You can do what you want, but i'll give you my reasons.. the only reason i'm diong that is becuase I honestly thought about the deck for quite a long time, felt kind a bad when you didn't like my chocies.. but here's why i had them..


The Dark Confidants are far drawing power, since the buried alive will remove many creatures.. this will let you draw lands and cheap cards at little to no damage. This will let you also get and maintain monsters to use for deathrender to your hand. Basically now you can run fewer lands and fewer rending blades and fewer of many cards because now you're drawing faster. And since you'll draw faster you'll get more creatures so you can maintain the use and benefits of deathrender. I think without it then with rending blade out.. you wont' get the use out of it very much. It'd work twice and just stop working for a few draws then work again... With the confidants you'll keep drawing to maintain the use of rending, and it gets the cards you need faster to accelerate the deck.


That's why i like the dark confidants, just because it's a Knight deck doesn't mean they all have to knights I really think it helps.



The 4 buries alive, are a MUST, Syd made this deck with that card. They make it so much faster.. the reason for 4 is that you need a high probability of getting that card, and you need to make sure you get them before drawing Haakon. It's not that you need to draw all 4, because you won't.. on average you'll likely only draw two per game. And your deck has enough knights to easily accomidate two buried alives. You can dump Haakon + 2x Indestructible first time around.. second time.. get the double strike guy, and another knight of your choice.

I honestly think of Buried alives as duplicates of any knight in your deck. You can get any knight you want to the gy, and then to the field with that card. So you have the +1/+1 indestructible in your hand you can get the Double Strike guy. Any knight you want, that card can get. So it's a duplicate copy of any knight, you need or want at the time. Your basically running 8 Exemplars in the deck as far a draw probability goes when you have 4 buried.

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More swamps than plains, uhmmm...the deck has higher white color weight than it does black, so...yeah...

Ya i was playing around with the deck at one time i had 4 Sign in bloods in there but i swapped them for the dark confidants. So i made changes because of that and Didn't undo them.. I also figured the draw ability would draw more lands out for you.. so i dropped the lands down from 22 to 21, that and you have a low CMC. I left in 1 white knight of the orchid, just in case you need to get more lands, but i didn't think you would. but just left one.. The idea was if you needed more lands you'd get him out with Buried. I thought about dropping him.. you probably can. That would get the deck down to 60.

It's not perfect, like i said it needs some work still.

Those were my thoughts, that's why i put in the cards i did. IF you ever want to play test.. i'll do it with you. Try different deck compositions.

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Kyrios, sounds like you're making some good decisions. I still prefer Peace of Mind in this deck over Buried Alive

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Jeebus forget anything good i've ever said to you about magic. askjfh Strongarm tactics is better than that.. and strongarm sucks compared to buried.

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Hey Kyrios did you build this deck, if so How'd it go?

My biggest problem with it, tad too slow, and path to exile will rape the hell out of you if they save it for haakon. That's why you might need to run three haakon, and why the Dark Confidants might be good, so they waste some creature removal on them. That and quick combo decks.


That's the biggest problem I see.

It's greatest strength, if you give it some room to breathe, and you're playing people who don't have cards like PTE, or Sword to Plow shares, ... you have a stable replenishable deadly force. You also have great defense against strong creatures of theirs, key creatures of theirs, and flyers. You should dominate the field.

The weakness you have are large... let's just hope their combo decks are a bit too slow, and you dodge the pte's.

The deck looks fun, it can get powerful if you give it time.

You might need like 3 haakons, 4 buried, and 2 strong arm tactics (or peace of mind), not sure what you're running now.

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so snow, did it take you a full 19 days to come up with your suggestions so you could necro the thread?

I honestly had those suggestions from day one,... I was curious if he made the deck, and then i decided to throw those suggestions out there, see what he says.