Hello everyone. I've spent the past couple of weeks showing you some mono-colored decks that you can start off with in our new Standard environment. These mono-colored decks bring a consistency that can't be beat. However, while playing those mono-colored decks, you might run into decks that are problematic for you. That's because each color has some weaknesses. To account for those weaknesses, it's often helpful to add a secondary color which can help shore up some of the areas that a single color can have problems with. For the next few weeks, I'll be bringing you some of the most interesting two-color decks I've found. Let's get started.

Dimir Mill

We'll get started this week by taking a look at a deck that features one of my most favorite ways of winning, milling your opponent's deck out. Let's take a look at the deck.

Dimir Mill | ONE Standard | Sonio, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (4)
• 4 Terisian Mindbreaker

• Planeswalkers (8)
• 1 Liliana of the Veil
• 3 Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh
• 4 Jace, the Perfected Mind

• Instants (12)
• 1 Disdainful Stroke
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Negate
• 2 March of Wretched Sorrow
• 3 Sheoldred's Edict
• 4 Cut Down

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 Path of Peril

• Artifacts (8)
• 1 The Celestus
• 3 The Mightstone and Weakstone
• 4 Reckoner Bankbuster

• Lands (26)
• 4 Island
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Blast Zone
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 3 Darkslick Shores
• 4 Raffine's Tower
• 4 Shipwreck Marsh
• 4 Underground River

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When you cast Jace, the Perfected Mind, you have the option to spend some life points instead of some mana, which reduces the amount of loyalty he enters play with. Since Jace has a mana value of four, your best bet will be to always cast him using mana instead of life. That will allow you to immediately use his ultimate ability to mill your opponent of fifteen cards. Alternatively, if that's not enough to get the job done, you can use Jace's -2 loyalty ability to mill three cards from your opponent's library. This will often allow you to draw three additional cards, providing you with more options.

The remainder of this deck is a typical control deck. With cards like Reckoner Bankbuster and The Celestus, you have the means of drawing counterspells and creature removal spells. You also have Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh, who also offers a means of additional cards. Since Terisian Mindbreaker is the only creature spell in this deck, Tezzeret also provides you with the means of beefing up your defenses by activating his -2 loyalty ability. For those times when you're unable to find a copy of Terisian Mindbreaker from your deck, it can be very helpful to have an army of artifact creatures at your disposal.

Selesnya Tokens

Next, I have a toxic token deck that is sure to give your opponent trouble. Let's take a look at the deck.

Selesnya Tokens | ONE Standard | MtgMalone, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (26)
• 2 King Darien XLVIII
• 2 Serra Paragon
• 2 Skrelv, Defector Mite
• 3 Annex Sentry
• 3 Crawling Chorus
• 3 Venerated Rotpriest
• 3 Yotian Dissident
• 4 Bloated Contaminator
• 4 Slaughter Singer

• Planeswalkers (3)
• 3 The Wandering Emperor

• Instants (3)
• 3 Soul Partition

• Enchantments (4)
• 4 Skrelv's Hive

• Lands (24)
• 7 Forest
• 9 Plains
• 2 Mirrex
• 2 Overgrown Farmland
• 4 Razorverge Thicket

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Those poison counters become super important once you get a copy of Skrelv's Hive into play. This enchantment provides you with a steady stream of 1/1 Phyrexian Mite creature tokens. However, more importantly, if your opponent has at least three poison counters, all of your creatures with toxic have lifelink. That includes the Phyrexian Mite creature tokens created by Skrelv's Hive, as they have toxic 1. That lifelink can go a long way towards keeping you alive, since the Phyrexian Mite tokens can't block.

Serra Paragon helps this deck rebuild quickly if a board clearing spell is ever cast. Every creature in this deck has a mana value of three or less, so you'll be able to get back any creature you need that has been destroyed. Additionally, Skrelv's Hive can be returned to the battlefield, putting your opponent under pressure once again, especially if they already have three poison counters.

Boros Jaxis

The final deck I have for you features Jaxis, the Troublemaker. Is now the time for her to shine in Standard? Let's take a look at the deck.

Boros Jaxis | ONE Standard | powrdragn, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (19)
• 2 Skitterbeam Battalion
• 3 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 3 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
• 3 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 4 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
• 4 Resolute Reinforcements

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 2 The Wandering Emperor

• Instants (6)
• 1 Destroy Evil
• 2 Valorous Stance
• 3 Abrade

• Sorceries (1)
• 1 White Sun's Twilight

• Enchantments (8)
• 1 Rabble Rousing
• 3 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
• 4 Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity

• Lands (24)
• 5 Mountain
• 7 Plains
• 2 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 2 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 4 Battlefield Forge
• 4 Sundown Pass

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This token creating ability works wonderfully while you have a copy of Mondrak, Glory Dominus on the battlefield, as Mondrak doubles the number of tokens that are created whenever you create them. Just make sure not to create a token copy of Mondrak with Jaxis since Mondrak is legendary. You'll also benefit from having a copy of Mondrak in play when you cast spells like Resolute Reinforcements and White Sun's Twilight. Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity also benefits from having Mondrak in play, and when it transforms into Wedding Festivity, all of those extra tokens, plus all of your other creatures, will get a +1/+1 bonus.

One final interaction I want to look at involves Skitterbeam Battalion. Using its prototype value of 5 mana, you can cast Skitterbeam Battalion. Doing this will create a pair of token copies of it, which could potentially be doubled if Mondrak, Glory Dominus is in play. You can then use Jaxis's ability to create another token copy of Skitterbeam Battalion, which will also create an additional pair of token copies. While that's an ideal play, it's also an awful lot of tokens that you'll be able to attack with.

Wrapping Up

Standard offers a lot of variety in the decks you can play. Each of these decks offers a unique way to win the game. I plan on building each of these in Magic Arena, because they each provide something that I can enjoy.

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