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by Jojja
Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:29 pm
Forum: Mountain (Standard)
Topic: Is the format stagnant already?
Replies: 16
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If you look at the GP Stockholm results you'll see the top8 and top16 was rather diverse.

Mono red aggro, mardu midrange, R/W aggro, Abzan midrange/aggro, Temur aggro, Jeskai aggro, Sutai Whip, G/B Enchantress all featured there, thats 8 different archetypes right there. I'd say the format is far from solved, and we have no mono-black/mono-blue type dominant decks in the format. Even the supposedly good match-up of Abzan vs Jeskai is just slightly over 50% and then there are the other decks like Sutai Whip and G/B Enchantress who have a great Abzand match up and slightly unfavored Jeskai match up. Add to that the diverse options for hate in all colors I feel like standard is rather healthy right now with decks being tweaked between tournaments to play slightly different from the same archetypes that where played a month earlier. Sure the core of the decks still stay the same, but there is nothing like last season where the decks only had 2-3 cards change in their 75 over 6 month periods.

SCGOpen is not really worth putting to much stock in since it's rather inbred. The pro's play the same decks that they all think is the best and the rest is up to the regional meta. Some places play more midrange decks, others have more aggro players and in sordid places control reigns.

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