A classic take on Soul Sisters.
WIN CONDITIONS
1) Gain 30 life, send the enemy to the afterlife with Serra Ascendant.
2) Get an Ajani's Pridemate out early, buff it till it gets stronger than Simba. Swing for the win, but remember who you are.
3) Aggro off with Spectral Procession and assorted white weenies buffed with Honor of the Pure.
OTHER NOTEWORTHY CARDS
1) Path to Exile - All round utility goodness.
2) Cavern of Souls - Great against control decks. If you play it smart, this provides enough of an advantage to win.
3) Squadron Hawk - Good all round beater. Good when you need to refill your hand for Martyr of Sands, great for sustained aggro against control and their board wipes.
4) Mistveil Plains - Awesome recursion with Squadron Hawk. Tap the Mistveil Plains to put that Squadron Hawk from your graveyard to the bottom of your library, then play the one in your hand to search it out.
OPTIONS CONSIDERED
1) Phyrexian Metamorph - Leonin Relic-Warder Combo. However: i) Too difficult to assemble the combo, ii) Each individual piece of the combo was usually a dead card in hand.
2) Proclamation of Rebirth to provide recursion for Martyr of Sands. Once again, chose not to do this because the only card that benefits from this is Serra Ascendant. An option would be to replace Honor of the Pure and Spectral Procession with Chalice of Life
and [[Divinity of Pride], but I wanted to keep the aggro strategy intact so this deck could compete with fast aggro decks like Zoo or Merfolk.
3) Sunbond, Cradle of Vitality and Ordeal of Heliod, splashing green for Ageless Entity. This proved too slow.
4) Splash red for Norin the Wary and Champion of the Parish. I found this deck too unstable as it depended heavily on the opening hand, folded to early removal of the Champion, and mulliganed badly.
