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BANTha Poo-Doo Jedi!

Commander / EDH Exalted GWU (Bant) Knights Theme/Gimmick

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Jedi counterpart to Grix-Sith.

Knight tribal, with legendary creatures as the Jedi Council, not necessarily limited to Knights. Unlike Grix-Sith, however, I don't have a secondary tribe, since I'm also thinking Exalted would be one of the subthemes in the deck, which might necessitate having several other creatures that aren't knights or any other consolidated creature type...but I'm not set on that yet.
One fortunate subtheme that emerges with Knight tribal, though: Flanking! Coupled with Exalted and a few other buffs, it could make for some interesting combat. Or annoy the hell out of my opponents.
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Por que no los dos?

One fear I have is turning this deck into a generic Bant control deck. or something too similar to the old Rafiq of the Many Good Cards deck, which I kept trying to tweak to be fun to play. but lacked that certain je ne c'est quois that I have with Jhoira (of) the Git, or the full flavor of Thassa's Deep Throat.
I feel like a Jedi-themed deck will at least bring the flavor, but I'll have to see how fun it is to play...

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Long and hard, has my training been. — March 6, 2016
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As I found with Basandra's Battle Bullshit, Flanking really isn't all that strong in EDH, at least not if it's going to be stuck on a bunch of 2/2 bodies. I suppose the idea here was that it would be like a series of mini-voltrons, my 2/2 (Jedi) Knights with their lightsabers equipped charging into battle a la the arena rescue scene in Attack of the Clones.
Instead, the deck felt like it lacked focus, and the theme was too generic for my liking - knight tribal (because "jedi knight") with (mostly) sword equipment to be lightsabers. Bant colors also seem to just feel right for the theme to me, but other than that it didn't seem to know what it wanted to do.

Then while tidying up some of my collection, I stumbled across a few recent cards that would fit the theme of the deck really well and also make it a bit more exciting to play (hopefully) while also beefing up my creatures: the uncommon Paragon creatures in M15, and the uncommon Archetype creatures in BNG. At first I was a little disappointed because this would detract from the original knight tribal I had envisioned for the deck, but I realized the theme of pumping one another was much more Jedi-like, so I decided instead to focus a bit more on an Exalted theme for that Jedi flavor - they tend to be more defensive than the Sith anyway, right?

Other cards that had been in the deck but felt like boring old goodstuff just to stick in for the sake of having access to such powerful cards in the colors included Bruna, Light of Alabaster and Sovereigns of Lost Alara. I decided that along with the defensive nature of the Jedi, it also kind of makes sense that through meditation, study, and all that jazz, there could also be an aura subtheme in the deck - yes, a 3rd one after Basandra's Battle Bullshit and Dan Brown: EDH Edition, but I felt in this case the flavor was still distinctly different enough, and also much less of a focus in this deck than those 2. Not to mention, I also realized that the common Runemark auras from FRF are kind of a perfect allegory for the Force - although the Jedi here are shunning black and red mana for the aggression and death they symbolize, the wedge color affiliations sort of indicate that the Force is a fluid thing. Or something like that.

I've typed way too much here, did anyone actually read all that?

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+1 Blackblade Reforged main
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-1 Nadaar, Selfless Paladin main
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Date added 8 years
Last updated 2 years
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This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
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38 - 0 Rares

18 - 0 Uncommons

15 - 0 Commons
Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.31
Tokens 5/5 U Token Creature Dragon Spirit, Cat 2/2 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Narset Transcendent, Emblem Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Kor Soldier 1/1 W, Stoneforged Blade
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