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Good night, sweet princess
>News & Reminders
Ajani, Nacatl Pariah; Crop Rotation; Eldrazi Temple; and Scholar of the Lost Trove are banned in Historic
Agent of Treachery, Endurance, Force of Negation, Force of Vigor, Harbinger of the Seas, Magus of the Moon, and Wilderness Reclamation are unbanned in Historic
Necropotence is restricted in Timeless
Charged Conjuration; Dazzling Flameweaver; Ethrimik, Imagined Fiend; Kona, Rescue Beastie; Marshland Hordemaster; Network Marauder; Polterheist; Prototype X-8; Sanguine Soothsayer; Sliver Weftwinder; Tempest Trapper; Val, Marooned Surveyor; and Valiant Emberkin are rebalanced
Alchemy: Lorwyn Eclipsed is out
Arena Direct Lorwyn Eclipsed February 13-15; win up to two Lorwyn Eclipsed Play boxes
Arena Championship 11 February 21-22
Sideboards in bo1 now once again allow the full 15 cards
Six new Brawl decks now available in the store
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted- february-9-2026
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-february-9-2 026
>Useful Links
https://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA
>TQ
Thoughts on the B&R?
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I'm returning to arena after years away, do I still have to spend all my gold on drafts to actually collect cards at a reasonable rate
I fucking hate limited, nothing about it is fun at all and that's part of why I stopped playing when I did. spending gold on packs was a total waste and you were pretty much forced to funnel gold to the strong draft players if you ever wanted to collect cards
I had enough wcs saved up to immediately build a standard viable deck and I've been having tons of fun playing it for my 4 wins/day and I can build budget meme decks if I want to play more in a day but get bored with my main deck
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>>97563426
The Arena experience between a draftlet and a limitedchad is night and day, the only other way to get as much of a collection is to spend dozens of hours a week slowly grinding out constructed events. Especially now we have half a dozen standard legal sets every year lol
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>>97563633
ok cool so I should probably drop it again or be happy playing 1 deck/year since I'm required to either play a mode I hate that funnels all my resources to other people or pay wizards thousands of dollars for the privilege of having 2+ decks
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>>97563426
just dump all your money in to packs
packs are a little over 1.5 rare WC every 10k gold (plus 10 random rares).
draft, counting only your 3/3s is 1 rare WC every 10k gold (plus 9 random rares from first picks, counting 3 drafts each refunding 2/3 of the entry fee)
your better drafts are of course a free 0.5-1 rare wildcard and some more draft money, and your worse drafts are less than half of a rare WC for 10k gold (plus 3 random rares from the first picks))
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>>97564070
>draft, counting only your 3/3s
is this assuming premier draft
I would probably not get close to averaging even 3/3. I don't want to do homework to play a mode I don't find fun. I'm assuming anyone drafting likes it, is good at it and is using some sort of draft helper since the bad players would do quick draft if they draft at all
I would unironically rather just pay 100 bucks and buy packs when a set that looks fun comes out than do enough homework to succeed in limited
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>>97564176
yes premier draft
the thesis of my post is packs are better value on rare wildcards for the average player. draft is only worth when you maintain a consistent notably positive winrate, which you will do until you reach the elo you deserve to be in then you will be 50/50
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>>97564176
getting your "moneys worth" on an entry fee to a draft is a lie unless youre going 5+ wins because you dont get WC progress or golden pack progress on the 3 packs you "open" during the draft
if youre trying to make actual functioning decks youre always better off buying packs, drafting is only better for pointless set completionism shit
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^all bots
>xyr couldn't help it and remade this despite the fact no one wants a /mtga/
sad
btw i have acquired over 70 packs playing the historic constructed event in the last 4 days
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Is there an up-to-date resource on which cards are the most "value" to craft? I'm sitting on a pile of wildcards because I'm a Limitedbabby but I wanna try my hand at brewing some constructed/brawl decks just to get a few extra seasonal rewards, so I wanna focus my initial crafting on cards that are more likely to work in a lot of decks and that aren't "build around" cards - stuff like Cavern of Souls or that green Badger who seems to be in every deck I've played against so far
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cube is back, /draft/ chads how we doing?
6-2 with this reanimator pile at the moment
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People who run green ramp commander decks, how much ramp do you actually have in your deck? 2 or 4 mana? And the creatures that generate mana, for 1 to 3 cost, are they actually good?
