...I think I'm in love with this deck. I'm running a slightly modified version of it on MTGO (details below) and holy cow, is it fun to play! I often find myself laughing out loud - not out of spite for my opponents or something like that, but because of how incredibly well everything goes all the time. Card interaction is simply ridiculous in this thing - kudos to you for putting it all together!
Seriously, I wish I could see people's faces when I cast an Ordeal of Heliod on a fully pumped up Phalanx Leader and it resolves immediately, while a Sunbond-equipped Fabled Hero is already on the field, just waiting for those eleven +1/+1 counters to come his way... oh, and playing an Abzan Falconer on turn 4~5 tends to cause people to concede right away. I recommend you put at least 2 Falconers in there - which brings me to those changes I mentioned earlier. Besides the Falconers, I added/sideboarded the following cards:
Erase x2 / Devouring Light x2: I'm not a fan of Banishing Light, personally. The fact whatever threat I exiled with it can come back to bite me in the ass at any moment kinda scares me, so instead of 4 nonland permanent removal spells, I'd rather have 2 for creatures and 2 for enchantments (not to mention they're instants, and cost up to 2 less to cast).
Gods Willing x2: from my experience, the biggest threat to this deck is early removal. Having only 4x Feat of Resistance is too little to keep your chumps safe while they're still chumps, IMO, so I added in my favorite leave-my-kids-alone instant from the Theros block. Someone suggested you replace some Hopeful Eidolons with them, but instead, I...
Removed both Eidolon of Countless Battles: because they never seemed to make much of a difference, honestly. This deck is based around having a few extremely powerful creatures in play, not an army of weaker ones - which is the kind of situation the Eidolon is best for. Great card for token spamming decks, not so much for this one.
And I guess that's it. Needless to say, you get a +1 from me. Now let's see how I do in the next tournament...
Kralug says... #2
I really have no words for how amazing this sounds. Im currently scavaging through my pile of cards in order to build this up. +1 from me, no doubt. If i got any idea's on cards that might fit in here, i'll make it known!
November 30, 2014 2:18 p.m.