Happy new year everyone you boy Code is here for another Top 8 insights from the Izzet Explosive Experiment Event at Soukouhai, lets dive into the end of year state of play for Standard in a non familiar Japanese setting.
5th – 8th place
This is a mono black oriented around Enduring Tenacity and Bloodthirsty Conqueror and everything it takes to those turns is putting a bit of control with your trusty bat Deep-Cavern Bat and a bit of stress inducer Unstoppable Slasher, everything in between is just about how fast your opponent is for who has the bigger threat and who deals lethal damage.
Keithverin with some original ideas is a sight to behold these days in standard everything is pretty much clear so these types of decks are always welcomed to make some meta changes Wrenn and Realmbreaker making top deck recyclings a thing as you ditch out critters on the first turns Wildfire Wickerfolk and Patchwork Beastie and Wrenn makes recycling graveyard extra easy, this deck slays pretty fast in match if you are able to defend early on the match you are pretty much safe.
our first Dimir Aggro in the list this deck is a mix of cunning and opportunity taking place, removal your way through the match Cut Down, Go For The Throat as your critters make your way, and making things rough for your opponent Enduring Curiosity and Sheoldred, The Apocalypse and lastly the neverending nightmare Floodpits Drowner stunning the table.
Shuei with the Dimir Aggro second slot, the only difference from Koara decklist is the ample angle on counterspells in which I judge you harshly, 4 counterspells is 4 too many, a big difference is Nowhere to Run as it eliminates Hexproff and Ward.
Pretty rad for a counterspell guy to be against counterspelling abilities (just saying)…
This deck is really cool by taking another approach at delaying the match to a win and just make things fit at the right place the Preacher of the Schism and Archfiend of the Dross probably putting up with the match attrition and pretty much securing the win with Ritual Chamber Demons and Angels swatting through.
