While on the plan to eat last night at the Mongolian buffet at Centennial Hotel, I decided to bring with me a pocket notebook and a pen as to note down some things while enjoying the food. As my nature being a Magic card addict, I’ve decided to work on some more deck ideas for the current Standard.
Here is the first of the three decks:
Blue White Tokens
By Mark Ian Alloso
3 Doomed Traveler
2 Day of Judgment
4 Intangible Virtue
2 Honor of the Pure
3 Elspeth Tirel
4 Mana Leak
4 Midnight Haunting
4 Ponder
3 Oblivion Ring
4 Shrine of Loyal Legions
2 Think Twice
1 White Sun’s Zenith
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Seachrome Coast
2 Ghost Quarter
2 Island
12 Plains
Next up is my latest version of control on the black and red colors. The plan is to abuse the recursions of Chandra’s Phoenix and Reassembling Skeleton via early aggro or act as blockers and with late game use of equipments.
Black Red Control
By Mark Ian Alloso
3 Chandra’s Phoenix
1 Grave Titan
3 Reassembling Skeleton
1 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Arc Trail
1 Batterskull
1 Black Sun Zenith
1 Chandra the Firebrand
1 Devil’s Play
3 Distress
4 Doomblade
3 Geistflame
3 Liliana of the Veil
2 Night Terrors
1 Nihill Spellbomb
1 Sever the Bloodline
1 Slagstorm
1 Sphere of the Suns
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of War and Peace
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Dragonskull Summit
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Inkmoth Nexus
6 Mountain
8 Swamp
Last but not the least, a minor update of the Tempered Steel deck played by Team Fireball last Worlds 2011. I’ve added red for Galvanic Blast.
White Red Tempered Steel Aggro
By Mark Ian Alloso
11 Plains
1 Mountain
4 Clifftop Retreat
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Signal Pest
3 Vault Skirge
4 Etched Champion
4 Glint Hawk
4 Memnite
3 Galvanic Blast
3 Dispatch
4 Tempered Steel
1 Master’s Call
3 Origin Spellbomb
4 Glint Hawk Idol
3 Mox Opal
I hope you liked the slight variations I made on the Steel deck and on the new deck archetype suggestions. Please do remember that these lists are still on the development and testing stage so please do comment below for any suggestions. Thanks in advance!