*** JULY 2022 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Magic 2020
(*) Kaladesh
(*) Aether Revolt
(*) Mirrodin
(*) Darksteel
(*) Fifth Dawn
Banned cards: Ancient Den, Great Furnace, Seat of the Synod, Skullclamp, Tree of Tales, Vault of Whispers
*** ORIGINAL POST & PREVIOUS ROTATIONS BELOW THIS LINE ***
I thought it'd be fun to have a thread for building and sharing Random Standard decks, and possibly for coordinating some friendly competition if there's enough interest.
Each month I'll randomly generate a Random Standard card pool and update this thread with it. You're invited to theorize, share decks, challenge others, or contribute however you want. Because this is a Legacy site and we all like old cards, my algorithm has a bias towards older sets, as follows: Whenever I roll for a set or block, I roll the die twice and pick the older option. (For the February 2021 pool I happened to roll especially old sets, but on average it won't be like that.)
I'll decide on bans and announce the banned cards in each format rotation. Ante cards and dexterity cards are always banned.
*** FEBRUARY 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Magic 2015
(*) Homelands
(*) Ice Age
(*) Alliances
(*) Mercadian Masques
(*) Nemesis
(*) Prophecy
Banned list:
(*) Demonic Consultation
(*) Necropotence
(*) Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero
*** MARCH 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
10th Edition
Mirrodin
Darksteel
Fifth Dawn
Zendikar
Worldwake
Rise of the Eldrazi
BANNED:
(*) Six cards with type “Artifact Land”:
> Ancient Den
> Seat of the Synod
> Vault of Whispers
> Great Furnace
> Tree of Tales
> Darksteel Citadel
(*) Jace, the Mind Sculptor
(*) Skullclamp
(*) Stoneforge Mystic
*** APRIL 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Magic 2011 (M11)
(*) Mirage
(*) Visions
(*) Weatherlight
(*) Odyssey
(*) Torment
(*) Judgment
Banned cards: Entomb, Vampiric Tutor
*** MAY 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Sixth Edition
(*) Ravnica: City of Guilds
(*) Guildpact
(*) Dissension
(*) Return to Ravnica
(*) Gatecrash
(*) NOT Dragon's Maze (in this randomly generated timeline, it has not yet been released)
Banned: Flash, Vampiric Tutor
*** JUNE 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Fifth Edition
(*) Champions of Kamigawa
(*) Betrayers of Kamigawa
(*) Saviors of Kamigawa
(*) Mercadian Masques
(*) Nemesis
(*) NOT Prophecy (in this randomly generated timeline, it has not yet been released)
Banned: Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero, Necropotence, Umezawa's Jitte
*** JULY 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Fourth Edition
(*) Fallen Empires
(*) Odyssey
(*) Torment
(*) Judgment
(*) Mirrodin
(*) NOT Darksteel (in this randomly generated timeline, it has not yet been released)
(*) NOT Fifth Dawn (in this randomly generated timeline, it has not yet been released)
Banned cards: Balance, Channel, Entomb, Mana Vault, Mind Twist, Strip Mine; six cards with the Artifact Land card type (Darksteel Citadel, Ancient Den, Seat of the Synod, Vault of Whispers, Great Furnace, Tree of Tales)
*** AUGUST 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Tenth Edition
(*) Urza's Saga
(*) Urza's Legacy
(*) Urza's Destiny
(*) Time Spiral (including Timeshifted cards)
(*) NOT Planar Chaos (in this randomly generated timeline, it has not yet been released)
(*) NOT Future Sight (in this randomly generated timeline, it has not yet been released)
Banned are the following cards:
Gaea's Cradle
Grim Monolith
Fluctuator
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
Tinker
Time Spiral
Tolarian Academy
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Yawgmoth's Will
*** SEPTEMBER 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Classic Sixth Edition
(*) Onslaught
(*) Legions
(*) Scourge
(*) Theros (the original one)
(*) Born of the Gods
(*) NOT Journey into Nyx (in this randomly generated timeline, it has not yet been released)
Banned cards:
Flash
Vampiric Tutor
*** OCTOBER 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Magic Origins
(*) Battle for Zendikar
(*) Oath of the Gatewatch
(*) Champions of Kamigawa
(*) Betrayers of Kamigawa
(*) NOT Saviors of Kamigawa (in this randomly generated timeline, it has not yet been released)
Banned: Umezawa's Jitte
*** NOVEMBER 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Seventh Edition
(*) Mercadian Masques
(*) Nemesis
(*) Prophecy
(*) Return to Ravnica
(*) Gatecrash
(*) NOT Dragon’s Maze (in this randomly generated timeline, it has not yet been released)
Banned: Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero
*** DECEMBER 2021 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Revised Edition
(*) Urza's Saga
(*) Urza's Legacy
(*) Urza's Destiny
(*) Mirage
(*) Visions
(*) Weatherlight
Banned cards:
Balance
Channel
Demonic Tutor
Gaea's Cradle
Grim Monolith
Fluctuator
Mana Vault
Mind Twist
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
Sol Ring
Tinker
Time Spiral
Tolarian Academy
Vampiric Tutor
Wheel of Fortune
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Yawgmoth's Will
*** JANUARY 2022 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Tenth Edition
(*) Ice Age
(*) Homelands
(*) Alliances
(*) Odyssey
(*) Torment
(*) Judgment
Banned cards:
Demonic Consultation
Necropotence
*** FEBRUARY 2022 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Magic 2012
(*) Tempest
(*) Stronghold
(*) Exodus
(*) Amonkhet
(*) Hour of Devastation
*** MARCH 2022 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Magic 2011
(*) Innistrad
(*) Dark Ascension
(*) Avacyn Restored
(*) Strixhaven
(*) Return to Ravnica
*** APRIL 2022 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Revised Edition
(*) Mercadian Masques
(*) Nemesis
(*) Prophecy
(*) Onslaught
(*) Legions
(*) Scourge
Banned:
Ancestral Recall
Balance
Black Lotus
Channel
Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero
Mana Vault
Mind Twist
Mox Emerald
Mox Jet
Mox Pearl
Mox Ruby
Mox Sapphire
Sol Ring
Time Vault
Time Walk
Timetwister
*** MAY 2022 RANDOM STANDARD @ THE SOURCE ***
(*) Magic 2012
(*) Khans of Tarkir
(*) Fate Reforged
(*) Dragons of Tarkir
(*) Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
(*) Streets of New Capenna
Last edited by BirdsOfParadise; 07-21-2022 at 07:54 PM.
