Hey guys! Here's a brew I'd like to try out for the new, exciting Frontier format!
We all know about the flashy shenanigans of the Spirits deck that took off when Eldritch Moon was the latest thing in standard. But... what about when all those spirits once walked the Earth as mortals? Were they just as powerful? This Blue/White Humans aggro deck aims to find out! This deck will focus on Humans entering the battlefield and adding extra triggers to those effects with the broken Panharmonicon.The first candidate for the deck is the beloved Thraben Inspector, a full play set. You can't say no to extra card draw!
We put a couple of copies of Knight of the White Orchid in the deck to catch up to our opponent if we're behind in the land department. Fetching two or more plains with Panharmonicon is just bonkers. Fine tune the number of copies you put in the deck depending on how often you find yourself behind.
Reflector Mage is an all-around fantastic creature, knocking our opponent off tempo significantly (especially if he can bounce more than one creature). We sideboard this card out if opponents are running mostly spell-based decks, though. Honestly, we're splashing blue just so we can play this creature, or take him out to put in counterspells if our opponent isn't using a lot of creatures.
Pious Evangel
is the one "Soul Sister"-like card that fits this all-Human strategy, and is a great mid-game summon if you're falling behind. We don't put more than 3 copies of him in.
We put in a pair of Thalia, Heretic Cathar because she is an amazing tempo creature, no questions asked. Even if our opponent isn't running a creature aggro deck, we still keep her in because the amount of nonbasic lands in the Frontier format is ridiculous. She will almost always have value.
Sandsteppe Outcast
is an underrated creature because he gives us options. With Panharmonicon on the field, we can either take both of his effects once, put TWO counters on him, or put out TWO flying spirit tokens if we want to go wide. He's incredible in a pinch.
Always Watching anthems all of our creatures, turning them into a wall of bodies. We can't say no to that.
How do all of these amazing ETB humans come together? In addition to the broken Panharmonican adding extra triggers, the deck is built around two key cards.Thalia's Lieutenant is the best card in the deck, and we run a full play set. He's an anthem for all of our other humans and gets bigger as Humans come into play. He gets out of control and is often our win con with Panharmonicon on the field.Hanweir Militia Captain
is another one of the key cards in the deck that kicks Human synergy into high gear. Most of our creatures are extremely cheap, so we should have no problem meeting the requirements to transform her into a Human token generator that has amazing synergy with Thalia's Lieutenant.Normally, you would want to put out Thalia's Lieutenant as soon as you draw him, but in this deck, it's wise to wait as long as you can, especially if you have a Hanweir Militia Captain
and a Panharmonicon on the board. You want to send in the Lieutenant when you can get the maximum amount of value that you can out of his first ability. The second ability will take care of itself as the transformed Militia Captain pumps out tokens.
One other card you could add to the deck, but is not mandatory, is one or two copies of Eldrazi Displacer. He can blink your humans if you don't have any in hand so you can keep triggering your best cards. It lowers your human count but it's not bad. Just make sure you have an Aether Hub on the field or else you can't activate his ability.
The mana base for this deck is pretty simple. The deck is overwhelmingly white, so fetchlands are not needed. The basics are heavily in favor of plains, but we also run Prairie Stream, which works in this deck because the earliest that we would need to mana fix for the blue is turn 3. Aether Hub is also included to help fix, and it can also pay for the ability of Eldrazi Displacer should you choose to include him.
