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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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Notably cycling is also an ability rather than a spell, which means that you can cast it at instant speed against Teferi and it can't be countered by most spells.
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If the next format doesn't include Teferi getting maimed repeatedly by flying shark tokens then magic is a waste
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Spiderdrake posted:If the next format doesn't include Teferi getting maimed repeatedly by flying shark tokens then magic is a waste Well the next core set is Teferi focused, so you might get your wish.
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Two questions. 1) What do I cut (I'm thinking Ministrant or Mind Stone)? 2) Given that I have two black duals, do I cut more cards and play Kroxa and despark? e: oh, third question - there's no way I want to play cavalcade even with this level of token producers, right? Wolfsbane fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Apr 4, 2020 |
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Sega 32X posted:I played for a month or two a year ago (stopped around when the last Ravnica set came out). Should I figure out my old login to play again, or do new players get enough stuff that I should just start a new account? Answering my own question: Looks like you unlock all the starter sealed decks and stuff for free, and my 7 mythic wildcards + 10 rare wildcards + maybe some playable Ravnica cards are probably worth keeping over however many free packs a new player gets? It's hard to tell, as there isn't a lot of info online, and after playing the 5 game tutorial I'm not willing to put in the time to unlock all the basic color decks.
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ScottyJSno posted:I just started, about a month ago. All my wild cards have come from drafts and Go with your old account.
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I'm seriously tempted to roll the dice on a cube draft just to see what rares turn up to fill out some holes. I know there's no guarantee, but it could be nice. Especially at 3k Gold it seems like a fairly low risk.
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Shooting Blanks posted:I'm seriously tempted to roll the dice on a cube draft just to see what rares turn up to fill out some holes. I know there's no guarantee, but it could be nice. Especially at 3k Gold it seems like a fairly low risk. the cube draft is arena's first phantom event meaning you don't keep the cards
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Glad I mentioned it here first then, thanks!
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ahaha, the payout on cube may be balls, but I’m having a blast doing it friend and are have gone 29-5 so far today my last 5-0 run was basically people just scooping to Thassa on 4 every game
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I watch Game Knights a lot, and I don't remember who said it, but one of the hosts said "Never concede, because in Commander things can change on a dime." I made the Torb Red Aggro Brawl deck and I was playing against Arelia. I could not get mana to save my life, but I was able to put a beating on my opponent early, he had 7 life and I still had 25. He used a board wipe, dropped some enchantment that created a bunch of 4/4 Angels, played his commander and a couple other flyers (not all on the same turn, on consecutive turns). They couldn't attack me because I could swing for lethal, but he could just block so I couldn't really do anything either. I figured it was only a matter of time before they were able to take over and win. I was just about to concede when I was like "You know what gently caress it lets see how this plays out!" My next card was the Chandra that lets you do 3 to any non-elemental creature. But I only had 5 mana. I got a mountain, played my Commander and just hoped that he wouldn't get killed (which didn't happen). I played Chandra, wiped the board (except for Torb), next turn I was able to swing for lethal. That is my Brawl story. I'm sorry I can't remember all the card names! SalTheBard fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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Well this cube deck feels bonkers. Currently 2-0.![]() Here's an album of my entire pool: https://imgur.com/a/m53E279 Edit: I took out Kiora for Stolen By The Fae. Waffleopolis fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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I don't know if Sealed Cube is "good" but I made a bad rear end "4 Power Matters" Blue Green deck and got to chain a bunch of creatures together with The Great Henge leading to an End-Raze Forerunner alpha strike and that felt good So it's cool with me
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Which one of you nerds is SA_Viking
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i don't know what the gently caress i'm doing![]() ![]() ![]() there's too many bombs!! it's 'oops all bombs!'
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Waffleopolis posted:Well this cube deck feels bonkers. Currently 2-0. i haven't played this cube but Aracnir and Brineborn seem real bad here, you probably want Disdainful Stroke since this format is all bombs all the time, and yeah the Stolen by the Fae and Kiora seems good still.
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Thinking about Ikoria, it was pointed out that a couple of the big monsters, particularly godzilla, have cheap cycling and huge power, which makes them prime re-animator deck fodder. Are any of them better for that archetype than Drakuseth, currently? Then I thought he, re-animator decks are super hard to counter unless you can counterspell the reanimation card, or kill/exile the reanimated thign at instant speed, but WOTC published a bunch of ways of killing opponents' yards in the previous set, didn't they... I wonder if that was not just as a balance to Escape, but also as a way to pre-emptively kill zombie godzilla in standard... thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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thespaceinvader posted:Thinking about Ikoria, it was pointed out that a couple of the big monsters, particularly godzilla, have cycling and huge power, which makes them prime re-animator deck fodder. Are any of them better for that archetype than Drakuseth, currently? The problem with reanimator is that right now there's no good reanimator spells. Getting stuff in the yard is going to be a lot easier, but actually getting it mobile is the problem. Honestly Cavaliers + Fires is probably a better avenue for slapping huge poo poo on the board on turn 5. Also, if you're going to animate stuff Drakuseth isn't the guy you want, it's Agent of Treachery (or End-Raze) and so far agent is still better than most of the stuff in Ikoria.
