MrBling posted:

Yeah, any printing is legal as long as the card is in a standard legal set.

Entropic posted:

You have a bunch of cards in there that aren’t standard legal.

Standard is currently any cards that were printed in the sets Kaladesh, Aether Revolt, Amonkhet, Hour of Devastation, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan or Dominaria. You can use any card from those sets or any printing of a card that appears in one of those sets. E.g. you can use your Magic 2012 version of Llanowar Elves or you Battle For Zendikar printing of Gideon’s Reproach, but you can’t use borderland Ranger since it wasn’t printed in any of the above-mentioned sets.

They’ve seemingly gone out of their way to make standard legality more confusing lately — there’s supplementary products like the Explorers of Ixalan boxed game thing which sound like they’re legal ( Ixalan was just the last block! ) but are not, and they had the Planeswalker promo decks which include cards that only appear in those decks but that they’ve made a special exception for by saying those cards are technically part of whatever set the decks came out alongside.

When in doubt, look up a card at gatherer.wizards.com and check the “sets and legality” tab.

There’s also a few cards currently banned in standard. Smuggler’s Copter, Aetherworks Marvel, Ramunap Ruins, Felidar Guardian, Rampaging Ferocidon, Attune With Aether and Rogue Refiner.

DangerDongs posted:

15 years ago I only really knew Redrafting and thought other stores doing it the normal way was kind of dumb, because people would just rare-pick. It also means that 1st place is pretty much guaranteed to be walking away with a good card.
I still kind of hold this sentiment, but the headache of doing redraft with people who you aren't familiar is a headache. Back then magic communities were much tighter so there were never any problems.

Yawgmoth posted:

I have been to tons of stores in my 20 years of playing and not once has this ever been the case with drafting with real prizes. People pick the good cards, it just so happens that rares are usually worth drafting above Fire Elemental. Rare redrafting is only desired by people who want to use draft as a way to trick new/less skilled players to open packs for them.

Elyv posted:

Your deck is pretty unfocused. You have some ramp stuff, but nothing really to ramp into(Territorial Allosaurus is a clear budget upgrade to Gorger, I think), and then you also have the Danitha/Wings combo and some Shannas without anything that makes a ton of creatures. Auras tend to be weak in constructed because what tends to happen is your creature gets killed and you lost two cards(both the creature and the aura), the large amount of mana you've invested, but your opponent has only lost one. As a result, I would cut Danitha/Wings/Shanna/Helm. In addition, Healing Grace and Navigator's Compass are just very weak cards that you don't even want in a draft deck, so I'd cut those as well. At that point, you have very little white left(only the quite marginal Reproaches and Teferi), so I would consider just dropping the white altogether for mana stability. I'd replace all of that with more ramp and things to ramp into. Elfhame Druid jumps out as a reasonable and cheap inclusion in a deck that is so heavy on kicker cards. Look for other monetarily cheap things to ramp into and ramp effects, and you should have a playable deck. You may still find yourself losing a lot, especially if your FNM is more cutthroat, but I think it's an improvement.

Elyv posted:

The biggest problem with this deck is there a bunch of huge dorks that don't really do anything and just die to removal. I like having a second color, with 4 Grow you should be able to add it fairly easily and it can give you more options for cheap removal and ramp targets. Something like Josu Vess or Slinn Voda might work as top end in a second color, and if you're blue could give you some search/draw, or in black some removal. Carnage Tyrant would be a great add but it probably still costs over $10. I'm not sure, offhand, what a budget ramp deck would want as resilient or card advantage generating threats.

Tainen posted:

AnEdgelord posted:

Im not sure if they are officially required but they are recommended. Last thing you need is your cards becoming marked in the middle of the tournament.

Tainen posted:

The final elder dragon is a Wall Commander !?

little munchkin posted:

a ghost-quartered valakut or tron land, a conflagrate

resistentialism posted:

Can you blast a newly played creature with an instant after it's a permanent but before it can crew a vehicle, or is there no priority there because crewing is a cost?

Or I guess they can use it to crew in response to you blasting it anyways.

Jedi425 posted:

I tried a low to the ground Path of Mettle R/W aggro deck in Ixalan standard (pretty sure I stole the idea from some random TCGPlayer article after I ended up with two Paths post-draft), but I had trouble getting too far with it even before the Great Whirling. After Kaladesh and Amonkhet rotate out, I might see if I can make something of it again, but I'm super bad at this game so I doubt it.

C-Euro posted:

The legality of the Reserved List, as discussed by an actual contract lawyer

Gustav posted:

It probably makes me a scrub, but I much prefer it when the control decks in standard are still running some actual, not-just-a-wincon, creatures in their main decks.

Star Man posted:

The only good UW control player is a dead one, folks.

ZorajitZorajit posted:

Probably late to the party but I've got Arena keys too, just let me know and I'll provide them.