The Top 5 Decks to Play to Win the Standard Metagame Challenge – February 2023

Want to win the Standard Metagame Challenge? Who better to help than MTGs best player, PVDDR! Find out the 5 decks he would take into battle this weekend in order to secure all the packs in the world!

Whenever a new set comes out, people always try their best to play with the new cards. Personally, I think this time around it'll be better to just slot the new cards into existing decks rather than trying to come up with something entirely new, because the new set is sort of parasitic and the cards that were already in Standard are too good to give up. This doesn't mean you can't play new decks (for example UG Poison looks nice), but I think if...

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PVDDR

Paulo Vitor "PVDDR" Damo da Rosa has been a professional Magic: the Gathering player and writer for over 20 years. He was Player of the Year in 2017, World Champion in 2020, and is tied for most Top Finishes in history with 17. He will play whichever decks he thinks are the best, but his favorite style is aggro-control. Other than Magic, PV is also a fan of watching TV shows, reading fantasy novels and playing several other games such as Bridge, LoL, TFT, Storybook Brawl, Baldur's Gate 2 and Diablo 2.

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