The March of the Hoplite Guard

Historic Devotion Jank Tokens

Aerac

Land (23)

• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 4x Fabled Passage
• 2x Glacial Fortress
• 2x Godless Shrine
• 3x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 2x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mountain
• 5x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Swamp

Creature (18)

• 3x Arcanist's Owl
• 2x Charming Prince
• 4x Corpse Knight
• 3x Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
• 2x Mentor of the Meek
• 3x Reverent Hoplite
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Instant (3)

• 3x Flicker of Fate

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Idyllic Tutor

Enchantment (10)

• 3x Banishing Light
• 1x Elspeth Conquers Death
• 1x Mirror March
• 3x Staggering Insight
• 2x The Birth of Meletis

Artifact (4)

• 2x Altar of the Pantheon
• 2x Nyx Lotus

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 3x Sigrid, God-Favored
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Instant (5)

• 2x Gods Willing
• 3x Settle the Wreckage

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Elspeth Conquers Death

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Maybeboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 2x Mother of Runes
• 3x Skyclave Apparition

Instant (3)

• 3x Ephemerate

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Description

Janky devotion deck that I made around Mirror March + Reverent Hoplite . I play this on MTG:A Historic ranked and on paper when I want to meme around. The deck would better if Mirror March was cut and maybe swapped for a third The Birth of Meletis , but then we'd lose the core joke of the deck. Both the name and the theme of the deck are a reference to a Finnish Folk Metal band Turisas's song The March Of The Varangian Guard. Suggestions are welcome.

Strategy:

• Turtle up with Daxos, Blessed by the Sun and The Birth of Meletis so that you can stall untill your mana base is ready.
• Fetch for Thassa, Deep-Dwelling and Mirror March with either Idyllic Tutor or Arcanist's Owl flickering.
• Try to save at least 1 Corpse Knight in your hand until you're ready to play Reverent Hoplite on the same/next turn.
• Protect your key pieces from removal with Gods Willing / Mother of Runes and Ephemerate / Flicker of Fate depending on the format you're playing.
• Machine gun your opponents to death with Corpse Knight + Reverent Hoplite combo and keep it up by continuously flickering with Thassa, Deep-Dwelling .
• ???
• Profit by watching your friends cry when Reverent Hoplite is copied +5 times with Mirror March and you have +100 1/1's with haste and +200 life. (If they haven't already died to Corpse Knight by then :D)

It's not uncommon to have +10 devotion with this deck, so Reverent Hoplite is going to make a huge amount of tokens, that can win you the game just by themselves even if you don't have Corpse Knight + Mirror March on the table.

Sideboard:

This is still a bit WIP.

• Settle the Wreckage against aggressive creature based decks.
• On paper I have 1x Erebos, God of the Dead , as Soul Warden and life gain decks in general kinda hard counter this. It's also good card draw as you usually have plenty of life to spare.
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling when playing against discard/mill so that we can still fetch for it if one hits the yard.
• Sigrid, God-Favored - This can be really good against midrange, and it also gives you a devotion raising body on the board too. I'm thinking about mainboarding her, but I need to play around with the deck more.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Corpse Knight + Reverent Hoplite Mirror March + Reverent Hoplite Corpse Knight + Mirror March
Legality	This deck is Historic legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 1 Mythic Rares 23 - 8 Rares 23 - 2 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Copy Clone, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Wall 0/4 C