Hour of Devastation Standard is nearing its end. In a few short weeks, both Battle for Zendikar Block and Shadows over Innistrad Block will be retired from the format and make way for Ixalan. In the interim, however, the current Standard continues to evolve, giving us one of the more dynamic formats in recent memory. This aging Standard was on display in both Turin and Washington D.C. this past weekend.

At Grand Prix Turin, Robin Dolar triumphed with his Blue-Black Control deck. Dolar used the power of The Scarab God to overtake Leon Van Der Linden and his old stalwart Mardu Vehicles.

Blue-Black Control ? Hour of Devastation Standard | Robin Dolar, Winner Grand Prix Turin

• Creatures (6)
• 3 The Scarab God
• 3 Torrential Gearhulk

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 Flaying Tendrils

• Instants (26)
• 1 Negate
• 3 Disallow
• 3 Essence Scatter
• 3 Supreme Will
• 4 Censor
• 4 Fatal Push
• 4 Glimmer of Genius
• 4 Grasp of Darkness

• Lands (26)
• 6 Island
• 9 Swamp
• 3 Choked Estuary
• 4 Fetid Pools
• 4 Sunken Hollow

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Dispel
• 1 Negate
• 1 Never // Return
• 2 Liliana, the Last Hope
• 2 Summary Dismissal
• 2 To the Slaughter
• 3 Gifted Aetherborn
• 3 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

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Across the Atlantic Grand Prix DC continued to showcase the variety present in Standard. Corey Baumeister made his third Grand Prix Top 8 in Standard in three Standard Grand Prix with three different decks. However he fell in the Semifinals for the second week in a row. While Mardu Vehicles couldn't get the job done in Turin, in America's capital it did just fine in the hands of Matt Severa who used the deck to defeat Collins Mullen's Green-White Ramp.

Mardu Vehicles ? Hour of Devastation Standard | Robin Dolar, Winner Grand Prix Turin

• Creatures (24)
• 2 Pia Nalaar
• 3 Archangel Avacyn
• 3 Walking Ballista
• 4 Scrapheap Scrounger
• 4 Thought-Knot Seer
• 4 Thraben Inspector
• 4 Toolcraft Exemplar

• Sorceries (1)
• 1 Cut // Ribbons

• Instants (6)
• 2 Fatal Push
• 4 Unlicensed Disintegration

• Artifacts (5)
• 1 Aethersphere Harvester
• 4 Heart of Kiran

• Lands (26)
• 6 Island
• 9 Swamp
• 3 Choked Estuary
• 4 Fetid Pools
• 4 Sunken Hollow

• Sideboard (24)
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Ifnir Deadlands
• 1 Needle Spires
• 1 Shambling Vent
• 2 Ramunap Ruins
• 2 Shefet Dunes
• 4 Aether Hub
• 4 Concealed Courtyard
• 4 Inspiring Vantage
• 4 Spire of Industry

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