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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Guilds of Ravnica - We built this city on blocks of gold
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As if playing a control deck can be reduced to whether you draw your board wipe.
Midrange creature decks have been outvaluing blue control decks for the better part of this decade. Blue control decks had to adapt and become midrange themselves lest they get outgassed. The days where you could play a Wrath and be favoured to win most of the time are long gone.
A 2/3 that can become a 6/7 in the late game that also generates value when it dies to removal is extremely good for a bear. Unless they print a two mana 3/3 or Lightning Bolt, I don't see it going away any time soon.
Counterspells and removal are crazy efficient in Magic. Entire classes of creatures can't be played because dying immediately to a 2 mana instant can be a blowout by itself. Midrange decks have to do nonsense like what Golgari is doing right now just to be competitive with that. You just cannot play a creature that doesn't give you some level of guaranteed value.
Thorn Lieutenant is an efficient creature and gives green some resiliency but it's not backbreaking at all. Creatures have to do something like that just to see play.
Thorn Lieutenant is an efficient creature and gives green some resiliency but it's not backbreaking at all. Creatures have to do something like that just to see play.
...Did you just miss the past several months of WU control being the 2nd best deck?
This isn't true. We've seen creatures without immediate value thrive in metas with good removal; most famously, Baneslayer Angel.
The actual obstacle creatures without immediate value face is other creatures that generate immediate value. There needs to be a reward that's worth waiting a turn.
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Also Izzet with multiple crackling drakes, beacon bolts, direct currents.
Boros with actual playable one and two drops and removal.
And a wicked Selesnya deck that literally had everything except like the mythic x spell.
Wow, that's...admirable. I guess he wants to clean up his reputation and he knows he's cheated. I'm not sure permanent suspension is actually the right result for cheating at a high level -- though a heavy penalty should certainly be levied -- but I expected that email to be a laughable "apology" and it comes off as almost genuine.
If it's 100% unquestionable cheating permanent banning is absolutely the proper response.
Frankly, it should be permanent banning with a side of lawsuit. These are money matches. You should have had to sign a contract that you're in breach of, at a minimum, as you are fundamentally stealing from other people.
The only reason clemency should exist is for cases where there's reasonable doubt it could have been an accident.
Frankly, it should be permanent banning with a side of lawsuit. These are money matches. You should have had to sign a contract that you're in breach of, at a minimum, as you are fundamentally stealing from other people.
The only reason clemency should exist is for cases where there's reasonable doubt it could have been an accident.
Yeah his cheat is particularly bad. Has to be intended IMO. His, as per the video, was extremely intentional. Awful.
Magic Arena gives me good practice for my paper Standard decks, although I feel as though the matchmaking still feels way off. Too many mirror matches and too many aggressive decks.
It's not really that strong of a move when you realize that it's clear that he intentionally cheated and he'll permanently be tainted by his actions. I mean yeah, it seems admirable but it's a gambit that is fairly low risk.
Permanently being labeled a cheater and always scrutinized is close to being permanently banned from the game. So suggesting that he be permanently banned is nearly equivalent to just coming back in six months. On the other hand, he has to make a strong gesture to clean up his image. This is his attempt to do so. A move like this can only be a positive for him.
Permanently being labeled a cheater and always scrutinized is close to being permanently banned from the game. So suggesting that he be permanently banned is nearly equivalent to just coming back in six months. On the other hand, he has to make a strong gesture to clean up his image. This is his attempt to do so. A move like this can only be a positive for him.
Are you doing best of 1 or best of 3? Best of 1 ladder uses deck-based matchmaking which gives me a ton of mirror matches.
I made a terrible Superfriends deck to see how the deck-based matchmaking deals with edge cases, and it seems to only want to match it against Mono-Blue Tempo and Mono-Red Aggro, so that's interesting.
Any Commander focused/leaning people read this yet?
http://www.starcitygames.com/articles/37865_Commander-Cards-You-Shouldnt-Play.html
I'm very interested to see what the EDH community response is.
http://www.starcitygames.com/articles/37865_Commander-Cards-You-Shouldnt-Play.html
I'm very interested to see what the EDH community response is.
Hi Magic-era! So I used to play paper magic super casually with a couple of friends in High School and early Uni. I went back to my dad's house recently and found my old deck (which blows) and now I'm getting back into Magic.
My coworker who has played for 10+ years built me a couple of decks with a bunch of spare cards she had (almost entirely ravnica and M19), and I've been having fun playing against her with those in our lunch break.
Now I'm thinking about buying some more cards, either to beef up one of these decks or build a whole new one (or both)
My question is: what would be the best pack type to buy to do so? I was thinking about just grabbing a couple of boosters, but then I saw that there are several other times of packs (guild kits, planeswalker decks, toolkit etc)
Unfortunately since I live in Japan and want to play with primarily Japanese cards, the "bundle" pack is out, since it's English-only. That one seemed very appealing.
Any tips? Or is there a noob magic thread I could hit up instead of bothering people in this one? I sure can't understand about 50% of what people are talking about in here, lol
I originally posted this in the arena thread by accident, woops my bad
My coworker who has played for 10+ years built me a couple of decks with a bunch of spare cards she had (almost entirely ravnica and M19), and I've been having fun playing against her with those in our lunch break.
Now I'm thinking about buying some more cards, either to beef up one of these decks or build a whole new one (or both)
My question is: what would be the best pack type to buy to do so? I was thinking about just grabbing a couple of boosters, but then I saw that there are several other times of packs (guild kits, planeswalker decks, toolkit etc)
Unfortunately since I live in Japan and want to play with primarily Japanese cards, the "bundle" pack is out, since it's English-only. That one seemed very appealing.
