Paladin Danse, Steel Maverick

Gameplan

Paladin Danse leads a mono-white aggressive go-wide army of artifact creatures and Humans, swinging in with vigilance and lifelink while protecting your board from wraths. Deploy efficient creatures and equipment early, build a wide attack, then exile Danse before a board wipe or combat to make your team indestructible. You grind out value through resilience and white's anthem/recursion package and close with a wide alpha strike.

Key Cards

• Skullclamp — Solves white's card-draw problem by sacrificing small artifact/Human tokens for two cards each.
• Anointed Procession — Doubles your token output to overwhelm the board with artifact and Human creatures.
• Smothering Tithe — Premier mono-white ramp and resource engine to power out your threats and equipment.
• Adeline, Resplendent Cathar — Generates a Human token per attacker, snowballing your go-wide plan with Danse's protection.
• Sram, Senior Edificer — Turns your equipment-heavy artifact build into a steady stream of cards.
• Cathars' Crusade — Each creature you cast pumps the whole team, turning a wide indestructible board into lethal.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana and ramp (Smothering Tithe, Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Land Tax) plus white's best card advantage (Welcoming Vampire, Esper Sentinel, Mentor of the Meek) to fix the color's draw weakness. Lean into blink/recursion like Flickerwisp or Brought Back to reuse Danse's protection more than once, and add a finisher such as Akroma's Will, Triumph of the Hordes, or Approach of the Second Sun for explosive closing power.