complement of Angelsong, Ethereal Haze, and Dawn Charm.
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Seeing this I just can think of Turbo-Fog decks, but without the carddraw. My own (pauper) deck (not released until now, just didn't have the ease to do a proper deck-description and so on) uses blue as second color to get some additional control-elements and the draw required. I would sideboard 3 "Elixir of Immortality". If you want some lifegain you can use "Riot Control" or simple, but more effective, life-gaining spells. "Reciprocate" is a card that I can't get warm with. It removes a creature...but only after already it has done it's job. "Declaration in Stone" or "Suspension Field" might be an option instead. An option would be to splash another color. Green would give additional Fog effects and some big finishers while blue would offer some additional control and carddraw. Splashing another color would also help you to get this deck to modern-legality (if this is intended). GreetingsMuktol
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Hey Muktol. Thanks again for looking at this. I haven't fared too badly using this deck in it's current format except when I came up against a burn deck. I'm thinking I'll keep the Elixir of Immortality in there. My intent was that I could use it to shuffle all my fog spells back into my library. The lack of card draw for white is troublesome seeing as it is my favorite colour to play. I dunno, I suppose there are plenty of blue cards I could throw in but then it becomes just another blue control thing haha. Either way, you're right as usual and it's a good tip.I was thinking about replacing Reciprocate with Path To Exile. I like that option better than Reciprocate and it's still an instant.
The point why I wasn't listing "Path to Exile" is basically the same as for not listing "Swords to Plowshares": It may make the game for you harder than for your opponent. Path removes one creature your opponent controls, if it's the right, or his only one, it's OK, but if he has something else on his hand the land you support him with just might be the card he needed to cast something bigger. Swords has the drawback of giving him life and, as you wrote in your description, it's about big creatures, so this can be a lot of life. An the problem again is, if it's his only one, OK, if not you're in for trouble. Shuffling back the fog effects might be an idea but without additional carddraw it will be hard to get them onto your hand fast enough to survive. If it's for the lifegain you might look at "Authority of the Consuls", "Rest for the Weary"/ "Sunspring Expedition" or "Heroes Remembered".You could also look at some cantrips to give you at least some carddraw: "Festival of the Guildpact" (works also against burn), "Bandage"/ "Carom"/ "Swift Maneuver"/ "Withstand" or "Survival Cache"