The Standard metagame deck archetypes are continually updating their arsenal to be able to adapt and get an advantage on each matchup. For today’s deck feature, I will discuss the Dimir Control deck that has been showing results in the recent Magic: the Gathering Standard events online and on the tabletop.
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With the dominance of Mono-Green and White decks in the current Magic: the Gathering Standard format, it seems that the other well-known Mono-Red Aggro deck has decreased in popularity. The deck still maintains its consistency, but then the metagame might not be in favor of them. They are still the lesser deck choice for some local tournaments.
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In the recent Magic: the Gathering Standard event tournament results, I have identified the deck build of Mono-Black archetypes is on Snow lands and creature sacrifice effects. The snow-covered lands mainly because of access to Faceless Haven, and the benefit from the Snow Sorcery Blood on the Snow. That sacrifice effects trigger the Learn ability, which can fetch late-game Lessons such as Mascot Exhibition.
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In the current Magic: the Gathering Standard format, I am still leaning towards or biased to the Gruul deck archetype. That is mainly because of previous experiences of playing and grinding with it on MTG Arena. I am eager to see if it has adapted to the metagame given with the loss of powerful cards such as Embercleave.
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Magic: the Gathering Worlds Championships will be this weekend, and Standard is one of the formats they will be playing. As expected, the metagame of Izzet and Mono-Green as the top deck choices appeared in the decklists submitted by the participants. However, the Izzet Control deck gets a boost with the new version of the Grixis colors, and I think this is the best update of the deck ever. Having access to Black means spot removals and discard spells.
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In the current Magic: the Gathering Standard format metagame, Winota aggro has been one of the contending aggro decks. The latest set, Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, has further improved its deck strategy with a few card components updated in the list.
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