Well, it's a sad day for me here at Standard Deviations. As should be fairly obvious to anyone who is actually attempting to play Magic Online in the past week, there has been an amazing streak of crashing. This causes the wise people who run the servers to shut off anything which isn't really deemed necessary to play the game in order to try and stem the cycle of down, up, down, up that is so frustrating to all of the players of the game. Of course replays aren't really deemed necessary by any stretch of the imagination to play the game, so they have been turned off for a significant portion of the week. This week I only have meta for six of the Premier Events, and two of those events were by the kind help of one of a Wizards of the Coast employee. I don't think it's enough to give a good picture of the metagame, but here is the table anyway:

Colors	Deck Name	Placings	Percentage
	Faeries		33%
	Elves		10%
	Knoll Storm		8%
	Big Mana		8%
	Platinum Control		6%
	Reveillark		6%
	Crusher Deck Wins		6%
	Big Void		4%
	Merfolk		2%
	Primal Mannequin		2%
	Warriors		2%
	Rock		2%
	Kithkin		2%
	Unknown		6%

With any luck the replays will be up after the Single Client Restriction comes back on after the downtime this week, and I'll include this week's replays in a extra-large two-week meta analaysis next Wednesday. In leiu of any decent analysis this week, I think it is prudent to give everyone an idea of what they might be up against, and possibly some idea of what you might want to give a try in the Premier Events or Eight Mans. So this week I have a bunch of lists which will hopefully whet your appetite for the week for juicy tech. For the first installment of the deck-o-pedia as it will be called, I present what I believe are the Tier One decks for this budding standard metagame.

First are the Big Mana decks, also known as Mana Ramp. The main difference between these two variants is the inclusion of black for Void and Extirpate. Some of the other, newer metagame variants of these decks run more Pyroclasm main deck, as well as more Molten Disaster and even Sulfurous Blast in order to combat the increasing amount of creature-heavy decks like Faeries. One other thing to note, while both of these decks are full of snow, there are also versions without the Snow Lands, using the Grove of the Burnwillows in place of the Highland Weald, and Karplusan Forest.

Big Mana

Standard-Morningtide Deck

Creatures 3 Chameleon Colossus 3 Cloudthresher 4 Siege-Gang Commander 3 Tarmogoyf 4 Wall of Roots Other Spells 4 Incinerate 4 Skred 4 Harmonize 4 Into the North 3 Garruk Wildspeaker

Lands 4 Highland Weald 2 Mouth of Ronom 1 Scrying Sheets 6 Snow-Covered Mountain 7 Snow-Covered Forest 4 Treetop Village Sideboard 2 Akroma, Angel of Fury 3 Sulfurous Blast 2 Primal Command 4 Pyroclasm 1 Loxodon Warhammer 3 Tormod's Crypt

Big Void

Standard-Morningtide Deck

Creatures 3 Cloudthresher 4 Siege-Gang Commander 4 Tarmogoyf 4 Wall of Roots Other Spells 3 Incinerate 4 Skred 4 Harmonize 4 Into the North 1 Molten Disaster 2 Search for Tomorrow 1 Void 2 Garruk Wildspeaker

Lands 3 Highland Weald 2 Mouth of Ronom 2 Mutavault 7 Snow-Covered Forest 4 Snow-Covered Mountain 1 Snow-Covered Swamp 4 Treetop Village 1 Tresserhorn Sinks Sideboard 2 Akroma, Angel of Fury 4 Chameleon Colossus 3 Extirpate 1 Molten Disaster 3 Pyroclasm 2 Void

Speaking of Faeries, here's the lists that I gave last week, included here for completion.

Faeries

Standard deck played by Yuuta Takahashi

Creatures 4 Mistbind Clique 4 Pestermite 4 Scion of Oona 3 Sower of Temptation 4 Spellstutter Sprite Other Spells 4 Cryptic Command 4 Nameless Inversion 4 Ancestral Vision 4 Bitterblossom

Lands 3 Faerie Conclave 4 Mutavault 4 River of Tears 4 Secluded Glen 4 Snow-Covered Island 2 Snow-Covered Swamp 4 Underground River Sideboard 4 Bottle Gnomes 2 Razormane Masticore 2 Familiar's Ruse 4 Deathmark 3 Thoughtseize

Faeries

Standard deck played by Olivier Ruel

Creatures 4 Mistbind Clique 4 Oona's Blackguard 4 Pestermite 4 Scion of Oona 4 Spellstutter Sprite Other Spells 3 Cryptic Command 4 Rune Snag 2 Unsummon 2 Notorious Throng 4 Bitterblossom

Lands 4 Faerie Conclave 1 Island 2 Mutavault 2 Pendelhaven 4 River of Tears 4 Secluded Glen 4 Snow-Covered Island 4 Underground River Sideboard 3 Sower of Temptation 4 Flashfreeze 2 Peppersmoke 2 Deathmark 4 Thoughtseize

After Big Mana and Faeries, there are a lot of Elves decks running around still. Here's a list which is inclusive of Morningtide - it was played to second place at a City Champs tournament by Philip Christopher Rama III. There are also some people still playing with basically pre-Morningtide lists of Elves as well.