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>>97565397
lands in the colors you play is pretty much always the top of the list. shocks, verges, OTJ fastlands, multiverse portal, starting town, maybe the avatar named lands and the LCI/WOE manlands. idk if thats too obvious but those are 100% the most widely applicable
the elemental incarnations from ECL are also pretty widespread. cub and ouroboroid are the core of tons of green ramp decks although I think those are horribly boring and were designed to let retards steal games
if you like playing non-dimir black based midrange unholy annex // ritual chamber goes in most of them
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>>97566672
Try out brawl standard is kind of bad but historic brawl is great. Id recommend a 3 color commander so you can craft the talisman mana rocks and play fetches, shocks, surveil lands. Find a commander you think is interesting and you can build around it brawl is pretty forgiving with power level brackets n shieeet.
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>>97566414
You should be nicer.
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This is very stupid.
So, I order my triggers in a way that is good for me. So far so good.
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>>97567270
FA then triggers in an order DIFFERENT from what i just did.
No problem then, I'll arrange the triggers on the FA window then...
Except you can only tell one trigger from all the others so you can only really determine that one position for sure
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>>97567282
and here is the order it defaulted to
feel free to try and assemble the puzzle to why it went that way
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Urza come fight me tomorrow
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-february-16- 2026
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>>97567898
>fighting someone i don't know the name
mfw
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>>97566709
I'm mostly interested because of the seasonal reward thingies, even just getting to Gold would get me an extra run's worth of currency, plus sometimes I wanna fuck around with some of the cards I've drafted and use them in an actually functional environment and deck. Brawl needs a few more cards since you wanna use 100 singletons and that's a lot more crafting
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sup bros, I am reinstalling arena because i got bored from other games.
I know what i am getting back to, its ok.
What is fastest deck and in what format right now to finish my dailies asap?
Dont care about wildcards, i have like hundreds of them (i was draft chad)
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>>97569227
>What is fastest deck and in what format right now to finish my dailies asap?
The mono red prowess pioneer deck is like a turn 3 or 4 deck. I did my daily challenge in like 15 minutes today.
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>>97569439
This good? it has sideboard but i am not planning to play bo3 cuckstracted at all
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>>97569508
Yea it's fast, even the matches you lose are done quick. It steamrolls the izzet prowess deck most of the time for me. I don't run Roku but I might try it out and I use Ancestral Anger for some card draw. I have 3 Ramunap Ruins and only 1 Rockface Village, Ruins has won me multiple matches and I don't like getting hung up on the red mana can only be spent on creatures with Rockface.
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So I must be tweaking or this game is allowing active manipulation of the hand. twice tonight I have been playing very different decks in brawl, a hashaton cycling deck, and dinosaur topdeck gishath.
My hashaton games starts with rise of the dark realm in hand, with me intending to cycle it in the early game because I'll doubt I'll make it to the mana, or graveyard, needed for it against a 5 color slop deck. Without mulligans or tutors, my opponent plays Ashiok dream render AFTER staring at my graveyard for the better part of 30 seconds. This isn't too suspicious because its 5 color slop and hashaton usually has some reanimation tools, but its odd how early and aggressive the graveyard hate was, not that it mattered since my gameplan was on cycling in tokens.
What really registered red flags was when I played gishath, and played saheeli's lattice, pitching ghalta stampede tyrant for draw, only for this player, playing Elenda, saint of dusk, to also spend 30 seconds staring at the ghalta in my graveyard before finally playing bojuka bog just after beginning to rope, again, no tutoring or mulligans beforehand, just taking too long to play the card that perfectly answers their worry.
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>>97565508
Nobody here is playing the best format on the 'rena?
4-0 with this badboy, casted emrakul in 3/4 games so far feels good
Hate to admit that i had a shameful 0-3 inbetween it just didnt come together
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What cheap and relatively future-proof best of one deck would you recommend to a new free to play account? I'd like to get back to Magic Arena, but my old account is ancient, so it's probably best to just start over 'cause I'm poor.
