Five Standard Decks YOU Can Build

So I'm about to dismantle a few decks I built in order to attempt to make a really badass deck. In order to preserve the deck lists permanently, I'm posting them here. So, without further ado, let me introduce you to my Bant Planeswalker Deck, my Black/Red Burn Deck, my Blue/Red Human Thief Burning Control Deck (also my "Let's See How Many Descriptive Words I Can Throw In Here Deck"), my Red/Green Soulbond/Pure Avacyn Restored Deck, and last but not least, my White/Black Angels & Demons Deck.

Bant Planeswalker Deck

Creatures

Cathedral Sanctifier x1

Birds of Paradise x1

Angelic Wall x1

Invisible Stalker x1

Dawntreader Elk x1

Fiend Hunter x1

Borderland Ranger x1

Thraben Sentry x1

Beguiler of Wills x1

Planeswalkers

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad x1

Garruk, Primal Hunter x1

Elspeth Tirel x1

Land

Plains x5

Island x5

Forest x5

Glacial Fortress x1

Drowned Catacomb x1

Darkslick Shores x1

Sunpetal Grove x1

Isolated Chapel x1

Hinterland Harbor x1

Shimmering Grotto x1

Artifacts

Darksteel Axe x1

Elixir of Immortality x1

Trepanation Blade x1

Vessel of Endless Rest x1

Elbrus, the Binding Blade x1

Other Spells

Abundant Growth x1

Reclaim x2

Ghostform x1

Jace's Erasure x1

Mana Leak x2

Naturalize x2

Titanic Growth x1

Oblivion Ring x2

Remember the Fallen x1
Timely Reinforcements x1
Curse of the Bloody Tome x1
Clinging Mists x2
Dreadwaters x1
Levitation x1
Blessings of Nature x1
Temporal Mastery x1

SIDEBOARD
Dream Twist x1
Mutagenic Growth x1
Favorable Winds x1
Flashfreeze x1
Ghostform x1
Negate x1
Plummet x1
Redirect x1
Wall of Tanglecord x1
Village Bell-Ringer x1
Bone to Ash x1
Master Thief x1
Slayer of the Wicked x1
Witchbane Orb x1
Bountiful Harvest x1


This deck has multiple purposes. For instance, the planeswalkers add creatures, there are exile cards, milling, and just full on attack. Since it is a three/four color deck, the Vessel of Endless Rest, Birds of Paradise, and dual colored lands are there to handle mana issues. Ideal first hand is three mana, hopefully a Plains, Island, and Forest, but a dual land is also good to have. Keeping your first hand depends a lot on mana color and card colors...

Black/Red Burn Deck

Planeswalkers

Sorin Markov x1

Land

Swamp x12

Mountain x8

Evolving Wilds x1

Stensia Bloodhall x1

Dragonskull Summit x1

Other Spells

Bump in the Night x2

Tragic Slip x4

Shock x4

Doom Blade x1

Incinerate x4

Sorin's Thirst x2

Act of Treason x2

Brimstone Volley x4

Fires of Undeath x2

Melt Terrain x4

Maw of the Mire x1

Thunderous Wrath x1

Killing Wave x3

Fireball x1

SIDEBOARD

Nihil Spellbomb x1

Death Mark x1

Doom Blade x1

Circle of Flame x1

Combust x4

Grasp of Darkness x2

Fires of Undeath x2

Volt Charge x2

Lava Axe x1

Obviously this deck was built for killing. Ideal first turn is a Swamp plus a Bump in the Night. There would be more of those, but I only have two... Alternatively, two Shocks with a Mountain and Swamp, then a Bump as your second turn draw is ideal. Two turns with 7 direct damage. Only thing better is third turn playing two more Shocks and the other Bump. 14 damage in 3 turns. Easy pickings from there. Never experienced this though...

