Heroic W/R Standard+Budget

by Piano244 on 31 May 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

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Deck Description

A great standard deck for under $15.

This deck focuses on triggering Heroic abilities to quickly build a bigger and stronger army.

This deck gives you a multitude of options and allows you to quickly change tactics if your opponent tries something unexpected:
- Quick access to +1 Counters (Akroan Hoplite, Anax and Cymede, Ajani's Presence, Desperate Stand)
- Quick access to hasted Soldier Tokens (Akroan Crusader, Launch the Fleet)
- Quick access to saves (Gift of Immortality, Ajani's Prescence, Gods Willing, Phalanx Formation)
- Push through Opponent's Blockers (Blinding Flare, Arena Athlete)

In addition, all enchantments, instants, and sorceries can be used to trigger Heroic abilities while strengthening and providing protection to your creatures.

How to Play

Triggering heroic abilities is your focus here, and you can switch up the way you're playing your deck at a moments notice. There are a ton of combos you can use with this deck, here are a few:

[Enchantment or Instant or Sorcery] + Heroic Creature(s) = awesomeness!
Because all enchantments, instants, and sorceries all trigger Heroic abilities, essentially all spells can combo with each other.
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This deck is not only good with smaller combos, but it can take advantage of multiple combos and morph them together. Each of the below combos can be used by themselves or with each other (which is how this deck is meant to be played.)

[Launch the Fleet] +[Akroan Crusader] = double the soldiers!
You'll have an additional soldier token for each Akroan Crusader targeted by Launch the Fleet. (You could also add in Twinflame if you have the mana to spend, but I rarely need to.)
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Anax and Cymede's heroic ability can be used to boost all of your creatures and tokens, providing all of them with a +1/+1 counter and trample until end of turn.
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Phalanx Formation, Ajani's Prescence, God's Willing, and Desperate Stand all help to keep your creatures from getting sent to the Graveyard due to damage and/or spells and/or deathtouch, and again, all trigger heroic abilities for more fun.
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Akroan Hoplite takes advantage of the amount of creatures and creature tokens that you have on the field, and with every creature under your control that is attacking, Akroan Hoplite gets +X/0 until end of turn for a beefed up attack.
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There are plenty of other combos that can be used in lots of different situations. Good luck, and have fun!
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(Note: This deck is something I threw together with the cards I currently own, so it may not be superb. I've also just come back from a few years break from Magic, and relearning the new mechanics and additions. All suggestions are wanted and appreciated!)

Deck Tags

  • Heroic
  • Cheap

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Heroic W/R Standard+Budget

Just a suggestion, but a sideboard with answers might not be a bad plan. Maybe some banishing lights, reprisals, revoke existence's, fall the hammer, and 2 decides.

Also I might recommend using R/W god maybe in only one copy.

Very nice though and easily updated for the recent changes to Standard.

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Posted 02 June 2014 at 23:27

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Thanks for the comment. I'll definitely consider those - all good additions that I didn't think of :D. I'm just getting back into Magic after a couple years break, so any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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Posted 18 June 2014 at 02:50

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