kaladesh goldfish standard artifact deck

I’m not sure if Bant Humans will be the best version of Bant or if playing cards like Sylvan Advocate, Selfless Spirit, and Spell Queller will be better, but I have more experience with Bant Humans, so I’m starting with that. Sure, Collected Company and Dromoka’s Command are rotating out of Standard, but Bant decks will continue to be a big part of the metagame. Arborback Stomper is an easy card to overlook but is a wonderful source of lifegain and an easy sideboard addition to decks that may need it. Eldrazi Displacer works particularly well with Skysovereign, Consul Flagship, as Displacer is the perfect size to Crew the floating city and a repeatable source of three damage to creatures or planeswalkers should not be ignored. The painlands are leaving the format at the exact wrong time, as playing a “blink” strategy has never been so appealing to me. The main problem that Eldrazi Displacer will face is having a coherent manabase. However, if Chandra, Torch of Defiance brings aggressive and burn decks back to the forefront, then cards that have the ability to gain life will be at a premium. Our last format did not have those either, but Collected Company paired with Reflector Mage and Languish could still hold down aggressive decks. Lifegain MattersĪnother reason why the format will speed up is the lack of cheap, quality lifegain cards such as Courser of Kruphix and Siege Rhino. Cards like Archangel Avacyn and Spell Queller require instant-speed answers, and Flame Lash is what we have. Instant speed is important enough that I would rather play Flame Lash over a card like Exquisite Firecraft, which just rotated compare Hero’s Downfall and Dreadbore.

An instant-speed way to deal four damage to a creature or planeswalker is a very effective way to deal with Archangel Avacyn and Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, two cards that red has struggled with in the past. Again, red aggressive and burn decks will absolutely be a part of the metagame, and Flame Lash fits right in. Speaking of burn spells, Flame Lash was just spoiled as I was writing this, and I could see this being a Standard staple. Radiant Flames is still in the format, though, and may see a resurgence to help three-colored control decks.īesides the loss of the format’s primary sweeper, having playable red cards printed again will also speed up the format. Before, playing creatures with five toughness was a key to be able to survive a Languish, and now that bar will be lowered to three toughness to survive Kozilek’s Return and Flaying Tendrils.

Even though Languish isn’t necessarily a hard sweeper, it was most of the time and was still a much better option than the five-mana unconditional sweepers. The departure of Languish from the format will eliminate the primary sweeper that control decks have been relying upon. Speed of the FormatĪll signs are pointing to a much faster Standard format than what we have had this past year. I love spoiler season as much as the next person, so let’s dive in and see what the new Standard format may look like. I have been focused on the Modern format recently, and even though #SCGORL this weekend will be Modern, I wanted to talk about my observations so far from Kaladesh.

Kaladesh goldfish standard artifact deck