Pro Tour Ixalan may be in the rear view mirror but Standard tournaments are still on the schedule. This weeked saw three Standard Grand Prix in Shanghai, Warsaw, and Atlanta. Would these event showcase a shift in the Standard landscape?

In a word, no. Energy Decks and Ramnuap Red continued to pace the scene. Shanghai saw familiar faces on familiar archetypes. Hall of Famer Yuuya Wantanabe (in his record tying 28th Grand Prix Top 8)ran Four Color Energy and Kelvin Chew ran Temur; Yam Wing Chun, as always, ran Ramunap Red. Also on Ramunap Red was Takuma Morofuji who went 15-0 in the Swiss, only to fall in the Quarterfinals. However it was Song Huachao came out on top piloting Temur Energy.

Over in Warsaw it was Jean-Emmanuel Depraz who emerged victorious with Four-Color Energy. His was one of four energy decks in the Top 8 which also featured Blue-Green Electrostatic Pummeler and a God-Pharoah's Gift deck. But the Top 4 was four energy decks, which would leave it to Atlanta to break the streak.

Atlanta saw Hall of Famer Ben Stark reach the Top 8 with a new take on Ramunap Red, complete with Treasure Map. Corey Baumeister made his fourth consecutive Standard Grand Prix Top 8 on the back of Temur Energy, cementing himself as a force on the circuit. Stark made the Finals but fell in three games to Alex Lloyd on Esper Approach of the Second Sun, breaking the Energy trend.

Temur Energy - Ixalan Standard| Song Huachao, Winner Grand Prix Shanghai

• Creatures (23)
• 3 Bristling Hydra
• 4 Glorybringer
• 4 Longtusk Cub
• 4 Rogue Refiner
• 4 Servant of the Conduit
• 4 Whirler Virtuoso

• Planeswalkers (1)
• 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance

• Sorceries (6)
• 2 Confiscation Coup
• 4 Attune with Aether

• Instants (8)
• 1 Negate
• 1 Supreme Will
• 2 Abrade
• 4 Harnessed Lightning

• Lands (22)
• 1 Island
• 2 Mountain
• 4 Forest
• 1 Sheltered Thicket
• 3 Rootbound Crag
• 3 Spirebluff Canal
• 4 Aether Hub
• 4 Botanical Sanctum

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Abrade
• 1 Aethersphere Harvester
• 1 Chandra's Defeat
• 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1 Magma Spray
• 1 River's Rebuke
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Supreme Will
• 1 Torrential Gearhulk
• 1 Vizier of Many Faces
• 2 Appetite for the Unnatural
• 2 Negate

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Four Color Energy - Ixalan Standard | Jean-Emmanuel Depraz, Winner Grand Prix Warsaw

• Creatures (22)
• 2 Bristling Hydra
• 2 Longtusk Cub
• 2 The Scarab God
• 4 Glorybringer
• 4 Rogue Refiner
• 4 Servant of the Conduit
• 4 Whirler Virtuoso

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1 Vraska, Relic Seeker

• Sorceries (4)
• 4 Attune with Aether

• Instants (10)
• 1 Commit // Memory
• 2 Magma Spray
• 3 Abrade
• 4 Harnessed Lightning

• Lands (22)
• 1 Island
• 1 Swamp
• 2 Mountain
• 3 Forest
• 1 Sheltered Thicket
• 3 Rootbound Crag
• 3 Spirebluff Canal
• 4 Aether Hub
• 4 Botanical Sanctum

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Appetite for the Unnatural
• 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1 Confiscation Coup
• 1 Essence Scatter
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Supreme Will
• 2 Chandra's Defeat
• 2 Deathgorge Scavenger
• 2 Nissa, Steward of Elements
• 3 Negate

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Esper Approach - Ixalan Standard | Alex Lloyd, Winner Grand Prix Atlanta

• Creatures (1)
• 1 Torrential Gearhulk

• Sorceries (5)
• 2 Fumigate
• 3 Approach of the Second Sun

• Instants (24)
• 4 Censor
• 4 Opt
• 4 Disallow
• 4 Fatal Push
• 4 Glimmer of Genius
• 4 Settle the Wreckage

• Enchantments (4)
• 2 Cast Out
• 2 Search for Azcanta

• Lands (26)
• 1 Island
• 3 Plains
• 2 Aether Hub
• 4 Concealed Courtyard
• 4 Drowned Catacomb
• 4 Fetid Pools
• 4 Glacial Fortress
• 4 Irrigated Farmland

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Jace's Defeat
• 1 Pull from Tomorrow
• 1 Search for Azcanta
• 2 Negate
• 2 The Scarab God
• 2 Torrential Gearhulk
• 2 Vraska's Contempt
• 4 Regal Caracal

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