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Glad to see using wildcards to get the banned cards an hour before it took place still worked to get free ones. Yay wildcards.
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Rinkles posted:I feel like the competition is weaker when I get up early (5-7AM Eastern). Yeah, my record is better in not-prime time hours. Also in the middle of the month, when people aren't rushing rank
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May 30, 2023 18:40
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I was down to one and five at some point in the two games I won.
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May 30, 2023 20:04
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Why did the game randomly give me 4x Kumano?
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May 30, 2023 20:10
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They removed haste for the alchemy version
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May 30, 2023 20:14
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I think I would have preferred 4x uncommon wildcards instead.
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i always lol when i open an old pack and the alchemy rebalanced card is peeking out from behind the real one
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May 30, 2023 20:19
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sooooo how long till the next set?
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May 30, 2023 21:02
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Wilds of Eldraine in September.
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May 30, 2023 21:06
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well gently caress
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The summer LOTR set will be draftable on arena and it doesn't have word salad alchemy mechanics so maybe it will have more legs than Baldur's Gate, which even Jim Davis couldn't take to mythic for content
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May 30, 2023 21:17
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babypolis posted:sooooo how long till the next set? lord of the rings in 3 weeks, but it isn't standard legal.
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May 30, 2023 21:18
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I actually managed to draft a set to rare-completion for the first time (after spending the wildcards from the bans lol) so I'm feeling pretty good about at least a couple more MOM premier drafts before set change.
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lmao yes, after dozens of games with this deck the flipside of Invasion of Ikoria is finally relevant
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Gold, Gems and Drafting I am a F2P player and I almost exclusively premier draft on arena. I spend a lot of time thinking about currency because I like drafting and want to keep doing it. I also want to encourage others to draft, even people who are new to it. Here's a little analysis that may help you: Ratios Premier drafting costs one of the following two options:
Most of the time you can make around 1K gold per day on arena. The easiest way is your daily quest (either 500 or 750 gold) and you can get 550 gold from your first four wins. Using the ratio, you can also think of it as getting 150 gems. You can even take this one step further and say that it is around 10% of a draft, or a draft once every ten days. Draft Rewards But how can you turn gold into gems? There's no way to straight up purchase it. The answer is drafting. When you premier draft, you spend gold and the rewards always come in the form of gems. Here is the reward table: code:code:This is all kind of a diversion because I want people to try to appreciate everything they get out of drafting. Let's look at currency directly. code:
Can you get three wins? Yes, definitely. I'm a bad drafter. I chose to kill Sheoldred instead of winning. Despite that, I have a 60% winrate in MOM premier draft. 60% is good enough to hover between 3-4 wins consistently. You can hang in there and as long as you can land in the middle you'll be able to keep drafting. Also you may want to try multiple accounts.
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Grifter posted:Good freaking stuff that should be read by everyone. There have been several times where I've seen lines the people streaming haven't, and even more times they've seen me about to make a mistake and stopped me from throwing away games. To add to that, there have been also plenty of occasions where debates on plays and card picks have affected my skill as a Magic player and drafter in a very positive way. It's thanks to the crew at the Discord server that I've been able to rare-complete (and sometimes mythic-complete!) every standard set since I started playing at the end of the Adventures in Forgotten Realms set. I'm by no means an infinite-capable drafter and my win rate hovers between 50%-60% in both Premier and Traditional Draft, but going F2P and getting a decent collection each set is more than doable if you're willing to give drafting a go. Also, consider switching from Premier Draft to Traditional Draft by the time you hit Platinum rank: the competition in Platinum, Diamond, and of course Mythic is very stiff, and sometimes it's worth trying to go for an unranked Traditional Draft if you are confident in your sideboarding and BO3 skills. The lack of a hand smoother for lands in BO3 means variance plays an even bigger role, but at least you won't always get blindsided by a bomb rare in BO3 you couldn't play around, unlike in BO1!
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Used the ban WC's to finally get playsets for a Jaxis/Ratadrabik deck.   Deck's a blast. In the high-removal environment, Skrelv + Surge really come through to protect the early board. If Ratadra isn't answered immediately removal doesn't do much, as killing any one creature just ends up multiplying them like rabbits. Granted, play queue hasn't been putting me against the more competitive builds. Still playing around with Junji/Mirror Box/Graveyard Tress. Graveyard was added to give a three drop with a little lifegain, but not sure I need it. Feel like there's probably a better three drop I'm missing that could slot in there. I mean poo poo, look at these last turns: https://www.17lands.com/user/game_replay/20230530/667e2533d59045658edbb15c45045efb/0 https://www.17lands.com/user/game_replay/20230530/b6f1c712f04d45f0bfb8f5a60650d0bc/0 CatstropheWaitress fucked around with this message at 01:19 on May 31, 2023 |
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Pulled a card I didn't remember from Brothers War, Over the Top. I found some combo decks for 2022 standard, but they all use Fable but we've had a few sets since then, might try swapping them for some battles. I don't know if there's a good way to make Over the Top work in standard but is there a better path for a slower monored deck in general? Red gets some cool higher mana stuff I don't usually get to mess with. Also got Etali'd a few times today in draft and I gotta try and build around that dino, fun way to make a scary dino.