Elves!

Standard-Morningtide Deck by Philip Christopher Rama III

Creatures 2 Boreal Druid 3 Chameleon Colossus 2 Civic Wayfinder 4 Imperious Perfect 4 Llanowar Elves 1 Masked Admirers 3 Shriekmaw 3 Tarmogoyf 2 Wolf-Skull Shaman 4 Wren's Run Vanquisher Other Spells 1 Eyeblight's Ending 2 Nameless Inversion 3 Profane Command 2 Thoughtseize 1 Loxodon Warhammer

Lands 2 Forest 4 Gilt-Leaf Palace 4 Llanowar Wastes 2 Mutavault 1 Pendelhaven 2 Snow-Covered Forest 3 Swamp 4 Treetop Village 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Sideboard 2 Cloudthresher 1 Elvish Champion 1 Tarmogoyf 2 Extirpate 2 Deathmark 2 Stupor 1 Thoughtseize 2 Seal of Primordium 2 Pithing Needle

Reveillark is also on the radar, with a combo and a non-combo version of the deck running around. Here's a version which is mostly tempo but has the combo as a backup just in case it's drawn. This deck was played by Kenji "Hey Hey You You!" Tsumura to the semi-finals of GPT Shizouka.

Reveillark

Standard-Morningtide Deck by Kenji Tsumura

Creatures 3 Aven Riftwatcher 2 Body Double 1 Mirror Entity 4 Mulldrifter 4 Reveillark 4 Riftwing Cloudskate 2 Sower of Temptation 1 Venser, Shaper Savant Other Spells 2 Careful Consideration 2 Momentary Blink 4 Rune Snag 3 Wrath of God 4 Mind Stone

Lands 4 Adarkar Wastes 8 Island 2 Mutavault 4 Nimbus Maze 6 Plains Sideboard 1 Aven Riftwatcher 2 Crovax, Ascendant Hero 1 Sower of Temptation 3 Wispmare 2 Pact of Negation 3 Remove Soul 3 Teferi's Moat

I've been a proponent of the new Crusher Deck Wins variants, which are mostly straight burn decks, playing creatures which are essentially burn as well. There are lots of variants of this deck, some which include Spark Elemental and some that are more creature-based. Here's the list that I've been playing recently - feel free to lambast my card choices in the comments if you wish.

Crusher Deck Wins

Standard-Morningtide deck suggested by Michael Janssen

Creatures 4 Keldon Marauders 4 Countryside Crusher Other Spells 4 Browbeat 4 Incinerate 4 Lash Out 4 Needle Drop 4 Rift Bolt 4 Sulfurous Blast 4 Shard Volley

Lands 4 Ghitu Encampment 15 Mountain 4 Mutavault 1 Keldon Megaliths Sideboard 4 Bottle Gnomes 4 Dragon's Claw 4 Cryoclasm 3 Martyr of Ashes

Yes, Dragonstorm combo is still alive and kicking. Some of the more recent decks use more burn-oriented builds, and some of them totally eschew the Dragonstorm in order to make the Pyromancer's Swath-Grapeshot combo more reliable. Some of the decks are also using Siege-Gang Commander as a fattie to cast in place of the Bogardan Hellkites. This list is from none other than Patrick "The Innovator" Chapin with new sideboard tech against the creature swarm decks.

Knoll Storm

Standard-Morningtide Deck by Patrick Chapin et al.

Creatures 4 Bogardan Hellkite Other Spells 3 Incinerate 4 Shock 3 Tarfire 4 Dragonstorm 4 Grapeshot 4 Rift Bolt 4 Rite of Flame 2 Pyromancer's Swath 4 Lotus Bloom

Lands 4 Fungal Reaches 4 Molten Slagheap 1 Saltcrusted Steppe 11 Snow-Covered Mountain 4 Spinerock Knoll Sideboard 4 Sulfurous Blast 4 Ignite Memories 3 Pyrohemia 4 Howling Mine

Well, that's about it for the first installment of the Standard-Morningtide deck-o-pedia. When I'm not covering one of these decks again as the Mode of the Week, I'll link the deck name in the meta table to this article so new readers aren't lost. If, god forbid, there is another week in which I have such horrible luck as to not be able to get a decent metagame analysis, be prepared for a second installment which will include all of the Tier 1.5 and possibly some Tier Two decks. Until next week, Good luck in the PEs!