Mtg: Top 25 OTJ Cards That Are Actually Seeing Play in Standard

Outlaws of Thunder Junction has been legal in standard for almost a week now, and we've got a few MTGO Challenge events under our belt, so we're starting to get an understanding of what OTJ cards are actually making the cut! With the Pro Tour coming up next weekend, what cards from the new set are already breaking out?
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[@whatdothlife4660]

The intro of this video is a first-person view of the Mount mechanic on Chicken.

[@N3gativeR3FLUX]

😂

[@phillipmorales8213]

Chicken is the classic cat, wants in for 25 minutes, finally gets in and then immediately leaves after a few scratches.

[@capealio]

16:41 "I'm in" 😂

[@kibspoker]

Hey Dev, thanks for this video - excited for your next videos on OTJ - please oh please. Take care bruh

[@TheDuckofLaw]

I'm stoked for Railway Brawler in my green Stompy Standard deck. He's fuel when you need it.

[@iancavalari7286]

I like the dust dude a lot. I’ve been playing a mono white midrange shell with him and having decent results. I need aven guy and some invasions of gobakan to complete.

[@sshroom7713]

Thank you.

[@capealio]

4:00 subbed 😂

[@jb9551]

Hey Dev, not sure if there’s a lot of demand for it, but I usually don’t get to watch your videos and have to get my sbmtg content in audio form, and would really appreciate if you would read out each card particularly in the early videos of a set. Understandable if others don’t want it, but would make your content much more accessible for me :)

[@goalieman99251]

Can you link by chance where you saw this Jessi artifact deck you mentioned at the start of the video? I love that card and I’m trying to make it work.

[@KoshoShinogi]

I'm curious what jeskai list he's seen as well. They've been adding more and more artifact support in the past few sets, but I've been disappointed seeing what people have done. Everyone has just been making a UW tap out control pile with only Thousand Moon Smithy as a realistic win condition. It's only thanks to Legion Extruder, the poor man's Bonecrusher Giant, that anyone is giving jeskai a look. But personally though, I don't even think that's the best reason to add red. There are other strong red artifacts that have existed before OTJ. Gleaming Geardrake is a great 2-drop. Puts 2 artifacts on the board, it's evasive, it grows larger, and gives you some card advantage. If you can get Worldwalker Helm spitting out map tokens, Gleaming Geardrake can get out of control. Another slept on card from MKM is Detective's Satchel. It does everything. Puts a bunch of artifacts into play, gives you card advantage and board presence. And like Dev alluded to, Skitterbeam Battalion with Simulacrum Synthesizer is absurd. It puts 6 creatures on the board, 3 of which are Karnstructs, for 5 mana. One other sneaky good prototype card to throw in here is Steel Seraph. Even a prototyped Seraph will trigger the Synthesizer, and now you have the ability to give your huge Karnstructs either flying or lifelink.

[@dameongeppetto]

I use one Final Showdown in my control and midrange decks in Arena and it always catches out the "drop every creature in my hand cause I have the mana up" aggro players. Instant board wipe is a new thing and it works fabulous. Several times my opponent has scooped after they dropped 2+ extra creatures into a sweeper and left themselves on the draw even though I was low on life from their initial onslaught.

[@sheaandrus-oak6546]

Any world champion card is gonna be good (duelist of the mind)

[@danielklein5829]

tinybones joins up isn't a mill plan, having built with it, the value is just making every legendary essentially have an ETB crime trigger. I built a dimir crimes list and you play joins up turn 1, vadmir turn 2, and you have a 3/3, kaervek or lazav turn 3 etc. very quickly you're just crimeing every turn and on your opponent's turns and your board is extremely powerful.

[@danielweston8352]

I completely tune out calls to action on KZbin, or I can sometimes even find them mildly irritating, but Dev rightly feels absurd doing them so he gets my like for being a humble and grounded and decent human being.

[@N3gativeR3FLUX]

I'm working on tweaking a boros list will virtuoso and ruckus. Goes nuts with the right draws. I should probably stop trying to jam discover shenanigans in there though...

[@AutkastKain]

Honest Rutstein can also go infinite with tyvar, roots, and either 1 more more copy of roots or relic of legends. Legendary gloomshrieker that doesn't exile itself was just asking to be looped from the yard

[@germanyjones2700]

You my spirit animal dev

[@tonythepokemonguy751]

I like the power of the big score cards, but alot of them don’t need to be mythics

[@ShadesOfMisery]

Dev, I think I've made a solid Hollow Marauder deck. As a fellow Hollow believer, would you be interested?

[@glorybringer8817]

I meet nurturing pixie in deck that use 1 mana discard enchant + 2 mana artifact that says sac creature, she replay them every turn and kill both my hand and board in first 3 turns

[@MrMeldonius]

No Terror of the Peaks? 😲

[@brandonding2257]

Set is good but set is soooo expensive 😢

[@Hundo_Mo]

Chicken is all our favorite cat, right?

[@jackiespaceman]

YEEHAW PARDNER … … Yeah that’s all I got

[@capealio]

where can i find these decks you're talking about

[@adelkazi]

Cool cat

[@robertthornton5106]

I listened to the reminder to like, fyi

[@capealio]

it looks like youre sitting on your coffee table

[@jackiespaceman]

It’s really sad that they’ve tried so hard to give Kellan or any of these new characters a personality and yet Ol’ Rutstein is easily the most cool character now, and it’s all from flavor text and mechanics😢

[@edeon]

TFS and StS, back to back song cards and nothing silly from Dev? who are you and what did you do to him?

[@capealio]

i wish i was nerd enough to understand tje majority of what youre saying. im at the high noon card

[@sheaandrus-oak6546]

Of course, boros wants it. It's 1/1 tribal

[@jmoney9494]

No jace reawakened lol

[@davidcorneau8503]

Well in Standard i haven’t seen it getting played as much as in timeless

[@obadijahparks]

The otj cards being standard added too many mythics....

[@jackiespaceman]

A 4 mana 5/5 trampler that eventually either gives you life or draws you two cards? “Playable” in 2024

[@DanielRodriguez-hd9vp]

Early Gang💪🏽🫡

[@nachogames6562]

I want a sub sandwich and idk why