This is a solid place to start:
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Magic the Gathering: Arena |OT| Tapped Out of Witty Titles
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This is a solid place to start:
Also, here is the full list of codes, make sure to redeem them all for free packs and cosmetics:
What did you buy off of cardmarket to get the boosters?
I just type "Arena code" into the search bar, and a bunch of options pop-up. You want Prerelease codes, sets indicated by icons, and you want to buy from the people who refund shipping.
Are you US based? I couldn't create an account with a US address it seems, was looking and it is definitely the best place to buy the prerelease codes I could find.
I was honest trying to come up with ramp hate earlier this morning but there's no real hatebear that will properly disrupt all of simics ramp right now. I'm believing the best option is to go mono red and mulligan for anax/embercleave and just try and kill them through the turn 4 Nissa.
I spent 3 and a half hours being one win away from Diamond. Win one. Lose one. Win one. Lose one. For 3 and a half hours. And now i am on a losing streak and 8 wins away.
Never wanted to put my fist through my screen so much in my entire life.
Never wanted to put my fist through my screen so much in my entire life.
has any card had more apt artwork of how it feels when you use it?
Or like 90% of any other counters.
I'm enjoying the enchantment focus with this new set. Still finding interactions and combos. Hoping to try my hand at historic and see how enchantment synergies meld. Saga tribal with proliferate? Heh, why not?
thanks. guess i should get in one or two more drafts before it ends
Ha, this was me just now, except I just stopped after I lost 2 in a row. I kind of wish I could hide that shit away. It's the difference of one pack of cards. 1000 gold. There's no reason for me to care that much.
I made it!!!!! I decided to play a few matches while my puppy took a nap and I got the wins I needed!
I made it!!!!! I decided to play a few matches while my puppy took a nap and I got the wins I needed!
Congrats. Im still in plat hell. Resorting to Stax like a smelly crotch goblin. I'll get there.
I was able to get over the hump by using a mono black deck that was built around underworld dreams and gray merchants.
Describing it as hell is very accurate though. Good luck!
Ha, congrats, I've been playing since the Beta launched and never made it past Gold. But I only really mess around with like... C-tier, unoptimized tribal decks and stuff. I'm actually surprised my Satyr Aggro deck made it as far as I did!
And I'm pleasantly surprised to find that my Ashiok Mill Brawl deck was actually super effective. It was kind of cobbled together, but the slower games and 60 card decks makes it a lot more viable than either standard or EDH.
And I'm pleasantly surprised to find that my Ashiok Mill Brawl deck was actually super effective. It was kind of cobbled together, but the slower games and 60 card decks makes it a lot more viable than either standard or EDH.
I played my first Sealed last night and did alright, 7-2. Think the Bo1 really makes this easier, but I was never able to go 4-0 in sealed in MODO. Was nice to only put in 2 hours or so for that, tather than 2 hours for 1-2 drop.
Still undecided how much I'll throw in money wise, but it is nice to scratch the Magic itch.
Still undecided how much I'll throw in money wise, but it is nice to scratch the Magic itch.
Finally had my first opponent get got by Eidolon of Obstruction. They tapped out to play Nissa and then surprise, end of turn. Shame conceed shortly followed. I was honestly shocked to see someone throw like that. It felt nice seeing it payoff, but it's kind of telling that this hate card requires a pretty serious misplay to actually work the hate.
While it's not a terribly powerful card, the strength comes from forcing you opponents to play their walkers off-curve. If it's turn 3 and your opponent has to play something else instead of jamming their Teferi, then the Eidolon has done it's job even though you have no real way of knowing it.
yeah it''s very nice to keep nissa off curve. just a shame that simic has so many options that it doesnt do that much. And if it's off curve, nissa is the planeswalker that cares the least about that card.
Played an Eldraine Ranked draft and had a pretty exciting win number 7 (I'm assuming the matchmaking tries to put you up against someone that also has the same wins?). The Revenge of the Ravens was causing me some problems, especially with the size of his creatures, and he had a Food on the table.
Getting into Theros drafts on Arena finally. Had someone beat me with Thassa's Oracle - their deck also had a Uro that was a bitch to deal with. And the next game my opponent used Idyllic Tutor to go get a Helios - fortunately I did end up winning that game.
is there any reason to NOT force black in this format?
is there any reason to NOT force black in this format?
