MTG Salvation

Having already made a commander deck from Feather, brawl looks quite a bit different. With a much more limited selection of instants and sorceries, you don't have a ton of auto-include 1-mana targeting cantrips, and you can't focus on one specific synergy nearly as much, because the depth just isn't there.

So for this deck I focused on a couple different things: lifegain, damage, and power.

Lifegain is provided by the spells desperate lunge, healing grace, integrity // intervention, moment of triumph, battlefield promotion, and take heart. This lifegain is used to trigger ajani's pridemate, resplendent angel, gideon's company, and firesong and sunspeaker.

Damage is provided by the spells blindblast, jaya's immolating inferno, rile, reckless rage, integrity // intervention, and dual shot. The damage triggers raptor hatchling, trapjaw tyrant, and needletooth raptor.

Lastly, there are many instants which pump power, which provides some synergy with krenko, tin street hooligan and aurelia, exemplar of justice. Plus those two cards are just nutty good in general.

Besides that, the other creatures (plus primal amulet) trigger off casting/targeting instants and sorceries of any type, which obviously has broad synergy with all the spells. And there are some generally-useful instants and sorceries whose purpose is generally pretty self-evident.

Got to run this a couple times 1v1 last night, against my friend's decks. We were fairly evenly matched when I played my Ugin deck, with a few painful weaknesses that tended to give him the win (especially cleansing nova, grr), but with Feather I absolutely decimated. Turn 6-ish kills pretty consistently. I did have some solid starts, so remains to be seen how consistent it is, but so far it seems reeallly strong. I might try running it versus some commander decks on Thursday...hopefully there won't be another idiot who thinks I have an advantage by playing a brawl deck (yes, this actually happened at my old playgroup)!

What about nahiri's stoneblades?

I don't think it does enough. I generally avoid cmc >1 unless it's really doing work, usually in a long-term-value sense.

The one thing that's cool is targeting an enemy creature with one target to screw up attacks in multiplayer. But I don't think that's enough to justify it. Doesn't play into my synergies or give value, and it needs fairly specific boards to be good.

Fair points. Honestly it was a good synergy in limited, because even without other creatures it means 5 flying damage.

Yeah, in limited any pump is pretty nuts synergy. With all of standard, though, competition for pumps is pretty steep.

I focused mainly on those with useful bonuses like life gain, scry, counters, protection, etc.