Creaturelands are excellent for dodging sorcery-speed removal spells, including board sweepers. This means you’ll never be out of gas, and it will greatly reduce the negative impacts of mana flood. Having access to seven creaturelands means you’ll have one or two almost any time you want them. But in Standard, there’s even more to like because they decks get to tap into not one but two exceptionally powerful creature lands. It tends to be fast and punishing, with a reliable mana base where every land enters the battlefield untapped. There’s always a lot to like about monocolor aggro. This deck is designed for the Standard 2022 queue currently available on MTG Arena, but I believe that this deck, or something quite similar, will also be a major player in current Standard. Today’s deck highlight is a Standard 2022 Mono-White Aggro deck that I encountered via following Autumn Burchett on Twitter and Twitch. Furthermore, Berserker works extremely well with our cheap Burn spells as a means of taking out larger creatures which makes combat an even bigger headache for the opponent.Adventures in the Forgotten Realms has just hit MTG Arena, and everyone is dying to see what cards are going to make an impact on Standard. It’s really hard to beat in combat and has an activated ability that will just kill most opponents if they let you use it. This card has constantly overperformed in every deck it’s put in. When I first saw this card, I thought it was really good but awful against Bonecrusher Giant. An important part of building aggro decks in 2022 is to have as many mana sinks as you can reasonably fit in, and Hall Monitor fits the bill perfectly. It allows you to get a few points of chip damage in early, then threatens to make combat really awkward with it’s activated ability later in the game. The better half of the 1 drop squad, Hall Monitor looks meek but performs really well. It’s not an amazing attacker, but it can block extremely well, and will nearly always guarantee a few points of damage one way or another. Monored needs a solid curve and Charger helps to fill that role. Not the most exciting card in the world, but it gets the job done. It just puts on way too much pressure to ignore and can absolutely clobber opponents out of nowhere if you’re holding onto multiple creatures. I have never even gotten to Ultimate it yet and it wasn’t because lack of trying, but every opponent has died on the second +1 activation.

Most of the time you’re using the 0 to help build a board, but if you’re in a position to +1, it feels really hard to lose that game. Zariel is only a 1 of, but has performed shockingly well in most strategies I play it in. I wasn’t completely wrong, but I was definitely skewed by the power level expectations of Eldraine and Ikoria. I really didn’t like this card when I first saw it figuring it was too weak for competitive play. With a few adjustments along the way, I finally reached a list I was happy with.īlade Historian Art by Cristi Balanescu Zariel, Archduke of Avernus Going under many of the top decks in the format as the combination of a good curve, some removal, and great top end carried me across the finish line multiple times.

Well, considering I’m writing this guide, you can probably guess. I made some changes to the core list with my guiding principle in mind to see what would happen. With this in mind, I decided to revisit multiple decks that failed week 1 with a new understanding of 2022 deck building, starting with Monored. However, when I tried it, I couldn’t stop winning.īerserkers taught me a valuable lesson about 2022 and maybe Best of One in general: if you have a good curve, some removal spells, and solid top end, the deck can be really good. Everything about this deck just screamed failed thought experiment, I didn’t think it would be terrible, but it would lack what it needed to compete. The curve is ok at best, the card quality is sporadic, the concept a bit all over the place. Just by looking at the deck you would assume it was just not a great idea. There is not a single deck in this format that has taught me more about the enigmatic nature of Standard 2022 than Rakdos Berserkers. With that, I scrapped the concept entirely chalking it up to being too bad to perform. I looked to see if anyone else made a better version, but I was completely unsuccessful in my search. It lacked the power to punch through the other decks as I was playing very dubious choices like Shatterskull Charger and Roil Eruption, Even Flameskull which seemed really promising at first ended up wildly underperforming. Long story short, it did not perform very well. The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth.

Mtg goldfish standard mono red