Puss in Boots & Cat Ladies

Modern* Artifact Cats Equip GW (Selesnya) Tokens

EdCartman

Land (23)

• 3x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 2x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 8x Plains
• 2x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 4x Sunpetal Grove
• 3x Temple Garden

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Winds of Abandon

Creature (20)

• 2x Ajani's Pridemate
• 4x Auriok Champion
• 4x Fleecemane Lion
• 4x Kemba, Kha Regent
• 4x Leonin Shikari
• 2x Regal Caracal

Enchantment (5)

• 3x Authority of the Consuls
• 2x Ixalan's Binding

Artifact (6)

• 2x Coat of Arms
• 4x Lightning Greaves

Planeswalker (3)

• 3x Ajani, Strength of the Pride

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 2x Leonin Abunas
• 2x Leonin Arbiter
• 2x Pride Sovereign

Instant (2)

• 2x Ram Through

Artifact (4)

• 2x Chariot of Victory
• 2x Stoneforge Masterwork

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Winds of Abandon

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Spirit Mantle

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Maybeboard

Artifact (8)

• 2x Konda's Banner
• 4x Ring of Kalonia
• 2x Shadowspear

Enchantment (4)

• 2x All That Glitters
• 2x Worship

Instant (10)

• 4x Brave the Elements
• 2x Path to Exile
• 4x White Sun's Zenith

Land (2)

• 2x Inventors' Fair

Creature (4)

• 2x Felidar Sovereign
• 2x Raksha Golden Cub

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Appeal / Authority

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Intro:

I am the Often overlook crazy cat... Lord? anyway i like cats and as such i made this and other deck that has cats on them...

• cats Mayhem
• he visto un lindo gatito
• Cat a la oven (mostly vampires but contains a cat :P)
• CatCopy's

anyway. unfortunately. Cat's are not Particularly good or powerful on modern, but is what my friends play, and to be fair some cards i like are not Pioneer legal... why wizards!? or they ban them cuz the crazy cat lady keep throwing them (in pioneer Saheeli Rai ):

I made this deck around the idea of a cat Tribal + boots equipment ( Lightning Greaves ).

• Since Lightning Greaves have equip "free", they are nice, however Equipment can only be activated as Sorcery... But there is a CAT!, Leonin Shikari , she is key to make this puss in boot's pun a (More) viable deck in modern than just a casual pun deck, and allows to protect cats from removal.and also give them haste...

what do we protect with boots?

• Leonin Shikari she is key to ensure the boots or equipment can be used at Instant speed.
• cats that will get buffed. Ajani's Pridemate or the Ajani, Strength of the Pride tokens.
• Fleecemane Lion a 3/3 2cmc that can become indestructible with hexproof... yes we need to boot him till gets monstrous
• Kemba, Kha Regent at least 1 2/2 cat for a booted/equip cat at upkeep... a cat nest, or cat matriarch! yes.
• Regal Caracal a late game cat lord that give us more life.

Buffing cats, mostly ( Ajani's Pridemate )

we have 3 things:

• Auriok Champion (I will enter in details why she vs other options even the healer Cat.)
• Authority of the Consuls (our enemy's creatures heal us!)
• Regal Caracal (at late game...)
• Gavony Township

why Authority of the Consuls ( Authority of the Consuls )

Authority of the Consuls helps a lot. Not only allows us to gain life. It also Slows our enemy and frustrates them to no end if their strategy plays around of having haste as this card force the creatures to enter tapped. so creatures such Lightning Skelemental becomes useless.

HOWEVER if your opponent is not creature centric you might want to sideboard something else. but my question if that is the case is, what is your opponent playing? red burn? (to booted cats is not a good idea, so go to the face? in which case we should think about the layline ( Leyline of Sanctity to avoid dying to aggro burns... )

why Auriok Champion? and why exclude a cat( Healer of the Pride )?!

well besides her gorgeous art Auriok Champion ... here is why:

Healer of the Pride is a Cat that give us Life, HOWEVER she is too slow/expensive(CMC 4) with little return (2 gain per creature and only from our side of the board), besides she dies to Lightning Bolt ... what a huge waste of mana!

