Standard Treasure Constructed Event Guide and Decklists

This weekend’s event is Standard Treasure Constructed, which creates a Treasure Token on each of your turns! This allows for some fun and wacky decks due to the mana acceleration and almost no restriction on the colors you can use. Read on to find out more about the event, the rewards, tips on building a Standard Treasure Constructed deck, and of course our best decks to get you started. Click here to skip straight to the decklists!

Event Information

Play Treasure Constructed, win card style rewards! In Standard Treasure, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps, you create an artifact Treasure token which you can sacrifice for a mana of any color. The following cards are banned in this format:
– Blood Aspirant
– Woodland Champion
– Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
– Mayhem Devil
– Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
– Karn, the Great Creator

• Duration: February 9, 2020 at 8:00 AM PST – February 12, 2020 at 8:00 AM PST
• Format: Standard Treasure Constructed
• Entry Fee: 500 Gems or 2500 Gold
• Ends After: You can keep playing, but rewards do not go past five wins.
• Match Structure: Best-of-one matches (BO1)

Event Rewards

• 1 Win: Heliod’s Pilgrim Card Style
• 2 Wins: Sea God’s Scorn Card Style
• 3 Wins: Mogis’s Favor Card Style
• 4 Wins: Satyr’s Cunning Card Style
• 5 Wins: Nylea’s Huntmaster Card Style

As a side note, yes, the rewards are underwhelming to say the least. Especially now that the Ranked Draft will be rotating out every two weeks so we won’t even get to see these cards to often. At face value, each common card style is worth 400 Gems at full price so decide whether you feel these cosmetics are worth the entry fee.

Building Your Standard Treasure Constructed Deck – Tips and Strategies

1. Banned Cards

Treasure Constructed makes its return since Plane-cation Chronicles, but take note of the several cards that are now banned for this event:

• Blood Aspirant: Sacrifice synergy is deemed too strong with Treasure Tokens
• Woodland Champion: Can grow big with Treasure Tokens being generated each turn
• Lavinia, Azorius Renegade: Disables the mana acceleration supplied by the Treasure Tokens
• Mayhem Devil: Sacrifice synergy is deemed too strong with Treasure Tokens
• Korvold, Fae-Cursed King: Sacrifice synergy is deemed too strong with Treasure Tokens
• Karn, the Great Creator: Disables activation of your opponent’s Treasure Tokens

2. More, Faster Mana

You are fast tracking your mana curve in this format. Whether you want to play as many small spells as possible, or just play one big spell early, you can do that much faster than in a normal game of Magic. The below table shows how much mana you can potentially have if you were to not use the Treasure Tokens each turn and you were to make play a land each turn.

2. Less Lands, More Spells

Because we get a definite source of mana each turn, we can afford to play less lands in our decks and pack in more spells. I’m no math-magician to do exact calculations, but after we consider the overall mana curve of our deck (aggro, midrange or control), we can maybe afford to play 2 to 4 less lands in our deck.

These are also best-of-one matches – which means MTG Arena also applies a small algorithm to our starting hands to “smooth out” our starting hand. This means we have a greater chance of having a reasonable spell-land ratio – and definitely will contribute to us having to mulligan less!

3. Less Color Restrictions

Treasure Tokens can generate any colored mana, and we can truly take our deck building to the next level in greediness. You can consider a core base of a 2-3 color deck, and splash for a few cards you would want, without the need to add lands to accommodate those cards.

4. Artifact Synergy

Treasure Tokens are artifacts, and there are definitely cards that synergize with them to build around if you happen to have them lying around and collecting dust. Emry and Tezzeret work together pretty well and we look forward to what players brew up with these two in particular!

5. Metagame Decks

You can of course, just use your best Standard deck and maybe tweak it here and there with the consideration of the above factors. These meta decks may fare well more than others due to the nature of the event:

• Mono Red Aggro: As is usually the case, Mono Red is the type of deck you choose if you just want to be done with the event as soon as possible. Runaway Steam-Kin is especially good here, and you will be able to dump your entire hand. Add a few more cheap spells and cut a couple lands and you will be set to go!
• Simic Ramp / Bant Ramp: Treasure Tokens already help with your game plan, and should allow for some explosive draws. We have a similar Sultai version below in our decklists, try it out if you enjoy this deck.
• Temur Reclamation: Ramping out your key spell – Wilderness Reclamation – seems very good and excess mana is always welcome in this deck to help turbo out the combo faster.

