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The big tip is don't spend rare/mythic wildcards improving the starter decks - if you want a top-tier deck, you're better off making do with the cards you open, and saving your wildcards until you can put something good together.
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VictualSquid posted: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? Got a link to that?
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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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VictualSquid posted:It was this one: Unfortunately the Twitch Prime offer expired two weeks ago. 18 packs aren't nothing, the codes aren't included in the OP because it's not a good OP.
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This code list has worked well for me: https://cardgamebase.com/mtg-arena-codes/ The codes LevelUp and BroughtBack worked a couple of weeks ago, which I've not personally seen elsewhere. There's likely to be a code for the next set too, for 3 packs, probably PlayIkoria. Any sign of Ikoria spoilers yet? Probably still a little early, but IIRC Theros ones were dropping well before this.
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thespaceinvader posted:This code list has worked well for me: https://cardgamebase.com/mtg-arena-codes/ Spoilers don't drop until 1-2 weeks before the sets release and Ikoria is almost 2 full months away
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Spoilers started early December for Theros, which was around 5 to 6 weeks out? But I guess Christmas made them earlier.
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thespaceinvader posted:This code list has worked well for me: https://cardgamebase.com/mtg-arena-codes/ Ikoria spoilers start 3/26
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thespaceinvader posted:Spoilers started early December for Theros, which was around 5 to 6 weeks out? But I guess Christmas made them earlier. We also got Theros spoilers early since some guy found packs for sale in December or something.
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I will say this Standard seems pretty stale right now, the problem with not having any truly broken cards means that there isn’t any meaningful meta shifts or adaptations. We’ve got RDW, Fires, Reclamation, and then the clowns trying to make Grixis and Sultai work no matter what forever lol
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It's too bad monoblack or Dance Manse never really took off. They're really fun decks when they actually work.
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Bust Rodd posted:I will say this Standard seems pretty stale right now, the problem with not having any truly broken cards means that there isn’t any meaningful meta shifts or adaptations. Temur clover won that dreamhack tournament last weekend, UW control won worlds the weekend before, mengucci has been streaming a sultai ramp list that looks promising. In short, Burnt Rulb
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They both took off, they also just got immediately outclassed by larger mid-range decks and stronger permission control decks. You can’t be a Middle-of-the-Road deck in Standard. You have to push the limits of what your archetype is capable of to compete. Lone Goat posted:In short, Burnt Rulb https://twitter.com/mengu09/status/1232662197324701701?s=21 Yes indeed this deck seems very promising with its unwinnable match up vs the most popular deck. Bust Rodd fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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Feb 26, 2020 18:27
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GrandpaPants posted:It's too bad monoblack or Dance Manse never really took off. They're really fun decks when they actually work. Mono-Black Gary completely dominated Standard during the original Theros block, so they probably didn't want that to happen again.
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Bust Rodd posted:They both took off, they also just got immediately outclassed by larger mid-range decks and stronger permission control decks.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Sounds like the opposite of stale then? No, lots of seemingly viable decks getting crushed into the 3 most basic archetypes of 1 Aggro deck, 1 Control deck, and 1 Midrange deck seems stale to me.
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GrandpaPants posted:It's too bad monoblack or Dance Manse never really took off. They're really fun decks when they actually work. Monoblack took off very strongly, then it got shot down. Turns out when your big payoff isn't going off til turn 5, at the very earliest (because you're likely not running ramp, with the sole possible exception of Priest of Forgotten Gods), and even then is typically only around 10 drain unless you got a perfect draw right up to turn 5, AND your opponent didn't have any interaction at all to take out your key components... that just isn't quick enough or big enough. It shot me right up to high Diamond at the beginning of the set, but it's been getting progressively worse since. I've been trying it out in Bo3 a bit, but it's just not got quite enough legs or means to defend itself IME. Manse Dance is super fun, but again, struggles with the early game against red (can stabilise with a good draw, but red can go over AND around things like Birth of Meletis at the same time atm), and the mid/long game against ramp/control/rec, because in the end, even if you get the payoff to pay off, a bunch of 4/4s, some draw, and some drain, just... isn't all that impressive compared to 'you die now lol' or 'you can't do anything if the game gets past turn 4'.
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Feb 26, 2020 18:45
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thespaceinvader posted:Any sign of Ikoria spoilers yet? Probably still a little early, but IIRC Theros ones were dropping well before this. "Mutate" is a keyword ability being introduced in Ikoria. It's referenced in the silver-bordered Surgeon
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Feb 26, 2020 19:10
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ex post facho posted:calix dance is pretty fun, and has a ~50%ish rate in bo1 against RDW. haven't really played it in bo3 but i feel like it has a lot of good answers once it survives to t4 or so. Got a list?
