It is only less than a week to go before Magic: the Gathering Magic 2015 becomes legal in Standard and this will be the biggest range of the format, with a total of eight sets. As for today’s brew, the featured deck is a version of control with unusual colors. Here is the list.

Lands
3 Battlefield Forge
4 Mutavault
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Temple of Triumph
6 Mountain
4 Plains

Creatures
2 Archangel of Thune
4 Prophetic Flamespeaker
2 Scuttling Doom Engine
4 Stormbreath Dragon
1 Soul of Theros

Spells
1 Assemble the Legion
4 Banishing Light
2 Boros Keyrune
4 Chained to the Rocks
2 Chandra, Pyromaster
2 Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
3 Magma Jet
4 Mizzium Mortars

Sideboard
SB: 3 Assemble the Legion
SB: 1 Chandra, Pyromaster
SB: 2 Deicide
SB: 3 Nyx-Fleece Ram
SB: 1 Pithing Needle
SB: 1 Renounce the Guilds
SB: 2 Wall of Essence
SB: 1 Warleader’s Helix
SB: 1 Wear/Tear

The deck idea was referenced from TradeWind’s list in MTGO Standard Daily (#7218328) in which he got fourth place. The list got an update from M15 with Battlefield Forge as well as the White Soul of Theros and Wall of Essence on the sideboard. I cut Aurelia and Flame-Wreathed Phoenix from his original list in favor of the doom engine and SoT.

Prophetic Flamespeaker fits perfectly in this control version because of low-cost spot removals as well as a one-sided board sweep of Mizzium Mortars. It also has powerful walkers in the late game with Chandra providing card advantage and Elspeth, Sun’s Champion on board advantage.

The sideboard for the control matchups looks stable already but I think I should also include Boros Charm as a protection for Planar Cleansing and removals like Hero’s Downfall and Abrupt Decay.

Does the list look viable enough to compete in M15 Standard? Let me know by commenting below.

Until the next post.