Magic: The Gathering C/D

yeah the commons/uncommons in this format just don't seem that powerful

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love too interact with the magic online community

mtgo v3 stored the word list for the curse filter as just a plain text file in the game directory which was pretty funny

it was quite a piece of technology

lmao

does anyone still have that list

haven't played a ton of RIX but it seems p good overall. and again - u kno i have to point it out - every single BBA format of the 2 block era now either clearly or arguably better than the AAA. we'll see what happens with dominaria i guess.

theros flashbacks later this month, seems weird

theros was pretty average in limited, probably not gonna touch that one. if it's full block the renowned weaver/grim guardian shenanigans decks i used to draft were kinda fun though

every single BBA format of the 2 block era now either clearly or arguably better than the AAA

Aether Revolt hurt the Kaladesh format a fair amount, I thought

that's the closest for sure. the first couple of weeks, when there seemed so many possibilities and fun combos to explore, was the peak of the block and a brief highlight of recent limited magic in general. it was quickly ground into the earth by renegade freighters though. in the end you were either beating face with freighters or you were trying to do something cool and either not quite having the time or all the pieces; and the promise of that made the eventual disappointment worse. AER stabilized things and made the format more ordinarily but ultimately more fun to play than the bulk of the lifespan of 3xKLD, imo.

Hit a personal goal today of making top 8 in a PPTQ. I ended up 3rd out of 48 and took home $100 with Grixis Energy. My overall record was 5-2-1. Feeling pretty proud as it's the first time I've won actual cash in an event, and I'm looking forward to tuning the deck some more and running it back again next week.

nice one!

congrats Moodles

xp yeah Freighter sucked. apart from games involving it, I thought Kaladesh draft was quite fun. Aether Revolt took away some of what made the format fun, even if it had less Freighter games

jace and bloodbraid elf unbanned in modern. im ok with this

BBE is fine. I think there will be a Jace backlash some time in the next 12 months.

Funny that they got unbanned when every single take I read was "modern is good, don't risk fucking it up". I'm sure Wizards is happy to have a new chase mythic for a master's set

losing to jtms is really unfun

yeah it does the same thing as lantern control where it puts you 99% dead in a lot of games rather than 100% so you feel obligated to play it out

yeah exactly

I still remember seeing JTMS on the spoiler and thinking "that's horrendously broken" even though I'd misread the CMC as 5

whatever they did to the mtgo decklist reporting, it's uncovering some next level shit now: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/943097#paper

that's a good one

Oh hey, another set where half the cards are leaked early. So far looks like this will be a very flavorful set, almost like a core set

standard looks pretty fun now tbh. we're back to just Slow Midrange Stuff being the consensus deck which gives so much more breathing room

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did it

masters 25 seems v good to me, if anyone was on the fence about trying it

*claps*

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/ways-play/join-brawl-2018-03-22

60 card standard-legal commander on mtgo

The short version is this: You build a 60-card Standard-legal deck around a legendary creature or planeswalker. You can only have one copy of any given card in your deck other than basic lands. Your legendary creature or planeswalker starts in the command zone and works the same way that you might be used to from Commander: you can cast it for its mana cost, and then again for an additional two mana each time. Each player starts with 30 life.

that sounds more fun than commander to me but i bet commander players will see it as infringing on their format and throw a fit

also lets them have a commander-like format on Arena which i'm sure was a big consideration here

xp that's exactly what i thought. there's a p good chance i will at least give it a try. curious how the meta might develop for it, the singleton format with a smaller card pool might make it more susceptible to having 1 or 2 dominant decks than regular standard is.

generally in these singleton formats you get a lot of just ramp + haymaker decks and control decks but theres not as good redundancy for those archetypes in standard so will be interesting to see what people come up with

I feel like I've been at a crossroads with this lately. I've been playing since Alliances (when I was in 5th grade) and for the next decade Magic was a huge part of my life. Back in the day that *was* my social group and even now I'm still in touch with a lot of those people. Even after college, I still played, though only casually. But it's probably been about 3 years since I played an actual, physical game of Magic. MTGO used to fill the void but this last year I've been playing online poker, since I've been actually making money at that. I don't really know anything after Kaladesh.

