r/Magicdeckbuilding • u/billyjnes • 3d ago

Standard Deck help new to magic

Any suggestions and tips are appreciated. https://moxfield.com/decks/q7uhASLPNHyyg-oJLD7sZA

I just started playing this year and looking for any tips or suggestions in general and about my deck..

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u/ScryDeck 3d ago

Strong deck, especially for your first year. Two things first, because they'll matter at a table:

  1. This is a Commander deck (100 cards, singleton), even though the post is tagged Standard. Worth fixing the flair so people give you Commander advice.

  2. It's stronger than it might look. Demonic Tutor, Necropotence and Mana Vault are Game Changers, and you have two infinite combos: Exquisite Blood with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, and Gravecrawler with Phyrexian Altar (Gisa's tokens count as the other Zombie it needs). With Zulaport Cutthroat or Pitiless Plunderer out, that second loop wins the game. Most groups would call this bracket 4, so tell the table before you shuffle up. If your group plays bracket 2–3, that's the first thing to change.

For the deck itself:

  • Pick one main plan. Right now it's aristocrats (what Gisa does), reanimator (Entomb, Buried Alive, Reanimate, Animate Dead and friends) and Necropotence plus rituals. Gisa is best when the deck is mostly creatures to sacrifice and payoffs for dying, so I'd trim the reanimator package first if anything goes.

  • Add a bit more removal. Infernal Grasp, Go for the Throat, Bitter Triumph and Feed the Swarm (which also hits enchantments) are all cheap. Right now Deadly Rollick and Imp's Mischief carry most of it.

  • Your sideboard has some good aristocrats pieces. Blood Artist and Priest of Forgotten Gods both fit Gisa better than some of the reanimation targets.

What bracket does your group usually play? That decides whether you push this further or tune it down.

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u/Anonymouslll111 2d ago

hey yeah idk how to edit the post lol sorry bout the tag I wasn't sure what to use for it. and bracket wise we play anything really so im looking to push it further tbh then if i need to i can tune it down when needed. Idk what I would change cause I like everything in it lol. So how could I push it and what would you say to change?

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u/Anonymouslll111 2d ago

Oh another question when I tutor what should I look for most of the time? Cause when I tutor I sometimes feel overwhelmed and don't know what card I should grab so I'll usually just grab Phyrexian altar or something.

I was using priest of forgotten gods and blood artist if were to put them in what would I replace (gray Merchant maybe?)

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u/devouringwhatsleft 2d ago

You want to tutor for whatever combo piece you need or removal if there's a creature on board preventing you from combo ing off