Modern Knights - Exalted

Modern* Aggro Exalted Knights Mono-White

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Creature (24)

• 4x Knight Exemplar
• 4x Knight of Glory
• 2x Knight of the White Orchid
• 4x Mirran Crusader
• 4x Sigiled Paladin
• 2x Student of Warfare
• 2x Sublime Archangel
• 2x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Land (20)

• 1x Cathedral of War
• 4x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Eiganjo Castle
• 4x Flagstones of Trokair
• 10x Plains

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Spirit Bonds

Artifact (8)

• 4x Aether Vial
• 3x Infiltration Lens
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Instant (6)

• 2x Brave the Elements
• 4x Path to Exile

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 4x Kor Firewalker

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Rest in Peace

Artifact (4)

• 3x Pithing Needle
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice

Instant (4)

• 1x Brave the Elements
• 3x Disenchant

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Wrath of God

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Maybeboard

Creature (10)

• 4x Akrasan Squire
• 1x Heliod, God of the Sun
• 2x Silverblade Paladin
• 1x Stillmoon Cavalier
• 2x War Falcon

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Elspeth, Knight-Errant

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Suppression Field

Artifact (2)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Sword of Vengeance

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This has worked surprisingly well so far.

The main combo to be found here is Exalted + Infiltration Lens + Knights Tribal. With a combat-efficient, early-aggro approach you can easily put the opponent on the defensive. Why? Because a white aggro deck with card advantage AND card draw is terrifying.

The strategy can be distilled to classic game theory. Either your opponent blocks and you draw two cards, or lets the damage go through. The damage dealt increases as the game progresses, to the point where you can either swing in with your exalted creature for critical, or have enough creatures in play that you can swing with everything, backed up by indestructibility and/or colour protection, granted by Knight Exemplar or Brave the Elements, respectively. Your opponent won't expect an exalted deck to finish off a game with a charge of several creatures.

Given the circumstance of Infiltration Lens working best against other aggro decks and usually well against midrange/control decks, it can easily be subbed out in Round 2 for Sideboard-specific cards. Many may say Infiltration Lens is just a win-more card, but with the exalted ability, knight combat efficiency and nature as a good T1 / support card I think it fits with the Knights tribal very well here.

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Other Cards:

Path to Exile = main source of removal, can be complimented with Wrath of God + Oblivion Ring from the SB in creature-heavy games. Combos with Knight of the White Orchid .

Brave the Elements = works for a myriad of offensive and defensive purposes, such as giving protection for an unblockable charge, killing an attacking creature, protecting your Knight Exemplar from a killspell, etc.

Thalia, Guardian of Thraben = buys you that extra bit of reach against, well, everything but hatebears. An excellent card for the early game, and with every non-creature spell costing only one mana (with the exception of a sword) she does not harm our tempo.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx = Has replaced Cathedral of War. Has great applications for casting into Sun Titan, spending 5 mana to play and equip a sword, or fully level Student of Warfare

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Other knight decks:

The Western Way of War

Modern Knights - Boros

Modern Knights - Azorius

Modern Knights - Selesnya

Modern Knights - Classic

Modern Knights - Puresteel

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Thought: should I try switching the Brave the Elements for some Lightning Greaves?

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Date added	11 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 3 Mythic Rares 28 - 4 Rares 18 - 5 Uncommons 0 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.93
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 W
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