Lands:
24 Plains
Creatures:
4 Icatian Priest
4 Starlight Invoker
4 Skyhunter Skirmisher
3 Serra Angel
Other Spells:
4 Hail of Arrows
4 Mind Stone
4 Pacifism
3 Mobilization
4 Gauntlet of Power
2 Loxodon Warhammer |
 Waiting
to X-Hail.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Mark Rosewater tallied up all the X-spells
ever printed and found that, of the five colours, white had the fewest
by far. One of those spells, Saviors of Kamigawa's Hail of Arrows, was
reprinted in 10th. Now, X-spells are generally at their best when you
can make a big X. To make a big X requires big mana. To make big mana
requires, oh, I don't know, something like Gauntlet of Power.
If you're going to use the G.O.P., you might as well
make the most of it. Luckily, 10th is full of white cards that get better
the more mana you can pump into them. Mobilization is the first and most
obvious choice, since you get to take advantage of both the Gauntlet's
mana-doubling and its creature-pumping. Players have been using Sacred
Mesa for much the same purpose since Time Spiral came out. The other cards
are a little less obvious and include a pair of other reprints: Fallen
Empires' Icatian Priest (What the heck?) and Scourge's Starlight Invoker.
Loxodon Warhammer doesn't need a lot of assistance to be good, but having
tons of mana lets you use it on offense and defense more easily.
The best white creature to pump up has got to be
Skyhunter Skirmisher, the first ever creature with double strike to appear
in a Core Set. It makes Icatian Priest's pricey pump doubly effective and
is absolutely nutty with the Warhammer. Serra Angel makes another pump
target. Add it all up, and you've got a pretty straightforward white
control deck with an excruciating pun for a name. |
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