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>>97571047
Meh got destroyed in the next 2 games and then had a bad draw
Meanwhile im citadelling with this new one
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>orzhov aristocrats sacs his entire board to ping me on his turn
>only has two cards in hand and obviously one of them is raise the past or he wouldn’t be nuking his board
>duress him and get rid of it
>would have still had a board if he just did it at instant speed on my end step instead of sorcery speed during his main
Why do people build decks they don’t bother learning how to play?
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>>97572334
you can try watching streamer like lsv to see what works and what doesnt, i'm not 1/10 as practiced as he is and still having fun
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aand 7-1'ed that sucker
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just started playing again and i want to craft dimir midrange but its annoying that i could have basically been playing that exact deck for the past year and a half and my wc's will just be getting way less mileage
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So I got triple Triple Triad in my pool.
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>land jumbo cactaur with trample+haste
>won’t even wait a second to let it connect for the memes
What a fag
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>>97572933
God this format is so fucking good
>slow hand, cant really mulligan because it has all colors and interaction
>oppo has mana dork into eldamri who scams etali into play
>etali reveals a manadork from him and my mana vault
>remand it into my own hand
>my turn, toxic deluge for 7
>tapped out he plays world wagon
>0 mana daze, have to pick up my island
>he still has endless plays
>but i have mana vault, vivi and a thousand card draw methods
>draw world spine wurm, triplicate titan and some other stuff
>sneak attack
>its morbin time
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>>97576643
Squeezed out a 7-2 as well, best experience so far, tons of close calls,played against an icetill explorer wasteland combo and won after he destroyed 3 or 4 of my lands
Lost to two controll-ish decks pretty hard, felt bad, probably made a million mistakes but oh well deck too stronk
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you are so mad
additional info: from 5 days to now i went from 175 gemmies to over the amount to buy the battle pass (didn't want it at first, shit's so ugly but ig can use some more packs)
over 100 packs gotten in these days btw
all constructed historic baby
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Why do you act like this?
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>>97577569
and there is your answer
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>>97562506
is that a protoss suit of armor?
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>>97582661
dont let gran gran discard 2+ lessons early
counter/remove the monument/talent
graveyard hate to reset their progress, sac’ing soul guide lantern in response to accumulate wisdom or combustion technique makes them garbage
once the deck assembles talent+monument+1 discount (talent lvl2 or 3 lessons in gy gran gran) its pretty much over, they can just drown you in infinite card selection
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No idea why i reinstalled Arena, but this is literally Peak of MTG, kitchen magic at its best.
Midweek event is also not horrible
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>>97583833
Makes perfect sense
I actually managed to kill the enchantment once but he immediately replaced it, and by the time I drew more artifact/enchantment hate (Reclamation Sage) he already had two artifacts in play and a full hand.
Needless to say, he countered it before it even triggered.
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>>97584760
Horrifically OP for that +1 alone. Would need to be like 5 mana minimum, probably 6.
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Magic is such a silly game
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Any of you bros wanna play some friendly with homebrew decks?
we can use weird inhouse rules to make sure we gonna be using homebrews like:
Only particular sets allowed
Only particular rarity
Brawl but commander and cards must be from same set
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>>97584760
you suck lol
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>>97586501
yeah i don't care i'm the the guy getting the gemmies, packs and play-in points and you are "le skeptic" getting precisely dick
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Ran some numbers, talked with some people at the LGS. This was more balanced, however it is debatable if it should be 5 mana.
I like the design space, and the most common complaint is that it is WAY better than treasures. Goes well with Lotus Cobra. Paid for itself as a ritual. Thought behind the card was a "land ritual".
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4u lil buddy
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Meant to post days ago but got banned for being too based.
You guys should kiss.
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Wurms. Wurms everywhere.
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Thats rough buddy.
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>>97589729
No worries senpai, i was infinite draft player.
Took long break from mtg, decided to reinstall it because theres nothing good to play right now. Also kinda want to play few tnmt drafts because i was fan of the movies (3rd part was my favorite lol).
Just want to check if getting random rewards in obscure format is fun.
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>>97590378
Back when arena first came out, almost every single game I played was against decks with 200 cards. I don’t know if it was a matchmaking thing or if they eventually started adding features to guide retarded newbies towards 60, but it was rough because I was running mill decks
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>>97591325
Some people are trying to grind and feel good about themselves with a mobile game other people just want to watch the world burn.
I guess my opening was too strong and they decided their asshole was just for shitting. Oops.
