THE BEST DECK IN STANDARD!👁 MTG Arena Qualifier Victory🥳

[@JSmith213]

been trying to pick a deck for my first standard tournament next month, your channel has been a fantastic source of info for the decks of the current meta!

[@ytJnC]

Congrats! Of supreme irony, I played against this exact deck build this morning, with me piloting your Dimir Faerie build. I’m only just getting back into the game after a decade hiatus. But I eked out a Sharky win, after a greedy swing by two Djiins. 🤓The same Fae cardboard deck took me to FNM win at my local shop. Thx for all of the instruction and patient gameplay. 🙏😎

[@sod1237]

wow, the hidden idea of unsummon is higher tier play. love it.

[@SNDVeteran]

chikorita whips the hair back and forth

[@quick2k692]

Love your content. Banger video as always.

[@Ashlizzlle]

🫶

[@samanthalouise641]

This deck just does work! Now in the top 300 after my latest win. I love siding in monastery mentor for decks filled with spot removal. I haven’t gotten the turn two oculus yet, I got close I had surveil land and revival spell only to draw the oculus to start the game 😭, but damn have I pulled off some fun stuff. Most disgusting thing I’ve done of late was helping hands for a mentor and then recommission for an oculus and I just ran away with that game. Thanks as always for the videos and decklists.

[@Kasaaz]

This deck has been so fun to mess around with and tweak. In Bo1, I even recommend just dumping the Djinns and running Main Deck Monastery Mentors and Founding the Third Paths. Mentor is a nightmare for targeted removal and for Red Aggro and with no Djinns to worry about, I think Third Path is better because you get double Prowess / Token triggers, and you will play Oculus from your hand FAR more often.

[@markdd4281]

Finally someone understands the power of unsummon. ❤

[@edkolbe1850]

Imagine if they gave us vapor snag back

[@PhaseZero-cq6ow]

Isn't flood maw strictly better?

[@markdd4281]

@PhaseZero-cq6ow being able to target your own creatures is phenomenal but it's a deck by deck decision for sure

[@zigzag2370]

someone needs to check out this town aint big enough for the both of us 😅 sure its 2 mana but not only can it save or reset etb 2 of your own permanent you can also tempo the opponent by saving your creature or returning ikora to dig further and maybe returning their leyline binding that was holding your occulus or something

[@michaelreadnower4424]

Yeah I always used ephemeras dispersal before also like the surveil 2.. unsummon being 1 mana all the time seems really nice.

[@Alexhandre13]

Unsummon makes blue based decks significantly better. I came back to mtg with bloomburrow and It felt really weird brewing without the card, i'm glad it's back. Anyway, you're my favorite mtg content creator rn, keep it up!

[@Ashlizzlle]

Appreciate you!!

[@kunimitsune177]

Blue based *creature decks It does nothing for full tempo/control.

[@lordsnowdragon7834]

Congrats Ash!

[@FilmColossus]

19:12 19 land deck and yet you flooded the previous match and saw like 13 lands in this one lol. Shuffler is a menace

[@Ashlizzlle]

🥲 hurts every time

[@anthonyblea6906]

helping hand plus eyeball is crazywork.

[@Kasaaz]

I had someone on the play drop Waking Nightmare which let me discard one, then go White Source, Helping Hand to put it into play on my first turn. Was nuts.

[@brunoholanda1052]

omg Ash, such amazing player you are! GOOO PEEEPS

[@Ashlizzlle]

🥹

[@KavkaObscura]

30:26 Lockdown topdeck right after they defended their rip AND milling peeps + helping hand - that's pure FILTH by the shuffler. Poor oppo

[@terrymay952]

Blue eyes is one of the best decks in standard

[@Ashlizzlle]

It is!!

[@chirpycatto]

Waiting on a good white dragon for a true yugioh deck 😤

[@ScornfulEg0tist]

@@chirpycatto okay but the white sorceries do be draggin' the eyes out of the yard

[@Firemind39]

Blue eyes white sorceries

[@ReyaadawnMTG]

I kept facing his deck in the metagame challenge and almost always losing to it. It is really strong.

[@Ashlizzlle]

Its great!

[@michaelcarlos9667]

amazing deck! and congrats on the qualifier 😊❤

[@XiiZ100]

I add 1 Monastery Mentor :)

[@christopherneil8265]

I thought this was one of those mono blue tempo-control lists, but this is actually more midrange. Thank gods, I have scarring from that deck.

[@darken8649]

I was so hoping you'd play Dimir occulus for the qualifier but congrats all the same! Unsummon is so good with occulus. 😊

[@nathanmiller7768]

I won my store champ with peebs! So excited for more UW gameplay

[@Ashlizzlle]

Congrats!!☺️

[@nathanmiller7768]

Thanks! You too!

