Yeah, unfortunately it's hard to replicate the experience of irl magic without spending a lot of money, and the lack of the social aspect really makes it unappealing imo
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Magic: The Gathering |OT| Throne of Eldraine - Will and Rowan's Excellent Adventure
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I haven't put money in MTGO for years. Cube season keeps being generous to me.
I really have to quit doing Eldraine draft league tho. It's a money vacuum unless you open Oko or consistently 3-0. EV is horrendous.
I feel like leagues are more competitive now too. Maybe the more casual players have migrated to Arena.
I really have to quit doing Eldraine draft league tho. It's a money vacuum unless you open Oko or consistently 3-0. EV is horrendous.
I feel like leagues are more competitive now too. Maybe the more casual players have migrated to Arena.
Any recommendations for the event? I haven't had time to play much but I've got a ton of wildcards so I can make whatever.
The event is a build any deck event. You don't need to spend a single wildcard, you have access to a full playset of every card in standard.
I know this is stupid, but I cannot tell you how bummed I am WotC stopped making the player's guides.
I definitely second the latter recommendation. Threw together Fae of Wishes Jeskai Fires for the event and it was a blast. Went 8-2 despite it being the first time I ever played the deck. There's a lot of play to it but unlike a lot of the other interesting decks in the format the matches don't take long.
Here's my deck. Beats Golos and Cavalcade in Bo1 without issue as long as you don't get mana flooded.
I've never played Magic before in my life and I know nothing about it. But this knockoff Captain Marvel I saw looks neat and now I want to try.
I did use to play Yu-Gi-Oh when it first started but stopped before tunners/XYZ or any of the other stupid new mechanics were introduced. To those who have played both, are there any similarities? What do I buy if I want to be able to dip my toe in with someone else?
Real talk, I could probably do a bit more homework and figure it out but I kinda just want to order something and have it arrive tomorrow and figure it out from there. If there is something else that is better recommended for newcomers, I'm all ears.
I did use to play Yu-Gi-Oh when it first started but stopped before tunners/XYZ or any of the other stupid new mechanics were introduced. To those who have played both, are there any similarities? What do I buy if I want to be able to dip my toe in with someone else?
Core Set 2020 Planeswalker Deck - Chandra - This one seems like it has the neat cover person I wanted, but is this same deck bundled with the two pack below?
Spellslinger Starter Kit Core Set 2020 - I guess if 20 sided dice are needed I should probably get this since I don't have any of those lying around, plus it will let me mess around with someone else.
Core Set 2020 Deck Builder's Toolkit - Is this also helpful/needed?
Real talk, I could probably do a bit more homework and figure it out but I kinda just want to order something and have it arrive tomorrow and figure it out from there. If there is something else that is better recommended for newcomers, I'm all ears.
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This is a different deck than what's included in the below.
Planeswalker Decks are targeted toward beginners, so it would be a fine choice.
These decks are intended for players that need to be walked through a game. If you have someone else to play with, and you're both beginners, then this could be fine to buy, but it's primarily for teaching.
You don't need it, but it gets you a big starting collection of cards.
Welp, got knocked out at 4-2 by a Field of the Dead deck when I got mana-locked, but got a Stonecoil Serpent at least.
This type of big prize event is pretty rare. I'm trying to remember the last similar event but my memory is hazy. I believe was a buy-in with gold with huge payout of packs at the end... maybe sometime prior to the launch of M20? Don't expect them to show up often, and don't worry about your results, it's more of a test of luck than skill.
Yeah, about that field of the dead ban...
There's a pro tour as a final step to prove it's too good, but already I think it's quite likely to be banned in the next B&R announcement after tomorrow.
oh right, deck submission for the MC is in 2 days there is no window to ban anything
Yeah, the Field of the Dead decks are just cancer right now. I've been fooling around with various decks on Arena- various flavors of Jeskai fires, the Food deck, Stax- and they just all have putrid matchups against Field of the Dead because your only real weapon out of the Sideboard is Ashiok, who's expensive and can be easily answered by a single token. This format desperatly needs a Tectonic Edge, or a banning
B&R update - No changes
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articl...-7-2019-banned-and-restricted-announcement?20
No changes in any format
No changes in any format
With a perfect draw I can beat a field of the dead deck pretty easily because I'm running legion's end, questing beast, great henge, and a lot of removal.
But it requires absolutely perfect draws for me against them able to basically tutor literally everything they need out of their deck at will. It's not a favorable matchup.
The primary problem as someone pointed out is that every other deck at some point once to stop drawing lands because they need to keep their momentum going. Field decks never have dead draws like that.
But it requires absolutely perfect draws for me against them able to basically tutor literally everything they need out of their deck at will. It's not a favorable matchup.
The primary problem as someone pointed out is that every other deck at some point once to stop drawing lands because they need to keep their momentum going. Field decks never have dead draws like that.
I wish they'd experiment with solutions for times like this. Why not insert a card into a format instead of banning them? Like if they made Field of Ruin an emergency standard playable card what's the worst that could happen, especially since it was just in the previous Standard? Just print a few thousand as event entry rewards and ship them to stores to get them into circulation to keep the price down. I'm sure this is a crazy thought.
