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I just decided to give this game a go. Last time I played magic, my secret weapon was my superior understanding of the difference between instant and interrupt. So my knowledge is a bit outdated. I am trying to unlock those two-color starter decks right now. Are there cross wheel starter decks hidden somewhere? Like red-blue. Also, is modifying the starter decks a good place to start on deck building? While googling that, I stumbled on the official howto post for the tutorial, and it gave me 18 free boosters. Shouldn't that sort of thing be in the OP, or are 18 boosters worth a lot less then they seem? From how I understand the gatcha mechanics, I should unlock all the starter decks before opening those boosters. Is that true?
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The Clowner posted:Got a link to that? https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/magic-gathering-arena-starter-guide-2020-01-17 I also found some people talking about a twitch prime deck, but it is either gone or not available in my region.
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Feb 26, 2020 15:42
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Is there an automatic way to exchange your deck's lands into all the available variants of that land? So that all of my lands look different for that strange nostalgia.
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Feb 27, 2020 00:15
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I am looking for a good game log parser. I mainly want the ability to review a previously played game. I found mtgatracker which can display current log as an overlay. But the display of old games seems to be bugged out. And everything else seems to require sign ups to work.
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Mar 1, 2020 13:52
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I just had the dumbest match ever: I ran out of cards despite having only around 5 cards of extra draw and 4 cards worth of self-mill. My opponent was down to 5ish cards, too. I was down to 2 life at one point and healed about 20 life using tymmie and the warden. My opponent also had a bit of healing on the side and I did probably more then 20 damage total using the dreams of the underworld. My plan : Attack with everything, do 2 damage with the flyer and he dies to the draw proc of underworld dreams on his turn. My estimation of his plan : Remember that he has a heal for sacrifice and let me die to my empty library. Actual ending : He forgets that tymmie has trample and dies to that.
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Mar 9, 2020 19:14
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Today it was the fist time I had the same rare in two packs in a draft. It was a pair of Breeding Pools.
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Mar 13, 2020 21:38
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Now that I can afford brawl, I have a question: What is Brawl? Also, I followed the advice on only crafting non-rares at the beginning. Found a nice 0-rare deck based on cavalcade. And now when I look to check if I can afford new decks I lack the uncommons to do so. And I have a lot of problems getting anything together without crafting that operates at a comparable level to my aggro deck.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:40
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The two funniest things about playing cheap red aggro are: My opponent resigning/making suicidal mistakes in situations where I would win if I had embercleave/thorbin. Beating those expensive red aggro decks, where someone plays a mythic card for every of my commons. Each card does the same as my card, only better. But they still lose due to red aggro's randomness.
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Mar 18, 2020 15:47
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Yes, I am using a cheap version of that: And currently I am considering buying some embercleaves and torbrans and bonecrushers and to slot them in for the random stuff I already had. I think I only bought the anaxes, tins and cavalcades. But the deck already has me close to diamond rank, and it already is very hard to avoid getting curbstomped when I try out some casual style deck idea. Deck 4 Cavalcade of Calamity (RNA) 95 4 Light Up the Stage (RNA) 107 4 Tin Street Dodger (RNA) 120 1 Grim Initiate (WAR) 130 4 Chandra's Spitfire (M20) 132 1 Scampering Scorcher (M20) 158 4 Scorch Spitter (M20) 159 3 Shock (M20) 160 1 Torch Courier (GRN) 119 4 Anax, Hardened in the Forge (THB) 125 4 Infuriate (THB) 141 18 Mountain (THB) 285 1 Legion Warboss (GRN) 109 2 Skewer the Critics (RNA) 115 2 Dwarven Mine (ELD) 243 1 Phoenix of Ash (THB) 148 2 Shadowspear (THB) 236
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Mar 18, 2020 18:03
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I have been playing Arena for almost exactly one month now. And I just made it to Mythic. The most fun part about running a budget version of RDW is: Stomping the expensive version of RDW on turn 4 because those 20ish extra rares make less difference then playing first. And because they fail to take advantage of my weaker cards, because they think I have the more expensive versions on my hand. What does that 90% line on the mythic rank mean?