[@WilliamSmall-wd3mi]

Nice! I took 2nd to mono red at mine with oculus.

[@Arlithian]

54:00 The fairy can attack too. Didnt need to pump the djinn to win

[@MrHatch530]

Congrats!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@dannybrez]

I'm loving all the oculus gameplay, after pulling three of them I am hoping to have my own version of this built as my first standard deck :D

[@crimsonjester4380]

With Unsummon it's never over 🙏🏻

[@peterwillems2422]

Pre-FDN, I added Guardian of New Benalia (Instant, EOT discard) , and Mockingbird to my peeps deck. I was excited to see unsummon in the previews, and Kiora is spicy tech. This is what I was running. 4 Abhorrent Oculus (DSK) 42 2 Idyllic Beachfront (DMU) 249 4 Chart a Course (XLN) 48 4 Floodfarm Verge (DSK) 259 4 Haughty Djinn (DMU) 52 4 Helping Hand (LCI) 17 4 Into the Flood Maw (BLB) 52 4 Island (UNF) 241 4 Meticulous Archive (MKM) 264 1 Adarkar Wastes (DMU) 243 1 Plains (UNF) 240 4 Recommission (BRO) 22 4 Seachrome Coast (ONE) 258 4 Three Steps Ahead (OTJ) 75 4 Mockingbird (BLB) 61 4 Elspeth's Smite (MOM) 13 4 Guardian of New Benalia (DMU) 19

[@cloudyminion1452]

What matchups are sheltered by ghosts for? I would have thought elspeth’s smite was better against red decks as the one mana interaction allows us to more rapidly advance our gameplan

[@darthsantaCLAWZ]

They can grow out of smite range with enough buffs or the hexproof enchantment will protect.

[@samuelgames8970]

sheltered is an absolutely insane swing against any aggro deck. Remove their best permanent, give your biggest thing +1/+0 and lifelink and ward 2, swing. Even if they can remove it, usually that life swing and tempo loss (extra 2 mana for removal) is enough. The last game showcased really well how good it is even in one of its worst case senarios.

[@nachitogameplays9024]

What a masterpiece

[@samanthalouise641]

Congratulations

[@mrcobrabubbles6889]

Fading hope woulda gone hard in this meta

[@Ashlizzlle]

I MISS IT SO MUCH.. and spell pierce

[@carlinorandagio]

Unsummon such a sweet card! But why choosing Get Lost over Soul Partition? Is that for any specific match-up?

[@NexusRoy1]

So, every deck, is the best deck in standard or the most broken?

[@MarkChaney-b8k]

This deck reminds me of old school delver decks

[@Mognet_t]

I love this deck so much

[@panagiotisgeorgopoulos7478]

Didn't notice if you ever used Unsummon on your own stuff, but isn't Into the Flood maw better for the occassional non creature permanent bounce?

[@tay.lor.phillips]

Haughty Djin is not in MTGA, am I doing something wrong?

[@trykktv8156]

Would you make any changes if you ran this in best of one?

[@FFXIMath]

I remember when I played this before foundations and thought how much this needed unsummon.

[@gabehorn5079]

Isnt flood maw better?

[@HaleG9]

Plural of Octopus is Octopussies, as we all know, but do not say ;). Congratz - that was a great run!

[@brianmadden6457]

How in the world do i beat Dimir with this deck waht is sideboard strat? i keep getting steam rolled

[@xwolfpiratex]

I keep seeing these new oculus decks running a playset of unsummon. Im soooo curious how thats better than Into the Flood Maw?

[@Ashlizzlle]

I believe i talk about this in the deck tech but basically: protect your creatures + put manifested cards back in your hand as upsides

[@xwolfpiratex]

@Ashlizzlle ohhh, I haven't finished the video yet. Makes sense I forget that flood maw is only opps creatures. I know get lost deals with enchantments too but flood maw has saved me in so many games. 1 mana get rid of any permanent that's stopping me from winning is just so clutch 👌🏽 I'm sure you also talk about why get lost over soul partition so I'll finish the video! 🥳

[@evanq9743]

Bro skipped the first 2 minutes of the video

[@xwolfpiratex]

Lol hilarious 2 seconds later you literally talk about it 😂

[@xwolfpiratex]

@@evanq9743 Yeah I stopped as soon as I saw the list. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@reisen4963]

Tried Opt but it felt like ass in this list, wish we got Consider instead

[@Ashlizzlle]

Really wish they reprinted consider and otherworldy gaze 😭

[@Ambushw23]

Don’t you hate when people crack fable passage in response to your turn 2 play like that matters at all. Just crack it at end of turn like normal, I love when people do stuff in response to your play and it taps them out and it’s something that doesn’t change about your turn especially when they do on first main phase like wait till end of turn you have the lost info you know instantly they’re bad

[@NAhreniir]

so do you hate it or love it, kinda mixed signals in there lmao

[@RazorWolfy512]

KIORA

[@Ashlizzlle]

MOTHER!!

