Hello everyone. The next Magic release, Murders at Karlov Manor, is still a little over a month away, so my plans for the next few weeks are to bring you some fun two-colored decks that you can use in your local tournaments or against your friends. I plan on focusing on one color each week, and I'll be starting with White. Let's get started by taking a look at our first deck.

Azorius Control

The first deck I have for you is a control deck in Blue and White. Let's take a look at some of the key cards from this deck.

Azorius Control | LCI Standard | Sonio, aetherhub.com user

• Planeswalkers (8)
• 4 Jace, the Perfected Mind
• 4 The Wandering Emperor

• Instants (16)
• 2 Get Lost
• 2 March of Otherworldly Light
• 2 Negate
• 3 Elspeth's Smite
• 3 Soul Partition
• 4 Memory Deluge

• Sorceries (7)
• 1 Farewell
• 2 Sunfall
• 2 Sunset Revelry
• 2 Vanquish the Horde

• Enchantments (1)
• 1 Temporary Lockdown

• Artifacts (2)
• 2 The Celestus

• Lands (26)
• 4 Island
• 4 Plains
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 4 Adarkar Wastes
• 4 Demolition Field
• 4 Deserted Beach
• 4 Restless Anchorage

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The Wandering Emperor isn't the only planeswalker in this deck that can help you remain alive. You can use the +1 loyalty ability of Jace, the Perfected Mind to lower the power of one of your opponent's creatures until your next turn. This will make it so that creature is less able to attack you or block any of your creatures. You can also use the -X loyalty ability to finish off your opponent's deck if they have few enough cards remaining there.

Orzhov Lifegain

Next, I have an Orzhov deck that is capable of gaining a lot of extra life. Let's take a look at the deck.

Orzhov Lifegain | LCI Standard | MtgMalone, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (31)
• 2 Anointed Peacekeeper
• 3 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
• 3 Deep-Cavern Bat
• 3 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 3 Inspiring Overseer
• 3 Preacher of the Schism
• 3 Roaming Throne
• 3 Steel Seraph
• 4 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
• 4 Voice of the Blessed

• Instants (3)
• 3 Bitter Triumph

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 Helping Hand

• Enchantments (1)
• 1 Grasping Shadows

• Lands (23)
• 4 Swamp
• 5 Plains
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Mirrex
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 2 Caves of Koilos
• 2 Restless Fortress
• 3 Cavern of Souls
• 4 Shattered Sanctum

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By gaining additional life throughout the game, you can grant multiple bonuses to your Voice of the Blessed. Every time you gain life, Voice of the Blessed will gain a +1/+1 counter. As Voice of the Blessed gains more and more +1/+1 counters, it will gain additional boons, including flying, vengeance, and indestructibility. These benefits will make Voice of the Blessed a creature that must be removed as quickly as possible.

Boros Tokens

Nex, I have an aggressive Boros deck that wants to get a lot of creatures and artifacts onto the battlefield. Let's check it out.

Boros Tokens | LCI Standard | LegenVD, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (34)
• 2 Charming Scoundrel
• 4 Imodane's Recruiter
• 4 Knight-Errant of Eos
• 4 Regal Bunnicorn
• 4 Resolute Reinforcements
• 4 Sanguine Evangelist
• 4 Voldaren Epicure
• 4 Warden of the Inner Sky
• 4 Yotian Frontliner

• Sorceries (4)
• 4 Gleeful Demolition

• Lands (22)
• 4 Mountain
• 6 Plains
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Mirrex
• 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 1 Thran Portal
• 4 Battlefield Forge
• 4 Sundown Pass

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All of those tokens also serve another purpose. By having a lot of nonland permanents in play, you'll increase the stats of Regal Bunnicorn. By having full playsets of both Regal Bunnicorn and Warden of the Inner Sky in this deck, you're very likely to have at least a couple of these big attackers in play at the same time, helping you to push through some massive amounts of damage.

Selesnya Conduit Wrenn Control

The final deck I have for you this week is another control deck. This one uses the power of self-milling to put some high mana value cards into play for free. Let's take a look at the deck.

Selesnya Conduit Wrenn Control | LCI Standard | SlothMtg, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (2)
• 1 Cathar Commando
• 1 Workshop Warchief

• Planeswalkers (9)
• 1 Archangel Elspeth
• 1 The Eternal Wanderer
• 3 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
• 4 The Wandering Emperor

• Instants (10)
• 1 Cosmic Rebirth
• 1 Destroy Evil
• 2 Get Lost
• 3 Elspeth's Smite
• 3 March of Otherworldly Light

• Sorceries (5)
• 1 Farewell
• 4 Sunfall

• Enchantments (6)
• 3 Up the Beanstalk
• 3 Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity

• Artifacts (2)
• 2 Conduit of Worlds

• Lands (26)
• 4 Plains
• 6 Forest
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Razorverge Thicket
• 1 Restless Anchorage
• 2 Mirrex
• 3 Brushland
• 3 Restless Fortress
• 4 Overgrown Farmland

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Conduit of Worlds allows you to play land cards from your graveyard. You can also tap Conduit of Worlds to cast any nonland permanent card from your graveyard, but only on your turn, and only if you haven't cast any other spells that turn. If you do this, you're unable to cast any other spells for the rest of your turn. While this might sound like a harsh drawback, there are a number of terrific nonland permanent cards you can cast that are very powerful, and there are a number of instant spells that you are still able to cast on your opponent's turn.

Wrapping Up

Decks that feature White mana usually feature ways of gaining life and creating small creature tokens. As you can see from these decks, while that is generally true, by adding a secondary color, your options become nearly infinite in what you can do.

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