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Also really enjoying AKR limited. Here's my most recent sealed pile. Currently 4-2. unsure if this is the best way to go with this deck, both of my losses involved missing a key color early on. Can't help but love esper control though Anyone more experienced have thoughts? I'm coming back to MTGA after a year or so off, and didn't play Amonkhet the first time around. 
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wei posted:Don't run the colourless desert in decks like these, your mana base is already stretched. The deck is probably going to be a lot more consistent if you cut black, you have a very strong UW pool.  
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Aug 20, 2020 03:51
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went 3-3 in my first eldraine draft; BW knights with nothing special. didn't see a single blue or green mana symbol the whole draft, every single loving player was knights. what the gently caress is going on? i saw probably 10 rimrock knights
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Aug 21, 2020 19:20
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The Fool posted:Thanks for all the advice. I guess now I just need to play a bunch so I can start to internalize all the cards and abilities that have been added to the game in the last 20 years. i'd recommend doing quick drafts too if you at all enjoy the format. there's no time limit on making picks for quick draft, so you can take as long as you need to mull over picks. the upside is the draft costs 5000 gold, but gives you gems for wins. spending 5k gold for your draft picks + 1 reward pack isn't a bad deal, and if you can eke out a few wins you'll start to accumulate a gem stash you can then use for doing sealed (whenever that comes back) or buying the new mastery pass when it comes out... or just buying more packs, whatever. i personally prefer drafting over constructed so it's a win/win for me. if you're not familiar with it, there's tons of introductory materials online on how to draft for beginners.
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Aug 26, 2020 15:27
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Lone Goat posted:Sealed is generally available for the first two (or three? i forget) weeks of a format thanks, i couldn't find info on that. i guess you could use gems to buy more quick drafts? would that be a waste? i have 5k gems saved up from limited wins and i don't really know what to do with them other than wait and buy the new mastery pass
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Aug 26, 2020 15:37
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AngryBooch posted:If rumors are to be believed then one of the Zendikar mechanics will be based around having different classes to form a "party" D&D style. So I'd expect there to be quite a few Warriors, Clerics, Rogues, and Wizards. Maybe some of the warriors will be relevant, hell, maybe there will be some slick equipment! zendikar was such a cool setting with lots of mechanical flavor. i'm gonna be seriously disappointed if they turn it into ip superfriends storytime vehicle to sell lots of ancillary merch. the way wotc has been designing recurring characters like jace and lilliana for the last five or so years has really had a marvel superheroes feel to it. that vibe turned me off mtga back when i first tried it come to think of it, the original zen block may have been like this too and i just ignored it
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Aug 26, 2020 21:32
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speaking of ugin, i quick drafted a pretty fun m21 izzet mill deck today. p1p1 tutelage, p3p1 ugin  did i build this as well as i could have?
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Sep 6, 2020 03:06
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lol, I just swung for 8 t3 with a lotus cobra + landfall pick and roiling regrowth, then mutated two greathorns onto it t4 and swung for 13 mono green ramp scoots ftw. don't even need the bugs to win usually 
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Sep 30, 2020 21:26
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 mostly garbage homebrew, i don't have the wcs to build anything proper yet. loses a lot, but it can win very explosively
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Sep 30, 2020 21:43
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just went 7-2 with this ikoria BU pile, was a fun set of games. kinda sad i wasn't really playing mtga when ikoria first came out (p1p1 the dirge bat)  i hardly had any choices when deck building just because i barely had enough b/u to make a deck
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Oct 1, 2020 02:50
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Did a quick draft and bots just passed me every single goddamn card i could want, so cutting was hard. did i do it right?
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Oct 3, 2020 01:45
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holy poo poo, thanks dudes. my first zendikar draft in either red or white so I don't really know how to value them yet. i have a habit of going overboard on removal and forgetting i'm supposed to be swinging e: how's my mdfc:land ratio? I've generally been counting them as a half rounded down.
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Oct 3, 2020 02:27
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Attestant posted:I swear to god, I am not even playing the same game as some of these other drafters. I got to play against t1 Archpriest of Ionia, in to t2 Luminarch Aspirant, in to t3 Packbeast, in to t4 Squad Commander. one of my draft games had my opponent go t2 luminarch aspirant t3 luminarch aspirant #2. Yeah, I lost that one
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Oct 5, 2020 14:36
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What's the cut, limited nerds? btw, I've been using mtga assistant for limited, as it has LSV's card ratings built in and I've always leaned on his opinions pretty hard. does mtga assistant have a way of linking whole drafts like 17 lands?
