Daily Deck Tech Hunt: W/B Midrange Flying Back to Standard

Every workday while the set is new, Insight is taking a quick look at another deck featuring cards from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt. Today we focus on a somewhat unorthodox Standard build that ended up seventh in a Challenge on Magic Online. With just a few small additions, this deck goes big!

brutal cathar - intrepid adversary - tainted adversary


The previous Standard meta was a weird place. So weird, in fact, it made Monowhite Aggro not just better than Monored but one of the strongest Standard decks overall. Fortunately for fans of creature-based white decks, nearly all the best creatures that cost more than one are still around. I'm primarily talking about , , and . This already makes for a decent shell, considering how there are just five legal sets at the moment.

Surprisingly, the rest of the deck is almost completely new. Midnight Hunt is apparently much more influential in Standard than expected, and not just because of all the powerful Werewolves. I did not expect Orzhov Midrange to do well, nor to look anything like this. This build is like those slower variants of Monowhite Aggro we used to see a lot in the past few months. Turns out that's good enough for this metagame, especially with being present in five out of the Top 8 decks.


brutal cathar moonrage brute

Every single creature is at least decent here. looks particularly promising, especially when you need to deal lethal damage with stuff like on the board. While the scenario of it transforming isn't terribly likely, it doesn't look like there are many controlling decks at the moment, making the card so much better.

Of course, the deck runs both and , Standard all-stars from the get-go. If you get extremely flooded, there's to fully utilize them. If not, you'll probably still be able to use their enters-the-battlefield ability at least once with 24+ lands.


tainted adversary intrepid adversary

Finally, there's for all those opposing graveyard shenanigans. That's not to mention that this is a 3/2 with a nice evasion effect for only two mana! Making enough room for everything good in Orzhov is tough, but at least three of these really do seem like a nice idea.

In conclusion, all these cards work really well together, making for a very flexible midrange variant that can be the aggressor. This is not to mention that Orzhov, as per usual, has amazing sideboard tools, as the list shows:

 
Inosisisi's Orzhov Midrange, 7th at Standard Challenge
Main DeckSideboard
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 3
  • 4
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  • 4
  • 4
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  • 4
  • 2
  • 2
  • 7
  • 4
  • 2
  • 4
  • 1
  • 2
  • 2
  • 2
  • 4
  • 2
  • 2

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