Any tips? Or is there a noob magic thread I could hit up instead of bothering people in this one? I sure can't understand about 50% of what people are talking about in here, lol
I originally posted this in the arena thread by accident, woops my bad
TIL Sumala Woodshaper can fetch enchantments. My opponent was dead on board with no cards in hand because of repeated Disinformation Campaign, draws Woodshaper, plays with two mana left, gets Conclave Tribunal and casts it with Convoke. Then I ran out of time lol
Depends what your playgroup allows. I think cards like Back to Basics is fine since it punishes greedy mana bases and shouldn't affect you much. I play Ruination for the same reason. Stasis is different since it's really difficult to gain advantage. Even Capsize would take forever.
Figure out what format, colours and play styles you enjoy playing. Come up with a fixed budget. Then buy singles. You'll come out much better that way than buying packs and sealed products.
If you're just playing casually with a coworker, I'd just get a duel deck. They're usually reasonably balanced, fairly cheap, and don't require much to sit down and play.
Hm, I hadn't heard of those. I guess those have been replaced by challenger decks these days? Just googled it.
So I guess the thing is that my coworker is playing competitive Modern, so she's pretty good. Also, I'd like to start playing casually at card shops, either just with people who are chilling, or FNM/League (league being 3-pack sealed, idk if it's called something else in English)
I'm gonna go to a shop or two tomorrow and see what the vibe is like. I don't want to play actually competitively because it seems like that just turns into buying singles to keep up with the meta. I'd rather just throw packs together, try my best to make a good deck with what I have, and meet some new people.
So, with this in mind, right now I'm leaning towards getting a couple of the welcome decks if possible to bulk out my basics/lands, and then buy maybe three or four boosters to try and get something to put in one of my two existing decks that were made for me. Does this sound viable or nah?
I don't know what the environment is like in Japan or at your local stores, but if you have no desire to buy singles, my recommendation is that if you just want to play casually, you should stick to limited, like sealed (like prerelease and league) and draft. Your store might be casual enough that you can play Standard there with some jank brews, but it might not. But playing Draft ensures you're on a level playing field with your opponents so it's a great way to play when you don't have access to a lot of cards.
Some of it is reasonable and some of it gets into the weeds. Mass land destruction is imo fine if you're at a higher powered table, its a way to keep control in check. But Paradox Engine and Seedborn Muse aren't actually ruffling feathers ever. Lab Maniac and Felidar Sovereign are probably way higher on the 'things people rightfully complain about' list.
Games of EDH have to end. There's nothing wrong with putting combos or cards in your deck that actually end the game on the spot (e.g., Kiki-Jiki combos, infinite mana combos, Craterhoof Behemoth, etc). I'd much rather play games that end than games that just drag out. Maybe it has an anticlimactic conclusion, but you just shuffle up and play again!
On the flip side, cards that drag the game out unnecessarily are the fucking worst. Armageddon effects are fine only if you have something out that lets you win instantly or near instantly. For example, putting Worldslayer on a Zurgo - totally cool. Playing a Geddon onto an empty board just to reset the game? Fuck you.
That's the only rule that should matter. Does the card enable a player to win on the spot? That's cool - Magic is chock-full of those kinds of cards. Does the card enable the player to hold the table hostage, slow the game out, and drag it on as long as they like? That's not cool.
On the flip side, cards that drag the game out unnecessarily are the fucking worst. Armageddon effects are fine only if you have something out that lets you win instantly or near instantly. For example, putting Worldslayer on a Zurgo - totally cool. Playing a Geddon onto an empty board just to reset the game? Fuck you.
That's the only rule that should matter. Does the card enable a player to win on the spot? That's cool - Magic is chock-full of those kinds of cards. Does the card enable the player to hold the table hostage, slow the game out, and drag it on as long as they like? That's not cool.
A new mode that has no Instants is coming to Arena https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/9pcan1/oct_18th_datamine/
I'd say the problem with EDH is that games take way, way too long. In a five player game, I've had to wait 15 minutes or more for my next turn on a regular basis. Especially from people who like to play "search your library" cards multiple times per turn. It's insane and not fun.
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Future Future League decklists
I feel like these are already more closely resembling decks that see actual play than in the past, though I'm surprised they didn't show a deck with Experimental Frenzy or Steam-Kin.
I feel like these are already more closely resembling decks that see actual play than in the past, though I'm surprised they didn't show a deck with Experimental Frenzy or Steam-Kin.
How does everyone cope with doing bad with a certain deck? I recently started getting head first into modern and decided to invest in Jund since it has a lot of stuff I like. Problem is I usually don't do amazing with it and have even gone 0-4. I know I don't make the best plays at times
And it's a learning curve but I get discouraged but it's only this deck. It's not like I do amazing with everything else but there's something about Jund that gets me annoyed more than most others when I go on a losing streak
And it's a learning curve but I get discouraged but it's only this deck. It's not like I do amazing with everything else but there's something about Jund that gets me annoyed more than most others when I go on a losing streak
you persevere.
with time you will learn how to play your deck in the most optimal way.
Many cards would be literally unplayable if you did this. Anything that targets a spell on the stack. There's less confusion (especially for new players) if you just do an outright ban.
Just seems like a waste that you can't play something like Lightning Strike in a mode like this. There are definitely instants that would perform perfectly fine as sorceries.
But the point is to see how the format plays out without these cards. You can just play regular standard if you want to cast Lightning Strike.
Edit: Don't get me wrong, I think the mode sucks but playing instants as sorcery wouldn't improve it.
Edit: Don't get me wrong, I think the mode sucks but playing instants as sorcery wouldn't improve it.
People who don't take the game so seriously? Hearthstone does stuff like this all the time with Tavern Brawl and it's hugely popular.
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