Standard Gauntlet
Standard forum
Posted on Aug. 24, 2015, 6:21 p.m. by Wabbbit
Just finished making a standard gauntlet for people to playtest their builds against on the site. I will most likely be using it a lot myself. Decklists are all from MTGGoldfish.
Abzan Control (Gauntlet #1) Playtest
Standard
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 6 VIEWS
Hangarback Abzan (Gauntlet #2) Playtest
Standard
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 8 VIEWS
R/G Devotion (Gauntlet #3) Playtest
Standard
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 5 VIEWS
Mono-Red (Gauntlet #4) Playtest
Standard
SCORE: 0 | 2 COMMENTS | 14 VIEWS
U/R Ensoul Artifact (Gauntlet #5) Playtest
Standard
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 3 VIEWS
Jacekai (Gauntlet #6) Playtest
Standard
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 2 VIEWS
Esper Dragons (Gauntlet #7) Playtest
Standard
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 3 VIEWS
W/U Control (Gauntlet #8) Playtest
Standard
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 2 VIEWS
Yeah no problem! Decklists were chosen based on highest percentage of the meta. So these are the top eight most played in standard right now. I will be updating it regularly as decks rotate in and out of the top eight most popular.
August 24, 2015 8 p.m.
Rasta_Viking29 says... #6
Nice work bud. I would add G/R Dragons and B/R Dragons to this list. Both are rising in play since Stormbreath Dragon is well positioned in the meta right. Making sure your prepared to face those two decks will help you get ahead of the ball in Standard.
August 24, 2015 8:26 p.m.
Here's the thing about standard, there are 16 or more reasonable decks you could expect to face at any given tournament. It's part of the reason control has struggled so much, it's hard to have answers to everything. This is a great resource and I thank you for taking the time to put this together, but you could test against all these decks for hours and only end up playing against 1-2 of them in a tournament. G/R dragons, B/R dragons, U/W heroic, Bant heroic, U/R Mill, Abzan Constellation, Abzan Rally, G/W Constellation, G/W meganorph are all totally reasonable decks for any tournament in addition to the 7-8 decks you have already shown.
August 24, 2015 9:41 p.m.
@tooTimid: You are dead on sir, and the point you bring up is exaclty what makes standard so interesting right now, the diversity of the metagame. It is true that you may not face ANY of these builds at your local FNM, but it gives you a good starting point to test your brews against the highest tier of decks. I could very easily add another eight or ten decks to this gauntlet, but I hope to update this gauntlet as standard continues to change, and not every standard metagame will have this level of diversity.
August 24, 2015 10:28 p.m.
When as deck pushes another out of the top eight percentage of the meta (as calculated on MTGGoldfish) I will add them.
August 24, 2015 10:28 p.m.
UpperDeckerTaco says... #10
HoW do you suggest going about playtesting against these if you do not have all of these cards to build the decks, nor have the capabilities to create proxies, in order to playtest against?
August 25, 2015 2:24 a.m.
Rasta_Viking29 says... #11
Open two tabs in you browser and use the playtester? I used to do it with our old testing gauntlet all the time.
August 25, 2015 8:57 a.m.
Opening to tabs in your browser and using the playtester is the easiest way, as the point of this was so that you guys wouldn't have to do it yourself. You could always add the lists into cockatrice or some other program like that. But Rasta_Viking29s way is the easiest.
August 25, 2015 11:58 a.m.
Cockatrice is what I would recommend if you have the option, but as they said, 2 tabs works just fine.
ducttapedeckbox says... #2
I will definitely be using this.
August 24, 2015 7:11 p.m.