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Heroes of Theros!

Standard GWU (Bant)

gammarai


Sideboard


Off the top of my head again. Comments and criticism are very welcome.

UPDATE: Okay, so I've tried this against my friend and here's a quick way of looking at the build.

Favored Hoplite: Glorious one drop with a nice 2 toughness so he doesn't die so quickly.

Phalanx Leader: In my opinion, this guy is a necessity for any Heroic build just so you can abuse his +1/+1 counter spread.

Battlewise Hoplite: The free Scry 1 for any spell that targets him is pretty sweet in terms of draw fixing, and +1/+1 is always welcome.

Daxos of Meletis: This BAMF is just beautiful. Since Theros has recently changed most deck builds to concentrate on midrange and big creatures, this guy can just sidestep and steal cards from the opponent and gain life or, if your mana allows it, you can cast that stolen card.

Medomai the Ageless: I was very interested in this card when I first saw it and wondered why people never actually use it. The extra turn after being able to land a hit is beautiful and is wonderful in terms of advantage. I'll get more on this later.

Prognostic Sphinx: It's pretty sweet how you get a free Scry 3 for a landed hit. And his pseudo hexproof ability is pretty sweet as well, since you can attack (therefore making it tapped) then if they have enough gall to try and destroy it or something, just discard a card.

The combos (that I've seen/used so far):

Favored Hoplite + Ordeal of Heliod + Aqueous Form > First turn, drop Favored. Second turn, drop Ordeal, attack, total +2/+2 counters. Third turn, drop Aqueous, have fun. Pretty sweet, considering you can move counters to and from (thus triggering Heroic as well) with Bioshift, therefore allowing Ordeal of Heliod to stay just a bit longer.

Daxos + Aqueous Form + Last Thoughts/Hidden Strings (ciphered) > In that particular order, just to ensure that Daxos can skip around the enemy, and so the trigger of abilities is nice (i.e. Scry 1 then draw OR Scry 1 then tap/untap permanents) then have fun stealing cards/gaining life.

Battlewise Hoplite + Aqueous Form > Simple combo for the sole purpose of Scry-ing. The unblockable attacks are nice, as well.

Prognostic Sphinx + Aqueous Form + Last Thoughts > Regardless of the Scry plus Scry trigger, the point is to land a hit to allow the Scry to happen and then draw a card. Also, it flies, so why not?

Medomai the Ageless + Aqueous Form + Hidden Strings/Last Thoughts > Basically this is to allow you to gain that extra turn. It also flies. So yay.

Cancel and Dissolve exist just to counter anything your opponent might throw at you.

Sided Cyclonic Rift, Dramatic Rescue, and Far / Away to deal with creatures that have landed on the board.

Comments, criticism, and general tips are very much appreciated.

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Updates Add

Okay, so I added a little bit of a sideboard, so I can deal with creatures I wasn't able to counter. Once again, comments and tips are very welcome.

Oh, also, -1 Cancel and -1 Dissolve and +1 Hidden Strings and +1 Last Thoughts.

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Date added 11 years
Last updated 10 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

1 - 0 Mythic Rares

3 - 2 Rares

14 - 8 Uncommons

24 - 2 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.24
Tokens Frog Lizard 3/3 G
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