I will preface this by stating, "This is a not a rant thread". You will not find me bashing decks, or colors, or punish players who net deck (I do, it's kinda of hard not to, I do brew but sometimes the best deck is just the best deck).
Now, the state of current is...passable. There are issues and I'll address those but there are various viable decks that are both fun to play and successful are local, PPTQ, RPTQ and the Pro level. That said, I think GW is utterly dominant at higher levels of play. It's surprising how little we complain about color imbalance as a community when those colors are GW, if it were U anything there would be pitch forks. In fact I remember an article from the mothership that addressed "Esper Dragons" and how to beat it. I don't see an article that talks about "How to Beat G/W Tokens". I don't see an article that addresses the issue that and aside from the Mono Blue Prison deck (recent creation that hasn't proven itself yet outside of LGS and smaller events), U is very absent as a color based strategy. Nope, instead we live with the fact that G/W Tokens has taken down the last 3 GP's (not talk about it's dominance at the PT).
So, with all the decks in standard, what have you, or your testing groups done to try and beat this deck? What have you found that works against it? Since the pros tend to play the best deck and then tell us (sometimes it's like they patronize us) we should just "shut up and play it". I'm not that kind of player, or person, so, what strategy's have you all used or thought of that counter standard's current top deck? It is currently MILES ahead of the other decks, with Bant CoCo and humans following closely behind. I skim through threads and we all have the same questions, so maybe this is a good way to start a conversation as a community on salvation to figure for ourselves what we can do to topple the deck. Some of us play PPTQ's and even RPTQ's, we are going to run across tier 1 decks, what would you play to thwart it?
Thanks for the responses
RacerXen
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I will preface this by stating, "This is a not a rant thread". You will not find me bashing decks, or colors, or punish players who net deck (I do, it's kinda of hard not to, I do brew but sometimes the best deck is just the best deck).
So let me start by bashing GW and especially GW Tokens.
In NYC, where I grew up this is simple honesty with a cup of coffee in hand. I'm sorry, you interpret it as bashing, but all I said was "GW is really really strong in standard with U being the weakest". Where's the bashing here?
????????????
It's like when someone asks me if they're a good guitar player and only know 4 chords... I usually point them to today's pop hits and tell them "If this is your goal, you're good to go", "if you want to play Eruption, well, you'll need a few skills with those digits".
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Well seeing as how seige rhino and wing mate roc morphed into Gideon and avacyn the truth is the problem is the same one for the last almost two years. I think it may have been nailed earlier in the thread though. If these to cards were blue there would be uproar, and they would be $90 a piece like some other blue card that just so happens to be good. But no one ever thinks of white as a powerhouse color. And people have been constantly talking about green getting "hosed" even though it has arguably the strongest card in standard in CoCo, the best megamorph creature by a mile, the best recursion creature in deathmist, the best land destruction creature who is also a giant eldrazi, and the only 2 drop that can be a 4/5 vigilance. The problem is that wizards actually does listen to the fans, and the fans just happen to be delusional. People were sick of RDW always being a thing; now the best red cards are Chandra and GDD, a 6cmc and 5cmc card. People complain the format is too slow, in sorcery speed removal that can be played as an instant with madness. People complained about abzan, but also pretended that it's individual colors were weak. Now we have all white and green all the time decks.
Well it seems like I wasn't the only one asking this questions. CFB, SCG and TCG all dedicated articles to it within the last few days, it does seem like this is the new best deck. Well, we can only do so much.
What I've decided to do,
1) Built G/W tokens
2) Testing the deck
3) Putting it through my Gauntlet
4) Taking notes with my testing group
5) Trying decks that have so called "Decent match ups"= U/R Flyers, U/R Eldrazi Control,G/R Ramp, Mono white humans
6) If it is true that this deck is truly the best, then I well have to sadly put more time into this deck and simply run it the next PPTQ in hopes of preparing for the mirror.
