{"id":405,"date":"2018-08-05T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/?p=405"},"modified":"2019-04-05T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:18:26","slug":"2018-new-haven-ultimate-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/2018\/08\/05\/2018-new-haven-ultimate-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 New Haven Ultimate Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I keep changing my methodology a bit, and this results in changes to my top seeds. I realized I hadn&#8217;t given Kithkin the points it deserved from a tournament long ago, so it ended up getting into the top 16 for this tournament &#8211; and it did great, making it to the semis! We gave Combo Elves a 2nd chance and it knocked out CawBlade in a very lucky game 5 with a Mirror Entity under a hideaway land. The quarterfinals were full of new decks, with Combo Elves, Infect, Rally, Kithkin, and 5 color bloodbraid making their marks. This would shake things up and knock several storied decks out of the top 16 for the subsequent tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner: 2006 Dragonstorm<br>Runner-Up: 2010 UW Superfriends<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Ultimate-Standard-840x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Ultimate-Standard-840x1024.png 840w, http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Ultimate-Standard-246x300.png 246w, http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Ultimate-Standard-768x936.png 768w, http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Ultimate-Standard-105x128.png 105w, http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Ultimate-Standard-26x32.png 26w, http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Ultimate-Standard.png 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep changing my methodology a bit, and this results in changes to my top seeds. I realized I hadn&#8217;t given Kithkin the points it deserved from a tournament long ago, so it ended up getting into the top 16 for this tournament &#8211; and it did great, making it to the semis! We gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}