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Mar 26, 2020 19:33
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The fires deck feels quite terrible. I got this as a starting hand, and in retrospect it was a good one: I am 0-5ish, all against the red deck. With the fires deck always being matched against the fires deck, being unable to cast anything before turn 4 makes it hard win as the cav deck can kill you on turn 4 with a bit of luck. The golgari and the flash deck are OK.
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Mar 27, 2020 11:26
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I just notice that the cavalcade deck has no Anax.  I thought that my opponents just were having mediocre draws.
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Mar 27, 2020 13:40
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Is there some thing about the preconstructed matchmaking that prevents mirror matches? I have never had one. 9:6 for the current event. And all my losses were with the fires deck against the red deck. And one of my 2 wins was one where my opponent would have one if he had the lands for t4 torban. The other one I was matched against the simic deck instead, which is slower.
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Mar 27, 2020 18:30
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The current workshop is the dumbest. And the best.
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Boco_T posted:What's the list for the bad version of mono red that someone in this thread made it to Mythic with in Bo1? I scrolled back like 8 pages and couldn't find it. Deck 4 Cavalcade of Calamity (RNA) 95 4 Light Up the Stage (RNA) 107 4 Tin Street Dodger (RNA) 120 1 Grim Initiate (WAR) 130 4 Chandra's Spitfire (M20) 132 1 Scampering Scorcher (M20) 158 4 Scorch Spitter (M20) 159 3 Shock (M20) 160 1 Torch Courier (GRN) 119 4 Anax, Hardened in the Forge (THB) 125 4 Infuriate (THB) 141 18 Mountain (THB) 285 1 Legion Warboss (GRN) 109 2 Skewer the Critics (RNA) 115 2 Dwarven Mine (ELD) 243 1 Phoenix of Ash (THB) 148 2 Shadowspear (THB) 236
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Mar 30, 2020 17:03
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:the goblin deck is ironically the slowest but probably the strongest once it gets going, since it’s the only deck with removal and has the best card advantage too. It doesn’t really explode like the green deck or become unstoppable like the white deck, but you reach board states with 3 Warchiefs where you can go siege gang for 2, sac two tokens to cast two ringleaders, more siege gangs, etc. you can also sac blockers to stop the cat deck gaining life. Goblins does feel the most consistent. But Black has the best chances of getting its combo going.
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Mar 30, 2020 19:30
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What is your favourite brawl mirror match? I just had an hilarious Haktos vs. Haktos fight.
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Mar 31, 2020 13:06
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Mike N Eich posted:i like the idea of these Precon events, especially for decks that are allowed to break the rules and such, but the ones they've done so far have been so Bland and Vanilla and also super Unbalanced. if you're gonna do unbalanced crazy shenanigans, cool! Lets do it, but its boring to watch my opponent chain 4 Return of the Wildspeaker and cast 23 Llanowar Elves followed by an End-Raze Boars, that isn't fun On the other hand, literally all my wins against the red deck were situations where my opponent obviously had lethal, but failed to capitalise.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:50
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SalTheBard posted:I have a couple of Brawl questions: Yarok is probably the strongest of the fun to play commanders. My favourite brawl decks are Judith and Teyesa. They are both in the starter decks (I think) and make for fun combos.
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Apr 1, 2020 10:13
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What would you guys cut?
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Apr 1, 2020 12:23
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Lone Goat posted:You have a lot of cards that shouldn't be in a deck like this. Did you start with Klothys and then chase RG without seeing enough actual good cards to be in that colour? I did see only one really good not-RG card in the whole first pack. Afterwards I just stuck with RG. I simply suck at drafting. Rise worked pretty well, until that last game where it was triggering of the escaped arachnir but I still only drew lands for over 5 turns.
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Apr 1, 2020 14:36
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The music choice for the trailer is so dumb, I thought it was still yesterday.
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Apr 2, 2020 15:38
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Deathcorona. Best card idea.
