mtg best cards in standard MTG Best Standard staple cards- July 2026 • MTG DECKS Top 10 MTG Standard Cards

A staple for control decks, this card is a reliable character removal tool, being able to send exerted characters to a player's Inkwell, an incredibly powerful ability which is difficult to counter

What sets this card apart is that while Azula is attacking, each spell you cast is copied, so Azula is an excellent storm enabler when you can copy rituals, cantrips, Frantic Searches, and the like

Improvisation Capstone is a seven mana sorcery that has you exile cards from the top of your library until you hit one with a total mana value of four or greater

This means that you need to damage characters with Resist +1 with 2 damage, just to do a single point of damage, and characters with Resist +2 with 3 points