The first Day of this weekend’s SCG Standard Open at Syracuse, New York and we have another wave of Standard decks at our disposal and which were featured on the round-by-round matchups streamed online. Unfortunately, upon checking their page, they have not listed the top decks yet aside from the deck tech on Simic Ramp by Eli Kassis. Kassis finished at 7-2 on Day 1 and here below is his decklist.

Creatures (19)
4 Arboreal Grazer
3 Hydroid Krasis
2 Incubation Druid
4 Jadelight Ranger
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Fblthp, the Lost

Planeswalkers (9)
3 Karn, the Great Creator
3 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
3 Ugin, the Ineffable

Spells (8)
2 Growth Spiral
2 Entrancing Melody
2 Neoform
2 Nissa’s Triumph

Lands (24)
10 Forest
6 Island
4 Breeding Pool
4 Hinterland Harbor

Sideboard
1 Navigator’s Compass
1 Sentinel Totem
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
1 Treasure Map
1 Meteor Golem
3 Thrashing Brontodon
3 Negate
1 God-Pharaoh’s Statue
1 Helm of the Host
1 The Immortal Sun

Here are some of the deck archetypes spotted while I was checking on the Twitch stream coverage of the current Starcity Games Standard Open at Syracuse.

Jeskai Superfriends
Grixis Control
Simic Ramp
Esper Control
Mono Red Aggro

I will follow up this post with some Top 8 deck lists tomorrow as the event continues with the second day and Top 8 playoffs. Stay tuned.