Lands:
20 Plains
4 Secluded Steppe
Artifacts
4 Distorting Lens
2 Whispersilk Cloak
Creatures:
2 Karmic Guide
4 Lightwielder Paladin
4 Voice Of All
4 White Knight
Other Spells:
4 Path To Exile
4 Tithe
4 Solemn Offering
4 Crib Swap |
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New Sleight Knight.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
Lightwielder Paladin is especially devastating
against decks with Black or Red creatures, but what if you force your
opponent to have Red or Black creatures by playing something like, say,
Distorting Lens? Then slap a Whispersilk Cloak on one and swing away,
taking out one of their creatures every turn while doling out four
damage. That’s a winning position.
You can use Distorting Lens and the Protection
creatures in the deck to make a nice defense or swing through unblocked.
If your opponent has just one flyer, get a hit in with Karmic Guide.
Keep away threats from Shivan Dragon and Baneslayer Angel to Craw Wurm
and Copperhoof Vorrac. Voice of All is great because it suits the deck
and it’s flexible. Drop it against a mono-colored deck and it’s bomb-tastic.
Against more colors, you can prevent against one and use the Lens for
the others as needed. It gives you a creature you don’t always need the
Lens to protect, and yet fits the deck. It’s arguably the most important
card after Distorting Lens.
Whispersilk Cloak might be in the deck for a Paladin,
but it can keep any of your creature from getting targeted by opposing
problems, and you can always nip it for a hit or two with White Knight
or Karmic Guide or whatever. I know that Karmic Guide might not have
been the card you most expected to see in the deck, but you can use it
to both give you a flying creature the Lens can help out, and also to
recur valuable creatures like a Lightwielder Paladin or a Voice of All.
Tithe is included as a way to get you some lands, and
perhaps a smattering of card advantage. Gift of Estates can substitute
if you lack them. Tithe is down to $2 a copy of heavily played ones, and
slightly played ones for $2.50, so the financial reason for not getting
them is mostly gone and there are few excuses for not having them. I
decided that Solemn Offering would be a nice adjunct in the deck as
basically an instant Terashi’s Grasp. In fact, I think Solemn Offering
is sufficiently strong, so it may become my default Disenchant effect
for mono-White, or W/B. (Dismantling Blow for U/W, Orim’s Thunder of
Awesomeness for W/R, and Krosan Grip for W/G). Obviously, decks and
needs and card stock will change it, and perhaps Seal of Cleansing or
Aura of Silence or Return to Dust might be better in some decks and
metagames
I like some immediate removal, so I rocked Crib Swap
and Path to Exile. The Path is good in combination with Tithe because
you will be more likely to get two Plains off it. In fact, it’s much
better in this deck that Swords for that reason. You could pull Crib
Swap for Oblation or similar. The deck works as is, but perhaps you
might want more card drawing power. Since we don’t have a lot of card
drawing, I added a set of Secluded Steppe, but stayed there and did not
add more cycling lands, especially since you want to drop Tithe and
White Knight early and too many CIP lands can mess with that. Perhaps,
if you like this deck, you’ll want to look at Oversoul of Dusk.
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