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Supposedly all of SOI block is already on Arena already, just not active like Amonkhet and Kaladesh are.
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AnEdgelord posted:Approach was only good for like 3 weeks during the entire time it was in standard. Hi, i'm Teferi, Time Raveler. Perhaps you've heard of my friends Wilderness Reclamation, Narset and Tamiyo?
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Aug 16, 2019 03:56
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While I'm no longer willing to bodky speculate on Arena plans, to the best of my knowledge no other DCG had tried selling new packs not legal in their standard format. I feel like it wouldn't sit well with the primarily Arena players who haven't gotten used to multiple formats and that many years of cards.
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Aug 16, 2019 03:57
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Silhouette posted:Hi, i'm Teferi, Time Raveler. Perhaps you've heard of my friends Wilderness Reclamation, Narset and Tamiyo? If you think approach of the second sun of all things is the best you can do with those cards then I have very VERY bad news for you.
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Aug 16, 2019 04:11
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ItBreathes posted:While I'm no longer willing to bodky speculate on Arena plans, to the best of my knowledge no other DCG had tried selling new packs not legal in their standard format. I feel like it wouldn't sit well with the primarily Arena players who haven't gotten used to multiple formats and that many years of cards. Hearthstone does.
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Aug 16, 2019 04:14
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I'm gonna guess that they'll do flashback drafts of those old sets, and you can use wildcards for anything you don't pick up that way. Maybe they'll sell packs too, but I wouldn't expect them to push those heavily.
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Aug 16, 2019 04:23
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The American Dream posted:I just saw vraskas contempt was down to like $2. After they rotate and go down to $1 something I’m going to buy a set solely for if wizards creates arena modern ngl I'm doing this with the checklands that are about to rotate. I would definitely try Historic in paper if/when Wizards pushes it as a Constructed format for paper play, but like I said before I think they'll wait at least one more rotation before they try that just so there's so greater deck variety. E: I feel like I should buy into Arena now and slowly build up wildcards/rotated cards to play Historic but 
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Aug 16, 2019 04:25
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Magic Underwear posted:Hearthstone does. doesn't hearthstone hide them in their web store outside of the main game interface so it's kind of hard to get them without knowing what the deal is
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Aug 16, 2019 05:08
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President Ark posted:doesn't hearthstone hide them in their web store outside of the main game interface so it's kind of hard to get them without knowing what the deal is Once a set rotates out of standard you can't get them in the in game shop anymore or, I'm pretty sure, use in game currency for them. You have to go through the battlenet shop to find them and there are disclaimers that the packs can't be used in standard.
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Aug 16, 2019 05:26
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ilmucche posted:It was the vizier/ devoted combo deck with finale of devastation and ballista and whatever. Ended up winning our qualifier to go to the next qualifier. Yes, I have played the deck a bit and I think it's not a great build.
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Aug 16, 2019 05:42
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President Ark posted:doesn't hearthstone hide them in their web store outside of the main game interface so it's kind of hard to get them without knowing what the deal is stop moving the goalposts.
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Aug 16, 2019 05:55
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C-Euro posted:ngl I'm doing this with the checklands that are about to rotate. I would definitely try Historic in paper if/when Wizards pushes it as a Constructed format for paper play, but like I said before I think they'll wait at least one more rotation before they try that just so there's so greater deck variety. The friendly colors were like $2 before they reprinted them and they became legal again, I figure they'll go back down to that by 2020, along with the Dominaria versions. It was very easy to get people to throw in random Kaledish fast lands to make up the difference in a trade at the end of last year.
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Aug 16, 2019 06:08
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Do we know how long the core 20 mastery system is going for? Is it up to the day before Eldraine? I’m trying to figure out whether I’ll hit 100 if I keep hitting my weeklys, but it entirely depends on how far in we are.
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Aug 16, 2019 07:12
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ShaneB posted:Yes, I have played the deck a bit and I think it's not a great build. Fair enough, the guy managed to (casually) spike our qualifier and took down hogaak, death shadow and jeskai control along the way so the small sample size makes me think it's good.
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Aug 16, 2019 07:33
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Personally I think it's pretty unlikely Historic actually goes back to BFZ block given how unpopular the format was especially for limited, though I suppose you can get round that by releasing drafting as Oath + BFZ from the off. Wizards are seemingly pretty wary about releasing too much too soon, especially with the fatigue over the release of War/MH1/M20 so close together. I wouldn't be surprised if Arena got one old set per year to make up for the lack of Commander or master's product, but the timing of the actual release seems tricky.
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Aug 16, 2019 10:56
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I also wonder if we ever get a Historic Masters or something similar on Arena
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Aug 16, 2019 10:57
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Silhouette posted:Hi, i'm Teferi, Time Raveler. Perhaps you've heard of my friends Wilderness Reclamation, Narset and Tamiyo? Noone is gonna play approach over Nexus, bc Nexus can combo with reclamation without needing teferi to be active
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Aug 16, 2019 11:10
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I don't think hazoret or ramunap ruins would be particularly egregious in a format with cards printed in the last four sets in it.
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Aug 16, 2019 11:40
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I'd like to see if Smuggler's Copter would make any headway and if Fatal Push in particular keeps it in check, since we didn't get to find out in standard.
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Aug 16, 2019 11:44
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Magic Underwear posted:Hearthstone does. They keep selling old sets, they're not selling brand new cards. Unless something has changed in the last couple years.
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Aug 16, 2019 13:21
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mandatory lesbian posted:Noone is gonna play approach over Nexus, bc Nexus can combo with reclamation without needing teferi to be active I think I'd probably play one Approach in that deck. Just for the ability to win a game on the spot, rather than having to go through a million turns.
