Written by CMA-Flippi on January 05, 2012

Magic-League holds A LOT of tournaments, and we have A LOT of data gathered on decks, players and formats. I'm publishing collations of the data (or similar data) on a semi-regular basis.

I got asked to also compare the compilation of each month with the previous month.
Therefore on most tables you see a >; <; or = next to it. The symbols describe a card's rank in comparison with the previous month. ">" means the card climbed up in ranks, a "<" the opposite. A "=" means the card could keep its rank.

Without further ado, I present to you the card statistics from all Standard(T2) tournaments run on magic-league since November 1st, 2011.

1. Maindeck cards in [ISD] Standard of November 1st, 2011 - January 4th, 2012
2. Sideboard cards in [ISD] Standard of November 1st, 2011 - January 4th, 2012
3. Lands in [ISD] Standard of November 1st, 2011 - January 4th, 2012

Maindeckcards in Standard (T2) decks on magic-league
#	November 01, 2011 – Jan 04, 2012		+/-	October 2011		#
1	3694	Mana Leak	=	Mana Leak	2777	1
2	2593	Snapcaster Mage	=	Snapcaster Mage	2136	2
3	1840	Solemn Simulacrum	>	Think Twice	2105	3
4	1699	Think Twice	<	Forbidden Alchemy	1907	4
5	1673	Birds of Paradise	>	Oblivion Ring	1617	5
6	1648	Forbidden Alchemy	<	Dissipate	1492	6
7	1546	Ponder	>	Solemn Simulacrum	1455	7
8	1507	Oblivion Ring	<	Doom Blade	1279	8
9	1447	Dissipate	<	Birds of Paradise	1275	9
10	1425	Doom Blade	<	Wurmcoil Engine	1112	10
11	1305	Mirran Crusader	>	Viridian Emissary	1091	11
12	1289	Hero of Bladehold	>	Dismember	1030	12
13	1251	Galvanic Blast (NEW)	>	Rampant Growth	1007	13
14	1214	Rampant Growth	<	Day of Judgment	965	14
15	1164	Primeval Titan	>	Green Sun's Zenith	863	15
16	1121	Gut Shot (NEW)	>	Garruk, Primal Hunter (OUT)	844	16
17	1019	Day of Judgment	<	Primeval Titan	825	17
18	1011	Phantasmal Image	>	Beast Within (OUT)	819	18
19	1006	Stromkirk Noble	>	Liliana of the Veil	781	19
20	942	Chandra's Phoenix (NEW)	>	Phantasmal Image	751	20
21	884	Incinerate	>	Hero of Bladehold	698	21
22	874	Stormblood Berserker	>	Mirran Crusader	666	22
23	856	Wurmcoil Engine	<	Incinerate	655	23
24	835	Shrine of Burning Rage	>	Sun Titan (OUT)	633	24
25	822	Green Sun's Zenith	<	Timely Reinforcements (OUT)	614	25
26	806	Sphere of the Suns (NEW)	>	Stormblood Berserker (OUT)	605	26
27	789	Slagstorm	>	Brimstone Volley	602	27
28	754	Honor of the Pure	>	Stromkirk Noble	602	28
29	729	Doomed Traveler (NEW)	>	Consecrated Sphinx (OUT)	601	29
30	714	Blade Splicer	>	Shrine of Burning Rage	591	30
31	710	Avacyn's Pilgrim (NEW)	>	Slagstorm	585	31
32	678	Liliana of the Veil	<	Ponder	564	32
33	665	Brimstone Volley	<	Blade Splicer	552	33
34	659	Viridian Emissary	<	Acidic Slime (OUT)	522	34
35	650	Vapor Snag (NEW)	>	Unburial Rites (OUT)	501	35
36	646	Fiend Hunter (NEW)	>	Sword of Feast and Famine (OUT)	492	36
37	630	Gitaxian Probe (NEW)	>	Honor of the Pure	473	37
38	628	Delver of Secrets (NEW)	>	Champion of the Parish (OUT)	466	38
39	624	Inferno Titan (NEW)	>	Elspeth Tirel (OUT)	465	39
40	616	Geist of Saint Traft	=	Geist of Saint Traft	460	40

