Ancient Relics (A Banding Commander deck.)

[TheWarfox]

I'll be taking this one out on the town this Sunday to see how it plays. Hoping the commander and abundant humans can handle the mana weaknesses, and otherwise I am going to do my best to do the Banding thing and see how it goes.

https://deckstats.net/decks/209945/2655606-ancient-relics

[TheWarfox]

Swapped in some more humans to work better with the commander. Cut a few banding creatures that were too expensive or didn't fit the human theme enough.

Revision 2

Added/removed cards:
-1 Battering Ram
-1 Dire Wolves
-1 Teremko Griffin
-1 Your Temple Is Under Attack
+1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
+1 Command Tower
+1 Eternal Witness
+1 Honored Hierarch
+1 Serene Master

Changed amounts:
-1 Plains

[TheWarfox]

Possibly final edit for the ol' Banding deck.

Revision 3

Added/removed cards:
-1 Akroma's Memorial
-1 Cleansing Nova
-1 Eladamri's Call
-1 Forebear's Blade
-1 Gaea's Anthem
-1 Glorious Anthem
-1 Primal Rage
-1 Saltcrusted Steppe
-1 Sprouting Phytohydra
-1 Urban Daggertooth
-1 Urza's Avenger
+1 Angel of Glory's Rise
+1 Devout Chaplain
+1 Force of Virtue
+1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
+1 Krosan Verge
+1 Maja, Bretagard Protector
+1 Mirari's Wake
+1 Odric, Master Tactician
+1 Sigarda, Heron's Grace
+1 Spear of Heliod
+1 Tyrite Sanctum
+1 Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity

Changed amounts:
-1 Plains

[TheWarfox]

Edits!

Revision 4

Added/removed cards:
-1 Force of Virtue
-1 Gorgon's Head
-1 Imperial Ceratops
-1 Renata, Called to the Hunt
+1 Bushi Tenderfoot // Kenzo the Hardhearted
+1 Flumph
+1 Luminous Broodmoth
+1 Selfless Squire

[TheWarfox]

Some new lands and tweaks.

Revision 5

Added/removed cards:
-1 Cryptic Spires
-1 Dauntless Escort
-1 Flumph
+1 Archivist of Oghma
+1 Canopy Vista
+1 Fortified Village
+1 Order of the Sacred Torch

Changed amounts:
-1 Plains

[TheWarfox]

Added Grasping Giant since when his band gets blocked he just exiles anything that blocks him.

Revision 6

Added/removed cards:
-1 Vastwood Surge
+1 Grasping Giant

[TheWarfox]

Gave this deck a much-needed facelift. Abandoned the enchantment theme a bit.

Revision 8

Added/removed cards:
-1 Concerted Effort
-1 Ghostly Prison
-1 Grasping Giant
-1 Llanowar Reborn
-1 Phytohydra
-1 Sterling Grove
-1 Sythis, Harvest's Hand
-1 Topiary Stomper
-1 Verduran Enchantress
+1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
+1 Beast Within
+1 Birthing Boughs
+1 Gavony Township
+1 Heronblade Elite
+1 Norn's Wellspring
+1 Phyrexian Vindicator
+1 Reveille Squad
+1 Ritual of Subdual

[Oculon]

Bruh, where's the "Bands with other legends" lands from Legends?  I bought them all because I made a Jodah the Unifier legends banding deck.  Pretty hilarious when someone swings a bunch of 30/30 trample bois at you, you block them all and send all the trample damage to your banding creatures :D  They get so confused, then angry.

[TheWarfox]

Eeeh, I'm not too terribly interested in killing 2 card slots for no-mana lands for 8 legendary creatures that don't all share colors. Most banding creatures in general are trash, and I find things that more generally can give banding to any creature more useful. I dunno. I think if the Adventurers Guildhouse or Cathedral of Serra could tap for mana it'd be a different story, but they're basically just land... enchantments? I can't think of two things I'd want to remove from the deck to fit them in.

[TheWarfox]

Want to take a little more advantage of the enrage creatures and such.

Revision 9

Added/removed cards:
-1 Birthing Boughs
+1 Setessan Tactics

[TheWarfox]

Sol ring has weirdly enough made this deck feel a little slow. More humans just work with Katilda, and I don't get the agro of my opponents hating on me getting a Sol Ring out.

Revision 10

Added/removed cards:
-1 Sol Ring
+1 Thalia's Lieutenant

[TheWarfox]

Setting up a maybeboard and swapping in a new Plaza of Heroes.

Revision 12

Added/removed cards:
+1 Plaza of Heroes

Changed amounts:
-1 Plains

[TheWarfox]

Still trying to improve this deck, lol

Revision 13

Added/removed cards:
-1 Norn's Wellspring
-1 Rebuff the Wicked
-1 Ritual of Subdual
-1 Scapegoat
-1 Timber Wolves
-1 Wall of Shields
+1 Anointed Procession
+1 Caltrops
+1 Doubling Season
+1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
+1 Ripjaw Raptor
+1 Staff of Nin
+1 Ulvenwald Tracker

Changed amounts:
-1 Forest

[TheWarfox]

Some light edits.

Revision 16

Added/removed cards:
-1 Eternal Witness
-1 Odric, Master Tactician
-1 Stuffy Doll
-1 Terramorphic Expanse
+1 Coppercoat Vanguard
+1 Cosmic Rebirth
+1 Horn of Gondor
+1 Shire Terrace

[TheWarfox]

Finally gave in and changed some stuff.

Revision 17

Added/removed cards:
-1 Noble Elephant
-1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
-1 Reveille Squad
-1 Snapping Sailback
-1 Thalia's Lieutenant
-1 War Elephant
+1 Cemetery Protector
+1 Hero of Precinct One
+1 Laid to Rest
+1 Robaran Mercenaries
+1 Sigarda, Champion of Light
+1 Torens, Fist of the Angels