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I've been playing a fair amount of Cycling in Standard lately. This deck is obnoxious as heck but I actually think it's super well positioned in the current meta where not a ton of people are playing Embercleave. I'm convinced it has winning matchups against the rest of the top decks though*. Weird to say about a deck that hasn't gotten anything new besides lands since Ikoria and is made of almost all commons/uncommons, but that has been my experience.

The deck has a surprising amount of versatility compared to what it looks like playing against it. Lots of decks have trouble answering Irencrag Pyromancer and Improbable Alliance, and the ones that can answer those (like Sultai) tend to be weak to the plan of sideboarding in a bunch of counterspells. (Again, this does not apply to decks with Embercleave which I think all have a good matchup here, as it nullifies the plan of chump-blocking with 1/1's while on the defensive)

*Except possibly Jeskai Mutate. I have not had the chance to play this matchup at all and I have a relatively poor understanding of the Mutate deck.
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I didn't do guru this year but azuarc can be in my sig anyways.