Sideboardcards in Standard (T2) decks on magic-league
#	November 01, 2011 – Jan 04, 2012		+/-	October 2011		#
1	1912	Timely Reinforcements	=	Timely Reinforcements	1415	1
2	1417	Flashfreeze	>	Surgical Extraction	1127	2
3	1356	Dismember	>	Flashfreeze	884	3
4	1019	Celestial Purge	>	Ancient Grudge	845	4
5	974	Ancient Grudge	<	Ratchet Bomb	765	5
6	959	Thrun, the Last Troll	>	Celestial Purge	758	6
7	920	Ratchet Bomb	<	Negate	729	7
8	750	Spellskite	>	Nihil Spellbomb	705	8
9	735	Negate	<	Thrun, the Last Troll	686	9
10	724	Arc Trail	>	Sword of Feast and Famine	646	10
11	721	Surgical Extraction	<	Spellskite	606	11
12	711	Nihil Spellbomb	<	Revoke Existence	581	12
13	700	Sword of Feast and Famine	<	Day of Judgment	564	13
14	657	Oblivion Ring	>	Vulshok Refugee	499	14
15	589	Vulshok Refugee	<	Oblivion Ring	470	15
16	563	Autumn's Veil (NEW)	>	Naturalize	458	16
17	548	Wurmcoil Engine	=	Wurmcoil Engine	453	17
18	546	Revoke Existence	<	Dismember	443	18
19	520	Manic Vandal	=	Manic Vandal	418	19
20	492	Phantasmal Image	>	Tree of Redemption	408	20
21	486	Naturalize	<	Arc Trail	389	21
22	470	Mental Misstep	<	Divine Offering (OUT)	368	22
23	466	Sword of War and Peace (NEW)	>	Black Sun's Zenith	342	23
24	448	Day of Judgment	<	Dissipate	328	24
25	437	Traitorous Blood (NEW)	>	Purify the Grave (OUT)	323	25
26	422	Shrine of Loyal Legions (NEW)	>	Slagstorm	279	26
27	412	Dissipate	>	Phantasmal Image	257	27
28	406	Slagstorm	<	Torpor Orb (OUT)	233	28
29	378	Tree of Redemption	<	Viridian Corrupter (OUT)	231	29
30	349	Black Sun's Zenith	<	Mental Misstep	229	30

Lands in Standard (T2) decks on magic-league
#	November 01, 2011 – Jan 04, 2012		+/-	October 2011		#
1	7003	Mountain	>	Island	5350	1
2	6737	Island	<	Forest	4794	2
3	5929	Plains	>	Mountain	4583	3
4	5042	Forest	<	Plains	4458	4
5	3937	Swamp	=	Swamp	3940	5
6	3052	Seachrome Coast	>	Drowned Catacomb	2254	6
7	2595	Glacial Fortress	=	Glacial Fortress	2098	7
8	2307	Inkmoth Nexus	=	Inkmoth Nexus	1995	8
9	1874	Drowned Catacomb	<	Seachrome Coast	1994	9
10	1630	Darkslick Shores	=	Darkslick Shores	1704	10
11	1240	Rootbound Crag	>	Isolated Chapel (OUT)	955	11
12	1162	Moorland Haunt (NEW)	>	Rootbound Crag	907	12
13	1145	Razorverge Thicket	=	Razorverge Thicket	839	13
14	1077	Ghost Quarter	>	Copperline Gorge	821	14
15	1014	Copperline Gorge	<	Ghost Quarter	696	15

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by Atreties on 2012-01-05 13:51 CET

At first, i was like: Mountain is being played more than island? WHAT???

Then I realized that most RDW decks run only basic mountains

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by pg8 on 2012-01-06 07:31 CET

And then you see the nonbasics:
UW
UW
manland
UB
UB

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by Jacois on 2012-01-06 11:47 CET

Ban Mana Leak please.

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by seedub on 2012-01-06 15:49 CET

Banning leak might be a litte strong, im ready for them to stop reprinted it already tho lol. sure its cool and gives u a 2 mana counter without being broken late game like counterspell but damn. particularly with snapcaster around we need a format without a 2 mana counter for a while

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by xJudicatorx on 2012-01-06 19:42 CET

They don't need to ban mana leak, just print something which is resilient to counters obviously(i.e. Hidden Gibbons, Volcanic Fallout, Gaea's Herald). Thrun, being legendary and 4 cmc, is obviously not enough.

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by DonDiggy on 2012-01-06 21:55 CET

Well gotta Admit, miss you GSS, but heck no, we dont need bans and we especially dont need any hate-cards right now. Dont twist up Meta-Dominances and the Inability to build Metadecks.

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