A Few Magic: the Gathering websites are usually a goldmine when they have this feature of their patrons and visitors submitting their decklist ideas. Aside from the Top Tier decks in the Standard format, for instance, you can also check on some build strategies that you may have missed out on. Expect them though to be lesser in power as compared to the current metagame decks.

One of the user-submitted Standard decks I have found that I will feature today is probably the newest theme for the Dragon-tribal deck. Its main superstar is Tiamat from the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, and the ETB ability lets you grab two more Dragon cards from the deck not named as him and as a great card advantage even as the opponent gets to answer it. The rest of the lineup is composed of the best Dragon cards in the current Standard format, and spells to ramp your mana (You Happen On a Glade) and control the opponent’s board (Power Word Kill, Dragon’s Fire). The deck’s core colors are Jund (Black-Red-Green).

Check out the full decklist of the Standard Tiamat Dragons deck below.

Maindeck

1 Beledros Witherbloom
2 Tiamat
3 Goldspan Dragon
2 Terror of the Peaks
2 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
2 Immersturm Predator
1 Old Gnawbone

3 Frost Bite
4 Dragon’s Fire
3 Binding the Old Gods
1 Blood on the Snow
2 Heartless Act
2 Power Word Kill
2 Poison the Cup
2 Unexpected Windfall
1 Back for More
3 You Happen On a Glade

3 Temple of the Dragon Queen
2 The World Tree
3 Darkbore Pathway
4 Cragcrown Pathway
1 Bonders’ Enclave
5 Snow-Covered Swamp
2 Snow-Covered Forest
5 Snow-Covered Mountain

Sideboard
2 Poison the Cup
3 Devour Intellect
3 Duress
1 Blood on the Snow
2 Fire Prophecy
2 Barrier Breach
2 Storm’s Wrath

Reference: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4247954#paper

What fascinates me when building Magic: the Gathering Standard decks is the color splashing that they do to be efficient in countering other metagame decks. Adding a third color goes beyond the traditional build with the minimal drawback of not getting the right lands for example. In today’s Standard AFR deck feature, we have a Gruul Aggro list that went “dark” by having access to Black’s strong spot removals. Not to mention the main deck Valki, God of Lies.

The deck was played by Dustyn Aranda Rojas and finished in 1st place in the SCG Tour Online – Satellite #8 @ Star City Games wherein the Top 8 was mostly composed of aggro decks.

Check out the full Dark Gruul Standard deck below.

21 LANDS (25)
4 Blightstep Pathway
4 Cragcrown Pathway
4 Darkbore Pathway
2 Den of the Bugbear
3 Forest
3 Lair of the Hydra
1 Mountain

28 CREATURES
4 Bonecrusher Giant
4 Edgewall Innkeeper
2 Embereth Shieldbreaker
1 Gemrazer
3 Goldspan Dragon
4 Jaspera Sentinel
4 Lovestruck Beast
4 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
2 Valki, God of Lies

4 INSTANTS and SORC.
4 Shatterskull Smashing

7 OTHER SPELLS
3 Embercleave
4 Esika’s Chariot

SIDEBOARD
2 Burning Hands
1 Gemrazer
2 Klothys, God of Destiny
3 Ox of Agonas
3 Ray of Enfeeblement
2 Redcap Melee
2 The Akroan War

Reference: https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=31890&f=ST

The support for the Treasure deck build strategy fully extended with the inclusion of Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set. The new decks built around this are quite interesting and such, you can also have a theme for it like Dragons for example.

This came actually in an online Magic: the Gathering tournament with the core components taken from the existing Izzet Dragons which got updated back in Strixhaven Standard Prismari class.

Check out the full decklist below and the detailed gameplay video perfectly done by Covert Go Blue.

In the current Magic: the Gathering Standard format metagame, Winota aggro has been one of the contending aggro decks. The latest set, Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, has further improved its deck strategy with a few card components updated in the list.

Upon checking on the latest Magic: the Gathering tournament results online and found this Naya version (Red-Green-White) of the deck. The new AFR card added is Prosperous Innkeeper, which provides you a Treasure token that you can ramp to a turn-three Winota. That is aside from the ramp creatures in Jaspera Sentinel and Magda, Brazen Outlaw.

See the full Naya Winota Aggro Decklist below.

Reference: https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=31613&d=444721&f=ST 

As we continue to scour on the Magic: the Gathering Adventures in the Forgotten Realm Standard format, we check on each new cards’ role in the deck build and gauge its effectiveness and value. One card can have a major impact on the deck, taking its main strategy to another level, or it can be as a support card to gain additional value if combined with a regular card component.

For today’s Adventures in the Forgotten Realm card feature, we have the card that will further improve a tier Standard deck sustainability in the late game. Check out Rogue Class.

The Standard deck Rogues is still a regular deck choice in the format and with the new set’s card components that updates it. Rogue Class will have its creatures an added effect of one more card to exile. Soaring Thought-Thief gets to mill 3 cards in total while Thieves’ Guild Enforcer gets a mill value whenever it deals combat damage aside from its ETB ability.

That is just the initial as the third level of the card will reap the benefits of casting the exiled cards against the opponent. Given that Enchantments are still hard to deal with in the current format.

Standard Decks with Adventures in the Forgotten Realm are already seeing play in Arena and MTGO, and so we’d expect some results and decklists to share on a separate post. Wrapping up things for now and see you on the next blog post.