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Clean Your Teeth posted:Aw - this shrine deck was super fun to play in the MWM and I was getting hyped about blowing all my wildcards building a silly 5 color set with 11/12 shrines based on your deck and the new NEO shrine creatures until I realised all the sanctums have now rotated out of standard and it's probably not viable in historic. Guess I'll have to hope that one of the other new sets later this year add more. I think there might be a chance that the alchemy drop for neon dynasty next month has something for shrine decks (possibly even the 5c shrine commander from the commander decks) but I wouldn't expect it anywhere else since it's very much a kamigawa thing if you want to play with shrines, historic brawl is probably your best bet -- you're limited to 1x of each, since it's singleton, but you can load up the rest with board wipes and animatable creatures and control magic and do decently well. i do want to play with all the new creature shrines but i'll have to see if going for a less heavy control strategy to fit in playing creatures works better? edit: Hooplah posted:okay but you could do historic brawl with a certain brand new five color commander custom-built for the purpose... it's unfortunately not very likely we see that on arena. i think over the span of historic/alchemy releases we've gotten *one* commander exclusive card and it was a green mutate creature whose name escaoes me
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MarquisDeCarabas posted:Are there any metrics showing (I don't believe there are, as I believe this data is closely held by WOTC) or, alternatively, does anyone have a sense of, how the playing landscape has shifted since Alchemy came out, meaning specifically: how many folks that were playing Standard before are now playing Alchemy? Do people play both or just one or the other? Personally, I go play Alchemy when I'm tired of seeing the same decks every game in Standard and I play Standard when I'm tired of seeing the same decks every game in Alchemy; it's a horrible cycle.
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flatluigi posted:I think there might be a chance that the alchemy drop for neon dynasty next month has something for shrine decks (possibly even the 5c shrine commander from the commander decks) but I wouldn't expect it anywhere else since it's very much a kamigawa thing whoops, i didn't even notice that's not in NEO. tbh i'm happy about that, gently caress five color goodstuff brawl decks
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Hooplah posted:whoops, i didn't even notice that's not in NEO. tbh i'm happy about that, gently caress five color goodstuff brawl decks i mean, it's not like having one more of them changes anything; 5c commanders are generally used because they're 5c and i'd doubt that very specific one would be used over kenrith or niv. plus, it actually has good reason to be 5c given that they did a historic anthology with shrines specifically we could see it come in the next anthology honestly, but i just wouldn't bet on it
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hit diamond last night with this two year old RDW pile in historic. took about two weeks, would have taken a lot less time without bugs and UI quirks and learning how Arena wants you to play the game. had several games on my very powerful tablet I had to concede because the battlefield didn't load or cards in my hand changed. is diamond good? what's the player ranking distribution like? how hard is it to get to mythic? suppose I could make a run at it. do the mtg arena tracking systems work for Android games?
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:hit diamond last night with this two year old RDW pile in historic. took about two weeks, would have taken a lot less time without bugs and UI quirks and learning how Arena wants you to play the game. had several games on my very powerful tablet I had to concede because the battlefield didn't load or cards in my hand changed. ranking up is generally a function of time spent until you get to the point where you don't gain more ground with a win than you lose with a loss, but even then if you're playing a solid deck you'll get to mythic eventually. in just under 24 hours from now the next set will drop and the standard/alchemy ladders should be a lot softer with people trying out new cards, as well
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Feb 9, 2022 18:57
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RevolverDivider posted:ban brutal cathar already what's your list where you're having trouble with a two toughness creature?
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So does wizards have the shortest memory ever or did they think no one would play tibalt trickery in the Cascade midweek.
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:hit diamond last night with this two year old RDW pile in historic. took about two weeks, would have taken a lot less time without bugs and UI quirks and learning how Arena wants you to play the game. had several games on my very powerful tablet I had to concede because the battlefield didn't load or cards in my hand changed. Diamond is the point at which you stop getting two ticks for a win and go down to just one, so it's the point which is easiest to stall out at. Bu Mythic is just a function of a 50%+ winrate plus time, so if you have time and you want to jam MTG games all day, you should be able to get mythic every month. UNless you're enjoying it though, it's not remotely worth your time to spend hours on end playing just to get like... a couple of extra packs and card styles. And yes, progression is tracked for your account AFAIK, so progression on droid should reflect on PC and vice versa. E: wait, no, that's platinum, my bad. The rest is still apt. thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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i didn't know you could name the commander with pithing needle effects in historic brawl. that sucks!
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Most of the 'can't play your commander at all' cards get banned in brawl though. Pithing needle gets away with it because there are shitloads of commanders that just don't have (relevant) activated abilities.
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Decided to round out my quests in DBL draft before Kamigawa, my last like 5 runs have all been fairly workmanlike with few rares and even uncommons. Some to poo poo result, some to 7. Finally broke that streak though!
