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Oh cool, the new set is up. Haven't played for months but I have enough gold for a draft, maybe I'll earn enough gems to do a sealed and *forced to concede because of a black screen and the interface never loads*. Welp I'll see you later Arena, maybe next update.
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So, I just clicked through the end of a match and got a "Did you have fun?" prompt and accidentally hit no before I realized what happened. What was that about?
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Dec 12, 2019 00:40
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Well poot. I wanted to be a good sport because I liked the guy's deck but nuts to that I guess. I hope that guy doesn't get some kind of notification like "X players this month (including Dr. Red Ranger) hate you and think you suck."
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Dec 12, 2019 00:49
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It's pretty good in that it replaces itself. Your opponent gets an Elk but you didn't have to spend a card removing their bomb or turning off a combo piece.
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Jan 3, 2020 15:54
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Hammer Bro. posted:I figured out how to win at draft. Cheap Fliers + Hydra's Growth. *Drops sorcerous spyglass on the table* My Yawg...
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Jan 22, 2020 03:55
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Funkdreamer posted:Vannifar combo is hilarious I knew there was a reason I started winning games again in the poop-tier leagues with my bad Golgari deck. It's full of assassin's trophies, deathsprouts, plague crafters, harpooners and cavaliers of night. It's no Jund Sacrifice but I like the cards and the guild symbol is ants so 
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Jan 22, 2020 06:33
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12 creatures is a little low, so that's a bit of an issue, but you have 7 fantastic removal spells and a couple of nice bombs in W/B, so you could reasonably put together something defensive and punch back after removing problem creatures.
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Jan 24, 2020 08:06
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Archon of Sun's Grace is such an incredible limited bomb. Maybe not as good as Dream Trawler, but it won the game by itself against a R/U deck that had plenty of time to make a huge Nadir Kraken with 5 tentacles and a pumped Anax. Didn't even need to block anything from all the lifelink.
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Feb 2, 2020 05:09
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Wrap in flames + a hero interaction is using one of the pings on a hero and then pinging blockers with the rest of the damage right? Or can you get multiple triggers off one hero and a wrap?
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Feb 9, 2020 03:10
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Is it possible to get a refund with a support ticket? I was just given a forced loss on my first sealed game by a crash followed by a network error when trying to log back in.
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Apr 17, 2020 03:21
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Thanks, it happens to me from time to time and it suuuuucks.
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Apr 17, 2020 03:24
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So if I'm playing a jeskai spells deck with lots of looting and card draw, how stupid is it to use Invade the City as a finisher, but to mutate Vadrok onto the big army token so if it survives a turn somehow, it now has flying, first strike and doubles in size because of Vadrok's ability? Does that work?
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Apr 17, 2020 20:43
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What's the fix if Arena has a memory leak? I know I have an old system but the game worked pretty well until an update or two ago.
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Apr 17, 2020 23:24
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Well Arena sure has some weird issues. Had a close match with some dude named Offline. I have him on board, his hand is empty, and he draws what would be his final card, and waits through a timeout. He emotes Oops, and a second later I get a network error message. It goes away, but now I'm stuck waiting for his timeout that will never end and cannot do anything. I suspect the guy rage disconnected, putting me in a position where I have to concede and accept a loss just to continue doing something else. What a bastard.
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Apr 19, 2020 19:35
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thespaceinvader posted:If you were in a paid event you should be able to report this and get your entry fee back. Yeah, I took a screenshot and sent that with the activity log in. I alt f4'd out but they'll have the info about it at least.
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Apr 19, 2020 22:17
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Unexpected Development seems like a fun card in limited so far. I was behind against a 5 color deck with all the fixing, so it had no problem laying down an Auspicious Starrix, then mutating a Sea Dasher Octopus, then Huntmaster Liger, and another creature I can't recall. It was huge and threatened to dump the rest of his deck onto the board, but he expected a safe attack into my 5/5 serpent with the one card I had left in hand since turn one. I like to think that was a genuine Nice!.
