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Last week marked the opening week of season 8, and showed us what decks the 128 competitors brought to an unknown metagame. Esper and Grixis Midrange were the most popular archetypes followed by Izzet and Mono Blue Tempo. Did they live up to their hype as the best decks or fall short? What about the […]

128 players are competing in season 8 of the VML for a $7,000 prize pool and an invite to the Regional Championship. With Meathook Massacre’s banning a few weeks ago and the World Championship last weekend, Standard has gone through a few metagame shakeups leading up to the league. So let’s see what people brought […]

Last week we crowned The Mighty Linguine as champion, with her Orzhov Midrange deck winning it all. But how did Orzhov perform over the entire season? What about other popular decks such as Naya, Mono White, or Jeskai Storm? This week, I’ll be covering every single deck in the season, the most popular decks, the […]

Top 8 Decks Just like the top 16, Orzhov Midrange is the most popular archetype of the top 8. Throughout the last few weeks, we’ve seen it emerge as one of the most popular and successful decks in the format. One card that shows up in all five decks that hasn’t been popular until now […]

The Winners and Losers of Week 7 In the final week of division play, two decks stood at the top of the metagame: Esper Control and Orzhov Midrange. Both decks went undefeated as Esper won 5 matches and Orzhov won 4. These two decks have consistently performed well all season, and are the top choices […]