As I was doing my research for the Standard deck brew that I am planning in a previous blog post, I came upon the Hareruya website and recalled that the Japanese players are well known for a lot of deck brews in the past such as the Goblin Bidding deck. The website’s decklist page has one column for its rogue decks and one in particular under that category is this decklist that I am sharing today. I named the deck as Drakuseth Reanimator based on Drakuseth, Maw of Flames as the card spotlight in the deck. It can be reanimated in an earlier turns via Bond of Revival or can be hard casted in the late game.

See the full decklist below.

Maindeck
1 Swamp
1 Mountain
5 Island
4 Blood Crypt
3 Dragonskull Summit
4 Watery Grave
4 Drowned Catacomb
2 Field of Ruin

2 Lazav, the Multifarious
4 Tomebound Lich
3 Rotting Regisaur
1 Etali, Primal Storm
4 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames

1 Search for Azcanta
4 Thought Erasure
2 Tyrant’s Scorn
4 Chart a Course
3 Ashiok, Dream Render
2 Cry of the Carnarium
1 Ritual of Soot
4 Bond of Revival
1 Ugin, the Ineffable

Sideboard
3 Duress
3 Cerulean Drake
1 The Elderspell
1 Fry
1 Entrancing Melody
2 Noxious Grasp
3 Flame Sweep
1 Hostage Taker

Looking again at some new Standard deck brews on my favorite website, I found one deck that emphasize the phrase “Back to the Basics”. That I pertain to is the Mono-Green Aggro deck that finished in the top decks in a recent MTGO Standard League. See the power of the single-color build and on what creatures the pilot with the username Erratacorrige used in the decklist below.

23 Lands
4 Breeding Pool
15 Forest
4 Hinterland Harbor

29 Creatures
3 Barkhide Troll
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Paradise Druid
4 Pelt Collector
4 Steel Leaf Champion
3 Thorn Lieutenant
3 Vine Mare
4 Voracious Hydra

8 Planeswalkers
4 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
4 Vivien, Arkbow Ranger

Sideboard
2 Agent of Treachery
2 Disdainful Stroke
3 Negate
4 Nullhide Ferox
1 Thrashing Brontodon
3 Veil of Summer

Referring to an enchantment deck for the Standard metagame, I looked for the updated decklist with Core Set 2020 components and the nearest deck reference I have found was from the Tapped Out website where people submit their deck brews. Here below is a version for Orzhov colors of the Starfield Enchanment deck.

4 Cavalier of Dawn
1 Cavalier of Night
4 Starfield Mystic
3 Seraph of the Scales
1 Twilight Prophet

1 Arguel’s Blood Fast
1 Baffling End
1 Bolas’s Citadel
2 Ethereal Absolution
4 History of Benalia
3 Ixalan’s Binding
2 The Eldest Reborn
2 Oath of Kaya
3 Prison Realm
1 Profane Procession
2 Seal Away

4 Godless Shrine
4 Temple of Silence
4 Isolated Chapel
1 Memorial to Glory
1 Memorial to Folly
6 Plains
5 Swamp

Here below is the possible sideboard list of the deck as based in the current Standard metagame.

2 Ashiok, Dream Render
1 Baffling End
1 Devout Decree
4 Duress
1 Kaya’s Wrath
2 Legion’s End
1 The Elderspell
3 Noxious Grasp

The first wave of Standard tournament results with Core Set 2020 was published online at the MTG Top 8 website and there is one interesting decklist which I will feature for today’s blog post. It probably is the latest version of an ancient archetype that first appeared in Ixalan Standard. It is the tribal Dinosaurs deck and M20 has provided new card components that will work well with their Enrage mechanic.

Here below is the version of Jund Dinosaurs deck that finished in first place in the MTGO Standard League.

Maindeck
3 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
4 Marauding Raptor
4 Otepec Huntmaster
4 Regisaur Alpha
4 Ripjaw Raptor
4 Rotting Regisaur
4 Shifting Ceratops
1 Thrashing Brontodon

3 Collision / Colossus
4 Commune with Dinosaurs

1 Blood Crypt
4 Dragonskull Summit
4 Forest
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Stomping Ground
4 Unclaimed Territory

Sideboard
1 Carnage Tyrant
1 Collision / Colossus
3 Duress
3 Flame Sweep
2 Fry
3 Thrashing Brontodon
2 Veil of Summer

I noticed from the Core Set 2020 spoilers list on the new card support for the cheap flying creatures, specifically on the Blue White colors. The uncommon multicolored creature, Empyrean Eagle, is the recent lord of this deck archetype. I then browsed through the White and Blue list of the possible creatures to add and also comparing a few flyers from the Mono Blue deck.

Here below is a first version deck list, with only the creatures and spells lineup:

Creatures
4 Dungeon Geists
4 Spectral Sailor
4 Faerie Miscreant
4 Siren Stormtamer
2 Sephara, Sky’s Blade
4 Empyrean Eagle
2 Hanged Executioner
4 Loyal Pegasus

Spells
1 Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants
4 Gods Willing
1 Prison Realm
4 Favorable Winds

Let me know what you think of this build. Can this become one of the Tier decks in Standard? Comment below your thoughts.