LogFAQs > #940072422

not sure if these will fix standard, but i'm pleasantly surprised by the agent ban. companion fix is clunky but probably necessary, even though my umori mutate deck was very fair. i didn't find fires to be particularly unfun to play against, but i'm not a balance expert and i'm sure others had issues with it.

masterplum posted...

Are people complaining about standard ever happy? Even before the bans there were a ton of interesting decks all doing radically different things.

i know it can seem like complaining is the norm, but the general time period between dominaria (early 2018) and eldraine (late 2020) had an overall great standard.

nexus of fate was the one bogeyman because while very beatable it was unfun to play against, but there's a difference between one bad deck and the entire meta being bad decks. i can deal with one frustrating matchup as long as there's a bevy of other viable options and opponents. And plus, nexus was eventually banned from arena, so I didn't have to deal with it

i actually disagree with your statement that there are "a ton of interesting decks all doing radically different things." There are always plenty of interesting tier 2 decks, but if they can't really compete with the top 2/3 that are all similar, it's a moot point.

maybe i stopped paying attention at the wrong time, but the pre-ban standard seemed to be 90% non-interactive, and mostly combo. The tier 0 deck (lukka) was combo, and when i peaced out the tier 1 decks were cycling combo "storm", gyruda combo, winota combo, and take-the-entire-day-fiddling around cauldron familiar/witch's oven engines.

maybe it's gotten better since then- looking at mtggoldfish, it looks like while lukka is still tier 0, and cycling combo and sit-around-waiting-for-cauldron-familiar are the tier 1 decks, there's also a control deck. i guess i miss aggro and midrange.

meta:
jeskai lukka: 32%
clicking-on-witch's-oven 500 times: 12%
control: 7%
cycling until you can OHKO your opponent: 6%

yeah actually idk if control or cycling even count as tier 1


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