Here's what i think you need to do:
1.) add at least 3 lands (your deck doesn't need much to get going, most cards are cheap just need to make sure you draw them, especially early on)
2.) get 2-3 high costing sweet knights (you can get them out 3 ways discarding them to gy, by whatever means you discard haakon, using render blades on them, or hard casting.. they'd also be a good card to have to discard if you don't have a haakon in your hand to discard at the time)
3.) drop some of the following render blades, Door of destinies, or kanada's
4.) Side board the Doomblades put in cards to accelerate your set up
5.) Get some cards that let you draw cards from black to speed up your combo... especially find a way to discard Haakon, i currently don't see one.. (you may have some black cards that'll let you draw then discard a card or something) need to find something like that. and also add at least 1 haakon.


You need a way to get your knights powerful faster, and get your guy out that makes you knights indestructible, right now they're not buffed up to anything significant until turn 5 really until you can get a card like coat of arms...

Those are my biggest tips. And then Sideboard against combos, which you'll be weakest against. use demystifies, thoughtsieze etc...

Good concept though has potential.

Here's more along the lines i'm thinking of. Some Dark Confidents, the pay 2 life and draw 2 cards black card... maybe a card like small pox, so you can discard, and you operate off low mana base anyway so probably hurt opponent more. You need to find a card that has a cost you that let's you discard a card. i'm sure there are some good black ones.

Haakon seems best off in some sort of Dredge deck.. but i think you can make use of him... AS fo right now though if you have no good way to discard him yuou'll have to sub him out. If i get a chacne i'll look at the other card options you posted.

Even if you get rid of Haakon all together... you still need a way to draw faster, to get to your +1/+1 indestructible. You need to put some drawing cards in there.. or way to get that sweet knight guy out. Syd's idea for the marsh flats is perfect for your deck.. you don't care about drawing lands later in the game, just make sure you have them early, and that's what marsh flats grants you. That in addition to giving you the option of choosing what type of land you need at the time.

My guess is though if you had that card, it'd already be in your deck. But it is worth getting, woudl help your deck a lot.

Ya that'll help with land... But without that indestructible guy.. just a few hard casted 2/2 knights aren't that special and might not stick around on the field for very long. That's why i'd recommend some drawing power to get haakon and that guy... if you have key cards you need, then you want to be able to have a decent chance of drawing them. It's alright as is, but i think it'll be too slow, maybe work out in multiplayer. Actually i just looked at what Syd recommend and he answers your problems beautifully.. that card is perfect for your deck. (I explain why below), but it does still leave one hole.

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...why would he want to get rid of the Haakon, when it's clearly a Haakon deck?

Jeebus made a simiilar suggestion, after i made it of course.... the reason being if he has no good outs for discards then haakon becomes a dead draw. He needs to have a way to discard him.. and if he does that I'd also recommend putting in 2-3 high costing knights because that'll give you more discard options, if you need them. Or you can hard cast. Jeebus' knight that grants other knights double strike is amazing for this deck.

Lastly haakon is not the only thing this deck has going for it, but haakon is very useful for this deck.


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Also Syd the card you recommended is awesome for this deck, that let's him put knights he wants to get out qujicly into the gy, and it lets him get haakon to the gy.. so now he basically has more copies of both haakon and the +1/+1 indestructible buy. and Jeebu's knight card if he wants them... i'd put in 4 of Syd's card. And if you do that you can keep haakon at 2.

The only concern now is that if you draw haakon he's basically a dead draw..s o puting in at least eaqual to the number of haakon you have.. number of discard cards that lets you discard a card from your hand i'd recommend.

My other concern is that SYd's card is AMAZING for your deck.. but it also puts it in vintage legal set, which your deck probably doesnt' want to tango with decks that are vintage legal So if you go to a tournament and are like i have a vintage deck... there'd be no point o play since so many ridiculous acards are legal in that format. The card is very good for ya though.

