Return to Ravnica, hope and fun in hand.

New Standard Eruptus.

This is exciting. With all but 8 cards spoiled from Return to Ravnica, we at Team "You don't say?" have gotten into brewing mode. Here's a decklist, complete with notes that lead to other decklists, and cute ideas so a general mishmash of everything, based soley on Ravnica's new offerings. This ignores the current standard metagame, and the "top dog" Delver deck which is set to be torn asunder anyway.

It's fully possible that the last 8 cards really open up new things, seeing we don't have the Azorious artifact yet (a cycle that produces mana and then activates for bashing) but it'll be sweet regardless, and you can always Terminus, Wrath and then activate afterwards. No more Gideon, but we get these guys instead.

The positioning for Standard looks like Jund will come back in force, Rakdos and Golgari ripping new faces apart with glee. The much simpler Naya will continue to try and play a gentlemens game of competition, and possibly do so well enough that it'll dip into blue for sideways answers, things like Uncounterable Wrath for the Jund mirror, followed by the Rakdos bin clearing Charm, why not?

The main excitement at the moment is how open all mana bases are. With Gatecrash (not for another 3 months tho) we'll have the ability to play 12 mana sources for whatever colour combo you want, so it'll be exciting to see what the cooking pot of Standard produces.

Regardless, I have my eye on cards now, so I know what I expect my 3 boxes to crack. Mostly blue/white, because I love that colour. Anyway, my random scribbling, to aid you in your launchpad as well as to act as a snapshot of the excitement that new sets (Avacyn Restored excepting) create!!


4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Azorious Guildgate
5 Islands
5 Plains
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22 lands



4 Judge's Familiar /// Delver for aggro build
4 New Prahv Guildmage // knight of glory (pro rakdos)
4 Lyev Skynight (great for 1 2 3 drops aggro)
Artic Aven in control
3 Dungeon Geists? good cap
3 Sleep in aggro build

4 ???? not Index
4 Azorious Charm    lifelink/draw/atkblk top of lib
4 Cyclonic Rift

4 Azorious Artifact tap for u/w, activate creature)
4 Terminus
1 Supreme Verdict (yeah, just 1)
3 Detention Sphere
2 Sphinx's Revelation
4 Rewind?
2 Jace, Architect of Thought
2 Isperia, Supreme Judge
1 Fall of the Gavel
4 Azor's Elocutor? build around deck, obv. Hexproof, prevent all damage.
1 Stormtide Leviathan (just one)
1 Sudden Disappearance

sideboard
3 dispel?
3 Civic Saber (birdy beatdown?)
2 Misthollow Griffin [the mirror, o ring ME hey?)
2 Negate?
2 Outwit v Bonfire of the Damned

"Cute" other
4 Void Stalker
4 Index

Allows for the aggro into control plays, while Index can be played. If

shite, shuffle with Void Stalker.

No, it isn't a solid 60, and that sideboard is totally guessing at things. I know people say that Aggro reigns at the start of a season, but why wait? Just think of the aggro you'd play, and build to beat that. Who isn't going to enjoy eating up the field then Scavanging? The good cards only, of course.

My biggest dream for those remaining unspoiled 8 cards from Return to Ravnica?

Ancestral Recall. Totally.