Soldier/token deck help

[titan28]

sorry for that first post, anyway here is the real deck I am trying to build. Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

3x Mother Of Runes
3x Gideon's Lawkeeper
2x Intangible Virtue
2x Dawn Charm
3x Raise The Alarm
3x Grand Abolisher
3x Mobilization
3x Field Marshal
3x Oblivion Ring
3x Hero Of Bladehold
3x Captain's Call
2x Odric, Master Tactician
2x Elspeth Tirel
1x Captain Of The Watch

8x Plains
4x Rupture Spire
4x Sunpetal Grove
4x Daru Encampment
4x Gavony Township

[fishboy]

I would get rid of Captain of the Watch. I don't think it is worth the 6 mana. If you already have Mobilization or Intangible Virtue out, your soldiers will already have Vigilance. The daru encampments only give one soldier +1/+1, so i would get rid of them, and maybe put some forests in and go more white/green. If you put the forests in, you could add in some doubling seasons and Parallel Lives. You might consider Darien, King of Kjeldor. If you don't want to add any forests, and want to keep Captain of the Watch you could some Stormfront Riders and attended knights and Remove Raise the Alarm and Captain's Call. you can use Stormfront Riders to return attended knights, Captain of the Watch and other Stormfront Riders to your hand. to decrease the cost to keep up this cycle, throw in some daru warchiefs and ballyrush bannerets.

[napoleon]

id try using cheaper creatures like Elite Vanguard, Thraben Valiant, and Glory Seeker

[fishboy]

It would be pointless to add low drop creatures, since you will be filling the battlefield with tokens. Once you get decently into the game, every turn you draw a weak creature and play it with plenty of unused mana.

[napoleon]

But the faster you can get started and overwhelm your opponent the faster youll win

[napoleon]

This is my soldier deck, I've never lost a 1 v 1 game:
23 Plains
4 Gideon's Lawkeeper
2 Glory Seeker
2 Odric, Master Tactician
2 Molten Tail Masticore
2 Raise the Alarm
1 Kinsbale Cavalier
4 Attended Knight
2 Honor of the Pure
1 Crusade
1 Elspeth, Knight Errant
3 Elite Vanguard
1 Silver Knight
1 Loyal Sentry
1 Knight of Meadowgrain
2 Knight of White Orchid
4 Captain's Call
1 Knight Exemplar
1 White Knight
1 Silverblade Paladin
1 Riders of Gavony
1 Catapult Master

[fishboy]

But the faster you can get started and overwhelm your opponent the faster youll win

The faster you get started, the faster you have the opportunity to win. However, you are not seizing that opportunity by filling your deck with low-cost weak creatures. After you have played all of the cards from your original hand, every turn, you will be getting out one weak creature, when if you kept a balance of cards, you could get several of those out by playing, say, Captain of the Watch, or Stormfront Riders, or attacking with Hero of Bladehold. He has enough low-drop creatures for early game.

[napoleon]

But by then I have Odric out and can dictate combat and swing for a lot

[fishboy]

Why swing for a lot when you can swing for a metric **** ton?

[Nick 30075]

My most successful creature-based deck is my Tempered Steel list. And I only have 7 cards (4 Tempered Steel and 3 Master of Etherium) that cost 3 mana. Everything else is cheap. The goal is to play out your hand and hit them for 20 the turn before they stabilize. If you have cards in your hand, you're doing it wrong because that's one more creature that could be beating for 2 per turn.

It's a very aggressive all-in style.

At the same time, my old favorite deck had no creatures (except for a 3/2 regenerator) that costed below 3 and it was still an aggro deck--and it was rather successful at it. The style was based on landing 3-4 creatures and backing them up with burn and removal.

Both styles are valid. It's just up to the player which is better.

I play a lot of RDW, so I'm used to having a small hand. My personal preference (and nothing more) is to the deck that has a lot of low-cost creatures and dumps them out really quickly. There's something special about that look on an opponent's face when you land 4 creatures alongside your first land.