Hello everyone. Now that Duskmourn: House of Horrors has been in Standard for a few weeks, it's time to start taking a look at some decks for each color. I usually like to focus on decks featuring one color each week, so I'll be doing this over the next few weeks. I'll be starting with decks featuring White mana this week. Let's get started.

Mono-White Midrange

As usual, I'll start off by looking at a mono-colored deck. This Mono-White deck happens to be a midrange deck that focuses on the synergy between creature tokens and enchantments. Let's take a look at the deck.

Mono-White Midrange | DSK Standard | SwayzeMTG, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (9)
• 2 Ghostly Dancers
• 3 Toby, Beastie Befriender
• 4 Optimistic Scavenger

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 2 Archangel Elspeth

• Sorceries (4)
• 4 Hop to It

• Enchantments (19)
• 3 Virtue of Loyalty
• 4 Caretaker's Talent
• 4 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
• 4 Ossification
• 4 Sheltered by Ghosts

• Lands (26)
• 20 Plains
• 3 Mirrex
• 3 Valgavoth's Lair

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Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery is a very powerful card in this deck. If you're able to play Optimistic Scavenger on your first turn, and then follow it up with Dollmaker's Shop on turn two, you'll be on your way to dominating the battlefield. You can begin creating 1/1 Toy creature tokens simply by attacking. Boost those creature tokens with the use of cards like Caretaker's Talent. Once you have enough mana, unlock Porcelain Gallery to turn your creatures into massive threats.

Virtue of Loyalty also helps this strategy. While it is on the battlefield, all of your creatures will untap at the beginning of your end step, making them available for defense. You'll also put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control, making it more and more difficult with each passing turn for your opponent to successfully attack you without suffering major casualties.

Azorius Mindskinner

Next, we'll add Blue mana for an Azorius deck that wants to win via milling. Let's check it out.

Azorius Mindskinner | DSK Standard | MtgMalone, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (9)
• 3 Surge Engine
• 3 The Mindskinner
• 3 Thran Spider

• Instants (6)
• 3 Elspeth's Smite
• 3 Three Steps Ahead

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 Sunfall

• Enchantments (3)
• 3 Temporary Lockdown

• Artifacts (16)
• 3 Assimilation Aegis
• 3 Braided Net
• 3 Unidentified Hovership
• 3 Unstable Glyphbridge
• 4 Simulacrum Synthesizer

• Lands (24)
• 5 Island
• 5 Plains
• 1 Restless Anchorage
• 2 Meticulous Archive
• 3 Adarkar Wastes
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 4 Floodfarm Verge

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To help facilitate your opponent's demise more quickly, this deck harnesses the power of Simulacrum Synthesizer to create 0/0 Construct creature tokens that get +1/+1 for each artifact you control. With 22 artifact spells in the deck, plus other effects that create artifact tokens, you'll be able to make these Constructs super big, helping you mill even more cards each turn.

Orzhov Life Gain

The next deck I have for you adds Black mana, along with a heaping helping of life gain. Let's take a look at the deck.

Orzhov Life Gain | DSK Standard | MTGArenaOriginalDecks, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (12)
• 2 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 4 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
• 4 Essence Channeler

• Planeswalkers (1)
• 1 Kaya, Intangible Slayer

• Instants (3)
• 3 Get Lost

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 White Sun's Twilight

• Enchantments (18)
• 2 Virtue of Persistence
• 3 Lunar Convocation
• 3 Nowhere to Run
• 3 Phyrexian Arena
• 3 Skrelv's Hive
• 4 Case of the Uneaten Feast

• Lands (24)
• 6 Plains
• 7 Swamp
• 3 Shadowy Backstreet
• 4 Caves of Koilos
• 4 Concealed Courtyard

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Orzhov life gain decks are nothing new, and this one utilizes a lot of the same pieces as many of them do. Creatures like Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse help you gain life each turn, making your Essence Channeler into a massive threat. In theory, you can also gain enough life to trigger the destructive ability of Amalia Benavides Aguirre, though in reality, most games are over long before her power reaches 20.

Lunar Convocation is a new addition to this kind of deck. While it is in play, at the beginning of your end step, your opponent will lose one life as long as you gained life this turn, and if you also lost life this turn, you'll be able to create a 1/1 Bat creature token with flying. Lunar Convocation also provides you a built-in way of paying life, allowing you to make a Bat. There's also Phyrexian Arena that can help with this as well, without the need to spend mana.

Boros Auras

Enchantments are quite good in these White-based decks, and this Boros deck I have for you proves that. Let's take a look at the deck.

Boros Auras | DSK Standard | MTG_Joe, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (16)
• 4 Emberheart Challenger
• 4 Heartfire Hero
• 4 Manifold Mouse
• 4 Optimistic Scavenger

• Instants (4)
• 4 Monstrous Rage

• Enchantments (20)
• 2 Demonic Ruckus
• 2 Etali's Favor
• 4 Ethereal Armor
• 4 Feather of Flight
• 4 Shardmage's Rescue
• 4 Sheltered by Ghosts

• Lands (20)
• 5 Plains
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Thran Portal
• 4 Battlefield Forge
• 4 Inspiring Vantage

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This deck has a number of impressive creatures to enhance. Heartfire Hero is an obvious choice, as it will deal damage to your opponent when it dies equal to its power. Manifold Mouse helps make Heartfire Hero even more lethal, as it can give it double strike. Alternatively, you can target Emberheart Challenger with your auras, which will trigger its valiant effect. This will exile the top card of your library, providing you with an extra card you can play that turn. While this ability only triggers once per turn, any sort of card advantage is beneficial.

Selesnya Lands Combo

The final deck I have for you utilizes self-milling and a whole lot of deserts to deal lethal damage to your opponent. Let's check it out.

Selesnya Lands Combo | DSK Standard | MtgMalone, aetherhub.com user

• Creatures (2)
• 2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

• Sorceries (7)
• 3 Squirming Emergence
• 4 No Witnesses

• Enchantments (8)
• 4 Temporary Lockdown
• 4 The Tale of Tamiyo

• Lands (43)
• 1 Island
• 1 Mishra's Foundry
• 1 Underground River
• 4 Abraded Bluffs
• 4 Bristling Backwoods
• 4 Creosote Heath
• 4 Eroded Canyon
• 4 Festering Gulch
• 4 Forlorn Flats
• 4 Jagged Barrens
• 4 Lonely Arroyo
• 4 Lush Oasis
• 4 Soured Springs

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Hopefully, in the cards you've drawn, you have either Lumra, Bellow of the Woods or Squirming Emergence (which can return Lumra from your graveyard to the battlefield). When Lumra enters play, you'll mill four more cards, then return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Since this deck runs full playsets of all of the deserts from Outlaws of Thunder Junction, you can deal a lot of direct damage to your opponent when these lands enter play. With a bit of luck, it will be just enough to finish your opponent off.

Wrapping Up

As you can see, White decks currently benefit greatly from playing lots of enchantments. However, there are a couple of decks that utilize other strategies. Do you prefer the enchantment-based decks or the alternative ones?

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