Control deck strategy is still a thing in the current Standard metagame. Here is Todd Anderson’s 4-Color Control decklist from SCG Standard Open Philadelphia last weekend which finished 5th-8th place in the tournament:

Lands
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Flooded Strand
1 Island
2 Mountain
3 Mystic Monastery
2 Plains
4 Polluted Delta
2 Prairie Stream
2 Smoldering Marsh
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Swamp

Creatures
2 Dragonmaster Outcast
4 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
3 Soulfire Grand Master

Spells
4 Crackling Doom
4 Dig Through Time
1 Disdainful Stroke
4 Fiery Impulse
2 Kolaghan’s Command
2 Negate
3 Ojutai’s Command
1 Planar Outburst
2 Utter End
2 Silkwrap

Sideboard
2 Arashin Cleric
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Dispel
1 Erase
1 Felidar Cub
3 Infinite Obliteration
1 Mastery of the Unseen
2 Painful Truths
2 Radiant Flames
1 Virulent Plague