BW Standard drainNGain Allies

by Voracious on 07 October 2015

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (20 cards)

Instants (2)


Artifacts (2)

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Deck Description

BW Allies deck that focuses on life drain and gain. Allies proc a lot of life draining abilities for chip damage. Life gained also helps buff creatures with counters. Lots of flying to get past the defenses. Use the ample removal to get rid of threats and you should be able to win by attrition!

How to Play

Goal is to win by attrition, keeping that life drain steady while you gain life in return. Your low tap creatures help each other out. Serene Steward is great in making your creatures stronger. Use those flying creatures to get some extra damage in. Gideon can drop allies to help proc those ally abilities and helps with attacking as well. Drana is there to make your flying army stronger. Lastly Felidar can be a win just in case you manage to get lots of life, although usually by that point you would have killed them already. With added removal and a few other tricks like March from the Tomb, you should be able to keep up stable damage and win!

If you need, there are a couple of other options in the side board. Sorin fits in well with the theme and would contribute to the life gain. Several other powerful removal and disruption spells are available as well. Some creatures are also there that can change how the deck plays out, helping with the life gain or disruption. Even so they can be harder to pull off depending on the circumstances.

Any constructive feedback is welcome!

Deck Tags

  • Standard
  • Allies
  • Life Drain
  • Drana

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

3502900

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for BW Standard drainNGain Allies

You've got a lot of value cards, for sure, & a lot of them would carry over to non-Ally decks, as well...that's one of the pro's of a lot of the better Allies in this set. The hard part is deciding which direction to go in, when there's so many options...BW Drain/Gain, Mardu Rally, Naya Rally, & Abzan CoCo all seem like viable options, & going 4-5c isn't out of the question...but these are the kind of problems I LIKE having. +1 on your deck, & if you have time, maybe stop by the "Unloved" section, & check out "Lifegain Deck"...the author has requested help, & since it's a BW lifegain deck as well, you certainly seem like the perfect person to give it!! :D

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Posted 11 October 2015 at 19:55

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I totally agree, this set is great in the range that decks can reach now. I'm enjoying the new deck options for sure. Ill definitely go take a look. Thanks again for the feedback!

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Posted 12 October 2015 at 12:14

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A Lil draw some way may help fuel the machine , but looks decent:)

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Posted 07 November 2015 at 04:25

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