Honestly, this standard is just a brewer's dream. Sure, there isn't an infinite amount of tier one decks, but that has never been the case and it will never be. But the fact that you can build so many competent and diverse decks feels so rewarding. I'm just glad I can express myself like this through a card game and play the game i love inside the game I love (if that makes sense). I've always loved chess, but it feels sorta repetitive for me. The fact that I can build a deck (which by itself already is amazing for me) and twick it to find it's best version, whilst allowing myself to play the patterns and possibilities I like the most out of such a vast card pool and different archetypes makes me feel so in love with the game compared with other strategy games I've played in the past. Sidenote: I know this is a channel that focus on the competitive side of the meta (which I love, I usually try to rank as high as possible without forcing myself to play decks I don't identify with), but I love the fact that you find space for new brews every week. Sidenote 2: just to say that I'm impressed with how many decks you consider tier 1 or 2 (10), with some others right on the verge of that. Plus, the fact that every tier 1 or 2 deck is constantly adapting little changes to address these meta variations shows how powerful this format is,in so many fronts. Again, love to see it. Loving standard right now. Good work guys! (also, suggestion of a series concept : analysing in detail a single deck in a longer video, comparing the different alternatives within that archetype, how to play it and sideboard it, its match-ups and discussing all of it with different players that have played it or played against it to hear how they play and build the deck or deal with it on the other side of the board)
I've often thought of MTG as poker + chess + puzzle + art. This beautiful blend of the best elements of all 4 while eschewing the pieces I dislike in each. I feel ya, it's been a ton of fun to play lately and the sub-game of being able to identify and pilot archetypes that respond to an intrinsic preference is lovely. - Riktus
Thanks for the comments. We used to do Sideboard guides for decks individually as videos but the amount of research and time put into them that it requires to put out good useful information is alot and there's only two of us. In the future we plan on returning to giving these sorts of insights when we find the resources and the team to help us with it. For now we have sideboard guides available to our members. Thanks for the idea. We'll keep in mind that there is a demand for this type of content.
golgari mage here! my big change has been to throw in rookie and massacre girl into the deck along with having a gix plan to gumming up the board with vigilant threats that, when attacking, become a damned if you do, damned if you don't plan for opposing blockers, and makes attacking back extremely difficult. im still on shelly but definitely keeping tabs on archfiend and possibly bloodletter as 4 drops to partner with massacre girl
Okay, so I've been jamming this Slogurk deck. It is super fun to play but almost impossible to pilot perfectly. So many decisions to be made with the channel lands. What a brew!
Interesting to see the Esper midrange list. I got bodied by something that must have been that earlier today while playing an Urza artifact control pile.
I played the squirming emergence deck and was extremely confused about a few cards untill I figured it out, you should probably mention this if it's gonna show up in the next meta video: Giving kami of whispered hopes the untap ability from the fairy with agatha's soul cauldron is an infinite combo. It's highly likely that this is the sole reason the fairy is in the deck, as it seems to never be the correct play to put it on the battlefield.
Honestly, unless we see it start taking down tournaments, it won't be in the meta we review, as we stick to the results from each weekend. That said, appreciate ya laying it out.
I’d love to see a sideboard guide for you Boris convoke deck. I’m new to standard coming from commander and sideboarding in and out is what I am struggle most with. Awesome video though I appreciate the content.
We actually have sideboarding notes for Boros Convoke in the communal SB guide doc that I maintain. Just gotta join our membership tier "coffee and grinders" here on UA-cam and then hit me up on discord and I'll ship the link! - Riktus
whens the next video out lads? im waiting to drop my wild cards lol! ... on a serious note, thanks so much for putting these together, I look forward to each and every ep.