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Drakuseth or Agent are stronger when reanimated but there's a much lower opportunity cost to playing the 11/11 because it replaces itself and puts itself into the graveyard, it isn't just a dead card you have to find a way to discard.
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thespaceinvader posted:Thinking about Ikoria, it was pointed out that a couple of the big monsters, particularly godzilla, have cheap cycling and huge power, which makes them prime re-animator deck fodder. Are any of them better for that archetype than Drakuseth, currently? I don’t know why you’re spelling it this way but “reanimating” something is a single action. The card is never “animated” in the first place. Reanimating something is a word, re-animating is not. Reanimator decks have literally never been easier to counter in standard, there’s more GY hate in this Standard than I can honestly ever remember there being before.
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Are there pre-release/release events fir new sets on Arena? If so how much is entry?
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ScottyJSno posted:Are there pre-release/release events fir new sets on Arena? If so how much is entry? Not exactly. They put up a sealed event when new sets come out around when the prerelease would be but you don't get a promo card from it. It costs 2000 gems.
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11 weeks into Theros draft and I'm still learning new stuff If you have Portent of Betrayal and you're desperate for a sac outlet, you can use Wings of Hubris
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Lone Goat posted:11 weeks into Theros draft and I'm still learning new stuff I mean, duh? It's just way worse than every other sac outlet in the format. The real spice is using flicker of fate on your akroan war in response to the third chapter
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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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Active Player Non Active Player. The player whose turn it is puts their triggers on the stack first, which means they resolve after the non turn player's.
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ungulateman posted:I mean, duh? It's just way worse than every other sac outlet in the format. I'd never had them in the same deck before! Usually I only play Wings in RG since it's All Fatties All The Time, but I drafted a horrendous RB deck and was scraping for playables. I mean, look at this poo poo ![]() 17lands didn't save the draft for that one, possible as to not embarrass me. Neither colour was open and I had no business chasing after a deck that did not exist. Still went 7-2 I have done the Flicker trick on an omen, but it was on Elspeth Conquers Death, in a deck with a pair of Lagonna-Band Storytellers. I think I got it to go off 4 times one game. That was a fun one. ![]() Also went 7-2
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VictualSquid posted:Another beginner's drafting question: What would you pick here? thespaceinvader posted:Banishing LIght 100%. Followed by Dreadful Apathy, then probably Omen of the Sea or Witness of Tomorrows. maybe this is a hot take but imo dreadful apathy is better than banishing light. apathy has synergy with flicker of fate and various cards that get auras out of your graveyard. i think those upsides are more likely to be relevant than banishing light being able to nab a planeswalker or a shadowspear or whatever.
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I bought a cube sealed; I opened a cool pool, I got to play with all my most powerful cards, and I went 3-3. It’s cool but I hate limited
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Who the hell won with WUBRG ETB tribal that's causing me to see it so much on ladder in the past few days?
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![]() P1P1. No premium removal. Do I take the champion and go for Auras?
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Yes, Champion is a huge bomb. I’d take it over every common and uncommon, I think.
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IMJack posted:
champion is probably a top 10 card in the entire set, it gets out of control real quick and is certainly better than any common/uncommon
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IMJack posted:
Not just auras, enchantment creatures too. Auras still run the same risk as always: getting 2-for-1ed by removal so be careful with that.
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![]() P2P1. Intervention, Banishing Light, or Siona? Leaning towards Intervention.
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IMJack posted:
would banishing light but i think it's super close with intervention and intervention is perfectly justifiable, intervention is too often dead for me to be too excited about it in bo1 and banishing light synergizes with champion
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Take intervention, cut mirror shield, start picking creatures, Jesus Christ you have like three from pack 1
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As an avid fan of fromsoft games and of people complaining about bosses in SA threads shortly before beating them, let me just say: We're in the waning days of TBD, I've opened full playsets of 3/5 of the temples, Atris, Tymaret calls, Set Champ, Iroan games, and evern garbage poo poo that no one will ever play like Purph's intervention. I'm at 3/4 of a lot of good cards like ECD and Trawler. But I have not opened a single copy of Shatter the Skies. gently caress you randomizer, I will beat your rear end before Covid takes Maro's entire family off this mortal coil. thank you
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