Day1 Bannerman Starter Deck Upgrade

This is part of a series on upgrade your starter decks.

"Bannerman" refers to a Demacia allegiance deck that seeks to gain a wide board early board and then buff everyone +1|+1 with Vanguard Bannerman. There have been many variants of this deck, but all seek to take advantage of Demacia's higher-than-normal stats and unit-saving combat tricks. This particular variant is a midrange deck that wants to build up a superior board and overwhelm your opponent around Rounds 4-7 -- be aware that it's a very linear deck without any value generation or "comeback" tricks, so if you have a superior board state make sure to take the best advantage that you can.   

• Our Day2 upgrades are cutting a lot of the late-game tricks for more consistent early game like 3rd copies of Fleetfeather Tracker / Cithria of Cloudfield / Laurent Protege plus the life-saving Ranger's Resolve and Brightsteel Protector.
• Day3 marks when we make the big shift to an allegiance deck: cutting every non-Demacia card in the deck with the exception of Zed. We fill the gaps with Demacia cards including Vanguard Bannerman, Sharpsight, and Silverwing Vanguard.

The reason for the big change on Day3 is that we want this deck to use Demacia's allegiance card, Vanguard Bannerman, which will apply a powerful bonus but only if the next card in the deck is from the same region -- therefore, when we add Bannerman we want to also stuff the deck with as many Demacia cards as possible to make this bonus more frequent. Until we have enough Demacia cards to justify including him, though, we'd prefer to leverage strong Ionia cards like Glenglade DuoBADCARDNAME, Deny, and Twin Disciplines.

If you're interested in this archetype, look to this deck when you're ready to invest some epic and champion wildcards.