How often do you run into intentional slow players? I've been seeing it a lot more lately. People who are clearly just sitting and waiting until the last second to resolve or pass.
Can you get demoted from a rank? I was thinking go full grind to reach at least gold i am starting level 2 silver.
good to know, I moved one more tier in silver. will try to reach gold tomorrow after I farm the daily gold/uncommons in case I open something usefulYou can lose tiers but not gold to silver. There's also "tier protection" for each where you can lose a couple games when at a new tier before ranking back down.
i think i might buy 45 boosters of each ravnica set
good idea bad idea?
As a way to fill out a collection? Sure, go for it. 90 packs will net a bunch of wildcards if you don't open something you wanted. If you're getting the most expensive gem bundle I think there's enough leftover for a Sealed run.
It's weird, that seems to happen no matter what. You can start looking up Smash Brothers tutorial videos and next thing you know, your suggestions are half alt-right neonazi nutjobs. It's almost like YouTube is okay with such people.Won another 3 (maybe it was 4) games in draft. It's so addicting!
How is Day 9 at Arena? I watched this whole video and really like his personality - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUsxIflRBAk
The biggest problem i'm running into with MTG+YouTube is i'm starting to get a bunch of alt-right garbage recommendations.
Won another 3 (maybe it was 4) games in draft. It's so addicting!
How is Day 9 at Arena? I watched this whole video and really like his personality - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUsxIflRBAk
The biggest problem i'm running into with MTG+YouTube is i'm starting to get a bunch of alt-right garbage recommendations.
Yeah, I just wish they weren't Magic related. I'll start watching a video and 3 minutes in the dude is just going off about the sjw agenda or whatever they kick and scream about.It's weird, that seems to happen no matter what. You can start looking up Smash Brothers tutorial videos and next thing you know, your suggestions are half alt-right neonazi nutjobs. It's almost like YouTube is okay with such people.
I'm really looking forward to rotation. It's probably just because I play so much, but I really feel like I need a new meta.
You might have outgrown Magic or games in general. Taking a break for a couple of years might make it feel fresh again.Yeah I think the cracks are showing in standard yet again. I was interested in the set for all of a week, I don't even know what I'm waiting for now that ranked bo3 is here, I never play it anyway so I guess it wasn't that.
You might have outgrown Magic or games in general. Taking a break for a couple of years might make it feel fresh again.
Day9 is a great dude, and pretty fun to watch, but he's definitely still relatively new to Magic. He's pretty smart, so he's picking it up, but he makes a lot of choices that seem sub optimal to me. There are certainly people that have been playing Magic a much much longer time that one could watch if they really wanted to learn, but as entertainment he's pretty great.
The biggest problem i'm running into with MTG+YouTube is i'm starting to get a bunch of alt-right garbage recommendations.
Thanks! I watch Alpha Investments (sharing the same exact feelings as you), Tolarian, Good Luck High Five and now Day 9. Oh and openboosters. I'll be sure to sub to the others!The big ones to avoid are The Quartering/Unsleeved, Rogue Deckbuilder, MTG Lion, and I think Desolator Magic?
There are some "edgier" ones that aren't alt-right, or even alt-right adjacent, that some people tend to avoid, like Alpha Investments. (I actually really love his videos, but he often times gets too hung up on the lack of horn-dog art in nuMagic, but even then it's mostly half-serious. I trust he's not actually malicious as he's close friends with many of the harder left-leaning creators.)
Safe bets are The Command Zone, Tolarian Community College, Nizzahon Magic, Rhystic Studies, and Strictly Better MTG.
There are tons of magic YouTubers though, and even more Twitch and eSports personalities that are great, but these are just the ones that I know and like.
Won another 3 (maybe it was 4) games in draft. It's so addicting!
How is Day 9 at Arena? I watched this whole video and really like his personality - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUsxIflRBAk
The biggest problem i'm running into with MTG+YouTube is i'm starting to get a bunch of alt-right garbage recommendations.
It's weird, that seems to happen no matter what. You can start looking up Smash Brothers tutorial videos and next thing you know, your suggestions are half alt-right neonazi nutjobs. It's almost like YouTube is okay with such people.
In Ravnica Limited, would you first pick a Crackling Drake? I got one first and 2nd pick, but building a deck around it was pretty hard. End up splashing white for more removal and went 4-3
I think there are a lot of possible packs where that'd be a good first pick. You don't need *that* many spells for it to be good. A 4 mana 2/4 flier that draws you a card is pretty great in limited, and it can become way better than that. Just prioritize a bit of fixing to make it more likely to be castable.
There's a really weird glitch where sometimes I end up with the wrong avatar. I wonder if it's related to connection issues or long queue times.
The responsiveness improvements seemed great, so it's a real shame that connection problems have become so bad since the patch.
Ooh maybe that's it, thanks.So my account seemed to forget my Avatar after the singleton event. So I just get a random avatar. I haven't set it back cause I like the random. Maybe check your profile and re select it?
You are not comitting to anything P1P1.Well its more the fact that it ties you into Izzet pretty heavily, and I'm not sure doing that pack 1 pick 1 is a good idea, since its my first ravnica draft. I picked them so I can run Izzet drakes in constructed, and gumming up the ground and winning with fliers is usually an ok strategy in Limited. Convoke is a pain to deal with though, lost to that 7/5 wurm with hexproof pretty often.
Matchmaking in casual was taking like 45-60 seconds today which is quite bad compared to usual. I don't know if it's a bug or people are actually stopping playing. I've gotten addicted to a ton of multiplayer games over the years, and long game / queue times have been the death knell of several games for me I feel like.I must be ranking up to the cream of the crop since matchmaking is taking so long.
It's just plat 3, what's going on WotC?
Pretty much, that's one of the absolute most despicably toxic play patterns in the game, so it only seems fair if anyone running it has to suffer through the entire time-wasting process as well.Second game today where an opponent playing against my Esper Control forced me to play out the tedious process of killing them off long after I exiled everything they had and they had zero chance to win. Don't really know what to make of that. I guess it's just spite?
"Despicably toxic", really?Pretty much, that's one of the absolute most despicably toxic play patterns in the game, so it only seems fair if anyone running it has to suffer through the entire time-wasting process as well.
Were you at least showing a win condition? I've forced stupid (sorry) control decks to at least show me that they ACTUALLY have the game now and again in the past.Second game today where an opponent playing against my Esper Control forced me to play out the tedious process of killing them off long after I exiled everything they had and they had zero chance to win. Don't really know what to make of that. I guess it's just spite?
EDIT: Also I just lost to a fucking land destruction deck and I want to die now.
I don't do what you described myself, but it seems a pretty fair reaction to that deck to me. :P"Despicably toxic", really?
I don't like it when people run Teferi and no other win con, but I have Chromium in my deck for the beatdown, and it just happened to be the literal last card in my library, so I had to wait it out. I would have won quicker if I could.
Yes, he had a lot of life gain in his deck but made me beat him down over like 10 turns with Chromium. So it was just spite.Were you at least showing a win condition? I've forced stupid (sorry) control decks to at least show me that they ACTUALLY have the game now and again in the past.
But yes, spite is a very real option because that deck is just super unfun to play against and there's a good chance it riled your opponent.