You crave the new Companions and want a fast, cheap start into Ikora? Don't have the wildcards to go wild? Then this fast, aggressive deck might just be the right thing for you! Play with cards you already have but also explore the new Companion mechanic.

# Companion

Our pet of choice is Lurrus of the Dream Den. Basically we can only play cheap creatures, but we also are able to quickly recover from board-clear. A very fair trade-off!

My creatures of choice are knights, because they all are extremely cheap and have good synergy in the needed colors (black and white). We even add red, because Tournament Grounds are such a great enabler.

# Deck

Inspiring Veteran - Buff our army. Will probably be focused by the opponent.

Knight of the Ebon Legion - The main attacker. So good, so strong. Protect him and he will bring you glory.

Blacklance Paragon - Combat-trick and surprse attacker. Good to play in the opponent's turn after a board-wipe.

Worthy Knight - Board advantage machine. Grow our army to overwhelm the opponent. Too bad the tokens aren't knights.

Order of Midnight - Restore our board and provide another avenue of attack

Stormfist Crusader - More accelertion, card draw and Spectacle triggers.

Fervent Champion - Cheap, efficient knight. Combos with Blacklance Paragon to wipe big butts.

Light Up the Stage - Accelerator. We usually trigger Spectacle each turn.

Unbreakable Formation - Let's our army survive.

Fight as One - A cheap combat trick that helps us survive. Knight of the Ebon Legion (and Lurrus) are our only non-humans. Still, those are targets we definitely want to protect. Alternative: God's Willing. Scrys, allows to breach blocks but is only single target.

Carnival / Carnage - Something to clean-up weak creatures and also enable Spectacle or help Knight of the Ebon Legion. Carnage is also good as a finisher or just a surprise discard two.

Drill Bit - Disrupt the enemy, very good against any opponent. Probably should add the fourth copy.

Savai Triome - A single copy to help with the mana.

Tournament Grounds - Mana enabler

# Sideboard

The new meta is just arising, so this is very experimental. Still, there are general threats for our deck we have to answer. Basically, we win if our creatures survive, or our opponent is too slow to reach their lategame. So we have to disrupt their ramp and also counter board-clear.

Change these however you like!

Despark - Not sure, good against big butts, but maybe too specific. Also doesn't help in the early game.

Sorcerous Spyglass - I love it. Can also be brought back with Lurrus of the Dream Den

Angrath's Rampage - Deal with bigger blockers, artifacts and planeswalkers?

Light of Hope - So far a great card to help adapt to any situation

Unbreakable Formation - Maybe play all three copies in the main?

Deafening Silence - Against Wilderness Reclamation and UG flash. Beware to not hinder yourself by not being able to use multiple combat tricks.

Hushbringer - Everyone plays ETB effects, like Yorion, Sky Nomad elementals, Gyruda, Doom of Depths mill or Winota, Joiner of Forces combos.

# Maybeboard

Risk Factor - I mean, it's a good card.

Chance for Glory - Too situational?

Response / Resurgence - 2 for 1: Deal with strong blockers and also sometimes get a second attack?

General's Enforcer - Too expensive to deal with the graveyard? Also we don't have legendary humans.

Apostle of Purifying Light - Not a knight, but otherwise very good.