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Abzan Kin-Guard
Creature — Human Warrior
Abzan Kin-Guard has lifelink as long as you control a white or black permanent.
Dencoan on
Nine Lives
4 years ago
so thinking of replaced 2x Celestial Mantle with 2x Cradle of Vitality
and replacing 2x Abzan Kin-Guard with 2x Loxodon Hierarch
JeranF on
Casual GW Sunmare Experiment
7 years ago
First of all, thanks for the many tips! It's good to find cheap cards to help out the manacurve. I already heared of Knight Exemplar, but I also really like Silverblade Paladin, especially for the Soulbond effect, so I guess, I will definitely switch out Faithbearer Paladin and Abzan Kin-Guard. What I'm not sure about yet, is for once Sungrace Pegasus. I was thinking about taking him out too, since he's no horsetype, but the cheap flying would be useful aswell. Also have to see if I replace Healing Salve/Healing Leaves with Spirit Link or the proposed Leyline of Vitality, since I wanna keep atleast one of the instants.
I will take a look at all the possible changes tomorrow and then try to upload it for a first time.
wonderboyrox on
Casual GW Sunmare Experiment
7 years ago
+1 for your theme. I love seeing people try something a little outside of the box. A few changes I would make, but only mostly to help your mana curve. You are currently running 13 creatures at a 4 CMC or higher. That is honestly far too much, especially when you are only running 20 land. I know you are making this just for casual games, but in order to ensure you have a reliable early game, you need to increase your lower end curve and decrease your higher end. (Yes I realize you are also running a playset of Rampant Growth, I still stick by what I am saying.)
Also, I would increase Lone Rider Flip to 4 copies up from the 3 you have now. It's an amazing card early game as well as late game, this is honestly your alternate win condition if your Sunmare fails you.
At the end of the day, here is what I would do:
-3 Faithbearer Paladin (Too heavy on your mana curve, and only has 3 attack power)
-3 Dawnglow Infusion (Mana better spent elsewhere, imo)
-4 Healing Salve (Mana better spent elsewhere, imo)
-2 Abzan Kin-Guard (To help reduce the overall mana curve)
+1 Lone Rider Flip (Reasons listed above)
+2 Sungrace Pegasus (Fits the curve, and the lifelink theme)
+2 Knight Exemplar (Rounds out your curve with a 3 CMC creature, and offers the deck more utility)
+4 Spirit Link (Fits the theme, helps lower overall mana curve. Also, can be placed on a creature with Lifelink and will essentially double life gained due to how the enchantment works. And as a bonus, can also enchant an opponents creature and nullify whatever dmg it deals by gaining the life back.)
+3 Silverblade Paladin (Fits horse & knight theme, reduces overall mana curve, and offers the deck more utility)
Overall this would help lower your mana curve, helping the decks tempo and early game out a lot. It would give you access to more utility, including: Double strike, Indestructibility, and even MORE life gain. Let me know what you think and if you decide to implement any of the suggestions!
miampizza on
Karametra, God of Harvests
8 years ago
The Landfall ability indeed triggers along Kalametra's.
Some cards I would switch out include:
Abzan Kin-Guard 4 mana 3/3 lifelink is quite weak.
Aetherwind Basker Has no synergy with the deck.
Ajani's Comrade In my opinion Scavenging Ooze would be much stronger in terms of utility and reliability
Argothian Elder Land untap is useful if you're using many utility lands, which you are not. Could be replaced by any mana dorks like Elvish Mystic or Avacyn's Pilgrim
Aven Mindcensor This guy should stay if your playgroup is playing combo-heavy decks, otherwise he's useless
Blinding Souleater Little synergy with the deck
Salt Road Patrol Lacks utility
An-Havva Inn and Ancestral Tribute Very defensive cards, but Trostani, Selesnya's Voice or evenPelakka Wurm would benefit the deck more.
Angelic Blessing It looks rather weak compared to Collective Blessing orCathars' Crusade
Aether Vial A pricy card mostly used in tempo decks like Merfolks. Not very useful here since we should have plenty of ramp anyway.
Accorder's Shield Less synergy than say, Sword of the Animist
Chimeric Staff Looks like a weaker Chameleon Colossus to me.
Arboria Kinda goes against Karametra as a whole since you WANT to play creatures to pump out lands.
Absolute Grace+Absolute Law I mean, if you're only facing red and black, this should stay. Otherwise, it's an even deader draw than Great Wall.
Abzan Runemark Weaker than Rancor or many other boosting enchantments.
There might still be a few cards I find odd or out of place, but for now I'm slightly running out of time, so I'll proceed with some general must-have cards:
Sol Ring, Selesnya Signet, Command Tower, Oblivion Ring, Chord of Calling, Solemn Simulacrum, Tireless Tracker, Sun Titan, Eternal Witness.
Also wow Living Plane if you own one it's great, though if not it's quite the pricey card.
I can give you an extensive list of potentially great cards if you want me to, though tonight this is all the time I had, my apologies.
nobu_the_bard on
Me and My Mates
9 years ago
These guys are kind of low-powered for commander, I'd look for alternatives:
-Abzan Kin-Guard
-Militant Inquisitor (you have 4 equipment)
-Topan Freeblade
-Stormrider Rig
There's not enough draw power I feel to justify all of these in the deck together (just stick with Reliquary Tower for this effect):
-Library of Leng
-Spellbook
-Venser's Journal
Volrath's Stronghold is illegal in this deck (it has black color identity). The closest thing I can think of you can use is Emeria, The Sky Ruin.
I'd look these up for additions to start with:
-Citanul Flute: you have a lot of strong low-cost creatures like Thalia's Lieutenant
-Ulvenwald Mysteries
-Slate of Ancestry
Consider swapping out one of the Llanowar Elves variants for Avacyn's Pilgrim, too.
I think the deck needs more high-powered threats, but that's all I could think of off the top of my head.
Gidgetimer on Commander color identity & hybrid …
9 years ago
Havengul Runebinder, Notorious Throng, Penumbra Bobcat, Penumbra Kavu, Penumbra Spider, Penumbra Wurm, Rise from the Tides, Undead Alchemist, Guardian of Cloverdell, Ulvenwald Mysteries are all legal ways in a Temur commander deck to have Abzan Kin-Guard have lifelink. It really isn't worth running any of those cards, including the Kin-Guard, but they are legal.
TyroMaven on Commander color identity & hybrid …
9 years ago
Ah, OK, so Veteran Cathar is definitely out. The Abzan Kin-Guard would just be useless since its rule text couldn't ever be fulfilled.