Something i havent seen people mess with is the cryptic coat and danitha benalias hope.... typically you cant equip your existing creatures with the coat but lets say youve discarded the coat or it was removed then turn 5 danitha comes down and grabs the coat making it a 5/4 unbloackable first strike vigilance lifelink and its important to note that you dont have to have thencoat in your graveyard it can be in your hand for it to etb with danitha.... Danitha is also amazing with reality chip ❤
Thanks for the shout out! Great content as always. Appreciate it fellas. Rakdos Robber is another super fun one. Needs some fine tuning in sideboard. But has a lot of potential. 3 Chandra, Hope's Beacon 4 Decadent Dragon 4 March of Wretched Sorrow 4 Outrageous Robbery 2 Go for the Throat 2 Virtue of Persistence 4 Big Score 2 Mirrex 2 Path of Peril 2 Brotherhood's End 4 Deadly Cover-Up 2 The Celestus 3 Mountain 3 Swamp 4 Blackcleave Cliffs 4 Haunted Ridge 3 Restless Vents 4 Sulfurous Springs 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance 2 Bitter Triumph Sideboard 2 End the festivities 2 Brotherhood's End 2 Cease // Desist 3 Duress 3 Liliana of the Veil 3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Haha let me know how it goes! And any changes you come up with. I posted a video of gameplay on my channel. Went 4-1 in Mythic. I think it's very solid in Bo1 because you have access to a ton of lifegain with March of Wretched Sorrow and double casting it with Chandra, and plenty of removal and wipes. One of your win cons is actually decking your opponent out with Outrageous Robbery due to how much mana you can get with Big Score and doublecasting. In Bo3 I havent figured out the right sideboard yet but I like the idea of "Cease // Desist" for graveyard hate. At worst it's remove two cards, gain 2 life, and draw a card. With Chandra out it's remove 4 cards from a graveyard, gain 4 life, and draw 2 cards for 2 mana lol. @@TheMTGRebellion
Standard does feel pretty chaotic right now. Reanimator, Atraxa, Control, Boros, Mono-red, ect. are all doing powerful different things. On the midrange side - I’m not sure whether this is one of the best or worst times to be playing stuff like Esper. As you said getting sandwiched between good Aggro and hard control is rough while still maintaining the sideboard hate pieces for stuff like reanimator and mono-Red. On the other hand playing Aggro or control has those other side of the coin, horrible 20% max chance to win matchups. I feel like the best chance midrange has is being the targeted hand hate deck. Thoughtseize T1 has always been the saving grace of midrange in formats like Modern where the field is so vast you can’t hate on everything. The issue here is we don’t actually have Thoughtseize, instead we have Duress and Dreams of Steel and Oil which both have whiff chances, and also the best midrange color deck (Esper) frequently has issues playing an untapped land turn one.
I'm honestly getting pretty close to considering a build with 4x Dreams of Steel and Oil given the creature density in this format. Might be worthwhile to replicate the old Jund methodology and see how it plays. (Dreams into Bat into Gix is quite the snowball). If you find a solid build, feel free to post it for the Brewer's Corner! Discord is also always open
Wheres the UW Djinn deck? That deck still feels extremely powerful, it was 2 spots in the top 8 of my RCQ (including me) i chose not to play my top-8 match despite bein the 2 seed, as im not hunting the invite yet but the other guy got 2nd. Its also strong in testing online
From our data it achieved a handful of top 8 appearances but not as many as our tier 2 contenders. It was very close and remains a competitor. We're keeping an eye on it for future tier lists. -MAX
Hey what do y'all think - I have an RCQ this weekend, and will play Dimir midrange, I don't have the Cryptic Coats - are Jace's a reasonable substitute for anti control/domain in the sideboard?
Cryptic coat is actually better against midrange than domain. Unblockable clock that they struggle to interact with combined with Gix for card draw. Jace is a strong anti-domain package though. Worth a shot eh? - Riktus
Wonder if archfiend will like being paired with that hunted disguise creature cant thibknifnits namembut it gives your opponent 2 1/1 tokens that are easily killed with path to peril draining the opponent....
While I'd like to say yes, my experience in the past is that trying to mitigate a negative effect by structuring your deck to do so only works if the payoff is an instant win. In this case, the payoff would be fairly marginal. That said, if you test and find otherwise, I'll be quite curious.
@@TheMTGRebellion roaming throne shenanigans would be nice too bad archfiend and the dog maker don't share a type at all cause it would have been great lol
I'm guessing you haven't tried it in mono white humans yet? At first glance you're probably like why would it be any good there... Double Adeline triggers Copper coat vanguard ward for the team is doubled Lunarch vet life gain gets doubled Extraction specialist grabs 2 creatures from the yard with mana cost less than 2 Brutal cathar exiles 2.creatures Chaplain of alms has ward 2 while on it's front side and grants all your permanents ward 2 on it's backside Knight errant of eos can dig twice Spell book vendor gives out 2 role tokens I've had alot of success with throne in humans pre mkm be interested to see what kind of new toys the deck picked up from the recent set
Delney is interesting... I'm curious if while roaming throne is in play it would cause delney to add a second additional Trigger. Like we have lunarch vet in play delney and roaming throne then we cast a creature spell would we get 3 or 4 life gain triggers ? You'd have the original trigger on etb then delney grants an additional Trigger and throne grants an additional Trigger but since vet has power less than 2 delney would trigger an additional time bc of throne right? Granting that additional additional Trigger for vet netting is 4 life or cathar exiling an entire board 😆 I'll have to check out delney later
I love azorious control, I feel it is way more versatile than it has any right being. the version featured here, while I enjoyed watching it play in the finals, I feel leans too heavy on the draws and I honestly don't know why anyone would play a three mana counter spell given the two cost ones are so efficient and catchall. but hey opinions are like buttholes....
