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a Bant colored ally deck for casual play, I've never played a tribal deck before so i'm very open to suggestions, thanks
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I love allies and had a blue/white ally deck for a long time. I strongly recomend adding the life gain ally (4 of them...trust me that they pay off). Cut the sheildmate to 0. Cut cloudshift (you usually would rather just have another ally in hand). Add oblivion ring x4 (any non ally hurts this deck, but you need to deal with probelms). I would cut the animalist to 0. Depending on whether you want this to be block legal, there are plenty of other cards you could consider (mimic vat, shapesharer, ghostway, etc.)I would cut the shapeshifter to 2, since it is a waste if you don't already have an ally in play, it not very good if you don't have an immediately useful ally in play, and if you want more clone, any clone will become an ally if you clone an ally (the shapshifter ally trades a cheaper cost for the ally only clause...sometimes you would rather clone your opponent's 7/7 flier instead of your freeblade).
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thanks for the feedback, you have a very good point with the cloudshift, i also outright cut the shapeshifters and put in clones. i really appreciate the help with finding non-ally cards to put in here, i was a little lost
also any cards that might make running green more relevant? because i really like turntimber and harabaz but i dont want to splash for just two cards.
I liked running green, and the green ally bear (two mana guys, comes in as a 2/2) isn't bad...but thats why my deck went from 4 color to just blue/white.And unless you have a specific fear of bounce, or other reasons not to have tokens, Rite of replication is better than clone. I have kicked it myself though.I would cut vapor snag, replace with something else...maybe Dramatic Rescue...since you will likely want to bounce your own guys sometimes, and not lose life in the process.Also, check the other white and blue allies. You should include at leats one of the white one that gives protection from a color (play him, name your opponent's color, not your allies are unblockable that turn). I also heard good things with the one that gives lifelink, though I never messed with him myself.Be careful though, if you listen to too much of my advice, you will just be recreating my blue white ally deck ;)
thank you for all of the advice :) i'll end up keeping green i think, probably adding naturalizes because my one friend loves pacifism/oblivion ring with a passion.
Sounds like a plan, but you could look into other naturalize effects. Again, depending on your card base and how far back you want to go, there is break asunder, there is disenchant, there is primoridial seal, nullmage shepard, etc. I'm not saying any of those are better, but a search pon getherer for the words destroy artifact enchantment, it might find you some good, and even reusable, cards.
yeah, i found bant charms incredibly useful and lowered my naturalizes to 2
I dont know how much has been said here cause i did not read all of the comments but Ghostly flicker would help to. Oh and jawari shapeshifter.
oh and Xenograft it will gife you as much mana as you need.