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Magic: The Gathering |OT| Throne of Eldraine - Will and Rowan's Excellent Adventure
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As a new player, I was having a lot of fun starting out playing standard matches at first. However, in my last 3 matches that I was about to win, a notification comes up saying that a network connection problem happened and then my win is overturned to a draw.
That. Is. Fucking. Ridiculous!
I'm not planning on spending real money on this so wins seem to be my only way of getting income (gold). Opponents denying the rightful outcome by rage quitting is probably the lowest of the low shit I've ever seen in a game like this. Tell me that there is a fix planned lol
That. Is. Fucking. Ridiculous!
I'm not planning on spending real money on this so wins seem to be my only way of getting income (gold). Opponents denying the rightful outcome by rage quitting is probably the lowest of the low shit I've ever seen in a game like this. Tell me that there is a fix planned lol
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Separate thread was created for the MLP cards, and I posted stuff about them there.
They aren't rage quitting, the net code is probably just shit.
Burn and...?
Trail of Crumbs is amazing and let me even grind down an Orzhov Priest deck who got their engine running before me
I have. Some decks like Goblins only play a few duals. Most play zero. Hell, with decks like U/R Delver, you can probably get away with Steam Vents. It's usually the City of Traitors that's prohibitive. Wasteland and Rishadan Port aren't in too bad of a spot right now.
Goblins, Humans, Slivers, Death & Taxes, Dredge, Belcher, High Tide, Enchantress, Pox (without Chains/Void), Mono Red Storm.
For $1500 you can build Merfolk, Maverick (without the one Cradle), Punishing Zoo, Eldrazi Aggro, Reanimator, Buried Phoenix, Painter, Mono Red Sneak.
$2,000-2,500 because it plays a combination of Watery Graves and Underground Seas depending on the situation and whether you want to play a third colour or not.
You can probably get by with just one Underground Sea though.
Also Force of Wills aren't cheap despite the reprint.
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Damn. I mean I'm sure you could cut some corners and it would still be potent, but that's unfortunate to see.
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Mainly stuff we knew before.
* With Happily Ever After, "each player draws a card" was testing out new space for white.
* Adventure creatures were originally all vanilla, since they assumed the adventure part would add a lot of complexity. That lowered the on-board complexity too much, though.
* Charming Prince was changed to make it different from Knight of Autumn. It was also an option for the World Champion card.
* In the comments for All That Glitters, they misquote "All Star".
* With Fae of Wishes, it looks like they're moving toward wish effects only taking cards from exile if it's tied to Karn.
* With Brazen Borrower, they didn't like the gameplay of having a flash creature on an adventure, since that discouraged attacking. Thus, it gained "can block only creatures with flying".
* While faeries aren't a tribe here, they wanted cards reminiscent of the Lorwyn tribe. Hence the counter adventures.
* Rankle was originally a "choose one" effect, but it was too weak, so it gained "choose any number".
Going to move this thread to Hangouts later today.
I wonder what they'll do with the feedback that white got the shaft regarding the legendary cycles. White is already the worst colour in EDH and then they print three garbage cards (The Circle of Loyalty, Linden and Syr Alin). They're not even that great in limited.
Compare Circle of Loyalty to the Great Henge. I drafted Henge today and it's absolutely disgusting. My opponent drew ten cards with Return of the Wildspeaker and still lost eventually. I could chain creature after creature and after a while I drew two cards with Innkeeper. All the while growing them. The two life gain every turn also adds up over time and makes it difficult to race. It combos nicely with Deathless Knight too. A recurrable haste 5/3 is nothing to scoff at.
Compare Circle of Loyalty to the Great Henge. I drafted Henge today and it's absolutely disgusting. My opponent drew ten cards with Return of the Wildspeaker and still lost eventually. I could chain creature after creature and after a while I drew two cards with Innkeeper. All the while growing them. The two life gain every turn also adds up over time and makes it difficult to race. It combos nicely with Deathless Knight too. A recurrable haste 5/3 is nothing to scoff at.
Hope Folio of Fancies explodes in popularity so the foil extended art I pulled out of the single collector booster I'm going to buy ends up being worth something.
So, regarding fetch lands.
OG design fetches, Prismatic Vista, Fabled Passage = either fetches duals or any basic enters untapped = rare
Slow fetches = fetches duals but enters tapped = uncommon
Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse = Fetches any basic, land enters tapped = Common
Why can't there be a cycle of uncommons that say " tap, sac: get a basic X or a basic Y and put it into play"? You get it untapped but you can only get one basic of two possible types. It would be playable in Modern, be awesome for Commander and have a decent supply/not be a nightmare to reprint because of the rarity.
OG design fetches, Prismatic Vista, Fabled Passage = either fetches duals or any basic enters untapped = rare
Slow fetches = fetches duals but enters tapped = uncommon
Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse = Fetches any basic, land enters tapped = Common
Why can't there be a cycle of uncommons that say " tap, sac: get a basic X or a basic Y and put it into play"? You get it untapped but you can only get one basic of two possible types. It would be playable in Modern, be awesome for Commander and have a decent supply/not be a nightmare to reprint because of the rarity.
And...?
People open War hoping to get a Narset, right? Coffers was uncommon. Dryad Arbor was uncommon. Tolaria West was uncommon.
