Hello everyone. Each and every week, I search the internet for interesting decks that you can use at your local Friday Night Magic (FNM) event or at your own kitchen table against your friends. This week I have three decks that have recently done well on Magic Arena and Magic Online (MTGO) for you to try out. Let's get started.

Jeskai Yorion

We start this week by taking a look at a deck that went 5-0 on MTGO. It features Yorion, Sky Nomad as its companion and is fine if games go long. Let's take a look at the deck.

Jeskai Yorion | ZNR Standard | POYO_DEL_MAL, MTGO (5-0)

• Companion (1)
• 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad

• Creatures (21)
• 1 Dream Trawler
• 1 Glasspool Mimic
• 2 Charming Prince
• 2 Legion Angel
• 2 Skyclave Cleric
• 3 Baneslayer Angel
• 3 Bonecrusher Giant
• 3 Yorion, Sky Nomad
• 4 Skyclave Apparition

• Instants (7)
• 3 Scorching Dragonfire
• 4 Negate

• Sorceries (5)
• 2 Emeria's Call
• 3 Shatter the Sky

• Enchantments (8)
• 4 Elspeth Conquers Death
• 4 Omen of the Sea

• Artifacts (10)
• 2 Spare Supplies
• 4 Glass Casket
• 4 Mazemind Tome

• Lands (29)
• 1 Island
• 1 Mountain
• 7 Plains
• 1 Crawling Barrens
• 2 Temple of Enlightenment
• 2 Temple of Triumph
• 3 Fabled Passage
• 4 Needleverge Pathway
• 4 Raugrin Triome
• 4 Riverglide Pathway

• Sideboard (14)
• 2 Giant Killer
• 2 Legion Angel
• 3 Hushbringer
• 1 Scorching Dragonfire
• 4 Mystical Dispute
• 2 Soul-Guide Lantern

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At its heart, this is a control deck. While Negate is the only hard counter in the main deck to any of your opponent's noncreature spells, there are a lot of ways to deal with your opponent's creatures. For those early threats, you can use Glass Casket. The adventure side of Bonecrusher Giant and Scorching Dragonfire can burn them from existence. Skyclave Apparition can exile any nonland, nontoken permanent that costs four or less. Finally, when things begin to get out of control, you can use Shatter the Sky to reset the battlefield.

Since this deck features Yorion, it will have a ton of nonland permanents that have abilities that happen upon entering the battlefield that you can utilize multiple times. Charming Prince offers a chance to either scry two cards or gain three life (you can also exile another creature with it, but I'm discussing your options when you cast Yorion, so I assume you'd exile that creature with Yorion instead of Charming Prince). Skyclave Cleric also offers another chance to gain additional life points. Omen of the Sea and Elspeth Conquers Death are also terrific choices to exile, as you will be able to scry two cards an additional time and you get to reset the lore counters on your Saga, allowing for all of the effects to happen an additional time.

In order to win the game, you'll want to rely on your team of flying creatures. Yorion, Sky Nomad is able to deal out a fair amount of damage, and also acts as a great blocker. Legion Angel is able to find another copy of itself from your sideboard when you play it. This can allow you to gain a numerical advantage in the air. Dream Trawler is a threat that can be difficult for your opponent to get rid of once it's on the battlefield. Finally, Baneslayer Angel has first strike, which works great when attacking as well as defending. Also of note is that Dream Trawler and Baneslayer Angel both have lifelink, making it difficult for your opponent to deal lethal damage to you easily.

Mono-Green Food

The next deck I have for you is a Mono-Green deck that features a Food sub-theme. Let's take a look at it.

Mono-Green Food | ZNR Standard | GLACIER7, MTGO (5-0)

• Creatures (27)
• 1 Beanstalk Giant
• 1 Scavenging Ooze
• 2 Kogla, the Titan Ape
• 3 Feasting Troll King
• 4 Gilded Goose
• 4 Kazandu Mammoth
• 4 Lovestruck Beast
• 4 Tangled Florahedron
• 4 Wicked Wolf

• Planeswalkers (1)
• 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

• Enchantments (6)
• 2 Wolfwillow Haven
• 4 Trail of Crumbs

• Artifacts (4)
• 1 Witch's Oven
• 3 The Great Henge

• Lands (22)
• 15 Forest
• 1 Crawling Barrens
• 2 Bonders' Enclave
• 4 Castle Garenbrig

