Bant Collected Company decks has been seeing play in the late months before the Standard rotation and also has been the deck of choice of Japanese pros. I think the trend will still continue after Shadows of Innistrad becomes legal as most of the deck’s main component will not be affected by this rotation. The land fixing can be an issue but then we have new cards from the set to substitute. The remaining cards would be:

Deathmist Raptor
Den Protector
Eldrazi Skyspawner
Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
Reflector Mage
Sylvan Advocate
Collected Company
Dromoka’s Command

We have a few card options for the deck from Shadows over Innistrad, like Bygone Bishop, Topplegeist, and Rattlegeist. We just have to wait for the complete spoiler so we could sort out the best cards to use.

The new ‘Show lands’ looks like a decent replacement for the fetchlands and we have enemy color manlands to make up for the rest of the mana fixing.

As for the spells, we don’t need that much card utility as we already have our creatures and Collected Company to take the board advantage to us.

I don’t have a complete decklist for now as we are still going to assess Shadows over Innistrad once the set is complete.

That is a wrap, until the next blog post.