Category Archives: Standard

_ShipIt returns to Standard with a look at Frites. Check out his performance in a Standard 8-Man queue inside!

Check out Grand Prix Salt Lake City Top 8-er Michael Hetrick (_ShipItHolla) take a version of Standard GWr Birthing Pod into the DE queue. After he and his RG Aggro list swept through 15 rounds of Swiss competition with only 2 match losses this weekend, we should expect a pretty stirring performance from this newly minted Standard superstar… right?

Check out _ShipIt’s subtly modified version of what he calls the current second-best deck in Standard, and watch him take it through a DE.

_ShipIt takes a funky-looking “sweet” Mono-White Ramp/Control list into a Standard DE. Will Sun Titan interactions, Gideon Jura, and colorless do-something lands give him the advantage he needs? Watch the vids inside to find out if the deck can pull through.

Who would’ve thought that putting equipment and powerful auras on hexproof dudes would be so powerful in Constructed? Find out what happens when you run the DE gauntlet with a list mixing swords and pikes with geists and stalkers and backing them with excellent efficient card selection spells.

This week _ShipIt takes an updated and further-tuned version of his last week’s Standard Esper Control list into a DE.

Standard with Dark Ascension is finally available online, and _ShipIt sinks his teeth into the format with an Esper Control deck involving Sun Titan, Thought Scour, and Sorin.