The thing is, I've still got loads and loads of cards. I spent a lot of my paper route money buying cards, including a large collection which had several P9 cards and 40 dual lands. Over the years I drafted a ton but never actually sold anything, since MTG prices always trended upwards. I have a few sealed boxes and probably about 200 various unopened boosters. Yesterday I was crawling through MTGGoldfish and realized that my collection is probably worth way more than I thought. There are a ton of cards that I never gave a second thought to that are now worth $15-25. Celestial Colonnade is up to $70, christ. I don't really have much of a plan here. One day one of my kids may get into the game, but that seems like a silly reason to hold onto so much old stuff. Everything is so scattered and disorganized, it would probably take an entire day to make a box full of "money cards", and even then, I don't know what I'd do with them. It kind of seems wrong to sell out, but at the same time I feel like it would be stupid not to. Anyone else ever feel that way?

i've been gradually selling off my collection lately and it feels nice, no real regrets. i'm holding onto a couple longboxes of common/uncommon constructed staples, and a bunch of useless cards from the late 90s sets for nostalgia's sake, but everything else is gonna go

just noticed they sent me a MTG Arena beta invite in January and i missed it until now lol

imo you have not missed much

I wouldn't mind selling off most of it. I want to keep the duals and the power cards but I have a bulk of assorted stuff from the last 15 years that I really would need someone to comb through. By the way, real disappointed to find out that Aven Mindcensor was a $10 card at one point. I collected those because it was such a great card for 5-color. Probably have like, 20 of 'em. Kind of worthless now, though.

actually enjoying the puzzle of figuring out what the best constructed deck i can make is with the 10 precons + 12 boosters they start you with

i haven't seen the precons yet, they're new. i wish they'd had them from the start.

unfortunately i think ixalan has got to be the most boring block for a block constructed format in recent memory. i think they might have added amonkhet block into the mix now tho?

yeah amonkhet is on there so now it's 2/3 of standard which is a bit more interesting

i got a wild mythic so i think the boring answer is just to turn it into a scarab god and play UB control

I watched some arena streaming today, and I'm honestly excited to try it out, despite what looks like some horrific lag issues. Seems like it has a decent balance between F2P and pay options, not unlike Hearthstone. With Hearthstone it seemed fairly easy to build a solid deck with a mix of grinding and small investment of cash. It never felt as unobtainable as mtgo. Too bad it was also terribly repetitive. I really hope theyve found a good balance between the quality of play you expect from magic, but with a more affordable cost structure than mtgo. I've been feeling increasingly frustrated that I don't have a decent way to practice outside of paper events.

from what i've seen it's going to take a substantial time investment to grind out the cards for a competitive standard deck on there, though the same is true of hearthstone.

I'm cool with it. I'm down with playing magic all day if it doesn't make me go broke.

I've also been gradually selling off my collection over the past few years once I decided to give up on Modern - makes traveling to GPs largely free. $70 for Colonnade, huh? Time to unload those

Kind of sad watching kripp try arena. Dude's in way over his head and his fans are very confused.

Just found out that my LGS is shutting down. They've been around less than 2 years, but to me, they were the best shop in town. They have a really nice store that is specifically set up to be very comfortable and welcoming for game tournaments. Ever since the most recent standard bans, they've been packing people in for tons of events spanning the entire week, but I guess it just wasn't enough. It sounds like maybe they will try to relocate, but it will be very difficult to find a new store that comes close to what they built. Very bummed.

got my arena key this morning and have been playing all day. It's lots of fun! I understand the complaints about the economy, if they don't make any tweaks to it, it will take a very, very long time to build a top tier deck. After playing for hours, I've opened one rare wild card and zero mythic ones. My starter packs were pretty much entirely bad. On the flip side, I haven't played against any decks that are anywhere near the power level of tier 1 standard. After completing my missions, I've just focused on the UB deck, steadily making improvements to it with more Chupacabras and Supreme Wills, plus a Search and a Contempt. All the starter decks are decent and are pretty easy to improve by quite a lot.

I think if you are looking for an experience that mirrors Standard, or if you want a quick way to get all the most powerful cards, you will be disappointed. However, I don't think that's what they are going for. I've been playing game after game and they have mostly been interesting and interactive. The gameplay is pretty smooth, although I have had some glitches and crashes here and there. The only serious issue I had so far is that there doesn't seem to be a way to order triggers. This only came up for me once when I had multiple attack triggers that needed to stack a particular way. I can see this getting annoying when I have more complex cards like Scarab God, where I'll want to stack upkeep triggers.

I've seen a lot of complaints about the auto tap, but it's been fine for me. It's a nice feature, you just need to be aware of situations where you need your mana to tap a certain way before slamming spells.

they just wiped everyones accounts like 2 days ago and you cant buy cards with money yet so no one has cards yet. once it's properly released you'll see real standard decks on there pretty quickly, especially assuming they have a ranked ladder system

until then though im just playing riddleform.dek because why not

I’m also currently on riddleform - you can have some pretty explosive turns with insult and enigma drake.

I just want Arena to be good enough and available on iPad.