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A brutal stifle probably worse than a fetch.
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I am a dumbass and took Soul Immolation here and tried to force Jund... I got 2 wins and didnt get to cast it once... i should have just taken assert perfection...
Also my print screen button is broken...
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>>97563426
man you guys really have to learn limited.
it's the best part of the game, it's the most skill-testing part of the game, 99% of cards are made for it, and Arena's main purpose is to provide you a way to get into it for free.
you will never be good at MTG if you're a bad limited player.
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>>97593641
then give me a way to draft that doesn't require ~10 days of playing to run a single draft
you can get into normal play very early on with a budget deck and once you get a "real" deck you can play it as much as you want to practice for no extra money
if this was paper and you had a buddy with a cube that would host draft nights where you just showed up and drafted sure I'd be down. but I'm not paying real money or grinding like a slave just to get my ass kicked and walk away with 1 pack worth 10% of the buy in
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and like the other guy pointed out, the rewards aren't remotely worth it unless you maintain >50% wr.
10k gold is 10 packs+golden pack which is 1-2 wildcards, maybe 9+4 random rares and 1+2 random mythics.
vs a 1-3 or 2-3 draft which gets you a bunch of draft chaff commons, and like 2-3 packs (if you spend the reward gems on a pack) which is 2-3 random rares, half a wildcard, and 1/10 a golden pack
the "fun" of drafting is not worth taking an 80% reduction in rewards. every pro limited post for arena is a psyop to get weak players to sign up to drop average skill so entrenched drafters have an easier time hitting their win targets
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>>97593952
>10k gold is 10 packs+golden pack which is 1-2 wildcards, maybe 9+4 random rares and 1+2 random mythics.
vs a 1-3 or 2-3 draft which gets you a bunch of draft chaff commons, and like 2-3 packs (if you spend the reward gems on a pack) which is 2-3 random rares, half a wildcard, and 1/10 a golden pack
>ignoring rares you get from draft
not cool
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>>97593977
The math i used to justify drafting is from ancient times (literally game launch) no idea what wotc changed/added to it (thats on you because i was positive at draft until kamigawa when i left mtg for personal reasons) feel free to point out what changed
>client launch
>there is no player draft
>only quick draft
>price of draft is 5k gold (5 packs)
>packs are standard 15 cards, one of which is rare+
>if i raredraft i will get 3 rares which means i need to cover 2 packs worth of difference
>usually bots were pretty generous and passed rares
>often my draft was "collection profitable" even before it started
>if all i got was those 3 guaranteed rares i would need 2 wins to break even
>easy enough
>i started playing quickdrafts
>turns out majority of Arena players are hamsters and can easily be farmed, because they pick shit like auras and worthless creatures
>player draft launches
>lets see how different it is
>i need only 3 wins to break even (literally 50% winrate)
>decks are slightly stronger (because i dont raredraft and instead pick stronger cards)
>majority of players are still hamsters
In addition its hard to get bored from draft because your deck constantly changes. and you dont play same shit 24/7 climbing fools ladder
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>Changeling draft event
>opponent gets a Maralen down on turn 3
>manage to kill it with some difficulty only after it has milled half my deck
>plays another one on turn 6
I'm not even upset
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draftbabs trying to justify their poor choices in life (tranning out) and pretend they aren't massive pigs who have and will continue to play whatever trash wotc puts out
whenever you think life is harsh to you just remember at least you aren't >97590516 and enjoy tmnt you clowns
now back to going infinite in historic
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>>97594530
We arent even in the same universe pal. Show your >100 wins or you dont get my friend code.
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I wish i could play fun whacky cards in brawl but they force me to bully aggro instead. Why do they make me do this?
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>>97594045
>(thats on you because i was positive at draft
that's the entire point you retard
someone new at draft is directly giving their resources to people that have been doing it for 20 years with no alterative way to get better. I swear draftards literally never read, or just choose to ignore because they're all psyops anyway, this part of the complaints
explain to me why I should have the privilege of giving you money to play magic with shitty commons that are useless afterwards. in paper I could instead spend those resources on singles to make a real deck and in arena I could spend those resources on packs to get wildcards to make a real deck
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just ignore the trans screeching and go infinite in the constructed events
it's as simple as that
last year i was infinite in alchemy the year before i was infinite in historic and this year i am infinite in historic again
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Wtf is this shit a flame tongue tarmogoyf?I just found this card and straight into The Deck it goes.
