MTG Combo: Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm

Knight of the Reliquary
Retreat to Coralhelm

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JoshRigone on Too Many Bant Zooz

8 years ago

+1 Sweet deck!

I play a similar list (Saint Traft for President), but without the Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm combo. I've been very much impressed so far with Elspeth, Knight-Errant in my list as a way to deal massive damage to the opponent with a flying Geist of Saint Traft. I would suspect that she would be even better in your list, giving an already large Knight of the Reliquary evasion.

Have you given any consideration to playing Unified Will rather than Negate in your sideboard?

lazarusdraigon on

8 years ago

Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm is a semi infinite combo deck and with a Hedron Crab is very nice mill.

Dango on Knightfall

8 years ago

I really like the Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm combo you have here. Have you considered adding Undergrowth Champion? With all the Landfall triggers from the combo it can become another huge threat to your opponent.

Xica on Need help with my Knight …

8 years ago

I would add Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm combo (can add Kessig Wolf Run to help out the combo even more).
I would sort out the mana costs, you ave far too many, 3 mana stuff that i found lacks the benefits (thats just my opinion), like Blood-Cursed Knight, Stillmoon Cavalier, Haakon, Stromgald Scourge

Anguished unmaking is a questionable choice if you lack options to gain life (also instant speed is a lot less relevant since the ban of Splinter Twin, and lack of play of Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker.

Adding some draw speels would not hurt.
Mutavault

Since you play white you can use on of its greatest benefits, its brutal hate cards for the sideboard:
Kataki, War's Wage - wrecks affinity
Rest in Peace - Shuts down gravyard interactions
Leyline of Sanctity - makes burn, mill, discard dead cards

NotSquishedYet on

8 years ago

o.0 Nice catch on the bullshite combo. I have never seen such a simple, brilliant combo. Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm , and if you design it to fit around the combo you've launched every land into your graveyard. And your other cards mean you're flipping your opponent's deck into their graveyard.

I love it.

clayperce on What are you doing?..

8 years ago

Hon35tAb3,
Going back to scopesightzx's original thoughts on Bant, I'm thinking Roon of the Hidden Realm is worth another look. You can run the cards you mentioned above, and also get powerful Flicker effects from Sad Robot MTG Card: Solemn Simulacrum and others like Sun Titan, Farhaven Elf, and Wood Elves.

For some examples, check out Abe Sargent's deck over at StarCityGames and Hugadarn's deck Roooons many realms here at T/O.

You could also do Derevi, Empyrial Tactician with Untap effects on cards like Skyward Eye Prophets and Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm .

Or even Rafiq of the Many, using Landfall equipment like Adventuring Gear, Explorer's Scope, Slab Hammer, and Sword of the Animist :-)

Finally, though I'm sure I missed some, here's all the non-Bant options I can think of (many already mentioned above):

DuTogira on "Diversity"

8 years ago

Honestly, I think what we should be doing is trying to assemble new combo decks. I'm on the verge of getting Pili-Pala combo to work as a modern viable deck. Burn, jund, junk, and affinity are what's keeping it down, but I'm working on it. It is worth stating that the deck absolutely CRUSHES tron, eldrazi, all control decks, and almost all other combo decks.
I have also seen some people do quite well with the Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm combo, since that deck plays creatures that can compete with eldrazi in size.
Grishoalhoard also has a lot of potential, despite having consistency issues. Bloom Titan had consistency issues a year ago. Now it's banned for being too good. I'm sure that Grishoalhoard has the same potential, especially in a meta flooded with eldrazi decks that don't do anything too broken (Thought-Knot Seer aside) until T3+. The solution here isn't going to come from Wizards. It's going to come from players who put their thinking caps on.

As a side note, can you imagine just how ridiculously funny (and disappointing) it would be if the Oath just kind of went "Wizards... deze eldrazi r 2 gud... ban pl0x!" Sorry... it's midnight and I just had a good laugh at the thought, figured I might share it.

JPODS0717 on D̷I̶V̸I̶N̶E̶ ̸I̵R̸R̶E̵F̶E̶R̷E̷N̵C̷E[BANTBLADE 9.0]

8 years ago

Retreat to Coralhelm? Because Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm is a fantastic combo.

Also, Collected Company, Tarmogoyf, and Scavenging Ooze would be fantastic additions to this deck, depending on your budget.