Hello everyone. The Selesnya Conclave is the Green/White guild on Ravnica. The guild involves itself with establishing and maintaining peace and unity. It's a color combination that I enjoy playing. While the normal tenets of Green/White decks feature things such as creating creature tokens and adding +1/+1 counters to their creatures, as you'll see, there are other facets to them that you can build around in Standard. Let's get started with a couple of typical Selesnya decks.

Selesnya Counters

The first deck I have for you features gaining +1/+1 counters on its journey to victory. Let's take a look at the deck.

Selesnya Counters | MAT Standard | TOTALmtg, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (25)
• 2 Doomskar Warrior
• 2 Skrelv, Defector Mite
• 2 Steel Seraph
• 3 Hopeful Initiate
• 4 Botanical Brawler
• 4 Dusk Legion Duelist
• 4 Enduring Bondwarden
• 4 Quirion Beastcaller

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 1 Archangel Elspeth
• 1 The Wandering Emperor

• Enchantments (3)
• 3 Ossification

• Artifacts (3)
• 3 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire

• Battles (3)
• 3 Invasion of Gobakhan // Lightshield Array

• Lands (24)
• 4 Forest
• 6 Plains
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 2 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 3 Overgrown Farmland
• 4 Brushland
• 4 Razorverge Thicket

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Botanical Brawler might only be an uncommon, but it serves a very important role in this deck. By pairing it alongside the flipside of Invasion of Gobakhan, Lightshield Array, you can gain a ton of +1/+1 counters each turn. Since Botanical Brawler has trample, it can often attack and still deal damage to your opponent, even when faced with blockers. To help protect it, you can use the activated ability of Skrelv, Defector Mite, which provides hexproof and unblockability to a color.

Selesnya Tokens

Next, I have a deck that goes wide by creating lots of creature tokens. Let's check it out.

Selesnya Tokens | MAT Standard | powrdragn, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (21)
• 1 Sigarda, Champion of Light
• 2 Knight-Errant of Eos
• 2 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 3 Intrepid Adversary
• 3 Katilda, Dawnhart Prime
• 3 King Darien XLVIII
• 3 Resolute Reinforcements
• 4 Lunarch Veteran

• Instants (4)
• 2 Fateful Absence
• 2 Rite of Harmony

• Sorceries (3)
• 3 Join the Dance

• Enchantments (6)
• 2 Skrelv's Hive
• 4 Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity

• Battles (3)
• 3 Invasion of Gobakhan

• Lands (24)
• 3 Forest
• 7 Plains
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 4 Brushland
• 4 Overgrown Farmland
• 4 Razorverge Thicket

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Creating creature tokens is the plan with this deck, and it includes multiple ways of doing this. Join the Dance, Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity, and Skrelv's Hive are all noncreature spells that will help you create creature tokens. All of them provide multiple tokens, and will either stay on the battlefield, providing a benefit each turn, or can be cast multiple times, thanks to flashback. Resolute Reinforcements is a creature you can cast that will bring along a Soldier token when it comes into play. All of these become even better while you have a copy of Mondrak, Glory Dominus on the battlefield, as you'll double the number of tokens you will create.

In addition to going wide, this deck does attempt to make your creatures bigger in multiple ways. Wedding Festivity provides a +1/+1 bonus to all of your creatures. Lightshield Array provides actual +1/+1 counters to creatures that have attacked. King Darien XLVIII and Intrepid Adversary both provide additional bonuses to your creatures. King Darien XLVIII also offers you the means of creating additional creature tokens as well. Finally, Sigarda, Champion of Light provides a boost to your Humans, plus she offers you a way to place a Human from the top five cards of your library into your hand, giving you some protection from board sweepers.

Calix Enchantments

The next deck I have for you features Calix, a planeswalker from Theros that lost his spark. Let's take a look at the deck.

Calix Enchantments | MAT Standard | MtgMalone, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (20)
• 2 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, The Warped Eclipse
• 3 Calix, Guided by Fate
• 3 Katilda, Dawnhart Martyr // Katilda's Rising Dawn
• 4 Generous Visitor
• 4 Jukai Naturalist
• 4 Spirited Companion

• Instants (2)
• 2 Cosmic Rebirth

• Enchantments (14)
• 3 Hallowed Haunting
• 3 Michiko's Reign of Truth // Portrait of Michiko
• 4 Ossification
• 4 Seal from Existence

• Battles (2)
• 2 Invasion of Theros // Ephara, Ever Sheltering

• Lands (22)
• 5 Forest
• 7 Plains
• 3 Overgrown Farmland
• 3 Razorverge Thicket
• 4 Brushland

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Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse allows you to return an enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand when he enters the battlefield. This can be a great way to return Jukai Naturalist, who is sure to be a target of your opponent's removal. When you transform into Heliod, the Warped Eclipse, you'll be able to cast all spells as though they had flash, and with a mana discount as well. This will provide you with a huge advantage over your opponent, as you will be able to create tokens after your opponent has declared their attackers.

Selesnya Toxic

The final deck I have for you features a fun alternative way to win. Let's take a look at it.

Selesnya Toxic | MAT Standard | waitblock, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (23)
• 2 Jawbone Duelist
• 2 Skrelv, Defector Mite
• 3 Annex Sentry
• 4 Bloated Contaminator
• 4 Crawling Chorus
• 4 Slaughter Singer
• 4 Venerated Rotpriest

• Instants (10)
• 2 Compleat Devotion
• 4 Infectious Bite
• 4 Tyvar's Stand

• Enchantments (3)
• 3 Skrelv's Hive

• Lands (24)
• 10 Plains
• 6 Forest
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Mirrex
• 1 The Seedcore
• 2 Brushland
• 2 Overgrown Farmland

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Infectious Bite is a great removal spell for this deck. It allows you to deal damage to an opponent's creature equal to the power of one of your creatures. You can cast this spell after attackers have been declared, allowing you to get the +1/+1 bonus provided by Slaughter Singer. You can also cast Tyvar's Stand in conjunction with Infectious Bite, pouring extra mana into Tyvar's Stand to allow you to destroy a sizable opposing creature. Or save some mana and cast this spell after your opponent has declared a blocker. You'll only have to raise your power up to one-half of that blocking creature's toughness to destroy them when both Tyvar's Stand and Infectious Bite are being cast.

Wrapping Up

While Selesnya decks usually feature such themes as token creation or buffing your creatures, these decks show that there can be even more possibilities. Whether you want to play a typical deck or go off the beaten path, you're likely to find a Selesnya deck that's right for you.

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