Angels to give life which makes more angels... who give more life.
SETTING UP THE COMBO
Bishop of Wings
and
Seraph Sanctuary
's ability to give life when an Angel enters the battlefield is the cornerstone of the deck. Add in the
Angel of Vitality
which makes these abilities even better and soon you are gaining huge amounts of life per Angel.
Segovian Angel
and
Metallic Mimic
make for some cheap Angel drops, so even late game, once the combo is set up, you won't mind pulling one of these.
Then there is
Angelic Accord
and
Resplendent Angel
which will drop in 4/4 Angel tokens at your end step if you gained 4 or 5 life, respectively, during your turn. This will AGAIN trigger the life giving ETB abilities of
Bishop of Wings
and
Seraph Sanctuary
. At this point, the amount of life you gain from playing a single angel can quickly get out of hand.
The other Angels in the deck, such as
Angel of Jubilation
, are here to beef up other Angels and/or drive devotion, for
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
to help pull out more of the higher cost angels.
WINNING
Archangel of Thune
plays in great with all the life gain going on. The multiple sources (
Seraph Sanctuary
,
Bishop of Wings
and any creature with lifelink) each count as separate life gain events and you can very easily be putting several rounds of +1/+1 counters on all your creatures each turn. Typically pulling that off a few times and/or simply being able to successfully play
Lyra Dawnbringer
,
Sephara, Sky's Blade
or
True Conviction
will lead to a scoop/win. If you happen to have the Angel ETB life combos going, a
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
, some decent devotion and pull
Entreat the Angels
you'll be very happy and your opponent will likely rage quit.
THOUGHTS
I like this deck a lot so far. Sometimes its hard to pull the White mana I need at the early game because I run into too many
Seraph Sanctuary
s and
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
and that can lead to a loss. Also, its clearly very creature centric, as most of my decks are, so there are inherit weaknesses with creature heavy decks, but... that's also just my style. But I'm open to dropping a few Angels throwing a few more non-creatures in here.
I could see myself fiddling with the Land some or lowering the amount of
Metallic Mimic
s or
Angel of Jubilation
(probably lower by 1 each) to switch out for some kind of non-creature spell or a plains or two, but I'm not exactly sure right now.. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
