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Absolut unit. Edit courtesy of my boyfriend.

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E assim encerra o day2 do #mythicchampionshipII em Londres com #titanshift em primeiro lugar no suíço!!! #mtgtop8 #mtgtravel #mtgmodern #wotc #mtg 🎉🎉🎉 #magicthegathering @wizards_magic https://www.instagram.com/p/BwxaCFAF7B7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4df9o1kfex2h

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SfW #3: State of Standard(Pre-Dominaria)

Welcome back to Screams from Within! Are you tired of Dominaria yet? Well, I hope so because this isn’t another Dominaria article. It’s about Standard.

(I’ll be using stats from GP Seattle 2018.)

GP Seattle was a HUGE event, and it held a big ‘first’ for Magic. The top spot of the entire Standard event was Red Deck Wins(RDW) piloted by Gan Yan. The fact that he was piloting RDW isn’t the point here, though. Gan Yan is now the first player in history to go UNDEFEATED at a Grand Prix.

Gan Yan’s Mono-Red Equivalent to a Bat with Barbed Wire

Find out more about the deck, its probabilities, and other stuff HERE

Coming in second is a new version of the God-Pharaoh's Gift deck, UR Gift.

Grayson Robert’s UR Gift, aka. The Most Interesting Deck from GP Seattle

Find out more about the deck, its probabilities, and other stuff HERE

Finally, in third came a BR Aggro deck.

Gerry Thompson’s BR Aggro: It’s not Red Deck Wins, but it did get 3rd Place

Find out more about the deck, its probabilities, and other stuff HERE

Now, you may assume from these results that RDW is an oppressive deck in the format. However, Standard is actually way better than it was before. Today, RDW is about 10% of the meta(according to mtgtop8). Now, let’s go back to March 2017, and GP Barcelona.

A whopping HALF of decks were CopyCat/Mardu Aggro. This is, in my opinion, the worst period in Standard since Caw-Blade. RDW now is not even close to that dominant. Keep in mind that this is all before Dominaria. I don’t know how it’s going to change the format, but all I know is that it can’t possibly be that bad, can it? 

Right?

The End

Well, that’s all I have for today, but I do have a Modern article coming soon for me to talk about, and it’s gonna be great because Modern is my favorite format. Thanks for reading SfW, and see you next time!

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What a nerds Christmas wish list looks like.. haha these play sets are so expensive ahh I just wanna build a tier 1 deck.

1 Blinkmoth Nexus, Modern Masters 2015 Edition 4 Etched Champion, Modern Masters 2015 Edition 4 Inkmoth Nexus, Mirrodin Besieged 3 Mox Opal, Modern Masters 2015 Edition 4 Arcbound Ravager, Modern Masters 4 Glimmervoid, Modern Masters 4 Master of Etherium, Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret