Knight deck I pieced together and have polished up since it’s inception. I’ve really been digging knights so far. I have found the deck to be extraordinarily resilient and aggressive, but has enough tools to keep all things in your way at bay consistently. The general idea is to get as many Knights on the board and hammer into them with cascades of History of Benalia, obviously, but the tech smattered in makes anything you have up simply vicious.
Dauntless Bodyguard is a flexible 1-drop. Great right out of the gates without anything to protect, SUPER ANNOYING to work around when you put it on something later in the game like Twilight Prophet or Vona, Butcher of Magan. Sac'ing him even with any/no target can also trigger Fatal Push in a pinch, and 4 copies are obviously there for early spot checking.
In the 2-drops we have great creatures and removal, with knightly setups in Metallic Mimic and Seal Away to get some annoying things out of the way. And then there are Knight of Grace and Knight of Malice. Give them first strike on top of that and an easy way to get +1/+0 and you have me sold. These guys are nuts. Running 4 each alongside Mimics has been a wise choice so far. Blackblade Reforged is also on the list since there's quite a few legends in here, all with insane static abilities that make literally any amount of +1/+1 that much more terrifying.
In the 3-slots we have Danitha Capashen, Paragon to not only make our few equipment and auras a little cheaper, but her static abilities are also positively gross as well. Throwing a Blackblade Reforged on her early on can easily run away with the game. Lastly, one of the primary win-con's beyond beating people down: History of Benalia. History still falls in the "Beat people down" win-con, it's just a "Beat people down" kit in one box. Seriously, if these things are allowed to go off fully, they will quickly make work of your opponent and give you whatever life back you may have lost and then some with some lifelink action.
The 4-slot has a lot of goodies as well. I'll start with the oddball in the deck, Twilight Prophet. She's MAINLY there as a form of extra card draw on a body. It's not hard to hit Ascend in this deck, plus she's a solid little flier and can wield some Blackblade Reforged or On Serra's Wings and become suuuuper annoying. Cast Out and On Serra's Wings do what they do well, and are made cheaper by Danitha herself. On Serra's Wings can make any of the creatures in this deck positively annoying to deal with and left unchecked, will end the game in a few swings by setting your opponent back and YOU ahead. Josu Vess, Lich Knight was here, but I had to take him out unfortunately. He really just didn’t fit in as well as I had hoped and did't contribute as much (and literally never got his kicker off, which I didn't expect to begin with but yeah) Lastly, Aryel, Knight of Windgrace is there as a mana sink for moar knights and possible emergency spot removal. Solid Vigilant body as well.
5 and 6 slot we have Vona, Butcher of Magan as another Vigilant Lifelinker with an insane emergency spot removal. Blackblade and Vona go way back. The Immortal Sun is there in case the games draw out a little longer. You'll refuel your hand quick, quell any possible Planeswalkers roaming about, and make all your creatures cheaper and stronger.
Still a work in progress like I said, but while a SMIDGE slow, it power spikes incredibly hard and is all around really consistent and once those Benalia Waves start pouring out, it gets really hard to not get pummeled over. The side deck still need a smidge tidying up probably, but it's madeup of flavors to help curb against aggro a bit or slow down and grind out against control. Any suggestions welcome, and I appreciate all that's been given thus far! Will be trying at FNM soon.
