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Important: I don't have card images for all cards so, if you want to know what a card does, either go to the spoiler pages, or download the Apprentice Patch, which features all of the decks in .dec format. Welcome to the Palouranos tournament center! Here is the place to find all about the cool decks we developers came up with while balancing Palouranos. The format is Rick's Standard, and includes my previous block, Verdict, and Palouranos, standalone set for the Palouranos block. You can see how the environment looked like before on the Revenge Tournament Center. If you have tried your hands at building a Rick's Standard deck, you can send it to me at ricklongo at gmail dot com. If your deck is really competitive, I'll add it to this list, along with your credits for coming up with it. |
| Decks to Beat |
 White Weenie Rick's Standard deck |
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19 Plains
1 Tatalos 20 land 4 Veteran Colonel 4 Myrmex Sergeant 4 Vigilant Eagle 4 Trap-Field Striker 3 Tatalos Enlister 4 Kampa Runekeeper 3 Golden Pegasus 3 Myrmex Citizen 29 creatures |
4 Softgust Season
4 Eternal Allegro 3 Communal Cause 11 other spells |
3 Balm Falcon
3 Repress 3 Windborne Reward 3 Angelic Rebirth 3 Kampa Motto 15 sideboard cards |
| With the powerful choices featured in Palouranos, I'm proud to announce that White Weenie is probably the deck to beat in Rick's Standard. The deck now is revolves around the powerful enchantment Communal Cause, which came in handy along with the of really efficient one-drops available for white. |
  B/R Pillar Rick's Standard deck |
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5 Swamp
4 Mountain 4 Fetid Edge 3 Enenah Marsh 3 Grounds of the Aeon 19 land 3 Melanotic Poltergeist 2 Stretching Demon 2 Mineblaster Minotaur 7 creatures |
3 Pillar of Unfulfilled Dreams 3 Brass Medal 3 Lavaspit Season 2 Radioactive Season 4 Flaring Gaze 3 Foul Penalty 3 Past Hauntings 4 Desolate 4 Violent Avalanche 2 Pyric Tempest 3 Rend Asunder 34 other spells |
4 Engulf
4 Medusa's Gaze 4 Flamoros' Retaliation 3 Frozen Clover 15 sideboard cards |
| RB Pillar is basically a LD deck that seeks to abuse the power of Pillar of Unfulfilled Dreams. Fetid Edge guarantees that every single spell you play is infused. Aside from LD, the deck packs burn, creature kill, and finishers like Stretching Demon and Melanotic Poltergeist. The deck has a hard time beating White Weenie, especially if a Communal Cause resolves, but has wonderful matchups again most control decks. |
| Monored Materialism Rick's Standard deck |
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15 Mountain
4 Arborized Peak 4 Grounds of the Aeon 1 Trece 24 land 4 Goblin Firehandler 4 Rabid Cur 4 Enenah Bulwark 4 Volt Elemental 1 Hydra of the Ashen Peaks 17 creatures |
3 Materialism
4 Flaring Gaze 4 Carbon Ray 3 Pyric Tempest 1 Conflagrate 2 Lavaspit Season 2 Engulf 20 other spells |
3 Simulate in Flames
2 Rend Asunder 4 Mineblaster Minotaur 4 Frozen Clover 2 Engulf 15 sideboard cards |
| R/G Materialism, one of the most powerful pre-Palouranos decks, has morphed into a monored version, to take advantage of the powerful monocolor cards in the new block. The deck is more consistent, and still seeks to abuse Materialism. In game 2, the deck can bring in LD cards to combat other control decks. |
| Mono-White Control Rick's Standard deck |
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18 Plains
3 Grounds of the Aeon 1 Tatalos 22 land 3 Flashwing Celestral 4 Watch of the Circles 2 Astral Traveler 2 Tatalos Enlister 11 creatures |
4 Brass Medal
4 Eternal Allegro 3 Avenging Light 3 Schemes of Victory 3 Spiritwash 3 Justus's Prohibition 2 Repress 3 Battlefield Prayer 2 Build City 27 other spells |
4 Besiege
4 Peace and Calm 4 Windborne Reward 3 Frozen Clover 15 sideboard cards |
