Team Open Top 8 Profiles

Cyrus Corman-Gill|Jonathan Zhang|Markus Thibeau

Age: 22|29|27

Hometown:
Santa Rosa|Richmond, BC|Burnaby, BC

Archetype:
Storm|Dredge|Boros Aggro

What is the best deck in Standard? Why?
None. Too Rock, Paper, Scissors. It's becoming Modern.

Should anything be banned in Modern? Why?
#unbantwin

How much of an impact did Assassin's Trophy make in Legacy?
Good sideboard card for linear combo decks like B/R Reanimator and Turbo Depths

Casey Lancaster|Evan Whitehouse|Zachery Kiihne

Age: 28|21|21

Hometown:
Cape Elizabeth, ME|Poolesville, MD|Amherst, MA

Archetype:
Lands|Bant Spirits|Selesnya Tokens

What is the best deck in Standard? Why?
White Aggro. It slaps.

Should anything be banned in Modern? Why?
They should unban Twin, Stoneforge, Birthing Pod becasue those decks are fun and interactive.

How much of an impact did Assassin's Trophy make in Legacy?
I'm not sure the card is playable.

Tannon Grace|Ross Merriam|Brennan DeCandio

Age: 33|29|28

Hometown:
Baton Rouge, LA|Middletown, CT|Tampa, FL

Archetype:
Grixis Delver|Grixis Phoenix|Golgari Midrange

What is the best deck in Standard? Why?
Whatever Brennan decides to play.

Should anything be banned in Modern? Why?
Probably not, but Faithless Looting is getting there.

How much of an impact did Assassin's Trophy make in Legacy?
LOL

Daniel Nguyen|Andrew Zickler, Skylar Lucero

Age: 32|26|25

Hometown:
Renton|Bellingham|Renton

Archetype:
Elves|Azorius Control|Jeskai Drakes

What is the best deck in Standard? Why?
Phoenix variants. Go Fast

Should anything be banned in Modern? Why?
Hollowed Fountain - mono good matchups

How much of an impact did Assassin's Trophy make in Legacy?
It's ok. Not the savior or villain of the format as folks thought

Dave Long|Julian John| Zan Syed

Age: 34|21|26

Hometown:
Washington, DC|Orlando, FL|Atlanta, GA

Archetype:
Golgari Depths|Mono-Green Tron|Golgari Midrange

What is the best deck in Standard? Why?
Not my deck. Explore makes you feel your floods and manascrews

Should anything be banned in Modern? Why?
Ancient Stirrings=Demonic Tutor

How much of an impact did Assassin's Trophy make in Legacy?
Small. Minor upgrade to Decay for some decks.

Nathan Steuer|Richard Liu|Brett Parise

Age: 16|32|33

Hometown:
Berkeley, CA|San Jose, CA|Livermore, CA

Archetype:
Grixis Control|Hardened Scales|Golgari Midrange

What is the best deck in Standard? Why?
Phoenix less Phoenix deck (8 Drakes)

Should anything be banned in Modern? Why?
Modern is fine, but KCI and Bridge create bad games.

How much of an impact did Assassin's Trophy make in Legacy?
What is that card?

Chris Kusenberger|Michael Byars|KC Johnson

Age: 30|20|22

Hometown:
Litte Rock, AR|Fayetteville, AR|Bryant, AR

Archetype:
Grixis Delver|Mono-Green Tron|Jeskai Control

What is the best deck in Standard? Why?
Jeskai Control, great game vs the field.

Should anything be banned in Modern? Why?
Burning Inquiry, too random for effecting both players.

How much of an impact did Assassin's Trophy make in Legacy?
Very little. Decks like Four-Color Loam get another option but it did not make any new decks viable.

Chris Higashi|Christian Keeth|Vince Mallow

Age: 41|32|30

Hometown:
Las Vegas

Archetype:
Mono-Blue Wizards|Mardu Phoenix|Golgari Midrange

What is the best deck in Standard? Why?
There are a lot of good decks. Shocklands.

Should anything be banned in Modern? Why?
Ancient Stirrings and Faithless Looting, shake things up and take away some of the power and consistency of the decks that lean on them. (mine included)

How much of an impact did Assassin's Trophy make in Legacy?
Well, it got counter by Patron Wizard, so 0.