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More stuff we knew, but collected in one place. One neat tidbit is that during vision design, they have overlapping versions of the same effect, like Pacifism, to see which works better.
I kinda don't like the idea but on the other hand, it would work. I'm afraid it's a slippery slope.
No changes anywhere makes sense mostly. Standard is too new, even though I'm much higher on the idea of FotD eating a ban in the near future after seeing it this weekend. I think Modern has the shadow of a Mox Opal ban looming over it, but it hasn't quite become oppressive enough just yet. The Jeskai Ascendancy version of Paradoxical Outcome Urza might be the thing that does it, but who knows really? I don't know what's going on in Legacy or Vintage, besides the fact that whatever mono-brown deck will eventually become singleton-plus-4x-Mishra's Workshops as more potentially breakable artifacts and artifacts-matter cards get printed. I don't have a finger on the pulse of Pauper or anything, but not banning Arcum's Astrolabe (and Ephemerate?) seems like the one big miss today based on all the talk I've seen. It takes away so much of the cost for going multicolored in a format where the mana is supposed to be not great.
We'll see if Standard can adapt to FotD decks, but with aggro looking nearly dead in the format and not much that deals with lands, it seems like the outlook is poor. On the Arena Decklists podcast last week Bryan and Gerry got into this a little bit, but with the advent of Arena, people are able to solve Standard much quicker than ever before. They speculated that Wizards should maybe move up the PT's and MC's as a result of this, so that they aren't showing a "solved" format. Maybe Wizards ought to look at both doing that and also doing a B&R a week afterwards in the event that it's needed to ensure the health of Standard.
We'll see if Standard can adapt to FotD decks, but with aggro looking nearly dead in the format and not much that deals with lands, it seems like the outlook is poor. On the Arena Decklists podcast last week Bryan and Gerry got into this a little bit, but with the advent of Arena, people are able to solve Standard much quicker than ever before. They speculated that Wizards should maybe move up the PT's and MC's as a result of this, so that they aren't showing a "solved" format. Maybe Wizards ought to look at both doing that and also doing a B&R a week afterwards in the event that it's needed to ensure the health of Standard.
At a minimum Golos should get banned immediately and let the format deal with Field decks that lack the tutoring and CA engine.
I've been playing Field and/or Brolos since M20 and the format is definitely not good right now without good ways to hate this out without distorting deck construction.
I've been playing Field and/or Brolos since M20 and the format is definitely not good right now without good ways to hate this out without distorting deck construction.
Hogaak was the same thing in Modern too, just a few months ago!
Nah Simic Flash is easy. You just gotta bring in the Shitting Ceratops, my dude.
Not the hero we deserve, but we need!Nah Simic Flash is easy. You just gotta bring in the Shitting Ceratops, my dude.
They're really pushing those Commander cards nowadays, huh? lol
Hogaak was designed for Modern, not Commander, and I have Modern theorycrafting messages between myself and a friend before the set launched to prove it. I bet a lot of people have that for Hogaak. No one could have predicted Golos would be this playable in standard.
I don't have a link or anything, but I remember hearing that play design or whoever else from development said they thought it was going to be a cool Commander card but not see constructed play. Not just referring to the initial reaction from the playerbase.
They have to. The Commander player base is getting bigger and bigger.
They really should try to limit pushed Commander cards to supplemental products though. They printed Leovold in Conspiracy, which did wreck havoc in Legacy until DRS got banned. Hilariously enough, Leovold ended up getting banned in Commander.
If that's what they thought they were waaaay off base. I was immediately trying to figure out how to get him out turn 1 the very second I saw him spoiled.
I often question play/design lately.
I would rather have pushed cards that might need standard bans than to have a bunch of weak shit that isn't useful in eternal formats. This time next year Golos will still be a good EDH card while Standard players will be slobbing over whatever new netdeck they can misplay.
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Man, the fact that you can't even playtest decks to see if you even enjoy playing it with cards you don't have against the bots in Arena is fucking bunk. Especially with how punishing it is to waste rare and mythic wild cards.
Sperling's Sick of It - Throne of Eldraine Edition
Great Sick of It for this set. Agree with pretty much all his criticism.
Early days, but for me this set is looking rough on all axes. Constructed: more dumb three-mana PWs; silly, obviously-pushed mythics; inconsistent design. The limited format seems to be the worst of both worlds, where the games are long, drawn-out slogs that are still hugely dependent on bomb rares/uncommons. And I really don't like the trend of printing more and more cards that are Standard-legal without appearing in regular boosters.
Great Sick of It for this set. Agree with pretty much all his criticism.
Early days, but for me this set is looking rough on all axes. Constructed: more dumb three-mana PWs; silly, obviously-pushed mythics; inconsistent design. The limited format seems to be the worst of both worlds, where the games are long, drawn-out slogs that are still hugely dependent on bomb rares/uncommons. And I really don't like the trend of printing more and more cards that are Standard-legal without appearing in regular boosters.
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I'm happy to see more midrange focus but the simple fact they created a hugely pushed creature to destroy Planeswalkers [Questing Beast] in a set, and all 3 Planeswalkers they added can't actually be killed by it due to their insane loyalty...
That basically sums up the set.
That basically sums up the set.
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