Duel Decks: Divine vs Demonic

Well Angels are rather my weakness in terms of tribal decks. I just love them and actually there are some quite good ones in here. Akroma naturally takes pride of place but she isn't alone - Reya Dawnbringer and Luminous Angel are solid cards if you can get them out and Twilight Shepherd is a little mino-bomb when it comes to playing against sweepers in EDH especially.

I rather like this deck.

Certainly Seraph Sanctuary - it just fits with any theme. Angel's Tomb as well.

Avacyn - yes absolutely. I think the starter question would be what colors would this deck run in now as we have a lot of multi colored angels around. White is pretty much a given but would it be W/U or W/R perhaps?

Well as much as I love the Boros legion - to me it is the personification of angels as protectors and punishers of the law breaking - I'd actually consider going with Mono-White for this set just to have the 'purity' aspect of white angels. If I had to go 2 color then I'd probably go W/R but not use any legendary Boros cards. Maybe Firemane Angel and Firemane Avenger but not Aurelia as it's not specifically a Boros deck and going too heavy on that would upset the flavor.

I'd consider B/R for the demonic though.

Yes - she would be a good poster child for the deck.

Ok she cuts out a lot of W/R combat tricks by her ability but at the same time it lets you concentrate on keeping Angels and Burn separate and thus the flavor of the deck intact and not leaning too far into Boros.

Yes - that works rather well.

True - but I very much like her. I think her restriction about prior to turn 3 actually adds a little flavor to her and it is a reasonable body for not too much mana. I did, for a brief time, run her in my old Sigarda deck until the size of everything else got a bit much for her.

Outside of commander though I'd happily use Serra Avengers in any Angel based tribal deck I make - I just like the card that much.

Sublime Archange - always.

That works, it's on theme and a good card in itself.

Has to be really. I mean what better in a demons v's angels deck than making your opponent sacrifice an angel to feed a demon and make it bigger?

Well for any tribal angels deck this is the elephant in the room. It's almost too powerful in your opening hand if your opponent hasn't got a quick way of removing it. EDH loves this card and wants to have it's children.

Essentially it's a late game source of Angel tokens. In a normal one on one game you can cast it on turn 2 and potentially (if everything goes well) put a counter on it each or the next 4 turns meaning that on turn 7 (right about when you start to need some finishing power and also co-incidentaly have some mana spare) you can start to generate lots of 4/4 angels.

This is in the color that gave us Rootborn Defences, Wake the reflections and the like.

It's a solid card for any deck (like the duel decks) that aren't specifically built around normal constructed guildlines (to win as quick as possible).

Oh and if you want to know why it's good play it in EDH with 4+ other people. Play on your turn 2 and put a counter on it for EVERY opponents end step - watching happily as everyone plays land number 2 and a mana rock (unless you are really unlucky and someone has a creature out by then and if they do they will be attacking you) - and on your turn 3 you are ready to go with the tokens as you'll have more than 4 counters on it.

4/4 angel tokens on turn 3 - play Parallel Lives and Growing Ranks and you'll never play another creature card again for the whole game... just keep making more and more angel tokens.

Well.. maybe play Avacyn or Emmara Tandris just to really upset everyone.

I think mostly we are there with this. It has less to dissect than say the Elves/Goblins decks because just about everything you have in it is 'good stuff' and anything you can think of a name for is probably good enough to go straight into the deck.