One of the breakout deck archetypes in Standard post-Kaladesh was seen at the recent Pro Tour in Honolulu Hawaii. The deck was Colossus Affinity and its components are mainly noncreature artifacts that can accelerate your Metalwork Colossus to an early turn. Cantrip cards like Prophetic Prism and Cultivator’s Caravan for mana ramp.

Here is one build from an MTGO tournament which finished 5-0 and was played by username argh:

Maindeck
4 Aether Hub
4 Inspiring Vantage
2 Inventors’ Fair
6 Island
1 Mountain
1 Plains
4 Sanctum of Ugin
2 Spawning Bed

2 Elder Deep-Fiend
3 Filigree Familiar
4 Glint-Nest Crane
4 Metalwork Colossus

1 Blessed Alliance
3 Fumigate
4 Galvanic Bombardment
4 Cultivator’s Caravan
2 Hedron Archive
2 Metalspinner’s Puzzleknot
4 Prophetic Prism
3 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship

Sideboard
2 Blessed Alliance
3 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Fragmentize
1 Fumigate
3 Negate
4 Thought-Knot Seer

Japanese Pro Player Shota Yasooka has been known for playing unusual decklist based on the Control archetype in Constructed formats. It was no surprise that he piloted an innovative Grixis control this weekend at the Pro Tour Kaladesh in Honolulu, Hawaii. He went undefeated in Day 1 at 8-0, worked his way to the Top 8 in the second day, and eventually won the trophy and title of Pro Tour Kaladesh Champion.

Here below is his Grixis Control winning decklist:

Maindeck
1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
2 Torrential Gearhulk
4 Thing in the Ice

2 Radiant Flames
3 Painful Truths
1 Transgress the Mind
2 Unlicensed Disintegration
3 Harnessed Lightning
3 Void Shatter
2 Glimmer of Genius
1 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Negate
4 Galvanic Bombardment
1 Essence Extraction
3 Anticipate

4 Spirebluff Canal
2 Wandering Fumarole
4 Evolving Wilds
4 Sunken Hollow
3 Smoldering Marsh
2 Mountain
2 Swamp
5 Island

Sideboard
2 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Negate
1 Radiant Flames
1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
1 Transgress the Mind
2 To the Slaughter
2 Confiscation Coup
3 Weaver of Lightning
2 Summary Dismissal