With Mono-Red being the dominant aggressive deck in Standard, midrange and control decks are overloading on cheap spot removal to try to keep pace with the beatdown deck. The lack of sweepers being played in the format means that there’s space in the format for decks that are more resilient to spot removal, such as this take on artificers:

U/R Aggro ? Ixalan Standard | CornSwallow, 5-0 Standard League

• Creatures (15)
• 1 Pia Nalaar
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 The Scarab God
• 4 Aether Swooper
• 4 Maverick Thopterist
• 4 Whirler Virtuoso

• Planeswalkers (1)
• 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance

• Instants (8)
• 4 Harnessed Lightning
• 4 Metallic Rebuke

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 Reverse Engineer

• Artifacts (10)
• 1 Aethersphere Harvester
• 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
• 4 Decoction Module
• 4 Inventor's Goggles

• Lands (24)
• 3 Mountain
• 5 Island
• 2 Fetid Pools
• 4 Aether Hub
• 2 Inventors' Fair
• 4 Spire of Industry
• 4 Spirebluff Canal

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 2 Aethersphere Harvester
• 3 Abrade
• 2 Battle at the Bridge
• 2 Crook of Condemnation
• 2 Duress
• 2 Negate
• 1 River's Rebuke

Buy This Deck

The multitude of thopters you can generate make cards like Maverick Thopterist, Reverse Engineer, and Metallic Rebuke very easy to cast early on in the game, which gives you opportunities to overwhelm your opponents with multiple spells early on successive turns early on in the game.

Combine this ability to chain together token-generating threats with the aggressive starts that you can get courtesy of Inventor's Goggles, and you’ve got a deck that can win games early or grind them out over the course of many turns. If you’re looking for a fresh take on aggro in Ixalan Standard, this deck seems like a fantastic place to start.