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Glare of Subdual might not be quite Opposition, but with Selesnya Guildmage and Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree, it comes close enough for most creature decks.

GhaziGlare is not the fastest beatdown deck, but given mana, Glare can produce an offense capable of winning in two to three turns once its game is set. The usual duo of Scryb Ranger and Spectral Force is also present. It is not the best control deck, but the key tools can buy the time necessarily to keep the opponent out of his trump zone.

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Spoiler: Show Solar Flare first became popular on Magic Online, until Paul Cheon won US Nationals with it (July 2006). On first sight, you might want to classify this deck as an average blue control deck, but it’s not. It doesn’t even play any countermagic besides the Remands! Solar Flare is more of a “hybrid good stuff” deck that just brings the highest card quality to the table. It takes the concept of card advantage to a new level, since almost every single card in the deck provides card advantage of some kind, from Wrath of God to Persecute. The game plan of Solar Flare is to keep opposing threats off the board and then drop a big win condition as quickly as possible. It can accelerate into a turn 4-5 Angel of Despair via Signets or by using the degenerate Compulsive Research plus Body Double draw. The sideboard has cards that allow you to tune the flavor of the deck to your liking: you have some anti-creature cards against aggro decks and some discard/uncounterable spells that can come in to tweak the numbers against opposing control strategies or combo decks, just as the situation calls for.

Solar Flare is pretty good against Dragonstorm (because of Persecute) and against slow mid-range decks, because of the card advantage and awesome late game Angel of Despairs. It is fairly weak against very fast beatdown decks like Zoo and Gruul; Solar Flare is too slow to handle that.

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Decklist:Spoiler: Show The essense of a Boros deck is approximately 1/3rd creatures, 1/3rd lands, and 1/3rd burn spells, give or take a few. People will always turn up with red decks and try and burn you out. The deck is highly aggressive and consistent, starting with a 2-power creature on turn one, then another 2-power creature on turn two, and more more guys on turn three. Then the Boros player tries to keep the initiative and attacks his opponent down to a low life total with the white creatures, clearing the path with burn spells. After the opponent is down to ten life or less this deck will just throw some burn spells in the face to end it once and for all. It is also the simplest deck; even if you play badly, you can still win with a good draw. Slow decks that take time to take control will usually die to all the highly efficient burn spells. The strength of this deck is its consistency and straight forward game plan: quick creatures and burn. The weakness of this deck is that life gain is hard to beat. It won’t beat a deck with Faith’s Fetters and/or Lightning Helix.

The unique elements of the above version version are the new Planar Chaos creatures Calciderm and Stonecloaker. They are high-end, but give the deck some late game staying power. Stonecloaker saves one of your guys in response to a removal spell, and at the same time may remove a Mystical Teachings from the game. Calciderm is just as good as Blastoderm has always been; 5/5 untargetable for 4 mana poses a lot of problems for many decks.

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The goal is to assemble the Urzatron: one Urza’s Tower, one Urza’s Mine and one Urza’s Power Plant. Compulsive Research, Remand, Repeal, and Electrolyze draw cards so that you get closer to all the Tron pieces. Once the Tron is in place, you can use all that colorless mana by playing Bogardan Hellkite or a huge Demonfire. An interesting part of this new version is maindeck Sulfur Elemental. Apart from killing Savannah Lions, it's also decent against control decks as an uncounterable threat due to the split second.

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Blue-white control decks have been around for a long time, and this is no different. You have countermagic and card drawing in blue, and Wrath of God and Condemn in white to deal with creatures that managed to slip under the countermagic. The main kill condition of the deck is Sacred Mesa. Reinstorm (Dan Rein, who played the above list), would like to give credit to lunar4lyfe (Chen Li) for his help.