I really like where you're going with this. I think Ajani, Caller of the Pride would be great for this deck. Once you get Ajani's Pridemate to 10 total power(which looks like it would be easy) you use caller of the pride's -3 and provided they don't have flying, you win in one hit(well two technically). Also if you wanted to have an alternative win condition you might like Chalice of Life  ^Flip to burn them out fast.

Really great looking deck +1!

Chalice of Life  ^Flip is an unnecessary card when you have 6/6 Lifelink Flyers and 10/10 Ajani's Pridemate s. Considering the life totals can be 41-14 on turn 2, Chalice seems a little slow and unnecessary.

Ajani, Caller of the Pride is a Standard card, and thus should stay in standard, where it can be successful, rather than take away from the consistency that I've got here.

If this was a budget list, I'd definitely look into those 2, but to be honest, it's better playing a Soul Warden and Ajani's Pridemate than a slow 3 drop.

I find that Auriok Champion is a little slow for a deck like this. when the 2-drops are things that quickly become 10/10, auriok just doesn't have the influence. it is a very strong card but there are better things to be doing on your 2nd turn.

uiuiho12

When you figure out that Auriok Champion has protection from Lightning Bolt , Pyroclasm and Anger of the Gods , the main killers of this deck, and also protection from nasty black creatures like Phyrexian Obliterator , it's actually really good.

Having a total of 10 ETB sisters is absolutely amazing, ensuring you will like have 3 or 4 out at a time, rather than if you just ran 8.Considering the resurgence in Jund, Auriok Champion just got 70% better.

Sure, Ajani's Pridemate may become insanely big, but that makes it very prone to removal, and we can only run 4. Auriok Champion gains life for the pridemate, and if we equip it with a Sword, it pretty much just has protection from everything.

It also makes Immortal Servitude more viable if we do it for 2, getting back Squawks, Pridemates and Champions.

The main thing is protection from Jund and BG Rock.

Always wondered, why doesn't soul sisters run Suture Priest ?

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It's not as strong as other turn 2 plays.

Auriok Champion is a very strong card, i'm not denying it. it's just 2 mana for a 1/1 that does not scale up like other 2 drops you have can lose the game. this deck is an aggro deck, having a weak turn 2 can lose you the game.

uiuiho12

You understand the power of Jund, possibly the strongest deck in modern, and one of the most popular.The protection for 1 extra mana is insane, and if we don't want to do that, look at the array of 1 drops we have?

if u wanted a card built to kill jund decks you should go with Mirran Crusader . not only does this card just win games against b/g creatures, it can end the game on it's own in a reasonable amount of time.

Auriok Champion is also a dead card against things like u/r pyromancer, pod, affinity, splintertwin, scapeshift, etc. even though it won't die in some of these matchups, it is only a 1/1 and that means you need 22 turns to win, all of these decks will kill you in that time span.

pyromancer-> has delver, snapcaster, and counterspells that can easily handle it.

pod-> plenty of white creatures + the speed of the deck will win before you get rolling(which would be turn 3->4 if you play auriok turn 2).

affinity->1/1 might actually help in rare situations to chump block but does nothing against Etched Champion .

splintertwin->a blocker is nice, but against 100000000000 creatures, it does not matter in the slightest. winning as fast as possible is ideal since this deck has no disruption. Auriok Champion is 2 mana so it will kill your turn 2. playing Ajani's Pridemate or Martyr of Sands to start rolling out damage would be more beneficial.

scapeshift->same deal with splintertwin. the blocker/protection does not matter when u take 21 damage to the face from Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle .

Ad Nauseam Unlife-> combo deck, you have no disruption so killing as fast as possible is ideal.

Faeries-> they are blue and after turn 4 you can get your land tapped over and over again from Mistbind Clique , so expecting spells to resolve/be castable past this point is hopeful at best.

tron-> Emrakul, the Aeons Torn gives 0 shits about anything but another Emrakul, the Aeons Torn , you need to end as fast as possible to win.

amulet of vigor-> Primeval Titan is a stronger turn 2 than Auriok Champion , you will get outpaced.

death and taxes-> monowhite, Auriok Champion is just as good as Soul's Attendant .

merfolk-> mono(ish) blue, Auriok Champion is just as good as Soul's Attendant .

these are the most popular decks in online tourneys over the past few months, all of which Auriok Champion is either not a desired turn 2 or not any better than Soul's Attendant .

jund decks power comes from things like Courser of Kruphix + Scavenging Ooze + Tarmogoyf , all of which are stronger turn 2 plays than Auriok Champion and the protection does nothing to affect them.

remember that Liliana of the Veil can still remove Auriok Champion .

Against Splinter Twin, we practically win.Having 2 or more sisters on the field literally makes us win. We DO gain life when something enters the battlefield.

The number 1 killer of Soul Sisters is red mass removal, like Pyroclasm or Anger of the Gods . We can't deal with things like Wrath of God or Supreme Verdict , but being able to stay in the game after those sweepers is amazing.

The thing is, who would use a counterspell on a sister? A desperate opponent, or a really bad one. Auriok Champion is really underrated, and keeps the deck consistent. One thing other decks don't have is consistency.