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Bust Rodd posted:No, lots of seemingly viable decks getting crushed into the 3 most basic archetypes of 1 Aggro deck, 1 Control deck, and 1 Midrange deck seems stale to me. Sounds like standard
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Feb 26, 2020 20:38
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*Looney Tunes theme starts playing* That's Standard, Folks!
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ive started auto conceding to blue in brawl. it's never fun to play against and having your commander countered multiple times feels insanely bad
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You could always play a RG commander (I like Nikya, not T1 but competitive vs most things that aren't Golos) and run Rhythm of the Wild and that green enchantment creature from Theros that makes your creatures uncounterable and laugh as they try to counter your poo poo anyway or just snap concede
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Klothys and Domri are very good at loving up Golos players.Relin posted:ive started auto conceding to blue in brawl. it's never fun to play against and having your commander countered multiple times feels insanely bad
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Temur Adventures is so much fun, thanks to those who posted the decklist. There are lots of interesting choices to make each turn. It's a shame that it's prohibitively expensive to build in paper, hopefully the new Challenger decks push Brazen Borrowers way way down.
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Somberbrero posted:Temur Adventures is so much fun, thanks to those who posted the decklist. There are lots of interesting choices to make each turn. It's a shame that it's prohibitively expensive to build in paper, hopefully the new Challenger decks push Brazen Borrowers way way down. I don't play paper but on some deckshare websites (I can't recall which) there are options to just rent the decks. If I ever went to an in-person tournament I'd just rent one.
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Somberbrero posted:Temur Adventures is so much fun, thanks to those who posted the decklist. There are lots of interesting choices to make each turn. It's a shame that it's prohibitively expensive to build in paper, hopefully the new Challenger decks push Brazen Borrowers way way down. it also seems passable - unflavored, but passable - against RDW source: am RDW
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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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VictualSquid posted: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. If you click the "lands" button at the top of the deckbuilder, you can pick exactly which basic lands you want to add. There are way too many for a single deck to have all the available variants, just pick the ones you like best.
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I really want ashiok's erasure to be playable but, it never seems to work out  .
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Ruckby posted:Got a list? sure calix dance 3 The Birth of Meletis (THB) 5 3 Omen of the Sea (THB) 58 2 Banishing Light (THB) 4 4 Oath of Kaya (WAR) 209 3 Doom Foretold (ELD) 187 1 Kiora Bests the Sea God (THB) 52 2 Treacherous Blessing (THB) 117 2 Elspeth Conquers Death (THB) 13 2 Elspeth's Nightmare (THB) 91 2 Archon of Sun's Grace (THB) 3 1 Dream Trawler (THB) 214 1 Heliod's Intervention (THB) 19 3 Shatter the Sky (THB) 37 2 Dance of the Manse (ELD) 186 2 Calix, Destiny's Hand (THB) 211 2 Teferi, Time Raveler (WAR) 221 1 Temple of Plenty (THB) 248 1 Temple Garden (GRN) 258 1 Temple of Malady (M20) 254 2 Swamp (ELD) 261 1 Island (ELD) 257 4 Plains (ELD) 253 3 Hallowed Fountain (RNA) 251 1 Godless Shrine (RNA) 248 3 Scoured Barrens (M20) 251 2 Tranquil Cove (M20) 259 2 Fabled Passage (ELD) 244 2 Temple of Silence (M20) 256 2 Temple of Deceit (THB) 245
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Sabotaging your mana base just to include G for Calix sounds like a nightmare. Regular Esper Dance has been pretty successful against red for me. Almost everything in the deck stalls for time and slows down the Steamkin/Anax/Embercleave train long enough to start putting the board on lockdown. You might have to aggressively suicide Teferis to do it but I've had good results.
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Azuth0667 posted:I really want ashiok's erasure to be playable but, it never seems to work out In historic you can use it and ixalans binding to be a real bastard motherfuvker
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Imagine playing two colours in your room foretold deck This post made by Kaya's wrath
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K so Embercleave is really good wow
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Elephant Ambush posted:K so Embercleave is really good wow Honestly probably the best red card printed in the last 4 years and probably the best Equipment ever printed.
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Bust Rodd posted:Honestly probably the best red card printed in the last 4 years Lmao not even top 5
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