I am more than satisfied with this review! First of all, it was such a treat seeing you get so excited about this deck because it is by far my favorite I play. Although, I want to say here that it's not really my idea. It's mostly a deck called "Brune Blinks Bombs" by Niko9 on Tappedout, I've just been playing it and making small changes for about a year. I think you're super right about some of the angel cards. The big reason I was playing Pristine Angel with Concerted Effort instead of Odric was that Odric doesn't spread out protection whereas Concerted Effort does. With Concerted Effort out, Pristine Angel can share it's protection with all your other creatures (I think) which is very strong. That being said, it almost never happens. You can fetch Concerted Effort from grave, but it being 4 mana makes your options a little more limited. You CAN fetch Pristine, but the only time you'd want to is if you already have a strong board state that you want to protect. Ultimately, I think it's worth cutting both cards and just throwing in Odric for Akroma. Edit: I forgot to mention that Akroma count's protection as well, so there's that. On Reveillark... I'm not sure how I feel about adding an infinite combo to the deck, as just knowing you have one can make other players focus you a lot more. I think adding rule of law style effects can help mitigate that extra focus though, so I'm gonna try those as well. I think I'm going to spend a week or so playtesting some of your suggestions with proxies and resubmit an updated decklist! I really like Urza's saga in particular and I can't believe I never realized the utility in reanimating it. Thanks so much for the review!
Great review! Erika is a good friend of mine; she was elated to have you review her list :) I'd also suggest you recommend Ranger of Eos (the 4 drop) to mono-white & white/splash decks as well. It's far more budget friendly, and while it's slightly more expensive and has no silence, it fetches two 1-drops. There are many potent 1-drops in white, giving access to ramp, protection, draw, reanimation, and a bit of removal. I even get Thraben Inspector in my other budget decks as we're just starved for draw. I'm also quite fond of Restoration Specialist. It's not 1 mana, sadly, and not many decks can field it, but it's great access to grave in a few decks. Also fond of Ambitious Farmhand. It consistently gets your land-play, and has a small - if noteworthy - 3/3 lifelink body as benefit on the flipside. While ramping directly into play with the doggo's is ofc strong, it requires lesser-lands. On that note, when playing the doggo's (and other lesser-land ramps) I tend to play whatever Karoo lands I can, including a-typical ones such as Guildless Commons and Lotus Field.
I am more than satisfied with this review!
First of all, it was such a treat seeing you get so excited about this deck because it is by far my favorite I play. Although, I want to say here that it's not really my idea. It's mostly a deck called "Brune Blinks Bombs" by Niko9 on Tappedout, I've just been playing it and making small changes for about a year.
I think you're super right about some of the angel cards. The big reason I was playing Pristine Angel with Concerted Effort instead of Odric was that Odric doesn't spread out protection whereas Concerted Effort does. With Concerted Effort out, Pristine Angel can share it's protection with all your other creatures (I think) which is very strong. That being said, it almost never happens. You can fetch Concerted Effort from grave, but it being 4 mana makes your options a little more limited. You CAN fetch Pristine, but the only time you'd want to is if you already have a strong board state that you want to protect. Ultimately, I think it's worth cutting both cards and just throwing in Odric for Akroma. Edit: I forgot to mention that Akroma count's protection as well, so there's that.
On Reveillark... I'm not sure how I feel about adding an infinite combo to the deck, as just knowing you have one can make other players focus you a lot more. I think adding rule of law style effects can help mitigate that extra focus though, so I'm gonna try those as well.
I think I'm going to spend a week or so playtesting some of your suggestions with proxies and resubmit an updated decklist! I really like Urza's saga in particular and I can't believe I never realized the utility in reanimating it.
Thanks so much for the review!
These are really entertaining! Just discovered your channel from this video very recently and am looking forward to binging your videos!
Great review! Erika is a good friend of mine; she was elated to have you review her list :)
I'd also suggest you recommend Ranger of Eos (the 4 drop) to mono-white & white/splash decks as well. It's far more budget friendly, and while it's slightly more expensive and has no silence, it fetches two 1-drops. There are many potent 1-drops in white, giving access to ramp, protection, draw, reanimation, and a bit of removal. I even get Thraben Inspector in my other budget decks as we're just starved for draw.
I'm also quite fond of Restoration Specialist. It's not 1 mana, sadly, and not many decks can field it, but it's great access to grave in a few decks.
Also fond of Ambitious Farmhand. It consistently gets your land-play, and has a small - if noteworthy - 3/3 lifelink body as benefit on the flipside. While ramping directly into play with the doggo's is ofc strong, it requires lesser-lands. On that note, when playing the doggo's (and other lesser-land ramps) I tend to play whatever Karoo lands I can, including a-typical ones such as Guildless Commons and Lotus Field.
rest in peace seems like sweet tech to stop opponents from doing unfair stuff
Rest in peace disrupts your own graveyard tho so the deck wouldn’t run with RIP out
I promise you that Phillip knows this already haha