Trial of Life (feat. mr horse)

Standard* Aggro Lifegain

joonjyyoung

Land (24)

• 3x Aether Hub
• 4x Concealed Courtyard
• 2x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Desert of the True
• 1x Forsaken Sanctuary
• 3x Ifnir Deadlands
• 4x Plains
• 2x Scavenger Grounds
• 4x Swamp

Creature (21)

• 4x Adanto Vanguard
• 3x Crested Sunmare
• 3x Gifted Aetherborn
• 4x Glint-Sleeve Siphoner
• 2x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 2x Ruin Raider
• 3x Sacred Cat

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Fumigate

Instant (6)

• 2x Fatal Push
• 2x Supernatural Stamina
• 2x Vraska's Contempt

Enchantment (6)

• 3x Cartouche of Ambition
• 3x Trial of Ambition

Artifact (2)

• 2x Aethersphere Harvester

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 2x Fatal Push
• 2x Forsake the Worldly
• 2x Settle the Wreckage

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Ixalan's Binding

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Dispossess
• 1x Fumigate
• 2x Harsh Scrutiny

Creature (1)

• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Artifact (2)

• 2x Crook of Condemnation

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Trial of Life :)

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This is the 5th or 6th attempt at making a trial and cartouche deck work in a somewhat competitive deck.
The main theme to this deck is life. Life is used as more than just a normal resource, it allows us to card draw, enable indestructibility, stall the game for longer and create 5/5 bloody annoying horses.

Life Gain | Very important as it allows us to survive through aggro and especially enable the use of our other cards.
• ♡Aethersphere Harvester - A very important card, helps us reliable fly over for damage or block and gain life. Very annoying to deal with and generates energy.
• ♡Sacred Cat - Early game chump blocker, gains life, crews our Aethersphere Harvester and most importantly can be embalmed back to crew the aether again.
• ♡Gifted Aetherborn - Hard to reliably cast on turn 2 every game due to double black thus only 3 are included. This card a very strong card all around blocking and getting damage through even against Longtusk Cub and Bristling Hydra. It stops energy right in their tracks! Very important against the aggro matchup and also enables us to be aggro.
• ♡Cartouche of Ambition - Seems like a very strange inclusion but I want a cartouche trial deck :) deal with it aye. This aura allows any of our creatures to gain lifelink and can often remove creatures with the -1/-1 counter. Notable creatures like Glint-Sleeve Siphoner, Bomat Courier, Earthshaker Khenra and Champion of Wits.
  This card paired up with Adanto Vanguard proves to be an unstoppable force, allowing you to aggro your way through any board.
• ♡Vraska's Contempt - Doing double duty of removing big threats like The Scarab God and Hazoret the Fervent and gaining us life at the same time.
• ♡Fumigate - Just a one of fumigate in the mainboard to surprise aggro and energy decks. Our creatures like Adanto Vanguard, Sacred Cat, Indestructible Horse tokens (only whilst Crested Sunmare is on board) and Aethersphere Harvester are unaffected. We shall destroy their board while keeping most of ours :)

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Life Loss | Now here's the fun part. Abilities and fun shit our life allows us to do. Stay tuned for this part~ edit tomorrow.. tired now :)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 5 Rares 19 - 8 Uncommons 11 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.56
Tokens	Energy Reserve, Horse 5/5 W, Sacred Cat 1/1 W
Folders	idea farms