Gauntlet:
1) Bant CoCo
2) Bant Humans
3) UR Flyers
4) UR Eldrazi
5) GR Ramp
6) BW Control
7) Boros Humans (Just Mono White for Needle Spires)
8) The Mirror Ewww
This is what I expect at the PPTQ's the most. When push comes to shove and I guess you need to do the heavy lifting on your own. Today I start testing, so...so far G/W Tokens seems completely absurd in the few test runs I've tried, not only does it cover my misplays but it doesn't really punish your misplays...
Honestly, GW is flourishing because red's burn is very bad right now. GW tokens would be kept in check if either lightning strike, searing blood, or anger of the gods were in the format. Why? The first two help rid you of the PWs which are what you loose to most of the time and the last beats the heck out of H-Walkers and cleans up tokens. Drom Command is a card but if they don't have it, you're set.
As a Rakdos Mage, G/W tokens is not a scary deck. We have duress and transgress to pluck anything we can't kill, The only card I'm afraid of is secure for 4-5 into gideon emblem/nissa minus. Luckily, wizards printed koz return.
G/W is so good because B/R is not being played despite, IMO, being very well positioned against all the creature decks. B/R however is very bad against B/W-Esper because of red's burn shortage right now.
It reminds me very much of last Standard's B/R Dragon Deck. It could beat Rally with consistency but just got slaughtered to any deck running crackling doom. Current B/R control/midrange(dragons or otherwise) owns any creature deck but looses badly to esper.
Also, trample is non existent. The reason my dragon deck doesn't card about the tokens is because most can't fly. Other decks have to slog thru chump blockers to get to the PWs. So, why isn't trample being played? Because G/R is also not a thing right now. Let's say they re-printed two cards for green, on a 3/4 for 3 and one a 4/5 for 4, both with trample. Problem solved.
Also, the default aggro deck is white. What does white not have...1 mana removal spells. Atarka Red would slaughter G/W tokens because all their removal is sorcery speed. titan strength into temur battle rage.
This doesn't mean G/W tokens is a deck that is only good because it's natural predator isn't being played. It's a good deck. But it's winning so much because it's natural predator isn't being played.
Well, after testing the deck myself I've found that you're 100% correct. A friend of mine has brewed up a UR dragon burn deck with 4 Thundrebreak Regent, 4 Draconic Raor and a small Eldrazi package that actually has a positive win % against Tokens and Bant CoCo decks.
The strength of G/W tokens lies in it's ability to get small points of CA via PW, I think the name of the deck is misleading. It's 100% a Gideon + Angel deck that grinds opponents out but getting ahead on board. Maybe there is a B/R deck out there that can position itself within the current meta game.
G/W Tokens has an unfavorable UR Eldrazi Control match up. After testing I've found that UR can sit back and counter the cards that matter and proceed to pressure their walkers with Drowners and Scions. Ulamog is a beating and usually = GG.
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I'm pretty sure my mono red list is like 9-1 in favor, my one loss was due to an incredibly bad draw, that and my sideboard has an extra 12 slots of hate for it.
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The red mage lives by the variance and dies by the variance. May the variance be with you, always.
I'm pretty sure my mono red list is like 9-1 in favor, my one loss was due to an incredibly bad draw, that and my sideboard has an extra 12 slots of hate for it.
Well... I guess if you devote literal 80% of your sideboard to beating one deck that you should have a good matchup with it...
G/W Tokens has an unfavorable UR Eldrazi Control match up. After testing I've found that UR can sit back and counter the cards that matter and proceed to pressure their walkers with Drowners and Scions. Ulamog is a beating and usually = GG.
Ya, on the surface I'd believe that UR Control has a good matchup, counterspells are good against this deck and UR Control does have the long game needed to go over the top of the deck. It's not a very unfavorable matchup though, at least in my experience.
True, out of 10 matches all G1, UR is slightly favored G1 (about 6 wins - 4 losses). You need to have the counters on curve though and not let late advocate slip by without an answer. Generally I feel like I stabilize the turn before I'm about to lose.
