Springjack Shepherd provides all the necessary goats :)
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I have 4 copies of this deck in my deck.
Which is part of its beauty: multiple instances of exalted co-exist (add up) and trigger separately. Permanents can have multiple instances of exalted.Creatures who already have exalted give your lone attacker +2/+2 when Sublime Archangel is on the battlefield. And no tapping required :)
Why not Akrasan Squire instead of Infantary Veteran? Might as well keep it untapped, even for chump blocking if need be...
Won't Pact of Negation kill you right the following turn? And I would consider a couple of faster creatures, such as Pyre Charger or Dragon Hatchling. Keeping the mana-sinks-slash-minor-threat theme, 4x Sandstone Warrior and 2x 2-drops sounds preferable to 8x 3-drop "walls".Dragon Hatchling (like Furnace Whelp at 4) also have the advantage of being useful vs those ever-so-irritating flyers, and work much better as an alternate (and non-ignorable) threat.
Doubtless Ones play astronomically weaker than the outlandish Pridemates with the Soul Warden-ish effects here. Even without Cabal Archons this deck is still built around a lot of clerics dying (high priests of penance, novas, starlit sanctums, morbid, rotlungs, disentombing galore), unless I get a Conspiracy out the Doubtless Ones don't get that big. I'me still tweaking and testing, but would probably rather take 2 extra Soul Wardens or Boneknitters before them. And Doubtless Ones > Profane Prayers.I'm going to get me some Whipgrass Entanglers! How did I miss that one?I play Daru Spiritualists and Lightning Greaves for the infinite life combo in the mono-white version (now public). I don't really need edgewalkers atm, it's not uncommon for me to be topdecking after half a dozen turns as it is.Caverns are too expensive, but True Believers will be in my sideboard as soon as burn shows up in my metagame :)
Mother of Runes, Grand Abolisher and Ethersworn Canonist are all out for now due to their $ cost, this is quite budget (most expensive would be Rotlungs and Pridemates). All 3 would have a place here.Leonin Relic Warder I own and I've just replaced them with Nova Clerics on the sideboard, mostly for 1) the ww cost and 2) with Rotlungs, morbid, ETB lifegain and all the disentombing I don't much mind Clerics dying, but the Relic-warder would leave its "victim" on the board for the whole of the opponent's turn. Still playtesting this change though.Beacon of Destiny + Battlefield Medic + Master Apothecary (+ Daunting Defender) would be for a variant I'll describe in the description in just a bit.