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Introduction
It’s this time of the year again when the general population of competitive Magic players foray briefly into Standard for the current RC cycle. I’m not much of a Standard player these days, aside from those short windows, but I watched a good amount of coverage from PT Seattle and played the Standard Open at MagicCon Chicago a few months back, so I had a vague idea of how the format looks before starting my preparations.
Let me preface this article by saying that I wasn’t going into my testing pigeonholed into playing UW. I wanted to find a strong, popular deck and tune it, which likely meant going back to Esper that I played in Chicago. But, after seeing the results from the PT, where Esper’s performance was middling at best and UW boasted the highest win rate amongst popular decks, I’ve decided that I’m not going to fo...