Table of Contents
- Bo1 Standard Metagame Tier List and Rankings
- Bo3 Standard Metagame Tier List and Rankings
- World Championship XXVII Best Decklists and Full Sideboard Guides
- Standard Azorius Tempo Deck Guide: The Secret Highest Win Rate Deck in Standard
- Standard Izzet Epiphany Deck Guide: Standard’s Tier 0 Deck
- Standard Grixis Epiphany Deck Guide: The Best Evolution of Turns
- Standard Dimir Rogues Deck Guide: Dismantle the Opposition
- Standard Orzhov Angels Deck Guide: The Creature Meta Killer
- Bo1 Standard Selesnya Humans Deck Guide: Secretly the Best Innistrad Tribe?
- Standard Simic Midrange Deck Guide: The Best Wrenn Deck is Here!
- Bo1 Standard Azorius Control Deck Guide: Classic Control is Back
- Standard Mono Green Stompy Deck Guide: Smash Into Mythic
- Standard Simic Ramp Guide: Ramp Your Way to Compleation
- Standard Sultai Ramp Deck Guide: The Biggest Deck in the Format
- Standard Mono White Aggro Deck Guide: The Best 2022 Deck Got Better!
- Top 8 Standings
- Bracket
- Top 8 Decklists
- Rakdos Midrange by Sapoa (1st Place) – Standard Challenge #12340215
- Mono Green Stompy by Karolmo (2nd Place) – Standard Challenge #12340215
- Mono Green Stompy by orantspro (3rd Place) – Standard Challenge #12340215
- Gruul Werewolves by Windy514 (4th Place) – Standard Challenge #12340215
- Gruul Werewolves by LukasDusek (5th Place) – Standard Challenge #12340215
- Gruul Aggro by BLJ (6th Place) – Standard Challenge #12340215
- Orzhov Aggro by inosisisi (7th Place) – Standard Challenge #12340215
- Gruul Aggro by fingers1991 (8th Place) – Standard Challenge #12340215
We’ve been closely following the results from the weekend’s competitive Standard events – the first since the release of Innstrad: Midnight Hunt and the Standard Rotation. Today, we’ll take a look at the results and decklists from the most recent Standard Challenge on MTGO.
MTGO features weekly Standard Challenges where players compete in a Swiss-style tournament for prizes on the client. The Challenges from this weekend give us a chance to see how competitive players are building for the new format, and which archetypes have found success so far. More information about MTGO format challenges and their prize structure can be found here.
Yesterday, we reviewed the results of the first Standard Challenge, as well as the Hooglandia Standard Open which took place on Sunday. For full coverage of those events, see the linked articles below.
Top 8 Standings
| Rank | Player | Deck |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sapoa | Rakdos Midrange |
| 2 | Karolmo | Mono Green Aggro |
| 3 | orantspro | Mono Green Aggro |
| 4 | Windy514 | Gruul Werewolves |
| 5 | LukasDusek | Gruul Werewolves |
| 6 | BLJ | Gruul Aggro |
| 7 | inosisisi | Orzhov Aggro |
| 8 | fingers1991 | Gruul Aggro |
Bracket
These results look pretty similar to Saturday’s Standard Challenge, where Gruul decks dominated the Top 8. This time around, Mono Green joined Gruul with the two archetypes representing six of the eight top finishers. I went over these archetypes a bit in the previous post, so I’m not going to delve into it much here.
Despite the overwhelming presence of green aggro decks, it was a midrange-y Rakdos deck entered by Sapoa that managed to take first place, powered in part by the new cards Graveyard Trespasser and Reckless Stormseeker – the latter of which is also a key card in the Gruul decks.
The other non-green deck that managed to place in the Top 8 was inosisisi’s Orzhov Aggro deck. The deck runs a suite of disruptive creatures including four Skyclave Apparition, four Elite Spellbinder, and four of the new addition Brutal Cathar. It also runs four of each of the on-color Adversary cards, which are decent threats early and scale well into the mid-late game.
You’ll find all of the decklists from the top 8 players below, and you can view the full results from the event on Wizards’ official site.
