Got another marathon answer - I kind of enjoy regurgitating stuff I've soaked up fairly recently in my own life just as a way of rethinking how the past few years have gone.
Guys with more varied experience will hopefully chime in, mine's fairly limited. The nature of your hunting land will largely determine what is productive. If it's all dense thickets where it's difficult to pattern deer or visibility is poor, picking a spot for a stand might be a challenge. If it is high-pressure and a lot of hunters are bumping deer around, staying put might be just the thing. I've only gone for turkey on public land. Back in Illinois, I was often the only one in the park as far as I knew. Last year in Ohio, I ran into a number of other spring hunters (or rather, knew they were there and stayed away) so it was harder to find a solid spot to hunker down. But as to what little wisdom I can impart on deer...
I deer hunt on family land, so I can hang stands, and usually put up 3 ahead of time. That can be a problem on public land - I know some states have regs about pre-placing stands ahead of time. You can generally never use anything that will damage a tree. I've only shot one deer from a tree stand, and it's tough at range if you don't have any kind of rest for your rifle. However, I've spotted other deer I've shot from treestands, having dismounted first to get a better angle or find something to brace my rifle on. I generally think tree stands are advantageous if you know the land and can place them thoughtfully. Part of thoughtfulness is not just knowing deer will be there, but knowing you can find it in the dark, and that you can get to it without scaring everything off because of noise or unfavorable wind.
Ground blinds are not much different than tree stands, except you don't have the view. I hunt ground blinds a lot less than tree stands, but I've also killed one deer from one of these, shallow hole with some cover around it on a hillside. Much easier to set up your shot in multiple directions, though, and you have a lot more freedom to move. You're also more mobile, as you don't have to go to the trouble of climbing up, down, raising and lowering gear, doing and undoing your safety harness. That's a double-edged sword though. Patience, especially in deer-hunting, is a virtue, and tree stands can force you to be more patient than you would be otherwise. I found that good insulated boots and some sort of cushion to put an air gap between your butt and the ground are more important in ground blinds. The ground will sap your contact points a lot faster than the air will if you're bundled up against the wind.
I have never had much luck still-hunting. I hunt alone (no one to put on a drive with), and the turf I walk on is typically just a mess of sticks and leaves and steep hills, it does not make movement very quiet for an amateur like myself. However, if I make it out for the Ohio shotgun season with friends this year, we'll probably be on public land, and we'll probably still-hunt. The basic gist of it is keep the wind in your face and move as slow as you possibly can. Takes a lot of patience, but there are certainly guys here who will attest to its productivity. Definitely want to practice hasty, unsupported shots if you're interested in still-hunting.
Anyway, I'd say the takeaway is, if you can get to the woods a fair bit ahead of the season and figure out where the deer are travelling, set up a stand (or plan to bring a climber) in accordance with your local regs. Especially if you can find a low-traffic food source or clearing to eyeball. You might not have the best shot on a deer from the stand, but you have a better chance of spotting one to manuever on if you can dismount quietly. On the ground you'll likely employ a mix of standing and still-hunting, perhaps still-hunting between funnels where you can stand for a bit or at dawn and dusk. It's a good way to stay warm and have a little more active hunt, but it is definitely quite a challenge, especially for unaccompanied hunters without experience in the technique.
Get some binocs, too. If your eye catches motion and you scope it to get a better look, you'll really tick off other hunters if they see you sweeping them.
So, as with all threads on this message board regarding calibers, makes and models, technique and strategy, setup, and practice, the answer is "maybe." But hopefully it's been helpful.
Final general note, I will say, a lot of the books, magazines and websites on hunting can be corny, obvious or even somewhat harebrained (as in one guy in one place getting lucky and suggesting you change your whole routine based on his coin tosses). But when you're learning, it's informative nonetheless. When you are reading so much and practicing it in the field for a week a year, it is information overload, and you will forget most of it. But things slowly will start to gel, you'll find yourself with more ideas or recognizing something you read about, and it will ultimately help you close (or at least shrink) the knowledge gap between these lucky fellows that have had generations of practice in the woods.