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After a winning performance in the first week of the format, Green-White tokens hasn’t really put up any additional results, and has been largely absent from the top tables. This is in large part due to the rise of Emrakul, the Promised End as a haymaker in the format as well as answers to Emrakul, the Promised End which happen to shut down Green-White, such as Planar Outburst. That doesn’t mean the archetype is dead; but it is going to need to evolve if it’s going to keep up with a format defined by various means of racing to Emrakul, the Promised End. Brennan DeCandio thinks he may have found a solution:


This should look very familiar to stock Green-White Tokens lists, because the core is the same. Sylvan Advocate and Hangarback Walker are too good not to play. Gideon, Ally of Zendikar and Nissa, Voice of Zendikar are incredible ways to gum up the ground against the likes of Bant Collected Company while you set yourself up to start casting more powerful four- and five-drops to overwhelm the Company decks. The big difference here is what the top end actually looks like.

In a midrange format, you want to be the person whose going just big enough - bigger than all the other midrange decks, but not so big that you lose against aggressive strategies. That’s what Brennan is trying to do with this change. Rather than playing a few more removal spells and some Evolutionary Leaps, Brennan is playing Thalia's Lancers and awesome angels. Thalia's Lancers is a great card to hold the ground in the various Bant and midrange mirrors because it’s a huge, first striking body. However, it’s also great because it’s not necessarily something your opponents can afford to Reflector Mage unless they’re going to kill you on the subsequent turn.

The targets for Thalia's Lancers are just as important. Firstly, you gain access to Archangel Avacyn, which absolutely demolishes Bant Company, both the turn is comes down and when you can flip it with Hangarback Walker or Tragic Arrogance. You also can find various fliers, all of which can dominate the skies while the ground stalls out. Gisela, the Broken Blade is an incredible attacker, Sigarda, Heron's Grace is incredible at gumming up the ground and chipping in for damage in the air, and Bruna, the Fading Light is exactly the kind of card you want to be able to tutor up a single copy of to dominate the late game.


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