While looking for a new Standard decklist to feature this week which I think I did not do just yet, I decided to check on the Other Aggro tab of the MTG Top 8 Standard decks page. I found the recent deck they have listed at a date of November 11th.

This decklist is sort of a Boros Angels at first look though you can find Blue components in Ionize, Syncopate, and surprisingly, Teferi, Hero of Dominaria. It finished in 11th place in an MTGO Standard PTQ.

See the full decklist below.

Mainboard
4 Clifftop Retreat
4 Glacial Fortress
1 Mountain
6 Plains
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Steam Vents
3 Sulfur Falls

4 Adanto Vanguard
3 Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice
3 Lyra Dawnbringer
4 Rekindling Phoenix
2 Tocatli Honor Guard

3 Ionize
2 Justice Strike
3 Lava Coil
1 Response / Resurgence
2 Syncopate
4 History of Benalia
3 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

Sideboard
2 Banefire
4 Deafening Clarion
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Invoke the Divine
3 Negate
1 Settle the Wreckage
1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
2 Tocatli Honor Guard

Source: http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=20493&d=334573&f=ST

Of the variance of the White Red aggro decks in the Top 8 of the recently concluded Pro Tour Guilds of Ravnica, my personal favorite was the build of Team ChannelFireball and was played by LSV (Luis Scott-Vargas, not Lanai SmallVille). Their card choices were very relevant to their expected metagame in the event. As explained in the article by Martin Juza, having Ajani’s Pridemate with lots of life gain sources gets to be bigger than that of the mirror match and above the damage range of Deafening Clarion. That along with the ability of Adanto Vanguard and Dauntless Bodyguard, you can assure that your creatures stay alive in sweeps and other damage-related removals.

Here below is the decklist which I believe should be the winner of the Pro Tour Guilds of Ravnica.

Maindeck
4 Adanto Vanguard
4 Ajani’s Pridemate
4 Benalish Marshal
4 Dauntless Bodyguard
4 Healer’s Hawk
4 Leonin Vanguard
3 Skymarcher Aspirant

3 Pride of Conquerors
2 Conclave Tribunal
4 History of Benalia
4 Legion’s Landing

4 Clifftop Retreat
12 Plains
4 Sacred Foundry

Sideboard
2 Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice
3 Baffling End
2 Banefire
2 Conclave Tribunal
4 Experimental Frenzy
1 Mountain
1 Settle the Wreckage

See the Pro Tour Guilds of Ravnica coverage here. Also here below is the Finals matchup video.

With the coming of the Dimir guild in the Standard format, we look at its control aspect making use of the guild’s Surveil mechanic. The relevant components would be Doom Whisperer, Dream Eater and Disinformation Campaign.

Here below is the decklist that made it in the Top 16 of a recent Standard PTQ in Magic Online and played by Phizzle.

Mainboard
2 Dimir Guildgate
4 Drowned Catacomb
2 Field of Ruin
6 Island
7 Swamp
4 Watery Grave

4 Doom Whisperer
2 Dream Eater

2 Cast Down
2 Discovery / Dispersal
3 Essence Scatter
2 Moment of Craving
3 Ritual of Soot
4 Thought Erasure
4 Vraska’s Contempt
1 Walk the Plank
1 Arguel’s Blood Fast
1 Dead Weight
4 Disinformation Campaign
2 The Eldest Reborn

Sideboard
1 Cast Down
2 Disdainful Stroke
3 Duress
1 Moment of Craving
3 Negate
1 The Eldest Reborn
4 Thief of Sanity