Hello everyone. Now that March of the Machine is here, it's time to start building decks with these new cards. This week I have a few new decks that utilize cards for our latest release that I'm excited to look at, so let's get started.

Jeskai Monastery Mentor Tokens

First, I have a deck for you featuring a returning favorite, Monastery Mentor. Let's take a look at the deck.

Jeskai Monastery Mentor Tokens | MOM Standard | MTG_Joe, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (10)
• 2 Baral and Kari Zev
• 4 Monastery Mentor
• 4 Third Path Iconoclast

• Instants (16)
• 4 Consider
• 4 Meeting of Minds
• 4 Play with Fire
• 4 Stoke the Flames

• Sorceries (8)
• 4 Ancestral Anger
• 4 Wrenn's Resolve

• Enchantments (4)
• 4 Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity

• Lands (22)
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 2 Sundown Pass
• 4 Battlefield Forge
• 4 Seachrome Coast
• 4 Shivan Reef
• 4 Stormcarved Coast

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Monastery Mentor pairs nicely alongside the other creature spells in this deck. Third Path Iconoclast is very similar to Monastery Mentor, creating a 1/1 Soldier artifact creature token whenever you cast a noncreature spell. With both Third Path Iconoclast and Monastery Mentor on the battlefield, you can create multiple creature tokens each turn. Plus, with spells like Consider, Ancestral Anger, and Wrenn's Resolve providing you with additional cards you can play, you won't often run out of gas.

Baral and Kari Zev also help you create additional creature tokens with their ability, which can allow you to cast a second spell without paying its mana cost. Any time you can cast a spell for free helps you gain an advantage over your opponent that they might not be able to recover from. In addition to creating multiple tokens per turn, you can often put those tokens to work on the turn they are created to help cast some of your spells with convoke. Meeting of Minds is particularly good to convoke, as it allows you to draw two cards that you can then potentially cast with the mana from your lands.

Orzhov Angels

Next, I have a deck featuring a very popular creature type, Angels. let's check it out.

Orzhov Angels | MOM Standard | TOTALmtg, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (30)
• 1 Sigardian Savior
• 2 Boon-Bringer Valkyrie
• 2 Drana and Linvala
• 2 Spirited Companion
• 3 Steel Seraph
• 4 Ambitious Farmhand // Seasoned Cathar
• 4 Archangel of Wrath
• 4 Giada, Font of Hope
• 4 Inspiring Overseer
• 4 Sanctuary Warden

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 2 Archangel Elspeth

• Enchantments (4)
• 4 Seal from Existence

• Lands (24)
• 15 Plains
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 2 Sundown Pass
• 4 Shattered Sanctum

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This deck also plays a pair of new Angels from March of the Machine. Drana and Linvala provide you with a way to shut off all activated abilities your opponent's creatures have. In addition, Drana and Linvala can utilize any of those activated abilities, and they can spend mana of any color to activate them, if needed. Boon-Bringer Valkyrie might not directly affect your opponent's creatures like Drana and Linvala does, but the keyword soup it has is sure to benefit you, nonetheless. A 4/4 creature with first strike makes it difficult to attack, and since it has lifelink and flying, blocking it might prove to be difficult to.

Another new card in this deck is Seal from Existence. This enchantment is similar to cards like Borrowed Time or Banishing Light. The main difference is that Seal from Existence has ward 3, making it a little more difficult to remove from play than other similar enchantment-based removal spells. Since Seal from Existence is the spell in this deck capable of exiling any type of threat, you'll want to choose your target carefully and not waste this spell on some trivial threat.

Gruul Dinosaurs

The final deck I have for you features a ton of the best Dinosaurs currently in Standard. Let's take a look at it.

Gruul Dinosaurs | MOM Standard | hollywoodpizza, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (22)
• 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• 2 Kogla and Yidaro
• 2 Tyrranax Rex
• 2 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
• 3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
• 4 Armored Scrapgorger
• 4 Deeproot Wayfinder
• 4 Rampaging Raptor

• Instants (2)
• 2 Lightning Strike

• Sorceries (4)
• 1 Brotherhood's End
• 3 Nahiri's Warcrafting

• Enchantments (4)
• 4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker

• Battles (2)
• 2 Invasion of Ergamon // Truga Cliffcharger

• Lands (26)
• 4 Forest
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Jetmir's Garden
• 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 3 Riveteers Overlook
• 4 Copperline Gorge
• 4 Karplusan Forest
• 4 Rockfall Vale

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Now that you have the means of ramping up your mana, you can cast some flashy Dinosaur spells. Kogla and Yidaro is a massive 7/7 creature that you can use to wreak havoc on your opponent in a couple of ways. When Kogla and Yidaro enters the battlefield, you can choose to give it trample and haste until the end of your turn. This will allow you to attack into a sea of small defensive creatures, destroying many of them while still dealing damage to your opponent. Alternatively, you can choose to have Kogla and Yidaro fight one of your opponent's creatures when it enters the battlefield, likely taking out a large defender.

Another gigantic threat in this deck is Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness. Etali is another 7/7 Dinosaur with trample, providing you with the potential to deal damage to your opponent even if they have blockers. When Etali, Primal Conqueror enters the battlefield, you'll exile cards from your opponent's deck until you exile a nonland card. You can then cast that card for free. Etali can also transform into an 11/11 Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur that has the potential to end the game instantly when it attacks. Etali, Primal Sickness is also indestructible, making it very likely that you'll eventually outlast your opponent unless they can find some means of exiling Etali quickly.

Wrapping Up

March of the Machine brings a lot of fun and exciting cards to Standard. With these new cards, new decks are bound to be created and decks that have previously been played in Standard are sure to be upgraded. It's always an exciting time when a new set is released in Standard. We only have about a month before March of the Machine: Aftermath releases, so there's not much time for this new set to shine.

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