War & Peace

[Deebiia]

{W}{R} War & Peace {W}{R} 65 cards 6 {Mountain} 4 {Clifftop Retreat} 9 {Plains} 4 {Forbidden Orchard} 23 lands 2 {Varchild's War-Riders} 2 creatures 2 {Master Warcraft} 3 {Island Sanctuary} 2 {Martial Coup} 4 {Pacifism} 3 {Kill Shot} 4 {Lightning Helix} 3 {Dawn Charm} 3 {Mogg Infestation} 3 {Reverence} 4 {Intimidation Bolt} 4 {Holy Day} 2 {Demystify} 3 {Gideon, Champion of Justice} 40 other spells

[Deebiia]

This deck was inspired by the deck type "Turbo Fog". It revolves around utilizing board wipes in conjunction with cards like {Intimidation Bolt} and {Island Sanctuary} to prevent attacks for as long as possible. We don't want to kill creatures as much as just to prevent their attacking to use the gimmick part of the deck, {Gideon, Champion of Justice}. You use all of the damage prevention to buff Gideon up quite a bit before we -15 him to exile all other permanents, except himself, and swing for the kill. Now, for the deck breakdown:

The {Reverence} is used in conjunction with {Mogg Infestation}, {Forbidden Orchard}, and {Varchild's War-Riders}. The War-Riders are almost a last resort or are solely used if the opponent does not run many creatures in their deck, or on the off chance that they realize what is going on.

{Island Sanctuary} is there to prevent most attacks, as well as serving to prevent from drawing from your deck. I've had some games against mill that lost since I didn't draw and kept pumping Gideon up. If the opponent isn't using fliers or "islandwalkers" you're golden.

Cards like {Kill Shot}, {Pacifism}, {Master Warcraft}. and-- kind of used for the same purpose-- {Lightning Helix} are used to neutralize the bigger threats on the board that cannot be dealt with via {Reverence} or {Island Sanctuary}.

I do really like the choice of board wipes I put in here since they:
A.) Clear the board of real threats
B.) Give you an advantage whether it be via {Martial Coup} giving you creatures and destroying any others and {Mogg Infestation} to destroy just a target players creatures giving them many 1/1's that do not have islandwalk, fly, or are above 3 power naturally so {Reverence} and {Island Sanctuary} work perfectly as well as giving {Gideon, Champion of Justice} a lot of creature to buff up on.

A big card that didn't make the cut was {Peacekeeper}. It was too easily removed being only a 1/1 so I replaced it and it has been more consistent since.

[Kaylesh]

Like it. Nice theme. Gonna remember it for a build.

[Spencer Addington]

Needs {sword of war and peace}

[Deebiia]

Needs {sword of war and peace}

I thought about finding a way to fit it in, but not enough creatures and doesn't abuse the effect enough.