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Panderfringe posted:It's very bad. There's at most 4 constructed viable cards and three of those are for formats not on arena. Limited desperately wants you to play domain but there's not nearly enough to enable that. I dunno, the green */3 two drop with Domain seems solid and all the typed duals it's not hard to get a little bit of value. Not my favorite mechanic but seems fine overall.
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Saw someone fly a little too close to the sun today in an early draft when they dropped a turn 2 Stronghold Arena and then on turn 3 cut their life total in half by grabbing a Writhing Necromass off the top. They managed to stabilize and hold on for a good while after that though, it was impressive.
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Kashuno posted:I really want to draft the UR aggro spells deck but it just never seems open at my seat. How're folks getting into that deck? Get the UR bird dude early and then hoover up every cheap spell you can. Also requires getting a Micromancer or two.
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Sep 5, 2022 20:42
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Death of Rats posted:This set doesn't feel like it has much by way of generically available flood mitigation (see also the scry lands of strixhaven, blood tokens etc); if you play out your curve and hit a glut of lands around t4, it feels so tricky to get back into the game. I like the typed tapland duals a lot but also find myself missing the Capenna ones that you could sac in a pinch. Agree that Impulse and anything else that lets you rummage or loot feels much higher in value in DMU limited.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:How many Essence Scatters should one play I played against someone the other night running at least 5, and a bunch of Domain bullshit.
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Horace Kinch posted:Mind posting a decklist for Gruul Vehicles? I'm curious as hell. These are the two most popular/powerful lists I've seen on the ladder: https://mtgdecks.net/Pioneer/rg-aggro-decklist-by-oono-seita-1506353 https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/5242241#paper Both are solid, you can't really go wrong either way.
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Feeling very tempted by the G1 Transformer sleeves even though I'd know that would get annoying very quickly. What's the new hotness in Pioneer now that the anthology is in? Guessing people are going to try and make Mono G devotion a thing at the very least.
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TotalHell posted:Hoo boy I played Jump In and absolutely ate poo poo twice, going 0-3 each time. What are some decent pairings in this, because I man it sucks to keep getting obliterated. Werewolf seems pretty strong if you get another pack with basically any removal. I went 6-1 with Soldiers/Enlightened? Whichever one is all cantrips and draw spells and stuff.
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Snuck in one last Jump-in run last night, got Wolf Pack + Werewolves and promptly coasted to a 7-1 decathlon medal. Took a shot on the sealed event over lunch today and went 7-1 with this deck where I got to live the Danitha + Helm of the Host dream just about every game:  Mishra and Haphazard Bombardment were both clutch in a couple of games to keep the pressure on or knock out bombs on the other side of the table. Probably could've lived without the other Black cards, don't think I cast Sengir Connoisseur even once but Knight of Malice was an MVP early on. Might try out the Emblem Standard event to see if I can get 3 medals and be done but kind of don't want to push my luck too much.
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babypolis posted:I want to got all 10 as well but funnily enough trad explorer is the one I least want to do. I dont want to have to learn constructed sideboarding dammit Play Humans and just stomp your way to a token. Mono-W is the most popular version in Explorer at the moment but I've been running a splash of green just for CoCo and it's been working out pretty well. Also seen a few Orzhov versions running around.
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Yeah but only two. Deck 2 Extraction Specialist (SNC) 12 1 Castle Ardenvale (ELD) 238 2 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar (MID) 1 4 Thalia's Lieutenant (J21) 27 3 Chaplain of Alms (MID) 13 4 Dauntless Bodyguard (DAR) 14 3 Hopeful Initiate (VOW) 20 4 Brutal Cathar (MID) 7 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (NEO) 268 2 Mutavault (M14) 228 3 Sunpetal Grove (XLN) 257 4 Brave the Elements (M14) 10 7 Plains (DMU) 277 4 Luminarch Aspirant (ZNR) 24 4 Collected Company (AKR) 186 4 Brushland (BRO) 259 4 Temple Garden (GRN) 258 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben (VOW) 38 1 Sejiri Shelter (ZNR) 37 Sideboard 3 Rest in Peace (AKR) 33 2 Reidane, God of the Worthy (KHM) 21 3 Archon of Emeria (ZNR) 4 2 Soul Partition (BRO) 26 3 Wedding Announcement (VOW) 45 2 Skyclave Apparition (ZNR) 39 Not 100% optimized or whatever but it's been doing well so far. I'm maybe 55% against Mono-G, and about 50% against RB. Sideboard probably needs some tweaking before jumping into the event as well.
