What this deck wants to achieve is making you invincible.You can either put Pariah on an indestructible creature or prevent the damage with
Oriss, Samite Guardian
or rely on Worship or the ability of Platinum Angel.The other cards are ways to protect your protectors from removals, mana accelerators or drawers.
Cards Breakdown
(in alphabetic order)
Mainboard
Birds of Paradise: One drop mana maker, useful also as chump blocker if in danger.
Darksteel Plate: Makes any creature indestructible and it's indestructible itself. Not expensive either, is one of the pillars of this deck.
Oriss, Samite Guardian
: It can protect any of your creatures, nice when you don't have an indestructible creature but you want to use Pariah anyway.
Pariah: The main piece of this deck. If used on an indestructible creature makes you invulnerable to damage and it can also be used on an opponent's creature to stall him from attacking.
Platinum Angel: If you can protect it, and this deck has all you need, you simply can't loose.
Predator Ooze: cheap indestructible creature that can also grow each turn.
Puresteel Paladin: This allows you to draw a lot of cards since you'll drop quite a number of equipments
Serum Visions: You draw a card and also decide what you'll draw in the next 2 turns, nice and cheap.
Swiftfoot Boots: More expensive than Lightning Greaves but let's you enchant or equip your creature without losing it's protection.
Whispersilk Cloak: The problem of this deck is how to kill your opponent after you became invincible and this card is the answer. It can also protect vital creatures like Platinum Angel from removals.
Worship: with this in play you'll just have to keep a creature alive and nothing bad can happen to you.
Wrath of God: Remove all the creatures of your opponent without loosing your indestructible army.
Sideboard
Leonin Shikari: with this in play your equipments will protect all your creatures, especially if you also have the metalcraft ability of Puresteel Paladin in action.
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