Standard Established Forum Rules In addition to these rules, please read the General Forum Rules and the Standard Competitive Forum Rules, both of which apply here as well. Violations of the forum rules will result in warnings or infractions, and may result in removal from the Standard Competitive usergroup.
Budget discussion (defined as any card availability issues whatsoever) is strictly forbidden. For the sake of the discussion, please pretend like you have all the required cards for the deck in question, even if you don't.
Discussion of spoiled cards must be confined to the Standard New Card Discussion subforum. New sets are okay to discuss in the rest of the Standard forum the moment Wizards has published the entire spoiler. Post-rotation discussion is also not permitted until the new block has been fully spoiled.
Functional deck tags are required. This thread explains how to use deck/card tags.
Do not copy and paste deck lists from MWS, as they do not work within deck tags.
Make sure you're not posting a redundant thread. If a particular archetype already has a thread in this forum, post in that thread instead of creating a new one.
All threads created in this forum must have a primer in the first post. These are explained below.
Primers A primer is an indepth opening post of the deck thread that's kept up to date, allowing people who aren't familiar with the deck to read through and get an understanding. Primers normally have, but are not limited to, the following...
Introduction: Why this deck/idea? What's special about it? Why do you think it'll succeed?
Deck list (w/tags): You want people to know cards you're talking about, right?
Card Choices: Why did you pick the cards you did? What cards did you almost include, but didn't? What cards did you outright say 'NO' to, and why?
Strategy/Matchups: Any special synergy, or combos? How do you play the deck out against aggro, aggro/control, combo, etc? What's the battle plan, general?
History: How has the deck changed/evolved over time?
Record: How have you done? Any tournament reports, etc.
Also, try to make the primer pleasant to look at. Use different tags such as italics, various sizes, colors, pictures, etc; and try to use good language (proper capitalization, punctuation, spelling...).
If a thread has an outdated primer, and you're interested in assuming control of the first post in order to maintain one for the thread, please contact a moderator.
If you have questions, concerns or comments regarding these rules, or anything related to how the Standard forum is run, please post them in the "Open Discussion on Standard Forum Rules, Policy and Setup"-thread, or message them to one of the Standard Forum moderators.
In addition to these rules, please read the General Forum Rules and the Standard Competitive Forum Rules, both of which apply here as well. Violations of the forum rules will result in warnings or infractions, and may result in removal from the Standard Competitive usergroup.
A primer is an indepth opening post of the deck thread that's kept up to date, allowing people who aren't familiar with the deck to read through and get an understanding. Primers normally have, but are not limited to, the following...
If a thread has an outdated primer, and you're interested in assuming control of the first post in order to maintain one for the thread, please contact a moderator.
If you have questions, concerns or comments regarding these rules, or anything related to how the Standard forum is run, please post them in the "Open Discussion on Standard Forum Rules, Policy and Setup"-thread, or message them to one of the Standard Forum moderators.
Happy posting!
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