Hello everyone. Now that The Brother's War is here, it's time to start thinking about new decks to play featuring these new cards. However, if you're like me, it will take you a week or two to acquire the cards you'll need to completely build these new decks. You'll need something to play during the time it takes to get these new cards. So, this week I'm taking a look at some mono-colored decks that have recently done well you can use. These are also great to use on Magic Arena for your daily challenges. Let's get started.

Mono-White

We'll start by taking a look at a Mono-White deck that can go both tall and wide. Let's take a look at the deck.

Mono-White | DMU Standard | Random Platinum-Mythic Ranked Player

• Creatures (28)
• 2 Anointed Peacekeeper
• 2 Resolute Reinforcements
• 2 Serra Paragon
• 3 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 3 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
• 4 Guardian of New Benalia
• 4 Hopeful Initiate
• 4 Intrepid Adversary
• 4 Spirited Companion

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 2 The Wandering Emperor

• Enchantments (6)
• 2 The Restoration of Eiganjo // Architect of Restoration
• 4 Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity

• Lands (24)
• 23 Plains
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Anointed Peacekeeper
• 2 Brutal Cathar // Moonrage Brute
• 2 Cemetery Protector
• 2 Extraction Specialist
• 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 2 Lantern Flare
• 1 Curse of Silence

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For going wide, this deck also has quite a few ways of getting additional creatures in pay. Adeline, Resplendent Cathar brings a 1/1 Human creature token with her whenever she attacks. Wedding Announcement is also able to create up to three 1/1 Human creature tokens before it transforms. Resolute Reinforcements and The Wandering Emperor are also able to create creature tokens. Finally, both The Restoration of Eiganjo // Architect of Restoration and Serra Paragon can return creatures from your graveyard back to the battlefield.

Mono-Blue

Next, let's take a look at the Mono-Blue deck that can be both controlling and aggressive. Here's a look at the deck.

Mono-Blue | DMU Standard | Random Platinum-Mythic Ranked Player

• Creatures (11)
• 3 Tolarian Terror
• 4 Delver of Secrets
• 4 Haughty Djinn

• Instants (29)
• 2 Ertai's Scorn
• 2 Spell Pierce
• 2 Syncopate
• 3 Negate
• 4 Consider
• 4 Fading Hope
• 4 Impulse
• 4 Make Disappear
• 4 Thirst for Discovery

• Lands (20)
• 20 Island

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Tolarian Terror
• 1 Negate
• 2 Ertai's Scorn
• 2 Slip Out the Back
• 4 Essence Scatter
• 4 Shore Up
• 1 Island

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If you're looking for a control deck, look no further. This deck has 13 spells in the main deck that are all about countering your opponent's spells. Some of them, like Negate or Ertai's Scorn, are hard counters. Others, such as Syncopate or Spell Pierce, are soft counters, countering a spell only if your opponent is unable to pay some amount of additional mana. Both kinds of counterspells are very effective at various points throughout the game, and I find all of them to be quite annoying to play against.

Even though there are only three different creatures in this deck, they can all be quite aggressive. Delver of Secrets starts off meek, but can easily turn into an evasive threat capable of dealing quite a bit of damage. Haughty Djinn also is evasive, having flying, and can have a massive amount of power as the game progresses. Finally, Tolarian Terror can be incredibly cheap to cast and offers a large body that might be difficult to remove. This deck definitely has the creatures it needs to close out a game.

Mono-Black

We've reached the midpoint of our decks this week, Mono-Black. For this deck, it's all about aggression and removal. Let's take a look at it.

Mono-Black | DMU Standard | Random Platinum-Mythic Ranked Player

• Creatures (15)
• 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 3 Biting-Palm Ninja
• 3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 4 Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton
• 4 Tenacious Underdog

• Planeswalkers (1)
• 1 Sorin the Mirthless

• Instants (3)
• 3 March of Wretched Sorrow

• Sorceries (6)
• 2 Soul Transfer
• 4 Invoke Despair

• Enchantments (8)
• 4 Life of Toshiro Umezawa // Memory of Toshiro
• 4 Okiba Reckoner Raid // Nezumi Road Captain

• Artifacts (3)
• 1 The Celestus
• 2 Reckoner Bankbuster

• Lands (24)
• 21 Swamp
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 2 Roadside Reliquary

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Liliana of the Veil
• 3 Knight of Dusk's Shadow
• 1 March of Wretched Sorrow
• 4 Cut Down
• 4 Duress
• 1 The Cruelty of Gix
• 1 Unlicensed Hearse

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Both Biting-Palm Ninja and Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion have ninjutsu abilities, allowing you to play them to replace an unblocked creature. This combos well with Tenacious Underdog, as you can cast this Human Warrior for its blitz cost, replacing it with one of the Ninjas, and returning Tenacious Underdog to your hand. This deck also includes three copies of Standard's most powerful creature, in my opinion, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. Sheoldred not only allows you to stabilize your position in the game, but she also offers you the means to destroy your opponent slowly over time.

