Hello everyone. I don't know about you, but the previews for the upcoming Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth Universes Beyond set have got me fired up. I can hardly wait for the next few months to pass by so that I can get my hands on these exciting, new cards. However, I need to remember that those cards are still months away, and Standard is in a pretty good place right now. This week I'm continuing my look at some two-color decks that you can use in Standard, either for fun or in a tournament. Let's get started.

Orzhov Planeswalkers

This week, I'm starting with a deck that is jam-packed with all sorts of Planeswalker goodness. Let's take a look at the deck.

Orzhov Planeswalkers | ONE Standard | KlyPhoenix, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (4)
• 4 Ambitious Farmhand // Seasoned Cathar

• Planeswalkers (12)
• 1 Elspeth Resplendent
• 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
• 2 Kaya, Intangible Slayer
• 2 Liliana of the Veil
• 2 Sorin the Mirthless
• 2 The Eternal Wanderer
• 2 The Wandering Emperor

• Instants (4)
• 2 Cut Down
• 2 Go for the Throat

• Sorceries (4)
• 1 Farewell
• 1 White Sun's Twilight
• 2 Banishing Slash

• Enchantments (6)
• 1 Urza Assembles the Titans
• 2 The Restoration of Eiganjo // Architect of Restoration
• 3 Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity

• Artifacts (4)
• 4 Reckoner Bankbuster

• Lands (26)
• 5 Swamp
• 7 Plains
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Mishra's Foundry
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 3 Shattered Sanctum
• 4 Caves of Koilos
• 4 Scoured Barrens

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 The Wandering Emperor
• 2 Loran of the Third Path
• 2 Depopulate
• 2 Farewell
• 4 Duress
• 2 Ossification
• 2 Unlicensed Hearse

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If you like planeswalkers, you should give this deck a try. Even though it's not for everyone, due to possibly not being a fan of the colors of this deck, it's worth the experience of playing it. To begin with, since this deck has a ton of planeswalkers, it's a little light on creature spells. You'll need to rely on some removal spells to be able to eliminate your opponent's creatures. Cut Down and Go for the Throat are great for this. Many of your planeswalkers can also help with creature removal, notably Liliana of the Veil, Vraska, Betrayal's Sting, and The Wandering Emperor.

Another effect of running so few creatures is a need to rely on creature tokens in their stead. Wedding Announcement can help create a few 1/1 Human tokens. Having Wedding Announcement and Reckoner Bankbuster on the battlefield simultaneously can help you create a 2/2 Samurai creature token when you cast Banishing Slash. Even some of your planeswalkers can get in on the fun of creating creature tokens, such as The Eternal Wanderer and Sorin the Mirthless.

White Sun's Twilight makes for a good finisher in this deck. By casting it with a value of X at 5 or greater, you essentially have a board wipe that leaves you with a number of 1/1 Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens that are unable to block and have toxic 1. Since White Sun's Twilight won't harm your planeswalkers, you'll be able to enhance these tokens with the buffs provided by The Wandering Emperor or Elspeth Resplendent.

Gruul Oil Sylex Combo

Next, I have a deck for you that can win via combo as early as turn five. Let's check it out.

Gruul Oil Sylex Combo | ONE Standard | Hexamyn, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (16)
• 1 Vindictive Flamestoker
• 3 Evolving Adaptive
• 4 Armored Scrapgorger
• 4 Migloz, Maze Crusher
• 4 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

• Instants (4)
• 2 Lightning Strike
• 2 Volt Charge

• Enchantments (6)
• 2 All Will Be One
• 4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

• Artifacts (9)
• 2 Urabrask's Forge
• 3 Incubation Sac
• 4 The Filigree Sylex

• Lands (25)
• 3 Mountain
• 4 Forest
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 4 Copperline Gorge
• 4 Karplusan Forest
• 4 Rockfall Vale
• 4 The Monumental Facade

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One great way is by playing The Monumental Facade as your land for the turn. This Sphere enters play with two oil counters, and can be difficult to interact with. You can also play Armored Scrapgorger. When this Phyrexian Beast taps, likely to provide you with a mana of any color, it can exile a card from any graveyard and gain an oil counter. Evolving Adaptive can also gain numerous oil counters. It has one when it enters the battlefield and gains another whenever you play a creature that has greater power or toughness than it has. Other notable cards that can help you get additional oil counters in play are Vindictive Flamestoker, Migloz, Maze Crusher, Urabrask's Forge, and Incubation Sac.

Once you have ten oil counters on your permanents and a copy of The Filigree Sylex on the battlefield, you can cast the other crucial part of this combo, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. Solphim doubles the amount of noncombat damage a source you control would deal to an opponent or one of their permanents. You'll generally want to cast Solphim, Mayhem Dominus right before sacrificing The Filigree Sylex, so that your opponent doesn't have as many opportunities to mess with the amount of oil counters you have in play. Assuming your opponent hasn't gained a bunch of life, dealing 20 damage at once should be enough to finish them off and let you win the game.

Izzet Chaos Dragon

The final deck I have for you this week features a lot of fun and a bit of chaos with Phyrexia: All Will Be One's only Dragon, Capricious Hellraiser. Let's take a look at the deck.

Izzet Chaos Dragon | ONE Standard | McFluffy52, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (4)
• 4 Capricious Hellraiser

• Planeswalkers (4)
• 4 Jace, the Perfected Mind

• Instants (4)
• 4 Thirst for Discovery

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 Explosive Singularity

• Enchantments (18)
• 2 The Elder Dragon War
• 4 Bitter Reunion
• 4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
• 4 One with the Multiverse
• 4 The Modern Age // Vector Glider

• Artifacts (4)
• 4 Portal to Phyrexia

• Lands (24)
• 7 Island
• 8 Mountain
• 2 Shivan Reef
• 3 Stormcarved Coast
• 4 Swiftwater Cliffs

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To get started, many of the spells in this deck help you draw additional cards and then discard cards from your hand. Bitter Reunion, Thirst for Discovery, and The Modern Age // Vector Glider all have you draw a number of cards, and then discard some amount of cards. The Elder Dragon War does it in the opposite manner, letting you discard any number of cards first, then drawing an equal number of cards. Since none of these discarded cards are chosen at random, you can selectively fill up your graveyard with the cards you'd like to copy with Capricious Hellraiser when it enters the battlefield.

There are a few great choices to try to cheat into play with this ability. One with the Multiverse is an enchantment that allows you to cast a spell from your hand or the top of your library for free, once per turn. Anything that allows you to cast spells for free has the potential to be broken. Portal to Phyrexia is another great choice, as it returns a creature from any graveyard to the battlefield under your control each turn. Finally, Explosive Singularity deals 10 damage to any target. This can be a great way of dealing a ton of damage to your opponent, finishing them off over the next few turns by attacking with Capricious Hellraiser.

Wrapping Up

Looking at two-colored decks these past few weeks has been really great. Every two-color pair has had a unique feel. Come back next week when I'll take a look at the final two-color pair, Golgari, along with a couple of two-color bonus decks.

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