Now, having playing with GW Tokens and seen it's power level, I can safely say it is one of those decks that gets it's advantages off of small incremental board value. It has a huge target on it's head, and even though I do enjoy running it, players are actively trying to beat it
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The biggest thing I like about GW Tokens is its ability to evolve and adapt to the hate. Gerry Thompson demonstrated this best in SCGATL even if he didn't necessarily intend to do it -- his sideboard plan involved turning almost into a GW Control deck, using Nissa, Vastwood Seer and more removal to go over the top of people trying to win off of Virulent Plague and their maindeck threat suite.
The biggest thing I like about GW Tokens is its ability to evolve and adapt to the hate. Gerry Thompson demonstrated this best in SCGATL even if he didn't necessarily intend to do it -- his sideboard plan involved turning almost into a GW Control deck, using Nissa, Vastwood Seer and more removal to go over the top of people trying to win off of Virulent Plague and their maindeck threat suite.
I feel that its really good at playing through hate as well. After the control player casts a languish, it can start making more tokens, assuming the tokens don't just survive through because of Nissa's negative adding counters, Gideon's emblem
The good news: G/W Tokens is similar style deck(lots of little value creatures) but not as oppressive as Rally was for the last 6 months.
Still, as long as people try to beat it on the ground, they will loose. Nissa is not so much a game winner but a game delayer until Gideon and Secure pop up.
The key to beating it is evasion and sweepers. If you have both, I think you'll be favored. Kalitas also wreaks havok on the deck, like he did with Rally. Can you imagine if they reprint Spectral Procession? Then Tokens would be insane.
I imagine Red will get back a really good burn spell or 2 with eldritch moon and Kaledesh, home of Chandra, should be rife with good burn. In the mean time, how does the flash flier deck do against the tokens? I would imagine pretty good since everything in the deck is instant speed fliers.
All in all, Wizards, just reprint lightning strike or searing blood and we're good. As much as I want an anger of the gods reprint, I do actually want non red aggro to do well and think the human deck is pretty cool. They are the warrior deck of the past only now Rally the ancestors and anger of the gods does not hate it out.
At SOI release I played a UG flash deck and there were a few cards that were really great to have for the tokens match up. mana gorger hydra is an incredibly fast clock, and with negate, void grafter, and whatever that mega morph 2/1 flier with built in instant/sorcery counter is called. collected company is a last ditch out when you shooting for the void grafter or silumgar sorcereer to interact.
The deck was fun but I shelved it for other coco strats to better deal with rites decks and seasons past decks that are prolific in my meta. Maybe give UG tempo a go with the BfZ kiora?
I'm on W/R Humans right now, running a list similar to Tom Ross' with the splash for 4 Needle Spires and 4 Goblin Bushwhacker in the sideboard. I played a match in which my opponent resolved 3 Languish on turns four, five, and seven in the first game, and won comfortably. Then again in game two he resolved three more on turns 4, 6, and 7 and I won again. In a meta where Radiant Flames and Flaying Tendrils seem almost no play, the deck is just gas.
Thalia's Lieutenant in particular is just ridiculous. It has to be the best white two drop printed since Stoneforge Mystic. And certainly would be much better if the two were legal in standard right now.
Well isn't always true that towards the end of a standard season we figure out how to beat the tier 1 deck? I'm glad there's a counter to Tokens, as it made up over 50% of the last PPTQ I attended. What's even more depressing? I gave in and played it
Was it fun?
Fun is subjective, as I tend to favor Big mana decks that go over the top, hard control decks UB based, and mono red R (Oh Swiftspear Stoke the Flames, such beauty! ). As I played through my matches i found myself....
Enjoying the deck? NO!!!! I guess in retrospect It's a game right? Flashing in Avacyn and blowing your opponent out is always like, YEAH!!!! so, while I think the standard format is "broken", as in the truly competetive deck are G, W based with B being "okay" but not even close to the other two. U and R are poorly and I mean POORLY represented. It's as if this standard forgot about the 5 colors and cut it to 3. I don't believe in conspiracies, but maybe this is the direction wizards wants to go?
