The Best Standard Deck Ever Tournament and Decklists
This year we're working on something super special and fun: over the coming months Richard and I will be battling our way through a bracket of the 64 most iconic Standard decks in the 30+ year history of Magic. We'll be posting videos weekly on Mondays until we finish the bracket and crown a deck the best Standard deck ever! The first episode goes live on Monday with Caw Blade from 2011 against Vivi Cauldron from 2025!
Before the tournament starts I wanted to post this article as a reference. It has of the decklists that we'll be using along with the bracket itself! If you want to take a stab at filling out the bracket March Madness style and predict the winners, I'll try to figure out some sort of prize for whoever does the best (although it will take 63 matches to finish the bracket, so we won't know the winner for just over a year)! Anyway, here's the bracket and the decklists, and make sure to check back on Monday for the first match of the Best Standard Deck Ever Tournament!
Click here to see the bracket in Google Sheets. If you want to fill out a bracket of your own, go to the sheet, click "File" and then "Make a copy" and then you should be able to fill out the cells yourself and then share it with us on Twitter or Bluesky with the hashtag #BestStandardDeckEver (you can also tag us @SaffronOlive and @MTGGoldfish).
Decklists
*Note: Richard and Seth each get two wildcard decks which can be any Standard deck they choose from any era. The lists for the wildcard decks will be added once they are chosen.
