Give me your best Card suggestions to make monowhite angel tribal with new bruna at the helm competitive!

I put together a deck with a bunch of angels, some removal spells, a few enchantments that let me take my stuff back when our Lazav player swipes them, but the deck is overall somewhat slow. The angels are scary, and my opponents hesitate to attack, which is great! Problem is, most of our group doesn't win from turning cards sideways. One guy either wins by milling with Lazav or by plinking at us with Purphoros. Another guy just infinite combos with Sharuum or Animar. What are some good white cards to get through their defenses and beat them down with creatures before they can use their strategies to kills us without getting to do anything?

Posted Sep 29, 2016, 1:41 PM UTC

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Window_baitMeren of Clan Nel-Toth•

[[Land Tax]] [[Austere Command]] [[Emeria, The Sky Ruin]] [[Knight of the White Orchid]] [[Weathered Wayfarer]]

It'd be helpful to have a decklist so I'm not suggesting things you already have but that is the start to a ramp package in white to speed things up. Also Emeria is just value.

For aggro - [[Luminarch Ascension]] is bonkers in a 4 player pod, be warned it also paints a huge target on your head.

I have a mono-white [[Mikaeus, the Lunarch]] deck that goes soldiers/angels and is very fast and able to nuke combo players down pretty quickly while gaining a bunch of life.

[[True Conviction]] is amazing as is [[Hero of Bladehold]]

If you're being milled out I would throw in one of the OG titans or both (it would also fit with your Brisela commander thing going on).

Purphoros is easily dealt with by True Conviction or other lifelinkers ( [[Serra Ascendant]] is bonkers in anything running white and gives you early life link/aggression)

Anyways that is my 2c - deck list would be super helpful though.

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MTGCardFetcher•

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[Knight of the White Orchid](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=Knight of the White Orchid&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Knight of the White Orchid) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Knight of the White Orchid) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!Knight of the White Orchid) (CD)
[Austere Command](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=Austere Command&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Austere Command) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Austere Command) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!Austere Command) (CD)
[Mikaeus, the Lunarch](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=Mikaeus, the Lunarch&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mikaeus, the Lunarch) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Mikaeus, the Lunarch) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!Mikaeus, the Lunarch) (CD)
[Hero of Bladehold](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=Hero of Bladehold&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Hero of Bladehold) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Hero of Bladehold) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!Hero of Bladehold) (CD)
[Serra Ascendant](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=Serra Ascendant&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Serra Ascendant) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Serra Ascendant) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!Serra Ascendant) (CD)
[Emeria, The Sky Ruin](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=Emeria, The Sky Ruin&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Emeria, The Sky Ruin) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Emeria, The Sky Ruin) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!Emeria, The Sky Ruin) (CD)
[Weathered Wayfarer](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=Weathered Wayfarer&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Weathered Wayfarer) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Weathered Wayfarer) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!Weathered Wayfarer) (CD)
[True Conviction](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=True Conviction&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=True Conviction) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!True Conviction) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!True Conviction) (CD)
[Land Tax](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=Land Tax&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Land Tax) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Land Tax) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!Land Tax) (CD)
[Luminarch Ascension](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=Luminarch Ascension&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Luminarch Ascension) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Luminarch Ascension) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!Luminarch Ascension) (CD)
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FutureMrsGodingOP•

These are great suggestions! I have (a proxy of, anyway) Emeria, the Sky Ruin in my deck so far (one of the guys has one to give me), but none of these other cards, so I will look into them!

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joseph6708Merieke Ri Berit•

The problem with trying to make mono white competitive is the fact that it lacks reliable win con and access to ramp. The cards that were mentioned already will help with speeding it up a bit but you won't really have any reliable win cons. RIP/Helm works but it's slow. Blasting Station with Reveillark and Karmic Guide is decent and can kill a table that doesn't see it coming, but if you're trying to stick to just angels that won't work.

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SarahnethAyli•

Angels are too slow to get there before you end up wrecked by those decks. I've had some success with a mono-white deck with Heliod at the helm that uses Tokens and Stax to slow the game, build advantage, and aggro opponents to death. Heliod gives you more reliable card draw (because [[Mentor of the Meek]] and [[Skullclamp]] are some of the best draw card engines in monowhite), vigilance (which means those tokens can block and defend), and because I'm monocolored and have a mana dump I can build up mana through just one or two lands a turn unlike a lot of other decks. But yeah, without stuff to slow the game you won't get too far ahead in mono-white, especially if you're running a high CMC deck

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MTGCardFetcher•

Skullclamp - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD)
[Mentor of the Meek](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?name=Mentor of the Meek&type=card&.jpg) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mentor of the Meek) [(MC)](http://magiccards.info/query?q=!Mentor of the Meek) [(MW)](https://mtg.wtf/card?q=!Mentor of the Meek) (CD)
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Grem-Zealot11/32•

A few cards that I think you might find useful for your meta:

  • Torpor Orb & Hushwing Gryff shut of Purphoros - and might also turn off Sharuum
  • Eldrazi Displacer can flicker Animar, which resets his counters
  • Thalia 1.0 and 2.0 can both help slow your opponent's down
  • Ula & Kozi 1.0 both help against mill
  • Elspeth, Sun's Champion is really powerful
  • Skullclamp is VERY good, especially when combined with Elspeth

I have a Bruna 2.0 deck, but I don't really have a list compiled online.

Feel free to ask my any questions though.

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