Ali Aintrazi's Rainbow Lich has to be my favorite deck of this Standard season. While the deck can be largely unfun to play against, and slow to run out it's gameplan, the deck can be a complete blast to play. The goal is to get Lich's Mastery into play and start casting Chance for Glory over and over again using multiple The Mirari Conjecture + Nature's Spiral and finish them with a Banefire or Expansion // Explosion. The deck has a toolbox sub-theme in Mastermind's Acquisition to search for combo pieces like Nature's Spiral or Banefire out of the sideboard, but also control elements.
Rainbow Lich can have a rather solid aggro match, being able to make up lost life with Gift of Paradise or Revitalize and accessing sweepers like Cleansing Nova or Settle the Wreckage. Kaya's Wrath is a recent addition with Ravnica Allegiance, that gives the deck a viable 4 mana sweeper outside of Settle. Once Lich's Mastery is on board, you can start drawing a lot of cards and tossing unnecessary pieces into the graveyard to exile to any damage taken, allowing you to play Mastery fairly aggressively. RNA has also brought Cry of the Carnarium and Hydroid Krasis as additional toolbox cards vs Aggro.
RAINBOW LICH
Ali Aintrazi's Rainbow Lich has to be my favorite deck of this Standard season. While the deck can be largely unfun to play against, and slow to run out it's gameplan, the deck can be a complete blast to play. The goal is to get Lich's Mastery into play and start casting Chance for Glory over and over again using multiple The Mirari Conjecture + Nature's Spiral and finish them with a Banefire or Expansion // Explosion. The deck has a toolbox sub-theme in Mastermind's Acquisition to search for combo pieces like Nature's Spiral or Banefire out of the sideboard, but also control elements.
Rainbow Lich can have a rather solid aggro match, being able to make up lost life with Gift of Paradise or Revitalize and accessing sweepers like Cleansing Nova or Settle the Wreckage. Kaya's Wrath is a recent addition with Ravnica Allegiance, that gives the deck a viable 4 mana sweeper outside of Settle. Once Lich's Mastery is on board, you can start drawing a lot of cards and tossing unnecessary pieces into the graveyard to exile to any damage taken, allowing you to play Mastery fairly aggressively. RNA has also brought Cry of the Carnarium and Hydroid Krasis as additional toolbox cards vs Aggro.
3 Lich's Mastery
3 The Mirari Conjecture
4 Gift of Paradise
1 Search for Azcanta
Instant
3 Vraska's Contempt
2 Chance for Glory
4 Revitalize
1 Chemister's Insight
1 Expansion // Explosion
Sorcery
3 Kaya's Wrath
1 Divination
2 Cleansing Nova
2 Mastermind's Acquisition
Other
4 Discovery // Dispersal
Land
1 Watery Grave
2 Drowned Catacomb
1 Temple Garden
2 Sunpetal Grove
1 Breeding Pool
2 Hinterland Harbor
3 Overgrown Tomb
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Blood Crypt
1 Dragonskull Summit
2 Godless Shrine
4 Isolated Chapel
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Plains
1 Swamp
1 Island
2 Duress
1 Cry of the Carnarium
1 Banefire
1 Nature's Spiral
3 Theif of Sanity
2 Unmoored Ego
3 Knight of Autumn
1 Haydroid Krasis
1 The Immortal Sun
THE JUICE[BOX]³ CUBE