Hello everyone. While many people are focusing on the Phyrexia: All Will Be One previews, you shouldn't forget about the cards we currently have. Our most recent release, The Brothers' War, was chock-full of exciting cards to play, with many of them being artifacts. This week, I have three mono-colored decks that all include a fair amount of these artifacts. Let's get started.

Mostly Mono-White Aggro Artifacts

We'll begin this week with an aggressive White deck that splashes a hint of Blue mana for ability activations. Let's take a look at the deck.

Mostly Mono-White Aggro Artifacts | BRO Standard | Sonio, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (14)
• 2 Cityscape Leveler
• 4 Steel Seraph
• 4 Surge Engine
• 4 Thran Spider

• Planeswalkers (4)
• 4 The Wandering Emperor

• Instants (2)
• 2 Soul Partition

• Sorceries (4)
• 4 Lay Down Arms

• Artifacts (10)
• 2 Portal to Phyrexia
• 4 Reckoner Bankbuster
• 4 The Mightstone and Weakstone

• Lands (26)
• 17 Plains
• 1 Blast Zone
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 2 Raffine's Tower
• 4 Spara's Headquarters

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Since this deck is mostly Mono-White, it comes as no surprise to see a full playset of Steel Seraph. Having this artifact Angel on the battlefield allows you to provide flying to one of your creatures, enabling it to attack with evasion. Alternatively, you can give a creature vigilance, allowing it to attack and still be used as a blocker against your opponent's attack. Steel Seraph also has the option to provide lifelink to a creature, giving you extra life which can provide you additional time to cast big threats such as Cityscape Leveler.

This deck includes a playset of one of the most versatile vehicles currently in Standard, Reckoner Bankbuster. Not only does Reckoner Bankbuster offer you some extra card drawing opportunities, but it can also be crewed to provide a beefy blocker or an awesome attacker. It even creates its own crew once all the charge counters have been removed from it. You can also crew it with the help of The Wandering Emperor, who can create a 2/2 Samurai and buff it with a +1/+1 counter on a following turn.

Mono-Green Artifact Ramp

Next, I have a deck for you that will often cast its threats on the opponent's turn. Let's take a look at it.

Mono-Green Artifact Ramp | BRO Standard | MtgMalone, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (23)
• 3 Cityscape Leveler
• 3 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
• 3 Rootwire Amalgam
• 3 Thran Spider
• 3 Topiary Stomper
• 4 Llanowar Loamspeaker
• 4 Teething Wurmlet

• Sorceries (4)
• 2 Bushwhack
• 2 Titania's Command

• Artifacts (9)
• 3 Portal to Phyrexia
• 3 The Mightstone and Weakstone
• 3 Weatherlight Compleated

• Lands (24)
• 19 Forest
• 2 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 3 Mishra's Foundry

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In order to ramp up the amount of mana that this deck can produce, we rely on a combination of creatures and spells. Topiary Stomper allows you to search your deck for a basic land to put into play tapped when it enters the battlefield. Llanowar Loamspeaker can tap to provide you with one mana of any color. The Mightstone and Weakstone tap for two colorless mana that can help get your big threats out. Finally, you have Titania's Command, which can put two land cards from your library into play tapped.

In addition to the big threats you can cast, this deck includes a few smaller threats that will grow in size as the game progresses. Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter will gain a +1/+1 counter whenever you cast a spell that costs more mana than Liberator's current power. This includes all spells, not just artifacts. You also have a playset of Teething Wurmlet, who can gain a +1/+1 each turn as long as an artifact enters the battlefield under your control. With the amount of artifacts in this deck, both Liberator and Teething Wurmlet can grow quite large throughout the game.

Mono-Black Artifacts

The final deck I have for you is a Mono-Black control deck that has the tools needed to win any drawn-out fight. Let's check it out.

Mono-Black Artifacts | BRO Standard | HelloGoodGame, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (13)
• 2 Cityscape Leveler
• 3 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
• 4 Ashnod's Harvester
• 4 Phyrexian Fleshgorger

• Instants (10)
• 2 Cut Down
• 2 Disfigure
• 2 Go for the Throat
• 2 March of Wretched Sorrow
• 2 Parasitic Grasp

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 Gix's Command

• Artifacts (10)
• 1 Mask of Griselbrand
• 2 The Celestus
• 3 The Mightstone and Weakstone
• 4 Reckoner Bankbuster

• Lands (25)
• 23 Swamp
• 1 Hall of Tagsin
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

• Sideboard (3)
• 1 Karn, Living Legacy
• 1 Thran Spider
• 1 Karn's Sylex

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Mask of Griselbrand is another card that can provide you with a source of lifelink. It can be equipped to any of your creatures, and will provide flying, in addition to lifelink, to that creature. If the equipped creature should die, you can draw a number of extra cards based on a variable amount of life you choose to pay. While Mask of Griselbrand hasn't been widely played in Standard, it's a very solid card and its abilities tie into each other very well.

As you would expect from a Black deck, there is a considerable amount of creature removal in this deck. Cut Down and Go for the Throat are both instant spells that destroy a creature. March of Wretched Sorrow and Parasitic Grasp deal damage while also providing you with some additional life. Disfigure gives a negative buff to a creature, allowing you to remove a creature that is otherwise indestructible. Finally, Gix's Command can destroy each creature with power two or less, as well as forcing your opponent to sacrifice their most powerful creature.

Wrapping Up

The Brothers' War provided us with a lot of powerful artifacts. These decks are a small sampling of what can be achieved when you attempt to harness that power.

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