I don't think we'll see an Eos ban unless the top 8 of the pro tour is 50% Boros Convoke. Even then, it's gotta prove to be more than a flash-in-the-pan. Honestly, my guess is it sticks around as there are multiple methods to hold it in check (Doorkeeper Thrull woot!). - Riktus
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Honestly, this standard is just a brewer's dream. Sure, there isn't an infinite amount of tier one decks, but that has never been the case and it will never be. But the fact that you can build so many competent and diverse decks feels so rewarding. I'm just glad I can express myself like this through a card game and play the game i love inside the game I love (if that makes sense). I've always loved chess, but it feels sorta repetitive for me. The fact that I can build a deck (which by itself already is amazing for me) and twick it to find it's best version, whilst allowing myself to play the patterns and possibilities I like the most out of such a vast card pool and different archetypes makes me feel so in love with the game compared with other strategy games I've played in the past.
Sidenote: I know this is a channel that focus on the competitive side of the meta (which I love, I usually try to rank as high as possible without forcing myself to play decks I don't identify with), but I love the fact that you find space for new brews every week.
Sidenote 2: just to say that I'm impressed with how many decks you consider tier 1 or 2 (10), with some others right on the verge of that. Plus, the fact that every tier 1 or 2 deck is constantly adapting little changes to address these meta variations shows how powerful this format is,in so many fronts. Again, love to see it. Loving standard right now.
Good work guys!
(also, suggestion of a series concept : analysing in detail a single deck in a longer video, comparing the different alternatives within that archetype, how to play it and sideboard it, its match-ups and discussing all of it with different players that have played it or played against it to hear how they play and build the deck or deal with it on the other side of the board)
I've often thought of MTG as poker + chess + puzzle + art. This beautiful blend of the best elements of all 4 while eschewing the pieces I dislike in each.
I feel ya, it's been a ton of fun to play lately and the sub-game of being able to identify and pilot archetypes that respond to an intrinsic preference is lovely. - Riktus
Thanks for the comments. We used to do Sideboard guides for decks individually as videos but the amount of research and time put into them that it requires to put out good useful information is alot and there's only two of us. In the future we plan on returning to giving these sorts of insights when we find the resources and the team to help us with it. For now we have sideboard guides available to our members. Thanks for the idea. We'll keep in mind that there is a demand for this type of content.
golgari mage here! my big change has been to throw in rookie and massacre girl into the deck along with having a gix plan to gumming up the board with vigilant threats that, when attacking, become a damned if you do, damned if you don't plan for opposing blockers, and makes attacking back extremely difficult. im still on shelly but definitely keeping tabs on archfiend and possibly bloodletter as 4 drops to partner with massacre girl
Ship da list if you're of a mind. I'm quite intrigued! - Riktus
Okay, so I've been jamming this Slogurk deck. It is super fun to play but almost impossible to pilot perfectly. So many decisions to be made with the channel lands. What a brew!
The beauty of a complex decision tree is truly the double-edged sword you get to wield eh? I feel ya on that front. - Riktus
well done man congrats!!!
Thanks
Interesting to see the Esper midrange list. I got bodied by something that must have been that earlier today while playing an Urza artifact control pile.
Seems to be a fairly popular choice on the ladder these days. - Riktus
I played the squirming emergence deck and was extremely confused about a few cards untill I figured it out, you should probably mention this if it's gonna show up in the next meta video:
Giving kami of whispered hopes the untap ability from the fairy with agatha's soul cauldron is an infinite combo. It's highly likely that this is the sole reason the fairy is in the deck, as it seems to never be the correct play to put it on the battlefield.
Honestly, unless we see it start taking down tournaments, it won't be in the meta we review, as we stick to the results from each weekend.
That said, appreciate ya laying it out.
I’d love to see a sideboard guide for you Boris convoke deck. I’m new to standard coming from commander and sideboarding in and out is what I am struggle most with. Awesome video though I appreciate the content.
We actually have sideboarding notes for Boros Convoke in the communal SB guide doc that I maintain. Just gotta join our membership tier "coffee and grinders" here on UA-cam and then hit me up on discord and I'll ship the link! - Riktus
Congrats on the top RIktus!! Great vid as always
Appreciate ya
27:45 what does rowans grim search Bargain in Mono Black Control? i rlly dont get what it can target other than Celestus?
