I'm surprised to see a Soul Sisters deck not running Intangible Virtue. Any reasons for its exclusion?

canterlotguardian Honor of the Pure affects all my creatures, whereas Intangible Virtue affects only my tokens, of which I run 6 cards which generate them.

Ah that makes sense.

Seeing that Hangarback Walker can be fetched from Ranger of Eos have you considered running it? It seems quite insane.

AdmiralAbzan I can't sink a heap of mana into Hangarback to make it worthwhile over a Procession. I don't want to have to dedicate effort to my cards for them to be good. It's a good card for something like affinity which can drop it as early as T1, but on T2, when it's castable, I want to make a bigger impact on the board than a Doomed Traveler.

Also worth noting that Honor of the Pure doesn't affect it, and that's big.

This is a great deck and I've played against the exact setup locally a few times. The only thing I had going for me, to win the game was to drop a well timed Blasphemous Act and shoot down follow up recovery cards. I believe you made a great decision with removing the old lady. As you said, if it doesn't pan out perfectly at the start it really does not add value later on. The deck gets out of control super fast as is already and I can see it winning loads more. Nice one man :)

Hi. Really like your SS build. SS is my deck of choice as well. My main varies by 6 cards. OUT: 4 Honors & 2 secure the wastes. IN: 4 oblivion rings and 2 planeswalkers Elspeth Knight-Errant and Ajani Goldmane.

On the sideboard, 3x Rest in Peace, 3x Mark of Asylum, 3x Stony Silence, 3x Mirran Crusader, 3x Brave the Elements.

For the main board, O Rings are just great general hate and offer excellent versatile protection. The Goldmane has the honor of pure ability, can also make a big creature and Elspeth can let our Ajani Pridemate fly or make some tokens to help Windbrisk resolve.

For the side board, Crusader can replace the Auriok Champions in the case Elves are our competition. Rest In peace is graveyard shut down. Mark of Asylum stops our creatures from being bolted and pryroclasmed or lightning helixed.

Brave is my only iffy sideboard card.

O rings and Auriok Champs, are the cards of choice to substitute for side board cards.

For Lands, 4 Ghost Quarters for hate, 4 Flags of Trokair no down side (no blood moon is played where I am), 4 Windbrisk Heights, 1 Pendelhaven to protect a sister from early death. 9 plains.

a.stebel

I'd argue that Oblivion Ring is a weaker card than Honor because it's hard on the curve and doesn't help you win faster, however, more removal is always good. For your planeswalkers, Ajani Goldmane is pretty mediocre, and you should just use another Elspeth. Elspeth is better when you're behind, and better when you're ahead, but sticking at 1 is probably easiest on the mana base.

Sideboards are entirely subjecting depending on meta, but you are correct that Brave the Elements is the weakest one. It doesn't really help you win, and only really is useful against Merfolk, which we've good a pretty decent chance against. Your other cards are all fine options.

I'm definitely not a fan of Pendelhaven at all. It's useless with Honor of the Pure, which I'd consider one of the better cards in the deck, and while you're not running Honor, it's still not stellar. It doesn't produce any white mana, which I see as the biggest problem. It's somewhat justifiable if you have Sundering Growth in the sideboard, but mostly bad for mana.

You should consider running mainboard Leonin Arbiters to make your GQs better; maybe take out some O Rings for these. It really, really helps against Tron, and can nerf fetches, or divert removal away from a more important creature.

I have been getting killed lately by Grixis. Even with Rest In Peace in play, they just seem to be able to wipe the board then never let a spell resolve.
Anything else to try or is this just a bad matchup vs SS?

a.stebel I think it's more a question of play style, sequencing, and smart plays. You may want to experiment with a black splash, though. Lingering Souls is great. I don't recommend it in general, but it might be alright against Grixis control, even though I don't see that as a bad matchup.

Is the one sideboard copy of Leyline of Sanctity worth it? I cant imagine that you really care about the burn matchup because of the inherent game plan of the archetype, and everything is so redundant, targeted discard seems irrelevant.

PlattBonnay Definitely not necessary, but it's better than anything else I have at the moment. It can sometimes be relevant against Burn, as it blanks Skullcrack, and can definitely slow them down. Relevant against Scapeshift decks, which are picking up in popularity again.

I feel like an extra Suppression Field would be better. Gives you another way to turn off the Twin combo, completely kills fetchlands, stops ravager from being terrifying, and it slows down manlands which, with the new ones being printed, might become more relevant.

you have Windbrisk Heights in there 8 times.

horatio13 It's only 4 copies, just in multiple categories.

i know that, it fits in both categories but if you count up all of your cards excluding the duplicates in your mainboard you will get 56.

never mind that lol, you're good.

I play against a ton of counter magic in my local meta. What are your thoughts on cavern of souls? With only the pridemate and the angel of thune being the non humans, it seems like it may be helpful.

Keeshe Yeah, generally you want 1-2 Caverns in blue heavy metas. If most decks are blue, you could run the full 4, but that's usually a bad idea with Spectral Procession. If you have no blue in the meta, then a basic Plains is just better. It casts all your spells, and has no drawbacks.