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>>97595170
Based, i reinstalled arena recently, but this kitchen magic is super fun. What is strongest deck in your opinion? Imo its rakdos and selesnya is weakest
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>explain to me why I should have the privilege of giving you money to play magic with shitty commons that are useless afterwards. in paper I could instead spend those resources on singles to make a real deck and in arena I could spend those resources on packs to get wildcards to make a real deck
You shouldnt, you should do what is fun for you, my friend. I just went through all formats, all metas and for me draft is most fun format in MTG.
>someone new at draft is directly giving their resources to people that have been doing it for 20 years with no alterative way to get better. I swear draftards literally never read, or just choose to ignore because they're all psyops anyway, this part of the complaints
Before facefucking someone with your skill, you must be facefucked first, thats how every competetive thing works.
No idea why you have to be so rude to someone who just wanted to share his experience with you.
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>>97595462
Selesnya is pretty good actually you can get under most peoples decks if they get unlucky with taplands.
Rakdos is very good probably the best. Izzet seems pretty bad. Dimir is the worst by far i think. Your ability to win is tied to how many gleaming barriers you draw, they are the worst card in any starter deck. You can also get super bad mills and get run over because of lands. Rise of the dark realms can also mill you out and kill you all for 9 mana.
>>97595412
Just like i thought this lil nigga pyrogoyf wins games. Searched him up with a tutor against my opponents gay planeswalker control. If it was an artifact or enchantment too it would be the perfect card.
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>>97595462
>Before facefucking someone with your skill, you must be facefucked first, thats how every competetive thing works.
yup that's why we put little league players against pro teams. those stupid little shits need to get flattened to learn their place
>I'm just sharing my thoughts bro
>I'm just starting a conversation bro
fuck off >>97593641
>if you aren't paying me so you can play dogshit commons you aren't really playing the game
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cube chads ww@?
started this draft with first pick tolarian academy, shortly panicked because i got no artifacts, and thought someone else was drafting artifacts, but with the second and third pack everything came together
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Based tranny obsesser
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yea pyro is a 4-of in mono red prison decks in timeless
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>>97595812
cant say i agree, yes, there are combo decks like brain freeze breach led, but you have also control, aggro etc
>>97595790
went 3-3 meh, felt this deck was capable of more
currently 1-0 with this one
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>>97596276
Its so good.
You guys have no idea how hard it is to bully these mono decks in brawl but ive done ive ascended. I can beat them most of the time now and literally everything else. I feel like a god.
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Its soooo goooood i almost want to play more goyfs. I get necrogoyf that ones good but the rest are kind of ass? In temur colors of course. Maybe ill just settle for copying the pyrogoyf and totally blowing up my opponent. Coiling rebirth is like 18 damage lmao.
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Bros make your own decks im begging you…
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Its worth it im dropping nadus for free
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I swear every time I ever play against this card in brawl im at risk of busting a gut from how hard I laugh. theft decks have always had a weird habit of top decking the most perfect card for the situation but stymied from being attached to a big butt or still needing to spend the cmc to cast it, but this cunt makes it hysterical. No matter how aggressively you control the board, the moment this bitch comes down and top decks your best one drops every single game. If I'm in white, i have to instantly concede or she'll top deck swords or exile if i got a problematic creature, or esper sentinel, or land tax, or any of the value engines if i havent gotten up to speed yet.
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Hey, I haven't left starter duel yet and run into someone who started to hover randomly over cards on field the moment I was about to win, so that my game broke.
Coincidence? How do you deal with this except by not being poor?
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>>97599352
it totally wiffed
4/5 times i got only lands from him
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Fuck you codie
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>>97600277
I forgot the pic oops.
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Goyfd right in the fuckn ass
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Holy shit i beat a ketramose with a graveyard deck i thought this was an auto loss.
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>>97601142
>tfw opponent insta scoops to a turn 1 chalice of the void on 0 into a blood moon or magus of the moon
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>missing the point
hey lemme just pull some of your best cards out of your library and pretend it was on the top of your deck
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>>97595719
Even thou i had literally ZERO interest in Lorwyn, i launched a draft just to proof my point (check gems count)
Bronze -> Platinum is full of players like you who dont know what they are doing and just play horrible cards. You are not going to get matched with pros (those are in mythic).
