New Standard, Old Tricks

With a couple days of new Standard under their belt, Gerry and Bryan are ready to share their first impressions. And those impressions are generally summed up by a simple mantra: “Play Omnath and Lotus Cobra.” Drawing your deck on Turn 4, turns producing dozens of mana, passively gaining tons of life, ample card advantage… It’s all possible for Four-Color Genesis Ultimatum. Is there any hope, or are we doomed to another two years of Standard defined by ramp?

Music:
Mega Man 2 “Ending theme”
Remix by zookun | Music composed by Manami Matsumae & Takashi Tateishi

Timestamps:
Gerry and Bryan’s Omnath lists – 4:43
How to combat Omnath – 12:54
Reevaluating DFCs – 32:13
Janelle was right – 49:55
Question of the week – 59:49

4 Omnath, Locus of Creation (ZNR) 232
1 Mountain (UND) 94
2 Island (UND) 90
1 Plains (UND) 88
4 Lotus Cobra (ZNR) 193
4 Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath (THB) 229
4 Genesis Ultimatum (IKO) 189
3 Radha, Heart of Keld (M21) 224
4 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove (THB) 169
2 Forest (UND) 96
4 Fabled Passage (ELD) 244
2 Riverglide Pathway (ZNR) 264
3 Cragcrown Pathway (ZNR) 261
4 Tangled Florahedron (ZNR) 211
1 Bala Ged Recovery (ZNR) 180
4 Turntimber Symbiosis (ZNR) 215
4 Escape to the Wilds (ELD) 189
1 Thassa’s Oracle (THB) 73
2 Spikefield Hazard (ZNR) 166
4 Shatterskull Smashing (ZNR) 161
2 Glasspool Mimic (ZNR) 60
Sideboard
2 Spikefield Hazard (ZNR) 166
3 Valakut Exploration (ZNR) 175
4 Mystical Dispute (ELD) 58
3 Elder Gargaroth (M21) 179
3 Redcap Melee (ELD) 135

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