Give me Eternal Life (Budget Lifegain)
Standard
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KTK Game Day TEST —Oct. 18, 2014
Today I tested this deck in KTK Game Day T2 event in a local store. I played 3 official games and other 2 games against different decks.
Official Games:
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In the first game I faced a very good Sultai-Control, a slow deck with a big amount of Mana ramps like Sylvan Caryatid and Courser of Kruphix, planeswalkers Kiora, the Crashing Wave and Garruk, Apex Predator and the habitual Hero's Downfall, Bile Blight and Drown in Sorrow. I was in fully control of the game until Planeswalkers came in: Garruk started kill my big creatures and Kiora stopped them. I lost the 2 rounds after had decreased my opponent's life to 7 in 4 turns and every time I had a good protection to my creatures from instant and got a lot of life, but I never had the possibility for a final hit!
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Second game was against a Mono-Red Aggro deck, based on quickness and burn spells! Top cards were Goblin Rabblemaster, Monastery Swiftspear. I lost the first round only because he got on the battlefield 3 Monastery Swiftspear in turn 2, and also play a Goblin Rabblemaster in the 3rd, finishing me in the 4th with a Trumpet Blast. The other 2 rounds the deck worked very well: a lot of life gained, Nyx-Fleece Ram and Hero of Iroas pumped with different auras became so big that can't be killed by burn spells and can block easily, killing attacking creatures. Sungrace Pegasus pumped with Sunbond was deadly: Lifelink and fly against a deck that can't block him!
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Mardu-Midrage: NO WAY! My biggest creatures were totally vulnerable Crackling Doom. Nasty loss
Unofficial Games:
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I faced a Jeskai Burn deck: usual burn spells Lightning Strike, Magma Jet, Deflecting Palm and Stoke the Flames, Mantis Rider plus Goblin Rabblemaster, and also Iroas, God of Victory. I win almost every round because my creatures are usually too big to be killed by a burn, and became bigger turn by turn. Lifelink earned with Mortal's Ardor or Hopeful Eidolon worked so good against the Deflecting Palm!!!
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Temur-Midrage: Quite easy win! Big creatures aren't a problem if you can gain life every turn and make your creature grow up constantly with Ordeal of Heliod and Sunbond.
CONCLUSION:
Hero of Iroas is a very versatile card: makes aura very cheap and you can have a very big creature also in early game triggering his Heroic ability with Ordeal of Heliod and the with Sunbond.
Sunbond + Sungrace Pegasus is a very good combo and hardly blocked after 2 or 3 turns!
Best Combo: Nyx-Fleece Ram + Ordeal of Heliod + Sunbond : it happened different times this situation:
TURN 2: Play a Ram
TURN 3: Play Ordeal of Heliod on the Ram and start attacking.
TURN 4: Play Sunbond on the Ram and attack.
TURN 5: Attack with the Ram for the 3rd time and cast Mortal's Ardor, sacrifice the Ordeal of Heliod and get a massive lifegain and a massive amount of counters on the Ram!!!!
I was able to play with a 24/29 Nyx-Fleece Ram and win only with him in play!
But the best thing that I understand about this deck is that it's TOO MUCH FUNNY TO PLAY!!!! TRY THIS!! :)
zephili I've been thinking about him but I don't know instead of which cards. Maybe 1 Wall of Essence and 1 Sungrace Pegasus ?
October 17, 2014 2:20 a.m.
I think one Sungrace Pegasus and one Nyx-Fleece Ram . In my opinion the passive lifegain from the Ram is less important than the potential lifegain from your Wall of Essence .
zephili says... #1
With so many counters floating around your battlefield, you might look into cards like Abzan Falconer to give some of your creatures more evasion while still keeping up board presence. Sure it doesn't directly interact with your lifepoints, but it will help to keep your lifelink creatures swinging later on in the game when they might not be able to get around threats on the board otherwise.
October 17, 2014 1:58 a.m.