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A large deck - 71 cards. Getting Jin-Gitaxias out early is the main goal. Once that happens I have a few options to go with depending on the deck type I'm playing. 2 Kokusho are for cycling with Recurring Nightmare OR bringing them both out (with Gisela) with a Living Death - They both die due to Legend rule and hit for 10 a piece! I've run a variation of this - with animate dead in place of Recurring Nightmare - and the size doesn't seem to be an issue thanks to Jin-Gitaxias
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You need to cut it to 60 cards. While it might not matter once you get Jin in play, the odds of getting him (or any of the "setup cards") in play are greatly reduced by playing with a 71 card deck. Gisela doubles damage, Kokusho triggers are loss of life. It has no effect. Including Palinchron in the deck makes it a combo deck (since you're already built to tutor for specific creatures), in which case you might as well just tune it to tutor out Kokusho and Palinchron and win instantly rather than messing with Jin Gitaxias at all. An additional sacrifice outlet would not hurt since you need targets in your graveyard, Altar of Dementia would be good and makes it easier to set up a game ending living death.
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One thing I forgot to mention is I only play casual (not sure if that matters). I understand what you're saying; however I only plan to use Kokusho to kill my opponent in multi-player. As far as Jin-Gitaxias I want the deck to be fun; I have too much fun playing him as it is. Though I have considered trying to drop it to 60 cards and running it with a "multi-player" sideboard. Also; thanks for pointing out that little issue with Gisela/Kokusho. I have read both cards but never registered the difference. Saved me an embarrassing moment if I tried to pull that off in a game. I'll look into the Altar. Cheers.
If you're playing for fun I'd advise against using Jin-Gitaxias, while you might find it fun, making everyone else discard their hand every turn is not fun for them. Similar with most of the other Praetors as well.
Well I play for fun, but I like to win; and I also like board/table control. The people I play with all have at least one deck that screws with their opponents so I don't feel so bad. I have a friend who runs Humility. Also, they have multiple ways around it which is not fun for me. I'm not saying you're wrong, I think it depends on who you play with. I can definitely see playing the Praetors with some people ruing the game but I play with @$$holes like myself so we accept it.
Also; Jin-Gitaxias was the main reason for me building this deck in the first place. I had a friend get him out on turn 1 in a multi-player game and from that point on I wanted a deck that could do it.