Born of the Lifegain (Bant Lifegain)

Standard Combo GWU (Bant) Lifegain Midrange

Pcbino

Creature (22)

• 3x Archangel of Thune
• 3x Courser of Kruphix
• 3x Horizon Chimera
• 2x Prophet of Kruphix
• 3x Scavenging Ooze
• 3x Sylvan Caryatid
• 2x Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
• 3x Voice of Resurgence

Planeswalker (3)

• 3x Kiora, the Crashing Wave

Land (24)

• 4x Breeding Pool
• 3x Forest
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Temple Garden
• 2x Temple of Enlightenment
• 4x Temple of Mystery
• 3x Temple of Plenty

Enchantment (5)

• 3x Detention Sphere
• 2x Primeval Bounty

Instant (6)

• 3x Advent of the Wurm
• 3x Sphinx's Revelation

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 1x AEtherling
• 2x Arbor Colossus

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Unflinching Courage

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pithing Needle

Instant (5)

• 2x Negate
• 3x Selesnya Charm

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Revoke Existence

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This deck is a lifegain version of my other deck: Born of the Beatdown (Bant Midrange) - it was the original of the two decks, albeit it wasn't as competetive as my other deck.

The whole idea of this deck came from way back when Archangel of Thune was spoiled and made its way into the M14 core set. I loved every aspect of it and immediately wanted to create some sort of lifegain deck. Now I have been wide around, ranging from Orzhov Lifegain, to Dega/Chavest (RBW) Lifegain, Azorius Lifegain and now finally have settled with Bant.

It used to be much more beatdown-ish (with Polukranos, World Eater, Fleecemane Lion and Loxodon Smiter but I figured this might be more fun)

The whole idea is to get a lot of life, and offset any life I might lose early because of the slow start the deck has. Luckily, there's a lot of ways to gain life nowadays!

~Lifegain~

Archangel of Thune - Courser of Kruphix - Horizon Chimera - Sphinx's Revelation and Trostani, Selesnay's Voice all helps getting life, and can trigger of each other.

~Carddraw~

Prime Speaker Zegana and Sphinx's Revelation While it doesn't seem like much, it usually is enough to pull of enough cards to continue with the course of winning.

~Combo's~

Archangel of Thune and Courser of Kruphix gives life and power for every land drop I make as well as thin out the deck and lets me get to the action.

Archangel of Thune and Horizon Chimera evolves the board at every upkeep. Throw in a Prime Speaker Zegana or a Sphinx's Revelation for a MASSIVE boost in cards/life/board power and we're suddenly talking.

Archangel of Thune and Trostani, Selesnya's Voice Evolves the board for every creature put into play. Throw in Elspeth, Sun's Champion and we're starting to get nasty.

Trostani, Selesnya's Voice and Kiora Crashing Wave (her emblem) or Advent of the Wurm 9 or 5 life each turn, along with an ever growing board. Throw in Archangel of Thune and watch your opponents hopes and dreams dissapear.

~"Unusual Card Choices"~

Cyclonic Rift This is mainboard, because the deck has a very good way of clogging up the board. Being able to wipe away everything they have, has proven to be VERY useful, especially G/R monsters

~Sideboard~

Not really sure what should go in here, so I just put some random stuff in here, would appreciate any help with this.But so far it's:

AEtherling For battling the control match-ups. Basically the only creature they can't kill.

Arbor Colossus Because Desecration Demon is apparently a thing nowadays.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion Comes in against other slow decks.

Revoke Existence Gets rid of gods, Detention Sphere and Underworld Connections More of this!

Scavenging Ooze Comes in against aggressive, fast small creature decks. Kill one of their dudes and watch it get out of their kill range.

Selesnya Charm Kills gods, Polukranos, World Eater, Desecration Demon pumps and makes a 2/2 dude against small fast decks! What's not to like?

Unflinching Courage Comes in against small agressive decks as well. Put it on a Sylvan Cyaratid and watch your opponents laugh in your face for being stupid. Only to laugh back at them for being unable to bash through a 2/5 lifelinker.

It should be noted that I don't intend to use the combo of Fathom Mage - Archangel of Thune and Horizon Chimera I like the combo, but it's not the direction I want to go with the deck.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 2 Mythic Rares 41 - 4 Rares 3 - 5 Uncommons 0 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.50
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Elemental */* GW, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Kraken 9/9 U, Soldier 1/1 W, Wurm 5/5 G w/ Trample