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Apr 20, 2020 06:43
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It seems the secret to making a good limited deck with Rielle as your first pick is to just go ahead and grab essence scatters and keep safes while you put together a R/U cycling deck. Why yes, I would like to pay one to draw two while putting a spell in the yard to increase her power or a creature to grab with a Moloch later, yeah.
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Apr 21, 2020 18:05
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This feels like a dumb general question, but how much card draw does a control style deck actually want? I understand that aggro has the least, midrange has some so it can keep value going, and control needs the most because it wants to answer what the opponent is doing and win with something after the opponent is choked out. But when you're working at a 60 card deck, how many sources of draw is enough? I ask because I lucked into some Nadir Krakens I'd like to use and they look built for a slower deck.
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Apr 24, 2020 06:12
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I finally got to draft B/G today after going into W/R cycling and U/R spells 4 times in a row, and I'm just chuffed at this pillbug+bushmeat poacher combo. I staked my claim early on Boneyard Lurkers and Heartless Acts, got passed a Gemrazer, saw a pick 6 or so Greathorn, then grabbed a pair of vipers. Passed a Phoenix and Skycat Sovereign later to fill the deck out but it's working well anyway. Feeling pretty good about my choices, which is nice.
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 Well, that sucked real hard. Went in with +1 Poacher, -1 haemophage. Game one went well against someone just playing black and white cats and appeared to have mana trouble. Game two I was immediately blown out by essence symbiotes into Brokkos. Game three, got mana screwed and blown out by an Umori+Cheval deck full of deathtouchers. Game 4, had to mulligan to five but eventually beat someone attempting to play three colors and cycling all their red cards away attempting to find a mountain. Game 5, was forced to skip my mulligan because I had to alt-f4 due to the black screen bug, only drew two lands in 12 cards and was hopelessly blown out by essence symbiotes into greathorn into heron. I only got to mutate my boneyard lurkers once, never played the titanoth, but the one game where the harvesters landed went pretty well. If you want to do a mutate deck, the symbiotes are must haves. They speed up your clock, open up favorable attacks, and blank Heartless Acts. Dr. Red Ranger fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Apr 26, 2020 |
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Apr 25, 2020 19:37
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:
Uh, tried to quote and it edited the original post? Anyway, things did not go as planned. I even took out the second pangolin for the last game because I felt I was too heavy on strickly ok 3 mana mutate targets. Thought I did pretty well with that draft, but it wasn't to be.
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Apr 26, 2020 01:10
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Welp, now I feel stupid. Cycling and mutate count as activated abilities, even if they're cast from your hand, and aren't "alternate casting costs" or whatever assumption I had before. Zirda in draft is nuts.
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Apr 26, 2020 20:51
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Lone Goat posted:prepare to feel stupider: mutate is not an activated ability Ok, I must have gotten myself confused looking at borders while making the draft deck.
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Apr 26, 2020 20:55
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Lone Goat posted:the easiest way to tell if something is an activated ability is to look for a colon. activated abilities will always says cost:effect Thanks. I wouldn't have noticed, having not played paper magic since early February. EDIT: I figured out why I was confused about mutation. I have a couple Porcuparrots in the deck, and their tap ability counts; the colon wasn't included because this is arena. Mystery solved. Dr. Red Ranger fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Apr 26, 2020 |
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Apr 26, 2020 21:10
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 P1P1 Nethroi, and white/black stayed fairly open for most of the draft. Tried to grab green as a base for easier fixing but it dried up pretty quickly.
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thespaceinvader posted:
What's the rest of your pool look like? I find that if I'm in blue, an essence scatter or two is always welcome. The white looks kinda thin as a splash, but if that's your removal, well that's your removal. One Keep Safe is always nice to have, especially when you don't have too many big ticket killdozers at the end of your list. Heron is good, Archipelagore is good, mutating Heron onto the Wolverine will be brutal, especially if you're playing stuff like Forbidden Friendship in your curve to get a board going. It's not hyper optimized and the colors give me a little worry since you've got three blue cards with UU in the cost (though they have cycling or mutate which helps), but it's not awful. More experienced people will have better opinions though.
