I like it! You might consider Accorder Paladin and/or Hero of Bladehold. They're humans, and battle cry is pretty great when you also have first strike. Of course you have to worry about your artifact count, so if it's running low, maybe Porcelain Legionnaire would be good.

Gaaah!! Oh course!! How could I forget my favorite card from New Phyrexia?!? I LOVE Porcelain Legionnaire! But I think I need to choose my focus for this deck. As always, I've overextended myself with two separate deck types.I could go with:

Option A: Humans, and lots of them, and leave in Viridian Claw to give them first strike.

Or Option B: Take out Viridian Claw and just use the legionnaire and other first striking artifact creatures to keep the artifact count up.

Basically, human-equipment or artifacts and stuff.

What do you think?

Gaaah!! Oh course!! How could I forget my favorite card from New Phyrexia?!? I LOVE Porcelain Legionnaire! But I think I need to choose my focus for this deck. As always, I've overextended myself with two separate deck types.I could go with:

Option A: Humans, and lots of them, and leave in Viridian Claw to give them first strike.

Or Option B: Take out Viridian Claw and just use the legionnaire and other first striking artifact creatures to keep the artifact count up.

Basically, human-equipment or artifacts and first/double strikers.

What do you think?

Gaaah!! Oh course!! How could I forget my favorite card from New Phyrexia?!? I LOVE Porcelain Legionnaire! But I think I need to choose my focus for this deck. As always, I've overextended myself with two separate deck types.I could go with:

Option A: Humans, and lots of them, and leave in Viridian Claw to give them first strike.

Or Option B: Take out Viridian Claw and just use the legionnaire and other first striking artifact creatures to keep the artifact count up.

Basically, human-equipment or artifacts and stuff.

What do you think?

Wow, triple post, awhoops. Anyway, I think I'll make two separate decklists and compare them. I'll link to the other one in a comment.

....................Wow I talk too much. Anyway, I tried building the other deck, but it just turned into a Tempered Steel Variant. Bleagh. So I'm going with equipment.

Ideal play order:

T1: Drop a Silver-Inlaid Dagger, Memnite, and a Mox Opal. Use the opal to cast another dagger.

T2: Mirran Crusader (With Mox Opal)

T3: Equip both daggers to the crusader, and BOOM, 16 damage!

There are many other ways to do this, but the crusader + Signal Pests and daggers makes for an insanely fast win.

I like the way this turned out. Here are some 2-drops that could work well:

Puresteel PaladinShrine of Loyal Legions - has interesting synergy with Jor Kadeen, the PrevailerCurse of Stalked Prey - works well with early creatures like Memnite and Signal Pest

Wow, thanks for the suggestions.

@, and Curse of Stalked Prey are all underwhelming to me.

Puresteel Paladin WAS in the original deck, but I took him and the Viridian Claws out. This was a tough decision, but one that I deemed nescessary. The paladin wasn't amazing in combat, and if I took him and the claws out (which weren't that helpful without him in the deck), I had room enough to stabalize this deck's consistancy.

Lastly, Shrine of Loyal Legions intriques me, but I don't think I have enough white spells to justify it. Only 8/37 spells are actually white, so I'd rather go with the edgewright.

Thanks again, and one more thing:I was having a heck of a time trying to choose between Galvanic Blast and Dispatch. Which do you like better? I think obviously that Dispatch is better creature control, but having at least 2, and usually 4 damage to sling around is no joke, espescially when my crusaders can deal exactly 16 damage sometimes...

Also, does anyone have any ideas foa a better name for this deck...?

Another excellent two drop is Elite Inquisitor. Been thinking I will make a tempered steel - metalcraft deck soon. I like this deck. +1ed. I also like the name as it is currently.

Thx for the +1, sparkman. I'm not a huge fan of the Elite Inquisitor, but I get that he's good. What do you think of the Dispatch vs. Galvanic Blast problem?

I prefer before you have metalcraft. Galvanic Blast easily outperforms Dispatch in those odd cases when you don't have metalcraft.

However, with the advent of the undying mechanic, I think Dispatch is getting a lot better. Something to consider in your meta.

Yeah, I agree. I love Dispatch, but the blast much more versatile. I tried out the deck without much red mana for awhile, and it was nice, but I'd like to add a bit more back in. So we'll see where this goes.

I have very similiar Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer deck. I play a few Sword of Feast and Famines and Vault Skirges. I also like to play more Dispatch and a playset of Galvanic Blast. I don't find Silver-Inlaid Dagger any good to be honest. Of course the ideal synergy is quite interesting and effective :)!

What do you feel Sword of Feast and Famine does for you?

Well, yeah, I'd like to have four, or at least three of each, but I'm having trouble balancing the numbers. And I pretty much want to be assured of metalcraft.

Really..? I think Silver-Inlaid Dagger works rather well in this deck. So well, in fact, that I made it a 4x. It boosts the power on any of my evasive guys, or gives my double strikers basically 6 extra damage a turn for 3 mana. It also helps me get metalcraft on turn 1 or 2.

I'll consider Vault Skirge, that might be another nice one drop. I like the lifelink. :P

Check the most recent update before you comment, plz!

Deck looks pretty solid, not much I think you should change.

Thanks for the tips on my deck, I will test it out. also +1

+1. Very nice, though I'd put in a few more red mana sources, even if you just swap out two Inkmoth Nexus for Mountains. And what exactly is Kemba, Kha Regent doing in the sideboard?

Hrrrmmm.... I could, but I don't like drawing mountains at all. Admitedly, colorless mana is no better than red mana when it comes to dropping a turn 2 Auriok Edgewright. I'll consider it, espescially since it'll make it way easier to build this deck in physical cards. (Because believe it or not, I do not own 2+ Sword of War and Peace...)

As for Kemba, weeeellll... You see, I had more equipment before, and she was in there for the control matchups. But I don't think she'd really be all that amazing now. Maybe Shrine of Loyal Legions instead? That'll give me an army of 4/1s if I have Mr. Kadeen on the battlefield.