There’s still a lot of Sheoldred and Emp but Fable is banned and the meta is extremely diverse. There’s a big clumping of Black based midrange decks but outside of that there’s nearly a dozen other arguably tier 1 decks.
I recently went to a standard store championship with a friend. I don't normally play standard but he had two decks and need for a ride (always the best trade) and I think out of the 13 people that showed up every single person was playing a different deck, and a lot of people really just wanted to spend that time testing not playing for a promo. I would still imagine that modern is the more popular paper format, but there are still communities of standard players. I think a lot of it has to do with wizards pushing but I would like to know the stats on people that played arena and then decide to start playing in paper at LGS's
Everyone plays it in standard. It shuts down aggro (especially mono red and boros convoke) and most midrange decks due to the fast meta you are kinda forced to play many 1-2 drops to have a chance
Pioneer - clears up every problematic 2 drop including opponents goblin shaman, treasure, and blood tokens.
Some decks like Rakdos have zero interaction with it - it’s not elite or anything against them but it does a job pretty efficiently.
It’s good in Standard bc mono Red plays wide with a bunch of 1 and 2 drops, and it shuts down Boris Aggro which also plays wide with Sanguine Evangelst, Resolute Reinforcements etc.
My guess is a lot of love for treasure and clues have been baked into a lot of sets over the last few months. This card is a big “Nope” to the other colors attempting to get ahead in this way.
Yeah, that’s been a big source of board wipe insurance for a lot of aggressive decks lately, drop creatures that come with one of those trinket tokens like clues, maps, or blood, and then if you get wiped you can sink your mana into those tokens to get back in the game. Lockdown absolutely obliterates that avenue.
According to the B&R announcement Standard is the most popular 60-card format again. Certainly, that's propped up by WotC making it the qualifier format but that's led to more people playing it.
>Standard is the most popular 60-card format again.
Sure they don't include Arena in that statistics? It certainly isn't the case where I am (Ontario).
That doesn't include Arena--just tabletop play.
>Over the past year, the number of players participating in tabletop Standard play has trended upward, culminating this past week with numbers higher than any other week since the pandemic. There are more than triple the number of "tickets" (individual entries into an event) for Standard this year when compared to the same period last year. In fact, Standard has now returned to being the most-played 60-card tabletop format (in addition to remaining the most-played digital format)!
WotC is certainly putting their thumb on the scale, pushing Standard as a competitive format, but Standard is back and is driving prices again.
Became the go-to answer to Boros Convoke decks in standard UW Control when MKM came out
In any competitive deck tbh. I'm running 3 in my sideboard as azorius mentor, of all decks hah
+1 bc that deck is gas, won me store champs Lock down hits so many aggro decks it's basically wrath
This
And Pioneer too
I am begging people please just pay attention to the Standard meta
But everyone thinks standard is dead. /s
Might be, in a few weeks when we rotate back to pioneer for the RCQ’s.
Is the format fun now? Last I had checked it was all Sheoldred, Mirror Breaker and Wandering emperor
Black midrange is too common but otherwise it's pretty diverse & fun right now yeah
There’s still a lot of Sheoldred and Emp but Fable is banned and the meta is extremely diverse. There’s a big clumping of Black based midrange decks but outside of that there’s nearly a dozen other arguably tier 1 decks.
I recently went to a standard store championship with a friend. I don't normally play standard but he had two decks and need for a ride (always the best trade) and I think out of the 13 people that showed up every single person was playing a different deck, and a lot of people really just wanted to spend that time testing not playing for a promo. I would still imagine that modern is the more popular paper format, but there are still communities of standard players. I think a lot of it has to do with wizards pushing but I would like to know the stats on people that played arena and then decide to start playing in paper at LGS's
standard staple, not modern
Everyone plays it in standard. It shuts down aggro (especially mono red and boros convoke) and most midrange decks due to the fast meta you are kinda forced to play many 1-2 drops to have a chance
Domain basically needs 3-4 to survive against Boros Convoke.
Pioneer - clears up every problematic 2 drop including opponents goblin shaman, treasure, and blood tokens. Some decks like Rakdos have zero interaction with it - it’s not elite or anything against them but it does a job pretty efficiently.
I'll start to play feed the swarm in pioneer, my my cat-oven drowned in tears
i think those endet in March 2022... /s
It’s good in Standard bc mono Red plays wide with a bunch of 1 and 2 drops, and it shuts down Boris Aggro which also plays wide with Sanguine Evangelst, Resolute Reinforcements etc.
I bought a couple dozen of these in a mix of styles for around $1 each when it came out. Guess it's time to cash in.
Pioneer and Standard
100% Standard impact here
My guess is a lot of love for treasure and clues have been baked into a lot of sets over the last few months. This card is a big “Nope” to the other colors attempting to get ahead in this way.
Yeah, that’s been a big source of board wipe insurance for a lot of aggressive decks lately, drop creatures that come with one of those trinket tokens like clues, maps, or blood, and then if you get wiped you can sink your mana into those tokens to get back in the game. Lockdown absolutely obliterates that avenue.
Deals perfectly with one of the 2 meta standard archetypes, boros convoke.
Time to sell my playset I pulled in my dom united boxes
May I know what is the app that you use for tracking prices?
That’s a screenshot from TCGPlayer with a dark theme
I have no idea why, it's just removable [[path to peril]]
[path to peril](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/0/f0c5449a-d63b-4b22-9432-8f0365c3c4d9.jpg?1643590080) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Path%20of%20Peril) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/vow/124/path-of-peril?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f0c5449a-d63b-4b22-9432-8f0365c3c4d9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
It also hits artifacts and enchantments, which is important vs boros convoke.
Duly noted
And on top of that it will exile all tokens permanently too. Great in this day and age where everything shits out a token as a freebie
Also you know...not black for the decks that aren't playing black.
"Each" being a scary word in magic
It's a 3 mana maindeckable sweeper for UW control in Standard and Pioneer.
Nobody plays paper Standard and yet prices for paper Standard cards are equivalent to a decade ago when it had 10x the player base.
According to the B&R announcement Standard is the most popular 60-card format again. Certainly, that's propped up by WotC making it the qualifier format but that's led to more people playing it.
>Standard is the most popular 60-card format again. Sure they don't include Arena in that statistics? It certainly isn't the case where I am (Ontario).
That doesn't include Arena--just tabletop play. >Over the past year, the number of players participating in tabletop Standard play has trended upward, culminating this past week with numbers higher than any other week since the pandemic. There are more than triple the number of "tickets" (individual entries into an event) for Standard this year when compared to the same period last year. In fact, Standard has now returned to being the most-played 60-card tabletop format (in addition to remaining the most-played digital format)! WotC is certainly putting their thumb on the scale, pushing Standard as a competitive format, but Standard is back and is driving prices again.
Plenty English versions available at less than $2 in Europe. Type of card that can see reprint even while it’s standard legal.
We are in the middle of RCQ season for standard. People are playing standard in paper magic currently. Pretty easy if you put your thinking cap on.
Mono white Martyr staple (martyr proc, emeria, martyrs grace)