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fadam posted:How has the Chaplain worked out for you? A First Striker holding all those counters sounds appealing, but I'm a huge fan of Recruitment Officer, it makes your late game top decks a lot less frustrating. Chaplain is no Esper Sentinel but I find myself liking it a lot more than I expected. Nice place to rest some counters and the ward holds off early Portable Holes, Stomps, Fatal Pushes, etc long enough to get a couple points through. The back half is nice in the late game, albeit not as useful as the Recruitment Officer ability, and first strike helps in a pinch. If I was running Mono-W I'd be running Recruitment Officer for sure though.
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Jan 6, 2023 21:27
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Captain Invictus posted:gently caress, they broke apart the draft token/mastery pass bundle. Guess I'm not spending any money on that poo poo anymore! wait seriously? why the gently caress would they do that.
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It's a very obvious trial balloon for them to split products into ever smaller sizes and gradually raise the prices over time to where you're paying more for fewer things. This time around the token pack is $15 and the Mastery Pass is $25, which is probably a savings compared to the usual $50 for them combined (: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/mtg-arena-announcements-january-16-2023. We won't know for sure until we see what the duration and rewards structure of the Mastery Pass is. Maybe that will be a one time exception for this particular set, but I doubt it and we're all better off not encouraging this trend to continue.
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Squashing Machine posted:Not sure how long I'll be drafting this one. Might be the most go-first-or-lose limited format we've had in recent memory. Lots of relevant 1- and 2-drops for getting toxic online early, and it feels super bad if you are on the draw and don't have a turn 1 play. Not a fan Yeah it feels like they went a little overboard with putting Toxic on a bunch of things, especially with so much Proliferate tacked onto various spells as an afterthought. I've done three drafts today, every game came down to "who can get more Toxic guys on the field first". Black seems stronger than all the other colors by a large margin. The compleated Planeswalkers are nuts, I blew out several opponents by dropping some early blockers in front of a turn 3 Jace. Fun set but probably not going to be drafting a ton of this one.
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Free gems in the store today FYI.
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10% off draft token in the store today.
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plainswalker75 posted:her sword arms were just like big gloves or something and not full replacements, so they just kinda fell off lol just immensely bad storytelling "the cyborg zombie demons invaded my mind to turn me against my allies and corrupted my body into a grotesque weapon of carna....oh wait that sword claw just pops right off. nevermind, all good"
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fadam posted:For the people checked in to the lore: do you prefer the planes with one-off stories that are mostly unrelated to a bigger saga, or do you like the multiple set spanning arcs? Both are good, but as someone who came up during the decade long Weatherlight Saga I'm biased towards the latter naturally. The sweet spot is probably something like Shadows over Innistrad where you get what is essentially an interesting one-off bottle story in a setting with really strong thematics that benefits from the bonus of a well layered nod to a bigger multiset arc. In retrospect I realized that they landed that so well that it really raised my expectations for March of the Machines and what not, but can't really be surprised lightning didn't strike twice. Just too many threads to pull together in 2.5 sets probably. Mat Cauthon fucked around with this message at 05:00 on May 30, 2023 |
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wolfman101 posted:Giving up on standard for now. There are only 3 decks. Enchantments, RDW, and Breach/Etali/Atraxa. It is ridiculous. Is Mono white aggro not viable in standard any more?
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kalel posted:it used to be good until the fake hearthstone cards were added. historic minus alchemy would be sweet as hell imho Pre-Alchemy Historic was my favorite format by far. I get by with Explorer but man they really had a good thing going with Historic and completely hosed it up.
