If you close your eyes for just a minute, you might just miss an entire rotation of the Standard metagame at this rate. After last weekend’s RPTQs and the GP performance of Temur Energy a bunch of slower decks have propped up to exploit Standard in its current state. We’re certainly a long way from the Ramunap Pro Tour and to further exemplify that, New Perspectives Combo just 5-0’d an MTGO league:

melv.p, New Perspectives, 5-0
[deck]
[Creatures]
2 Nimble Obstructionist
4 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
4 Shefet Monitor
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Traverse the Ulvenwald
4 Haze of Pollen
4 Shadow of the Grave
3 Renewed Faith
2 Fumigate
1 Faith of the Devoted
4 Weirding Wood
2 Cast Out
4 New Perspectives
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Fetid Pools
5 Forest
4 Irrigated Farmland
1 Island
1 Plains
4 Scattered Groves
4 Sheltered Thicket
1 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Authority of the Consuls
2 Dispel
1 Dissenter’s Deliverance
2 Countervailing Winds
2 Gift of Paradise
2 Nimble Obstructionist
1 Archfiend of Ifnir
1 The Locust God
1 Commit // Memory
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

It’s a masterpiece isn’t it? With Standard getting increasingly more midrangey the time is now to go over the top and try the wackiest deck you can think of. Come out to Face to Face Games Toronto for Standard FNM and get your newest brew reading for Nationals in October!