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I'm the sorta guy that plays some relaxing mono red aggro games in bo1 to quickly get some gold for wins and save up for quick drafts, and I just found out about a fun mono-blue aggro deck and I like it. Its not quite as fast as Red Deck Wins, but it has more interaction besides a few burn spells that my red decks tend to have - it can also sometimes do some absolute bullshit wins. Also has fewer rares than my mono red, which is funny. Its bad match ups seem worse for it than Red Deck Wins' bad match ups, but I guess that's just because RDW is so blazingly fast a single missed land can just lose the game to someone going against it even with a deck that should be able to fight it. https://mtga.untapped.gg/meta/decks/192/mono-blue-tempo/AAQAAQABrMQBA9YV7pUCxqMgB_ewAr76HRaJfdumAZPzAjoBFYwFAA?tab=overview its probably common knowledge that this deck exists, but I haven't run into it a lot. Or if I have, I guess I've just barreled through it with RDW and haven't noticed
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What's bad about delver? I like it, because I like getting aggressive asap. I don't have enough experience with blue decks besides some simic ramp decks to really evaluate what kind of stuff to replace it with.
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Sep 29, 2023 10:42
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I've had a couple of really good drafts today, two Boros-decks where one went the distance and the other one that at least won its drafting cost back, but then I drafted a loving mad Dimir-deck where I opened Horned Loch-Whale and got a third pick Sleep-Cursed Faerie for some reason. I had one plains for Threadbind Clique's adventure, but I never got a chance to use it - the games where I could have used it the opponent died or conceded before I had a chance to use it even with a plains on the field. I was kinda worried about not having a lot of 2-drops, but it ended up being fine - Spell stutter, Candy Grapples and Rat out helped. Opening both Gumdrop Poisoner and Lord Skitter packs 2 and 3 made my midgame really good as well.
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Oct 1, 2023 19:57
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thespaceinvader posted:WOE has been bad for me honestly. On premiere drafts i'm 42% which is way down among my worst performances from when I first started drafting. I feel like you should have gone heavier into green - your p1p2 was that one enchantment while you were offered a Candy Grapple and a Stormkeld Vanguard, both cards I would have picked rather than the enchantment in a heartbeat. Candy Grapple is one of the best cards in the set, and black green food is a really strong archetype too. Looking at the rest of pack 1, you absolutely should have been in black green, there were a lot of cards good in that archetype. The rare enchantment baited you into white, and white green is kind of meh unless you get the nuts, and you didn't really get it. Green also always should have a few big bombs, that's why you play the color. There were also some main deck picks I thought were kind of questionable, Break the Spell, Charmed Clothier and Discerning Financier, but I think this was fundamentally a draft that didn't go where it should have gone. SpiritOfLenin fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Oct 1, 2023 23:13
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I'm not sure how this one went 7-0, but I'll take it. Hard forced GU basically after opening Goose Mother, and got a good deck as a reward, even if turn 2 plays were often a lil iffy. Luckily most of my opponents didn't do much on turn 2 and got to play first a decent amount of times so the weak early game didn't hit so hard. Only casted Goose Mother once in the final game, lmao, and the only other time I saw it was at the end of the first game where I played literally all of my top end except the Goose Mother by like turn 8. The double Troyan was really good, a Troyan hit the table on turn 3 on around three games and was always helpful. I think the biggest factor might have just been the fact that I had a lot of card draw and thus always had something to do every turn.
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Nov 1, 2023 15:38
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Feels good that there's WOE quick draft for a bit, been eating poo poo in Ixalan and then skated on to an effortless 7-1 on a fun Goosemama-deck in WOE that also splashed Thalion and two Torch the Towers. The very first game on the deck made me slightly alter my lands after I drew like garbage, and then on it was pretty smooth sailing.
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Dec 5, 2023 18:33
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That three mana alchemy red dino in draft can be quite silly if the opponent doesn't kill it quickly, had multiple matches where an opponent didn't manage to kill it instantly and it just generated so much value. edit: is it just me, or is at least plainscycling on Soaring Sandwings broken? I couldn't use them to cycle last match SpiritOfLenin fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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Dec 5, 2023 21:13
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that does not explain anything about your weird meltdown
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Dec 7, 2023 11:15
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I got stupidly lucky in the phantom sealed midweek magic, just casually opened 6 rares that were red or green, and mostly top tier picks like Breeches, Sentinel of the Nameless City, Palani's Hatcher and so on, and green and red also had pretty good pools otherwise too. I think I'll play that deck for fun even after I already got the wins, because I'm never going to have such a good deck in actual sealed.
