Blue Steel - Robots is Briefly Viable in Standard

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Posted on July 29, 2015, 10:16 p.m. by alanwescoat

Here is the decklist for Blue Steel ver. 2.0.

I noticed a few conspicuous inclusions for M15, including Chief Engineer, Ensoul Artifact, Shrapnel Blast, Ornithopter, Phyrexian Revoker, and Darksteel Citadel which gave me hope that the Robots archetype might work in Standard. Ghostfire Blade significantly boosted the potential.

After Dragons of Tarkir came out, I gathered all of the cards for potential builds but found that none of them was even close to viable. However, Magic Origins has provided the cards necessary for a good, strong Standard Robots deck at least until many of the key cards rotate out in October. For the time being, Blue Steel is quite a strong and cheap deck.

On my first outing with a weaker build, I took first place at a GPT. On my second outing, I had access to no Hangarback Walker, making the build even weaker but still managed to go 2-1 in three matches, easily defeating RDW and Abzan but just barely losing to Atarka's Goblins.

This current build has not yet been tested, but it seems to give the best answers to problems I have encountered so far.

alanwescoat says... #2

Speaking of Golems, I recently used Keeper of the Lens all by his lonesome to beat up an Abzan player. It was not pretty. It did get a bit of a boost from Ensoul Artifact, though.

July 30, 2015 1:28 p.m.

alanwescoat says... #3

Ghostfire Blade was designed to interact with Megamorph creatures, but it is fabulous for the Robots archetype. While not as good as Cranial Plating, it does have the advantage of increasing toughness as well as being cheaper to cast.

I will NOT be using Spidersilk Net...lol.

July 30, 2015 1:34 p.m.

alanwescoat says... #4

aaron.jacob, having looked at your Thopter madness! deck, I hope that you are aware that Sword of the Meek is banned in Modern.

July 30, 2015 1:39 p.m.

alanwescoat says... #5

aaron.jacob: Ornithopter is useful for other reasons. It can be equipped with Ghostfire Blade, and it enables Bonded Construct to attack on turn 2. Furthermore, since Standard is quite light on flying creatures right now, having two Ornithopter attacking when Military Intelligence is out becomes a card-draw engine.

July 30, 2015 10:46 p.m.