My version is still under construction, I was basically showing everyone what other people are playing so they would have a good idea about what to expect. I will be working on the deck though, and I do like your suggestions.

Always love to see an article on Naya Hexproof. It’s so good in the current format. I’ve been on it for awhile. Couple of changes I think would improve the current list.

Land: Adding the Sacred Foundry back, and cutting from Scrylands instead to fit in the Mana confluence. It’s critcal to drop your creatures early, and sometimes having to wait that extra turn on the Scry leaves you dead. Also, with the addition of Bassara Tower Archer, digging with Scry’s isn’t as important as it was. As you were generally spending that time digging for creatures.

Creatures/Spells: Eidolon of Countless Battles is a cut here. While, it’s great in theroy when you’re thinking auras, it’s a win more card. I would opt for instead 2 Ajani, Caller of the Pride and 1 Gift of Orzhova. Both cards can out right win the game, even when you’re behind.

Sideboard: I feel like Ajani is too high on the curve. I think better results would come from replacing them wiht two copies of Gift of Orzhova. Also, I would cut the Mistcutter’s in favor of Ajani’s Presence. Being able to survive a verdict outside of Boros Charm is really important with Esper still having a heavy presence. Also, it’s much better than it’s predocessor, Mending Touch, because the +1/+1. So it’s never a dead card.

Thoughts on those changes?

Keep in mind that the Monsters archetype is unplayble in most Standard formats. I guess it’s relatively similar to previous Jund, but nowhere near the same power level.

I think I’m in the hedge and get in on both plan myself. Maybe I’ll discuss this topic as part of my next article.

Depends on what we get for lands in M15 and the fall set.

I feel like mono-U Devotion will be dead come the fall and mono-B builds will shift more to aggro, though neither of those decks is running more than 1 Nykthos right now anyways (black has cut it completely). If it’s still going to be a thing, I think some sort of monsters brew will be best poised to take advantage of it with Sylvan Caraytid and the other green mana dorks.

As Standard rotates later this year, do you think all decks will resort to leaning heavily on Temples for their mana fixing? I have to imagine this will be the case, though I suppose an alternative could be a massive resurgence of mono-colored decks jamming Nykthos and Devotion-based strategies. Which do you think is more likely? How can I carefully hedge against both? Perhaps buying more Temples AND buying some Nykthos?