So feel free to cry that "limited has high entry price" instead of getting better
Those 2 losses are all my fault btw, set is REALLY hard for drafting and playing.
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My favorite type of game is when your opponent BMs constantly with emotes early on and you watch it peter out into silence as you stabilize and he starts eating shit. On a side note I realized limited players are much nicer than constructed, at least half of my limited games start with Hello! and almost none of my constructed games do
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>>97603018
I feel like Lorwyn is the easiest set to draft because the plan is generally something like open good elf card -> pick every elf and hope it's open.
constructed shitters should really be using their bronze -> gold drafts to learn how to play Magic though you're right.
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Is it weird that the black women with european hair stand out the most?
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>>97603341
Elves are incredibly easy to draft because virtually ever common elf is playable at worst (4/2 reach guy) and great at best (eulogist). I feel like it's plausible for 3/8 players in a pod to walk away with decent elf piles.
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>>97603018
>You are not going to get matched with pros (those are in mythic)
lol lmao. drafters openly talk about how they all have dozens of accounts so they never have to play in plat or higher specifically so they can maintain an infinite winrate. ok cool the people that can compete at the pro level are on their main account but 90% of draft mains know they can't compete and just spin up new accounts to always play in bronze or silver for easy wins
>So feel free to cry that "limited has high entry price" instead of getting better
>just keep paying to get rolled because after sinking 100000 gold you might start winning real prizes!
thanks for proving my point draftard
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>>97603556
>after sinking 100000 gold you might start winning real prizes!
So is your plan to just never get good at Magic, since you are going to lose gold in the process of learning?
Do casuals aspire to nothing beyond the instant gratification of openings packs to get wildcards for their Brawl decks or whatever?
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>>97603556
>drafters openly talk about how they all have dozens of accounts so they never have to play in plat or higher specifically so they can maintain an infinite winrate
I've literally never seen an anon say this. I think there was one who had alts to farm quests to be able to play more draft, but that was because he didn't want to buy gems.
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>winning easily
>draw a land
>draw another land
>draw another land
>draw ANOTHER land
>another
>another
God fucking dammit watching a huge lead slip away into a miserable defeat because the shuffler's rigged as shit fucking sucks.
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>>97603576
as 4chan's top drafter I have multiple accounts. mainly so that every draft run generates gold from quests/wins.
people overestimate how much rank matters, it's more an indication of how many games you play. I've been top 10 before and was farming the same shitty mythic streamers all day. meanwhile whenever I run into a former world champ calibre player we're usually both in like gold rank. there is a hidden mmr system that at least somewhat works.
the low ranks do have actual shitters but if you are a winning player you fly through in a couple of drafts.
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He doppelgangered my Tifa and his lands
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>come back after like 4 years
>all my old decks dont work in standard fine
>all the free decks are instant losses into all the decks im playing against
lol these free decks have literally zero chance jesus christ , how do they get new people eased into this game at all. I have a bunch of wildcards from when i last played so Im just trying to figure out what to craft but my god
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>>97601292
Damn nice, I have yet to draft a deck that has a substantial amount of green (splashing minsc doesnt count)
I also have sworn to never go for boros, then i opened black lotus into ragavan and it went downhill from there lol and i ended up 6-3 with it
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>>97603310
>On a side note I realized limited players are much nicer than constructed
Yeah maybe, not that much roping compared to constructed, but there are some fuckers who start emote spamming after playing their bomb too
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>>97604559
being trans and attracted to men isnt being straight bro
im sorry for you
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>>97594651
>Show your >100 wins or you dont get my friend code.
done, post code, i will fucking delete you from irl
>>97603341
I had goblins deck and Lorwyn draft is miles harder than something straight forward like Zendikar or Midnight hunt. Because i constantly had to put -1/-1 counters on my creatures, manage them and properly use removal because this shit is hard to find in lorwyn draft. Not gonna play it again because quiet frankly i find lorwyn art ugly (i understand that most of that art actually tooks a lot of skill thou)
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>>97604969
Youre gonna get it now bucko but i cant play for another six hours or so.
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>>97603576
>I've never seen anyone say this!
