Guys, I really need your wisdom. I have a theme, centered in each color, in addition to my guild archetypes, but I can't just find anything in white. My other colors have cool themes like devotion or classics like super ramp, or they build around a specific effect like wildfire. But white? I tried cycling, but it was too parasitic and not well enough supported yet. My other white themes are:
Blink
Lifegain
Go Wide Aggro
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It would be cool to find something that has maybe a little overlap here and there, but isn't too close, so it can be distinct. Any ideas?
I think the best thing for you to do would simply be invert Cycling and Blink as your Mono-White//Blue white themes.
There aren't any good mono-blue blink enablers barring
Ghostly Flicker. Blue's primary purpose in a blink deck is to provide value train card draw and bounce effects which become insane with a card like
Ephemerate. Most of the blink enablers which are likely to make the final 40 of a cube deck are mono-white, save the occasional
Soulherder or
Brago, King Eternal. Good "enters the battlefield" effects are available in every color. What this means is that you can easily make blink your base white archetype, enabling flickering across the color spectrum.
Here are some good blink targets which fit with your
W/B,
W/R, and
W/G archetypes:
Lifegain:
Other good black blinkers:
Go Wide Aggro:
Other good Red blinkers:
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(
Wildborn Preserver benefits from other things getting blinked).
Other good Green blinkers:
There's more for all of decks, this was just me spitballing ideas.
For a new U/W archetype, just use cycling. The problem with the mono-white cycling payoffs is that they only trigger off of specifically cycling a card. Looters can't turn on
Astral Slide the same way they can
Drake Haven. In addition, there aren't that many playable cycling cards to help White outside of blue.
By changing you cycling payoffs from this:
To this:
... You get to keep the archetype around while providing good cross-pollination with some of your other decks. You can even leave in
Astral Drift as a card which helps bridge the gap between U/W Cycling and White Blink.
Hopefully this has been of some help to you.
-GT