Traditional Standard deck guides and writeups
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Izzet Flyers
Traditional Standard
05 Apr by Risendragon
Good evening Magic miscreants! Risendragon here with another exciting deck tech. Now, I am a player that likes to try new things; I currently have a deck that revolves around Lorescale Coatl in the works. Today's deck is not out of the ordinary and it quite frankly has the capability to get beastly ...
Sakdos!
Traditional Standard
03 Apr by Risendragon
Good evening, Magic Miscreants! Risendragon here with a really cool Rakdos Sacrifice build. Strixhaven is almost upon us and I am psyched for its release. In the meantime, let's feast on this deck right here! The main purpose of this deck is to sacrifice things. Anything. Our creatures, our foods, o...
Azorius Vehicle Ramp
Traditional Standard
22 Mar by alexthearchmage
Okay this deck is just....really fun and nonsensical to play. The main keys of the deck are to ramp // ensure you're hitting your land drops with cards like The Omenkeel, Birth of Meletis, and Colossal Plow. This allows you to set up for your game finishers a bit earlier than you might expect in Azo...
Gods & Legends
Traditional Standard
21 Mar by Tiamat
English description The goal of the deck is to outclass the opponent with creatures, powerful planeswalkers and card advantage. The deck contains several synergies : legendary creatures can accelerate the cast of the powerspells (Garruk, Vivien, Tibalt and Vori...
Kaldheim Elves
Traditional Standard
11 Mar by Domenicus
General Idea: The idea is to aggro the greedy decks that are a big part of the meta and use efficient 3-drops, Skemfar Avenger, and Agadeem's awakening to generate value. We can get away with a slightly inefficient mana curve because Wildborn Preserver will stop extra mana going to waste and ...
Competitive World Tree
Traditional Standard
23 Feb by Haksaw
What The Deck Is About A powerful adventure midrange deck with the inevitable endgame of world tree takes the deck over the top. Usually what can happen is that the game has been a fair back and forth match where you have killed their creatures and played Jegantha, the Wellspring to brick wall them,...
Mean Mono-Black
Traditional Standard
09 Feb by alexthearchmage
Run this deck only if you're feeling mean-spirited! Honestly, I've been doing well with this deck against most of the current meta, which is nice. Your basic game plan (as with any control deck) is to stop whatever your opponent is doing. As a forewarning, if you don't like running low in your life ...
Jolrael's Growth 2.0
Traditional Standard
03 Feb by alexthearchmage
Cloned the original Golgari build and turned it into a Sultai build. I'm liking this a bit more, but that could just be because I'm a bit in love with Sublime Epiphany. The piloting guide is a bit different than the Golgari build, as you're more likely to be holding up your counterspells and flash c...
Jolrael's Growth
Traditional Standard
01 Feb by alexthearchmage
This deck is ALL about value - through Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse, Chevill, Bane of Monsters and Binding the Old Gods. I haven't been posting my decks lately, nor writing about them, so let's hop back in! If you're new to my page, I try to write piloting guides with all of my decks, and I encou...
[KHM] Dimir Snow Dredge
Traditional Standard
26 Jan by Jino
Fill up your graveyard and keep bringing back ghouls and king Narfi, who buffs the ghouls, until your opponent succumbs to them. Rationale of the cards chosen: Egon, God of Death - Throne enables Emry and graveyard. Later on provides gas and a huge beatstick. Emry, Lurker of the Loch - Primary enab...
[KHM] MonoRed Dwarves (aka Magda or bust
Traditional Standard
25 Jan by quantumquark
A primer from MTG Finance. Treasures. It's all about treasures. They make mana, and mana makes the money. It's a treasure, you see. So what do we do with our money? Invest. Invest in dragons. Invest in swords. Invest. In. Dwarves. Dwarves make treasures, and my boy*, Magda, makes them better than an...
Feed the Trolls (Mono G Food)
Traditional Standard
20 Dec by Risendragon
Good afternoon Magic Malcontents! Risendragon here with another deck tech. This time, we are looking at Mono Green Foods, a deck that I have run into quite a bit over the last two weeks or so and one that I think has a ton of potential. Many variations I have come up against utilize Witch's Oven to ...
Kaheera Mono Green Bo3
Traditional Standard
25 Oct by Gildenmagier
Climbing to mythic with style. Play mono green, draw cards, beat your opponents! No rogues, no counterspells, no burn. Just good old beast beats! We even got a fancy combo! Kaheera, the Orphanguard + Garruk's Uprising + Vivien, Monsters' Advocate # Deck Kaheera, the Orphanguard - She is a dec...
Golgari Thuggin'
Traditional Standard
17 Oct by PenguinHugger
It's a pretty fair, midrange deck overall with a lean toward aggression to keep pace with all the ramp and aggro decks in the meta. It also lets us actually outspeed more dedicated control decks given our own lack of ramp outside of the two-of Henge. This deck was built in response to the heavily ag...
Dimir Flash Rogues
Traditional Standard
01 Oct by sSnapple
This is my take on Dimir Rogues. When I first started playing rogues I played with Merfolk Windrobber, Lofty Denial, Anticognition, and Hagra Mauling, but found these cards all to be lackluster for various reasons. Merfolk Windrobber doesn't do enough for this deck. It doesn't put on enough pressure...
Orzhov Aggro by cstick #50 Sept
Traditional Standard
30 Sep by Cwinski
DECK AND DESCRIPTION BY cstick via reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/spikes/?utm_content=subreddit&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_name=8b95f7704c45407da91bc608b7bf61d2&utm_source=embedly&utm_term=izxgc8 -------------------------------------------------------------------...
Black Anti-Meta Bo3
Traditional Standard
29 Sep by Gildenmagier
Just a simple deck to beat Omnath, rogues and aggro. # Deck 4 Murderous Rider - Destroy and block 3 Hagra Mauling - Play as land against control. 4 Castle Locthwain - Draw more cards 4 Pelakka Predation - Discard threats. 3 Agadeem's Awakening - Return Acquisitions Expert, Nighthawk Scavenger...
BW Clerics (Bo3)
Traditional Standard
23 Sep by Gildenmagier
Tired of Omnath? Don't want to play red? Looking for something exciting? Then I've got the perfect deck for you! I present you Black/white clerics. Aggressive boots on the ground, mean black combat tricks and turn 4/5 kills possible. ## The nuts Speaker of the Heavens + Cleric of Life'...
Zen Sultai Control
Traditional Standard
23 Sep by SasquatchSenpai
Welcome to my Zagoth Triome the deck. Well, Sultai Control, more aptly named. There's a LOT of Four Color Omnath running around, and I mean, a lot. Now that he has grown an extra arm, Omnath, Locus of Creation is everywhere and it makes sense, he's pure value with a Lotus Cobra or two on the fi...
Chandrafice
Traditional Standard
09 Sep by limekiller70
This deck has been crazy fun so far, and got me all the way through gold without dropping a match. It's basically an aggro sacrifice list, like it says on the tin. The true key to the deck is Chandra, easily. Generating 2 tokens every turn, which literally everything else in the deck can use, is pre...