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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Outlaws of Thunder Junction - Duel at the Oko Corral
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Strange. I still can't get it to work on my phone. Just can't connect.
Did you update from the App Store and in client? You might need to reinstall. This has happened to me before… when DMU came out it wouldn't work on my laptop at all for days.
I have gone from not playing literally anything other than Bo1 Ranked Standard on Arena for 5 years basically to now I haven't played a single game of it in a week.
Historic Brawl has become an addiction for me. I have always been someone that like to homebrew and I adore tribal/themed decks. Brawl is all about that. I have pillaged my wildcards making new decks. So far I have a Peregrin Took Food/Stompy Green deck, Traxos Colorless, Bontu Zombies, and Zilortha Dinosaur/Mammoth deck.
Now I'm brainstorming a Rakdos deck with Rakdos himself as the commander. I can't seem to stop lol
Historic Brawl has become an addiction for me. I have always been someone that like to homebrew and I adore tribal/themed decks. Brawl is all about that. I have pillaged my wildcards making new decks. So far I have a Peregrin Took Food/Stompy Green deck, Traxos Colorless, Bontu Zombies, and Zilortha Dinosaur/Mammoth deck.
Now I'm brainstorming a Rakdos deck with Rakdos himself as the commander. I can't seem to stop lol
I also vastly prefer my Brawl deck over my Standard deck. It's just more fun because the opponents are more varied and the decks are less consistent, so you manage to catch some people off-guard.
Yeah I just saw the Reddit post of someone who opened 188 packs and got 2 of them. That's crazy.
Exactly. It's not as on rails as standard. Also it's allowing me to play some old cards that I DEARLY missed like Captive Audience and Tergrid but without all of the complete unhinged insanity of normal Historic. So many old favorites just popping up in my hand puts a smile on my face.
So far my most successful deck is the Traxos deck. It's just pure weaponized utility and ramp. Its ridiculous. But I think the Bontu Zombies deck is my favorite. I love mono-black Magic.
Are you not able to use wildcards for them?
Half of the mythic rares in arena are either wildcard only or effectively that now. Its not remotely anywhere close to a viable option now. Mythic booster packs don't address the fact most of these... are not in packs.
Paper packs have big score cards in about 1 in every 5 packs. There is no reason for Arena to be as awful as it is.
Honestly might make the switch to Magic Online... a sentence I didn't think I'd be writing in 2024
Ah okay. I can see how that would be annoying if you don't have the wildcards to get the ones you want.
This is lame, I had no idea...
So you are saying there are cards that I cannot unlock via wildcards. Who thought this was a good idea!
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For the record, The Big Score rates match paper in Arena draft packs. Still shameful that they decreased the rate for the packs you get in the Arena store.
No you can unlock all of them with wildcards, the issue is that is the only way to actually get them at all.
The mythic booster packs are really awful these days because of how many mythic rares aren't actually technically in the sets.
i think drafting is going to be better than packs if you want big score cards. in two drafts i got 4 big score cards but probably passed up about double that if i was just rare um mythic drafting
yeah I usually just crack packs after I get bored with limited but limited might just be the way to go all the time now
fallout you mentioned there was a Commander tier list kind of thing when it comes to Historic Brawl. Is there a reliable place to find something that resembles a cohesive list of commanders in the upper-tier?
My Traxos deck is running into STIFF competition pretty regularly now and was wondering if he was up there when it comes to commanders.
Hey how do you tell if a card is a big score card? Is it the jail bars?
I got "Decimate" in my 3 free packs.
My Traxos deck is running into STIFF competition pretty regularly now and was wondering if he was up there when it comes to commanders.
Hey how do you tell if a card is a big score card? Is it the jail bars?
I got "Decimate" in my 3 free packs.
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wizards haven't released a list or anything but you can google hell queue brawl to see lists of what people think are there or are at least edge cases. seeing kinnan, esika, rusko, golos, sythis, ragavan or a few others is a pretty easy way to tell though. how the game matches you up depends on a few things like your commander but also the other 99 cards that are in the deck. so there's no hard and fast rules you can try to tweak your power level around. personally i wouldn't put traxos up there
edit: jail bars are breaking news. a vault door is the big score and it will always be mythic
Okay thank you that helps a lot across the board.
I just noticed that after a big winning streak and tweaking the deck a bit I was suddenly running into a completely different set of deck all of a sudden. I've been breaking even, but when I lose I lose BAD. Like regular Historic bad. It's Turn 4 and I'm dead bad. It's nuts.
And that's good to know. I though the bars and the "Bonus Sheet" meant a big score. I hit 2 in the 3 free packs and was about to feel really guilty for darkside lol
Day one 17lands data is up. Green is the winningest color so far.
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Day one 17lands data is up. Green is the winningest color so far.
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i did go 7-0 with my green deck
😂you also have 3 copies of the top 2 rares in the set (last I looked), nicei did go 7-0 with my green deck
i think half my games were concedes after flashing in a second rattlewurm while the rest were after dropping bonny. i will never draft that lucky again
The only thing I'll add to what Alucrid said is that the game isn't always going to match you up against non-hell queue commanders. My theory is that the game prioritizes reducing wait times rather than perfect matches, so if it can't find something for you within X seconds, then it'll just throw you the next available match. Basically, there's no pure science to it. The most you can read from it is that if you're almost constantly seeing hell queue commanders, then you're likely playing a hell queue commander. That also doesn't mean you won't run into busted decks with busted draws from time to time, either. That's just magic.
