The Loyal Legions of Thune

Modern* Combo Competitive Infinite Combo Lifegain Midrange WB (Orzhov)

MindAblaze

Creature (17)

• 2x Archangel of Thune
• 3x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 2x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 4x Soul Warden
• 4x Soul's Attendant
• 2x Suture Priest

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1x Elspeth Tirel
• 1x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

Land (21)

• 4x Godless Shrine
• 4x Isolated Chapel
• 4x Marsh Flats
• 6x Plains
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 2x Windbrisk Heights

Instant (15)

• 3x Orzhov Charm
• 4x Path to Exile
• 4x Raise the Alarm
• 4x Zealous Persecution

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Lingering Souls

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Sideboard

Creature (10)

• 3x Kataki, War's Wage
• 2x Suture Priest
• 3x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 2x Tidehollow Sculler

Artifact (2)

• 2x Pithing Needle

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Thoughtseize

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Loxodon Gatekeeper

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Journey to Nowhere

Artifact (3)

• 3x Shrine of Loyal Legions

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This is my current Soul Sisters build.

The goal is combo, as per the usual.

I've got the 10 sisters doing their thing gaining me life and helping me life against RDW.

Leonin Relic-Warder functions as artifact/enchantment removal AND half my infinite flicker combo. Worst case scenario he's a 2/2 for 2. He's not always relevant, but removal is good in a Pod/Affinity heavy world.

Phyrexian Metamorph pulls a lot of weight for me here. It comes in to copy any threat the opponent has, titans or Eldrazi or anything else silly out there. Iona and Norn come to mind...but it also is the other half of my combo;

Leonin Relic-Warder + Phyrexian Metamorph make for a lot of ETB triggers...

• I cast the metamorph and it enters as a copy of the relic-warder
• it targets itself with the relic-warder's ETB ability, exiling it.
• it leaves the battlefield putting its LTB ability on the stack, thus returning it to the battlefield starting the loop again.

Add one sister and we get a whole bunch of life...then add Archangel of Thune and have a lot of really big creatures. This combo can theoretically happen turn 3...it has quite often actually, barring disruption.

Finally, Archangel of Thune closes out my creature list. She adds some punch to all the weenies I accumulate over the game. She ends games fairly quickly, although she has a tendency to eat removal. She is my "alternate" win condition...if gaining infinite life is a win condition...

I'm not set on my removal, though. Hence the deck has really changed a lot as I flip flop around supporting cards.

It's transformed into more of a midrange/control build with lots of tokens.

• Lingering Souls and Raise the Alarm make sure my lifegain is well supported.

• Elspeth, Knight-Errant and Sorin, Lord of Innistrad are great distractions that eventually will wear you down. Even a Soul Warden is a decent beater when Elspeth is out.

• Orzhov Charm brings dead Sisters back and kills stuff...

• Path to Exile because Path to Exile

• Zealous Persecution is a great combat trick for tokens. Essentially all my stuff gets +2/+2 against blockers, or it kills their weenies and Bobs...

I want to actually run Shrine of Loyal Legions because it's huge late game swarm potential, but Abrupt Decay is a thing...

Date added	11 years
Last updated	10 years
Key combos	Leonin Relic-Warder + Phyrexian Metamorph
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 3 Mythic Rares 17 - 8 Rares 18 - 2 Uncommons 14 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.23
Tokens	Emblem Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Emblem Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Vampire 1/1 B w/ Lifelink
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