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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Ravnica Allegiance - These 5 Lands Will SHOCK You!
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If I have a fit of insanity and do a sealed release event, 17 is the normal number of lands for real-life 40-card decks that don't use the mana fixer, right? Is there a quick rule of thumb to know when I should adjust it up or down?
Look at your curve. The higher your curve goes, the more lands you need. If your curve stops at 4 with only a couple of cards at 4, you can afford to be at 16. Otherwise, stick to 17.
First Ravnica Allegiance pack pull on Arena was Absorb. Ah. Memories of MM-Invasion UW control.
Quoting myself to see if somebody can lend me a hand with the manabase on this. I'm totally lost with the lands. On the Izzet side it works perfectly fine on 21 lands but I'm not sure if I should forfeit a couple more spells to go with 24, and whether or not max out of checklands (12 total) at the risk on going too low on shocks and basics to feed the checks. Maybe add a couple of Evolving wilds in the meantime as a patch?
Play with them. Draft, or even just draw up standard brews on paper.
Haven't opened a pack in so long in Arena I forgot they only have 8 cards. I thought they had downgraded the Allegiance packs.
Googled it and realized, nope, they've always come with 8.
Googled it and realized, nope, they've always come with 8.
Mhm which is why Sealed is such a good deal, because you get 6 boosters with 15 cards each, and a guaranteed 3 at the end after your run.
Although Draft might be a bit better, as you can select your cards and then you have an incremental gain of packs dependent on your wins..
You don't get wildcards or wildcard progress in sealed or draft packs.
You do for the 3 packs you get from winning sealed, don't you? They look like normal packs to me.
Not fun Arena bug: when attacking with two Gruul Beastmasters, if you have a third creature on the board, the way they stack makes it impossible to use the first Beastmaster trigger to target the other one.
Yeah you get the from the booster packs that you get afterwards.
And yeah you don't get wildcard progress but...the extra cards you get for sealed more than make up for it. IMO
The extra cards in those packs are just commons. Commons are basically useless in Magic. Wildcards and wildcard progress are far more important.
The reward packs are normal packs. The packs you use to get cards for your sealed or draft "deck" are not normal packs and can't contain wildcards and don't grant wildcard progress.
In real life Magic perhaps, and/or if you only care about building one or two high-power decks. In Arena I want to build a collection, and commons aren't useless for that. In fact, commons were typically what I was missing the most of when I tried to build decks since the Arena release, and I constantly found myself with no common wildcards and no way to gain them. In real life you can get whatever common you want very easily, but that's not true in Arena.
Correct, that's what we were saying. You get wildcard progress on the reward packs in sealed.
Me, too. He doesn't do it daily, but he does seem to fire up Arena on stream for a few hours each week. He's fun because (since he's not testing for competitive formats) he experiments and builds his own decks. He's by far my favourite streamer, and has always been one of my favourite MTG pros/personalities. He's been streaming more and more Arena lately, and, as the format takes off, I imagine he'll continue to do so.
Kibler is contracted to wotc to run some arena streams along w/ gaby I think amaz and numot from what I recall.
Run 18 lands. This format is slow enough and has enough playable expensive cards that it's best to run the 1 extra to make sure you're hitting your land drops.
Oh no, contradictory advice! Though I do trust your instincts on limited. :P I normally do 18 on Arena but wasn't sure about real life.
Would you only say 18 if I have a fair number of 4+ cards, like at least 4 of them? What's the cutoff for you?
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That's a more complicated question than you'd think, haha. Now for more recent events, you can go here, to the story archive section. The story of the Gatewatch starts in the Zendikar section, but I think you'd be better off starting at Amonkhet instead, which covers Bolas kicking the asses of the Gatewatch. Plus, the Gatewatch story quality before that point is... inconsistent.
Starting with these Ravnica sets, the main story is switching back to the old format, of the web stories just having side stories and the main story being in e-books. The e-book for these sets won't be out until April.
Limited Set Review - Green
Mardu Tokens
White
3 Ajani's Welcome
2 Dawn of Hope
2 Divine Visitation
3 Hero of Precinct One
3 Tithe Taker
Black
4 Gutterbones
2 Fungal Infection
Red
4 Legion Warboss
Mulicolor
2 Bedevil
2 Judith, the Scourge Diva
2 Seraph of the Scales
2 Teysa Karlov
2 Kaya's Wrath
3 Heroic Reinforcements
Land
4 Plains
3 Swamp
2 Mountain
2 Godless Shrine
2 Sacred Foundry
2 Blood Crypt
3 Isolated Chapel
3 Clifftop Retreat
3 Dragonskull Summit
4 small edits
-1 each of Tithe Taker, Hero of Precinct One, and Ajani's Welcome
+3 Heroic Reinforcements
White
3 Ajani's Welcome
2 Dawn of Hope
2 Divine Visitation
3 Hero of Precinct One
3 Tithe Taker
Black
4 Gutterbones
2 Fungal Infection
Red
4 Legion Warboss
Mulicolor
2 Bedevil
2 Judith, the Scourge Diva
2 Seraph of the Scales
2 Teysa Karlov
2 Kaya's Wrath
3 Heroic Reinforcements
Land
4 Plains
3 Swamp
2 Mountain
2 Godless Shrine
2 Sacred Foundry
2 Blood Crypt
3 Isolated Chapel
3 Clifftop Retreat
3 Dragonskull Summit
4 small edits
-1 each of Tithe Taker, Hero of Precinct One, and Ajani's Welcome
+3 Heroic Reinforcements
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You might wanna come back tomorrow :)
I'll try to get multiple codes for you folks, don't know if a lot of people play arena where I'm going to the pre-release.
It's a combination of a few different things. Your mana curve, the number of mana sinks you have, the number of colors you're playing, etc. Unless you have a REALLY low curve and are playing only 2 colors (with few or no mana sinks) just stick to 18.
I tried the Nexus of Fate deck on arena BO1 last night... that deck is completely insane and I'm shocked people don't actually concede to it
The last 5 years, All the Modern B&R changes have happened in either January or February, which is traditionally when the Modern Pro Tour takes place. The only exception was the Eye of Ugin ban that happened after Eldrazi Winter, which they also unbanned Visions and Sword as a way to dramatically shift the meta after it was basically a 1 deck format for 3 months. Expect to see it spike every Q1 until it is actually unbanned or until Modern is in the same place that Legacy is in today (Probably 5+ years from now)
I snap concede to the second Nexus every time. Deck has gone from very good to absurd now with a handful of cards in Allegiance.
Wilderness Reclamation is terrifying. I've seen Nexus decks cutting white and just not play Teferi. The fact that it can't be attacked and pays for itself or generates mana the turn it comes down -- with six lands you can just cast this and Nexus on the same turn and are pretty close to winning on the spot. And unlike Teferi they stack incredibly well, especially with Azcanta and Arch of Orazca.
I would cut 2 copies of Reclamation and add in 1 Tezz and 1 Karn just to have win cons in the deck beyond Krasis. Walkers accruing card advantage and value on your extra turns, and then evolving into win cons seems great.
Ya, people not conceding to Nexus if they've lost is only a waste of their own time. Nothing probably brings a Nexus player more joy than slowly choke holding the opponent to death.
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