I understand that, but I just think they managed to create a scenario where it can be played around without a significant cost. For teferi/UW especially Birth of Meletis is just a solid roadblock that allows control to block a good chunk of damage and fix mana for the turn 4 sweeper.
I will say that Elspeth is preforming better for white aggro than I expected. She's not broken, but she helps things like fliers and even the eidolon to be serious pressure. A loxodon the prior turn and even green will sweat the blocks. And escaping her to enable lethal is just a warm fuzzy feeling.
It really should just prevent planeswalkers from using any of their + or - abilities. Magic needs more planeswalker hate in general.
Swing for lethal > Network Error
fuuuuuck
Kill Arena, log back in, cross my fingers - phew my opponent conceded and I got the win.
fuuuuuck
Kill Arena, log back in, cross my fingers - phew my opponent conceded and I got the win.
lol yeah. I've gotten so many disconnects since this last update that added theros. Died down mostly the weekend it launched but I still get like 1 every other day or so and it's always at a point that when I log back in I essentially gave the opponent a free turn at a pivotal moment.
Just won a draft by casting a Grey Merchant, suiciding then Omening the same Grey Merchant, then chump blocking with the Merchant and bringing it back with Rise to Glory, and then Flickering that same Grey Merchant. Over the course of three turns I hit him with the same Merchant four times.
This format is awesome
Edit: That deck went 7-2. Aphemia is absolutely bonkers in this format. I ran away with so many games where I got her in my opening hand.
This format is awesome
Edit: That deck went 7-2. Aphemia is absolutely bonkers in this format. I ran away with so many games where I got her in my opening hand.
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I've really been enjoying this for the last couple weeks, but the speed at which people play this game is killing me. It's like these half hour turns of people playing solitaire to do cat oven sacrifices. I'm starting to lose my mind.
I know its effective but even playing cat oven is kind of tedious and annoying. So much clicking that takes too long. Guess graveyard hate is necessary now. What's giving me trouble is the Thassa/Agent of Treachery combo. Its so good and hard to deal with once it resolves. Not difficult at all to pull of and to protect with simic ramp. Just have 4x Uro 4x Thassa 4x Agent 4x Finale of Devestation in a ramp shell with some counters and you're golden. On another note Klothys is a pretty sick card. Only have 2x copies atm but it does so much. Pings/lifegain, ramp, and graveyard hate. Haven't seen people use her much. Any of you high level rank players use/see her used at all?
I've been toying with the idea of Klothys in a temur reclamation deck. Wondering if it might be good enough to create a gruul control deck even. I doubt that cause the draw is needed, but I'll keep mindcrafting it for now :p
The refined lists have moved away from this now, you don't need to dedicate so many slots to winning the game when you have Nissa and the finale/big pig also represents an I win button at 12 mana. If you do the maths on the numbers you've quoted you can't fit them into a 60 card deck with the normal ramp cards, and you end up with more awkward do nothing draws.
It looks powerful every couple of games on stream or to play against though, so people jumped on it at first.
Jesus, I do like this draft format but I feel like I'm just getting so unlucky. Drafted a pretty interesting sacrifice deck I thought could be fun to play....
2 mana tops the first 2 games. third game I literally only drew mana, a travelers amulet, and an underworld charger who cant fucking block. Last turn I finally get one dinky creature out with 4 life left and it's immediatly removed.
Who knows if that deck was fun to play, I'll never get to find out.
2 mana tops the first 2 games. third game I literally only drew mana, a travelers amulet, and an underworld charger who cant fucking block. Last turn I finally get one dinky creature out with 4 life left and it's immediatly removed.
Who knows if that deck was fun to play, I'll never get to find out.
The best I've done so far is 1-3 on about 3 drafts. I like drafting a lot (this is my first set that I've drafted), but I'm getting out-played and out-drafted by much better players than me.
is it possible to activate dreadful apathy to exile a creature, then before it resolves cast flicker of fate on dreadful apathy so that it goes on another creature while the original one gets exiled? i tried it and it just exiled it immediately. would i have to go full control for it to be possible?
Sounds like something full control would be needed for. You could always try it out on the bot if you want to check.
100% doable. You'll need full control mode for it, as you'll need to hold priority after activating the exile ability.
thanks. i should really start to use full control more
That sounds like the draft I just did. One game only saw my opening 2 mana, next got nothing but mana. Last game also nothing but Mana on all my draws, even after crying two to the bottom.
Glad to see mana screw made it over :(
Loll. So why is Theros ranked draft ending in two weeks? 🤔