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Hello everyone. For the past few weeks, I've been bringing you some fun, competitive Standard decks featuring two colors. Each week, the decks have focused on one color of mana, and we're at the end of the journey this week with decks featuring Green mana. Have I saved the best for last? Let's find out.
Selesnya Enchantments
We'll start this week off with a deck that focuses on enchantments. Let's take a look at the deck.
Selesnya Enchantments | LCI Standard | MTGA-Assistant-Meta, aetherhub.com user
- Creatures (20)
- 1 Katilda, Dawnhart Martyr // Katilda's Rising Dawn
- 3 Fang of Shigeki
- 4 Generous Visitor
- 4 Jukai Naturalist
- 4 Spirited Companion
- 4 Weaver of Harmony
- Sorceries (1)
- 1 Commune with Spirits
- Enchantments (16)
- 1 Tribute to the World Tree
- 1 Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity
- 2 Borrowed Time
- 2 Michiko's Reign of Truth
- 2 Seal from Existence
- 4 Hallowed Haunting
- 4 Ossification
- Lands (23)
- 11 Forest
- 11 Plains
- 1 Overgrown Farmland
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This deck also sports a lot of great removal spells as well, all of which are enchantments. for 2 mana, you can cast Ossification, which will exile an opponent's creature or planeswalker. For one additional mana, you can cast either Borrowed Time or Seal from Existence. Both of these enchantments are able to exile any nonland permanent, making no card safe from being removed from play.
Simic Midrange
Next, I have a Blue/Green deck for you that puts some big threats into play to finish off their opponent. Let's take a look at the deck.
Simic Midrange | LCI Standard | MtgMalone, aetherhub.com user
- Creatures (24)
- 2 Tishana's Tidebinder
- 3 Colossal Skyturtle
- 3 Deepfathom Echo
- 3 Horned Loch-Whale
- 3 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
- 3 Sentinel of the Nameless City
- 3 Titan of Industry
- 4 Spyglass Siren
- Instants (7)
- 3 Fading Hope
- 4 Make Disappear
- Artifacts (2)
- 2 The Skullspore Nexus
- Battles (3)
- 3 Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave
As I mentioned before the decklist, this deck has a variety of big creatures that you can use to defeat your opponent. Whether your creature of choice is a 6/6 Horned Loch-Whale, a 6/5 flying Colossal Skyturtle, or a 7/7 trampling Titan of Industry, you'll usually have enough power on the battlefield to wreck your opponent in a few turns.
To help speed up your opponent's destruction, this deck includes a couple of copies of The Skullspore Nexus. This legendary artifact protects you from board wipes, plus your opponent has to work twice as hard when targeting your creatures with most removal spells. The Skullspore Nexus also has an activated ability you can use to double a creature's power for the rest of the turn, for those times when a little more damage makes a difference.
Golgari Midrange
Now we're at the deck where Black mana is added to the Green mana, giving us one of the strongest decks currently in Standard. Let's check it out.
Golgari Midrange | LCI Standard | MTGArenaOriginalDecks, aetherhub.com user
- Creatures (25)
- 2 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
- 2 Silverback Elder
- 2 Vorinclex // The Gran Evolution
- 3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 4 Bramble Familiar
- 4 Glissa Sunslayer
- 4 Llanowar Loamspeaker
- 4 Mosswood Dreadknight
- Instants (4)
- 4 Go for the Throat
- Enchantments (4)
- 4 Virtue of Persistence
- Artifacts (4)
- 1 The Skullspore Nexus
- 3 Chimil, the Inner Sun
In the late game, this deck really shines. Not only do you have some very powerful creatures that you can play (I'm looking at you Silverback Elder, Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse), but those creatures can also be very difficult to keep off of the battlefield thanks to Virtue of Persistence. Plus, thanks to the power-doubling effect that The Skullspore Nexus provides, each of these threats becomes a must-block-if-possible creature.
Gruul Artifacts
The final deck I have for you brings in Red mana, along with a fair amount of haste and artifacts. Let's take a look at the deck.
Gruul Artifacts | LCI Standard | Dollarzin, aetherhub.com user
- Creatures (20)
- 4 Gingerbrute
- 4 Patchwork Automaton
- 4 Rabbit Battery
- 4 Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender
- 4 Teething Wurmlet
- Instants (4)
- 4 Voltage Surge
- Enchantments (3)
- 3 Audacity
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This deck starts off as a hasty deck by playing creatures such as Gingerbrute and Rabbit Battery. Both of these 1-drops can attack quickly and can take a handful of life points from your opponent's starting 20 before they get outclassed. It's at this point that your strategy should change, and quick damage will no longer be your focus.
Instead, you'll want to start casting creatures such as Teething Wurmlet and Patchwork Automaton. These creatures can gain +1/+1 counters when you cast artifacts, allowing them to grow substantially throughout the game. Try to get a copy of Ozolith, the Shattered Spire for even more +1/+1 counters, and use that extra power to defeat your opponent.
Wrapping Up
By adding a secondary color to most decks, additional benefits are possible. However, for the decks I've shown you this week, adding another color to these Green decks actually amplifies the abilities that Green decks can already utilize. From gaining +1/+1 counters, to putting big, beefy creatures into play, all of these decks tap into Green's usual strengths, but are even better thanks to the additional color.
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