I guess Counter-Rebels would be something like this. Would it be tier 0 in a world without Necropotence? I based it on this list:
https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=9171&d=252469&f=ST
My Random Standard version loses FoF and wrath effects but gains FoW and StP.
4 Adarkar Wastes
4 Evolving Wilds
9 Island
7 Plains
[2 more lands]
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Ramosian Sergeant
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Defiant Falcon
2 Memory Lapse
3 Counterspell
3 Defiant Vanguard
1 Ramosian Commander
1 Ramosian Sky Marshal
1 Jhovall Queen
[4 more spells --- likely blue for FoW]
Hey. Cool deck-building challenge. Here's my entry for those sets:
4 Sulferous Springs
4 Evolving Wilds
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
6 Mountain
4 Swamp
1 Lake of the Dead
3 Barbed Sextant
1 Rogue's Gloves
4 Sign in Blood
4 Incinerate
4 Lightning Strike
2 Lava Flow
2 Stoke the Flames
2 Circle of Flame
4 Knight of Stromgald
4 Goblin Rabblemaster
4 Necrogen Scudder
2 Chandra, Pyromaster
2 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
Cool, ESG! Rabblemaster is a nasty threat. Any red deck can sideboard Brutal Suppression if rebels are a thing.
Idea: First Response plus painlands = two 1/1s every turn cycle. Painlands have almost no deckbuilding cost. Is a 4-mana enchantment that makes two 1/1s per turn good?
I think Rebels would be dead without Lin Sivvi. She's the main reason to play Rebels.
Instead, for the memes, I submit Pirate Stompy
//Lands: 22
4 Rishadan Port
4 Saprazzan Skerry
2 Sandstone Needle
12 Snow-Covered Island
//Spells: 16
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Portent
4 Daze
//Prison: 9
2 Overburden
3 Rhystic Study
4 Parallax Tide
//Creatures: 14
4 Illusory Angel
2 Rishadan Airship
2 Giant Oyster
3 Rishadan Footpad
3 Rishadan Brigand
Basically early game you try to catch them tapped out with Daze and Pirates. Then later you manascrew them with Parallax Tide so they still get disrupted by Daze and Pirates.
Edit: Illusory Angel seems like an insane clock next to 8 cantrips
Rhystic Study is probably a better 3-mana tax than Cutpurse, and Overburden should do a better job than Tangle Wire of handling decks that just try to ramp out a lot of lands. Overburden also lets you reuse the depletion lands for value.
Another option is to splash white for Parallax Wave to both control enemy creatures and blink Pirates for value.
Last edited by FTW; 02-04-2021 at 05:30 AM.
The best ways I could think of to abuse tokens were Death Pit Offering and Hecatomb.Originally Posted by BirdsOfParadise
Either a 3/3 engine or Hecatomb should be insane card advantage once online.
It may not be good for more than memes, but there are at least ways to tutor and accelerate into it to help lose to the FoW decks.
HAXatomb
//Lands: 24
4 Remote Farm
4 Caves of Koilos
4 Evolving Wilds
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Snow-Covered Plains
8 Snow-Covered Swamp
//Spells: 16
4 Dark Ritual
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Vendetta
4 Sign in Blood
2 Unmask
//Planeswalkers: 2
2 Liliana Vess
//Creatures: 8
4 Divining Witch
4 Sengir Autocrat
//Enchantments: 10
3 Hecatomb
3 Death Pit Offering
4 First Response
//Rough Sideboard: 15
3 Massacre
2 Unmask
2 Parallax Nexus
2 Seal of Cleansing
2 Disenchant
3 Tormod's Crypt
Dark Ritual lets you play a 4 mana enchantment on turn 2
Remote Farm lets you play a 4 mana enchantment on turn 3 and another on turn 4
This format secretly has both Demonic Consultations and only 1 of them is banned. Liliana can also do a Vamp Tutor impersonation.
Urborg makes all your lands into Swamps for Hecatomb madness.
Turn 2 Dark Ritual + Sengir Autocrat allows turn 3 Hecatomb
Death Pit makes First Response make 3/3s and turns Autocrat into 10-power for 4 mana (4/4 + three 2/3s).
Unmask and Divining Witch's pitch costs let you play around the drawback of having dead Hecatombs in hand early game.
>>> Pirates
I've only ever played a handful games of Random Standard. It was several years ago, and Masques was in that pool too. The Pirate deck just wrecked me.
I wonder if one could fit red in there for Goblin Rabblemaster. It would weaken the Dazes (since you'd need 4x Shivan Reef), but it's such a good threat when the opponent is tripping over their own feet trying not to tap out.
>>> BW token nonsense
Nice :-)
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