Our Top Standard Treasure Constructed Decklists

For this event, we tried to showcase a variety of options to exploit the Treasure Tokens as much as possible, as there are a few strategies to tackle this event. If you are here just for the quickest deck to get the event over and done with, use one of the Mono Red decks. Otherwise, have fun brewing!

Azorius Artifacts – Standard Treasure

Bant Gyruda – Test of Wit 100 Card Treasure Standard

Bant Gyruda Ramp by MTGWayfinder – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Bo1 Standard Four-Color Treasures by Nikki Ducôte – #155 Mythic – July 2022 Ranked Season

Dimir Combo Control – Test of Wit 100 Card Treasure Standard

Dimir Tezzeret – Standard Treasure

Five-Color Yorion Fires – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Four-Color Treasures by Chris Botelho – May 2022 Standard Metagame Challenge (7-0)

Grixis Treasures by Pyrobolus11 – July 2021 Standard Metagame Challenge (7-0)

Gruul Aggro – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Gruul Treasure Aggro – Streets of New Capenna Standard

Gruul Treasure by crokeyz – #150 Mythic – Standard 2022 – AFR Day 4

Jeskai Cycling – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Jeskai Cycling – Test of Wit 100 Card Treasure Standard

Jund Aggro – Standard Treasure

Jund Treasures – Streets of New Capenna Standard

Jund Treasures by Mateo Luna Navia – May 2022 Standard Metagame Challenge (7-0)

Mardu Humans – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Mardu Knights – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Mono Blue Devotion – Standard Treasure

Mono Red Aggro – Test of Wit 100 Card Treasure Standard

Mono Red Obosh Aggro – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Mono Red Phoenix – Standard Treasure

Mono Red Ramp – Test of Wit 100 Card Treasure Standard

Orzhov Lurrus Auras – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Rakdos Lurrus Sacrifice – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Rakdos Treasure by WeHaveToGoBack – Standard 2022 – AFR Day 4

Rakdos Treasures by Alex Matos – November 2021 Standard Metagame Challenge (7-0)

Simic Umori Mutate – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Standard ’22 Golgari Treasure by Alex Mikesell – #980 Mythic – July 2021 Ranked Season

Standard 2022 Mardu Treasure Sacrifice by After Office TTV – #13 Mythic – July 2021 Ranked Season

Standard 2022 Orzhov Treasures by CovertGoBlue – #95 Mythic – July 2021 Ranked Season

Standard Gruul Treasures by TheNerdySteve – Streets of New Capenna Early Access Streamer Event

Standard Jund Treasures by Delmo – #188 Mythic – May 2022 Ranked Season

Standard Jund Treasures by Delmo – #517 Mythic – Streets of New Capenna Day 1

Standard Jund Treasures by Gainsay – Mythic – May 2022 Ranked Season

Standard Jund Treasures by JackTorrance90 – Streets of New Capenna Early Access Streamer Event

Standard Jund Treasures Version 2 – June 2022 Ranked Season

Standard Temur Treasures by Roy Varney – #258 Mythic – January 2022 Ranked Season

Standard Temur Treasures by Shoichiro Takeda – April 2022 The Pizza Box Open (2nd)

Standard Temur Treasures by Shoichiro Takeda – GGtoor MTG Arena Cup #4 (8th)

Sultai Ramp – Standard Treasure

Sultai Reanimator by April King – Standard Treasure 5 Win Deck

Temur Ramp – Test of Wit 100 Card Treasure Standard

Temur Song Combo – Test of Wit 100 Card Treasure Standard

Temur Treasures – Innistrad: Crimson Vow Standard

Temur Yorion Elementals – Standard Treasure – Festival: Mountains of Mana

Treasure Hunt – New Player Experience

5 Win Treasure Constructed Decklists

Here we will be posting any noteworthy decks throughout the event duration that people have shared!

Sultai Reanimator by April King – Standard Treasure 5 Win Deck

Wrapping Up

As always, you can hit us up on our Discord or Twitter, or leave a comment below if you have any feedback, and share what other decks you played to reach 5 wins in this event! Today we also posted our second episode of the MTG Arena Standard Podcast, so be sure to check it out!