Hi MTGA community! Got to Mythic today (8th) as the title suggests, which is my second fastest climb ever! I'm really enjoying the Standard meta post ban, so I actually enjoy playing standard a lot right now! (who would've thought!) The journey to get here was not an easy one, but fun nonetheless.

I'm sharing my post-ban meta analysis below. This is my first post of this kind, so please be nice :P

This is my subjective experience, but I've probably played at least 100 games to get here (maybe 150?) so there shouldn't be too much bias. It's hard to give an exact percentage on each one, so just add an invisible +/- 5% to each of them. 

**25% Azorius Control** \- The deck I'm running (and the deck I'd probably recommend playing). Has no real bad match ups, except being on the draw against mono red can be rough. If this post gets enough traction/upvotes, I will share my full list as well as justification in a separate post (this post is already long enough as-is)  
How to beat: \[\[Boltwave\]\], Instant speed creatures

**20% Jund Reanimator** \- Plan A is to discard big dinos to cards like \[\[Invasion of Ergamon\]\] and reanimating them with \[\[Zombify\]\] or \[\[Rakdos Joins Up\]\]. However, it also has a (pretty solid) plan B of just hard-casting the dinos with 4 \[\[Cavern of Soul\]\].   
How to beat: Graveyard hate

**20% Mono Red** \- Nothing to explain here lol  
How to beat: \[\[Beza, the Bounding Spring\]\] or play Rabbit aggro

**15% Izzet aggro** \- The deck lost CSC, but the new version has a discard-theme. It features cards like \[\[Marauding Mako\]\], \[\[Fear of Missing Out\]\] and \[\[Tersa Lightshatter\]\] as its shell. It only includes spicy additions such as \[\[Agatha's Soul Cauldron\]\]. Despite being an agro deck, it has surprising reach and resilience, thanks to cards like \[\[Winternight Stories\]\]  
How to beat: \[\[Temporary Lockdown\]\], Graveyard hate also mildly effective

**10% Selesnya Rabbit aggro** \- \[\[Pawpatch Recruit\]\], \[\[Valley Mightcaller\]\], \[\[Burrowguard Mentor\]\]. \[\[Valley Questcaller\]\], etc.  
How to beat: \[\[Temporary Lockdown\]\]

**10% Off-meta**

Conclusion:  
Overall, I think the Standard meta is as healthy, diverse, and fun as it can realistically get. The only thing I don't like is that EOE will be releasing in the near future (seriously, the pace of releases has been insane), so this beautiful and fun meta will only last another month or so. So enjoy it while you can!

As mentioned before, if this post gets enough traction/I get enough request, will post my deck tech in a separate post. Otherwise, enjoy the analysis and feel free to share your experience!



Got to Mythic on the 8th day of the month! (Sharing meta analysis and breakdown)