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BMoor's Magic The
Gathering
Deck Garage
It's
mid-to-late
October,
and
this
is
about
the
time
when
the
lives
of
most
school-age
Magic
players
gets
hectic.
It's
mid-semester,
winter
approaches,
and
I
can
only
speak
for
myself
but
I'm
finding
it
hard
to
make
time
for
everything.
Good
thing
we've
got
a
whole
slew
of
time-based
spells
that
have
just
been
released!
Hello BMoor, Clarence here with a White/Blue/Black Standard deck with Time. The basic idea is to get Haakon in the graveyard, then put him onto the field using his own ability. I have put in this deck multiple ways of discarding Haakon into the graveyard (e.g. Peace of Mind, Compulsive Research, Smallpox). If I ever need to use Wrath of God, it means nothing to me, since I can simply rebuild my small army using Haakon's abilities. I am not sure if I should try to fit in any counter ( i.e. Remand, Mana Leak) or more removal/negation (Condemn, Faith's Fetters). Any assistance you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
The first thing I'd like to do here is to make sure your selection of Knights is the best it can be-- White Shield and Stromgald Crusader both are very color-intensive and at their best in a monocolored deck. Then I'll tweak your other spells to ensure that you're getting as much performance as possible.
First, the creature roster. This is my favorite part of tribal decks-- looking through all the creatures and finding the best creatures and the most synergy. Haakon is the obvious Lord here, but I actually found another one in the timeshifted Zhalfirin Commander. So as I said, the Coldsnap jump knights are too color-specific for a tri-color deck. You'd probably like some more splashable Knights. Benalish Cavalry is a good 2/2 Flanker for 1W. Sky Hussar is a beating whether it's drawing you cards on your upkeep or swinging for 4 flying. And Haakon pretty much negates the drawback of Skulking Knight. I'll let you decide on who you want to send into the fray, but all would be good suggestions.
Now then, to your spells. Let me just say here that Smallpox is a brill
 iant move. If you discard Haakon, you've moved him from a zone you can't play him from to a zone you can, so it's like drawing a card. And then the Knight you sacrificed isn't really sacrificed at all. So really, all you've done is sacrificed a land and lost 1 life while your opponent did that plus lost two cards (one from in play and one from his hand). I'd definitely support a fourth Smallpox here if you can manage it. Peace of Mind seems unnecessary if you already have Smallpox and Compulsive Research to pitch a Haakon to, but between Phyrexian Arena, Haakon's "lose 2 life" trigger, and Smallpox's "lose 1 life" effect, plus the inevitable attacks from your opponent, this deck will probably benefit quite a bit from having a way to cast Healing Salve on command. Every spell you've got here is quite useful, and I really don't see anything here that you don't need, but if you find yourself having to pull anything, I'd probably say Funeral Charm is the weak link, despite its usefulness. And the only card that comes to mind that you should probably add is Gift of Estates, since it can search for your Hallowed Fountains or Godless Shrines. Your inclusion of Flagstones of Trokair implies that you saw that interaction already.
That's all I can really do to a deck this polished. You shouldn't have any trouble charging into battle successfully with a deck of this nature. Good luck!
~BMoor
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