No such thing as too much life..

looks legit...I honestly think I could and have gained more life with my Elf deck using Wellwisher, but the addition of Felidar Sovereign in this deck is awesome, so it definitely owns =]

Considering that this deck is meant to be Standard-legal, I guess that means I did a pretty good job. Thanks for the compliment. :D

Now, as soon as the cards I don't already own arrive, I'll be set to try it out in a tournament. Hopefully Rise of the Eldrazi doesn't have any nasty surprises to render this deck useless before I get to play it.

My only regret is that Beacon of Immortality isn't legal anymore, that would've been a great addition to this deck. T_T

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im no pro, but why no baneslayer? and why only 1 celestial Mantle? or am i a retard on both accounts?

Walls of Reverence could be an idea for you. It has 1/6 flying and the archon effect each turn, it's also going for a decent price as of late. It would slow the deck down a bit though.

If you don't have a way to protect your Sovereign the turn after you play it, this deck won't get very far. Creature kill is cheap right now, and you have to give your opponent a turn to destroy it. Some good options for protecting it:

Whispersilk Cloak
Silence (cast during your opponents upkeep the turn after you play Sovereign)
Splash black to make your oppt discard all his cards and pray he doesn't draw creature kill
Splash green for Vines of Vastwood / Canopy Cover

Your best bet is probably Silence, since it's cheap and doesn't require splashing a color.

i think this deck looks pretty good. especially since its standard. but i wouldnt ever try to compete in a tourny with it. cuz i mean vamps destroy life gan now. but its a damn good standard deck


go check out my legacy life-gain!

Well, Baneslayers are crazy expensive, but if I ever happened to pull one out of a booster pack, I would definitely swap out the Battlegrace, or even the Platinum.

Whispersilk sounds like a pretty good idea, especially since I just got my hands on a second one. I might drop the Basilisk Collar for a Whispersilk, but I'm not sure.

And I'm not sure how I missed the Wall of Reverence, that one actually looks really good. I might drop two Lightkeepers for that.

I also just found the Sunspring Expedition. I'm not sure if I'm going to try using it, though.

And the only real reason I only have one Mantle is that it's one expensive (mana-wise) card in a deck that is a little too heavy on the mana for comfort, and I don't want to end up with an opening hand full of cards I can't play. I do have a second Mantle, I'm just not sure if I have the mana base to support two of them in a deck that already has a sixth of its cards costing five or more mana. I'll be more sure of how it goes once I can playtest it, though.

Oh, here's something. In retrospect, it sems to me that the Invincible Hymn might actually be detrimental to this deck. By the time I draw it and have the mana to play it, it seems likely that my life total will already have surpassed the number of cards in my deck, given all the other life gain. So the hymn might not be merely redundant, but actually harmful. In fact, I think the Hymn would be a good card to swap out for my other Mantle, since the Hymn is MORE expensive than the Mantle.

And I really need to find a way to get Cradle of Vitality into this deck. Cradle works with any life gain, but it makes an especially nice combo with the Wall of Reverence and anything with lifelink, the effects will just compound continually, making each one stronger and stronger as time goes on, assuming the Cradle stays on the field. The Rest for the Weary might go, I'm not sure.

Nice deck! i too the idea fro this deck and made some modifcations to it. check it out.

Nice build, if you want to make the life gain even more crazy try tossing in some boons reflections