Adanto Pridemates

Pioneer Aggro Counters Lifegain Lifelink Mono-White Weenie

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Creature (23)

• 4x Adanto Vanguard
• 4x Ajani's Pridemate
• 4x Benalish Marshal
• 2x Gideon's Company
• 4x Healer's Hawk
• 4x Leonin Vanguard
• 1x Lyra Dawnbringer

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bound in Gold
• 4x Ixalan's Binding
• 3x Squire's Devotion

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Gideon Blackblade

Instant (4)

• 4x Moment of Triumph

Artifact (2)

• 2x Fountain of Renewal

Land (22)

• 22x Plains

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 2x Danitha Capashen, Paragon
• 2x Shalai, Voice of Plenty

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Ajani's Welcome

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This deck is a combination of Ixalan's Vampires and a budget M19 lifelink deck. It's a fun budget deck intended for FNM Pioneer games. The aim of the deck is to apply pressure with lifegain-dependant cards like Ajani's Pridemate and Adanto Vanguard . I'm new into Pioneer so any help is much welcome!

This is a budget deck so cards like Resplendent Angel are off limits. Lyra Dawnbringer is in simply because I had a copy lying about.

Some decisions I'm looking for advice with:

Card draw. Is it better to go with Mentor of the Meek , Rogue's Gloves or perhaps Vanquisher's Banner ?

Synergies. Danitha Capashen, Paragon gives the deck a minor Aura and Equipment theme. Should I go with it when lifegain is the main theme of the deck? How about the Angel cards?

Removal. Ixalan's Binding is way too slow against decks like monogreen. Maybe I should go with a simple Pacifism ?

Sideboard. Last time I played Standard is about year ago, so I don't know the current meta much.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 4 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.26
Tokens	Vampire 1/1 W