>my sample is the tiny insignificant sliver of people that post on 4chan, why would that matter?
>>97603573
>So is your plan to just never get good at Magic
I plan to practice by playing games in a way that doesn't require me to shell out real money every single time I want to hit the play button
>draft is the only real form of magic!!
nobody cares about limited except card sharks and wannabe card sharks. ask anyone the first thing they think about magic and old timers will talk about modern and nu-players will talk about cuckmander
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>>97605290
I already have my teenage ninja turtle mutant, thank you very much
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>>97605468
>guy who posts about his ideal bf on reddit telling people to be straight
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URZA NAME + NUMBER
URZA NAME + NUMBER
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>>97605499
Commander plate is fucking stupid and they should stop. Its insultingly stupid why would a turtle cover itself with pizza ever it provides nothing. If anything he is all greasy and cant fight as well that shits dripping everywhere and the pizza cutter sword is stupid as fuck too i hate this game now.
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>>97607630
its all ai bro there's nobody willing to work for pennies making art they have no rights to
I guarantee you 99% of UB "art" is ai because UB is just a way for hasbro to mine more value out of magic. the only concern is maximizing revenue (commander hogs) while minimizing expenses (such as artist labor)
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>>97608920
The only card from the set I'll play is the Casey Jones draw 3 card. There's probably other powerful stuff I'm just glossing over but I just don't care. The art for Jones is fucking terrible too, at least there's some alternate arts, the Jap one is alright.
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>>97601292
Managed to draft my first greenish deck, and while the deck is not good, it at least has this aids combo going for it
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Just lost an ECL draft to a guy that locked the board with persist Eirdu, Spinerock Tyrant and Tam, and then proceeded to card four Spinerock copies of Kindle the Inner Flame on a 5 color vivid Shimmercreep for 20 while I'm playing with Grizzly Bears and Lava Axes, really nice
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I'll keep that in mind and turn my 2/2 sideways turn 3 on the draw against the format's 1/3s and 1/4s for lethal before the ultra late game turn 5 flying persist, maybe next time I'll storm off with 4 lands
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Bros what are we first picking here?
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Lmao it was so satisfying before he used abrade on my Boromir that all of his stuff from etali got countered
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>>97611793
obvious flamebraider or duelist, nothing else comes close
braider is slightly more flexible and lets elemental decks splash for shit like prismabasher
duelist is just a stronger card, but merfolk are likely going to be harder to pick up
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>>97603556
> drafters openly talk about how they all have dozens of accounts so they never have to play in plat or higher specifically so they can maintain an infinite winrate
Okay, let me check another retarded theory of yours
Another 7 wins, 2 losses were impossible to win (1 oppo on play dropped ajani and removed 2 creatures i played after he did this, and 2nd loss was mana flood)
7 wins were slightly decent opponents who kiiiiiiinda knew what they were doing, but still those were easy games
There are no pros farming lamming noobs in ranked you fucking shizo (i tried to be nice, youre just hella retarded)
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>>97613439
Want to post a deck, because it was hella fun games. in one game i managed to drop Morcant eyes on 2 and heavy milled myself while surveiling for lands. So at ~6 elfs in graveyard i sacced Eyes and played Bloodline Bidding same turn creating GIGANTIC board for me, shit was actually fun, i wouldve def drafted it more if it wasnt for horrible Lorwyn art.
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>>97614365
yet another example of the
>bro just draft I swear its the only way to play the game you aren't a magic player if you do anything but draft
shit being a psyop
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>>97614335
I am going assume its samefag because i cant believe THREE complete retards could solve the captcha.
