As the Wonderbrewers group continue to check on the possibility of a breakout counter deck for the current Standard metagame of Vampires, Scapeshift Zombies and Esper Control, I have come up with a set of check list or guidelines in the qualification of the new deck builds. it is somewhat funny to be based on the efficiency but then I had to reason out that these scenarios listed are to be dealt with by the deck.

See the checklist below:

• Can it deal with a Turn-two Hero and its Human tokens?
• Can it survive the early aggression of the Vampires deck?
• Can it kill off a hasty Rotting Regisaur?
• Can it survive the Burn spells to the face from Mono Red aggro?
• Can it deal with a turn-three Nissa, Who Shakes the World and its 3/3 Elemental land?
• Can it race against a Boros Feather deck with online mana for pump spells?
• Can it recover after a Kaya’s Wrath?
• Can it cope up against multiple use of Oath of Kaya?

This is so far that I can come up as deck guidelines for now. Feel free to message me if you have something that I missed to include. See the comment box below.

As for the Standard metagame decks and updates, you can check it on this website page. https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/standard#paper