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Oct 6, 2020 14:18
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Elswyyr posted:I'm new to Arena. What's a good relatively cheap meta standard deck to make right now? I made most of this https://mtgazone.com/deck/izzet-spells-budget-zendikar-rising-standard-deck/ because I got a bunch of the rares and useful mythics from my 15 free packs from codes and the free dual colour starter decks, and it performs okay but I get absolutely loving destroyed by Clover, Omnath or Dimir rogues constantly, so I wanna have something stronger to aim for. lurrus cycling is fun and doesn't need many wcs. you dont even necessarily need all the rare lands to start https://aetherhub.com/Deck/lurrus-cycling-306492
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Oct 6, 2020 14:52
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Finicums Wake posted:what should the land base look like for this deck if i'm running it with only basic lands? btw, looks like i screwed up and linked an old version of the cycling deck i'm running, here's what i'm actually playing with now in bo1  just use any fabled passages/needleverges you have and replace them with basics or RW taplands.
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Oct 6, 2020 19:50
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Shrecknet posted:Can anyone tell me how to draft the triple-ruin crab or double Kor Preserver + all the good BW clerics decks I keep getting wrecked by? I always get the uncommons that are borderline unplayable and would like to just be handed a deck that steamrolled tia lotta draft decks, including bw clerics and ug kicker, don't even really require the signpost uncommons to run well. the common bw clerics are the backbone of the deck, unc/rares are the frosting on top
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Oct 7, 2020 15:51
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InterrupterJones posted:To anyone who has played Mill for a long time, does it always feel this amazing? I've been cruising through Platinum with the UB mill deck floating around. 4C adventures/Omnath decks are a breeze, and it feels pretty good against Esper Dance and most aggro decks too. The only struggle I have is against Rogues, since mill feels a little hard to race when it's in a pseudo mirror. Counters in general are no fun against this deck, but otherwise it's been a blast. have you encountered any cycling decks? how's your matchup if so? it's been funny to me to go up against mill as that one because you can just go face with a 15 damage zenith flare turn 4
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Oct 8, 2020 18:04
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did kind of a goofy quick draft where i ended up with a mixed bag of synergies. p1p3 roost told me i had to switch off clerics into kicker. black stayed okay-ish enough that i just stuck with it, plus the drana obviously... tell me about any sketchy picks i made. https://www.17lands.com/draft/78be5c00976946bc882d9b9ad3c6fdb6 
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Oct 11, 2020 20:21
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wei posted:P1P4 Sejiri Shelter > Healer Thanks. the picks you're pointing out make me realize i actually wasn't really sticking with black. i totally switched off black hoping to be ug kicker but yeah. shouldve just read the signals earlier and took the good black stuff that was right there
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Oct 11, 2020 22:01
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i really want to make that UR draw deck because it looks fun as gently caress but i just spent all my rare wcs making this monoblack discard deck a version of it was posted itt a while back but i changed it a bit to get in some enchantment hate for the loving mill decks. mostly a slow grind while opponent is just topdecking and i'm draining them with liliana also pretty funny to t1 duress away a mono red's embercleave and get the snap concede
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Oct 14, 2020 02:25
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I can't imagine a situation where i don't take a roost pack 1. it's nearly the best limited card in the set
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Oct 22, 2020 14:58
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I was gonna say roost until i realized how well the maul fits in the clerics deck... man, that would be something to experience
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Oct 23, 2020 18:34
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Sodomeow posted:play one of the decks that runs an escape dude like Kroxa or that Green Black dude who fights guys You could try brewing up something to hate on mill decks, too! basically all you need to counter mill is a few midnight clocks and some hand disruption. throw in some gy hate for the escape decks via crypts or soul-guide lantern. if you can get enough maindeckable artifacts, emry might be worth it, too. maybe some enchantment removal to mess up felidar retreat. has the added benefit of working against tutelage and some of the annoying white decks, too
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Oct 23, 2020 18:55
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I just brewed up a mono-U kicker tempo deck, its been fun. Drop roosts whenever possible, and play bounces/snares for profit. I'd probably add another castle or two and maybe another chronicler if i had the wcs. barrins are nice to get some value off playing kicker creatures early, especially if i'm facing a deck with no good bounce targets. clock is almost entirely there to make me feel less hosed when facing mill decks. i'm 76% wins in the play queue so far. havent tried in ranked.
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btw you can roil/barrin your own jace and replay it to make extra tokens
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VictualSquid posted:I just played against esper control, but for some reason he was running neither ardenvale or crawling barrens. He lost both games against my barrens. Perfect, I totally forgot about oracle
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Oct 23, 2020 20:12
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VictualSquid posted:If you are already playing mono-blue I would run oracle instead of clock as anti mill. thanks again for the tip. it feels so good to watch a mill player dig their own grave  
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Oct 23, 2020 23:20
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 cascade singleton is kinda nuts when you go off. t2 cobra into goose, t3 ashaya into scythecat, t4 stonecoil serpent for 8. lol.
