A semi-budget version of BW Tokens
I really like the deck idea of BW Tokens, as i think it is sorta the jack-of-all-trades in magic. Master of none, but can do a bit of everything. It has a little control, with the removal and hand disruption. It can also be aggressive, if you draw the right hand with a token card and two anthems. While it doesn't win every game, it is super fun to play and it can definitely be upgraded to play more competitively.
The strength of the deck is that it maintains strong presence both in early, mid and late game. It is also good against creature based decks.
The weakness is that while it works well during most of the game, there are other decks that are much faster and some decks that pay of more in late game. The worst matchups are against super fast combo decks and Eldrazi ramp-like decks.
Deck Tech
The token creators are:
Raise the Alarm: Cheapest way for the deck to create tokens. Although they don't have any evasion, they are good for putting on early pressure, especially with an early anthem or two
Secure the Wastes: Good way to produce extra blockers in late game
Spectral Procession: Can sometimes be a little hard to cast. Flying tokens are this decks bread and butter, they are best used for attacking, while the tokens without flying can block
Lingering Souls: Best token card in the deck. 4 flyers is crazy in 1 card.
Elspeth Tirel
: The last token creator. When you don't run Bitterblossom, Elspeth is the only card in the deck, that can continuously produce tokens, while staying on the battlefield. This can help against decks that try to control you with boardwipes. The lifegain ability also helps you sustain in grinding matches and the destruction ability helps against tribal decks like Elves or mono-white Humans, who vomit their hand onto the battlefield
Control elements
Inquisition of Kozilek: Discard good for dealing with early creatures
Thoughtseize: Best way to disrupt cards that would threaten token creatures and anthems.
Go for the Throat: Cheapish removal, good there ain't that many artifact decks on MTGO. Could be replaced by Mortify or Anguished Unmaking
Path to Exile: Exile is always better than destroy. Not very good to cast in early game because of the disadvantage
Worship: My newest edition to the deck. After playing against a worship based deck, i saw how annoying the card can be. Even though none of my creatures have hexproof, there are usually many of them, so the deck is strong against targeted removal. Although there are a lot of counters to Worship, casting it often gives me an opportunity to stall the game in my favor
Anthems
Intangible Virtue: The vigilance ability really helps a lot, so you dont have to hold any tokens back from attacking
Honor of the Pure: Extra anthem. I dont run Bitterblossom for cost reasons, so all the tokens are white
Zealous Persecution: Good for both buffing your creatures and killing your opponents 1,1 creatures. I once played against a Soul Sister deck, that had 3 Soul Warden and 2 Serra Ascendant on the battlefield and the opponent was on 29 life. He had just put his entire hand on the board and when i dropped my Zealous Persecution, he immediately scooped. That made my day
Vault of the Archangel: Make your opponents think twice about attacking you, with your deathtouch tokens
Suggestions are always welcome
