Eh, I'll try to fight through it a bit and see how it goes. Magic is a good game underneath it all really, it's a brilliantly designed game, it's just sometimes the ugly head of CCGs showing itself and going "How much money have YOU spent!?"
I've avoided Ranked and that stuff, I think I just had a really bad start cause I've played a couple of rounds now and actually done pretty well with a deck of my own that I built. A white/green one that tries to push out lots of tokens and overwhelm the opponent.
Usually its a war of attrition, right? You make them waste their counters on lower threats. Otherwise you can go the route of hexproof with stuff like Teyo the shieldmage, paradise druid, shalai voice of plenty, etc. The wanderer cuts out non-combat damage. Theres also cards like smothering tithe to make stuff more difficult for your opponent by cutting into their mana or giving you treasure. Use green to ramp into early plays (stomp/tokens) or setup defenses/hexproof and make thing more difficult? Use instants to give creatures indestructible? I know tons of cards are rotating soon, but cards that increase the costs of things for the opponent, shut down etb effects, make creatures enter tapped, shut off activated abilities, shut off artifacts, shut off planeswalkers etc are worthwhile too. If they're making it difficult you have tools to as well. Someone told me that old school magic was basically about how much pain you could put your opponent through. Maybe thats a good mentality in the meta? White is good at changing the rules and laying down the law. Green is good for stompy and ramp. So I guess in general say "no" with white control, then stomp/token flood them with green.
Feel like I might be overcompensating...
I died in the next round to two 3 damage spells....
Some decks are complete and utter bullshit.
Nah, this is a new one, I've scrapped and rebuilt 2-3 times since by now trying to figure out the formula. :P
Dunno how the SIegehorn got in there.
I did have removal.
Itd base it on # of type of cards that have a particular effect. If that vlue of a specific amount itd treat it as a control deck.
Clearly the answer is check "does this deck at least have a single damn creature?" and if no off to the pit for them to annoy one another instead of me.
A really, really long break is probably for the best then. Or wait until someone makes a digital version of Android: Netrunner.
I....dunno? I've just clicked "New Deck" and it shows me what I got, didn't know there was also formats. Standard I guess, seems to be the default one?
I have tried drafting in multiple games and they all rely on having knowledge about everything that is the game in question, all the cards, all the values, all the effects, calculate constantly which cards are worth taking and which are not cause it's not like you can build towards a theme in drafting, everything is just random. I have tried drafting and it's rare I ever go above 1 victory, so it's a extreme loosing proposition cause in the end I'll just have more worthless cards I thought was good and i have spent money that could have gone towards boosters instead that could just give me some cards that, by chance, are the actual good ones instead of based on my shitty decisions.
Would Leyline of Sanctity work in a non-white deck with a bit of luck?Keasar You may want to spend some money, as unsavory as that sounds cause if you are having trouble even scrounging up commons, youre gonna have a hard time. I understand being frustrated vs that archetype, there are many ways to improve your decks against it, but you have to be able to access those cards.
WotC is usually pushing better threats vs control and giving them worse answers, blue based control is not particularly good or bad right now, you will know what to do with experience against it, no need to throw in the towel because of it :)
I get not wanting to spend money on a game youre not enjoying at the moment but the good cards are not just gonna fall into your lap. And there is always useful stuff coming out for most decks:
Keasar You may want to spend some money, as unsavory as that sounds cause if you are having trouble even scrounging up commons, youre gonna have a hard time. I understand being frustrated vs that archetype, there are many ways to improve your decks against it, but you have to be able to access those cards.
WotC is usually pushing better threats vs control and giving them worse answers, blue based control is not particularly good or bad right now, you will know what to do with experience against it, no need to throw in the towel because of it :)
I get not wanting to spend money on a game youre not enjoying at the moment but the good cards are not just gonna fall into your lap. And there is always useful stuff coming out for most decks:
Huh, if Green/White isn't that good for token decks, what is the gameplay strengths of a white/green combo?
