While it took us a while to figure it out, being able to Mastermind's Acquisition for Perpetual Timepiece is very important. Approach of the Second Sun takes a lot less clicking but also requires more mana. Second, if we have enough mana, we can tutor up Approach of the Second Sun and win by casting it twice in the same turn. First, we can cycle into Faith of the Devoted and win by draining our opponent out of the game with more cycling. We basically have two plans for winning the game. Especially on Magic Online, the goal isn't just to win but to win in the lowest number of clicks possible because timing out can be a concern. The combo isn't likely to fizzle, but it will take some practice to play it efficiently. In our wins, we played some pretty insane games. Sometimes, our Turn 5 win is fast enough other times, it's not. It mostly depends on the hands and who wins the die roll. Typically, they can't interact with our combo, and we can't really interact with their aggressive creatures and burn spells, which means it's basically a race. As for the rest of the matches, our other loss was to Mono-Black Aggro, and the aggro matchup felt like a tossup. If your opponent does have the counter, at least you can lose knowing that you tried. One of the deck's biggest weaknesses is counterspells because our game plan revolves exclusively around resolving a New Perspectives, and while it's worth trying to play around counters in some situations, losing with a potentially lethal New Perspectives in hand because you're worried about it getting countered is far more painful than taking the chance, casting it, and hoping for the best. As such, lesson one of playing New Perspectives is to just go for it. In our third game against the UW Auras deck, I talked myself into a convoluted line designed to play around counterspells (which was saw in game two) but likely would have won if we had simply played New Perspectives. 
We played a league and finished 3-2, although we probably should have been 4-1.
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Just a quick reminder: if you enjoy the Much Abrew About Nothing series and the other video content on MTGGoldfish, make sure to subscribe to the MTGGoldfish YouTube channel to keep up on all the latest and greatest. This makes New Perspectives one of the only pure combo decks in our current Standard format, and it's also worth pointing out that the deck costs less than $90, which technically makes it a budget option! How does New Perspectives line up with our current Standard format? Let's get to the videos and find out then, we'll talk more about the deck! The idea of the deck is pretty simple, although playing the deck is pretty convoluted: you play New Perspectives and (hopefully) win the game on the spot by cycling through your entire deck, making tons of extra mana with Vizier of Tumbling Sands and Shefet Monitor, and eventually closing things out with Faith of the Devoted drain or by tutoring an Approach of the Second Sun from the sideboard with Mastermind's Acquisition. This will actually be the second time we play New Perspectives-New Perspectives was the hot new deck for a two-week period around the release of Amonkhet block, but it quickly faded away. As such, we are heading to Standard this week to see if we can combo off by cycling our way to victory. Last week, we had a bit of a surprise during our Instant Deck Techs, with our Standard options-New Perspectives-coming out on top. Hello, everyone! Welcome to another episode of Much Abrew About Nothing.
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