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 2 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
• 1 Deathless Knight
• 2 Chainweb Aracnir
• 2 Scavenging Ooze
• 3 Thrashing Brontodon
• 2 Tormod's Crypt
• 2 Witch's Oven

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Let's begin by taking a look at the Food aspect of this deck. Start off with Gilded Goose, which creates a Food token when it enters the battlefield. It can also create additional Food tokens as the game goes on. Trail of Crumbs also creates a Food token when it enters the battlefield. With this Enchantment, you'll be able to add additional permanents from your deck to your hand. Next is Witch's Oven, which can allow you to sacrifice your own creatures for Food tokens. With this deck, it's easy to create two food tokens at a time since your sacrificed creature will often have at least four points of toughness. Finally, Feasting Troll King can bring with it three Food tokens when you cast it from your hand.

You can use those Food tokens in a number of ways. First, simply sacrifice them to gain a few points of life, if you need it. You can also sacrifice your Food tokens to give +1/+1 counters (and indestructibility for the rest of the turn) to your Wicked Wolf. This can allow you to continuously block much larger creatures turn-after-turn. Additionally, you can return Feasting Troll King to the battlefield from your graveyard. Alternatively, you can use those Food tokens as additional mana with Gilded Goose's second activated ability. By doing this, you'll be able to cast Ugin, the Spirit Dragon sooner than normal.

Speaking of Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, casting this planeswalker can end games in a hurry for you. Once you cast Ugin, you can use his -X loyalty ability to clear the board of any threats your opponent has in play. That will make it difficult for your opponent to deal with Ugin on future turns. You can then use his +2 loyalty ability to deal three damage to any target, either a creature your opponent puts into play, or to your opponent directly. Continually doing this can allow you the ability to end games quickly.

Rakdos Midrange

The final deck I have for you features the only Standard legal Elder Giant, Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger. Let's take a look at the deck.

Rakdos Midrange | ZNR Standard | DANI_TB, (4-1) Standard Preliminary #12223606 on 11/03/2020

• Creatures (19)
• 2 Blackbloom Rogue
• 2 Murderous Rider
• 3 Ox of Agonas
• 4 Bonecrusher Giant
• 4 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
• 4 Mire Triton

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 2 Liliana, Waker of the Dead

• Instants (5)
• 1 Heartless Act
• 2 Eliminate
• 2 Hagra Mauling

• Sorceries (9)
• 1 Pelakka Predation
• 2 Agonizing Remorse
• 3 Bloodchief's Thirst
• 3 Shatterskull Smashing

• Enchantments (5)
• 1 Elspeth's Nightmare
• 4 Tymaret Calls the Dead

• Lands (20)
• 5 Mountain
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 1 Savai Triome
• 3 Temple of Malice
• 4 Fabled Passage

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Liliana, Waker of the Dead
• 1 Ox of Agonas
• 1 Cling to Dust
• 2 Shredded Sails
• 2 Soul Shatter
• 1 Agonizing Remorse
• 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
• 2 Extinction Event
• 3 Duress
• 1 Elspeth's Nightmare

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Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger does so much for only two mana. It removes a threatening card from your opponent's hand, or alternately deals three damage to them. Kroxa is also relatively easy to cast for its escape cost, allowing you to get a 6/6 creature with very little hassle. However, you might want to consider casting Ox of Agonas from your graveyard instead. The escape cost of Ox of Agonas is easier on mana, but requires considerably more cards in your graveyard. It does offer you a way of drawing cards, which could be more useful in certain situations.

This deck not only features big threats, but it also features a ton of creature removal. Hagra Mauling, Heartless Act, Shatterskull Smashing, and Elspeth's Nightmare all can straight-up destroy an opponent's creature. You also have Eliminate and Bloodchief's Thirst which have the potential to destroy either an opponent's creature or planeswalker. These cards only take into account the destruction available on noncreatures.

The adventure side of Murderous Rider allows you to destroy any creature or planeswalker at a cost of two life points of yours. Bonecrusher Giant can also use its adventure to deal two points of damage to any target. Finally, Mire Triton has deathtouch, which can act as a deterrent against any creature attacking that doesn't have some sort of evasion.

Wrapping Up

Of the decks that I've shown you this week, I'm most looking forward to trying out the Jeskai Yorion deck. Which one are you excited to play?

What do you think of these decks? Do you have any suggestions for improvements? Let me know by leaving a comment below. Also, 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