As for as I know, I haven't seen any pure Knights decks on the internet that use tri-color. So fingers crossed that this deck would work.
My concern is that this deck may be trying to do too much, but the advantage is that it has multiple engines to win a game and it has very good synergies.
I see interesting things that you're trying to do, that it could work, but things I notice that are going to make your life hell.
Your curve is all over the place. I count (among the creatures):
4 1-drops
4 2-drops
10 3-drops
4 4-drops
That is one topheavy curve for a deck that is trying to use vial. Additionally, you aren't catering to any one color's particular strengths, and several of their weaknesses. Consider this:
You run haakon, which favors a heavy recursion engine, but you run no protected beaters to help with this. You also run no ways to easily get him into the yard.
You chose raven's crime, in a deck with knight of the reliquary and only 21 lands. For such a top heavy deck, even packing aether vial, you probably won't get to use it very often.
Knight of the reliquary likes lands, lots of them. You could quite easily run 24 lands in this deck and it may not even be enough.
3 of these cards and no obvious synergy. Now, what if you add this old gem called Life from the loam? You recur lands you loamed or raven's crimed away, you also get the dredge engine which is supremely helpful to both ravens crime AND haakon, stromgald scourge. Now, you're playing a recursive knights strategy that is much harder to defeat sans grave hate.
I would also caution that your 4 drops need to go bye bye! You won't alpha strike any time soon, and phyrexian metamorph doesn't help you deal with anything that this particular three color deck couldn't just straight blow up straightaway.
In that particular mind, why not abrupt decay or maelstrom pulse? they are good catch all cards that you should probably run main or side, especially the pulse. This would allow you to give better aggro strategies a run for their money more easily.
I playtested this deck in Cockatrice today and you are right about a lot of the things you said.
Its mana curve needs to be fixed, more 2CMC creatures. Kinsbaile Cavalier can win games but with only 2 in the deck he doesn't show up most of the time to be efffective.
I run 23 lands in this deck, and I find that it's usually enough, especially with fetchlands and Knight of the White Orchid.
I think I will replace my Path to Exile with Abrupt Decay, that's good advice. Abrupt Decay is just much more versatile as currently without SB my deck has no way to deal with enchantments or artifacts.
Should my deck use Elspeeth, Knight-Errant or Liliana of the Veil?
liliana,because you want that synergy with haakon(also nice with KotR). But why don't you have both by replacing the kinsbaile cavaliers with liliana instead? The double strike isn't really necessary.
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4 Student of Warfare
4 Knight of the White Orchid
2 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Knight Exemplar
2 Kinsbaile Cavalier
4 Aether Vial
3 Raven's Crime
3 Nameless Inversion
3 Path to Exile
3 Godless Shrine
2 Marsh Flats
2 Swamp
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Temple Garden
2 Horizon Canopy
2 Sejiri Steppe
2 Flagstones of Trokair
6 Plain
1 Vault of the Archangel
As for as I know, I haven't seen any pure Knights decks on the internet that use tri-color. So fingers crossed that this deck would work.
My concern is that this deck may be trying to do too much, but the advantage is that it has multiple engines to win a game and it has very good synergies.
Your curve is all over the place. I count (among the creatures):
4 1-drops
4 2-drops
10 3-drops
4 4-drops
That is one topheavy curve for a deck that is trying to use vial. Additionally, you aren't catering to any one color's particular strengths, and several of their weaknesses. Consider this:
You run haakon, which favors a heavy recursion engine, but you run no protected beaters to help with this. You also run no ways to easily get him into the yard.
You chose raven's crime, in a deck with knight of the reliquary and only 21 lands. For such a top heavy deck, even packing aether vial, you probably won't get to use it very often.
Knight of the reliquary likes lands, lots of them. You could quite easily run 24 lands in this deck and it may not even be enough.
3 of these cards and no obvious synergy. Now, what if you add this old gem called Life from the loam? You recur lands you loamed or raven's crimed away, you also get the dredge engine which is supremely helpful to both ravens crime AND haakon, stromgald scourge. Now, you're playing a recursive knights strategy that is much harder to defeat sans grave hate.
I would also caution that your 4 drops need to go bye bye! You won't alpha strike any time soon, and phyrexian metamorph doesn't help you deal with anything that this particular three color deck couldn't just straight blow up straightaway.
In that particular mind, why not abrupt decay or maelstrom pulse? they are good catch all cards that you should probably run main or side, especially the pulse. This would allow you to give better aggro strategies a run for their money more easily.
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Its mana curve needs to be fixed, more 2CMC creatures. Kinsbaile Cavalier can win games but with only 2 in the deck he doesn't show up most of the time to be efffective.
I run 23 lands in this deck, and I find that it's usually enough, especially with fetchlands and Knight of the White Orchid.
I think I will replace my Path to Exile with Abrupt Decay, that's good advice. Abrupt Decay is just much more versatile as currently without SB my deck has no way to deal with enchantments or artifacts.
Should my deck use Elspeeth, Knight-Errant or Liliana of the Veil?