Post Rotation RTR Standard Deck Ideas
Deck 1 GW Aggro
Lands
9 Forest
3 Gavony Township
3 Plains
4 Sunpetal Grove
4 Temple Garden
Creatures
4 Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 Champion of Lambholt
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Silverblade Paladin
4 Sublime Archangel
3 Wolfir Silverheart
4 Arbor Elf
4 Loxodon Smiter
Spells
4 Rancor
2 Garruk, Primal Hunter
Sideboard
3 Crushing Vines
3 Faith's Reward
3 Ground Seal
2 Oblivion Ring
4 Rootborn Defenses
Statistics:
Number of Cards: 60 Card(s) (15 Card(s) in Sideboard )
Colors: 8 White, 25 Green, 1 Multicolor
Types: 23 Lands, 31 Creatures, 6 Spells
Rarity: 26 Rares, 4 Uncommons, 24 Commons
Avg Casting Cost: 0.00 (0.00%) Red; 0.00 (0.00%) Black; 0.54 (20.62%) White; 0.00 (0.00%) Blue; 1.08 (41.24%) Green; 1.00 (38.14%) Colorless; ( 2.62 Mana )
Deck 2 - BG Aggro
Lands
5 Forest
5 Swamp
4 Golgari Guildgate
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Woodland Cemetery
Creatures
4 Dreg Mangler
4 Lotleth Troll
4 Rakdos Cackler
4 Slitherhead
3 Deathrite Shaman
4 Gravecrawler
3 Thragtusk
4 Diregraf Ghoul
4 Strangleroot Geist
Spells
4 Rancor
Statistics:
Number of Cards: 60 Card(s) (0 Card(s) in Sideboard )
Colors: 11 Green, 8 Black, 5 Multicolor
Types: 22 Lands, 34 Creatures, 4 Spells
Rarity: 22 Rares, 24 Uncommons, 14 Commons
Avg Casting Cost: 0.00 (0.00%) Red; 0.42 (20.78%) Black; 0.00 (0.00%) White; 0.00 (0.00%) Blue; 0.61 (29.87%) Green; 0.42 (20.78%) Colorless; ( 2.03 Mana )
Hope you like these early ideas and as always I am wide open to suggestions and discussion
Re: Post Rotation RTR Standard Deck Ideas
They look fine to me. I was testing my own deck on Cockatrice and it turned out pretty decent, and I even ran into a couple of builds just like these. They gave pretty hard matchups, so I'd stick with what you have for now, and adjust later depending on what the meta turns out like.
Re: Post Rotation RTR Standard Deck Ideas
With a week of play testing under my belt I have made the following changes to deck 1 which is doing very well against the rest of the meta atm. Give it a try in your FNM and let me know if you too have alot of success with it.
Deck 1 GW Aggro
Lands
9 Forest
2 Gavony Township
4 Plains
4 Sunpetal Grove
4 Temple Garden
Creatures
4 Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 Silverblade Paladin
4 Sublime Archangel
2 Wolfir Silverheart
4 Arbor Elf
4 Loxodon Smiter
4 Wayfaring Temple
Spells
4 Rancor
4 Call of the Conclave
3 Selesnya Charm
Sideboard
4 Crushing Vines
4 Rest in Peace
4 Rootborn Defenses
3 Sundering Growth
As always let me know your thoughts.
Re: Post Rotation RTR Standard Deck Ideas
Ah good ol' GW Midrange. I love this deck, it brings the beats and doesn't stop. Although I'd imagine certain control decks give it grief, no?
Re: Post Rotation RTR Standard Deck Ideas
In game 1 they can be a pain but for games 2 and 3, Rootborn Defenses really hurts them.
T1 mana dork, T2 Wayfaring, t3 call or charm t4 just keep going with what's on the board and wait for the wipe and Rootborn. It normally results in a scoop.
If the are heavy Detention Sphere then you can also drop in the Sundering Growth.
Re: Post Rotation RTR Standard Deck Ideas
Yeah Growth and Defenses are automatic sideboard/mainboard depending on the meta.
Re: Post Rotation RTR Standard Deck Ideas
I've continued testing the deck and is has proven consistent. Thus far the weak link seems to be Wolfir Silverheart. I have tried several options to replace it but haven't fallen in love with any of them.
Of course Thragtush was decent as a hard to get rid of beat stick but he wasn't a great closer for the top of my curve.
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, was ok and offered a little synergy with populate but once again she didn't knock my socks off as she once again wasn't a huge finisher but was handy if I had gotten behind on the race
I also tried Sigarda, Host of Herons. Nice and harder to remove but if I was winning she wasn't really needed and if I was behind she didn't stem the bleeding.
Lastly I gave Armada Wurm a try and it was a good boon when I got it out. Value, Trample and token... In short it provided alot of synergy with other parts of the deck but getting to 6 mana is a little iffy in a timely manner as typically I have either won or am in trouble before that point.
So I am open to ideas. Please help me fill these last to slots.