Standstill really needs to be worked UNDER, not to slow an opponent. Basically, you need to drop Standstill and FORCE your opponent to blow it, somehow.

There's alot of focus on Standstill's applications in aggro amongst the more serious pursuers of breaking the card, however, I put my money where my mouth was last night and tested about 5 extremely long and drawn out matches against Sligh.

While I won't insulte anyone with the highly untuned decklist, I basically took some BSB, some Parfait and mashed the most synergistic cards together (60 cards, I at least kept it down to that). It completely handed Sligh it's ass, and Sligh was happy that someone was keeping it safe for it.

Ivory Tower became a beating as the deck would drop land, Tower, go. Land, Standstill, go. Land, go. Kjeldoran Outpost, go. And from thence to infinite blockers. Sligh had to find a Wasteland/Strip Mine in a hurry and hope that the deck couldn't find 1 of its other manlands (Factories and other Outposts) to stop the onslaught. However, once the deck got the Tower/Standstill/Argivian Find combo going (turns 4+), Sligh was forced to concede.

I ran the deck counter-heavy with some utility, very little power, some life gain and so on. No Tax/Rack or things like that, no Moxen or Lotus, as this deck needs cards in hand to fuel life gain, HOWEVER, I put this little combo together to react TO Sligh and Stompy, as I wanted to make certain the deck could first beat aggro (as that's priciply what is found around here), then tune the decklist as it faces Suicide, discard/LD, and finally the litmus test of control and combo.

However, just wanted to tell y'all that the deck, as is, beats on Sligh. For whatever that's worth.

And, Oscar, the Weissman reference was just me talking in general terms about how The Deck and other true control decks wait-wait-wait-nullify opponent-drop bomb and win kind of thing. Sorry.