Honor of the Pure

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Honor of the Pure

Enchantment

White creatures you control get +1/+1.

Crow_Umbra on Perfection Beyond Compleation

1 month ago

Pretty solid deck! I haven't made a mono colored deck in a while, but Red, White, and Black are the ones I'd probably take a shot at. Just a few quick ideas for stuff that might fit here:

  • Scapegoat and/or Brave the Elements are pretty cheap protection options.

  • If you're not opposed to Universes Beyond, Flowering of the White Tree could be an upgrade to Honor of the Pure. I've really liked it in my aggro decks that can run it. Mostly suggesting since I saw you already have Minas Tirith in your land base.

  • Fanatical Devotion could be a repeatable means of protecting your high value creatures by chucking.

  • More generally speaking, but I think one of the cool things about mono color decks is that you can run more utility lands like Volatile Fault or Scavenger Grounds than multicolor decks can typically get away with.

Best of luck with your deck if you've had a chance to play it irl. Ojer Taq seems ridiculous to get that creature token flowing.

AstroAA on [EDH][Primer] Adeline Anthem Beatdown

7 months ago

Crow_Umbra

I think you're right on the 1:1 replacement of Flowering of the White Tree and Honor of the Pure - I didn't even think of that, haha. Thank you!

Scapegoat looks very fun and interesting and I honestly kind of like it as an "Oh shit" panic button response.

Thank you for your comment!

Crow_Umbra on [EDH][Primer] Adeline Anthem Beatdown

7 months ago

I see you already have it in your Maybeboard, but I think Flowering of the White Tree can probably replace Honor of the Pure in your mainboard. All of your non-Legendary creatures would get the same buff as Honor of the Pure, plus the additional upsides for all your Legends. I've had a chance to play it in my Isshin, and Burakos/Folk Hero decks, and liked how it played in both.

Brave the Elements and Scapegoat are both fairly cheap board protection effects.

enpc on Two Colored Decks / First …

9 months ago

Like all the others above have said, it is super dependent. But generally it's a tradeoff between ease of producing mana for the deck and specific mechanics you want to run.

For example, if you were wanting to leverage cards like Bring to Light, you'r going to have a bad time if you try to make your deck even two colours. Decks that want to make this card work will run a 5 colour mana base, even if they're a 4 colour deck for example. But if you're building a deck around cheap anthem effects like Honor of the Pure or are wanting to run really heavily costed cards (like Cryptic Command for example) you're (generally) going to be limiting the number of colours you're running. Though even for this kind of stuff, it's not uncommon to see a mono-coloured deck splashing another colour (if you're unfamilar with the term, it means adding one or two cards of another colour but not commiting to that colour for the deck).

For most eternal 60 card formats though, the better access to mana bases they have, the more colours they will run to give the biggest card pool. Legacy and vintage decks will commonly be 3-4 colours as they have one of the best mana bases available, so you may as well take advantage of it. On the flipside, you will see decks specifically designed to punish this attitude; modern blue moon made some waves a few years back running a very basic heavy mana base (mainly blue with some red) and then ran Blood Moon to hate on the fact that most modern decks are like 3 colour and they all rely heavily on shocklands.

For formats like commander which have a buildaround card, people wanting to play that particular card is usually the driver and whatever colour(s) that card is will come second to what it does (typically). People will then make the card work with what they have available in the legal card pool, so sometimes you will see some interesting card choices to overcome colour identity restrictions.

wallisface on Knights of the Firststrike Table

10 months ago

Some thoughts/suggestions:

  • modern decks typically don’t want to run more than 4 cards costing 4 mana, and often run nothing above this cost (this is to try avoid the deck becoming slow/clumsy). You’ve got 8 cards costing 4-or-more, which is a bit high. I’d recommend ditching all of Dearly Departed, Vraska's Scorn, and Vraska, Scheming Gorgon, because all of these cards are extremely weak for their mana cost.

  • just from a mana efficiency persoective i’d also ditch Forebear's Blade (6 mana for +3/+0 is a pretty bad return), and Paladin Class (there are better white enchants, like Honor of the Pure).

  • having a 12/12 Plains/Swamp split when almost all your creatures need 2 white mana on turn 2-or-3 seems really unideal, as you won’t be able to reliably achieve that. A better Plains/Swamp split might be 18/6 - though realistically if you only have access to basic lands, then your deck would be a lot stronger & more consistent just being mono-white.

  • You need ways to interact with your opponent, as just letting them do what they want is a recipe for disaster. I’d recommend adding in Path to Exile and/or Lay Down Arms.

  • I get what you’re trying to do with Basilisk Collar, but an all-first-strike deck is already incredibly strong defensively (because you can double-block). It feels more cute-than-useful, imo.

legendofa on what do you think

10 months ago

If you're just playing with your friends, and everybody's okay with Crusade, I don't see any real issue with it.

Without throwing this can of worms all over the table again, as long as you and everybody is respectful to each other and those around you, in and out of game, and you follow the official banlist when appropriate, everything should be good. As a measure of preemptive respect and banlist considerations, it would probably be a good idea to have a card like Divine Sacrament or Honor of the Pure on hand.

aholder7 on White spirit token cards that …

1 year ago

I'd honestly be more concerned that people would confuse if they have flying or not because of the wings but no keywords. the color of the tokens doesn't usually come up unless you are making use of it in your own deck with something like Honor of the Pure. I think the cards you linked might have actually been intended to be colorless and non-flying which was what the spirits during old kamigawa had like on Forbidden Orchard. Ultimately so long as your opponents understand what the card represents any tokens should work. i have seen people use a 1/1 red goblin to represent a 2/2 blue flying bird. we just put a die with a 2 on it and agreed to just remember it had flying.

lespaul977 on

1 year ago

Squee_Spirit_Guide, good call on Honor of the Pure. It would be another great anthem card to have alongside Always Watching and Benalish Marshal. Admittedly, I wasn’t 100% sure about Serra's Embrace; I think I wanted it in there more out of nostalgia than anything else, but it does feel like filler compared to everything else I have going on.

I’m definitely going to look into options for replacing Deftblade Elite. With this being a soldier deck, I feel like I’ll need to put in one-drops to replace it so the deck can play fast enough (although White Knight does look pretty sweet). However, I think this deck could benefit from abilities given by larger creatures. What are your thoughts on this?

Thank you very much for the feedback!

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