After research, I found that Healer of the Pride has superior alternatives:

gain 1 life for ANY creature entering the battlefield not only on my side of the board (so any creature triggers the effect)

• Auriok Champion (yes seems to fit nicely as a "Cat Lady")
• Soul's Attendant (sure seems can be a "Cat Lady")
• Soul Warden (oh my the art on this one yells it should had a cat on her lap)
• Essence Warden (sure seems can be a "Cat Lady" from the woods...)

life gain on our side of the board:

• Impassioned Orator (not a cat, nor does he look like a cat person... hmm)
• Ajani's Welcome (enchantment) (ajani a cat, yes it fits the requirements but with the only on our side caveat)

So I had to bend a little my "only cats rule" (as i want this deck to more fun and maybe somewhat competitive rather than just thematic ), hence I exchange her for a non cat (but arguably 'a Cat Lady')

Auriok Champion who cmc is 2() (1 more than Soul's Attendant , Soul Warden or Ajani's Welcome , but with added benefit that she has sort of "removal protection" (protection from Black & Red !!))

Now we may argue, Essence Warden , Soul's Attendant OR Soul Warden may enter turn 1... yes. but just as fast can be removed by Lightning Bolt , Disfigure , Fatal Push , Tragic Slip . from red/black aggro decks. which are plentiful. so i think the extra cost is worth. we also have the extra assistance from Authority of the Consuls

However since Essence Warden , Soul's Attendant and Soul Warden art seems to match a "Cat Lady" then can go to the maybe or sideboard...

Artifacts (boots & tools)

• Lightning Greaves : the cat boots we talk about :P, but also reason why them instead of for example Swiftfoot Boots basically they are really similar(with the caveat Shroud vs Hexproof) but Swiftfoot have Equip cost VS Lightning begin "free". both give haste that make the creatures that enter the field able to attack or activate abilities. and shroud protect against targeted spells(even our spells)... however when we include Leonin Shikari this boots becomes a teleporting equipment and allow to protect all our creatures from target attacks (as long we have either enough boots on the field or the spell does not target more than a single target) (and allow us to change the boot at almost any time) (and here is where the 0 cost is important otherwise we are mana dependent)

• Coat of Arms : this artifact is a bit costly. However it buff our cats A lot. if we had on the board Kemba, Kha Regent for a few turns with the boot's on at upkeep well we got a few 2/2 Cat tokens. and if Regal Caracal is on the board we got ourselves 2 1/1 cat tokens. so with Coat of Arms we can use this tokens to do heavy attacks as they get buffed by each other cat on the board...

• • alternative the same can be said about Stoneforge Masterwork but only for 1 creature at the time but with 2 benefits, lower cost to cast, and can be used by Kemba, Kha Regent to create 2 tokens per turn. then equip other cat, and do heavy damage. (but needs more testing)

• Chariot of Victory : a way to deal with problematic creatures (such with those with death touch or lifelink on the other side of the board) and when i have run out or do not have removal for example to deal with someone with 4 copies of Wren's Run Packmaster and i have alredy exile 1 or 2 copies, and exile Tolsimir, Friend to Wolves

maybe's:

• changing the 2 Coat of Arms (that is quite expensive cmc 5) for 2 Stoneforge Masterwork ... after a few matches, it does work quite well but if coat of arms where up it would had work as well so i still unsure... also it was pointed out that Stoneforge Masterwork is basically a Pride Sovereign , and if so why bother with Stoneforge Masterwork vs Pride Sovereign

• • Ixalan's Binding is good, it exiles and disables the same spell from begin cast. (justifying its cost compared to Oblivion Ring or Banishing Light or Conclave Tribunal (same cost but can be convoked)

• include Inventors' Fair in favor of Gavony Township to fetch artifact (Coat or other boots? or other?)

• include Pride Sovereign and Magewright's Stone (to untap and create even more cats) in favor of Ajani Pridemates (as we already have Ajani, Strength of the Pride himself for pridemates)... not sure

• include Worship as once our cat is monstrous can only be removed by effects such as Winds of Abandon or Settle the Wreckage (if we attacked) or Final Judgement or something that puts 4 -1/-1 counters on all creatures (assuming we don't have the coat & other cats)

final note.

if adding Path to Exile please note:

• only include Path to Exile due the art does include a cat or leonin, the following are not allowed:

• Path to Exile , Path to Exile , Path to Exile , Path to Exile

using this same reasoning we can add Worship but please note it has to be the one from Guideon's book cuz this is the one where the art has the Cat god begin Worship

any other suggestions are welcome.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 9 Rares 8 - 4 Uncommons 2 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.62
Tokens	Ajani's Pridemate, Cat 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Cat 2/2 W