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Captain Invictus posted:lol remember lucky clover? It's back!!! Oh this is cool. I've been tinkering around with Jund Adventures in Explorer but it wasn't quite getting there. Might have to give this a spin.
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Captain Invictus posted:I posted it upthread, but definitely give the Naya Adventures list a shot if you've got most/all the parts for it, I absolutely beclowned a bunch of people in the event with it. it's a seriously powerful deck, able to withstand almost any matchup...except Creativity decks. nothing you can do against them if they've got an ideal opening hand. but it can outlast basically any other deck, ESPECIALLY if you can get even a single clover on the field, poo poo gets stupid. like, turn 4 or 5 16/16 hasted ornithopter stupid, and that's not even getting into multi-copied lightning bolts and stomps. pollen-shield hare is not a particularly amazing creature on its own in the deck, but if you can get one or two love struck beast token creations with a clover in play, or pia doing her thing, you can clover right into multiple 10/10 or bigger creatures out of nowhere and crush your opponent. you've got a ton of options. I've been running this the past week and it absolutely stomps people. I think there are some tweaks to be made - Questing Druid is a little underwhelming, mana base probably needs 2 Boseiju more than an Eijano, and I'm still not 100% sold on Pollen-Shield Hare - but it is much stronger than it looks on paper for sure.
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Fell Fire posted:Something is wrong with the mail. I opened up the app again and got another two draft tokens and 4000xp. Seems like if you log in from separate devices you can squeeze an extra token out of the server. Dunno how or why but it's there for the taking. I got one by logging in on my laptop and the second by logging in via Steam Deck. Not sure if that will hold true for the mobile app but probably worth a try.
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Have not been doing very well in LCI drafts but I did get a bunch of gems refunded due to having the banned card show up in multiple draft pools. Can't imagine they will honor that for much longer but I'll take what I can get in the meantime.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Wait are people getting refunds just for having a Fabrication Foundry in their draft? I got two full refunds for having it show up in premier drafts and I submitted another report tonight for a third instance. If it is unplayable then that affects your ability to build a deck through no fault of your own. Seems like that should be worth a refund 
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thespaceinvader posted:Wait you can get refunds from fabrication foundry?! I should do that lmao i drafted one They will give you a full refund just for having it in the draft pool at all, I've gotten three so far. I'm about half a dozen drafts in and also in not doing great with this set boat. Best result so far has been 5-2 with UWB that has Preacher of the Schism, the white god, and Kitesail Larcenist which is an absurd card if you can recur/blink it at all. Gonna do 1-2 and then call it a day for this set, IDK just not feeling like I'm getting a good handle on it.
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Where are those sleeves with the neon blue wireframe mountain art from? I was looking to buy them but they're missing so I'm guessing it must've been a Secret Lair thing.
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got some chores tonight posted:This one? Cuz it's actually an island, lol. Yeah that's the one. Did not realize at all that it is supposed to be an island, but makes sense. Guess I'll wait for it to cycle back around in the daily deals or something.
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Standingstoic posted:https://mtgacodes.com/collections/cosmetics/products/shades-not-included-sleeves-code-secret-lair Oh nice, that'll do the trick. Much appreciated.
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One of the Trostani dryads was using a mind control flower to kill anyone who was involved with or tried to profit from the Phyrexian invasion.
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thespaceinvader posted:First time in mythic in forever, soldiers is that good apparently, even with only maybe one or two days of playing above 5 or 6 wins across the month and quite a lot of days of no play at all because I was drafting. Total of 160 matches, looks like, though i think there was one session i forgot to turn my tracking on. Started at the bottom of Gold. What's your list?