If you cant follow responce chain let me tldr you
>be me
>played actively until cummygawa
>stopped playing for personal reasons
>decided to reinstall arena because i enjoyed lorwyn draft streams
>after i reinstalled arena i remembered that i find lorwyn art repulsive
>so played a few (100 wins lol) games in another fun format - starter deck duels
>decided to draft because shizo(You) thinks pros are farming noobs in bronze-platinum draft ranks
>draft once - 7-2 completely shit opponents two losses because i fucked myself
>shizo(You) wont shut up
>draft again - another 7-2, absolutely easy wins
>shizo(You) tries to derail shit again
>>97614938
Yeah, new set every two month is fucking retarded and leaves no room even for card discussion
Thats why the only fun MTG formats are
>pauper
>kitchen magic (starter decks)
>draft
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So far this is my most consistent deck in the current Standard environment, designed specifically to fuck over as many meta decks as possible. Early low-cost removal helps to survive until I can get core/annex down, while maindecking RIP and Torpor Orb is worth it to hose things like badgermole, reanimator, excruciator, elementals, and lessons, often resulting in immediate scoops. Considered replacing Ketramose with Slasher, but Ket is a nice payoff for all the exile I’m running anyway. Struggles a little more against weenie decks that have token generators, as well as hard control decks, but can still eke out a win since core/annex is hard to interact with if it sticks. It is a deck born of spite and a bitter resentment for the format, and I share it in the hopes that it can upset as many meta NPCs as possible.
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the draftrans has never ever seen even one of these
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waaaaaa
waaaaaaaaaaaa
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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at least i am straight
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>>97617230
You don't sound straight
https://youtu.be/kP119REBEGk
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>>97617718
tried izzet before and it didn't work out
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Got really good deck in sealed
Having tons of fun with boros guy duplicating triggers
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Hold up, nigger
>>97616992
>3790 gems
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>3760 gems
You are actually LOOSING RESOURCES.
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Is there a better feeling in this entire game?
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Anybody here on mobile? Is the app spazzing out for you? Game freezes suddenly for me since the last minipatch. First thought it was on my end, but this time i was in a draft game, so i restarted quickly (it usually puts me back in the game before timer runs out). But this time the match was gone and i did not (!) get a loss. So its probably wotc fucking up their vibe/jeet code again right? Anyway oppo just put in a worldspine worm t3 so its fine for me hehehehe (if it happens if im to about to win it will be the worst thing of all time of course)
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>4-3
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This is mildly undesirable
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>>97622428
>freemium games have perfectly fair matchmaking
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>>97623424
>matchmaking just pulls them out of thin air
>searching for opponent
>searching for opponent
>searching for opponent
because we all know every single time you hit play you instantly get a game, and we also know that freemium games are perfectly honest and never ever manipulate the matchmaking
its really pathetic watching you faggots try to psyop people into playing your little minigame
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>>97623603
good bless
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>>97617051
Get one of this before you talk, dumb nigger
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>>97624265
rotation isnt for another full year so anything you craft now will last a while
the lessons package doesnt rotate for two years but the deck wont work without artists talent that rotates in 2027
i dont play any of the green decks so im not totally familiar with the deck lists but it seems like a lot of their important cards were from 2026 sets or foundations so they could go mostly unchanged until 28 rotation
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>>97624265
Let me tell you something about wotc, they don't treat you as human. They release busted cards (like badger and ouroboros) allow them to destroy standard for couple sets, and then ban them.
I would advise against crafting anything until next ban announcement because those jews will attempt to force ninja turtles into the meta by banning every popular deck currently.
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>play against a "person" with a 200+ card deck
>top decks EXACT answers literally every single turn for 5+ turns straight while I draw nothing but land
>the handful of actual cards from my opening hand are gone and I lose
>game 2
>draw 0 lands, end game on 2 mana on like turn 6
>opponent with 200+ card deck hits perfect curve
uninstalled on the spot, fuck this. fucking hearthstone is more strategic and fair than this piece of shit. they don't even try to fucking hide it
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Hey, has anyone else run into weird bugs with Farewell in Arena?
I keep running into this problem where my client crashes every time my opponent casts it. On my phone, on PC, doesn't matter what device I'm using, it's like my game just suddenly shuts down and doesn't start up again for about 3 minutes.
It's just so frustrating. I really, really, really want to keep playing but the game just won't let me. :(
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>>97625254
1 core sempron 2005 servers on an rx 540 can't handle it
small indie company, pls understand
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>>97625603
yeah but don't break xyr's fantasy
it's all its got at this point
i also got the sleeve they gave for picking the winner in 2021 i think
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>>97625603
I think anon was thinking of the championship sleeves
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>>97626526
They're going to put the new tranny klingon in the set aren't they?
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wa wa wa~
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Urza have you found a gf yet?
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This game sucks cock and now the general is just two retards arguing nice work dudes. Cant even play brawl anymore its just endless ramp decks that scoop to one spell so fucking boring. See you losers in another general.