Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Coppercoat Vanguard from March of the Machine: Aftermath might just be an archetype-making card! It looks like it could matter in both Standard and Pioneer. Anyway, it matters enough for this longtime Thalia-hater to [virtually] sleeve up White Weenie and take it for a whirl in Standard.

This is the deck I played in this video:

4 Hopeful Initiate
4 Recruitment Officer
3 Skrelv, Defector Mite
4 Coppercoat Vanguard
1 Guardian of New Benalia
4 Intrepid Adversary
2 Ossification
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Brutal Cathar
4 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
4 Knight-Errant of Eos
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
21 Plains

Sideboard
4 Lay Down Arms
1 Destroy Evil
2 Ossification
2 Loran of the Third Path
4 Surge of Salvation

Had I played a Best-of-Three Event I probably wouldn't have run 4x Brutal Cathar in the main; but that card gains a lot of value in Best-of-One; plus it has some extra synergy with Recruitment Officer.

LOVE
MIKE

As usual, there is a full writeup on my blog, FiveWithFlores:
fivewithflores.com/2023/05/coppercoat-vanguard