I just bounced back from hibernation with the current Eldraine Standard. I was surprised that I found this kind of tempo deck post M20. What I like about it is the consistency on laying out threats early on and sitting on permission mid to late game. While we definitely lost the main piece Curious Obsession, the deck was masterfully crafted to be compensated in card draws, and I feel good how the deck has evolved from a wheenie-annoying crits with auras/cheap permissions going into a flashy and slowly getting tougher beater as we are winning the board presence war at the back of efficient cmc permissions. For reference, I've been on the other side of the table against this deck and I'm sporting Azorius Control during the release of Guilds of Ravnica Standard.
I experienced stealing wins against decks like Red Cavalcade, Simic Flash, Izzet Control, Azorius Control, Jeskai Fires, Rakdos Aristocrats and some Jund/Golgari Food but never felt hopeless on winning since the deck was usually geared to steal games. Red Cavalcade and Rakdos Knights are those decks where I feel inferior since these decks possess either cheap removal or cheap but efficient threats that could gradually snowball the board presence advantage into their favor. Regardless, I suggest you can try it since its fun, and easy to use and hopefully we could came up with other inputs even before the Theros beyond death come.
Sideboard was still subject for changes though but I love how Aether Gust hose the problematic Red/Green spell/permanents. Cerulean Drake looks very promising versus Red threats and those that target us and Mystical Dispute is our anti blue-based supplementary permission.
I recently tried playing Mono Blue Tempo with Eldraine, and needing more inputs/tests. The list I'm playing came from the exact list below:
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/standard-mono-blue-tempo-126627#arena
4 Pteramander
4 Brineborn Cuttthroat
4 Faerie Vandal
4 Brazen Borrower
Spells (22)
4 Opt
4 Essence Capture
4 Negate
4 Sinister Sabotage
4 Winged Words
2 Chemister's Insight
2 Blast Zone
2 Castle Vantress
18 Island
1 Blast Zone
4 Aether Gust
4 Cerulean Drake
3 Sorcerous Spyglass
3 Mystical Dispute
I just bounced back from hibernation with the current Eldraine Standard. I was surprised that I found this kind of tempo deck post M20. What I like about it is the consistency on laying out threats early on and sitting on permission mid to late game. While we definitely lost the main piece Curious Obsession, the deck was masterfully crafted to be compensated in card draws, and I feel good how the deck has evolved from a wheenie-annoying crits with auras/cheap permissions going into a flashy and slowly getting tougher beater as we are winning the board presence war at the back of efficient cmc permissions. For reference, I've been on the other side of the table against this deck and I'm sporting Azorius Control during the release of Guilds of Ravnica Standard.
I experienced stealing wins against decks like Red Cavalcade, Simic Flash, Izzet Control, Azorius Control, Jeskai Fires, Rakdos Aristocrats and some Jund/Golgari Food but never felt hopeless on winning since the deck was usually geared to steal games. Red Cavalcade and Rakdos Knights are those decks where I feel inferior since these decks possess either cheap removal or cheap but efficient threats that could gradually snowball the board presence advantage into their favor. Regardless, I suggest you can try it since its fun, and easy to use and hopefully we could came up with other inputs even before the Theros beyond death come.
Sideboard was still subject for changes though but I love how Aether Gust hose the problematic Red/Green spell/permanents. Cerulean Drake looks very promising versus Red threats and those that target us and Mystical Dispute is our anti blue-based supplementary permission.