Next Steps in Revitalizing Standard: Play | WPN
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Today’s announcement is all about giving players—and stores—enticing events that they want to play in and run to give them something at the end of the rainbow for building up their Standard decks.

Wizards announced new efforts to promote Standard play that start next year. Some highlights:

  • Special promos for new weekly Standard events at LGSs
  • $75k Standard Open at MagicCon Chicago, which is “the first large, open field Standard tournament in quite some time”
  • Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction (second PT in 2024) will be Standard
  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I don’t have the most experienced perspective, and for several reasons I prefer standard to the wider formats, but I like the effort they’re putting forward. At the end of the day, I’d like it to be less cost intensive to get into competitive play, but I think that’s a non trivial problem.