Lands:
2 Mountain
16 Plains
4 Vivid Meadow
Creatures:
4 Goldenglow Moth
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
2 Purity
4 Sunseed Nurturer
Other Spells:
2 Ajani Goldmane
2 Ajani Vengeant
2 Boon Reflection
4 Cradle of Vitality
4 Recumbent Bliss
2 Soul's Grace
4 Wanderer's Twig |
  Vita-Cradle.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
I've had Cradle of Vitality marked on my white
board to use for a while now, and I was carefully guarding some cool
combos I'd come up and biding my time until Naya Week. That is, until my
nefarious plans were foiled by Bill Stark in his Latest Developments
column about a month ago. Not only were Spike Feeder and Kitchen Finks
mentioned, but my most secret tech of all was also publicly revealed:
Goldenglow Moth. Fortunately, there are still enough unknowns to create
a kooky but straightforward white deck in Standard that wants to abuse
the Cradle as much as possible.
The first main one is Sunseed Nurturer, who has been
dubbed by many as the worst of the Naya mini-cycle, looking up at
contemporaries Drumhunter and Exuberant Firestoker. However, it's great
alongside Cradle of Vitality. With all the life you're gaining with the
fine folks mentioned last paragraph, you're bound to have a 5-powered
creature, which is when the Nurturer kicks in with more +1/+1 counter
production.
Inspired by Doug Beyer's recent behind-the-scenes look
at the Brothers Ajani, I went with two copies of both. Ajani Vengeant
transforms the great Lightning Helix (WR) into the broken Crazy Helix
(1WWR): Bolt something, Salve yourself, and put three +1/+1 counters on
something, while Ajani Goldmane's every ability is great in this deck.
Gaining 2 life will pump something up, giving your creatures +1/+1
counters (especially persisted Kitchen Finks) and vigilance (especially
Goldenglow Moth) is key, and his ‘ultimate' ability will probably wind
up huge.
Finally, as an appropriate removal-esque card,
Recumbent Bliss can lock down a problem creature while also slowly
pumping up your team. Soul's Grace seemed too perfect, and Boon
Reflection does what all boon reflectors do best. I'm not sure what that
is on the whole, but here? Tons of life and counters. |
