Established (Standard) Forum Deck Criteria The Established (Standard) Forum is for housing threads for some of the top decks in the format. All new and interesting decks should be posted in Standard Deck Creation. If your deck ends up meeting either Proven or Established criteria, it may be moved into the Proven or Established forums.
The Established (Standard) Forum houses some of the best decks in the format. They are decks you can expect to see at Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifiers, Grand Prix events, Star City Games Open Series events, and even at your local FNM. Under our data collection, they make up at least 3% of the best performing decks in the metagame. So how do we figure this out?
We collect the all decks that have gone 6-4 or better at the PT. These are the decks that scored 18 points or better (6 wins).
We collect all the decks that have placed in the Top 16 of a GP.
We collect all the decks that have placed in the Top 16 of a SCG Open or Invitational.
We collect all the decks that have placed in the Top 8 of an RPTQ.
We then take all these decks, categorize them, and figure out their percentage of the metagame in relation to all other decks collected.
These data points are maintained and recorded in our spreadsheet for 8 weeks.
To accommodate a changing metagame, once data points have reached 9 weeks old, we throw them out of our data pool. This way, our metagame data only considers results that are 8 weeks old or less.
All decks that make up 3% or greater of the metagame data will be placed into the Established (Standard) Forum.
Also, any deck that has one Top 8 (GPs, PTs, SCG Opens) in the last two weeks is placed into Est.
Once a deck is in the Established (Standard) Forum we take competitiveness very seriously and need you to abide by some extra rules. Please refer to our Established (Standard) Rules if you are unsure about what those are. If you wish to talk about budget alternatives, you should check out our Budget (Standard) Forum.
I think it would be really helpful if we also have the Criteria, that Primers or generally each [Official]-Thread in this Subforum should also list the Latest maybe 1-3 Deck-Lists that scored best and fit the Criteria in it´s first Post.
That would help players to get an overview of what the deck looks like in the current meta.
The Established (Standard) Forum is for housing threads for some of the top decks in the format. All new and interesting decks should be posted in Standard Deck Creation. If your deck ends up meeting either Proven or Established criteria, it may be moved into the Proven or Established forums.
The Established (Standard) Forum houses some of the best decks in the format. They are decks you can expect to see at Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifiers, Grand Prix events, Star City Games Open Series events, and even at your local FNM. Under our data collection, they make up at least 3% of the best performing decks in the metagame. So how do we figure this out?
All decks that make up 3% or greater of the metagame data will be placed into the Established (Standard) Forum.
Also, any deck that has one Top 8 (GPs, PTs, SCG Opens) in the last two weeks is placed into Est.
Once a deck is in the Established (Standard) Forum we take competitiveness very seriously and need you to abide by some extra rules. Please refer to our Established (Standard) Rules if you are unsure about what those are. If you wish to talk about budget alternatives, you should check out our Budget (Standard) Forum.
This is a good idea.
I'll kick it around w/ other mods.