I have explored the aggro and control deck archetypes in the current Ravnica Allegiance Standard format with my previous blog posts and this time, I have decided to check on some updated decks under the Combo tab. We all know and familiar with the Nexus of Fate and Wilderness Reclamation combo deck that currently exists in the metagame. Well, Nexus is not the only available combo piece. Presenting the 5-Color Electrodominance Standard deck:

24 LANDS
1 Blood Crypt
2 Breeding Pool
1 Clifftop Retreat
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Forest
1 Glacial Fortress
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Hinterland Harbor
1 Island
1 Mountain
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Rootbound Crag
1 Sacred Foundry
4 Steam Vents
2 Stomping Ground
1 Sunpetal Grove
1 Temple Garden
1 Watery Grave
1 Woodland Cemetery

25 INSTANTS and SORC.
1 Cleansing Nova
3 Deafening Clarion
3 Discovery / Dispersal
3 Electrodominance
3 Expansion / Explosion
4 Growth Spiral
3 Mastermind’s Acquisition
3 Revitalize
1 Settle the Wreckage
1 Star of Extinction

11 OTHER SPELLS
4 Gift of Paradise
1 The Mirari Conjecture
2 Thousand-Year Storm
4 Wilderness Reclamation

SIDEBOARD
1 Chaos Wand
1 Electrodominance
1 Emergency Powers
2 Lava Coil
1 Lich’s Mastery
1 Lightning Strike
1 Nexus of Fate
1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
1 Omniscience
1 Sanguine Sacrament
1 Settle the Wreckage
1 The Immortal Sun
1 The Mirari Conjecture
1 Unmoored Ego

It isn’t that obvious that the pilot has provided a whole lot of options with all of these one-of cards in the deck. It also has the means to search for the right answer in the situation with tutor cards like Mastermind’s Acquisition.

The basic strategy here is to ramp to enough mana and resolve a Wilderness Reclamation. You can then have a huge mana dump in spells like Expansion / Explosion and Electrodominance. There is a long list of possibilities here in order to win, given that you can access your sideboard with the acquisition.

I would personally suggest that you should try this in your next FNM tourney but just avoid a Mono-Blue Tempo field meta.

Until the next blog post.

Source: https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=21264&d=342101&f=ST

Here is one decklist I have found at the recently concluded Starcitygames Open Tournament at Indianapolis which I considered to be the most decent build of a Red Green or Gruul aggro deck. The deck was piloted by Jimmy Brandlein and he finished in 28th place in the tournament. Below is the decklist.

Creatures (28)
4 Growth-Chamber Guardian
4 Gruul Spellbreaker
4 Jadelight Ranger
4 Merfolk Branchwalker
4 Rekindling Phoenix
4 Skarrgan Hellkite
4 Zhur-Taa Goblin

Spells (8)
4 Lightning Strike
4 Shock

Lands (24)
9 Forest
7 Mountain
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Stomping Ground

Sideboard (15)
1 Carnage Tyrant
4 Wildgrowth Walker
4 Cindervines
2 Vivien Reid
4 Lava Coil