Your favorite standard?

[EnialisLiadon]

Being a primarily vintage player since 2005 (I've had my avatar almost as long), I've never really been one for standard.  Except the amazing format that existed for a few months in 2003...Odyssey block, 7th edition, and Onslaught block--before 8th edition rolled in to displace Counterspell, Force Spike, Duress and other goodies that 8th edition couldn't replace.  The list of viable decks is insane.  UG Madness and Threshold, the Wake decks, the Cemetery decks, the tribal decks, Astral Slide, Tog, different flavors of U/x control, variations of mono black, combo decks with Future Sight and/or Mind's Desire, and I'm sure several others I've forgotten.

That standard format stands out to me as an incredible time in magic and it makes me want to build up a gauntlet of those decks as fun pieces of history to play around with.  Anyone else have a standard format they remember with fondness? 

[quicksilvervii]

Saga/Masques block standard is by and large my favorite.

Bargain. Ponza. Tinker. Draw-Go. Stompy. Rebels. Sneak Attack. Sui/Finkel Black.  Replenish.  Trinity Green.  Accelerated Blue.

All of my favorite decks.

[Prospero]

Saga/Masques block standard is by and large my favorite.

Bargain. Ponza. Tinker. Draw-Go. Stompy. Rebels. Sneak Attack. Sui/Finkel Black.  Replenish.  Trinity Green.  Accelerated Blue.

All of my favorite decks.

This.

[TheKidsArentAlright]

I have to go with Odyssey/Onslaught/7E as well.  Not only were there a staggering number of viable decks, the metagame was strategically diverse as well.  You could play Aggro (R/G Beats, Burning Bridges), Tempo (U/G Madness and Threshold), Board Control (Mono Black, Astral Slide), blue Control (Tog, Wake) grindy Midrange (Cemetary, Elves), or Prison (Squirrel Opposition).  There was also Goblin Bidding, which I still consider to be one of the greatest Standard decks of all time because it is one of the very few capable of playing 3 distinct roles.  It could kill with the quickness of Warchief and Piledriver or grind you out with Gempalm Incinerator, Matron, Sparksmith, Siege-Gang, and Sharpshooter.  On top of that, there was the ever present threat of a huge Patriarch's Bidding turn, which is eerily similar to storming out with Yawgmoth's Will.  As I recall though, the Mind's Desire/Future Sight decks were more of an Extended thing since that format had access to Nightscape Familiar and the "free" cards like Snap and Cloud of Faeries.  I remember people trying to get it to work in Standard, but ultimately not being able to.

[Godder]

Saga/Masques block standard is by and large my favorite.

Bargain. Ponza. Tinker. Draw-Go. Stompy. Rebels. Sneak Attack. Sui/Finkel Black.  Replenish.  Trinity Green.  Accelerated Blue.

All of my favorite decks.

This.

[desolutionist]

I enjoyed Kamigawa/Ravnica, but that was the beginning of my competitive magic career:

URzatron
Zoo
Ebony Owl Netsuke (Turbo Fog/Mill/Prison)
Heartbeat Combo
Dovescape Combo
Ghost Husk
'Vore
Eminent Domain
Snakes
White Weenie
Mono Red
Flores Mono Blue
UR Wafo Control
Simic Aggro Control
Ghazi Glare
Firemane Weirding Control
Greater Gifts

also eventually included Coldsnap, which is when the Japanese broke Counterbalance Top for the month or so that it was legal

I also really liked odyssey/onslaught block because that's sort of when I first started to learn how to play Magic. I went to a local game store and borrowed a competitive Zombie deck and got to lose to U/G Madness; I thought Circular Logic was nuts.