“Type II” was announced in January 1995. The earliest tournament winning standard deck I’ve been able to find was Vice Age, from U.S. Nationals 1995.<\/p>\n
Most of the decks I use for Ultimate Standard come from spring or summer, when the card pool usually is largest, and presumably most well-honed. Standard decks built from only 5 legal sets usually are weaker than decks built from 8 legal sets. But there are exceptions. To see which sets were legal when, and which decks were winning at those times, see the timeline of standard on wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Most decklists were found from WOTC’s event coverage archives. Some come from a StarCityGames event, but the earliest decks required digging around in the Wayback Machine, the magic dojo, yawgatog, or looking up old usenet posts.<\/p>\n Decklists by year:<\/p>\n 1995<\/a> “Type II” was announced in January 1995. The earliest tournament winning standard deck I’ve been able to find was Vice Age, from U.S. Nationals 1995. Most of the decks I use for Ultimate Standard come from spring or summer, when the card pool usually is largest, and presumably most well-honed. Standard decks built from only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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