Come At Me, Bro

Step 1.) Defend, defend, defend.

Step 2.) Gain gobs of life.

Step 3.) Drain opponent's life in large chunks.

Step 4.) Watch your opponent's look of horror as they realize they handed you victory.

I've played around with several different defender decks in the past. This one tries to take the best things about them and smash it all together.

The basic and most straightforward strategy is to simply sit back and absorb your opponent's attacks. The Charms (or a flipped Rune-Tail) allow your weaker creatures to survive and will trigger the lifegain from Perimeter Captain, Pride Guardian, and Goldenglow Moth multiple times. With additional lifegain from Wall of Reverence and Chalice of Life, you can then hammer your opponent without ever launching a counterattack by flipping into Chalice of Death.

Alternatively, you can just trigger Vent Sentinels until the opponent dies. With almost half a deck's worth of defenders, he should hit hard every time. Getting multiple copies out puts the opponent on a super-short clock.

Or if that all fails, just take the battle back to the enemy the old-fashioned way with Wakestone Gargoyle (along with Rage Nimbus and/or Vent Sentinel).

Your primary strategy obvious only works if the opponent attacks. If they catch on and are unwilling to do so, you can force the issue with Rage Nimbus and Lust for War. War's Toll can then make them send their entire force into battle, and has the added benefit of taking away their ability to play much of anything thanks to its mass land tapping.

You can pursue one strategy or any combination thereof to get the opponent down to 0 life. If you're close and can't quite get that last bit in, turn Boros Charm into 4-damage-to-the-face mode and finish them off.

And if all else fails, there's Felidar Sovereign. :-) You can reasonably expect to get to 40 life unless things are REALLY going south for you.

• Modern
• Defender
• Life Gain
• Boros