This Broken Standard Deck Feels Like Wilderness Rec

We are a couple weeks into the new Standard environment with Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, and we’ve seen some very fun and powerful decks come up in the format. While things are still developing, there’s one deck that has come up and is so strong, it feels like the old Wilderness Reclamation Wilderness Reclamation At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control. decks.

Izzet Turns

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This deck is Izzet Turns. This deck’s aim is to take all the turns, akin to the old Wilderness Reclamation decks, featuring Nexus of Fate Nexus of Fate Take an extra turn after this one.
If Nexus of Fate would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Nexus of Fate and shuffle it into its owner's library instead. . How to we accomplish this? The deck plays a hard control deck, utilizing a bunch of counter magic and removal to maintain control of the game. Let’s take a look at some of the key spells for this deck.

Counter Magic

Jwari Disruption — *Wizards of the Coast*

The deck sports a variety of counter spells to help keep the game clean of any threatening spells. Divide by Zero Divide by Zero Return target spell or permanent with mana value 1 or greater to its owner's hand.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.) makes an appearance here as a way to deal with uncounterable threats like Toski, Bearer of Secrets Toski, Bearer of Secrets This spell can't be countered.
Indestructible
Toski attacks each combat if able.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. , and can dig up a couple great Lessons in Mascot Exhibition Mascot Exhibition Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying, a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token, and a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. and Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life. .

Removal Spells

Cathartic-Pyre-MID — *Wizards of the Coast*

Our removal suite comes in the form of Cathartic Pyre Cathartic Pyre Choose one —
• Cathartic Pyre deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
• Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards. , which does 3 damage but can also help us rummage through our deck for more spells, Cinderclasm Cinderclasm Kicker {R} (You may pay an additional {R} as you cast this spell.)
Cinderclasm deals 1 damage to each creature. If it was kicked, it deals 2 damage to each creature instead. to deal with wider boards, and Battle of Frost and Fire Battle of Frost and Fire (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga deals 4 damage to each non-Giant creature and each planeswalker.
II — Scry 3.
III — Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater this turn, draw two cards, then discard a card. as a more midrange boardwipe. Battle can also help set up our draws for future turns.

Draw Spells

stx-186-expressive-iteration — *Wizards of the Coast*

Memory-Deluge-MID — *Wizards of the Coast*

Our two main draw engines are Expressive Iteration Expressive Iteration Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn. and Memory Deluge Memory Deluge Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast this spell. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) . These two powerful spells dig incredibly deep into our deck to find answers to specific situations. Having access to Memory Deluge not only once, but twice, makes the deck feel like it never runs out of gas.

How Do We Win?

storm-hall-giants-rulebook — Wizards of the Coast

galvanic-iteration-borderless — Wizards of the Coast

Our primary win conditions are Hall of Storm Giants Hall of Storm Giants If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{5}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 7/7 blue Giant creature with ward {3}. It's still a land. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.) and a combination of Galvanic Iteration Galvanic Iteration When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Flashback {1}{U}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) and Alrund’s Epiphany Alrund’s Epiphany Create two 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Alrund's Epiphany.
Foretell {4}{U}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.) . Galvanic Iteration and Epiphany nets us 2 turns and 4 tokens. On our first extra turn, we get to attack with the birds, as well as Hall of the Storm Giants if we can win the game on our 2nd. If not, we can dig to find another Epiphany to get 2 more turns, and close out the game.

This deck feels incredible to play. While the game plan seems straight forward, there’s a lot of ways to get there and decisions to be made. Playing against this deck almost feels impossible if you’re not prepared to deal with it. Non-blue decks have gone as far as dedicating a sideboard slot or two to tech Test of Talents Test of Talents Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way. . Sounds crazy right? Well, many have tested “fair” strategies against this deck and all have failed, so drastic measures had to be taken.

Give this one a try and let us know what you think in the comments!