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Apr 30, 2020 23:45
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:
Well, this list got dumpstered. Won game one, lost game two with flying lethal on board against an empty hand but got blown out by a top decked Archipelagore. Lost game three because of a ctd, then couldn't get back in because I got hit with the "perpetually checking for updates" bug. Had to use the registry editor fix for that. Lost game three because I ran into a hard counter deck full of bodyguards eating my graveyard and using the soldiers as fuel for multiple mutual destructions. Never got to play Nethroi, lame. I love the set but I'm getting wrecked all over trying to play it.
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Ominous seas likely won't do much good unless you get a lucky early island but it looks perfectly good. Just don't be afraid to actually play things instead of cycling them, you only have that one Zenith Flare.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:My last yorion draft went 7-1 So, it may have just been luck and silver tier limited, but I managed to draft a Mardu Zirda deck with cycling permanents like Void Beckoner and Moloch, and ability permanents like Whisper Squad, Poacher, Coilbug, Weaponize the Monsters and Blisterspit Goblin. The gameplan involved filling the board with stupid 1/1's no one brought sweepers for, using them to fuel cheap, repeatable activations of Weaponize and Poacher, and using Rumbling Rockslides for problem mutaters. It worked surprisingly well and more than one opponent scooped to a board of goblins.
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May 4, 2020 01:11
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the only ones I really think are bad in limited as companions are Zirda (almost impossible to be active) and Umori (no removal is not feasible)
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Gridlocked posted:You can put zirda into cycling but it's kinda redundant That's true. If you made a good cycling deck, it's full of the 1 cost cyclers and her ability doesn't do anything unless you had to fill space with the more expensive cyclers. I guess she's a consistent 3/3 with a "x thing can't block" ability but a cycling deck doesn't really need that. Dr. Red Ranger fucked around with this message at 01:55 on May 4, 2020 |
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May 4, 2020 01:53
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Keruga stomped my little Rakdos Zirda experiment flat. It only lived one turn after casting while I dug for another rockslide but that's all my opponent needed to get entirely out of hand.
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I think I'd like to play around with Dimir Flash. Anyone have experience with it? Seems like it could be fun without being too awful to play against, but if it's just hopelessly crapped on by the rest of the meta I can make dumb decks that lose all day already.
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May 5, 2020 22:32
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Eej posted:The best Dimir Flash deck I've seen is this one Thanks; the pollywog addition looks neat.
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May 5, 2020 23:12
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I remember seeing a rad Sliver Overlord sleeve during the workshop event. Is that in the store or did I miss it during some event?
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May 7, 2020 01:08
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How long does the game allow someone to rope? My opponent played his turn one hawk, let his timeout complete, and nothing's happened for 7 minutes while I watched a YouTube video. It still has the hourglass icon burning, but they have no bar or timeouts left.
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May 8, 2020 21:41
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Well that's lame. It's not the first time this has happened so I wondered what the cause was.
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May 8, 2020 21:46
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Gridlocked posted:
Speaking of reanimator drafting, do you have any experience making it work? I drafted it a couple of times and it doesn't really seem to come together even if you hoover up all the signposts, removal and good top end like Nethroi. I feel like Unbreakable Bond and the big BG cyclers must be major players together but I only seem to get one or the other.
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Well I put together that monoB Lurrus deck. It looks like it would fold like a chair to Cry of the Carnarium, but if my opponent doesn't have exile removal I never run out of plays while forcing them into topdeck mode from all the discard. It's gross but I'm still in silver so we'll see how it goes in the real ranks.
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IMJack posted:
Nah you're right. It's possible for the zombie deck to win but you need a combination of good draws to help your tempo, and the devotion deck to miss theirs. I drew two Epic Downfalls, exiled a Nylea and the R/G god, then was still run over by a second Nylea into Ulamog. My second game started with the opponent dropping two leylines before turn one, so I got to face down a turn 2 Nylea I couldn't turn off without Epic Downfall while I had a corpse marshal durdling around waiting for something to turn into a 2/2.
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