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Jun 7, 2019
nah dude, it's just not solved yet. I hate the current standard, too many planeswalkers. It's not fun.
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Mono Red saw very few iterations since the printing of Light Up the Stage, people are playing around with the number of Experimental Frenzy, Chandra and Risk Factor, but all in all, it has been the same deck for the past two sets. Esper however, went through lots of tuning and evolving. In fact, not too long ago, Esper referred to Esper Control. At some point it referred to Esper Superfriends, the Elderspell deck, but now it seems to be clearly the Hero of the Precinct One deck. All of these versions are valid to play depending on the metagame you expect, what’s good about it is that they are all great against Mono Red. Which is why those two archetypes have been at the top since day 1. Everything Else You could argue that someone playing strictly Mono Red and Esper could get away with it all season long and you would not be wrong. These two have been part of the metagame the whole time for good reasons, they are amazing. They are beatable though, let’s look all the decks that are serious contenders because they have game against at least one of the two. Immortal Gruul by Eric Froehlich 2 Domri, Anarch of Bolas 4 Llanowar Elves 4 Growth-Chamber Guardian 4 Paradise Druid 4 Gruul Spellbreaker 4 Legion Warboss 4 Rekindling Phoenix 4 Skarrgan Hellkite 2 Shock 3 Lightning Strike 2 The Immortal Sun 8 Forest 7 Mountain 4 Stomping Ground 4 Rootbound Crag 1 The Immortal Sun 1 Mountain 3 Lava Coil 2 Vivien Reid 2 Chandra, Fire Artisan 2 Sarkhan the Masterless 1 Sorcerous Spyglass 3 Thrashing Brontodon There are more Gruul variations than I can count, but the most recent and successful one seems to be this one that plays The Immortal Sun. This expensive artifact has been popping back in Standard thanks to all the Superfriend decks and Command the Dreadhorde decks. Twitter user ‘’yoman5’’ popularize the above version and if you want to read a bit of what he has to say, even his latest list, check his tweet! https://twitter.com/yoman_5/status/1136505794135019525?fbclid=IwAR33fKQEl6YFMZUmJc8RAPV8g-b1Sg_scZClEY9_ELEESL3vfVh9v5F-K18 The other versions go deep on the Planeswalkers … Just like everyone else. 4c Dreadhorde by Jim Davis 4 Merfolk Branchwalker 3 Paradise Druid 4 Wildgrowth Walker 4 Jadelight Ranger 1 Massacre Girl 1 Trostani Discordant 4 Teferi, Time Raveler 2 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord 4 Tamiyo, Collector of Tales 2 Vraska, Golgari Queen 1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria 4 Command the Dreadhorde 2 Breeding Pool 1 Forest 1 Godless Shrine 3 Hinterland Harbor 4 Interplanar Beacon 2 Isolated Chapel 4 Overgrown Tomb 3 Temple Garden 2 Watery Grave 4 Woodland Cemetery 1 Swamp 4 Duress 2 Cast Down 2 Kraul Harpooner 1 The Elderspell 1 Narset, Parter of Veils 2 Thrashing Brontodon 1 Unmoored Ego 1 Massacre Girl Every now and then we get a spicy brew that clings around. 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The late game decks in the format can’t keep up with Nissa followed up by Krasis and Mass Manipulation. The latest technology to fight Mono Red has been Ripjaw Raptor and it’s quite a good one. Back up with some Thrashing Brontodon, I believe it’s very doable to beat them even if it’s your worst matchup. With the knowledge that I have, if I was a player this weekend at the Arena Super Cup Invitational, I would register something similar. Many More I have not even went through half the existing decks you’ll face on the Arena ladder. Grixis Midrange, Sultai Dreadhorde, Golgari Land Destruction, Simic Nexus, Jeskai Control, Selesnya Tokens, Mono Blue Tempo, Boros Heroic, Dimir Control … The sky’s the limit in this beautiful Standard format. It keeps on giving every week and I love it. Truly a brewer’s paradise.