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Oct 24, 2020 18:53
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welfarestateofmind posted:Just wanted to thank you for this inspiration. I really like the kicker archetype (used to play the Simic version) and after some tooling I actually found a UB version that ended up taking me finally to mythic this month. The Skyclave Shade in particular generates huge value from its Landfall recursion, and Bloodchief's Thirst helps fill in the needed hole for permanent removal for things that just can't stay on the board. And it works with Stormcaller! Hell yeah, I’m so happy my deck served as inspiration! Adding black is a great call as there’s definitely a good portion of the field that can outvalue you just based on etb effects alone, making all the bounces worthless. And I love skyclave shade
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Oct 27, 2020 19:02
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Couch Life posted:Why does everyone have that ridiculous shark enchantment card now? Why do I never draw my enchantment removal the entire game after seeing it? to reiterate, if you're routinely seeing someone hard cast a do-nothing enchantment for 6 and then start outvaluing you on the following turns, your deck has problems
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Oct 30, 2020 15:27
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did a very goofy bot draft where i ended up in jund landfall with ashaya and lotus cobra plus enough incidental life gain to make scion of the swarm decent. 3-0 so far. tell me if there were any obvious turning points in the draft where i made mistakes. or, yknow, if there's any glaring issues in my deck. hitting mana sources seems a tad scary, but between my green ramp and the wildfires i feel okayish draft - deck
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sit on my Facebook posted:If I target my gearhulk with both the "bounce a permanent" and "copy a creature" modes, the copy will fizzle because the card resolves one mode at a time in the printed order, is that correct? On the plus side, if you have two epiphanies in your gy, you can copy the gearhulk to flashback the second epiphany. you could also flashback any other spell when you copy the gearhulk. cool interaction! Hooplah fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Nov 11, 2020 |
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Just 0-3'd a sealed by facing off against opponents three games in a row that played the same poo poo i did but a little bigger (pool, deck). like, i play master trinketeer and oppo plays the same card then follows up with a metallic mimic. oppo plays fabrication module, i play fabrication module, then oppo blows mine up and grows his creatures into a win. i have some feel bads right now.
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thespaceinvader posted:Does anyone have a good standard kicker deck? Give this a shot: Deck 3 Bubble Snare (ZNR) 47 4 Roost of Drakes (ZNR) 74 4 Into the Roil (ZNR) 62 3 Thieving Skydiver (ZNR) 85 10 Island (ZNR) 381 2 Inscription of Insight (ZNR) 61 2 Tazeem Roilmage (ZNR) 84 1 Castle Vantress (ELD) 242 1 Clearwater Pathway (ZNR) 260 4 Stern Dismissal (THB) 68 2 Field Research (ZNR) 58 2 Sea Gate Restoration (ZNR) 76 2 Sea Gate Stormcaller (ZNR) 77 3 Coralhelm Chronicler (ZNR) 54 3 Bloodchief's Thirst (ZNR) 94 4 Skyclave Shade (ZNR) 125 2 Temple of Deceit (THB) 245 1 Castle Locthwain (ELD) 241 7 Swamp (ZNR) 273 Sideboard 4 Negate (ZNR) 71 3 Ghastly Gloomhunter (ZNR) 103 3 Soul-Guide Lantern (THB) 237 2 Thassa's Oracle (THB) 73 3 Feed the Swarm (ZNR) 102 My lands aren't totally perfect yet. need the wcs for the full pathway set. This is a really fun deck though
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A Moose posted:I've determined through 4 0-3's in a row, that 17 lands is way too many, and ridiculous bombs matter more than anything else. I've never beaten anyone that threw down a nissa, scrapheap scrounger, etc. welcome to the bawler's guildhall for my own whining, between my last sealed 0-3 and this last eld quick draft where i went 1-3, i'm now below 50% winrate in limited, so i know i'm a bad player officially
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i keep coming back to the last q&a limited resources did where they went on a very long tangent about what it means to get emotionally invested in winning and losing and how to manage expectations. i keep coming back to it because i tend to take my losses as personal failures and it can sometimes lead to having actual effects on my mood outside the game. if anyone else has that issue i highly recommend checking that out because it's super insightful. also lr is just a great podcast for getting better at the best mtg format here's a yt link with timestamp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hldK1BXPgU&t=1231s
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little munchkin posted:bo1 drafting in a nutshell
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Nov 15, 2020 21:33
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Kevin DuBrow posted:If you're extremely angry at mill decks you could look into the cards with a" shuffle graveyard into your library" effect especially as sideboard, we had some rotate out but Gaea's Blessing is still in. literally the only card in standard (that i'm aware of) that does this is midnight clock, which comes down t3, does absolutely loving nothing, then you either spend MORE mana to do nothing, or on turn 9 you finally scoop your yard into library. it's really not good against a low to the ground rogues deck, and dedicated mill can probably deck you before t9 with no interaction.
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Someone tell me if I actually got there in eldraine quick draft. I know I committed right away but I felt pretty paid off. Did I make a decent draw 2 deck?? Draft: https://www.17lands.com/draft/fbc28ffe3fbe41fd8a0ff2355b5b4ae2 Deck: https://www.17lands.com/deck/fbc28ffe3fbe41fd8a0ff2355b5b4ae2 I’ve only done a few eld drafts and none with other players so I know very little about what’s good beyond knowing the draw two deck is apparently hard to make come together
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