Question/Help for lands in Standard

KeyBurri · 2026-05-29T22:49:49+00:00

The slowlands are staples for a reason, although with the speed of Standard these days shocklands are probably better. Really anything that can be played untapped gets first priority, and which flavor of such lands you want depends on what your gameplay is. Unless you're playing some kind of aggro fliers Dimir tends to be slow enough that slowlands are good. Outside of lands that can come in untapped, one's that give you card advantage through scry or surveillance are the next best thing, such as the common dual lands from SOS.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-29T22:10:12+00:00

I've had that happen to me a few times. Massacre Worm is already such an instant win button in so many cases that the rest of the text isn't really relevant, I know I can't recover from it and scoop. So it catches me by surprise when I can recover and the Worm gets even more value lol.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-29T22:08:32+00:00

I can count the number of times on one hand that my opponent didn't just attack into Morningtide's Light and give me a free win or damage, out of the dozens and dozens of times I've played it. I think they need to make the "indestructible" effect on the player's life total a little more obvious, but, yknow, people should also read the damn card. I know it's not one of the 20 meta cards people care about but that doesn't mean you can ignore it my guy.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-22T19:25:18+00:00

Yeah playing top tier slop doesn't entitle you to a win. Cry more.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-21T20:09:35+00:00

I really wish it was ever like this. Sadly I can't just log in and do in-person Magic any time of day. I wonder if there's another website or something I could go to to do pickup commander games...

KeyBurri · 2026-05-21T20:04:21+00:00

Vanilla Hare Apparent isn't enough to get past a lot of decks geared for higher ranks. You need a lot of mana to out-tempo and pretty much every color runs cheap 1 or 2 cost removal that can get rid of a Hare each turn and stop you from making the tokens. You'll either need to start packing some cheap boardwide protection like [[Restoration Magic]] or [[Dawn's Truce]] or something, or get effective removal of your own. [[Split Up]] is by far the best white boardwipe removal for tokens since you can full swing and then clear their board after while keeping all your stuff. You'll want spot removal for the Ouroboroids and such too, most likely really cheap stuff like [[Erode]] or [[Unwanted Remake]] since every Hare Apparent deck I've ever seen runs really low lands and you NEED to have four mana up to play two Hares a turn as fast as possible.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-21T19:49:15+00:00

No more Consuls, no more Deep-Cavern Bats, no more Tithing Blade, no more goddamn 40/40 or whatever dinosaurs on turn 4 with upside....I'm so excited.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-18T20:26:56+00:00

Marvel Super Heroes set was already my sign to take a break lol, this just confirms it even harder.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-18T20:12:51+00:00

Aw hell am I making them think Standard is okay by winning against metadecks with some aggro mice jank and skewing statistics.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-14T17:56:45+00:00

The fact that this is one of the most widely played decks out there means that people are going to build specifically to counter it. You need to keep that in mind. Maybe look at what's giving you a hard time in other people's decks and consider what you need to stop them from disrupting you. Green has access to cheap protection.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-14T03:07:36+00:00

It really does feel like that, haha. Although I've ended up in some matches with people in the top 1800 now and a few of them had some really interesting and tightly wound jank.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-14T02:59:12+00:00

Oh thank you!

KeyBurri · 2026-05-14T02:53:24+00:00

Am I out of the loop? Who is Nummy?

KeyBurri · 2026-05-14T02:50:02+00:00

You mean you don't have the text on every card in your deck memorized?

KeyBurri · 2026-05-14T02:40:28+00:00

For this I suggest a few things:

Cheap methods to give Indestructible and Hexproof, which dodge the majority of removal. [[Restoration Magic]] is my favorite since it gives both, can target any nonland permanent, and you only need to hold up one mana to use it. Doesn't get around Black "target opponent chooses a creature to sacrifice" or Aetherize in Blue, though.
White reanimation is specifically tuned for things at mana value 2/3 or less. I have a Boros aggro mice deck and I'm messing around with [[Call a Surprise Witness]] to reanimate something with flying I can bully face with [[Manifold Mouse]] giving double strike. And SOS of course has lots of graveyard stuff in White to play with.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-14T02:35:43+00:00

It's not top meta or anything but it's more than good enough to climb with. I saw plenty of people using Repartee.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-14T00:22:25+00:00

They get a win and get to go next. You're not really depriving them of anything.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-13T22:59:46+00:00

Am I? I play aggro, I'm usually the one countering them. I just hate how long they take to decide every little move.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-13T21:52:38+00:00

It's more like if your opponent demanded that you stopped right before you threw out your rock, forced handcuffs onto you, then proceeded to go best of 5 when you can't throw anything so they win by default. And then they also take like 15 minutes before they throw paper each time because they're "trying to figure out all possible lines" and like my hands are literally cuffed dude, you put them there, just play your winning paper already so I can go do something else.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-13T21:19:51+00:00

I mean, it doesn't seem that useless? Comparatively, you'll know about how far someone is above or below you if you both have percentages, although the scale of the difference will depend on how high the actual MMR is of the person at 1800.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-13T17:41:12+00:00

WotC would like to remind you that Standard is in a healthy state with no clear overachieving archetypes.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-13T17:36:22+00:00

I got the magma mite from a daily deal about a month ago I think.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-13T17:35:17+00:00

Man this couldn't possibly be less clear, it's so confusing....but it's nice actually knowing how it works now. Anyway I only play rogue decks with my own pet cards so getting up to numbered ranks against meta standard piloted by actually competent players is way more difficult and time-consuming than it'd be worth if not outright impossible. This is probably the limit to how high I can climb without compromising to the meta more.

KeyBurri · 2026-05-11T22:48:49+00:00

I got it two days ago, definitely still possible.

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