For removal spells, this deck has numerous ways to get rid of your opponent's permanents. Soul Transfer can exile a creature or planeswalker. Invoke Despair forces your opponent to sacrifice a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker. If they're unable to do so, you'll gain a bit of life instead. Finally, March of Wretched Sorrow lets you deal a variable amount of damage to a creature or planeswalker, gaining an equal amount of life in the process. For those best of three games, there's even additional removal in the sideboard.

Mono-Red

Our penultimate deck is a Mono-Red deck, doing what Mono-Red does best - attacking quickly for a lot of damage. Let's check it out.

Mono-Red | DMU Standard | Random Platinum-Mythic Ranked Player

• Creatures (22)
• 2 Bloodthirsty Adversary
• 2 Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher
• 2 Shivan Devastator
• 2 Squee, Dubious Monarch
• 3 Radha's Firebrand
• 3 Thundering Raiju
• 4 Phoenix Chick
• 4 Reinforced Ronin

• Instants (10)
• 2 Rending Flame
• 4 Lightning Strike
• 4 Play with Fire

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 Reckless Impulse

• Enchantments (5)
• 1 Hammerhand
• 4 Kumano Faces Kakkazan // Etching of Kumano

• Lands (21)
• 20 Mountain
• 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

• Sideboard (10)
• 1 Shivan Devastator
• 1 Thundering Raiju
• 1 Rending Flame
• 1 Twinferno
• 1 Burn Down the House
• 3 Bloody Betrayal
• 2 Hammerhand

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Reinforced Ronin and Phoenix Chick are both 1-drops that can help you quickly reduce your opponent's life total. Having Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher on the battlefield will give one of your creatures a quick boost to their power in addition to haste, making it difficult for your opponent to plan blockers every turn. Radha's Firebrand makes one of your opponent's creatures unable to block for the turn, allowing you to push through damage quickly. Finally, Shivan Devastator is a great late game finisher.

In addition to fast creatures, this deck has some great targeted removal spells that will help reduce the amount of blockers your opponent has in play. Play with Fire costs a single mana and can take out a small threat. It can also be directed at your opponent's life total as a way of finishing them off. The same goes for Lightning Strike, which is only slightly more powerful that Play with Fire. Finally, there's Rending Flame, which will deal five damage to a creature or planeswalker. That's enough damage to deal with most big threats.

Mono-Green

The final deck I have for you this week is Mono-Green. Let's take a look at it to see just how aggressive it can be.

Mono-Green | DMU Standard | Random Platinum-Mythic Ranked Player

• Creatures (34)
• 1 Kodama of the West Tree
• 1 Workshop Warchief
• 2 Topiary Stomper
• 2 Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth
• 3 Cemetery Prowler
• 3 Jewel Thief
• 3 Quirion Beastcaller
• 3 Reclusive Taxidermist
• 4 Augur of Autumn
• 4 Defiler of Vigor
• 4 Llanowar Loamspeaker
• 4 Silverback Elder

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 Storm the Festival

• Lands (24)
• 20 Forest
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 3 Crystal Grotto

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Jewel Thief
• 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• 1 Topiary Stomper
• 1 Ulvenwald Oddity
• 3 Ascendant Packleader
• 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 2 Tail Swipe
• 1 Storm the Festival
• 2 Fight Rigging
• 2 Unlicensed Hearse

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Defiler of Vigor has become one of my favorite Green creatures to play. While it's on the battlefield, it allows you to reduce the mana cost of creature spells you're casting, plus it puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control every time you cast a Green permanent spell. Workshop Warchief is a great attacker, having trample. It also replaces itself with a 4/4 Rhino creature token when it dies, which you can take advantage of with its blitz ability. Finally, Silverback Elder is a massive 5/7 creature. It also offers some modular effects that happen when you cast a creature spell. My favorite of these is gaining four life, which can often force your opponent to concede, as your life total can quickly grow to an amount they cannot overcome.

Wrapping Up

Mono-Colored decks like these are a great starting point when a new set is released. They can act as a bridge, allowing you to remain competitive while you acquire new cards to build new decks with. Undoubtedly, new mono-colored decks will soon be built, adding in these new cards, so I'm sure I'll be writing about some new mono-colored decks in the near future.

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