But the first one was basically the one that make me more excited. It's a white Nettle Sentinel that you can abuse if you build the deck in the right way. Then I realized that it was a combo with any soul sister (Soul warden, Soul's Attendant, Leyline of vitality,essence warden) and the presence of gond. So if you have any lifegain affect + Paladin + presence then you can make infinite elf warriors and gain infinite life as soon as turn 3.
Because I want to be able to do it consistently we have forerruner to find any of our Paladin so now we have 8 paladins to begin with.
Because I need green to the presence of gond I though in which cards I could also use and found that Chameleon colossus is another great green vamp that can be searched with forerunner and the pro-black is very relevant these days.
Also you have access to mirror entity which can break clogged tables if needed.
I like the combo, and think you could probably make it the main focus of the deck.
If you want to go more of the straight combo route, I'd for sure run the full playset of Presence of Gond. There's also Midnight Guard (infinite 2-card combo with Presence of Gond, and could replace Forerunner of the Legion), Heliod's Pilgrim (searches out your PoGs), Intruder Alarm if you want to go Bant, and if you want to branch into Naya colors, Elemental Mastery works too.
I agree that you do not get enough value from forrunner. Yes it can search for... something, but to play a 3 drop 2/2 and have to wait a turn to play the... Something it needs to be a great and wonderful card. The only card I see that meets those conditions is Colossus. And thats only great in certain circumstances.
I'd cut the forrunner and the package entirely and make it a value train deck with the occasional opps I went infinate combo rather than relying on sub par cards to get a responsible to combo that involves 3 or more cards.
After reading the full spoiler of rivals of ixalan there was two cards that take my attention, They were:
But the first one was basically the one that make me more excited. It's a white Nettle Sentinel that you can abuse if you build the deck in the right way. Then I realized that it was a combo with any soul sister (Soul warden, Soul's Attendant, Leyline of vitality,essence warden) and the presence of gond. So if you have any lifegain affect + Paladin + presence then you can make infinite elf warriors and gain infinite life as soon as turn 3.
Because I want to be able to do it consistently we have forerruner to find any of our Paladin so now we have 8 paladins to begin with.
Because I need green to the presence of gond I though in which cards I could also use and found that Chameleon colossus is another great green vamp that can be searched with forerunner and the pro-black is very relevant these days.
Also you have access to mirror entity which can break clogged tables if needed.
So I begin to build and develop the next list:
4 Essence Warden
3 Legion's Landing
4 Leyline of vitality
4 Famished Paladin
4 Adanto Vanguard
4 Metallic Mimic
4 Forerunner of the legion
3 Presence of Gond
1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
1 Mirror Entity
1 Chameleon Colossus
4 Path to exile
4 Windswept heath
3 Wooded Foothills
1 Temple Garden
4 razorverge thicket
2 Cavern of souls
1 Gavony township
2 Forest
2 Plains
1 Sapseep Forest
There is also more combos with the Famished Paladin (like basilisk collar + viridian longbow) or Resplendent Mentor for infinite life but this cmobos can't be searched for.
What do you think? What direction would you take to focus the deck?
If you want to go more of the straight combo route, I'd for sure run the full playset of Presence of Gond. There's also Midnight Guard (infinite 2-card combo with Presence of Gond, and could replace Forerunner of the Legion), Heliod's Pilgrim (searches out your PoGs), Intruder Alarm if you want to go Bant, and if you want to branch into Naya colors, Elemental Mastery works too.
I might also look at more mana dorks (Noble Hierarch would be ideal, but Avacyn's Pilgrim works just fine too!)
To make the combo more bolt-proof, you could also consider Spellskite, Honor of the Pure, and Mutagenic Growth.
I like that Leyline of Vitality puts your combo pieces out of bolt range.
Cards I could see cutting are:
- Andanto Vanguard
- Metallic Mimic
- Mavren Faien, Dusk Apostle
- Chameleon Colossus
- Legion's Landing
- Forerunner of the Legion
(probably better to just run Midnight Guard)I'd cut the forrunner and the package entirely and make it a value train deck with the occasional opps I went infinate combo rather than relying on sub par cards to get a responsible to combo that involves 3 or more cards.