Historic - Historic Mono White Knights

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Historic Anthology 1 brought Kinsbaile Cavalierimage with it, giving all your knights double strike.  Playing History of Benaliaimage on turn 3 into Benalish Marshalimage on turn 4, and Kinsbaile Cavalier on turn 5 is a really strong way to make quick work of an unexpecting opponent.  Basically, that's the whole idea here - fill up the board with as many knights as possible, and put down Kinsbaile Cavalierimage to give them all double strike and (hopefully) overwhelm your opponent.  The only non-Knight creature card I really considered for this deck is Venerated Loxodonimage, mainly because it is that good.  Being able to make your other creatures bigger while also presenting a threat in itself, is excellent value.  You can even play it while keeping up mana to hold up another spell, if you decide to main deck some instants.

Though the deck is made to be as aggro as possible out the gate, it also has some late game built into it with Acclaimed Contenderimage being able to find more action when it enters the battlefield, Worthy Knightimage making 1/1 Human tokens whenever you cast a Knight creature spell allowing you to go as wide as possible, and The Circle of Loyaltyimage letting you make a 2/2 Knight (will be 3/3 from the +1/+1 static effect from the artifact) for 4 mana each turn.  Even Castle Ardenvaleimage being able to make a 1/1 Human token for 4 (essentially 5 from having to tap it as well) each turn provides some late game plays.

The sideboard is somewhat like the old white weenies decks, with Gideon Blackbladeimage, Ajani, Adversary of Tyrantsimage, Glass Casketimage (in place of Baffling Endimage, though it is better in some situations), and the fourth copy of Conclave Tribunalimage.  Some inclusions that I thought might find a place in some matchups are Devout Decreeimage, Ravnica at Warimage, Tomik, Distinguished Advokistimage, and Sorcerous Spyglassimage.  Tomik and Spyglass are both good for shutting down the +1 from Nissa, Who Shakes the Worldimage, but Spyglass can also hit other planeswalkers or creatures (I'm looking at you, Oko, Thief of Crownsimage and Teferi 3 and 5). 

As with most aggro decks like this, one of the biggest threats is board wipes, so I am considering cards like Make a Standimage to provide some protection against them in the sideboard plan against decks with "destroy" board wipes (Kaya's Wrathimage, Cleansing Novaimage) or damage-based board wipes (Deafening Clarionimage, Solar Blazeimage).  Unfortunately, there is not really much in the way of protection against -X/-X wrath effects (Find // Finalityimage, Cry of the Carnariumimage).  Additionally, there are quite a few enchantment and artifacts that have found their way into a few decks (Fires of Inventionimage, Doom Foretoldimage, Embercleaveimage, etc.), so Disenchantimage could be a good sideboard option in place of Glass Casket or Ravnica at War. 

Another card I had considered for the sideboard was The Immortal Sunimage since it would shut down all planeswalkers, but it seemed way too slow.  However, interestingly enough, you could possibly get it from Acclaimed Contender's enter the battlefield effect, resulting in unintended synergy.

If you decide to try this deck out, let me know what you think and what changes you would recommend as this is still a work in progress.

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Last Updated: 02 Dec 2019
Created: 30 Nov 2019
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Mainboard - 60 cards (13 distinct)

Creature (27)
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Land (22)
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Sideboard - 15 cards (8 distinct)

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Maybeboard - 12 cards (4 distinct)

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$0.25€0.180.04
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