Old Cards That Are Newly Good: Golgari Poison
We are a couple of weeks into the New Standard Meta and the format is rapidly transforming. There is a lot of aggro floating around, and there are a few different decks that can do one turn kills. We know things are noticeable different now, so we must ask: what is something that could be flying under the radar and be sneakily good? We know that Bant Poison and Selesnya Poison have been around for a little bit. Heck, there have even been a few Abzan Poison lists that could at least be considered competitive. A lot of us look at poison lists, and we always have wanted to include white and green in some way, but something that has often been overlooked and maybe even underutilized is Golgari Poison. This deck will rely on stacking the Toxic Ability, so that we can connect out of nowhere for a big poison hit. A lot of the decks rely on more of a go-wide strategy that generates tokens and uses other resources to flood the board with toxic creatures. In this deck, we are going to use enchantments, artifacts, some proliferation, and some recursion to get our opponents to ten poison counters as quickly as we can. Before we get to the deck and the noteworthy cards, I'll say that I have only played it in best of one - and although the deck has done well, I would venture to say it is most well-positioned in the best of one meta. There are some viable cards for the sideboard if it were to be a best of three deck, but this list is at it's best when it is grinding those quick best of one contests. Also, did I mention this deck is really light on the wildcards/wallet? We are only running eight rare cards in the main deck and no mythics. We do run some rare lands, but those can be relatively easily be swapped out. As long as you can get off to a fast start with your mana base, you will be fine.
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