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[Standard] Ban winners losers

Standard

So we just had white the shakeup.

Per MTGgoldfish past month, the current T8 most popular decks are (winners βœ…; losers 🫠):

  1. prowess (lost talent 🫠)

  2. Jeskai lessons (gran 🫠gran)

  3. WG Ouro (Lost cub 🫠)

  4. spellementals βœ…

  5. 4CC βœ…β¬†οΈπŸ‘πŸ½

  6. mono G LF (cub 🫠)

7)Dimir x (βœ…πŸ‘πŸ½)

8)izzet lessons (πŸ« πŸ˜΅πŸ’€)

While I didn’t expect all this (noteworthy just one more RCQ season left before talent was rotating out in Jan with many other cards) this is a decent ban upstate. The top 5 standard decks were pretty locked with just minor % changes each week.

This successfully hits each of the t3 decks (including every variation of prowess/spells/self bounce which is like ~19% of the meta), without outright killing any deck (except maybe izzet lessons, im sure you all will figure it out tho Ancestral is still quite the card).

Seems this should also give any decks that had a bad MU against the 3 most popular decks a window of opportunity as well.

What are your thoughts?

Posted Aug 10, 2026, 4:21 PM UTC

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