Thursday, November 10, 2011

Innistrad Hold the Line Event Decks

Hold the Line:
  • Low-cost creatures like Elite Vanguard and Champion of the Parish to pressure your opponent starting from the first turn, then suit up your creatures with Equipment to maintain your advantage into the midgame.
  • It gives you plenty of ways to overcome opposing creatures. Being able to tap enemy creatures with Gideon's Lawkeeper and then sneak some damage through, or exile enemy creatures with Oblivion Ring and Fiend Hunter to clear potential blockers out of the way.
  • Bonds of Faith is another fun removal spell. If your opponent doesn't have any creatures, though, you can always cast Bonds of Faith on one of your own creatures.

After sideboarding, you have access to answers for specific threats. Get rid of problematic red or black permanents with Celestial Purge. Use Nihil Spellbomb to end any graveyard-based shenanigans. Call on Suture Priest for a hefty life drain against creature-based decks. Blow up annoying artifacts and enchantments with Leonin Relic-Warder. Lastly, prevent problem cards from being played entirely with Nevermore!

There are multiple ways you could alter the deck to suit your own playing style. You could make the deck even more aggressive with more cards like Champion of the Parish and Elite Inquisitor. Alternatively, you could "go bigger" with larger if slightly slower creatures. Hero of Bladehold brings along an army whenever it attacks, and Mikaeus, the Lunarch can add +1/+1 counters to build that army to colossal size.

It's your choice if you choose to Hold The Line!

Deck List:
Main Deck
60 cards
24  Plains

24 lands

4  Accorder Paladin
1  Champion of the Parish
4  Doomed Traveler
1  Elite Inquisitor
2  Elite Vanguard
4  Fiend Hunter
4  Gideon's Lawkeeper
2  Mirran Crusader

22 creatures
4  Bonds of Faith
2  Butcher's Cleaver
2  Honor of the Pure
4  Oblivion Ring
2  Silver-Inlaid Dagger

14 other spells

Sideboard
4  Celestial Purge
4  Leonin Relic-Warder
1  Nevermore
3  Nihil Spellbomb
3  Suture Priest

15 sideboard cards

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