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Right, so turns out there is a standard event coming up the 26th, and since it usually takes at least a week to get cards over from the US, and I don't have a competitive standard deck yet, I am in kind of hurry to throw something playable together

The basic idea popped up when i noticed "hey, these detain guys are all humans!" which first led to throwing champion of the parish into azorius, but then after some tweaking I have come up with the initial list below. The idea is to use the control of Azorius to keep my enemy in check, while the champions run them through before they have a board set up and at the same time keeping the hitters ahead of the competition by regularly dropping more humans, simply zerging them as plan B if they get rid of the champs.

4 x champion of the parish
3 x azorius arrester
2 x new prahv guildmage
4 x crusader of odric
3 x lyev skyknight
3 x fiend hunter
3 x thraben doomsayer
2 x azorius justiciar
3 x angel of jubilation
2 x captain of the watch

Creatures: 2 x 9

2 x honor of the pure (ok, turns out i need to replace this entirely, but with what? )
3 x oblivion ring
1 x detention sphere
1 x ajani, caller of the pride
1 x increasing devotion

spells: 8

lands: to be added once I know how much i will need of each.


Any suggestions are welcome. No, restoration angel is just outside my budget

Hm, true, I don't know why i thought Glorious anthem was M13.

Suggestions for what I could replace them with? and thoughts on the deck otherwise?

Hm, however Thraben doomsayer has the benefit that it makes both the crusader of odric and champion of the parish bigger every single turn. Also, I have been looking at gather the townsfolk and cathars´ crusade in conjuction with the "human swarm" aspect of the deck, thoughts?

Thanks a lot for the advice, and while i follow your argument, and really love using Captain's call in my mtgo deck, I do mind that it makes soldiers, not humans, and so only synergizes with The angel of jubilation, if we assume that Captain of the watch is too expensive at 6cmc. Precinct captain has the same "problem", although it is a 2/2 first striker for 2 mana, so he is still value enough on his own.

Any thoughts on creature-to-spells ratio? Already made sure to get my hands on Cloudshift , however with this many creatures it also seems to limit what there is room for. What should the main functions of the spells be in this?


Also, current edition of the sideboard:


riders of gavony
Elite inquisitor
faith's reward


(amounts of each not determined yet)
The two first ones are obvious; They get out zombies, I get out anti-zombies. And Faith's reward is to deal with any decks I might come across that features sweepers. But, I am frankly not very much into all this sideboarding buisiness, so any help getting that sorted would also be apreciated.

nice deck.