MTG Salvation

For a Human tribal deck, if I wanted to be aggressive, Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer or Agrus Kos, Wojek Veteran would probably fit the bill a little better, but I decided on a more defensive option in Brion Stoutarm. I'm not a big fan of non-green aggro in EDH, so I wanted to use a more control-oriented general. I'd rather just keep the board locked down while abusing utility creatures.

Generally, you lock down the board and prevent your opponents from attacking or targeting you. You win with Vicious Shadows, Brion Stoutarm, and Kessig Malcontents. Denial of permanents is common through your Oblivion Ring creatures, Mangara of Corondor, etc.

When Wrathed, you recycle your creatures with Angel of Glory's Rise, Sun Titan and Order of Whiteclay. As vulnerable as a 42-creature deck seems, this deck can resist Wrath effects quite well.

-Remember that your triggers of exile can be responded to. When Fiend Hunter's trigger of exiling a creature goes on the stack, and Brion Stoutarm flings it at a player, its trigger of returning what it exiled will trigger, return nothing, and then its exile trigger will resolve, exiling its target forever. This also applies to Mangara of Corondor; when its trigger of exiling itself goes on the stack, you can fling it at a player to have it die before it exiles itself. However, the permanent Mangara is exiling still resolves.

-Remember your Mentor of the Meek triggers! It's the deck's best way to gain card advantage.

-Try to attack an open player with Order of Whiteclay. (Seriously, y u no Human?! >:V)

-Junkyo Bell can make a creature you intend to fling at your opponent extremely deadly when coupled with Brion Stoutarm.

8/11/2012:

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