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CharlieFoxtrot posted:On this issue: my computer can run a lot of AAA games at 1440p@60 no problem and for some reason in Arena whenever I go to the deck select I get super slowdown into the 15fps range Today I learned I cannot both play MtG:A and listen to music via minimized YouTube videos at the same time.
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i was drunk and crafted bant food and spent ~22 rares and ~9 MRs to finish it, and after a few games making GBS threads on RDW and Teferi, no ragrets
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Oct 1, 2019 06:00
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The arena client is unfortunately really badly coded. Don't blame me, I played artifact.
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Oct 1, 2019 06:01
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I crafted my four Okos and have not drawn him. Hope I drafted the right one. I can't decid whether to craft the four gooses or finish up the stax deck. Really want to play golos/field but I'm a lot farther away.
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Oct 1, 2019 06:04
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I wonder if there's a poor soul out there that accidentally spent 4 mythic wildcards on the Planeswalker Deck Oko
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Oct 1, 2019 06:07
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I’m thinking about running Giant Golos in the play anything event but I’m wondering how that deck deals with cavalcade.
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Oct 1, 2019 06:09
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Love it, I forgot how much the start of a new season is basically the ship's log from Event Horizon, just complete gore and destruction and utter misery
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Oct 1, 2019 06:20
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Edit: this was a salt message, deleted
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Oct 1, 2019 06:28
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Beast, if only because you might have a use for him after the draft is over. (And even if Belle gets got Beast is still a good blocker)
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Oct 1, 2019 06:39
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Thanks, maybe I will go do that draft because in the meantime ranked is uh not treating me very well
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Oct 1, 2019 06:43
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Burnt my play any games trying out some of those sapphire league decks Jeskai Fires seems like a deck 80% of the way there but kinda meh. The ah-ha movement with Castle Vantress was good but eh, kinda just flooded anyway. BG Adventures seems like people will start putting Shock back in their decks any day now and then having a 1/1 on turn1 that wins the game won't be a thing. WG Adventures seemed like you have hands with Edgewall or you have hands you mulligan into hands with Edgewall or you lose. Also I have no idea why this deck has Once Upon a Time in it. Giant Golos I played two games and the first I got one of those "Opponents don't know stuff about things" and the other I cast Agent of Treachery on my opponent's Fields of the Dead which he... Kept putting into play. I feel like a Jund Adventures deck is possible but I'm not precisely certain how to put it together. I think someone mentioned that up thread.
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Oct 1, 2019 07:16
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Won game 6 of my sealed run by swinging with everything and killing my opponent by casting Foreboding Fruit on them. It feels good.
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Oct 1, 2019 07:47
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:It's P1P1 time again This was the exact discussion on the latest Lords of Limited podcast. Their conclusion was that Lovestruck Beast was the pick, but a lot of the reason was that it's a single green rather than double black, so it keeps your draft more open and flexible. They also said if it was their first draft in the format they'd probably take Bake into a pie, but that green in general ended up stronger than they thought, so it's not a sacrifice to go into that color.
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Oct 1, 2019 09:27
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Raredraft Lovestruck Beast cause it's constructed playable
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Oct 1, 2019 10:01
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Mono Black it's been a long time since I've had success using you competitively, it's good to have you back  Edit: laughing my rear end off that I now have a legit incentive to put all 4 of my Gutterbones into an oven deck strange feelings re Daisy fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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Oct 1, 2019 10:26
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mandatory lesbian posted:exile me to the wastes, there is no place for me in civilization anymore worse, you’ll be exiled to standard only “just for fun” lobbies in mtgo
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Oct 1, 2019 13:26
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I wonder if there's a poor soul out there that accidentally spent 4 mythic wildcards on the Planeswalker Deck Oko I got confused once and crafted a planeswalker deck sorin. I'm still salty about it, they should add a warning like for the rotation cards "Are you sure you want to craft this card? It is intentionally bad so that new players don't get too much value."
