Last weekend’s Magic: the Gathering Standard tournaments and events garnered a whole bunch of decklists of various archetypes. MTG Top 8 dot com is again my go-to website. This is where we are going to get today’s deck update and feature, and the lucky deck chosen is White Weenie Aggro. This was piloted by a well-known Pro Player, Frank Karsten. He finished in Top 4 of the Red Bull Untapped 2021 International Stop I tournament, where he probably lost to a Mono-Green finalist.

Let us check his complete decklist below.

Maindeck
23 LANDS
4 Faceless Haven
19 Snow-Covered Plains

31 CREATURES
4 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
2 Brutal Cathar
2 Chaplain of Alms
4 Elite Spellbinder
4 Intrepid Adversary
4 Luminarch Aspirant
4 Stonebinder’s Familiar
3 Sungold Sentinel
4 Usher of the Fallen

2 INSTANTS and SORC.
2 Fateful Absence

4 OTHER SPELLS
2 Maul of the Skyclaves
2 Portable Hole

SIDEBOARD
2 Brutal Cathar
1 Cave of the Frost Dragon
1 Curse of Silence
1 Fateful Absence
1 Gavony Dawnguard
2 Guardian of Faith
1 Portable Hole
2 Reidane, God of the Worthy
3 Skyclave Apparition
1 You’re Ambushed on the Road

The creature choices are composed of the usual four-of for White Aggro: Elite Spellbinder, Luminarch Aspirant, and Usher of the Fallen. What is characterized by these other creature components is that they are gaining on exile effects. The card Stonebinder’s Familiar triggers a +1/+1 counter placed on it when one or more cards are put into exile during your turn. There are several cards that could trigger it making it the efficient one-drop when your play is on the curve.

Adeline, Resplendent Cathar is then the long-game creature producer that gets its power bigger as more creatures develop your board. I like how it was built to be more offensive pre-board rather than the usual tax-the-opponent route.

The non-creature spell choices are the usual and it’s on the ideal division, two-ofs on the spot removals and Maul of the Skyclaves as the finisher.

Frank Karsten may have published a deck discussion article prior to this or maybe after the event which I yet have to check. This is on his sideboard plan, on the card choices, and the in-and-outs.

That is about it for this Standard deck update, until the next blog post.

P.S. Decklist reference.

P.P.S. You can also check on the previous Standard deck updates here.