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The best Standard was the one where I could play Sublime Archangel and turn a mega buffed Fiendslayer Paladin sideways
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sit on my Facebook posted:I often see people look back fondly on RTR/Theros and I'm just baffled. Pack Rat is the worst play pattern of all time The amount of playable/fun decks during that standard was miles ahead of now. mono black didn't even end up being the best deck.
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Dec 5, 2021 08:27
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The best standard was RAV/TSP and nothing else has come close since. It had more deck archetypes than you could shake a stick at and all of them were fun and good. Project X, Dragonstorm, Angelfire, Proc Martyr, Scryb Force, Gruul aggro, Boros aggro, Mesa control, Pickles, Dralnu du Louvre, Teachings, there was even a decent Battle of Wits deck.
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Dec 5, 2021 08:39
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Untapped.gg says differently for there being only 2 s-tier decks right now. Maybe that's all that gets played in tournaments but there's a handful of different archetypes atm.
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Dec 5, 2021 09:36
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Opinionated posted:Untapped.gg says differently for there being only 2 s-tier decks right now. Maybe that's all that gets played in tournaments but there's a handful of different archetypes atm. you're right it's more like one s-tier deck
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sit on my Facebook posted:I often see people look back fondly on RTR/Theros and I'm just baffled. Pack Rat is the worst play pattern of all time There are two reasons I look back fondly on RTR/Theros Standard, because I am a monster: 1) the SCG Open where I mulled to four, kept two swamps, Thoughtseize and Pack Rat, won the game, and my opponent was so salty he conceded the match and dropped. 2) the end of that Standard, where everyone was sick of both Pack Rat and Sphinx's Revelation, so, with mono-Black already splashing blue for sideboard Negates, I splashed white as well so I could play maindeck Sphinx's Rev.
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disaster pastor posted:There are two reasons I look back fondly on RTR/Theros Standard, because I am a monster: Cloudfin Raptor is bae.
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Dec 5, 2021 16:38
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Standard has always been bad and/or good.
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Dec 5, 2021 16:50
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TotalHell posted:Standard has always been bad and/or good. This tbqh
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Dec 5, 2021 17:11
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They should do a flashback RTR-theros standard constructed queue in mtgo or arena so we can put this discussion to rest
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Dec 5, 2021 17:12
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To be clear, RTR/THS standard was better than any standard since WAR. It was just much worse than historic, modern, legacy, draft, judge stack etc. is now
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Dec 5, 2021 18:02
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I top 8d Store champs with UW which is still very good even though my play was very medium.
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mcmagic posted:I top 8d Store champs with UW which is still very good even though my play was very medium. Nice! Post the list 
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Dec 5, 2021 20:31
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I wasn't there, but turns out that mono-r Obosh took down my store championship.
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Dec 5, 2021 20:33
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I got top 4 with Esper Reanimator at Store Champs. Deck rules. There were only 11 people 
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Dec 5, 2021 21:26
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My LGS is doing VOW sealed for their championship. Pray I open some bombs. Really want at least the promo CoCo. 28 signups out of 32 so far and 3 hours to go. Another LGS near me has MH2 draft as their championship.
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Dec 5, 2021 21:45
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Oof, the Golgari Food deck in Championships is miserable to watch when it gets going, it’s almost Eggs-level masturbatory (and I used to play Eggs in Modern)
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Dec 5, 2021 23:09
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I've been playing Golgari Food a bit and it's nowhere near that bad tbh
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Dec 5, 2021 23:25
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It's definitely one of the slowest decks to play against, from my limited experience against it. edit: Haha I see what he's talking about now on the twitch.tv/magic stream. Food mirror match... real nailbiter. It seems like golgari food is real popular in Japan. 
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Dec 5, 2021 23:33
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ALLAN LASSUS posted:Oof, the Golgari Food deck in Championships is miserable to watch when it gets going, it’s almost Eggs-level masturbatory (and I used to play Eggs in Modern) i feel like it should be illegal to call a deck masturbatory that doesn't run at least 1 twiddle or twiddle-type effect if you're not twiddling yourself is it really diddling
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Dec 5, 2021 23:34
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Arivia posted:i feel like it should be illegal to call a deck masturbatory that doesn't run at least 1 twiddle or twiddle-type effect Oh like your mom never caught you saccing the cat
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Dec 5, 2021 23:49
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Flashbacks of GW mirrors in Theros/Tarkir standard.
