Last week, we had some fun with a Bant Midrange deck and this week I decided to take it a step further. Today's list is a dedicated aggro deck featuring one of my favorite cards, Boon Satyr! The deck has a lot of creatures with low power/toughness, but powerful text. Boon Satyr is a great card to turn these creatures into powerful attackers, and you can potentially have some serious blow-outs inside of combat. One of the things I like most about the deck is with Boon Satyr, Dromoka's Command, Restoration Angel, and Spell Queller, your opponent is in a really tough spot whenever you have open mana. The potential for tricks along with Reflector Mage, Elspeth, Knight-Errant, and the Exalted mechanic means that you always have profitable attacks. The last bit of icing on the cake is Oath of Nissa, which really is just like Ponder.

Deck Tech

Bant Aggro ? Modern | Andrew Boswell

• Creatures (30)
• 2 Lotus Cobra
• 2 Qasali Pridemage
• 3 Boon Satyr
• 3 Spell Queller
• 4 Geist of Saint Traft
• 4 Birds of Paradise
• 4 Noble Hierarch
• 4 Reflector Mage
• 4 Restoration Angel

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant

• Instants (3)
• 3 Dromoka's Command

• Enchantments (3)
• 3 Oath of Nissa

• Lands (22)
• 2 Forest
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Gavony Township
• 1 Temple Garden
• 2 Breeding Pool
• 2 Hallowed Fountain
• 2 Lumbering Falls
• 3 Horizon Canopy
• 4 Misty Rainforest
• 4 Windswept Heath

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Stony Silence
• 2 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 2 Fracturing Gust
• 3 Voice of Resurgence
• 2 Negate
• 1 Spell Queller
• 1 Thrun, the Last Troll
• 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1 Baneslayer Angel

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Match 1: Eldrazi Tron

Match 2: Skred Red

Match 3: 8 Rack

Match 4: Jund

Match 5: Abzan

Next week, Aether Revolt is released online and I have been busy brewing new Standard decks. My favorite brew at the moment is a reboot of an old favorite, G/W Tokens. The previous version, (that I loved), was more of a midrange control deck that used Planeswalkers to get ahead on resources while flipping Archangel Avacyn or casting Tragic Arrogance decimated the opponent's board. For this new version, the key is Rishkar, Peema Renegade. This card is nuts, putting 4 power and toughness onto the board for 3 mana and you can even get some of that mana refunded. I have it in a more aggressive shell that is trying to get a bunch of bodies onto the board and then start pumping them. With the low cost of all these cards and the ability to get extra mana, opponents will not be able to keep up while you vomit power and toughness onto the board.

Green/Whie Aggro ? Aether Revolt Standard | Andrew Boswell

• Creatures (22)
• 2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 4 Lambholt Pacifist
• 4 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 4 Sylvan Advocate
• 4 Thraben Inspector
• 4 Walking Ballista

• Planeswalkers (8)
• 4 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
• 4 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

• Enchantments (7)
• 2 Quarantine Field
• 1 Oath of Ajani
• 4 Oath of Nissa

• Lands (23)
• 7 Plains
• 8 Forest
• 4 Canopy Vista
• 4 Fortified Village

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Until next week, GLHF friends. May you smite thy enemies with a Golden Axe!

— Andrew Boswell