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Oct 1, 2019 14:17
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Lone Goat posted:if you have a limited number of wildcards then you'll want to spend them on cards that you can use in multiple decks. you will not want to use them for cards that can only be played in a small number of decks. Yeah the Arena subreddit is really, really dumb/bad. It's reaching r/pcmasterace levels of toxicity and I'm convinced everyone on there is a 15 year-old with no money playing the game on a laptop from 2003 and who views every move WOTC makes as specifically designed to screw them. pointsofdata posted:I got confused once and crafted a planeswalker deck sorin. I'm still salty about it, they should add a warning like for the rotation cards "Are you sure you want to craft this card? It is intentionally bad so that new players don't get too much value." Imo it's still worth it to buy the planeswalker deck codes on ebay for 2-5 bucks just for the handful of useful uncommons plus a rare or two that keeps you from getting them when opening packs. axeil fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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Oct 1, 2019 16:34
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axeil posted:Yeah the Arena subreddit is really, really dumb/bad. It's reaching r/pcmasterace levels of toxicity and I'm convinced everyone on there is a 15 year-old with no money playing the game on a laptop from 2003 and who views every move WOTC makes as specifically designed to screw them. MTG Arena subreddit pie chart: 15% People playing on literal potatoes complaining about bugs 35% "I made it to mythic and had no one to share it with" 25% "Check out my homebrew*" 15% "This game is P2W and I'm saying that as a Hearthstone player" 10% Monologues about the existential nature of digital players versus paper players * homebrew = netdeck but replaced a single land with a one-of utility land
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Oct 1, 2019 16:39
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knockout posted:MTG Arena subreddit pie chart: You forgot the part where every move WOTC makes has to be a huge conspiracy against the players and if we scream about it enough they'll reverse it. The fact the game needs to make money is disgusting and evil and how dare anyone spend any money on this game while *checks notes* the client only has 150 deck slots instead of an infinite number. Also Hasbro ordered anything bad because clearly high level executives are opining on the wild card redemption rate for a format in a digital card game.
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You think that's toxic, check out the TG thread
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axeil posted:You forgot the part where every move WOTC makes has to be a huge conspiracy against the players and if we scream about it enough they'll reverse it. The fact the game needs to make money is disgusting and evil and how dare anyone spend any money on this game while *checks notes* the client only has 150 deck slots instead of an infinite number. Ahahahaha that is very accurate
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Oct 1, 2019 16:56
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I am LOVING cat oven rakdos style it shits on knight decks so harshly im working with a list that has some claim the firstborn and that and oven, or even better, using as fuel with a Priest of Forgotten Gods and mayhem demon to blow them out and board wipe em while drawing cards with midnight reaper. i havent tried it but im pretty sure you can yoink hydras and krasises with claim the firstborn, hilariously so much synergy. https://mtgarena.pro/decks/fun-fun-fun-b705e/
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Oct 1, 2019 17:17
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Being able to haste your own dude with claim the firstborn is so nice. It's also the first deck where I feel like angrath's rampage is living up to what I expected from it.
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Oct 1, 2019 17:22
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Taking dudes creatures and saccing them is so rude, I love it
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axeil posted:You forgot the part where every move WOTC makes has to be a huge conspiracy against the players and if we scream about it enough they'll reverse it. The fact the game needs to make money is disgusting and evil and how dare anyone spend any money on this game while *checks notes* the client only has 150 deck slots instead of an infinite number. It gets super annoying when it's applied to everything they do, but it's still worth remembering Wizards conditioned players to react this way by overreaching and then backing down in the face of public pressure twice in the last few months. Sometimes you get the community you deserve. Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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No Wave posted:Being able to haste your own dude with claim the firstborn is so nice. It's also the first deck where I feel like angrath's rampage is living up to what I expected from it. i feel like there has to be a better card out there than rattlebones, but maybe more games will prove em to be useful. its a lot of mana to recur them compared to the cat which is free. maybe im just dumb, but in almsot every game its just been a single black mana body that could be any other single black mana body and i only think about recurring it if something bad happens in my gameplan
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Oct 1, 2019 17:47
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Yes hello my knights would like to report a Limited war crime I won 2-1 in the end but still, that was the rudest thing anyone has done to me in Draft in a while. Glad that card's uncommon at least.
