Bant Aggro/exalted

Adams · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 6

Hey hey! posted this at wrong forum first, so i thought id post it here instead (and prolly dont get suggs to insert cards from other sets)

anyway here is the list:

// Lands
4 [ALA] Forest (4)
4 [ALA] Island (2)
8 [ALA] Plains (2)
4 [ALA] Seaside Citadel
4 [ALA] Bant Panorama

// Creatures
4 [ALA] Sigiled Paladin
4 [ALA] Jhessian Infiltrator
4 [ALA] Akrasan Squire
4 [ALA] Rafiq of the Many
2 [ALA] Battlegrace Angel
2 [ALA] Stoic Angel
4 [ALA] Guardians of Akrasa

// Spells
4 [ALA] Oblivion Ring
4 [ALA] Bant Charm
4 [ALA] Angelic Benediction

// Sideboard
SB: 4 [ALA] Rhox War Monk
SB: 2 [ALA] Cradle of Vitality
SB: 4 [ALA] Naturalize
SB: 4 [ALA] Hindering Light
SB: 1 [ALA] Sigil of Distinction

so what do you think?

Peace!
/Adams

rdeg87 · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 277

Why isnt War Monk in the main, seems much better than Guardians.
Also look at the colour requirements for your two drops
WW or GU. Somethings gotta give here

Delicious · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 818

i think bant will be the rising force in block. The exalted feature makes it so dangerous.

But i really think you should wait for a conflux full spoiler until making any heavy decisions

but with that:

i think you need 4 main deck Rhox War Monks. a 3/4 with lifelink is abosutely house in block. It's good in every match up an should never be sided out.

I also think if you wanna keep your mana intensive creature (not number but different colors) yo are going to want atleast one fixer. take your pick.

When conflux is fully released i will be playing Bant also, but i will be going more control than anything

FiReBLT · Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 207

Noble Heirach will make this deck even better, and go alongside the squire very nicely.

I wouldn't worry about the mana for the moment, there are some great multilands coming out.

Adams · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 6

well i have the Guardians mosty for exalted AND for the ability to sacrifice (block big guys) since i dont wanna kill some of my other dudes and still dun wanna take dmg, i have the roxes in SB so i'll prolly try some games w/ rhoxes in MD and se how it goes, it all depends on meta.

and yes, noble hierarch will be a nice addition to this deck Smile

) will prolly take 4 of those and insert instead of guardains or the angelic blessings.

im rly wanna see the whole conflux set

asamodious · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 281

Chatzuk · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 4

no elspeth?

venom_aa · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 82

I have been trying this version.
3 Arcane Sanctum
3 Island
7 Forest
8 Plains
4 Seaside Citadel
3 Qasali Ambusher
4 Oblivion Ring
4 Sigil Blessing
4 Rhox War Monk
3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
4 Guardians of Akrasa
2 Knight-Captain of Eos
4 Sigiled Paladin
4 Akrasan Squire
3 Rafiq of the Many

Until conflux comes out im not going to build the sb.

I tried to fix the WW vs UWG (monk) mana base problem adding 3 arcane sanctum (another source of UW) sacrifing tempo for mana stability.
Still i think ill swap a forest for another island.
Ambsher is great combat trick as so is sigil blessing.
About not adding the bant charm i do think that o-ring is a better removal and is not as mana intensive as the charm.

shadoshi · Joined: 17 Jan 2009 Posts: 18

yeah o-ring is less mana intensive but the charm can be useful in other ways too. charms have saved me more times than i can count

venom_aa · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 82

this is my latest version of bant.

// Deck file for Magic Workstation (http://www.magicworkstation.com)
// NAME: Untitled Deck

// Lands
7 [ALA] Forest (1)
3 [CFX] Ancient Ziggurat
8 [ALA] Plains (1)
4 [ALA] Seaside Citadel
2 [ALA] Jungle Shrine

// Creatures
4 [ALA] Rhox War Monk
4 [ALA] Sigiled Paladin
3 [ALA] Rafiq of the Many
4 [CFX] Noble Hierarch
4 [CFX] Knight of the Reliquary

// Spells
4 [CFX] Path to Exile
3 [CFX] Banefire
4 [ALA] Oblivion Ring
4 [ALA] Bant Charm
2 [ALA] Excommunicate

// Sideboard
SB: 4 [CFX] Vedalken Outlander
SB: 4 [CFX] Filigree Fracture
SB: 4 [CFX] Mark of Asylum
SB: 3 [CFX] Celestial Purge

While testing i found out that the biggest problem of the deck is the exalted mechanism itself. Since youre atacking most times with one exalted creature it often gets blocked. And since the later game isnt that really good for this kind of game i changed it to a kind of control deck. Removing and bouncing potential blockers from play.
KoR is there for mana fixing and the bannefire is there for a finisher.