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Zero VGS posted:This new set seems pretty weak on a power-creep level? The clue-weapons are like embarrassingly overcost and the Case cards don't seem nearly as impactful as Battles. Bringing the power level down is fine and probably a good thing in the long term, MKM just looks very boring. Not sure who missed Morph enough that they felt the need to run it back even with ward stapled on, and despite all the moving pieces (evidence, investigate, etc) it feels less synergistic than LCI. Making "Detective" a new creature type instead of using "Advisor" or something else that would support an existing tribe makes me think they didn't learn anything from the D&D set or the Party mechanic experiments. I'm more excited about some of the stronger uncommons - Long Goodbye, Call a Surprise Witness, Gleaming Geardrake, Insidious Roots, No More Lies, and the Lighting Helix reprint - than any of the rares in the set, except for maybe nu-Massacre Girl.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Also merry "lightning helix can be crafted for uncommon wildcards" to every one who celebrates amen 
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Suspect is a better limited mechanic than I expected. There are some overlooked cards like Harried Dronesmith that stand out as enabling some very high value interactions. Anything that generates extra value out of disguised cards, like the RG centaur guy or the white 3-drop (Dagney?) are kind of insane, even if you get rid of them fast. Overall the set seems fine, I agree with whoever said that this is a very bomb driven limited format though.
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Did a premier MKM over lunch and went 3-3 with an Azban pile despite having Massacre Girl and 2x Izoni. One loss to a Boros deck with Aurelia and the other two losses to decks running Lost in the Maze, which is a stupidly good card. In retrospect I probably needed more ways to get stuff in the graveyard to turn on evidence abilities but c'est la vie.
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Not sure what the versions at recent events have looked like but I've been having success with this variant of the Rakdos Vampires deck on Arena: Deck 4 Vein Ripper (MKM) 110 4 Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord (M20) 115 1 Beseech the Mirror (WOE) 82 4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker (NEO) 141 4 Bloodtithe Harvester (VOW) 232 4 Thoughtseize (AKR) 127 2 Duress (M21) 96 2 Smuggler's Copter (KLD) 235 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (DMU) 107 3 Fatal Push (KLR) 84 1 Bitter Triumph (LCI) 91 2 Sulfurous Springs (DMU) 256 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (NEO) 278 4 Blackcleave Cliffs (ONE) 248 3 Cavern of Souls (LCI) 269 3 Mutavault (M14) 228 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant (AFR) 258 4 Blood Crypt (RNA) 245 2 Blightstep Pathway (KHM) 252 2 Swamp (UND) 92 2 Deadly Dispute (AFR) 94 3 Voldaren Epicure (VOW) 182 2 Preacher of the Schism (LCI) 113 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (NEO) 276 Sideboard 1 Liliana of the Veil (DMU) 97 4 Leyline of the Void (M20) 107 2 Duress (M21) 96 2 Path of Peril (VOW) 124 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet (OGW) 86 1 Bitter Triumph (LCI) 91 2 Sheoldred's Edict (ONE) 108 2 Damping Sphere (DAR) 213 Main adjustments are 3x Voldaren Epicure and 2x Deadly Dispute, which provide some early momentum, card draw to dig for threats, and help with extra mileage on Bloodtithe Harvester. Also added 1x Beseech the Mirror, which I'm able to Bargain most of the time to find whatever silver bullet or get a Sorin on the board in a pinch. Running 23 lands instead of the usual 25, but haven't felt much of an impact there. SB is cookie cutter, aside from the Sheoldred's Edicts for the mirror match.
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EclecticTastes posted:The latest clue is up. If anyone needs a hint for the answer: check the mana costs. IDGI. The leaders for Simic, Selesnya, Azorius, and Golgari are missing. The leaders in the lineup are mana value two through seven, so the missing numbers are one, eight, and nine?
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Seems like a very combat trick and removal heavy format, especially with the bonus sheet cards. Blood Hustler is a stupid good card, even with the once per turn clause. Manabases feel fairly forgiving, lots of fixing and treasure tokens to smooth things out. The Deserts that ping on ETB are really really good, I can see these having some mileage in constructed formats.
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Finally trophied in an OTJ premier draft with this deck after probably 8-10 drafts that were mostly 3-4 or 4-3 results: I was a bit worried going in because of the lack of bombs, but leaning into the "pack removal, do crimes" aspect was strong enough to get me there. Overall I really like the format, feels very dynamic and fun even though sometimes you just get run over by someone with every on color bomb possible.
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