With the advent of "instant gratification", kids don't work at things anymore. Take it from a musician who is successful and worked his -BLEEP- off for years to obtain the skill level I have to be able to make a living from teachiing privately, playing a festivals and getting invites to do clinics. The kids I teach? Very very very few actually try. It wasn't like this in the 90's, or 80's. Even the most mediocre guitarist actually had chops. Fast foward today? The music is terrible (pop music) and if we compare that to the 90's and before, there is no comparison. (Please note there is excellent music being made today, but sadly this is not main stream). How does this influence MTG? People don't like U, they don't like having their cards do nothing on cast, and dislike their hands being disrupted and or things removed. You get decks like G/W Tokens, and a format that is short on answers. This is a fundamentally flawed standard, but not terrible. Rally was going to oppressive if not for the rotation.
In the end, we are playing a game, and I think a thread like this "reflection on current standard" should be a mainstay in our forums as a way for our community to share thoughts and ideas. The pros are pros, we can also meta game and come up with solutions. Tom Ross showed us Humans with a red splash is extremely good, this is development of the last 2 weeks. If we all explored the standard card pool more and tried more combinations I think we could combat things better. However, sometimes a deck is just that good, and or colors are simply better at a given time.
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See that meta game? I love how some players refuse to believe standard isn't warped atm. Let's all hope U, R and B get massive upgrades. If not...well, I guess it's on to modern.
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&lol at blue being bad this standard because kids these days.
Are you going to actually say why blue isn't bad despite the fact it's nothing but a splash in the best decks atm? Or just condescending and thought-terminating clichés?
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Now, the state of current is...passable. There are issues and I'll address those but there are various viable decks that are both fun to play and successful are local, PPTQ, RPTQ and the Pro level. That said, I think GW is utterly dominant at higher levels of play. It's surprising how little we complain about color imbalance as a community when those colors are GW, if it were U anything there would be pitch forks. In fact I remember an article from the mothership that addressed "Esper Dragons" and how to beat it. I don't see an article that talks about "How to Beat G/W Tokens". I don't see an article that addresses the issue that and aside from the Mono Blue Prison deck (recent creation that hasn't proven itself yet outside of LGS and smaller events), U is very absent as a color based strategy. Nope, instead we live with the fact that G/W Tokens has taken down the last 3 GP's (not talk about it's dominance at the PT).
So, with all the decks in standard, what have you, or your testing groups done to try and beat this deck? What have you found that works against it? Since the pros tend to play the best deck and then tell us (sometimes it's like they patronize us) we should just "shut up and play it". I'm not that kind of player, or person, so, what strategy's have you all used or thought of that counter standard's current top deck? It is currently MILES ahead of the other decks, with Bant CoCo and humans following closely behind. I skim through threads and we all have the same questions, so maybe this is a good way to start a conversation as a community on salvation to figure for ourselves what we can do to topple the deck. Some of us play PPTQ's and even RPTQ's, we are going to run across tier 1 decks, what would you play to thwart it?
Thanks for the responses
RacerXen
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now:
G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record)
C Eldrazi Tron (9-5)
UG Infect
RW Burn
I feel that most of my meta is humans and tokens. Humans I'm fine with as a I have been on languish decks this season
the problem with tokens is that its really resilient and can easily come back from a board wipe with all its planeswalkers and hangarback walker
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In NYC, where I grew up this is simple honesty with a cup of coffee in hand. I'm sorry, you interpret it as bashing, but all I said was "GW is really really strong in standard with U being the weakest". Where's the bashing here?
????????????
It's like when someone asks me if they're a good guitar player and only know 4 chords... I usually point them to today's pop hits and tell them "If this is your goal, you're good to go", "if you want to play Eruption, well, you'll need a few skills with those digits".