[@islandnowhere4703]

Is UW oculus the new mono R mice? It's just too statisfying to see those turn-three-fling-11/5-trampler getting stomped by PEEPS... in a ✨ QUALIFIER ✨ Good job Ash

[@OAYT8]

Really enjoyed the gameplay! Peeps is so strong

[@JimmyMcCheese]

This my sorta tempwning, Getting caught up in the best deck in STD hype, will report back in two weeks after my next ANZ super qualifier!

[@curtiss9038]

UNSUMMON ENJOYERS RISE 💙

[@jamricsloe]

Having reached #1 in best of three I feel you could compete on the pro tour

[@grubby1107]

I might be missing something, sorry if so, but for Kiora and filling the graveyard would it not be better to run Consider instead of Opt? Maybe Consider is there my phone resolution is bad

[@Xam1da5]

Consider is not currently standard legal

[@piershollott339]

Still calling this Eye/Hand Coordination, but Oculus Octopus writes itself. Unsummon is just so good here.

[@kingdom2]

Fading hope is better than unsummon due to the scry effect, but massive GGs to winning!!! (Fading Hope would be better due to all of your creatures being mana value 3 or less, so you would scry every time you bounced your own creatures back)

[@danielmcbride4800]

Looks like fading hope was in foundations jumpstart, so it's legal in alchemy but not in standard until we get another reprint

[@kingdom2]

@@danielmcbride4800 danggg.. kinda thankful since i dont like mono blue tempo

[@Ashlizzlle]

Wish fading hope was standard legal LOL..

[@alanhong99]

Waiting for a white dragon card printed to make this deck a legend. XD

[@enricomassaro5108]

this deck is loser

[@spenceravila4385]

This video is a little misleading. She states that “unsummon can also target our own permanents”. No it can only target creatures. And having the bonus of bouncing a get lost from manifest dread means you’re losing the match when you u could just into the flood maw ANY of your opponents non land permanents. I’d rather make sure any nasty enchantment gets bounced that bouncing any creature. Especially since this meta is all about enchantments sticking around. Imagine enduring curiosity sticking around permanently after it becomes an enchantment.🤦‍♂️ Also, Kiora in this deck is a weird take. It dies to cut down and I rather bring back a tolarian terror with ward that’s a 5/5 with ward 2 with recommission than Kiora. 🤷‍♂️

[@Ashlizzlle]

I meant to say unsummon can target our own creatures, which if you read the card you'd know You're also just objective wrong, bouncing a permanent still means they can replay it, what does bouncing a curiosity back into my opponents hand do? They replay it as a 4/3 creature anyways, bouncing buys you a turn, it doesnt solve a problem. Unsummon however can solve the problem of having your few wincons exiled or gaining access to a card (manifested) you otherwise couldnt gain access to. That's INFINITELY more valuable in a deck like this, we deal with problematic permanents after sideboarding. On top of that, you playing Tolarian Terror in your Oculus deck means you are severely disconnected from the meta Oculus decks anyway, which is a pretty strong indicator you should probably just observe instead of spreading misleading information in my comments 😉

[@BlazingSerenade]

bro no one asked for your opinion lol - if you like the card then you use it to win a qualifier

[@BlazingSerenade]

can you read recomission and look at Terror's CMC lmao

[@spenceravila4385]

unsummon cannot target your own permanents. It’s not my fault you stated that in your own video. Reading the card explains the card and unsummon didn’t do anything in your videos that into the flood maw would have done more. Yes bouncing a permanent means they can replay it. But isn’t that the point of making your opponent wastes an early t-2 t-3 turn to reply a powerful enchantment/artifact. Sorry but seeing a synthesizer, urabraks forge and up the beanstalk just sit on the field permanently means you’re relying on get lost to solve all your problems which is just wrong in this current meta. And not understanding tolarian terror can easily be easily triggered in this deck shows you rather be a one dimensional deck which is fine but it limits your end game potential but you do you. It’s misleading to a lot of people who see this video thinking that your way is the “new meta version” of this deck when it has less answers than the standard variation of this deck. With all that mill with your pick lock pranksters, chart of course and more, having a terror come out for one cmc seems pretty good to me.

[@BlazingSerenade]

@@spenceravila4385 bro do you not understand how tempo decks work lol