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Jan 10, 2024 12:01
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Rinkles posted:Haven't played LCI before, but this deck felt quite strong Captain Storm is one of the strongest limited cards in the set that isn't a rare, and I think a good UR-deck beats almost everything just through sheer speed and power. The archetype has a lot of good cards in it.
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Jan 10, 2024 22:19
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Man, for the first time arena cube has kinda clicked with me now - I've got a few drafts in this cube where I've finally figured out at least a couple of decent strategies and how to draft for them. Building around Primeval Titan and Field of the Dead can do dumb and fun stuff.
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Feb 1, 2024 13:50
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I managed to draft a proper UW control deck with a slight R splash in the cube, and it is both very funny and probably completely infuriating to play against. One opponent conceded despite being slightly ahead on board with me at 5 hp just because he got tired of all his poo poo getting bounced, countered and who knows what else. I've even got to ult with the UW Teferi once - now granted, the opponent was dead on board but I still did it.
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Feb 3, 2024 13:03
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Shrecknet posted:I'd be way more into cube if the rewards weren't absolute rear end. Why do I have to go 6-X to get 1000 gold? I could literally just do 1 daily quest/4 wins for that with 0 stress or buy-in. cube is mostly just for fun and playing around with extremely powerful cards, any rewards you get from it are secondary tbh
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Feb 4, 2024 16:26
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imagine dungeons posted:Who’s bringing a bunch of literal puppies into battle? i think the card that generates them was called something like "dog walker"
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Feb 9, 2024 15:22
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BR crime archetype seems very funny in draft if you can draft it. Nobody else seemed to be going red or black very heavily in my latest pool, and I got an absolute banger of a deck filled with a ton of kill spells. The 3/2 2-mana merc that pings an opponent for 1 every time you play an outlaw is so good when most red and black creatures in the set are outlaws. I also got a lucky p1p1 Gisa, which combos pretty hilariously with the little fella. Every time you crime you just ping them for 2 because Gisa spawns 2 outlaw zombies when you crime and since the ping counts as a crime, even playing outlaws triggers crimes. I can see why Gisa was limited to once per turn, because otherwise that would be a 2-card infinite dmg lmao.
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Apr 18, 2024 10:01
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Well I just had a rollercoaster of a draft experience. First I drafted the nastiest UR Ixalan quick draft I've ever managed to do, with the absolute highlight of it being Breeches attacking with two other pirates on turn 4 in my last game that was an easy 7-1 (and the only loss was to never drawing an island), followed up quickly by a clownshoes GRW Thunder Junction draft that went 0-3. The deck wasn't very good, but never drawing any of the removal or bombs didn't help. All the pack 1 pick options were just awful to mediocre and it felt like everyone was drafting like maniacs. I saw 4 copies of "Annie Joins Up" in the first 3 picks of pack 3 (two of which were in my p3p1) and none of them wheeled somehow. I think its because the packs just didn't have a lot of good stuff in them and everyone was just trying desperately to get something playable going on (which included me, there weren't really any good black or blue cards that I saw so couldn't pivot out of the few good cards I got in other colors). Unusually low amount of rares and mythics going around for OTJ.
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Dimir crimes is both a fun draft archetype as well as a fun deck to play in standard Bo1. A lot of aggro decks just fold to a rather specific 1-mana discard card I found from Crimson vow that discards a card worth 2 or less mana and can be cast for three mana instead to take out any non-land card. Its funny how good the card feels against all the mono-red, boros etc. while still being useful in slower match ups.
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Apr 30, 2024 11:26
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I just lived the dream in ranked bo1 with a dimir crimes deck where I exiled both all copies of the opponent's temur analyst as well as all of their copies of worldsoul's rage. There was a small pause when the analysts got exiled, but the opponent didn't concede until all copies of worldsoul's rage got exiled, at which point they waited a moment before conceding.
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Hammer Bro. posted:Hah. Got my fill of draft so goin' back to standard with my same ol' decks. that is an incredibly funny combo
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