Gotcha.
My attempt at a Rakdos deck was met with lower tier stuff as far as I can tell but still lost every match. Feels bad.
I'm currently in the "50% Etali" commander tier, which I'm totally okay with. :D
oh 200%, that wasn't even a question. arguably THE most OP card printed in the last what, 5 years? it's so dumb it's even in Limited.
Hilariously, I then promptly faced the same Oko on T3, never drew mine. By the time I got rid of their Oko, game was essentially over.
Trying to decide on my next Brawl deck. I want one of each color but can't decide and right now I'm on Blue or White.
Can anyone give me a good (but not hell queue) Mono-Blue or Mono-White commander? I don't really care if it's competitive. I want it to be quirky or fun.
Can anyone give me a good (but not hell queue) Mono-Blue or Mono-White commander? I don't really care if it's competitive. I want it to be quirky or fun.
Unctus, Grand Metatect is fun in m-blue. Gives all your creatures card draw+discard, buffs any artifact creatures you have, and you can even make any creature an artifact by either playing 1 blue or 2 life.
Oh wow. That does look neat. Never even heard of the card either despite it being relatively new lolUnctus, Grand Metatect is fun in m-blue. Gives all your creatures card draw+discard, buffs any artifact creatures you have, and you can even make any creature an artifact by either playing 1 blue or 2 life.
I'm really digging OTJ draft so far. It reminds a bit of DMU due to all the fixing and green 3-5 color decks. The power level is really high, but it's spread well enough across rarities and colors that games don't often feel one sided because of it. Cheap interaction is also plentiful in every color. The only miss IMO is the reprint sheet, a lot of them fit well but stuff like Oko and even Cruel Ultimatum are a bit much since fixing is so good.
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Well unless your opponent plays Kambal like what happened with me lol.
When I first started playing on Arena Outlaws Merriment was one of the first cards I ever used a rare wildcard on because one of my first real competitive decks was a Token deck.
I fucking love that card lol
Getting Path to Exile'd in Limited in 2024 feels real bad lmao.
On the other hand, you get stuff like this... P1P1
woah what plug in is that that shows you draft ratings in game???
Okay having played a few drafts and sucked at most of them... I think the key is "3-4 colour good pile". You just can't afford to shoehorn yourself into two colours because there are SO. MANY. insane bombs. If you don't draw your bombs, you lose. You maximize your odds just picking up all the bombs regardless of colour and use all the fixing you can get.
It definitely feels like prioritizing fixing (thus, probably green cards) and bombs is a good way to go for draft. But I've seen a lot of good streamlined 2 color decks like interaction heavy BR or mount aggro WG. The fact that both seem like viable options is a sign of a good format imo
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Kambal makes for a fun commander actually. So many decks rely on tokens of varying kinds that when you put him on the field and have reasonable ways to defend him or your opponent doesn't have a way to remove him, it really puts the opponent in a conundrum.
I came across a rakdos deck that used a lot of treasure tokens and artifact tokens. Kambal just kept copying everything. I was getting free mana, free blockers, and everything. I could actually see the guy just sit there for a second highlight all of his cards, highlight mine wait about 5 to 10 seconds, and then he conceded. I think he was just doing the mental math in his head about whether or not he would be able to remove him often enough and still pull off his strategy. I guess he thought he couldn't.
I've always enjoyed decks that require input from the opponent and interaction with whatever they're playing rather than the single-minded strats that don't really care about what your opponent is doing. Kambal definitely fits that bill.
I came across a rakdos deck that used a lot of treasure tokens and artifact tokens. Kambal just kept copying everything. I was getting free mana, free blockers, and everything. I could actually see the guy just sit there for a second highlight all of his cards, highlight mine wait about 5 to 10 seconds, and then he conceded. I think he was just doing the mental math in his head about whether or not he would be able to remove him often enough and still pull off his strategy. I guess he thought he couldn't.
I've always enjoyed decks that require input from the opponent and interaction with whatever they're playing rather than the single-minded strats that don't really care about what your opponent is doing. Kambal definitely fits that bill.
Does anyone have any tips for how they build their brawl decks?
I'm having a lot of fun making my decks, but I can tell that I keep forgetting major cards that need to be no matter what given the colors used. Like "Lightning Bolt" for Red decks. Cards that are so damn useful that they deserve a spot in every deck basically that can hold them.
There's just so many damn cards on Arena that I am overwhelmed by trying to remember them all. I'll be three or four games into trying out a new deck and realizing that I forgot like three or four cards.
I'm having a lot of fun making my decks, but I can tell that I keep forgetting major cards that need to be no matter what given the colors used. Like "Lightning Bolt" for Red decks. Cards that are so damn useful that they deserve a spot in every deck basically that can hold them.
There's just so many damn cards on Arena that I am overwhelmed by trying to remember them all. I'll be three or four games into trying out a new deck and realizing that I forgot like three or four cards.
TIL that Plague Spitter and Decree of Justice's cycling mode is a nonbo! I was so excited using the cycling to sneak DoJ past a handful of counters that I totally blanked on the fact that Plague Spitter would kill all my guys next upkeep.
I'm very bad at Premodern!
I'm very bad at Premodern!
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My day just peaked. I Mana Drained a Cruel Ultimatum and they conceded next turn. I can only imagine how they felt.