Plus it frees up 5-10 rare spots for cool distinct cards instead of trying to grift on vegetable cards.
I understand your reasoning and even agree.
I'm just stating their logic.
WotC doesn't want a full cycle of good lands that fetch in Standard anymore. They want to avoid too much shuffling. Lands that fetch for basics of their color untapped at no cost would be important dual lands in Standard. And yeah, they want people to pay for untapped duels so even if they were printed in Standard they'd stick them at rare.
I had Oko and Gilded Goose in a Limited pool. I felt dirty with all the Turn 3 ragequits.
1-9 today on ladder. I should've just grinded in September instead of bowing out because the format sucked. Now I'm in the Gold swamp 😩
They generally try to avoid making lands that are strictly better than basics. The exceptions tend to be legendary to make running too many have a downside.
Well, after drafting the set extensively over the past week, I've come to the conclusion that B/R and W/B are undraftable. You might say the same about U/R but at least it has cards to build around (Ironcrag Pyromancer, Mad Ratter, Improbable Alliance). Knights are just a bad theme in this set. The only saving grace of W/R is that they're the fastest colours with lots of options to swing combat your way. Black isn't fast at all which pairs up clumsily with white or red. I'd even rank mono green, mono blue and mono red above B/R and W/B. Mono white isn't really a thing I've seen and black has too much competition to go mono.
At the end of the day (or week rather), I'd rank Throne of Eldraine a tad lower than Dominaria, though Dominaria had its own issues. W/B and B/R were also awful draft archetypes funnily enough.
At the end of the day (or week rather), I'd rank Throne of Eldraine a tad lower than Dominaria, though Dominaria had its own issues. W/B and B/R were also awful draft archetypes funnily enough.
timed out for the first time in arena, there go 50 minutes of my life. If this is what standard is going to be I'm jumping on the hard aggro train. At least a loss only takes 10 minutes total then.
We've gotten to the point where Golos decks tech for the mirror in putting fae of wishes in the maindeck and a jace in the SB and just deck yourself with krasis and golos. This standard format is stupid and I want out of it.
We've gotten to the point where Golos decks tech for the mirror in putting fae of wishes in the maindeck and a jace in the SB and just deck yourself with krasis and golos. This standard format is stupid and I want out of it.
I hated the post-Kethis standard, in part because I disliked the Kethis deck. I actually like the Field decks but this is a terrible format. I've been winning or losing mirrors based on how many Agents are drawn or the cleverness of my mirror-breaking SB toolbox v. their toolbox.
And like you noted, the matches take forever.
Brolos Field is ubiquitous and its awful.
Yeah I swapped out Assassin's Trophy for Legion's End in my Golgari Wolf Bakery deck because I was having more trouble getting buried in tokens than with individual cards. Plus with all the ramping in this meta I do not feel good giving people lands.
42 minute match, earlier today I timed out in another match, the golos mirror is abhorrent.
true but no one deserves for the best deck by a wide margin to result in this, it's bant company mirrors all over again. Gonna be fun with untimed rounds
Hah fair enough. Golos is irritating to play against though I thankfully run enough token sweeps and questing beasts to not struggle too hard with it. Powerful deck though for sure, especially with how it counters midrange.
I have a 59 minute timeout win on my end in a mirror.
I ain't got time for this. Nobody with a job or kid or school or, hell, any other damn hobbies does.
Trail of crumbs is the most underrated card in the set.
Its finally helping me escape the Gold Swamp. My friend is in diamond atm and his matches are a joke compared to mine. Such odd leagues.
Its finally helping me escape the Gold Swamp. My friend is in diamond atm and his matches are a joke compared to mine. Such odd leagues.
This took FORTY. ONE. TURNS.
Wore down this DanceManse/Doom Foretold deck with my cat bullshit. Took a LOT of careful sacrifices of bigger creatures with the oven to make spare food, but it worked and once I had Crumbs out, it started turning against him. Dude resurrected all 3 of his Doom Foretolds three times with Dance. It was a LONG game.
Got me up to 4 wins so far in the event though.
I played the same deck I went 11-1 with in the first practice event. I went 0-2 this time because apparently nothing but land draws until I lose is acceptable followed by land draws? Land draws? Fuck you, you mull to 5 and get only the 2 lands in your opening hand for the rest of the game. Super fun. The best part of Magic. Especially when it comes to events you get one shot at.
Then I immediately ran into someone who spammed Good Game the entire game. Turned off emotes forever after that. What a piece of shit.
The two decks I've been working on feel like shit right now, going on massive, massive losing streaks. So, I don't know what to do. It seems like without spending a ton of money, all I'm doing for the next three months is doing quick dailies. No point in anything else.
Back to the paper casual Commander mines for me. Playing Arena is either completely unrewarding or too fucking expensive.
I'm not too upset about how I finished, I'm mad that 3 of my 4 rare ICRs are cards I already have a full set of and the 4th is god damn Happily Ever After.
As for your bad luck? Yeah, sucks like hell when that happens, it's why I ran the deck I did. It is, in fact, why I built the deck the way it is, having only 5 cards total that cost over 3 mana and having an insane level of card draw. I can understand not feeling like continuing after that shit happens, though.
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