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thespaceinvader posted:Most of the 'can't play your commander at all' cards get banned in brawl though. pithing needle is in fact banned in brawl, so my bet is they ran into curse of silence fun fact, out of the 19 cards banned in brawl or historic brawl eight of them are 'you can't cast your commander and/or it's potentially permanently removed'
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If you're looking for a fairly cheap deck (at least full of cards you probably have), I built this for the Mid-Week Magic Cascade event. Didn't lose a game with it. Even played 3 extra because it's fun. If there are cards like Electrostatic Blast you don't have, just submit for a damage to any target card of similar cost. Deck 4 Play with Fire (MID) 154 3 Curse of Shaken Faith (MID) 134 3 Chandra, Dressed to Kill (VOW) 149 2 Volatile Arsonist (VOW) 181 2 Shock (ANB) 84 4 Spikefield Hazard (ZNR) 166 4 Bloodthirsty Adversary (MID) 129 2 Electrostatic Blast (Y22) 39 4 Roil Eruption (ZNR) 155 4 A-Goldspan Dragon (KHM) 139 4 Seize the Spoils (KHM) 149 24 Mountain (VOW) 401
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MasterBuilder posted:So does wizards have the shortest memory ever or did they think no one would play tibalt trickery in the Cascade midweek. Dragon's Approach + Tibalt's Trickery is a very lulzy one card combo deck where you get to run infinity copies of your one card combo. It also lost to my zombies because I could Patient Zero the Terasque (which also doesn't have trample) and use a killsepll on the other guy. Should have run a third combo piece...
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flatluigi posted:pithing needle is in fact banned in brawl, so my bet is they ran into curse of silence ah, you caught me. yeah it was curse of silence. krenko isn't being cast for 6 mana! very rude
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HootTheOwl posted:Dragon's Approach + Tibalt's Trickery is a very lulzy one card combo deck where you get to run infinity copies of your one card combo. how does this work exactly
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kalel posted:how does this work exactly Cast dragons approach, it cascades into trickery, trickery counters approach and digs for whatever more expensive payoff you're using.
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kalel posted:how does this work exactly Your deck is probably 25 lands, 31 Dragon's Approaches, 2 Tibalt's Trickeries, and 2 Beefy Creatures. You cast approach, it cascades into trickery. Trickery counters approach and the only 3 cards left to trickery into are: Terasque and Valeomachus Lorehold Valemachus attacks and you can cast another approach. 8/5 with haste that can also combo when it attacks.
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oh it's the cascade event, durr. yup that's neat lol
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Does anyone else's brain get squishy when their opponent drops multiple planeswalkers? I just went against a crazy deck that played out really well and he ended up with four planeswalkers on the board. It just completely threw off my executing functioning and decision-making.
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MarquisDeCarabas posted:Does anyone else's brain get squishy when their opponent drops multiple planeswalkers? I just went against a crazy deck that played out really well and he ended up with four planeswalkers on the board. It just completely threw off my executing functioning and decision-making. ha. yeah 
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And just like that I'm tempted to make Orzhov sweepers. Between Blood on the Snow and Devastating Mastery nothing will be allowed to exist.
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Horace Kinch posted:And just like that I'm tempted to make Orzhov sweepers. Between Blood on the Snow and Devastating Mastery nothing will be allowed to exist. don't forget the new card, "Farewell" (to my career as a mtg artist)
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:ha. yeah Once you get to 5 or 6 planeswalkers the PC client puts some them off screen and gives you some arrows to page through to them. Weird that the mobile client just lines them all up.
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flatluigi posted:don't forget the new card, "Farewell" (to my career as a mtg artist)
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flatluigi posted:don't forget the new card, "Farewell" (to my career as a mtg artist) i hope we can get this alt art  does arena do alt art as skins or
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Yes and they'll milk you for all your gems unless they're designated as event rewards in which case if you don't fomo then you have to luck into them.
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My midweek madness cosmetic was the alt art for the mystic archive shock, which was pretty nice
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Eej posted:Yes and they'll milk you for all your gems unless they're designated as event rewards in which case if you don't fomo then you have to luck into them. Every "special" frame in new sets gets released as an event/bundle first, then are eventually put into the store as deal of the day so you can buy the singular ones you want for discounted gold/gems.
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flatluigi posted:don't forget the new card, "Farewell" (to my career as a mtg artist) Hopefully that’s not true, he’s got some of the most interesting artwork on recent cards
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A dude posted:don't forget the new card, "Farewell" (to my career as a mtg artist) Another dude posted:i hope we can get this alt art Still another dude posted:Yes and they'll milk you for all your gems unless they're designated as event rewards in which case if you don't fomo then you have to luck into them. Arena could simply snap their fingers and replace all Seb McKinnon art with alternate art.
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Gynovore posted:Arena could simply snap their fingers and replace all Seb McKinnon art with alternate art. they replaced some of noah bradley's art like this!
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MasterBuilder posted:So does wizards have the shortest memory ever or did they think no one would play tibalt trickery in the Cascade midweek. Ran into this with a dragon's approach deck, not fun
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Adun posted:Hopefully that’s not true, he’s got some of the most interesting artwork on recent cards jpmeyer posted:they replaced some of noah bradley's art like this!
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Captain Invictus posted:hopefully that's true, he's got nice art but gently caress anti-vaxxer nazi supporters Who are you referring to?
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Shooting Blanks posted:Who are you referring to?
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Gynovore posted:Arena could simply snap their fingers and replace all Seb McKinnon art with alternate art. I'd notice like four cards out of those!
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Captain Invictus posted:seb mckinnon Wait, what, seriously? drat that blows. 
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