Thrandir

from the looks of it, its a very playstyle then mine, yours is more towards full on attack where i burn a bit more, and try to amass an unruly mob (pardon the pun) but it definitely looks strong, i'll give it a more thorough look when i have more time

i thought about currsebreak, but between gisela and the lifelinkers if someone's going to plow through my life, 2 more win't make much difference.... but hows the sideboard look now?

ok, i get your point there with cloudshift, i'll replace them for my surgical extractions in my sideboard, maybe put the rally there, so in case i run against a deck where i need the extra oomph, i could toss them in then?

and i understand the dismember comment, i just feel O ring is more potent here is there is something i can't deal with

i was looking towards the malcontents for the cloudshifts, seeing as they deal obscene amounts of damage late game, plus it would help me protect a creature from a kill spell, or re bond something late game (those are my reasons for including it at all)
but yeah, i have a couple surgical extractions, but i just don't know what to remove for them in sideboard,
and O ring is sideboard just in case there are one or two things that i don't have removal for or that slow the deck down at all seeing as most of the time i just overwhelm my opponent, so there isn't much to O ring, so i keep them sideboard in case an indestructible nasty comes up

oh and i will be trying out the rally the peasants a couple times in a couple different slots, i may drop some of my 4 ofs down to 3 ofs to make them fit, but the more i think about how i play the deck, the more annoying and fun those seem, so thank you for telling me about them earlier

now you mentioned dismember? i would figure that would be rendered uneccessary by Oring/ pillar/bonfire

damn, somehow i always forget about ratchet bomb, and that one doesn't decimate my field too, would dropping the orbs and a cloudshift be smart to take out? or would you suggest something else?

i've been working on it, hopefully it'll get somewhere, i'll post any results that happen

you are very welcome, great deck build by the way!

crusade and silence aren't standard though, that's the only problem... otherwise i'd have better removal than shatter in my sideboard, i still need something for enchantment removal, and something to just kill counterburn, seeing as delver/devil is going to be annoying as hell

i'm getting this geared for a star city qualifier, so i'm looking at mostly top 8 decks, and the game store i pla at uses alot of decks that are top 8 metagame

this is the result of doing that once, we got rid of 200 cards

if you want to keep it with only the archons, norn's annex and ghostly prison may both be good things to look at as with angel song and oblivion ring, maybe sneak in an entreat the angels to give a small army to your archons

from a competitive standpoint, how do you think it'll do overall? and if there is anything i should be worried about, what should i change in sideboard for it?

how about sideboard? doe sit look like i have my bases covered, or is there something i'm missing i didn't think of?

i was thinking about that, but i'm gonna have to find something other than gisela to remove, she's too good for ending a game when i do get outpaced... plus she has to be my fav card in avacyn restored, but i do like the idea of cutting my higher cost cards, to be honest, reforge the soul has yet to do me any good, cause it generally ends up giving my opponent shit they need too... i also agree with you on the shocks, but i've taken a strong liking to pillar, even though its sorcery speed, geist be gone? thank you and its just as effective in removing the bird/delver if need be, just sans instant speed, but they can't use them til turn 2 anyway

since i would really prefer to keep gisela in, would you think that some of my 5 drops would be the next thing in line to go? ie reforge the soul, zealous conscripts, maybe increasing devotion, actually i may sideboard reforge the soul instead of the riders, then sideboard devotion too, and take zealous conscripts out all together, then in those spaces add in the rally the peasants, or 3 rally the peasants and either a paladin or malcontent, does that sound like a decent idea, or not quite?

when i add in the clifftops, should i drop one plains and one mountain for them? and i can see the benefit of Rally the Peasants, it would deffinitely speed up the win a little more, but idk where i would squeeze them in, any ideas? or ways you think i could narrow down the deck list a little bit, seeing as i have alot of 1 and 2 ofs...

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=337160 here's the human deck as of now

yeah, i need to put the decklist i currently have and see what i can take out for progenitus and natural order, seeing as i have neither of them....

lol i actually threw realm razer in there, i just haven't updated the list, i took the angel out, and another is holding a spot for progenitus, but i really like the ideas, it just detracts from the whole hydra theme i have going

hahaha, i spew deck ideas on here, and try to comment on as many people's as possible, but here's my other deck I play (still getting my rw humans on here too, so keep an eye out for that if you'd like)
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=324421

now, i was also thinking of waiting to build this until return to ravnica comes out and pray to God they pull out rakdos first so i can have some fun there