Blue/Red Human Thief Burning Control Deck

Creatures

Beguiler of Wills x1

Rage Thrower x1

Land

Mountain x11

Island x6

Sulfur Falls x1

Shimmering Grotto x1

Cavern of Souls x1

Artifacts

Venser's Journal x1

Other Spells

Pillar of Flame x4

Jace's Erasure x3

Mana Leak x4

Negate x4

Traitorous Blood x4

Thatcher Revolt x4

Geist Snatch x4

Demolish x4

Vigilante Justice x4

Reforge the Soul x1

Mind Unbound x1

SIDEBOARD

Mystic Retrieval x2

Raging Poltergeist x3

Uncanny Speed x4

Crush x2

Scourge of Geier Reach x1

Melt Terrain x3

So this deck is about control, dealing damage fast, stealing opponent's creatures, and, well, a small amount of milling, specifically looking at Mind Unbound, Venser's Journal, and Jace's Erasure. If Mind Unbound makes it to even just 3, paired with all three Jace's Erasures, your opponent mills 12 (3x3, then the 1x3 you normally draw). 5 turns of that and your opponent is done, but it gets better! by 3, 25 cards are milled in total, by 4, 41 are milled, and by that point, they are as good as gone given that Mind Unbound cost 6 and each Jace's Erasure cost 2, so probably a lot more was milled and/or played by the time you mill someone by 41 cards in 4 turns.

Red/Green Soulbond/Pure Avacyn Restored Deck

Creatures

Nightshade Peddler x3

Hanweir Lancer x3

Kessig Malcontents x2

Zealous Conscripts x2

Wildwood Geist x4

Pathbreaker Wurm x1

Vorstclaw x1

Land

Mountain x10

Forest x10

Cavern of Souls x1

Artifacts

Bladed Bracers x2

Angelic Armaments x1

Moonsilver Spear x1

Other Spells

Pillar of Flame x4

Joint Assault x2

Thunderbolt x2

Thatcher Revolt x2

Demolish x2

Vigilante Justice x2

Blessings of Nature x3

Thunderous Wrath x2

SIDEBOARD

Lightning Mauler x2

Thunderbolt x2

Grounded x2

Terrifying Presence x2

Natural End x2

Demolish x2

Blessings of Nature x1

Rain of Thorns x2

So the purpose of this deck was simple, soulbond to everything, and burn everything else. This deck actually works out pretty okay. Not the best, but none of the decks here are. They could all be improved, but a couple of them are pretty well off for the moment.

White/Black Angels & Demons Deck

Creatures

Angelic Wall x2

Soulcage Fiend x3

Angel of Jubilation x1

Seraph of Dawn x2

Renegade Demon x2

Aegis Angel x1

Goldnight Redeemer x1

Harvester of Souls x1

Requiem Angel x1

Griselbrand  x1

Land

Plains x9

Swamp x6

Isolated Chapel x1

Seraph Sanctuary x4

Artifacts

Scroll of Avacyn x2

Scroll of Griselbrand x2

Vessel of Endless Rest x4

Other Spells

Righteous Blow x2

Defang x2

Unhallowed Pact x2

Mental Agony x2

Defy Death x3

Demonic Rising x1

Exquisite Blood x1

Death Wind x4

SIDEBOARD

Nihil Spellbomb x1

Appetite for Brains x2

Gruesome Deformity x2

Defang x2

Moment of Heroism x2

Lingering Souls x2

Smite the Monstrous x1

Goldnight Redeemer x1

Banishing Stroke x2

Either the decks I went up against were better, or this deck just sucked. I built this last week and played with it at Friday Night Magic. Oops. Lost all the games. Won a promo, but lost all the games. Did pretty well in the beginning, but some of the higher powered stuff that was pulled out on me hurt in all the games. Played decks I've never seen before. One of them had four M11 foil promo Birds of Paradise, four Cavern of Souls, and just sucked... Another was all Vampires, and the others had Etched Champions and a Darksteel Plate, as well as a Karn and three Vault of the Archangel. Maybe the other decks were just better...

That's why I'm pulling out all the stops on the deck I'm planning, that is so big, a couple of these decks in this post need to go. What is going? The Planeswalker deck, the Red/Blue deck, and the White/Black deck. What am I doing? I'm gonna experiment with a White/Blue/Black deck involving Delver, a bit of Snapcaster, and Ponder. This will definitely be an interesting deck if I can pull it off...