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Hello everyone. Wilds of Eldraine has provided us with a lot of new cards that are seeing play all across Standard. This week I've got four new decks that all feature new cards that are both fun and competitive. Let's get started.
Dimir Mill
It's no secret that I love decks that feature an alternative way to win, so this first deck this week has my interest piqued. Let's take a look at the deck.
Dimir Mill | WOE Standard | Sonio, aetherhub.com user
- Planeswalkers (4)
- 4 Jace, the Perfected Mind
- Instants (15)
- 2 Sheoldred's Edict
- 3 Cut Down
- 3 Go for the Throat
- 3 The End
- 4 Thirst for Knowledge
- Sorceries (3)
- 3 Path of Peril
- Enchantments (3)
- 3 Founding the Third Path
- Artifacts (3)
- 1 The Celestus
- 2 The Irencrag
With Wilds of Eldraine, there are a few additions that can make this deck a little better. By playing The Irencrag, you have a mana rock that can accelerate your mana a bit. There's also The End, which can be a great way to remove a few additional cards from your opponent's library. This deck also includes a pair of Cruel Somnophage, which will both mill your opponent of four cards (with its Can't Wake Up adventure), and act as a failsafe attacker in the event that you're not able to win via milling.
Golgari Stale Cookies
Next, I have a Black/Green deck that utilizes a pair of legendary creatures from Wilds of Eldraine to gain a lot of value. Let's take a look at it.
Golgari Stale Cookies | WOE Standard | Redd_Cat_MTG, aetherhub.com user
- Creatures (23)
- 1 Thran Spider
- 3 Greta, Sweettooth Scourge
- 3 Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender
- 4 Elvish Archivist
- 4 Gingerbrute
- 4 Teething Wurmlet
- 4 Tough Cookie
- Instants (4)
- 4 Royal Treatment
- Sorceries (4)
- 2 Back for Seconds
- 2 Drown in Ichor
- Enchantments (4)
- 4 Welcome to Sweettooth
- Artifacts (3)
- 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
- 2 Transmogrant's Crown
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By pairing Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender with Greta, Sweettooth Scourge, you can get a lot of +1/+1 counters and scry a ton of cards. That's because of Syr Ginger's ability which will give it a +1/+1 counter and allow you to scry 1 whenever another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield. Since Great allows you to sacrifice Food tokens for either a +1/+1 counter, which can be placed on any creature, or to draw a card and lose a point of life, both creatures will benefit from the same action.
Greta creates a Food token when she enters the battlefield, but there is a lot of other Food in this deck that she can sacrifice. Welcome to Sweettooth will create a Food token during its second chapter. You'll also get a Food token when Tough Cookie enters the battlefield. But, Greta's abilities allow her to sacrifice a Food for an effect, which does not have to be a Food token. You can also sacrifice creatures that have the Food subtype, such as Tough Cookie, Gingerbrute, or even Syr Ginger himself.
Orzhov Superfriends
The next deck I have for you features quite a few planeswalkers. Let's take a look at the deck.
Orzhov Superfriends | WOE Standard | LegenVD, aetherhub.com user
- Planeswalkers (13)
- 1 Kaya, Intangible Slayer
- 1 Liliana of the Veil
- 1 Sorin the Mirthless
- 2 The Eternal Wanderer
- 2 The Wandering Emperor
- 2 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
- 4 Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator
- Instants (2)
- 2 Cut Down
- Sorceries (6)
- 2 Path of Peril
- 4 Drown in Ichor
- Enchantments (6)
- 2 Virtue of Persistence
- 4 Urza Assembles the Titans
- Artifacts (8)
- 2 The Celestus
- 2 The Irencrag
- 4 Staff of Compleation
Once your opponent's forces have been effectively neutered, you can go on the offensive. This deck features seven different planeswalkers, and is capable of winning games in multiple ways. You can attempt to mill out your opponent using the -7 loyalty ability of Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator. You could poison your opponent with Vraska, Betrayal's Sting's -9 loyalty ability, then finish them off by proliferating. You can even win in the traditional way, by creating creature tokens with Sorin the Mirthless, The Eternal Wanderer, and The Wandering Emperor that you can attack with. Give yourself a challenge and try to win using a different method than in your previous game.
Selesnya Artifacts
The final deck I have for you features only a couple of cards from Wilds of Eldraine, making it a great choice to play if your budget is limited.
Selesnya Artifacts | WOE Standard | powrdragn, aetherhub.com user
- Creatures (24)
- 2 Gingerbrute
- 2 Patchwork Automaton
- 2 Steel Seraph
- 3 Elvish Archivist
- 3 Skrelv, Defector Mite
- 4 Teething Wurmlet
- 4 Tough Cookie
- 4 Yotian Dissident
- Enchantments (7)
- 3 Skrelv's Hive
- 4 Michiko's Reign of Truth // Portrait of Michiko
- Artifacts (8)
- 4 Glass Casket
- 4 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
- Lands (22)
- 3 Forest
- 7 Plains
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 2 Mirrex
- 4 Brushland
- 4 Razorverge Thicket
Elvish Archivist fits into this archetype very nicely. It will gain a pair of +1/+1 counters whenever your first artifact of the turn enters the battlefield. You can also draw a card when your first enchantment enters play each turn. That's a lot of value provided by a two-mana creature. Also included in this deck are a pair of Gingerbrute. By paying a mana before attacking, you can make Gingerbrute unblockable by any creature that doesn't have haste. That can make Gingerbrute a target that must be destroyed right away, otherwise you'll soon be able to deal out quite a beating with this little food golem.
Wrapping Up
Whether aggro decks are your thing, or whether you prefer control decks, Wilds of Eldraine offers something for everyone. Each of the decks this week featured only two colors, making them great starting points into the format. Next week, I'll be looking at some three-color decks which will offer a ton of flexibility and potential.
What do you think of these decks? Feel free to share this article with your friends anywhere on social media. And be sure to join me here again next week as I continue my search for innovative decks in Standard. I'll see you then!
- Mike Likes