"keeps the deck consistent. One thing other decks don't have is consistency."- the majority of tier 1 decks are built to be as consistent as possible. they are tier 1 because they win consistently.

again, it's not a bad card by any means, but using your entire turn 2 to play Auriok Champion will slow you down. other decks play things like Tarmogoyf , Bitterblossom , Scavenging Ooze , Etched Champion , Thalia, Guardian of Thraben , Birthing Pod , etc. all of which are a stronger turn 2 play than Auriok Champion .

in a deck that has no way of drawing cards, you can't afford to waste turn 2.

In which case, just play another card. If you only have the Auriok Champion, you probably should have mulligan'd.

'What if you draw it later on?' That's not turn 2, then, is it.

the effectiveness of top-decking a 1/1 or playing a 1/1 diminishes as the game goes on. a turn 1 1/1 is strong because it's probably going to be the strongest creature on the field. turn 4+ people will be cracking out 6+/6+, having Auriok Champion as the only card in your hand, or top-decking one mid-late game will do nothing for you. it needs other cards to have an effect on the game, and since you are running no flashbacks(Lingering Souls for example), and no way to draw cards to make it worth playing mid-late, it will just be a dead card in your hand.

There are no dead creature draws if we have some sisters on the field.

Ok, just stop trying to say Auriok Champion is bad. It's not. It is a very good card and works perfectly in this deck.

Running 14 sisters (incl. Martyr) is my preference, and it works very well. Considering the nature of this deck, we probably won't have to deal with late game, and if we do, it's favorable for us.

Auriok Champion survives through Pyroclasm , can't be killed with black removal or lightning bolts, and ignores Phyrexian Obliterator .

Those attributes for 1 extra W is completely worth it. If I'm up against an incredibly fast, non B/R deck, I will simply side it out.

Good sir, the new card Return to the Ranks might be a bit better than Immortal Servitude because it can potentially get back a Sister and a Pridemate. Haveth thou considered an Archangel of Thune ?

I run a Soul Sisters deck as well, here it is. It's a different type of Soul Sisters, but it runs the same skeleton. I like how your deck looks, +1 from me!

cian114 My only problem with Return to the Ranks was that even though it return a sister and a pridemate, you usually will only get 2 things. With Immortal Servitude you can get all of your 1 drops or 2 drops. I also find Servitude to be slightly more mana efficient. If I'm only going to see it once in the game post sideboard, I want to get as much value, and returning all of my 1 drops or 2 drops (trust me, Squawks are worth getting back) and still being able to keep mana open for a Path or cast another creature is more valuable to me than getting 2 or 3 creatures back and no open mana.

Archangel of Thune made the deck slightly out of my budget, and it's a bit painful on my curve. I generally like to do more than 1 thing on turn 3 and afterwards to the point that I will sometimes hold off on my Ranger of Eos until I can also use the Martyr of Sands to gain 6 life.

Love the Archangel variant, though. Very fun.

I like the late game power the archangel provides, so I chose that variant of the deck. Plus it's also the less common variant so I might catch an opponent off guard. I'll probably test with both Immortal Servitude and Return to the Ranks , before deciding on which one to run in my deck.

Point of information: abrupt decay is the best removal spell in modern, not path to exile.

In fact being path'd has win me games before by allowing me to grab the land I need.

Aside, this is a pretty good version of sisters. It's always a deck I really liked. You should be aware that the lack of actual game winning creatures can occasionally be a problem. I played a deck like this a lot and had problems against control archetypes.

ChiefBell To be honest, I find Path to Exile is a better removal spell than Abrupt Decay because it's easily splashable and can deal with indestructible.

That aside, once we get out an Honor of the Pure all of our creatures suddenly become an issue for control. We do have Hero of Bladehold and Sword of Light and Shadow for control/grindy matchups, and usually have an advantage over them anyway.

The only real problem was 'that one guy' in the playgroup who has a sideboard sideboard with anti lifegain enchantment, which is surprisingly not useful when I bring in Sundering Growth . Zealous Persecution can sometimes be a bit of a problem, but that's what the second main phase and Honor of the Pure are for.

How often is Rain of Gore used against u?

APPLE01DOJ Never. It's such a useless card to take to something like a GP, or PTQ, which is what everyone is practicing for at FNM. I've had Leyline of Punishment played against me once, but I anticipated it, and sided in my Sundering Growth s.

You need a more consistent finished than Serra Ascendant . Find maybe a Wingmate Roc or Archangel of Thune .

Sorry, not the angel, I meant Serra Avatar .

Sauron_ I already run 3 Archangel of Thune . They are absolutely amazing.

Wingmate Roc is pretty bad, to be honest, as you need to attack, and in unfavourable positions, Archangel of Thune is a way better card than Roc. Roc requries an attack to impact the board, whereas Archangel makes your whole team huge.

Serra Avatar is an awful card in this deck. It's WAY off curve, and while it may be good in EDH, or flipped under a Winbrisk, it's awful everywhere else. Completely uncastable, and if we can cast it, we'd have already won.

ive never seen that many soul sister decks but i think that brimaz would be unstoppable in a deck like this i think it might be better then Spectral Procession