So I set out to both feed my nostalgia, and brew a deck that doesn't have to change. And I went through a few hypothesis renditions - I tried rebel yell, I tried soldiers, clerics, and just human, but I didn't have enough payoffs to make it really stand out. Then I decided I'd just do a "goodstuff" deck as a greatest hits compilation. But I disliked the lack of overall synergy. Then I read Silvar again, whom this deck is secretly built around but with Trynn adding a colour and some backup and that's when it hit me - banding was the key ability! For the two of you reading that know what Banding is, you're nodding your head right? For those that don't, let me clue you in; banding is an old mechanic that lets you blatantly cheat at combat, in a nutshell. If you give Silvar Banding, he and another creature can now attack with impunity, block with impunity and, as I discovered soon after, he was a damage sponge. And what can we do with that? Hmm, if only there was a way we could shift all the damage we take onto a creature and become a veritable lich, unnaturally extending our own life in a way that keeps us omnipresent with everyone else at the table...
Oh wait, that does exist. Enter Pariah.
Pariah Control
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Deckstats (so you can audit my choices if you were so inclined to verify I have stuck to old face cards only): http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/trynn-si ... h-control/