“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 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.

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.

Decklists by year:

1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019