This Grixis deck is my favorite Pact build right now because it has the best stand-alone cards, and I cant recommend it enough
New world order In one of his articles, Mark Rosewater introduced us to the New World Order in their design process: They would make sure that the common cards as they are the cards that new players will have the most contact with will never be overly complex: They should be easy to understand and easy to play with, so as these players become more interested and start buying more packs, they will gradually start having contact with rarer, and more complex cards, making the learning curve less steep
Spider-Man will be Standard legal, so something like Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer can really shake up the format's metagame
At roughly a dollar it gives all your Rats toxic, makes early Rats cheaper, and lets you dig several cards deep for more Rats when it enters
So, with that, we move on to our Best In Show
Nethroi, Apex of Death is not a misnomer