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the Lifegain Bane
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the Lifegain Bane
There is a little bit of story behind this latest deckbuilding endeavor of mine. To start off, there are a few lifegain decks running around in our meta with various levels of survivability. During a more recent game night of our group, the decision was made to change things up a bit and do a 2HG game. Part of the reason was that we had some new players at the table whom were borrowing decks, so through this we could help them a bit more on piloting these decks.
Now, I generally try to avoid building a new deck that is similar to what the others have, so generally I just try to have ways to win despite their gained life. But during that game there were a things that happened which peeked my interest and looking into if these things could work my intrigue only grew, until I decided to start sleeving things up after all.
To keep things different, I ended up going into the Bant direction with my lifegain list just so I had access to all the colors I wanted to use within this deck. Furthermore, when I started playing Magic on our kitchen table my first deck happened to be a lifegain/clerics deck, so I am using a few cards here as a small tribute to this deck.
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the Concept
I'm still a combo player at heart, so I'm going to be playing lifegain combos to get my life going upwards. The main win conditions in this deck are Felidar Sovereign, Aetherflux Reservoir and Laboratory Maniac. But I've also added a few clones to let me piggyback on the win cons my opponents are playing, as a means to beat them at their own game. If all fails there is Approach of the Second Sun to fall back on.
The cards tributing my old deck are: Serra Avatar , Phyrexian Splicer and Soltari Visionary. The chances of pulling this off in EDH will be far more limited for sure, but they aren't necessarily dead cards.
Now, I generally try to avoid building a new deck that is similar to what the others have, so generally I just try to have ways to win despite their gained life. But during that game there were a things that happened which peeked my interest and looking into if these things could work my intrigue only grew, until I decided to start sleeving things up after all.
To keep things different, I ended up going into the Bant direction with my lifegain list just so I had access to all the colors I wanted to use within this deck. Furthermore, when I started playing Magic on our kitchen table my first deck happened to be a lifegain/clerics deck, so I am using a few cards here as a small tribute to this deck.
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I'm still a combo player at heart, so I'm going to be playing lifegain combos to get my life going upwards. The main win conditions in this deck are Felidar Sovereign, Aetherflux Reservoir and Laboratory Maniac. But I've also added a few clones to let me piggyback on the win cons my opponents are playing, as a means to beat them at their own game. If all fails there is Approach of the Second Sun to fall back on.
The cards tributing my old deck are: Serra Avatar , Phyrexian Splicer and Soltari Visionary. The chances of pulling this off in EDH will be far more limited for sure, but they aren't necessarily dead cards.