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now:
G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record)
C Eldrazi Tron (9-5)
UG Infect
RW Burn
What I've decided to do,
1) Built G/W tokens
2) Testing the deck
3) Putting it through my Gauntlet
4) Taking notes with my testing group
5) Trying decks that have so called "Decent match ups"= U/R Flyers, U/R Eldrazi Control,G/R Ramp, Mono white humans
6) If it is true that this deck is truly the best, then I well have to sadly put more time into this deck and simply run it the next PPTQ in hopes of preparing for the mirror.
Gauntlet:
1) Bant CoCo
2) Bant Humans
3) UR Flyers
4) UR Eldrazi
5) GR Ramp
6) BW Control
7) Boros Humans (Just Mono White for Needle Spires)
8) The Mirror Ewww
This is what I expect at the PPTQ's the most. When push comes to shove and I guess you need to do the heavy lifting on your own. Today I start testing, so...so far G/W Tokens seems completely absurd in the few test runs I've tried, not only does it cover my misplays but it doesn't really punish your misplays...
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now:
G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record)
C Eldrazi Tron (9-5)
UG Infect
RW Burn
As a Rakdos Mage, G/W tokens is not a scary deck. We have duress and transgress to pluck anything we can't kill, The only card I'm afraid of is secure for 4-5 into gideon emblem/nissa minus. Luckily, wizards printed koz return.
G/W is so good because B/R is not being played despite, IMO, being very well positioned against all the creature decks. B/R however is very bad against B/W-Esper because of red's burn shortage right now.
It reminds me very much of last Standard's B/R Dragon Deck. It could beat Rally with consistency but just got slaughtered to any deck running crackling doom. Current B/R control/midrange(dragons or otherwise) owns any creature deck but looses badly to esper.
Also, trample is non existent. The reason my dragon deck doesn't card about the tokens is because most can't fly. Other decks have to slog thru chump blockers to get to the PWs. So, why isn't trample being played? Because G/R is also not a thing right now. Let's say they re-printed two cards for green, on a 3/4 for 3 and one a 4/5 for 4, both with trample. Problem solved.
Also, the default aggro deck is white. What does white not have...1 mana removal spells. Atarka Red would slaughter G/W tokens because all their removal is sorcery speed. titan strength into temur battle rage.
This doesn't mean G/W tokens is a deck that is only good because it's natural predator isn't being played. It's a good deck. But it's winning so much because it's natural predator isn't being played.
The strength of G/W tokens lies in it's ability to get small points of CA via PW, I think the name of the deck is misleading. It's 100% a Gideon + Angel deck that grinds opponents out but getting ahead on board. Maybe there is a B/R deck out there that can position itself within the current meta game.
G/W Tokens has an unfavorable UR Eldrazi Control match up. After testing I've found that UR can sit back and counter the cards that matter and proceed to pressure their walkers with Drowners and Scions. Ulamog is a beating and usually = GG.
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now:
G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record)
C Eldrazi Tron (9-5)
UG Infect
RW Burn
Well... I guess if you devote literal 80% of your sideboard to beating one deck that you should have a good matchup with it...
Ya, on the surface I'd believe that UR Control has a good matchup, counterspells are good against this deck and UR Control does have the long game needed to go over the top of the deck. It's not a very unfavorable matchup though, at least in my experience.
GW ~ Angels ~ WG
Modern:
RBW ~ Shadowmancer ~ WBR
Legacy:
BUG ~ Shadow Delver ~ GUB
Now, having playing with GW Tokens and seen it's power level, I can safely say it is one of those decks that gets it's advantages off of small incremental board value. It has a huge target on it's head, and even though I do enjoy running it, players are actively trying to beat it
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now:
G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record)
C Eldrazi Tron (9-5)
UG Infect
RW Burn
GW ~ Angels ~ WG
Modern:
RBW ~ Shadowmancer ~ WBR
Legacy:
BUG ~ Shadow Delver ~ GUB
I feel that its really good at playing through hate as well. After the control player casts a languish, it can start making more tokens, assuming the tokens don't just survive through because of Nissa's negative adding counters, Gideon's emblem
Still, as long as people try to beat it on the ground, they will loose. Nissa is not so much a game winner but a game delayer until Gideon and Secure pop up.