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Aug 16, 2019 13:23
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Balon posted:Man remember when deaths Shadow was the boogie man? I loved when that deck was popular because it was free wins against people who’d sleeve it up because it won the last GP or whatever but didn’t know how to play it properly and would do all your work for you if you were on Burn or something.
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Aug 16, 2019 13:36
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Entropic posted:I loved when that deck was popular because it was free wins against people who’d sleeve it up because it won the last GP or whatever but didn’t know how to play it properly and would do all your work for you if you were on Burn or something. I loved when it was popular because death and taxes was briefly a decent metagame choice for larger events and I got to have my brief moment in the sun.
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Aug 16, 2019 13:40
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Riversideblues posted:Do we know how long the core 20 mastery system is going for? Is it up to the day before Eldraine? I’m trying to figure out whether I’ll hit 100 if I keep hitting my weeklys, but it entirely depends on how far in we are. Everything I've seen says core 20 mastery rotates out the same day Eldraine releases.
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Aug 16, 2019 13:53
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Someone on reddit was saying September 24th, because it would be 12 weeks after the pass started, the free version of mastery offers what would previously have been 12 weekly rewards worth of packs, and it's just before Eldraine prerelease which is when sets have been released on Arena. Honestly Wizards should be a lot better about communicating this stuff in the first place, though I guess they have an incentive to let people think it might stick around longer than it actually will.
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Aug 16, 2019 14:26
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Can't wait to get back to the random Karn Lattice and Phoenix decks, back when modern was good.
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Sinteres posted:Someone on reddit was saying September 24th, because it would be 12 weeks after the pass started, the free version of mastery offers what would previously have been 12 weekly rewards worth of packs, and it's just before Eldraine prerelease which is when sets have been released on Arena. Honestly Wizards should be a lot better about communicating this stuff in the first place, though I guess they have an incentive to let people think it might stick around longer than it actually will. Wizards genuinely has no idea what they're going to do next, and if they do, they might just change their mind before then. Also 12 weeks seems strange since that's only a combined 48 weeks a year, so where do the other 4 weeks go? I was under the impression that M20 mastery goes away the second Eldraine mastery starts with no transition period. I might be wrong (or wizards just changed it three times since the last time I looked)
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Aug 16, 2019 14:50
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Sinteres posted:Someone on reddit was saying September 24th, because it would be 12 weeks after the pass started, the free version of mastery offers what would previously have been 12 weekly rewards worth of packs, and it's just before Eldraine prerelease which is when sets have been released on Arena. Honestly Wizards should be a lot better about communicating this stuff in the first place, though I guess they have an incentive to let people think it might stick around longer than it actually will. This checks out to me, because going through the 28th (since everything resets on Sundays now) would let you get 45 levels between now and then if you maxed out your XP gain, and I'm at level 57 with no money spent on levels and without missing any available XP. If my math isn't wrong*, cutting it off a week early wouldn't let people actually get to 100 without buying more levels in the pass. *I only added 2000 more in extra XP since I think there are two vacation events left, if they do more events or codes it obviously changes
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Lone Goat posted:Wizards genuinely has no idea what they're going to do next, and if they do, they might just change their mind before then. IIRC the core and third set are the current set for a shorter time than the first and second sets of a rotation.
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Aug 16, 2019 14:56
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Sinteres posted:IIRC the core and third set are the current set for a shorter time than the first and second sets of a rotation. they should just make eldraine the current set for a year ALL THE FABLES
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Aug 16, 2019 15:02
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So sick of every single limited game being against a deck with 3+ Heartpiercer Bows.
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Aug 16, 2019 15:31
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TheMaestroso posted:So sick of every single limited game being against a deck with 3+ Heartpiercer Bows. Did other limited formats in Arena have such blatant strategies that only worked because of bot drafting, or is this one the most prominent so far?
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Aug 16, 2019 15:41
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On the other hand I love that Reckless Air Strike is a maindeckable card even in Bo1
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Aug 16, 2019 15:53
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Sinteres posted:Did other limited formats in Arena have such blatant strategies that only worked because of bot drafting, or is this one the most prominent so far? I think gates was super easy to draft
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Aug 16, 2019 15:55
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Sinteres posted:Did other limited formats in Arena have such blatant strategies that only worked because of bot drafting, or is this one the most prominent so far?
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Aug 16, 2019 16:04
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I do think the options are condensed into either Ux fliers/bows or Rx elemental aggro for the top draft decks. I guess theres the undead servant deck but its not that good and gets worse if your opponent is a better player.
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Aug 16, 2019 16:12
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Ugin's Conjurant was consistently undervalued by the bots for the entire run of WAR
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Aug 16, 2019 16:13
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:This checks out to me, because going through the 28th (since everything resets on Sundays now) would let you get 45 levels between now and then if you maxed out your XP gain, and I'm at level 57 with no money spent on levels and without missing any available XP. If my math isn't wrong*, cutting it off a week early wouldn't let people actually get to 100 without buying more levels in the pass. Excluding the rest of this week, there would be 6 weeks remaining to the 28th of Sept. 250 x 15 wins x 6 weeks = 22,500 500 x 7 x 6 weeks = 21,000 Who’s knows events = 2,000 That means there’s 45.5 levels left to earn correct? That should just get people to 100 assuming they’ve been earning all that they can. And if they give us the extra week for Eldraine prerelease and take it Oct 4th there should be some surplus levels if someone missed something here or there.
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I know I almost definitely missed the conversation at some point but it seems weird they don't just seed the start of draft season with a bunch of bot drafts and just use something like Eternal's asynchronous drafting.
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Stangg posted:I do think the options are condensed into either Ux fliers/bows or Rx elemental aggro for the top draft decks. I guess theres the undead servant deck but its not that good and gets worse if your opponent is a better player. you can make an ok GW season of growth deck if you get a couple. not sure it's top tier though
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