Episode 25: Andrew's Top Decklists for RNA Standard!!

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Standard got you confused? Not sure which deck to play? Do you know which archetype you're interested in, but not sure what the best build is for that archetype? Andrew lays it all out, decklists included!

Andrew's 8 Archetypes Deck Lists:

Ari Lax's Sultai Midrange:

2 Carnage Tyrant
4 Hydroid Krasis
4 Jadelight Ranger
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Merfolk Branchwalker
2 Ravenous Chupacabra
4 Wildgrowth Walker
3 Vivien Reid
2 Assassin's Trophy
2 Cast Down
2 Vraska's Contempt
3 Find//Finality
4 Forest
1 Swamp
4 Breeding Pool
3 Drowned Catacomb
1 Memorial to Folly
4 Overgrown Tomb
3 Watery Grave
4 Woodland Cemetery
Sideboard:
2 Plaguecrafter
2 Thrashing Brontodon
1 Cast Down
1 Disdainful Stroke
2 Negate
1 Vraska's Contempt
1 Cry of the Carnarium
4 Duress
1 Thought Erasure

Andrew Jessup's Esper Control:

4 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
4 Absorb
1 Cast Down
3 Chemister's Insight
2 Moment of Craving
3 Mortify
2 Negate
2 Precognitive Perception
3 Vraska's Contempt
2 Search for Azcanta
4 Kaya's Wrath
4 Thought Erasure
1 Plains
1 Swamp
4 Drowned Catacomb
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Godless Shrine
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Isolated Chapel
4 Watery Grave
Sideboard:
2 Hostage Taker
4 Thief of Sanity
2 Moment of Craving
1 Negate
2 Lyra Dawnbringer
2 Cry of the Cafrnarium
2 Duress

Patrick Sullivan's Mono Red Aggro:

4 Fanatical Firebrand
4 Ghitu Lavarunner
4 Runaway Steam-Kin
4 Viashino Pyromancer
4 Lightning Strike
4 Risk Factor
4 Shock
4 Wizard's Lightning
4 Light up the Stage
4 Skewer the Critics
20 Mountain
Sideboard:
4 Treasure Map
3 Goblin Chainwhirler
2 Banefire
2 FIght with Fire
4 Lava Coil

Andrew Elenbogen's Azorius Aggro:

4 Adanto Vanguard
4 Benalish Marshal
4 Dauntles Bodyguard
2 Hunted Witness
4 Skymarcher Aspirant
4 Snubhorn Sentry
4 Venerated Loxodon
4 Conclave Tribunal
4 History of Benalia
2 Unbreakable Formation
4 Legion's Landing
Sideboard:
1 Deputy of Detention
4 Tocatli Honor Guard
3 Baffling End
4 Negate
3 Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants

Drake Sasser's Nexus of Gates:

3 Azorius Guildgate
1 Breeding Pool
2 Chemister's Insight
4 Circuitous Route
3 Expansion/Explosion
1 Forest
4 Gates Ablaze
4 Growth Spiral
4 Gruul Guildgate
4 Guild Summit
4 Hydroid Krasis
1 Island
4 Izzet Guildgate
2 Lava Coil
4 Nexus of Fate
4 Plaza of Harmony
4 Selesnya Guildgate
4 Simic Guildgate
3 Wilderness Reclamation
Sideboard:
3 Archway Angel
2 Carnage Tyrant
4 Gatebreaker Ram
2 Lava Coil
4 Negate

Alexander Hayne's Mono U Aggro:

4 Mist-Cloaked Herald
4 Pteramander
4 Siren Stormtamer
4 Curious Obsession
4 Merfolk Trickster
1 Blink of an Eye
3 Chart a Course
1 Essence Capture
3 Spell Pierce
4 Tempest Djinn
4 Wizard's Retort
2 Dive Down
4 Opt
19 Island
Sideboard:
2 Faerie Duelist
3 Negate
1 Search for Azcanta
3 Surge Mare
2 Deep Freeze
2 Exclusion Mage
2 Entrancing Melody

Andrew Jessup's UR Drakes:

4 Crackling Drake
4 Enigma Drake
4 Pteramander
3 Dive Down
4 Opt
4 Shock
3 Spell Pierce
1 Beacon Bolt
4 Chart a Course
4 Discovery//Dispersal
4 Lava Coil
8 Island
4 Mountain
1 Blood Crypt
4 Steam Vents
4 Sulfur Falls
Sideboard:
2 Treasure Map
2 Disdainful Stroke
2 Fiery Cannonade
2 Shivan Fire
2 Niv-Mizzet Parun
2 Ral, Izzet Viceroy
2 Entrancing Melody
1 Star of Extinction

Luckesh's Turbo Nexus (MTGO Standard Finals 1st Place List from 2/3/2019):

2 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
3 Chemister's Insight
4 Depose // Deploy
4 Growth Spiral
4 Nexus of Fate
4 Opt
4 Revitalize
4 Root Snare
3 Search for Azcanta
4 Wilderness Reclamation
1 Arch of Orazca
4 Breeding Pool
3 Glacial Fortress
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Hinterland Harbor
1 Island
4 Sunpetal Grove
3 Temple Garden
Sideboard:
2 Crushing Canopy
4 Hydroid Krasis
3 Knight of Autumn
2 Lyra Dawnbringer
4 Negate