I see your point. I guess what I was thinking was: hold the Lives until there’s a Lingering Souls in the GY, then drop Lives and flashback Souls. It’s a 6cmc move, but gives a one turn boost (with a single Commander out) that’s greater than the Collective Blessing–and after that turn, almost all token production with Lives and Commander out becomes better than Blessing. Heck, Increasing Devotion from the hand turns into Game Over.

Thanks for the great deck idea, and for resurrecting these cards in my mind!

Hey, no worries about the event. Glad to see you checked out the article. I did consider both of those cards for the list and they certainly would be fine, but I don’t believe they would be optimal. Playing Parallel Lives doesn’t affect the board, but even when you aren’t doing anything else, Commander still attacks for two. As far as the monk, it almost made it in actually but I did not want the curve to be too high. I really like the list as is, but feel free to change some stuff up. The spots I would consider if you want to change something are either the two trostani or the two intangible virtue. You could maybe cut one Midnight Haunting but I probably wouldn’t.

I’ve been thinking Tokens for quite a while now, and have thinking a lot about Geist-Honored Monk and Parallel Lives. What do you think about those in a list like yours? Parallel Lives in particular seems powerful with your effects.