Competitive Black and White Knights Standard
Standard
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Updating the Deck with M19 —July 25, 2018
Hey all. Thanks for all the constructive feedback on this deck. With this update the deck has been revamped in a pretty big way. In order to make the deck pretty rotation proof I have decided to remove Heart of Kiran and replace it with resplendent angel. Heart of Kiran is an amazing card but we need all of our creatures attacking every turn, so trading one creature to allow another to attack doesnt make much sense. Resplendent Angel gives us a suitable creature replacement and a mana sink for late game. The next major change is the remove of Sram's Expertise and Pride of Conqueror's. These cards were removed because when they go off they feel amazing but most of the time they were not generating as much value as I would like. Our deck doesn't need them as much as a token deck would. Finally, I removed Arguel's Bloodfast. The biggest weakness of the B/W knights decks is that they stall out in the mid-to-late game transition, which in theory can be solved by adding card draw. However, this problem can also be solved simply by running more creatures so that we continue to draw into creatures each turn. So I have added 3x resplendent angel, 2x shalai, and 3x times kitesail freebooter making the total creature count 28 not even including the 8 creatures we generate off of our 4 history of benalia's. So far this deck has performed consistently better than the previous iteration. I will continue to update the deck results over time. If the deck suddenly stops performing well then I may revert back to the original list. Thanks all for your upvotes and comments. Lets make knights a Tier 1 build.
Ya srams and pride are not essential just nice tools. I am currently play testing a version of the deck with no srams, prides, or Arguel's Bloodfast. Instead it has 28 creatures using kitesail freebooter, resplendent angel, and shalai. Will update once I see if it's better.
July 24, 2018 9:32 a.m.
LOL ya well sometimes you need a flyer, a 5/5 body, and lifelink. Knights do not have these things so we have to supplement. Although TBH this deck might become 50% knights and 50% angels pretty soon. Which I still think is thematic. Knights and Angels tend to have very similar goals and ideology.
FullmetalWes says... #1
Love the deck! +1 from me! Only thing I'm not crazy about is Sram's Expertise (especially since Goblin Chainwhirler is so popular right now) and Pride of Conquerors, those two cards go great together but not with the rest of the deck. That's a "go-wide" strategy with lots of little creatures, your deck is better as a aggro/midrange. Also I'd cut down those Heart of Kiran to maybe x2 since you don't have any planeswalkers and your creatures will usually be good enough to attack rather than crew. As for suggestions or ideas you can check out my Standard deck>Honor Valor Glory (BW Knights), it's been doing really well and I'm glad I built it. Good luck!!!
July 23, 2018 10:12 a.m.