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Azathoth posted:So I just had an opponent do something that was simultaneously quite funny but also complete bullshit and I'm curious how often I'm going to see this. Welcome to the past couple of weeks. Assume they're going to go off on turn 2, and assume any deck that mulls to 5 or less is playing trickery combo. If you're not running a deck playing Spell Pierce, the best you can do is hope they brick, which happens pretty often. If they do, you win. If they don't, they win. It's a high-variance deck.
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20 Stitcher's Suppliers 20 Creeping Chills 20 Swamps has to be the deck to beat, I imagine. I eked out a few wins with Charmed Stray tribal but that loses to pretty much any other degenerate mono-card deck.
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evilweasel posted:Any suggestions on what to cut here? Most of my last few drafts I didn't have this many playables, so I'm iffy when its "which of these good cards do i want" instead of "which bad cards I had to settle for because i raredrafted an absurd amount will be my last two?" Stadium is definitely a cut. You have enough lifegain synergy and weak enough lessons in the sideboard that Cram Session doesn't look too hot. I think the white splash is ambitious but Blot Out The Sky is good enough that it's probably fine. I'd probably cut two of Blood Researcher, Overgrown Archor, and Springmane Cervin, leaning more toward cutting Arches and not cutting more than one Blood Researcher.
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Apr 20, 2021 01:27
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Bust Rodd posted:I fuckin’ hate Embercleave. The argument of "Embercleave is the most playable equipment ever" never really held much weight to me, because 90% of the time Embercleave isn't even an equipment, it's just a stronger Temur Battle Rage.
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May 3, 2021 18:35
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There's no benefit for buying the mastery pass early either unlike in some games, so at worst you can just wait until literally the last day and buy it to 'cash out' if you hit the level cap.
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May 4, 2021 01:01
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... how have I never seen this Kaladesh playmat?
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May 28, 2021 00:05
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I hope they keep Historic Brawl around. Brawl is already my go-to 'I don't want to think too much' queue and I'm having a nice time playing battlecruiser Magic with my low-rent commander deck.
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Jun 19, 2021 11:21
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My understanding is that the plans were originally going to be 'Historic as a bullshit non-format that exists mostly out of obligation so folks don't feel ripped off when their cards rotate, with the long-term goal of phasing it out entirely in favor of Pioneer', then Historic started getting actually pretty popular as a semi-low-powered eternal format and Pioneer interest dropped dramatically, especially with the pandemic going on. It really feels to me like there's only enough interest on MTGA for one or the other, and folks seem to like Historic more than they ever liked Pioneer.
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Jul 2, 2021 23:50
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endlessmonotony posted:Fun fact: Arena can and will eat your timeouts even with auto resolve and pass turn turned on. To this day, I wish for a pass turn button that actually passes the turn instead of just passing priority, once, as if I hadn't even hit the button.
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Jul 11, 2021 03:16
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Luigi Thirty posted:Now, when I said "Fynn punishes people for tanking Deathtouch creatures with life instead of their creatures" I didn't think people would, you know, continue tanking Deathtouch creatures with their life with Fynn on the board. Eh. They block two creatures, go up to 8 poison with no blockers and two deathtouchers still on the board. With the Murderous Rider(?) in exile, they need to topdeck a cheap chump blocker to Not Lose and/or have a removal spell in their top two to nuke the Fynn to maybe start making a comeback. I'd say always play to your outs, but I wouldn't blame this player for basically Conceding With Style since the on-board odds weren't in their favor.
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Jul 26, 2021 05:31
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Drowning Rabbit posted:I played Ravnica, but missed both Alara and Khans so I never remember the the color combinations. Same. Alara I picked up pretty quickly, though Khans still slides right off my smooth brain. Whose bright idea was it to have two factions that end in 'ai' anyway.
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Sep 17, 2021 09:35
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elbkaida posted:Just throw together whatever the hell you like. I built a golem tribal deck and it did alright! I forewent my usual mono-red aggro to build a U/B zombie tribal off the back of all my MID drafts and had a fine time in this event too.
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Sep 28, 2021 21:46
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Goons, evaluate me: https://www.17lands.com/draft/3ec34fa963174ed0b0842949e0db5b67 I drafted this pile and went 0-2 drop. What could I have done better. e: great snipe.
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Thanks for the advice. Is Lunarch Veteran really that good? Maybe I'm just used to 1/1 for 1s being unplayable but a 1/1 for 1 with upside that turns into a 1/1 Flying for 2 with upside seems fine but not great and certainly not in 'best white common' territory. Just one felt about right in deck construction. And yeah, I somehow missed the Evolving Wilds in P3P2. Mea culpa. Though I probably would have raredrafted anyway, honestly. I think you're right in that I was undervaluing sifters though. I was seeing it mostly as a 2/3 for 2 on average but the filtering also would have been pretty helpful considering the flooding I ran into, although truth be told my both my opponents had the nuts (first player was playing W/G humans and had Katilda, Dawnhart Prime on turn 2 or 3 all 3 games, and the second was playing Jeskai and drafted two Angelfire Ignitions) and I dunno if I could have beaten them anyway.
