Hello, everyone. As I write this, the entire spoiler list for Ravnica Allegiance hasn't been revealed yet, so rather than provide you with some decklists that are incomplete or that may need radical changes once all of the cards are known, I have for you three new decks this week built from the current card pool. Let's get started with a deck from Magic Online (MTGO).

Boros Control

The first deck I have for you recently went 5-0 on MTGO. While it's no surprise that Boros has the tools to make it one of the tier one aggro decks of the format, the deck I have for you is a little more on the controlling side of things. Let's take a look at it:

Boros Control | Guilds Standard | MAGLOR, (5-0) MTGO

• Creatures (11)
• 2 Rekindling Phoenix
• 3 Dire Fleet Daredevil
• 3 Siege-Gang Commander
• 3 Suncleanser

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 2 Karn, Scion of Urza

• Instants (4)
• 2 Settle the Wreckage
• 2 Shivan Fire

• Sorceries (9)
• 1 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Lava Coil
• 2 Banefire
• 2 Star of Extinction
• 3 Deafening Clarion

• Enchantments (2)
• 1 Ixalan's Binding
• 1 Seal Away

• Artifacts (7)
• 1 The Immortal Sun
• 2 Azor's Gateway
• 4 Treasure Map

• Lands (25)
• 6 Mountain
• 7 Plains
• 2 Arch of Orazca
• 2 Boros Guildgate
• 4 Clifftop Retreat
• 4 Sacred Foundry

• Sideboard (15)
• 4 Adanto Vanguard
• 1 Banefire
• 1 Deafening Clarion
• 3 Invoke the Divine
• 1 Ixalan's Binding
• 1 Lava Coil
• 2 Lyra Dawnbringer
• 1 Seal Away
• 1 Star of Extinction

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This deck also has a pretty neat two-card combo in it that is difficult to pull off, but when it works it can win you the game on the spot. Of course, I'm talking about the combo with Azor's Gateway and Banefire. If you're able to successfully control the game long enough to transform Azor's Gateway into Sanctum of the Sun, you can tap it for an amount of Red mana equal to your life total. Add that mana to any mana you can produce with your Lands and Treasure tokens, and you'll be able to whap your opponent for a massive amount of unpreventable, uncounterable damage.

Mono-Black Discard

The next deck I have for you is a deck I'm excited to try out on MTG Arena. It's a Mono-Black deck that focuses on forcing your opponent to discard their cards and features zero Rare cards. Let's take a look at it:

0-Rare Mono Black Discard | Guilds Standard | Merchant, aetherhub.com

• Creatures (24)
• 2 Urgoros, the Empty One
• 3 Burglar Rat
• 3 Vampire Sovereign
• 4 Fell Specter
• 4 Kitesail Freebooter
• 4 Skymarch Bloodletter
• 4 Vicious Conquistador

• Sorceries (8)
• 4 Arterial Flow
• 4 Vicious Rumors

• Enchantments (4)
• 4 Raiders' Wake

• Lands (24)
• 21 Swamp
• 3 Memorial to Folly

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Raiders' Wake might not look like an exciting card, but in a deck that's built around abusing it (like this one), the damage output can quickly grow out of hand. It's also very easy to activate, requiring only a single creature of yours to attack, and that attack doesn't even have to deal combat damage to the opponent. Even if your attacking creature dies, you'll still trigger Raiders' Wake and force the opponent to discard a card and then take two points of damage. Just remember not to attack if the opponent has no cards in hand, unless that attack is beneficial for you in other ways.

Infinite Pings

The final deck I have for you this week features a three-card combo that can go infinite. Let's take a look at the deck:

Infinite Paladin Combo | Guilds Standard | ThyrixSyx, aetherhub.com

• Creatures (6)
• 3 Famished Paladin
• 3 Torch Courier

• Planeswalkers (1)
• 1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

• Instants (13)
• 2 Settle the Wreckage
• 3 Chemister's Insight
• 4 Opt
• 4 Revitalize

• Sorceries (8)
• 2 Cleansing Nova
• 3 Deafening Clarion
• 3 Pirate's Pillage

• Enchantments (5)
• 2 Search for Azcanta
• 3 Squire's Devotion

• Artifacts (3)
• 3 Sorcerer's Wand

• Lands (24)
• 1 Island
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Plains
• 2 Clifftop Retreat
• 3 Sulfur Falls
• 4 Glacial Fortress
• 4 Sacred Foundry
• 4 Steam Vents
• 4 Zhalfirin Void

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What are not normally seen in Jeskai Control decks are Famished Paladin, Squire's Devotion, and Sorcerer's Wand. Each of these cards individually is nothing special, but when they're combined, they form a one-man (vampire?) killing machine. Once you have a Famished Paladin on the battlefield, you'll want to enchant him with Squire's Devotion. That will give him lifelink, allowing him to be untapped whenever he deals damage. By equipping the Sorcerer's Wand, you're able to tap the Famished Paladin to deal one point of damage to your opponent which will also gain you one point of life. Since you gained life, the Famished Paladin will untap. At that point you can repeat the process as many times as it takes to reduce your opponent's life total to zero.

Wrapping Up

Thanks to the annual rotation and Guilds of Ravnica entering the Standard card pool, the Guilds Standard era will be remembered as a time where many decks were viable. Hopefully the release of Ravnica Allegiance will continue this golden age for Standard and allow many new possibilities. Be sure to come back next week when I'm sure to have some new brews featuring cards from Ravnica Allegiance.

What do you think of these decks? Do you have any suggestions for improvements? Let me know by leaving a comment below or you can reply to me directly on Twitter (@mikelikesmtg), or email me directly at mikelikesmtg@gmail.com. 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