There's so much unconscious sexism I'd say. I try to keep cards at it, because they're pieces of paper, and not... people? Maybe that's just me.
But the internal, mechanical usages are one thing, the external cultural ones, are completely different.
And the external, cultural ones are the ones that frustrate me the most, perpetuating myths that simply don't exist. That girls aren't competitive, or smart enough, or some artificial barrier which gives men the privileged to say such things. (not to mention the verbal sexism that occurs all. the. time. moments outside the game that can be extraordinarily wrenching to hear, watch, and socialize with)
Any time a girl is playing, it's always something to note, but, I'd like to see it never be a big deal. Another player, another person to play, and just leave it at that.
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In this particular deck.
Yes. In other decks, with other cards, not necessarily. Modern isn't a format where you have warping cards like survival or candelabra or even tabernacle. But you look at a deck like legacy Death and Taxes. If you had a card that could have the coverage of o-ring, on a stick? you could be sure it'd see play. In a heavy creature deck, it's usually OK to play creatures with the same effect because of the dearth of removal in every format. No deck plays 30 pieces of removal. Few decks play 10 pieces of removal.
You're right. There is some damage left on the table between Elspeth & SoWaP, but against most decks, if they've already taken 4-6 damage, it's negligible. You're going to get there if you connect with one or the other. Maybe it's that I see a little more artifact hate (because I do run Vials)... but, if either one actually deal damage, you're highly favored.
Where I like Elspeth more is that she works better on open boards while Sword works better on stalled boards.
The difference between Elspeth & SoWaP isn't bad from the resource department. They both become active on the same turn minimum.
Mirran Crusader + Elspeth is bonkers... and the best part is: it's un Abrupt-decayable, they can't bring in artifact hate to stop it. Any type of removal for it is sorcery speed. If they're going to bolt it, they'll bolt it regardless on equip or on the jump activation. But they can't stop it once it's happened (unlike with abrupt decay). It also has excellent additional value...
Don't think that Sigarda does the same work as Baneslayer. Baneslayer is as much an offensive threat as a defensive threat. You stabilize with Baneslayer because creatures can't attack through it without flipping the board. Sigarda doesn't do that.
Sigarda I think fits a slot like Thrun more than Baneslayer.
I/R/T Leonin Arbiter: Always worth it. Sure, it eats bolt/path/whatever. But we have threat density. Bolt Arbiter, what about Smiter? Path Arbiter, follow it up with a Voice of Resurgence. You're a creature deck. Your creatures will eat removal. But you have more creatures than they have creatures and removal most of the time (sans zoo, but most of your creatures are bigger than them).
I think you could possibly play another Wildwood or Tec Edge if you'd want. You do play a lot of untapped t1 green sources, which should allow you to play more utility lands imo.
No Baneslayer > Baneslayer.
To be fair, I'd rather cast Worship than Baneslayer any/every game.
Elspeth is like a sword. If you don't have any board presence, it's not great. But unlike a sword, with elspeth you can at least get some board presence on an empty board.
Why did I like SoWaP over L&S? Because the decks I'd want swords against were: UWR, and UWR doesn't play an attrition game that much, your recursion isn't nearly as strong. You just want to push damage as quick as possible. It's totally possible to just go t1 birds, t2 sword, and win the game from there. But I don't think the swords is nearly as good as it was.
there's literally 100 different resources on how to do it, but most of it is involving templating...
I also think Lead the Stampede is usually better fit by more creatures... If you just top deck better (which is what this deck wants to do), you have a tight manabase as is, and aren't usually able to play more than one threat a turn. I get having boatloads of pressure is awesome, but without a way to reliably fill the board turn after turn with 2+ creatures that are value (like it would be in a Zoo, or Elves deck). It's good for digging and filtering out lands (to the bottom), but I think cards like Horizon Canopy I feel fit the role of improving top decks better.
Re: Nylea. Wouldn't play well with worship, because if you only have 1 creature, and it's Nylea, it's not a creature, and turns Worship off.
Creatures: if you're concerned about creatures, play sunlance. If you don't want enemy's to fetch, play Arbiter + Mindecensor. But most of the time. Just don't care about the land you give them.
It's a local threat, yes, but a GP or straight modern 8+ rounder, I think it's fringy enough still not to worry about devoting that many cards to it. I think postboard you're able to get there most of the time with just what's in your toolbox. Maybe a rule of law as well. But Thalia, Rule of Law, Worship, Spellskite, and Land Destruction make this a great matchup in practice. I have quite a few people locally who continue to play Ad Nauseum and just don't get the time, and get wrecked. If you have a clock and disruption, you get there 80% of the time post-board.
I also don't think I've seen Gottlieb or Boettcher pick up Ad Nauseum since the PT (or any major players on Ad Nauseum @ GP Richmond). I think it was a meta deck for the PT and a fringe deck that gets hated out in a similar way to storm, and as long as that's the case, I think it'll sit outside.
Edit: Spellskite won't work, nor does worship, by itself, because they do play multiple Slaughter Pacts & Patrician's Scorn.
Basically everything I've done was an evolution from that.