Alright, planeswalkers and deck-slingers, let’s talk about the unsung hero that just showed up at the Pro Tour Final Fantasy: the Selesnya Gearhulk deck. While everyone was brewing up the latest Izzet Prowess or perfecting their Domain Overlords, a few brave souls brought the green-white machine to the big stage.

And let me tell you, this isn’t your grandma’s Selesnya tokens; this is a whole new level of grind and beatdown that could seriously shake up the Standard meta.

What makes this build tick? It’s all about the value engine, and Brightglass Gearhulk is the star of the show. Dropping this bad boy and immediately pulling two creatures out of your deck with its enter-the-battlefield trigger is just absurd. Imagine getting a couple of Pawpatch Recruits or Llanowar Elves to accelerate even further, or maybe something spicy like Haywire Mite for pesky artifacts and enchantments.

The deck aims to flood the board with resilient threats, leveraging the Gearhulk to consistently restock, ensuring you always have a follow-up, even through removal.

The true potential lies in its ability to adapt. We saw lists that leverage Collector’s Cage to cheat out massive threats, including the Gearhulk itself, while others leaned into aggressive, low-to-the-ground creature packages that benefit from the Gearhulk’s ability to pull out more attackers.

Selesnya’s access to targeted removal, life gain, and resilience through cards like Sheltered by Ghosts means it can stand toe-to-toe with the format’s top contenders. More so on its sideboard gameplan where the colors have access to cards that can answer to the current metagame. Keep an eye on this deck, because with the right pilot, it’s got the power to go from fringe contender to top-tier menace in no time.

Thanks for reading and until the next blog post.

I have not yet talked with the group on our deck builds in this Standard rotation with the release of Guilds of Ravnica but I have thought of the possible decks archetypes. I can say that guild-based decks would be a norm in the new metagame or maybe the possibility of 3-color decks made up of two guilds that align with its colors.

Prior to the buy list, the current decks we have are: Mono Red Sligh, Mono Green Stompy, maybe Mono Black midrange or control and Blue White which lost some components but eventually got replaced with cards from the Izzet guild.

My current deck project is Selesnya Aggro which I already pre-ordered some its cards and we will be also building a Boros Aggro deck with similar components that of the Red Aggro. Another interesting project which we will discuss on and was mentioned before by Oliver is the Abzan Knights deck. It might be in conflict in components with the Black Green Midrange deck which at the moment I do not know how many components are yet to be bought. There are reference lists to be based on, but then we will have to agree on a final version.

The preorders are yet to be sent by next week so we just have to build at least two decks for the meantime. Hopefully I would get to open some components in the preordered box from Rei so as to hasten the completion of these decks. The lucky pulls would hopefully continue lol.