Junk Tokens (Standard)

When Advent of the Wurm and Voice of Resurgence came out, I decided to build a Selesnya Tokens deck. After playing it a bit and seeing its strengths and weaknesses, I realized that it would be even better with Sorin, Lord if Innistrad and Lingering Souls. And so my Junk Tokens deck was born.

This is essentially a port, with all of the token-producing cards coming over from Selesnya and joined by the aforementioned W/B cards. Ready // Willing is getting a trial mostly because I recently lost a game where my Lingering Souls tokens were big enough to survive a Thundermaw Hellkite, but them getting tapped lost me the game. The only other addition for coming into black is Vault of the Archangel, which is good enough that I wonder if I shouldn't play two of them and drop to one Gavony Township.

The sideboard has a couple of new cards vying for slots as well. Very fast Bant Hexproof draws are a big problem for this deck, so I'm giving Renounce the Guilds a try. It hits the two worst cards, Geist of Saint Traft and Unflinching Courage, so I have hope for it. It's also effective against Jund, since their only multicolor permanents are the sort you want to get rid of (Olivia Voldaren and Sire of Insanity). Unflinching Courage is taking the slot that might otherwise be taken by Centaur Healer...a relatively fast way to gain life against decks that might be too fast for Thragtusk to be reliable.

Lingering Souls is the star. I can't believe I played a Standard token deck without it.