Faith and Sacrifice

Usually faith and devotion require sacrifice, but not with this pretty gal.


For 5cc you get a 5/5 with evasion and protection. Formidable, no? But thats not all, the very next thing you'd look to to remove her with is also covered. That is to say, neither Sigarda nor any of your other permanents can be sacrificed as long as she is on the field, and with her covering so many bases its likely that once she hits the board she'll be around for a while. Don't get me wrong, she's not invincible, since wrath effects can remove her (and the rest of your creatures, duh.), but we'll get to that in a minute.

I personally consider Sigarda, Host of Herons to be almost strictly better than Uril, the Miststalker as a commander. Why? Lets list the reasons.

1 - Built in evasion
2 - No dependency on enchantments
3 - Protects herself and your other permanents from Martyr's Bond effects


Lets touch upon point number two briefly. Why is a dependency on enchantments a bad thing? Well for starters, unless you are using Angelic Destiny or Spirit Loop then you are going to have a problem with something we call card advantage (CA). Secondly, even with the aforementioned creature enchantments and others like them to minimize losing CA, you are still going to have to pay the mana cost over and over should Uril be destroyed, while equipments maintain steady board presence and a usually lower equip cost.

Now, back to the issue of wrath effects. As you can tell this is one of Sigarda's few weaknessses but we can fix that with cards like Spearbreaker Behemoth, Darksteel Plate, and similar cards to supplement her.

Spot removal? Check. Mass Removal? Check. Grave Pact? Pfft.

It seems like only counterspells can stop her but even then there are options available to us in these colors.

I shall definitely be looking to build an aggressive Sigarda deck soon.

Until next time.

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