If you looked at the Top 8 player profiles from Pro Tour Dragons of Tarkir then you may have noticed that most of the players only put up 7 wins in the Standard portion of the tournament. The tournament structure really rewards players with strong limited records, enabling players with 5-1 or 6-0 draft records to intentionally draw the last two rounds of constructed. Meanwhile, other players are battling all 10 rounds of Standard, making the list of 24-27 point decks posted by WotC a very valuable resource for anybody looking for the best decks from the PT.

The most winning deck at the Pro Tour was blue/black control splashing Dragonlord Ojutai. The Channel Fireball list was similar to Andrew Ohlschwager's Top 8 list, though he had Icefall Regent where they didn't and a few numbers on cards were different in his list as well. Meanwhile, Josh Utter-Leyton went 9-1 in the Standard portion of the tournament with this build:

PV also played the deck to an 8-2 record and has been singing its praises on Twitter.

In many ways, Haven of the Spirit Dragon is the glue of this deck. It helps generate white mana for Ojutai, which the deck wants to run light on. The deck comically plays a Flooded Strand without a Mistveil Plains to find. The Haven also enables you to play only one Ugin, but to play it multiple times.

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On the one hand, a hyper-aggressive red deck won the Pro Tour. On the other, the deck that the pros are praising and that put up the best results in the swiss portion of the tournament is a grindy control deck. Odds are that people will put more weight on Dang's performance and metagame accordingly for next week, but it'll be very interesting to watch Standard develop from here.