TEXT AND DECK BY Rothj:

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So, basically this list is black white agro with a light human and cleric theme. The main reason I even wanted to do this was because Dire Tactics is such a strong spell. The list:

3x Giant Killer
4x Speaker of the Heavens
4x Archfiend Vessel
4x Luminarch Aspirant
4x Seasoned Hallowblade
4x Cleric of Life's Bond
4x Dire Tactics
4x General Kudro of Drannith
3x Lurrus of the Dream-den
2x Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis
2x Hagra Mauling
2x Kabira Takedown
8x Plains
8x Swamp
4x Brightclimb Pathway

The main strategy is to drop a 1 drop lifelinker on turn 1 then either buff it with luminarch aspirant or use it to buff cleric of life's bond. A lot of games are also won with just 1-2 hallowblades backed up by a hand full of removal since it's almost impossible to actually remove it and you can discard your lands. There's also 3 lurrus to recur the archfiend vessels(which you can discard to hallowblade). General Kudro buffs all the humans in the deck including the tokens made by elspeth, and it also removes uro and other stuff from the gy while possibly removing a 4 drop in an emergency. Basically you just have so much removal and so many tools to win the game that you can outplay most of the current meta decks pretty easily. It's also fast enough to beat the omnath decks a good amount.

Cons/possible changes: Fabled passages might be good, but I got annoyed with them coming in tapped all the time. I'm not sure what the best choice is. Elspeth was basically swapped between Call of the death-dweller and broodmoth to recurr the archfiend vessels, but I felt like elspeth was generally more consistent. I also tried a full cleric version of this deck based around vito but it was awful. I also think the black mythic land would be super good in this deck to recur archfiend and other cards, but I don't have it yet so I can't test. Anyways, this deck is pretty strong but the main problem you'll run into is that a lot of times the random 1/1s just do nothing at all. If your opponent overpowers you with pure card power like with lovestruck beast it can be really difficult to get through if you're on the draw. If your opponent has a lot of sweepers or drops the 2/4 land guy it can also be difficult to get through and if adventure decks get clover down early youll probably just lose.

Overall, I think this deck is good and I won every single game almost from about plat to high diamond. Diamond 1 I got stuck for a while but managed to push through and thought I should post this list if someone wanted a different sort of agro deck to try out. I have the Omnath deck as well but I had more success playing this.