Abzan Tokens Are Coming Back
Suggestions are greatly appreciated
The sideboard is still being built
I'm gonna explain my quick reasoning for every card so if there are some suggestions I'd gladly take them.
Creatures
Gilded Goose Does more work and fits better here than other 3 color decks (beside sacrifice decks it's too perfect there) It makes tokens and can help stall out long games. During playtesting I personally have come back against stompy and aggro decks by having more than one out to keep producing life in a top deck situation. When Trostani Discordant is in play they can fly over creatures to ping the opponent or their walkers if there's no need to make food.
Lovestruck Beast Makes a turn one if goose isn't in hand and is very aggressive. Turns into a solid blocker when Trostani Discordant is on board, so if aggro is on your mind make sure you have enough tokens to outvalue the 5/5 big man.
Priest of Forgotten Gods Turn any creature into a kill spell. Works alright against Dream Trawler Can help with ramp. A very janky but fun synergy is Gilded Goose turn 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods turn 2 and a second Gilded Goose. Turn 3 Sacrifice both geese after tapping one for mana getting a Garruk, Cursed Huntsman and a dead creature on your opponents side. From there you can sac the wolves turn 4 and have the emblem out. That's called magical christmas land.
Teysa Karlov Keeps up the aggro for the tokens and stays back as a blocker. She can go on the offensive don't be a bonehead and forget to turn her sideways for lethal as I have multiple times.
Trostani Discordant She's the same as teysa, but stops the boys from getting taken\, so Mass Manipulation and Agent of Treachery are complete dead cards. Those decks don't usually run removal as taking the opponents best thing is their removal
Woodland Champion Gets massive and is a nice change from the million tiny fellas zoomin around with one massive man.
Instants/Sorceries
Mortify Removal. Better thanks to theros making a lot of enchantments threats.
Raise the Alarm 2 mana for 2 tokens at instant speed, what more could you ask for? Very useful with almost every value engine in the deck.
Enchantments
Divine Visitation Makes literally every token maker into a tank enough said. It isn't needed to close out games but is really good in a grindier match.
The First Iroan Games Continuos value. If your opponent lets you activate the third ability they're done for. The gold token is just icing on the cake letting color fixing happen. If you have either Raise the Alarm in hand or Castle Ardenvale on board. MAKE A TOKEN BEFORE YOU DRAW BUT AFTER YOU UNTAP on the second lore counter. I have made that mistake too many times. Don't miss it.
Planeswalkers
Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis Very aggressive. [-1] Turning sideways for an additional 4 each turn is really good in my opinion. [-2] Getting a raise the alarms at sorcery speed once or twice is very helpful when either of the token matters cards are on board. [-3] Good if you really need the life to stall out a game or start coming back. Her escape is ok. Really wish she had a plus or a zero but it's ok where she is she still does work turn 4 and then again on later turns. With how many disposable things and threats in the deck the graveyard should be full enough at least once.
Garruk, Cursed Huntsman [0] Much better version of Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis's [-2] and helps get his loyalty up. Teysa Karlov makes the wolves so much better. Vigilance, Lifelink, and adding 2 loyalty counters per wolf is really good. [-3] Kill a creature draw a card. Good removal, not a reliable source of card draw, but it is card advantage. [-6] 99.99% of the time it's a win-con. The one time I lost was when my opponent was playing Esper control.
Mana base
The mana base is just a standard Abzan mana base based on what I own in paper and arena, so feel free to change it up. I'd suggest Castle Ardenvale though. It's a mock Legion's Landing
Thank you for looking at this deck. If you enjoy it why not scroll back up the page and hit upvote. Currently, as of writing this I got to platinum 3 by grinding BO3 on Arena. So it ain't that bad. Tokens are janky so sorry to anyone wanting to build this for Arena since it costs a lot of wild cards.