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Apr 2, 2020 16:23
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I just played a game where I had 0 cards in my library for the last 5 turns. Because as long as I had my Underrealm Lich, I don't technically draw cards. During those turns I had a pair of Pharika's spawns that I escaped around 6 times total. Then I had worn down his defender low enough to kill him. I suppose this deck needs a bit less self-mill and a bit more payoff.
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Apr 2, 2020 20:20
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thespaceinvader posted:Might I suggest Polukranos?
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Can Act of Betrayal + Fling kill Thassa, the invincible? Probably only if you have enough devotion to make her stay a creature, right?
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Apr 2, 2020 20:57
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That netdecking event is pretty fun for chumps like me, who can't afford those crazy cards normally. Also, when your arena client isn't set to English you can't import decklists from English websites.
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Apr 3, 2020 11:12
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I just read through but does that imply that mechagozilla is only available in japanese? And that it has one of dumbest abilities? https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/ikoria-lair-behemoths-variants-2020-04-03
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Apr 3, 2020 18:05
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Everybody is using the event to try out the top meta deck that they usually couldn't afford. And Aristocats is the funniest of the current top.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:53
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Another beginner's drafting question: What would you pick here? Part of me thinks that taking a common over a rare is wasteful unless I am certain that the common fits the rest of my deck, especially when it is strong in standard. On the other hand it seems pretty greedy to pick a rare that is that is that unlikely to be useful.
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Apr 4, 2020 13:12
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Kanfy posted:I've gone a bit back and forth between Light and Apathy, and it's definitely somewhat close. Apathy is also searchable by Heliod's Pilgrims which are a core white common and as mentioned less vulnerable to all the maindeckable enchant removal (and cards like Flicker). Light is the far better bomb eraser though, targeting anything from Ashiok to Shadowspear. I just went through the first pack, and I feel like going blue-white: https://www.17lands.com/draft/0e4218bf5b754f96b2d50f4afefa3ee3
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Apr 4, 2020 14:13
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Another best part of playing brawl: Swinging in for lethal with your commander on an otherwise empty board, while my opponent's planeswalker commander looks on from his boring planeswalker zone.
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Apr 4, 2020 20:15
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How is it decided which death trigger runs first? I was just in a situation where my opponent played massacre girl killing a large stack of tokens, and I only won because my vindictive vampire triggered before his Syd.
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Apr 5, 2020 17:59
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I am still mostly playing brawl, and I just had an amazing token tribal vs. token tribal match. I won because my tokens can fly, and his couldn't. He actually survived this round due to lifegain, but couldn't turn the game around. Playing this game offline would have been a fate worse then death.
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Apr 6, 2020 19:23
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In Brawl, if I let my commander go to the graveyard and she gets moved to exile from there; do I get a new chance to move her to the command zone?
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Apr 9, 2020 20:43
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MTGA has opened that all cards brawl, and I have no idea what is even in historic. Does anybody have any cool archetypes to suggest? Or any OP historc cards that fit into a standard Orzhov Sacrifice/Token deck?Zero VGS posted:One time with Mirror March in Arena, I won something like 16 coinflips in a row. Whatever it was I remember it coming out to 1:32000 odds. The thing is, I've to this day gotten off maybe a dozen total mirror marches and more than half have been extremely unlikely flips like 6-8 heads in a row. I think the psuedorandom generator might have been a little wonky. This is the same company that made every booster pack give a Mythic WC for 3 hours straight, after all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-Ipsat90c Here is what you actually want from Arena. A less random system that feels more random to people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5qnnxFoBss
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Apr 10, 2020 08:33
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I like Ikora for its variety of cat-related tokens.
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Apr 10, 2020 10:34
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I just noticed that the Brawl event doesn't give you all cards, like the last event in that series did. So no fancy decks for me. I don't have so much wildcards At least that explains why my first two opponents had normal decks. Playing against that dino tribal deck was fun though.
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Apr 10, 2020 14:55
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Somberbrero posted:Are codes from the previous digital fnm events still good? I have a bunch left over from my store if anyone missed them. Can you message me one? I live in a region without real game stores.
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There was also that "you can deckbuild with all cards" event recently. I played at least a match with most meta decks, to find one that I like. If that gets repeated, it is perfect to find your first serious deck.
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