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Oct 15, 2021 23:42
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Onmi posted:So I need deck help again. Not for me this time, for my friend. For starters, she should probably be running Heliod as the commander over Ajani, considering Heliod's lifegain payoffs actually help you win the game.
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Oct 21, 2021 11:19
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I Before E posted:https://twitter.com/fuckinalpamare/status/1461655653743747073?t=IPw6GuvDlRGvQaUDs6KlRA&s=19 Oh, yeah, that happened to me the other day on a board that was something like Cathar's Crusade + Wildwood Scourge + that insect that makes insect tokens for each +1/+1 counter put on a creature that turn. They ended up creating 66 insect tokens, putting 66 triggers of Cathar's Crusade on the stack, each one of which added ~100 new Wildwood Scourge triggers onto the stack. The game burned through all of their timeouts, then started burning through my timeouts, then that prompt started showing up (and the game started giving me priority again) despite me being tapped out and F6'd (or at least what passes for F6ing in MTGA, which unfortunately doesn't even work right half the time, and yes I was using the shift-enter hotkey to pass instead of hitting the 'pass turn' button that does literally nothing). It took 15 minutes to resolve that stack when, really, they should have timed out and auto-conceded. But I was in the same situation of saying, alternatively, "I don't know what you want me to do, game' and 'those triggers are already on the stack, game, that isn't my fault.' Maybe I'm just salty, though, considering earlier that same day I ended up losing a game due to putting like 6000 landfall triggers on the stack at once and making the game hang for 5 minutes, eventually running out my timer and auto-conceding me. Really, the rules engine just falls apart whenever any somewhat complex stack comes along, anyway, because WotC is good at software.
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Wooper posted:The best is when they double block with ghasts thinking they get to trade favorable but I just don't assign damage to it, keeping it alive. This is my favorite thing because of the inevitable desperate mousing-over of every permanent on the battlefield afterward as they try to figure out what happened.
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Standingstoic posted:I'll gladly stan for eternal as my absolute favorite magic stand-in. Tbh, you can go look at eternal right now and probably get a good idea where alchemy is going in the future. Eternal is essentially magic with using the digital advantage to make streamlined cards instead of clunky stuff and doing deck manipulation effects without shuffling. Everything they're using mechanically will be in magic eventually, and you'll even see a few things that have already been cribbed in the early alchemy cards. I stopped playing Eternal after they added the super tedious and annoying Everybody Gets Wishboards mechanic and Justice was so overpowered they had to print a comedically specific hoser in In Cold Blood (For Magic players, this kills a thing, then also automatically surgicals it if it was Justice (Eternal's version of White), then ALSO effectively destroys all your Justice 'lands' so Justice decks can't splash it 'cause otherwise all the Justice decks would also just run this to counter other Justice decks. It's just about the most heavy-handed hoser I've seen in a modern CCG.) Has the balancing gotten any better in the past, say, 4 years? Pseudoscorpion fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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Bust Rodd posted:Talking with my LGS owner and he said the #1 complaint with New Capenna is that every loving card is a blob of word salad and even without doublefaced cards everything just blobs together and he wishes they would “stop designing cards that are too complicated for paper” and to be honest I agree. There is a sweet spot for MtG complexity and Capenna is somehow both underpowered while also having the most text of any set ever, that’s not a good balance. I've been saying this for a while. I feel like there's going to be a reckoning soon if/when people start playing paper at pre-pandemic levels because of how many of the recent sets have been pretty transparently 'designed for Arena'. Feels like mechanics like Mutate or complex MDFCs would have been much more poorly received if most people weren't playing them in an environment that removes their drawbacks.
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precision posted:why isn't this played more, incidentally? is there some reason it's really bad that i'm missing? seems like a fun combo piece It's a pretty bad mana dork if you're saccing cheap artifacts (which in the formats where it's legal, are going to be fast mana anyway) and if you've cheated out an expensive artifact, you might as well use that expensive artifact to win the game instead of generating black mana.
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I've had players add me as a friend mid-match to cuss me out, so clearly there's some kind of avenue there for people deranged enough.
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Arena Momir With Spells is infinitely more bearable than classic Arena Momir. You get to, like, make decisions and play the game instead of just seeing who rolls an unbeatable creature first!
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I wish you could blacklist certain commanders in the hbrawl matchmaking. No thanks, I don't want to play against Jeskai Narset, or 3feri, or Baral, or Giada, or any number of exhausting and unfun decks while I'm trying to pilot my C-tier jank combo brew.
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flatluigi posted:it's genuinely a bummer how much the audio bug makes me not want to play the game these days and i hope they get a patch out soon to actually fix it What I find genuinely hilarous is I work at a game studio that services a game that probably has about as many players as MTGA, and if we had shipped a release that broke the sound as badly as Wizards was, players would have been rioting and it would have been fixed probably on the same day as the breaking patch. Meanwhile, sound in MTGA has been broken for, what... almost a month at this point? And WotC seems to be in no particular rush to fix one of the major components of any audio-visual interactive medium.
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