It has value even without the Bargain, but if you really want the added value there are tokens that you can create with Sorin and Ashiok as well. -MAX
Love the show as usual! some interesting new brews. The rakdos aggro from last week had me going 6-0 in bo3!
Glad the rak mid list helped! Appreciate ya!
whens the next video out lads? im waiting to drop my wild cards lol! ... on a serious note, thanks so much for putting these together, I look forward to each and every ep.
Had a scheduling conflict this past week, but we'll be filming the new one on Monday and releasing on Wednesday
@@TheMTGRebellion thanks appreciate it :>
Thanks as always for the great content and contribution for the community and special congratulations for your victory Ricktus !
Appreciate ya! Happy to help grow the competitive community
Something i havent seen people mess with is the cryptic coat and danitha benalias hope.... typically you cant equip your existing creatures with the coat but lets say youve discarded the coat or it was removed then turn 5 danitha comes down and grabs the coat making it a 5/4 unbloackable first strike vigilance lifelink and its important to note that you dont have to have thencoat in your graveyard it can be in your hand for it to etb with danitha.... Danitha is also amazing with reality chip ❤
Spicy, love it when people find the subtle interactions. Appreciate ya sharing with us
Thanks for the shout out! Great content as always. Appreciate it fellas. Rakdos Robber is another super fun one. Needs some fine tuning in sideboard. But has a lot of potential.
3 Chandra, Hope's Beacon
4 Decadent Dragon
4 March of Wretched Sorrow
4 Outrageous Robbery
2 Go for the Throat
2 Virtue of Persistence
4 Big Score
2 Mirrex
2 Path of Peril
2 Brotherhood's End
4 Deadly Cover-Up
2 The Celestus
3 Mountain
3 Swamp
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Haunted Ridge
3 Restless Vents
4 Sulfurous Springs
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
2 Bitter Triumph
Sideboard
2 End the festivities
2 Brotherhood's End
2 Cease // Desist
3 Duress
3 Liliana of the Veil
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Spicy new list yet again. Love to see it
Double-Casting Outrageous Robbery with Chandra out is bonkers. @@TheMTGRebellion
Well now I have to try it. That's too much fun to ignore.
Haha let me know how it goes! And any changes you come up with. I posted a video of gameplay on my channel. Went 4-1 in Mythic. I think it's very solid in Bo1 because you have access to a ton of lifegain with March of Wretched Sorrow and double casting it with Chandra, and plenty of removal and wipes. One of your win cons is actually decking your opponent out with Outrageous Robbery due to how much mana you can get with Big Score and doublecasting. In Bo3 I havent figured out the right sideboard yet but I like the idea of "Cease // Desist" for graveyard hate. At worst it's remove two cards, gain 2 life, and draw a card. With Chandra out it's remove 4 cards from a graveyard, gain 4 life, and draw 2 cards for 2 mana lol. @@TheMTGRebellion
Chandra has long felt like the strongest and most underutilized walked in standard to me. I'd love to push further into breaking this archetype.
i dont think im being contraversial here when say magic cards?
great vid guys!
Appreciate ya
That new combo decks was first on jim davis ten new brews
More power to him
Standard does feel pretty chaotic right now. Reanimator, Atraxa, Control, Boros, Mono-red, ect. are all doing powerful different things.
On the midrange side - I’m not sure whether this is one of the best or worst times to be playing stuff like Esper. As you said getting sandwiched between good Aggro and hard control is rough while still maintaining the sideboard hate pieces for stuff like reanimator and mono-Red. On the other hand playing Aggro or control has those other side of the coin, horrible 20% max chance to win matchups.
I feel like the best chance midrange has is being the targeted hand hate deck. Thoughtseize T1 has always been the saving grace of midrange in formats like Modern where the field is so vast you can’t hate on everything. The issue here is we don’t actually have Thoughtseize, instead we have Duress and Dreams of Steel and Oil which both have whiff chances, and also the best midrange color deck (Esper) frequently has issues playing an untapped land turn one.
I'm honestly getting pretty close to considering a build with 4x Dreams of Steel and Oil given the creature density in this format. Might be worthwhile to replicate the old Jund methodology and see how it plays. (Dreams into Bat into Gix is quite the snowball). If you find a solid build, feel free to post it for the Brewer's Corner! Discord is also always open
I took awhile but Thran portal starting to find a good home in some decks is surprising
The absence of enemy fast lands is where portal gets to shine from what I can tell. - Riktus
Top notch video as always! Thanks guys =)
Appreciate ya!
