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Originally Posted by bgordon
I think Marvel is going to dominate even more after the PT. Everyone is going to hate this standard. At least there seems to be a lot of viable directions to take the Marvel deck.
Zombies should get a lot worse. They beat up on Mardu and there's no reason to play Mardu with Marvel being the deck to beat. Zombies also fold hard to the 3 mana red sweepers which aren't getting played much right now.
It definitely has bad match ups though, I'd say there's a 50% chance a deck emerges that can handle both Zombies and Marvel well enough (New Perspectives might work against Zombies with 4x Sweltering).
I actually think two really interesting things could be done that wouldn't involve banning Marvel:
#1 Rogue Refiner is the unsung hero of energy decks, it was a central part of Saheeli and now Marvel. And would almost certainly just be part of another tier 1 Temur Energy package if Marvel was banned (Temur Midrange no Marvel had a fine conversion % on a small sample at the PT). You could ban it without much fanfare.
#2 Unban Reflector Mage. UW Flash is the natural counter to Marvel and giving them their core piece back + an answer to Ulamog would be a positive check on Marvel.
I think the meta strength-wise is going to be balanced and moderately diverse (3+ tier 1 decks with a couple others hanging in closely). People HATE Marvel though.