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Welcome back to Screams from Within! Are you tired of Dominaria yet? Well, I hope so because this isn’t another Dominaria article. It’s about Standard.

(I’ll be using stats from GP Seattle 2018.)

GP Seattle was a HUGE event, and it held a big ‘first’ for Magic. The top spot of the entire Standard event was Red Deck Wins(RDW) piloted by Gan Yan. The fact that he was piloting RDW isn’t the point here, though. Gan Yan is now the first player in history to go UNDEFEATED at a Grand Prix.

Gan Yan’s Mono-Red Equivalent to a Bat with Barbed Wire

Find out more about the deck, its probabilities, and other stuff HERE

Coming in second is a new version of the God-Pharaoh's Gift deck, UR Gift.

Grayson Robert’s UR Gift, aka. The Most Interesting Deck from GP Seattle

Find out more about the deck, its probabilities, and other stuff HERE

Finally, in third came a BR Aggro deck.

Gerry Thompson’s BR Aggro: It’s not Red Deck Wins, but it did get 3rd Place

Find out more about the deck, its probabilities, and other stuff HERE

Now, you may assume from these results that RDW is an oppressive deck in the format. However, Standard is actually way better than it was before. Today, RDW is about 10% of the meta(according to mtgtop8). Now, let’s go back to March 2017, and GP Barcelona.

A whopping HALF of decks were CopyCat/Mardu Aggro. This is, in my opinion, the worst period in Standard since Caw-Blade. RDW now is not even close to that dominant. Keep in mind that this is all before Dominaria. I don’t know how it’s going to change the format, but all I know is that it can’t possibly be that bad, can it? 

Right?

The End