The key to beating it is evasion and sweepers. If you have both, I think you'll be favored. Kalitas also wreaks havok on the deck, like he did with Rally. Can you imagine if they reprint Spectral Procession? Then Tokens would be insane.
I imagine Red will get back a really good burn spell or 2 with eldritch moon and Kaledesh, home of Chandra, should be rife with good burn. In the mean time, how does the flash flier deck do against the tokens? I would imagine pretty good since everything in the deck is instant speed fliers.
All in all, Wizards, just reprint lightning strike or searing blood and we're good. As much as I want an anger of the gods reprint, I do actually want non red aggro to do well and think the human deck is pretty cool. They are the warrior deck of the past only now Rally the ancestors and anger of the gods does not hate it out.
The deck was fun but I shelved it for other coco strats to better deal with rites decks and seasons past decks that are prolific in my meta. Maybe give UG tempo a go with the BfZ kiora?
Thalia's Lieutenant in particular is just ridiculous. It has to be the best white two drop printed since Stoneforge Mystic. And certainly would be much better if the two were legal in standard right now.
Was it fun?
Fun is subjective, as I tend to favor Big mana decks that go over the top, hard control decks UB based, and mono red R (Oh Swiftspear Stoke the Flames, such beauty! ). As I played through my matches i found myself....
Enjoying the deck? NO!!!! I guess in retrospect It's a game right? Flashing in Avacyn and blowing your opponent out is always like, YEAH!!!! so, while I think the standard format is "broken", as in the truly competetive deck are G, W based with B being "okay" but not even close to the other two. U and R are poorly and I mean POORLY represented. It's as if this standard forgot about the 5 colors and cut it to 3. I don't believe in conspiracies, but maybe this is the direction wizards wants to go?
With the advent of "instant gratification", kids don't work at things anymore. Take it from a musician who is successful and worked his -BLEEP- off for years to obtain the skill level I have to be able to make a living from teachiing privately, playing a festivals and getting invites to do clinics. The kids I teach? Very very very few actually try. It wasn't like this in the 90's, or 80's. Even the most mediocre guitarist actually had chops. Fast foward today? The music is terrible (pop music) and if we compare that to the 90's and before, there is no comparison. (Please note there is excellent music being made today, but sadly this is not main stream). How does this influence MTG? People don't like U, they don't like having their cards do nothing on cast, and dislike their hands being disrupted and or things removed. You get decks like G/W Tokens, and a format that is short on answers. This is a fundamentally flawed standard, but not terrible. Rally was going to oppressive if not for the rotation.
In the end, we are playing a game, and I think a thread like this "reflection on current standard" should be a mainstay in our forums as a way for our community to share thoughts and ideas. The pros are pros, we can also meta game and come up with solutions. Tom Ross showed us Humans with a red splash is extremely good, this is development of the last 2 weeks. If we all explored the standard card pool more and tried more combinations I think we could combat things better. However, sometimes a deck is just that good, and or colors are simply better at a given time.
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now:
G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record)
C Eldrazi Tron (9-5)
UG Infect
RW Burn
RB Midrange-control is the only deck I think has a shot outside those that go wide or use collected company, piling in proactive card advantage engines like Abbot of Keral Keep, Kolaghan's Command and Goblin Dark-Dwellers. I'm not sure if the mana base could support white for Hallowed Moonlight and Declaration in Stone, but it might be worth a try.
&lol at blue being bad this standard because kids these days.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spikes/comments/4pz2mx/standard_top_100_metagame_breakdown_at_gp/
See that meta game? I love how some players refuse to believe standard isn't warped atm. Let's all hope U, R and B get massive upgrades. If not...well, I guess it's on to modern.
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now:
G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record)
C Eldrazi Tron (9-5)
UG Infect
RW Burn
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 19 years later.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains that hurt the mind and given up worrying once and for all. Be patient and tough. One day this pain will be useful to you.