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As many of you might have noticed, Wizards of the Coast is actively pushing the Best of 1 format. It will be the format played in the MTG Arena Mythic Invitational March 28-31. You can read more about that here What you might not know is that we had the "BO1" format on AetherHub.com during the MTG Arena Closed Beta. It worked well when that was the only supported format, but as we got normal Standard or Traditional Play as they call it in MTGA, it started to get a bit messy. BO1 decks were posted in the Standard section and vice versa. Some people were not treating Best of one as a new format while new MTGA players jammed everything into the Standard Section.We brainstormed how to fix the problem, do we make the bot deem Standard decks without Sideboards illegal? Well, a sideboard is not a requirement, even though you are pretty screwed without, a Standard deck can have15 cards in the sideboard. But we can at least make the bot mark decks with a sideboard illegal in the Best of one format right? Well, Mastermind's Acquisition wants a word with you:Cards like this suddenly make sideboards relevant in the Best of one format, so there goes that plan.After a couple of weeks watching our users meld the two formats into what can only be described as a complete mess, we decided to take action and delete Best of one and only keep Standard. The formats were quite similar and if users wanted to specify they just put BO1 in the title. We wanted to wait it out and see what the next moves of Wizards were and how the community were treating the formats.And now the time hath cometh, Wizards of the Coast are really pushing the format in their Mythic Invitational. Season 2 on MTG Arena will act as a qualifier, a new set has just released. It is time to recognize Standard and Standard BO1 as two different formats and that is why we now have added it back again on the site: https://aetherhub.com/Meta/ We have chosen the name "Arena Standard" as the name for now. Well see if Wotc wants to name it differently in the futureGood luck in the new season! And be sure to post your MTG Arena decks in the Arena Standard section, no need for putting "BO1" in the title now.