Eldrazi Green (Nissa Monument)

The first decklist of this blog is the new "Deck to Beat" on the Standard Block, the mono-green elf aggro deck piloted to a first place finish by Kali Anderson at the Starcitygames Nashville 5k.

// Lands
4 Oran-rief, The Vastwood
20 Forest

// Creatures
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Noble Hierarch
4 Nissa's Chosen
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Elvish Archdruid
3 Great Sable Stag
2 Master Of The Wild Hunt
3 Ant Queen

// Spells
4 Nissa Revane
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
3 Eldrazi Monument

// Sideboard
SB: 4 Acidic Slime
SB: 3 Pithing Needle
SB: 3 Mycoloth
SB: 2 Windstorm
SB: 1 Great Sable Stag
SB: 1 Mold Shambler
SB: 1 Eldrazi Monument

This deck powers up green creatures by just dropping it's hand like last Standard season's Elfball decks, which attempted to beat the metagame in pretty much the same way -- by outward assault.

While the deck loses Regal Force to draw and no longer has Burrenton Forge-Tender to protect against red sweepers, it gains sweeper protection from Oran-Reef and a second Garruk in the form of Nissa, which can chain out a near endless stream of 2/3s, and a Eldrazi Monument to just straight up win.

Also, unlike last season, nearly the entire deck is out of Pyroclasm/Fallout range except for the delicate Llanowar-Noble mana start.

The deck seems initially weak to Baneslayer Angel, having absolutely no way to defeat it except for a straight rush, and weak to Pithing Needle shutting down it's main Nissa engine.

For the meantime, though, it beats Jund and most other decks quite quickly, and is too fast for most control to handle.  This deck will probably necessitate Needles to defeat, which will end up with this deck getting some Needle destruction like possibly sideboard Naturalize, more Acidic Slimes or even red for Vithian Renegades.

Should be fun to play on Workstation until the meta adapts to solve it.