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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Historic Brawl | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Modern Beyond Horizons | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Chalice of Life
Artifact
: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform Chalice of Life.
wallisface on
Budget midrange anti-burn lifegain
1 year ago
Some thoughts:
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you have a super-low threat-density… only Speaker of the Heavens poses any real threat. I think you need far more ways to pressure the opponent.
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cards that only gain life are pretty universally bad, as they don’t further your own boardstate at all, and so are generally just costing you a card. I would recommend ditching all of Light of Hope, Chaplain's Blessing, Light of Hope, and Chalice of Life Flip in this vein, as they’re all pretty-universally useless.
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I don’t see a game ever going long enough to cast Felidar Sovereign… and even if you can cast it, i don’t see you managing to be on 40+ life so late in the game.
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you have no creatures with decent etb effects, so there’s not a lot of reason to bounce anything - Cloudshift seems bad here.
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you currently have no way to interact with your opponent (i.e. for killing their stuff). Just letting your opponent do what they want is never a good idea - it gives them free reign to build a bigger boardstate and beat you down with it.
27hp on
Landfall Champions
1 year ago
Search for Tomorrow seems like a good fit. I've been pretty lucky pulling Arboreal Grazer most first turns so that always gives me immediate ramp but having more 1 mana options can't hurt.
Jaddi Offshoot is insane! I think I'm definitely adding that in asap. I feel like Courser of Kruphix is definitely a tighter strategy option than Gladeheart but I'm hesitant! In a couple of my games with this deck I've been doubling up life gain/damage with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose + Sanguine Bond and gladehearts landfall effect have really been lifesavers. However ... I have top-carded with this deck a few times already and that sucks. Might toss out the 2 Chalice of Life Flip for 2 of them and see how it goes!
The_Fallen_Duke on
No Pain No Lifegain
2 years ago
If I may make another couple of observations, I think those cards you should cut instead:
- Chalice of Life Flip is not worth the mana investment for such minimal effects.
- Kabira Crossroads is deceitfully bad, as you will realise that being a turn behind in terms of available mana (especially in mono white) is not worth the 2 extra life, not even in a lifegain deck.
- Anointed Procession is a powerhouse in a token deck, but in my opinion you do not have that many token-producing effect to make the most out of it, so I feel like often it will end up being a 4CMC do nothing permanent. Unless you experienced otherwise.
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Does Providence make your STARTING …
3 years ago
I'm not perfectly sure, but I would argue that your starting total would still be 20. The reasoning is that you reveal Providence before the first turn, which then gives you a trigger on your first upkeep of the game which then gains you 6 life to set it to 26 (setting a life total loses or gains you the appropriate amount of life).
So for Chalice of Life Flip, I'm very sure that your starting total still is 20, resulting it to flig once you're at 30 life.
CaseyHubbard25 on Does Providence make your STARTING …
3 years ago
I'm trying to pair Chalice of Life Flip with Providence
Chalice of life says it has to be 10 more than your starting life total to transform it. If I reveal providence from my hand at the beginning of the first upkeep is that technically the beginning of the game, making my 'starting life total' 26 or is my starting life total still going to be 20 since providence specifies at the beginning of the first 'upkeep'?
Salt_Goodman on
Linden, the Steadfast Queen
3 years ago
Just kept a list of some good cards while looking at mtg stuff.
Helpful Artifacts
Useful Creatures
Keeper of the Accord for catch-up scenarios
Mangara, the Diplomat for some card draw
Alternate Win-Cons
Good One-sided board wipe
ellie-is on
Ellie's Soul Sisters
4 years ago
@Peoni: Thank you very much for the comment!
Emeria, The Sky Ruin sees a lot of play in Martyr Proc, which stalls out games by looping Martyr of Sands as its main strategy, but since this deck has a bigger focus on fast aggro, it's very unlikely a game will last enough for me to play 8 lands. So the fact it comes into play tapped is too big a drawback to run it.
Path to Exile is definitely good and I'm trying to figure out how to make room for it currently. Chalice of Life Flip is fun and I used to run it in an older lifegain deck, but by the time I have enough life to trigger it, I could be triggering Serra Ascendant instead, which costs just one less mana and synergizes better with the rest of the deck.
Heliod, Sun-Crowned on the other hand is super strong! A lot of recent Soul Sister decks are using it because it goes infinite with Walking Ballista, and turns your other creatures into Pridemates too. My only issues with that combo is that I'd need to afford playsets of both cards and they are both very expensive, and also that Walking Ballista doesn't really do much in this deck without Heliod being around. But mostly this combo is out of my price range, haha.
Peoni on
Ellie's Soul Sisters
4 years ago
I don't know much about modern, but I wish I did. :^) As far as I know you can't go wrong with Path to Exile though. There's also Chalice of Life Flip and Emeria, The Sky Ruin, though I'm pretty sure the former was mostly used in some of the earlier takes on the archetype. The newer Heliod might be a fun pick but I don't know how he'd fare in modern. He was nasty in standard lifegain tho.
I like your deck. Seems fun, fair, and affordable. Hope I was of some use. :^)