| Mono-White is another powerful control choice. It edges out U/W Control due to the possibility of running cards like Justus's Prohibition and Tatalos. It has a hard time against LD, but has good matchups against aggro and other control decks. |
 Ephemerous Delight Rick's Standard deck |
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17 Forest
1 Kentros 18 land 4 Gardenwatch Elf 4 Windsearch Druid 4 Locaran Acolyte 3 Aeopus, Kentros Liege 3 Elvish Naturalist 3 Retritherion 3 Circus Flutist 2 Ophine Archer 2 Glowing Dryad 2 Ophine Potionmaster 30 creatures |
4 Ephemerous Delight
4 Exotic Scent 4 Flowerbloom Season 12 other spells |
2 Ophine Archer
3 Model the Will 3 Frozen Clover 4 Spirit of Commitment 3 Sylvan Tribute 15 sideboard cards |
| Ephemerous Delight is still an abusive deck that can win as soon as turn 3, given a good hand. Its late game was improved a little with the awesome card drawing power of Aeopus, Kentros Liege. Against white decks, it has became a bit weaker, since the deck is very vulnerable to Schemes of Victory. |
 Mono-Blue Control Rick's Standard deck |
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17 Island
1 Noimos 3 Grounds of the Aeon 21 land 4 Silver-Veil Limnades 4 Mindburst Limnades 3 Great Debater 3 Lifetime Banisher 2 Scylla of the Great Lake 16 creatures |
2 Mists of the Great Lake
4 Brass Medal 4 Witflow Season 4 Bubble Burst 4 Disturb 3 Eyes of Oloi-Mystikos 2 Obvious Hypothesis 23 other spells |
4 Deceitful Delivery
4 Shifting Doubt 4 Wash Out 3 Alchemist's Brason 15 sideboard cards |
| Mono-Blue features tons of card drawing in both spells and creatures. Its main plan is to draw, counter and bounce until it can set up an infused, game-ending Scylla of the Great Lake. Its worst matchups are fast, aggressive decks, and most of its sideboard slots are dedicated to beating them. |
| U/W Trove Rick's Standard deck |
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7 Plains
6 Island 2 Skyscape Fields 3 Grounds of the Aeon 4 Frozen Surface 22 land 3 Watch of the Circles 3 Flashwing Celestral 1 Astral Traveler 7 creatures |
4 Avenging Light
3 Battlefield Prayer 3 Eternal Allegro 2 Trove of Beliefs 3 Schemes of Victory 3 Obvious Hypothesis 4 Shifting Doubt 3 Bubble Burst 4 Witflow Season 2 Brass Medal 31 other spells |
4 Lifetime Banisher
4 Repress 4 Windborne Reward 3 Wash Out 15 sideboard cards |
| U/W Trove decreased in power, since it fails to take advantage of most of the powerful monocolor cards in Palouranos. Still, it's a very viable choice, and where it lacks Mono-White's and Mono-Blue's consistency, it has a wider range of answers. |
| Mono-Black Aggro Rick's Standard Constructed deck |
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21 Swamp
1 Fedes 22 land 4 Rogue Goodsharer 4 Melanotic Poltergeist 4 Coffin Vermin 4 Dreadgaze Medusa 3 Lifetime Torturer 3 Silent Betrayer 1 Cerberus of the Foul Glade 23 creatures |
4 Radioactive Season
4 Foul Penalty 4 Past Hauntings 3 Queen's Ultimatum 15 other spells |
4 Shifting Rascal
4 Undead's Uproar 4 Sinister Call 3 Lurk in Shadows 15 sideboard cards |
| Mono-Black is another viable aggro deck. It has a good matchup against white weenie, and against control, it packs a lot of discard. |
| Monored Aggro Rick's Standard deck |
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21 Mountain
1 Trece 22 land 4 Goblin Firehandler 4 Circus Flamespitter 4 Firebound Oreads 4 Coal-Eye Oread 4 Mineblaster Minotaur 2 Offering Warden 2 Hydra of the Ashen Peaks 24 creatures |
3 Crimson Fate
3 Flakes of the Forge 4 Violent Avalanche 4 Lavaspit Season 20 other spells |
4 Aether Aspersion
4 Enenah Bulwark 4 Searing Mage 2 Thatos, Son of Fire 1 Crimson Fate 15 sideboard cards |
| Mono-Red Aggro is a deck chock full of aggressive creatures, burn, and land destruction. If Hydra of the Ashen Peaks hits play and its controller untaps, it's pretty much game over. |
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