just draft 3 murderous riders :^)Played against someone with Oko again in draft and yep, still unbeatable. I managed to do 7 damage and he still lived with one loyalty.
Finally a playable red mythic
I don't know about this, I think it might be having an effect already.Commander makes the most money for WotC so having pushed Commander chase cards is more important than making sure Standard/Modern are "fair" for grinders. The people who play those formats will find the most broken by-the-numbers deck anyway so having to ban a pushed card within a year of it being released really isn't that big of a deal.
It's not 1998 anymore, a broken Standard isn't going to kill the game. Consistently printing boring Limited/Standard cards for the sake of "balance" will.
Mystery packs can only contain black-bordered reprints with the text "random" somewhere on the card.
There was confusing messaging regarding that until recently where MaRo confirmed once again that BFZ was the best selling set of all time since. Supposedly Dominaria and WAR broke the streak of fall sets being the best selling sets but don't quote me on that.I don't know about this, I think it might be having an effect already.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but is BFZ still the best selling set? Up until then from OG Zendikar on, wasn't each first set in a block the best selling set of all time? I might be off base on this, but I think I read that. If so, it could be reasoned that poor decisions and care with balance has hurt the continued growth the game saw up to that point. We went from BFZ block (which shook Modern) into Shadows block (which wasn't immediately a problem), then into Kaladesh block where balance issues hit Standard harder than they have in a long time. And things haven't felt like they're on solid ground since in my opinion. I have to wonder if the player base at large feels something similar.
Commander makes the most money for WotC so having pushed Commander chase cards is more important than making sure Standard/Modern are "fair" for grinders. The people who play those formats will find the most broken by-the-numbers deck anyway so having to ban a pushed card within a year of it being released really isn't that big of a deal.
It's not 1998 anymore, a broken Standard isn't going to kill the game. Consistently printing boring Limited/Standard cards for the sake of "balance" will.
Well actually, ;), field of the dead is kind of an issue in EDH imo. It's just too free to run and does too much. I've been slowly updating my decks to include it and mixing regular basics with snow basics and the new spell lands now to get to 7 different named fetchabl lands while also keeping a healthy amount of basic lands.I actually don't think "pushed for Commander" is the problem. Commander doesn't give a shit about 3 CMC walkers or piles of zombie tokens, so it's not like Fields or Oko were printed for it. Hogaak is a boring do-nothing Commander and was very obviously printed for Modern Dredge (you know, exactly where it got played). The only arguments I could really see would be Golos (probably actually a Commander plant) and maybe Urza.
Like I said, these aren't "oh wow guys we never thought this card would be used this way" situations. These aren't Brawl precon cards sneaking into Standard relevance or Commander plants in Modern Horizons shocking everyone by being actually, factually Modern-playable. Most of these cards aren't honestly even very good in Commander to begin with, it's really just Urza.
Well actually, ;), field of the dead is kind of an issue in EDH imo. It's just too free to run and does too much. I've been slowly updating my decks to include it and mixing regular basics with snow basics and the new spell lands now to get to 7 different named fetchabl lands while also keeping a healthy amount of basic lands.
Once it's live it's just much harder to pressure you and you get to build up a board that will eventually pressure opponents and their PWs.
the difference is I ran 1-2 tap lands so all my lands are also 2/2s. I didn't have to occupy multiple nonland slots to create a consistent stream of creatures and any resources you spend dealing with them that isn't coming from lands is virtual card advantage for me.I mean, you can run it if you want, but I've never been in a game where a zombie token (or honestly anything short of 50+ zombie tokens) actually made any real difference. I guess getting a 2/2 is optimal over not getting a 2/2, but it's not going to beat any hardcore decks you were losing to otherwise.
Like if you want a zombie engine run Undead Alchemist and Altar of Dementia or something. If you're buying up ELD cards for their EDH value you ought to be investing in Fabled Passages, those biznotches are going to shoot up once ELD has been out of print for a bit. FIeld of the Dead's probably going to be pretty cheap to amass once it's out of Standard.
This is why I don't play Arena. It's a farcical version of draft. A long time ago I experienced how drafting with bots would be with Cockatrice and it never simulated real drafting in a million years. They really should implement draft pods in the future.Limited on arena is pretty lame thanks to one fucking deck.
I see this same god damn mill deck like in half my matches and i can't beat it because the primo mill card is just too good of an early blocker and thanks to the bots every drafter has like 4 of them and always has one in the opening hand. All of my threats get removed or countered while they just sit back and mill me with a bunch of commons, then take my best card with that freakin uncommon 4 color spell.
Mill should be a nice challenge and an alternative win con. Not the best fucking limited deck.
Dual lands in mono color decks is a huge nono to me. They should update the rules on this.Heck even before eldraine I played a monored deck with both valakut and field of the dead. Since you could already run 4 differently named mountains there, which is now 5.
do you mean off colour fetches? I was speaking of Mountain, Snow-Covered Mountain, Madblind Mountain, Dwarven Mine which I just now realized are only 4 not 5.Dual lands in mono color decks is a huge nono to me. They should update the rules on this.
the difference is I ran 1-2 tap lands so all my lands are also 2/2s. I didn't have to occupy multiple nonland slots to create a consistent stream of creatures and any resources you spend dealing with them that isn't coming from lands is virtual card advantage for me.
Idk what hardcore decks are supposed to be but I'm not talking about cEDH, I'm done with that, but high powered interactive EDH.
Holy shit, in Arena, I would face 1000 Oko decks than a single Cauldron combo deck. Sitting there and waiting through the other player slowly going through his triggers is fucking torture. One game against this deck takes longer than 3 with any other.
They are calling the convention event thing a magic fest. The tournament is still called a grand prix.So I was checking the MTG events coverage page and I forgot they recently changed grand prix to magic fests (even though wizards still call them grand prix for some reason.) So wizards literally have nothing to do with organizing grand prix anymore? I miss the live coverage, previews, meta data, limited insights, deck techs etc. they produced. All that information is now gone. All channel fireball does is post a short summary and tweets on their coverage page.
We live in the digital age now and the way competitive magic has regressed over the years is disappointing to say the least.
makes them look coolHoly shit I'm trying to watch the SCG Indianapolis stream but if the players don't stop spazzing with their cards I'm out. Why is this a thing.