Hello, doctor!

I have played this deck a few times against my friends (we always play multiplayer-games) and I usually win with it. The problem is that it's a bit too slow, and practically defenseless against mass creature removal..

Here's the deck list, I'll explain below how I usually play it.

2 x Suntail hawk
3 x Ghost-Lit Redeemer
4 x Mourning Thrull
3 x Silhana Ledgewalker
2 x Veteran Armorer
2 x Skyhunter Prowler
2 x Kabuto Moth
2 x Sustainer of the Realm
2 x Angel of Mercy
2 x Oathsworn Giant
2 x Kami of the Honored Dead

26 Creatures

3 x Humble
2 x Overgrowth
1 x Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho
2 x Naturalize
2 x Wurmweaver Coil
4 x Giant Growth

10 Other Spells

11 x Plains
9 x Forest

20 Lands

The main goal of the deck is to get your creatures on the table early, and to pump them up later with your Oathsworn Giant to make them great flying blockers that can attack every turn thanks to the vigilance granted by the Giant. The first three, four turns I hardly ever block attackers, I'll get the life back some how and I can't afford to lose too many creatures. By the end of the game, I usually have four or five creatures on the table, all of wich great blockers, that can peck at the opponents life total one at a time. I also like to have the Wurmweaver Coil on Silhana Ledgewalker, to pump her up to a 7/7 problem.

I tried playing with Monstrous Growth as well, since it's great with the Mourning Thrull. You drop the thrull on turn two, and on turn hree, you send him into battle carrying a monstrous growth, to pick away 5 lifes of an opponent and adding 5 for yourself. Eventually, I dropped two growths for the wurmweaver coils, but it's not written in stone.

My problem with this deck is speed... I get plenty of life, but it takes me too long to finish off an opponent. Another problem is creature removal, it hurts like being castrated with rusty scissors to see some one use a terror or dark banishing on Oathsworn Giant or Kami of the Honored Dead. Also, I'd like to have a little more mana acceleration, but I don't know what to leave out; pretty much all of these cards hove proved themselves useful at one time or another. The only ones I see that can be spared are the three humbles, but they're just plain fun to cast on a fattie attacking you. Can
you shine your light on this deck?

Grtz,

Koen, Belgium

I want you to take out Ghost-Lit Redeemer and Skyhunter Prowler, and add in some copies of Watchwolf or of Selesnya Guildmage.  Either of these will give you the extra power you need early on, but Watchwolf has more raw power while the Guildmage's abilities will only get more useful as the game progresses while Watchwolf may find that as turns pass, bigger and bigger creatures start coming out and he can't compete anymore.  Next, Replace kami of the Honored Dead.  I appreciate the need for a big flyer, but KotHD here is sub-par even in a Spirit-heavy deck.  Seven mana for a 3/5 flyer?  For the same price you can get Bounteous Kirin, Jugan the Rising Star, or Yosei the Morning Star.  Yosei is probably the best choice there, but you might also try Pollenbright Wings.  An Oathsworn Giant would love to ride a pair of those into battle.