This is assuming you can get Syd's card.. his card makes your deck orgasmic, he accelerates your deck to no other. By turn 3 ... you can now get haakon and 2 knights of your choice to the field incredibly quickly... you also thin out your deck so you can run less lands, (since your probabiltiy of drawing lands will increase due to the deck thinner).. and you can run less creatures since drawing one of Syd's awesome cards is like drawing 3 creatures.. Syd is a god damn genius. That card is just amazing.. i'm sitting here in awe in how awesome that card is for your deck. Wow... blows my mind, it's the best card in that deck, the best innovation to that deck... you will dominate any similar deck that does run that card.

Jeebus has pointed out that i have misread Haakon:
I misread Haakon to say play like once a turn a knight from the gy. But what i neglected is you still have pay it's mana cost. And you can keep diong it as long as you have mana. So those high guys aren't what we need to be having. We can have them but need rendering or a hard cast.. even from gy it's a hard cast.

We can have have some but not what i wanted to do.
NEED to take out 1 card...
4x Orzhov Basillica (21)
6x Plains
7x Swamps
4x Marsh Flats

Creatures: 20
3x Dark Confidant
3x White Knight
3x Black Knight
1x Knight of White Orchid
4x Knight Exemplar
2x Haakon, Stormgald Scourge
2x Kinsbaile Cavaliers
2x Pentarch Paladin

Other Spells: 19
3x Path to Exile
2x Day of Judgement
3x Deathrender
3x Coat of Arms
2x Strongarm Tagics
4x Buried Alive
3x Nameless Inversion


Side Board:


Demistify
emerge unscathed
thought sieze
duress
doomblade
damnation
lightwielder paladin

for 1x Pentarch Paladin
1x Knight-Captain of Eos (keep destroying him and generate a ton of tokesn with haakon, or destroy pent so you can change the color you declared, or orchid to spam lands to you)

side board conisder the decks that will be annoying for you. cards that get rid of your haakon, or key creatures... so emerge unscathed may be worth ethe SB... quick combo decks are going to hurt you badly.. so the duress and theoughtsieze to break them up.


I woudln't follow that exaclty.. that was more of quicky gist of the cards i find vaulabe in the deck... really you need to browse for the most badass knights you can find... you can get them out for free with either strongarm or buried alive... they will be 100% free. So i'd get 2-3 aweseome 5mana knight cards with cool effects.

In theory by turn 3 if you have buried alive, you can grab hakon and some badass knight for your opponent to deal with (lieke the +/1+1 indestrcuctible guy).

P.S i love damnation in your deck...sbut you just have so much creature hate.. and just field control hate in your deck right now... it's too much they'd be dead draws. i'd sideboard them in case you need it, and you recover well after it's use, even if your guys die, as long as you have haakon.

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How exactly does Haakon let you play the Adjudicator without blue mana? Oh wait, it doesn't, because you're a fucking retard and have no idea what you're talking about.

I thought it was saying play for FREE, once a turn a knight from the GY. But rather it is... play as many knights as you want from GY, but you must pay their mana cost. So haakon can't make you swarm the field with knighs asap but it can get key knights to the field from teh deck quickly

Which is something you needed. So this deck iwll be bit slower than i was originally thinking. But still if you get Syd's card it'll be much better as card will fall into place for you.


I need to tweak that deck more though now... i already made some quick tweaks to an already quickly put together deck example for you. To adjust for my now careful reading of haakon.


Edit: Gunna go to bed but here's the basic strategy as i see it... i fyou're getting close to 6 mana and you don't have render dump the big guys in the gy as well as some toher guys you watn o summon. So you dont' have to draw them. If you do have render then you want to draw the big guys dso dont' dump them.

New Draft recommendation: need to take out 1 card.

4x Orzhov Basillica (21)
6x Plains
7x Swamps
4x Marsh Flats

Creatures: 20
3x Dark Confidant
3x White Knight
3x Black Knight
1x Knight of White Orchid
4x Knight Exemplar
2x Haakon, Stormgald Scourge
2x Kinsbaile Cavaliers
2x Pentarch Paladin

Other Spells: 19
3x Path to Exile
2x Day of Judgement
3x Deathrender
3x Coat of Arms
2x Strongarm Tactics
4x Buried Alive
3x Nameless Inversion