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I've really wanted to make a Serra Avatar deck since I just love the card. It focuses around early game healing, removal, walls, and lot's of cat tokens. It really shines at turn 7-8, by which you should have a lot of life and can get Serra Avatar into play.
The deck revolves around healing in order to make Serra Avatar awesome.Pariah Would allow you to let all damage done to you go towards Serra Avatar, making you pretty much invincible, unless they can do a metric Lego ton of damage in one turn. Martyr of Sands allows you to gain a lot of health anytime during the game. Celestial Mantle would double your health and further increase Serra Avatars power. Rhox Faithmender would just make this deck flippity floppitying insane, doubling all health gained and making ALL the other healing cards way OP.Let's say the healing didn't go so well, you got Serra Avatar out on turn 7 and doubled your life from 6 to 18 since you already have Rhox Faithmender and Wall of Reverence on the filed. On turn eight you enchant Serra Avatar with Celestial Mantle (+3/+3 and doubles your health on attack). Serra Avatar attacks for 21, taking your health from 18 to 54, then at the end step of turn eight Wall of reverence targets Serra Avatar (57/57) and you gain 114 thanks to Rhox Faithmender. You now have 171 life, and Serra Avatar is now 174/174. Your Opponent weeps uncontrollably as you laugh maniacally until you fall onto the floor gasping for breath....You then give Serra Avatar Shroud & Trample...
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Serra Avatar is a cool mid-late game card in any life gain deck, but for early game, Serra Ascendant is awesome. Other options include:Creatures:Hopeful Eidolon - Nice early game and it can Bestow late game to give Serra Avatar lifelink, thus practically doubling it's power and toughness each time it attacks (after dealing damage)Nip Gwyllion - Not much use in here, but if you ever go black white, it's quite good. Rhox Faithmender - its ability is self explanatoryVoracious Hatchling - another good one for black white, but not as great with only white cards. Divinity of Pride - Another good mid-late game option, but I wouldn't use it and Serra Avatar in the same deck. Martyr of Sands - frigging awesome for explosive life gain. Block, sacrifice, reveal your hand, gain lots of life. (lands are colourless, so they don't count) Non creatures:Dawn Charm - Your choice of 'fog'; regenerate a creature (to save it from kill spells); or counter a spell targeting you (like Skullcrack).Spirit Link - I've checked the rules on this one, and it's not 'lifelink', so its ability stacks with any other life gain effect the enchanted creature may have. Spirit Loop - see Spirit Link above. Also, this one can come back from the graveyard to your hand. Brave the Elements - Saves your creatures from targeting spells and mass damage for the turn. Can also make your creatures unblockable for the turn, if the all opponent's share the colour you call. Chalice of Life - once flipped (Chalice of Death), it eats chunks of the opponent's life, so it makes for a nice finisher. Lastly, I'd like to say that Oblivion Ring is broken.... That's why I have 8 of it :P
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Thanks for the input! Hopeful Eidolon and Spirit Loop is a great addition, can't wait to try it out. I really wanted to include Rhox Faithmender, but with it's 3-4 dollar cost, I'll just keep it as a sideboard and look out for a copy to trade for. Great suggestions ^_^A friend of mine has this black white lifesteal deck that is purely sadistic. It makes use of Nip Gwyllion, Nightsky Mimic, and Edge of Divinity (broken IMO) to do tons of damage and life-steal on turn two and three. It also had Voracious Hatchling, and Divinity of Pride (which becomes an 8/8 fairly soon). It beat me by turn 4 ;_;T1: Nip GwyllionT2: Nightsky MimicT3: Attatch an Edge of Divinity to Nip Gwyllion, and play another Nightsky Mimic.T4: Oblivion ring his one good creature, and Edge of Divinity your Nightsky Mimic. Now you have:Nightsky Mimic 7/7, Nightsky Mimic 4/4, Nip Gwyllion 4/4 with Lifelink.