Wheres the UW Djinn deck? That deck still feels extremely powerful, it was 2 spots in the top 8 of my RCQ (including me) i chose not to play my top-8 match despite bein the 2 seed, as im not hunting the invite yet but the other guy got 2nd. Its also strong in testing online
From our data it achieved a handful of top 8 appearances but not as many as our tier 2 contenders. It was very close and remains a competitor. We're keeping an eye on it for future tier lists. -MAX
Glad to see you topping a tournament, riktus!
Ayyyyy, appreciate ya
When will you review this sets limited format?
Unlikely to occur given time constraints currently. Potentially we'll get back into this in the future, but for now it's been sidelined. - Riktus
Love the content, keep up the great work guys!
Appreciate ya!
Hey what do y'all think - I have an RCQ this weekend, and will play Dimir midrange, I don't have the Cryptic Coats - are Jace's a reasonable substitute for anti control/domain in the sideboard?
Cryptic coat is actually better against midrange than domain. Unblockable clock that they struggle to interact with combined with Gix for card draw.
Jace is a strong anti-domain package though. Worth a shot eh? - Riktus
where do i find the rcq the mono red deck came from ?
Mtg top 8 is the website we pull a majority of our tournament dats from currently. - Riktus
Great episode as always boys! Thanks 🙏 ❤
Appreciate ya
Wonder if archfiend will like being paired with that hunted disguise creature cant thibknifnits namembut it gives your opponent 2 1/1 tokens that are easily killed with path to peril draining the opponent....
While I'd like to say yes, my experience in the past is that trying to mitigate a negative effect by structuring your deck to do so only works if the payoff is an instant win. In this case, the payoff would be fairly marginal. That said, if you test and find otherwise, I'll be quite curious.
@@TheMTGRebellion roaming throne shenanigans would be nice too bad archfiend and the dog maker don't share a type at all cause it would have been great lol
True true. I keep wanting to make roaming throne a thing. If ya find a way to break that card hmu! - Riktus
I'm guessing you haven't tried it in mono white humans yet? At first glance you're probably like why would it be any good there...
Double Adeline triggers
Copper coat vanguard ward for the team is doubled
Lunarch vet life gain gets doubled
Extraction specialist grabs 2 creatures from the yard with mana cost less than 2
Brutal cathar exiles 2.creatures
Chaplain of alms has ward 2 while on it's front side and grants all your permanents ward 2 on it's backside
Knight errant of eos can dig twice
Spell book vendor gives out 2 role tokens
I've had alot of success with throne in humans pre mkm be interested to see what kind of new toys the deck picked up from the recent set
Delney is interesting... I'm curious if while roaming throne is in play it would cause delney to add a second additional Trigger.
Like we have lunarch vet in play delney and roaming throne then we cast a creature spell would we get 3 or 4 life gain triggers ? You'd have the original trigger on etb then delney grants an additional Trigger and throne grants an additional Trigger but since vet has power less than 2 delney would trigger an additional time bc of throne right? Granting that additional additional Trigger for vet netting is 4 life or cathar exiling an entire board 😆 I'll have to check out delney later
I love azorious control, I feel it is way more versatile than it has any right being. the version featured here, while I enjoyed watching it play in the finals, I feel leans too heavy on the draws and I honestly don't know why anyone would play a three mana counter spell given the two cost ones are so efficient and catchall. but hey opinions are like buttholes....
You only get one and you better keep it clean? ;) - Riktus
You think that Eos might get banned next month? What are your predictions on ban hammers?
If Domain survived untouched after all this time, there is no way Eos is looking at a ban.
I don't think we'll see an Eos ban unless the top 8 of the pro tour is 50% Boros Convoke. Even then, it's gotta prove to be more than a flash-in-the-pan. Honestly, my guess is it sticks around as there are multiple methods to hold it in check (Doorkeeper Thrull woot!). - Riktus
Can't ban the Queen (Atraxa), she be invadin'! - Riktus
@@TheMTGRebellion Yea, I am surprised that Thrull isn't in every sideboard. It shuts down boros Convoke easy
It's definitely a force and a half to reckon with. - Riktus
Week 3 where are youuuuuuu?
lol my eyes are peeled 😏
At noon, on the Wednesday next, look to the East. - Gandalf kind of ;)
Appreciate ya
The state is: aggro
I'd wager it's slightly more complex, but there are some excellent aggro decks lately. - Riktus