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Kanfy posted:Yes hello my knights would like to report a Limited war crime hahahah
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Oct 1, 2019 17:51
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I dropped that card on a guy running two Improbable Alliance. I'm sure he wasn't happy.
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Zyla posted:i feel like there has to be a better card out there than rattlebones, but maybe more games will prove em to be useful. its a lot of mana to recur them compared to the cat which is free. b.) the recurring is super nice in a deck that does 1 face damage for free Gutterbones is amazin in the deck. Obviously you'd run 8 cats if you could, but you cant.
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Kanfy posted:Yes hello my knights would like to report a Limited war crime I had an amazing Traditional draft last night against someone who got Revenge of Ravens on the board. We were tied 1-1, I had won Game 1 by just out valuing their cards, they won Game 2 by out aggro-ing me. In Game 3 we got into a bit of a board stall where they had Revenge of Ravens on the board (making it impossible for me to attack), and they had that catapult that pings for 1. My life was slowly going down but I had 2 copies of that 1 mana blue adventure that lets you put 4 cards from the library in the graveyard. I was down to 1 life and managed to use a glass tomb to turn off the catapult and then played the blue discard spell, putting my opponent at 3 cards. They manage to top deck another copy of the catapult and played it, meaning I would lose come their next turn. But I manage to top deck my other discard 4 spell, cast it and won during my opponent's upkeep. Just an incredible match. It's a shame that Traditional Draft is so expensive because I think bo3 is much more interesting than bo1.
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I've had awful traditional drafts. 8 games all land starved with mulligans and one of my wins had to come from someone intentionally tanking every turn while spamming hello. Just got kicked out of my draft from someone perfectly top decking and whelp, I don't believe in the shuffler being pure variance anymore
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I kind of felt bad for my opponent here too.
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Sjonkel posted:This was the exact discussion on the latest Lords of Limited podcast. Their conclusion was that Lovestruck Beast was the pick, but a lot of the reason was that it's a single green rather than double black, so it keeps your draft more open and flexible. They also said if it was their first draft in the format they'd probably take Bake into a pie, but that green in general ended up stronger than they thought, so it's not a sacrifice to go into that color. Maybe I should listen to Lords of Limited. I have been on the Limited Resources train and I like LSV but Marshall... eh
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The knights triumphed over evil in the end with a 5-1 run.   I haven't played in a while and pretty much winged the lands, but at the very least it's clear you likely want to focus heavily on one color if possible. MVP was definitely the Ardenvale Tacticians, those things are real good. Resolute Rider wins the biggest disappointment award, it had an impact on the game exactly zero times. Also if Weapon Rack moves a counter on something and the target is killed in response, the counter stays on the Rack instead of being gone presumably since the transfer doesn't have a valid target anymore. Took both me and my opponent by surprise, card's at least a little better than it seems. Oceanbound posted:I kind of felt bad for my opponent here too. Gross
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Oct 1, 2019 18:53
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The "P2P1" dilemma. Do I ditch green to play serpent? I am trying to be disciplined and not go three colors especially in this set
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Oct 1, 2019 19:02
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My advice should be taken with a grain of salt since I haven't played much but that seems like an easy Faerie Vandal to me, based on my previous run that card is a real piece of work. You have a bunch of blue draw cards already and you also have zero 2-drops, obviously it's best in Blue/Red but it only really needs to trigger once to be above curve and anything past that only makes it more disgusting. Most of those green cards aren't very good so a deck that's 80-85% blue with a bit of green or whatever other color could still be a viable path if the picks line up. Kanfy fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The "P2P1" dilemma. Do I ditch green to play serpent? I am trying to be disciplined and not go three colors especially in this set Its an easy splash especially if you are playing green. An Egg and both halves of the 2/3 man dork let you play it.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The "P2P1" dilemma. Do I ditch green to play serpent? I am trying to be disciplined and not go three colors especially in this set Vandal or switch over to Dimir with that serpent. Prob just stick with U/G cus you have Lovestruck Beast and a bunch of ways to trigger Vandal. Plus there aren't a lot of strong fliers in this expansion.
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