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I haven't played standard in quite a while so I made a deck to see what things would look like post-ban. Very first opponent was running a deck with a playset of Fable, Bankbuster, and Despair. Guess they wanna get that out of their system eh?
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so i know the LTR set's coming to arena apparently in full, but do we know if that includes the reprints that are coming with the commander decks? i doubt we're gonna get trailblazer boots and ensnaring bridge and rings of brighthearth and loving wasteland in historic but it'd be cool if gladiator could gently caress with those
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flatluigi posted:so i know the LTR set's coming to arena apparently in full, but do we know if that includes the reprints that are coming with the commander decks? i doubt we're gonna get trailblazer boots and ensnaring bridge and rings of brighthearth and loving wasteland in historic but it'd be cool if gladiator could gently caress with those https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/collecting-the-lord-of-the-rings-tales-of-middle-earth MTG Arena Legality: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR): Alchemy and Historic The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC): Only Trailblazer's Boots will be available on MTG Arena
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The free midnight hunt sealed was a new experience for me. First time I’ve played limited without knowing anything about the format ahead of time (minus the cards I knew from standard).
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The summer LOTR set will be draftable on arena and it doesn't have word salad alchemy mechanics so maybe it will have more legs than Baldur's Gate, which even Jim Davis couldn't take to mythic for content
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MrL_JaKiri posted:https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/collecting-the-lord-of-the-rings-tales-of-middle-earth fuuuck youuu at least put them in the game. ban them immediately in every format, sure, but at least let me play wasteland in the "everything's legal lol" midweek events
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I just opened Complete the Circuit P1P1 two drafts in a row, and two drafts prior saw it pick 3. I think about how this is as likely as me seeing Sunfall P1P1 twice and sob quietly.
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0-5 with my sealed for mwm lol, giving up on this one i guess edit: complaining works, 1-5 and cleared an opponent's teferi lol CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 21:10 on May 31, 2023 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:0-5 with my sealed for mwm lol, giving up on this one i guess post your pool
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flatluigi posted:post your pool  https://sealeddeck.tech/b1vLuy2bxT Tried to make UG slogurk work for 3 games but there's not enough for it and I have no 2-drops lol, settled into WB Fleshtaker/Slaughter
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I remember drafting bladebrand during this set and posting here and someone was like "that's a garbage card" and they were very right
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:
i would've tried izzet since you have a thermo alchemist and two skreelixes. at the very least though get those rotten reunions out of there lol
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:
flatluigi posted:i would've tried izzet since you have a thermo alchemist and two skreelixes. at the very least though get those rotten reunions out of there lol Ftr Green has a playable set there (Pestilent Wolf, Bird Admirer, Sighting, Rise) but it's not exceptional, I wouldn't consider it.
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flatluigi posted:i would've tried izzet since you have a thermo alchemist and two skreelixes. at the very least though get those rotten reunions out of there lol The red is super shallow, blue is pretty lacking as well and the skreelixes were pretty bad iirc. I think WB is right, but you are playing some very bad cards and leaving some good ones in the SB https://sealeddeck.tech/5wAwqAD1H0 I think this should be a lot better? more explosive potential AND value as well. i wouldnt say its a good deck, this seems like a pretty weak pool but I have no memory of what MID sealed was like, if I played any at all
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i misremembered skreelixes as being 2UR instead of 3UR
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This phantom event reminds me why draft is so much better than sealed.
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Grifter posted:This phantom event reminds me why draft is so much better than sealed. no complaints here   Probably could have splashed something but TOO LAZY https://www.17lands.com/deck/8108203e13f14184b226b303d56861d9 I'd keep playing and seeing how many wins I can rack up, but wrestling is about to start
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I rather like that phantom sealed lets me dick around with sealed and not worry if the cards go bad, and because it's a limited time even there's enough competition for when things go well. They struck a decent balance with the events being just infrequent enough to keep an engaged user base.
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Between Soldiers, Control, Esper Legends, and “Dragons”, there’s suddenly so much blue white in standard.
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First attempt at janky homebrew not-aggro Red deck... I won a few and they were pretty fun games, won different ways each time. Deck kind of reminds me of the meme monored Atraxa, about as unreliable too haha. Exile and jail cards can really slow down the draw and ramp and not enough removal. I ran into someone doing an R/G Etali deck with some treasure ramp and it seemed clearly better at getting out Etali. Topiary dino is really good for that sort of thing. quote:Deck Edit: Urborg Scavengers seems good. Trespasser has better protection, but she can't turn into 9/9 death touch flyer while chewing your graveyard. Khanstant fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:
Your deck would immediately improve just by no thought cramming in the top 23 cards by rating in BW instead, maybe adjusting for your curve a bit. Basically exactly what Simon said except I would try cramming in the 3rd silversmith as well. You do look at the data according to your previous posts so I'm just confused why you're playing a bunch of bad cards instead of good cards.
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