Last time I wrote about some deck lists that have the potential of being top eight contenders. However, I didn’t have enough time to discuss all of them so here are the rest to round it all out.

Merfolk

4 Cursecatcher

4 Lord of Atlantis

4 Merrow Reejerey

4 Silvergill Adept

4 Stonybrook Banneret

2 Aquitect’s Will

4 Cryptic Command

3 Mirrowweave

4 Ponder

4 Sage’s Dousing

4 Adarkar Wastes

10 Island

4 Mutavault

1 Mystic Gate

4 Wanderwine Hub

Sideboard

4 Burrenton Forge-tender

4 Remove Soul

3 Sower of Temptation

4 Unsummon

The Merfolk decks are all fast and very consistent. The only deck that really rivals this deck is Reveillark. Faeries and this deck go back and forth. If the Merfolks gets a good army with islandwalk the faeries deck usually just concedes and moves onto the next game. Cryptic Command and Mistbind Clique are essentially the only weapons it has against Merfolk.

U/B/W Blink Reveillark

4 Aven Riftwatcher

1 Body Double

1 Mirror Entity

4 Mulldrifter

3 Reveillark

2 Sower of Temptation

2 Venser, Shaper Savant

4 Ancestral Vision

4 Bitterblossom

4 Mind Stone

3 Momentary Blink

3 Wrath of God

3 Adarkar Wastes

3 Caves of Koilos

5 Island

2 Mystic Gate

4 Plains

4 Underground River

2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

2 Wanderwine Hub

This is the only Reveillark deck that actually performed okay during our playtesting. Still it lost the gang of cards such as, Extirpate, Tarmod’s Crypt, Wheel of Sun and Moon, and Primal Command. Essentially those cards cover the entire magic color spectrum. I believe that Reveillark is pretty much a dead deck do to all the hate in the format against it. As you can see Faeries is not the only thing bad for Reveillark in the format. However with inclusion of Bitterblossom this deck actually does have a better game against faeries.

G/W Glittering Wish (a.k.a. Wishin’ Finks by Ruebs11)

1 Akroma. Angel of Wrath

1 Chameleon Colossus

3 Cloudthresher

1 Crovax, Ascendant Hero

3 Kitchen Finks

2 Oversoul of Dusk

4 Tarmogoyf

4 Wall of Roots

4 Into the North

2 Garruk Widspeaker

3 Glittering Wish

2 Harmonize

2 Primal Command

2 Search for Tomorrow

3 Wrath of God

4 Arctic Flats

1 Boreal Shelf

2 Mouth of Ronom

1 Snow-covered Island

6 Snow-covered Forest

4 Snow-covered Plains

1 Snow-covered Swamp

4 Treetop Village

Sideboard

1 Cloudthresher

1 Harmonic Sliver

1 Kitchen Finks

3 Krosan Grip

1 Mystic Enforcer

1 Necrotic Sliver

1 Oversoul of Dusk

1 Primal Command

1 Teferi’s Moat

2 Vexing Shuser

1 Wheel of Sun and Moon

1 Wrath of God

This build has a lot utility in the sideboard for a lot of different decks. In our playtesting this deck was the best deck out of all those including faeries. However, this deck does have a hard time stopping the Swans/ Assault deck. Krosan Grip and Harmonic Sliver is not enough as it lost out 3-7 in a ten game match.

Seismic Swans By: Patrick Chapin

3 Swans of Bryn Argoll

1 Vexing Shusher

1 Abundance

4 Beseech the Queen

1 Fertile Ground

1 Firespout

2 Gaea’s Blessing

4 Glittering Wish

2 Idyllic Tutor

4 Lotus Bloom

1 Oblivion Ring

1 Raking Canopy

4 Seismic Assault

2 Sylvan Scrying

1 Teferi’s Moat

3 Gemstone Mine

1 Gravern Cairns

4 Grove of the Burnwillows

4 Horizon Canopy

1 Molten Slagheap

4 Reflecting Pools

1 River of Tears

1 Vivid Crag

1 Vivid Grove

4 Vivid Meadow

1 Wooded Bastion

Sideboard

1 Firespout

1 Gaddock Teeg

1 Guttural Response

1 Harmonic Sliver

2 Kitchen Finks

1 Manamorphose

1 Swans of Bryn Argoll

1 Teferi’s Moat

3 Vexing Shusher

1 Void

1 Wheel of Sun and Moon

1 Zur the Enchanter

This deck is very hard to play so I don’t recommend it to those that haven’t played intricate decks before. I personally like this build better than any other just because it actually has answers to every thing out there as right now. If there is going to be a combo deck in the new standard format then I believe this is it. It’s essentially better than the “Good Evening” decks and it out races Dragonstorm by a turn and a half.

R/G Beats

4 Boggart Ram-Gang

2 Chameleon Colossus

4 Keldon Marauders

4 Mogg Fanatic

4 Tarmogoyf

4 Tattermunge Maniac

4 Wall of Roots

4 Flame Javelin

4 Incinerate

4 Rift Bolt

2 Desert

3 Fire-lit Thicket

6 Forest

4 Karplusan Forest

4 Mountains

3 Treetop Village

Sideboard

2 Cloudthresher

3 Firespout

4 Kavu Predator

4 Krosan Grip

2 Sulfurous Blast

I personally believe that this decklist needs to be tweaked to be a better deck but it still performed pretty well, especially against faeries and merfolk. However, ever one of the decks that G/W and has Kitchen Finks in it is huge problem for this deck. Even though you sideboard in Kavu Predator, the G/W deck list plays around him with all the other threats that the R/G Aggro deck just can’t keep up. That makes the burn spell essentially dead cards because the Tarmogoyf gets bigger quicker and was pulling two for one.

This is all there is. I’m sure I’m missing something anyway. I don’t know what deck is the best deck in format. Faeries have some serious contenders now and there stands decks that no one really knows how they are going to perform under pressure at Hollywood. I personally think that the final match up will be U/B Faeries and G/W Glittering Wish or G/W Big Mana, Mana Ramp, or whatever the hell you want to call it.

That’s my opinion.

Charles

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