whats good?
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Posted on April 13, 2014, 3:13 p.m. by instantice
what is the best decks in standard top 5?maybe some links to them to
Yep that's pretty much it. It might be missing Gruul monsters and white weenie, and depending on wether or not you think its real, mono black aggro.
April 13, 2014 3:35 p.m.
I think it's like this:
- Esper Control
- Black Devotion (splash white or red)
- Jund Monsters
- Blue Devotion (splash white)
- Boros Burn
Other playable decks include; Bant Superfriends, Golgari Dredge, Orzhov Humans, Naya Hexproof, Junk Goodstuff, Junk Reanimator, Selesnya bears and Rakdos Aggro.
April 13, 2014 3:58 p.m.
Those are basically all of the decks worth playing at this point, but I feel the actual numbers may be different. Of course, it all depends on where you play.
The top 6 decks (in no particular order) are likely Esper Control, Mono-Black, Black/White Midrange, Red/White Burn, Green/Red (or Jund) Monsters, and Mono-Blue.
Everything else is fringe playable or inferior to one of the ones I listed.
April 13, 2014 4:05 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #6
Now, this isn't to say that you need to play any of these decks to win a tournament, but it is likely because these are the decks that have put up results previously. Right now on the SCGOpen circuit, we are starting to see a resurgence of aggro based decks, like mono black, mono green, naya, RDW, and GW. Basically it's all just a meta call right now as to what you should play.
Personally, I would be playing a bigger than average aggro deck because of the amount of Esper control, and I'd be playing something with a very tight curve that you can rely on because of mono black's disruption abilities.
If you want to play something that isn't top 8 or whatever, you can, and you can do well, but if you're looking for a fair chance at doing well and you just want to auto-pilot your way through the tourny, go with a top deck.
April 13, 2014 5:07 p.m.
It's wise to be cautious when referring to playing a net-deck as "going on auto-pilot". You still need a be a good player to win a tournament.
Really, the only auto-piloting deals with building the deck.
April 13, 2014 5:09 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #8
The auto-piloting remark was meant more to reference the fact that there will be no variance in your tournament. All of your matches are going to be the same in that everyone knows how to sideboard for you, and you know what to do for them (Unless they're on something else, of course), and each particular match up follows, for the most part, the same basic stages of gameplay. Mono black mirrors - hand disruption, then who has a better top deck. Mono Blue v green red - out aggro them early, or play the control game and hope that they don't top deck something awesome.
I mean, you are right in that it still takes a good player to pilot these decks to success, but it's not the most amount of fun that a person can have when all of the matches are predictable to some degree. If that's your thing though, there's nothing stopping you from playing a proven deck.
April 13, 2014 5:16 p.m.
InconspicuousPotato says... #9
I'd say in order:
U/W/x control (this includes esper and 'murican)
Mono-Black Control (includes devotion and various splashes)
Blue Devotion (includes splashes)
R/G Monsters (includes splashes)
Either Boros Burn or Mono-Black Aggro
Pretty much any coherent deck.
April 13, 2014 5:34 p.m.
'murica is worse than Esper. It was only good against the U/W Elixir of Immortality deck, because of Counterflux
I'd even place Bant higher than UWR, unless Xathrid Necromancer and Voice of Resurgence go rampant.
April 13, 2014 5:38 p.m.
InconspicuousPotato says... #11
I just meant that the splashes included in that too. I forgot about bant.
April 13, 2014 5:39 p.m.
By the way, that's off topic, but shouldn't it be URW instead of UWR? Because the Wedges are one color in the middle of two enemy colors, like shards, just backwards. That means BUG is also wrong... Oh my god
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Hunter_mtg says... #2
http://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/standard not a perfect list but its good enough.
April 13, 2014 3:20 p.m.