I have been a collector and a player of Magic the Gathering trading card game since 1994. I am no Grand Prix or Pro Tour champion, nor am I an expert of the game, but I simply love the concept and the challenge it offers. I've been brainstorming on the best combos in a particular deck for years, and my DeckLab posts are simply to share what cards I own and what I believe is a fun, affordable and effective combination of MTG cards.
Indestructible Overknights
Indestructible Overknights
Format: Modern
Color's: White and Red
Decklist:
Creatures: 36
4x Blood Knight
Lands:24
15x Plains
5x Mountains
4x Nevermore
1x Wrath of God
Loaded with creatures, you simply want to overrun your opponent to victory. The main goal is to get at least 2 Knight Exemplars and an Angelic Overseer on the board. Having two exemplars will make both indestructible, and with the Overseer in play, the exemplars and any of your other knights would give the angel hexproof and would be indestructible as well.
4 of the knights have protection from either black, red, green or white. Another key would be the Accorder Paladin. It's Battle cry ability is just insane. (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.) Considering that you have two in play, both creatures will now get +1 / +0, that hammers down 8 points of damage. If applied to the Mirran Crusader which has Double strike, that's 6 points of damage alone.
4 of the knights have protection from either black, red, green or white. Another key would be the Accorder Paladin. It's Battle cry ability is just insane. (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.) Considering that you have two in play, both creatures will now get +1 / +0, that hammers down 8 points of damage. If applied to the Mirran Crusader which has Double strike, that's 6 points of damage alone.
I am a bit uncertain about the Grand Abolisher since it is not protected by the exemplars ability nor does it have any protection from colors. Though this would keep your opponent from casting spells or using abilities during your turn (Make them use up their mana during their turn instead). I already managed to get 2x Hero of Bladehold and replaced the Riftmarked Knight. The Bladehold also has Battle cry and whenever it attacks it generates two 1/1/ white soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Still saving up to replace the Caravan Escort with 4x Student of Warfare.
I tweaked the sideboard which now contains 4 copies of Nevermores to supress the likes of counterspells or spells that force you to sacrifice creatures, or any other instant or sorcery that may be a threat mid game. I initially had Incinerate thinking that if I would probably be faced with an Aggro creature deck or Beatdown, the Incinerates would deal with the early game mob; but with the amount of creatures I have on this deck, will just take them head-on. I still kept 4 copies of the O-Rings in locking down cards that get through the Nevermores. Planar Cleansing, Wrath of God and Obliterate could spell victory as well in the later rounds when your creatures have indestructible. I included 4 Skyhunters in case the opponent has a huge air cavalry.
Why not do mono-white? I wanted to insert Tajic since it has a built in indestructible ability already. Even without the exemplars to protect my knights, Tajic's stand alone indestructible gives me that window to protect my Overseer. I could actually have gone for an Avacyn, Angel of Hope, but it's just too expensive and the casting cost it too high and it's not a Human. For Konda, Lord of Eiganjo, casting cost is too high as well and the Transcendent Master takes time to level up before it gains indestructible.
Why not do black-white knight deck? This could actually be an option for me as there are a number of knight cards in black that can fit in: Black Knight. Haakon, Stromgald Scourge. Knight of Infamy. Phyrexian Crusader. Stillmoon Cavalier. (It just so happens that I haven't gotten most of these yet.) Black also gives me access to some creature removal and discard spells. So looking forward to creating a BW Knight deck soon.
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