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Author Topic: [Standard] Cat Lifegain  (Read 531 times)

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[Standard] Cat Lifegain
« on: July 08, 2018, 07:27:24 am »
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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2018, 03:28:37 am »
Cool idea to go mono-white for Cat and Lifegain synergy. :) Seems a little heavy on the sweepers to me. I would at least move a few to the sideboard. Fumigate hurts when it wipes out your cats and then you get no lifegain triggers. Also I feel like Sanguine Sacrament is not quite at home here. You would be better off with some cheap, consisitant life gain like with Ajani's Welcome. It'll really shine when you start producing cat tokens.  I'd suggest a higher creature count in general with fewer sweepers and a few good pieces of removal.

Sacred Cat may be better than Leonin Vanguard but that depends on you meta. I personally like it for the chance of a lifegain trigger on the opponent's turn and it's stronger against removal with the recursion through Embalm. Adorned Pouncer is bonkers with Regal Caracal and I highly suggest it. Crested Sunmare may not be a cat but it does get a great lifegain trigger and it doesn't care how much life you gain.

I think Authority of the onsuls was a great pick to sideboard in against aggro or tokens.
For the sideboard you may want to consider Paladin of Attonement and Annointer Priest for Burn matchups, Decommision for artifact and enchantment hate, and Ashes of the Abhorrent for graveyard hate plus lifegain.

Also worth mentioning Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants could put in some work in your deck ;)

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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2018, 03:54:56 am »
Heavy on sweepers because mono white doesnt have tons of targeted removal options
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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2018, 04:50:04 am »
Heavy on sweepers because mono white doesnt have tons of targeted removal options

If they fit in with your plan, there are a few good 'removal' spells in white:

Ixalan's Binding removes the immediate threat and prevents any other copies from coming down.
Seal away is all star mono white removal, get em after attackers are declared and before damage is assigned.
Luminous Bonds even works, even though it is inefficient at 3 mana.

Sorcerous Spyglass goes in any deck and is pseudo removal for planeswalkers, vehicles, artifacts, activated abilities like that belonging to scarab god - as it is an artifact it can go in any deck.

Those are my first thoughts after a quick glance at your deck, mostly about your point that white might not have the best removal - there are some good ones. I agree with the previous poster about sanguine sacrament; it seems out of place, a reliably repeatable lifegain effect (maybe a lifelink creature like sacred cat) would be better, I think. Anyway, I love cat tribal, and I think lifegain strategies give a player so much time to get things assembled. I hope you have fun playing it - come back and tell us how it does.

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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2018, 05:10:44 am »
This mostly came from me opening a Leonin Warleader in the prerelease yesterday. It kicks ass.
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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2018, 05:13:58 am »



Revision 2

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-2 Sanguine Sacrament
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-1 Gideon of the Trials
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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2018, 11:58:16 pm »
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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2018, 02:02:32 am »
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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2018, 02:13:43 am »



Revision 5

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+2 Sacred Cat

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-1 Seal Away
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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2018, 02:22:27 am »



Revision 6

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-2 Sacred Cat
+2 Aerial Responder
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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2018, 09:50:15 am »
Hey, nice deck.

Why not take the power of resplendent angel ? A free Serra Angel will set the patch to victory. And to be sure to be able to cast the cast down I'd change the mana base to add 4 concealed courtyard.
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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2018, 06:38:20 am »



Revision 7

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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2019, 02:55:28 pm »
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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2019, 02:58:59 pm »



Revision 9

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Re: [Standard] Cat Lifegain
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2019, 02:59:45 pm »
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