Breaking news: Ravager Affinity is still by far the best deck in Standard. Tooth and Nail does not get hated out and the second set of Kamigawa block has little impact on the Standard metagame.
All of these potential answers to Affinity and such are too expensive to work, or so it would seem. The best answer to Affinity is a banning (DotV), block rotation (October 2005) or overkill (Meltdown, Shatterstorm, Rebuild).
God's Will my ass. "God" does not manipulate people, people manipulate people. War is made by people, not the whims of supernatural beings. People have free will, and supernatural beings have nothing to do it. War is caused by greedy men who lust for power. Believe what you will, but I feel there is no god controlling the masses, the beliefs of people drive them to be manipulated in the name of such things as religion.
I usually play my permanents during the second main phase. That is not a set rule though, sometimes situations dictate otherwise. I tend to play a lot of control and combo decks, so I tend not to have a lot of permanents in play.
I play all constructed formats sans block constructed. However, I definately rank Type 1 higher than the rest of them. I love Vintage. I have grown to enjoy Legacy quite a lot as well, however, I have played Vintage a lot longer than Legacy, so I am more familiar with the former. I stopped playing Extended as much after the last rotation, but I still play it a bit. I abhor type 2 right now courtesy of Ravager and friends. So I will not be playing much Standard until next October. In the end:
All of these potential answers to Affinity and such are too expensive to work, or so it would seem. The best answer to Affinity is a banning (DotV), block rotation (October 2005) or overkill (Meltdown, Shatterstorm, Rebuild).
Type 1 >> all
Second place goes to Legacy.
Vintage > Legacy >> all