I would like people to share basic deck tips for Standard play. How many lands should you run, creatures under your command, kill spells, combat tricks, counter spells? How many colors are ideal in a deck? Is it necessary to run 4 of every card to have a pro deck? Just basic stuff.... Thanks!
Depends on what you want to play. Aggro your going to want 20-24 lands or so. Your going to want mostly creatures and very few spells. Midrange your looking more 25-26 lands or so and depending on what type of midrange your going some run a lot of creatures (prime speaker bant) or some run a pretty decent split of creatures and spells (jund). Then there is control where you want 26-27 lands and mostly controlling type of spells (counter magic and creature control) and then a few value creatures (snap caster Mage or restoration angel type deal) (esper). Those are just vague ideas on deck building. I mean most decks now in standard can really run 1-5 colors with all the duel lands available. But most decks you see run 2-3 and there are some that will splash a 4th color for a card or two. Those a just a few basic ideas. Hope that helps and once you decide what you want to run it makes it easier to narrow down a more exact list for you.