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Dec 5, 2021 23:52
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HootTheOwl posted:Oh like your mom never caught you saccing the cat Only Shane Dawson's mom.
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Dec 6, 2021 00:25
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Took 1st at standard with Dimir Zombies  Beat Grixis Turns, Mono W, and Abzan Lifegain. Necroduality is a good card.
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Dec 6, 2021 00:32
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Anyone want to do a quick eyeball grading on these for me? Gonna put them on tcgplayer in the new year.
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I feel sorry for the Japanese dudes who’ve been up all night playing these horrendous Food mirrors, it’s like 8.30 am in Japan now
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Dec 6, 2021 00:38
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Sudden intrusive thought about splashing white in merfolk literally just for prismatic ending
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TBH, Historic seems in a horrible state if these are the top decks.
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The Shortest Path posted:The best standard was RAV/TSP and nothing else has come close since. It had more deck archetypes than you could shake a stick at and all of them were fun and good. Project X, Dragonstorm, Angelfire, Proc Martyr, Scryb Force, Gruul aggro, Boros aggro, Mesa control, Pickles, Dralnu du Louvre, Teachings, there was even a decent Battle of Wits deck. Also Solar Flare. Also Zoo. Also random Haterade type decks. Also RDW. There's probably more I'm forgetting. Honestly, though, the biggest difference now is the sheer number of games played and data crunching that goes into the Standard meta now, and the immediacy of getting that information. Used to be the meta might move week to week based on SCG blogs, and everyone would wait for what the best players in the world were doing, and work off whatever the best available information was from pro playtest team leaks. Now you can watch the best players in the world stream whatever they're working on from your phone on the morning commute. And the Bo1 queue has a huge influence on the perception of what a good or popular deck is. Some days all I see is Mono W. Some days it's just a stream of random whatever. Yesterday I saw a bunch of RG Werewolves. Does that make it popular or good? No, it's just what people are playing and what I got matched up against. I really like the format right now, because it feels like there's a lot of possibility, even if The Top Decks seem pretty boring (even though the S and A tier decks are actually pretty diverse.) If you don't like it, find or build one of the "bad" decks and fart around in unranked for a while, and just flip some cards. There's nothing except maybe Alrund's that's so obnoxious that it needs to be out-and-out banned, and we're still on the small side of the Standard card pool. It's all fine. Plus they could just unban Omnath if they really wanted to change up Standard.
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Ban epiphany, chariot and aspirant and see what shakes out
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Silhouette posted:Ban epiphany, chariot and aspirant and see what shakes out We heard you we see you, have some rebalancing
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Sudden intrusive thought about splashing white in merfolk literally just for prismatic ending If you only splash one color it cant hit lurrus so clearly you need to splash red too for bolt
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Sudden intrusive thought about splashing white in merfolk literally just for prismatic ending I do this in RB Zombardment because I literally cannot beat Sanctifier in the colors provided, if you just need a generic answer for stuff you (merfolk) have force and subtlety both of which are free.
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mandatory lesbian posted:If you only splash one color it cant hit lurrus so clearly you need to splash red too for bolt I have waterlogged grove in the deck for card draw already so there’s three colors available already…
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HootTheOwl posted:I do this in RB Zombardment because I literally cannot beat Sanctifier in the colors provided, if you just need a generic answer for stuff you (merfolk) have force and subtlety both of which are free. I run 4x subtlety already, force is a bit rich for my blood so someone should give me 4 copies for free
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I have waterlogged grove in the deck for card draw already so there’s three colors available already… ah, well now you can splash red to hit karn!
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mandatory lesbian posted:ah, well now you can splash red to hit karn! Hell, might as well splash black to hit Yorion while I’m at it
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Somberbrero posted:Took 1st at standard with Dimir Zombies Nice congrats! Would be interested to see your list, zombies are definitely the best tribal right now in standard. I made a few small modifications to someone's deck, but haven't spent the wildcards to make Necroduality yet didn't manage to pull a single one on arena. It seems like a really nice effect and curve topper for an aggro deck https://aetherhub.com/Deck/dimir-necroduality
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Opinionated posted:Nice congrats! Would be interested to see your list, zombies are definitely the best tribal right now in standard. Doubling your cards and mana is a good effect, I hear
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I run 4x subtlety already, force is a bit rich for my blood so someone should give me 4 copies for free ...but then what are you hopping to hit with a Ending? And can you instead hit it with a Hurkyl's Recall?
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