Historic Pauper editionPrevious: >>98278585>News & RemindersMagicCon Amsterdam July 17-19Arena Direct Marvel Super Heroes July 17-26; win up to two Marvel Super Heroes Play boxesIndividual rares and mythics will be offered in the store starting July 21https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-july-13-2026>Useful Linkshttps://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA>TQWhat are you playing in the Pauper challenge?
Is Jeskai Lessons a fun deck in this current standard? If not this deck, are any of the good meta decks fun to play?
nobody plays Bo3 pioneer...
>>98362480TQ: Something else. Pauper is shit
Mods this anon is mocking my TQ >>98362589
>>98362553sorry im too busy playing pauper
>>98362504It's competent. Even if you tire of Jeskai Revelations, you can build a semi decent Elementals deck out of it. Thor benefits from lessons card as well. Problem is that it's boring as fuck. You sit there doing nothing for most of the game. And there is hard counter for it with graveyard hate.
>livin weapon making a generic Germ token means you can use it anywhere>it making a PHYREXIAN germ token means only hype specific sets can use the previously normla mechanicWhy is WotC so retarded?
>>98362553I used to play this basically exclusively. Don't even know what the meta is for Pioneer these days.
>finally get to Mythic>first game>oppo plays Mox into Vexing Bauble>"Whoops!">tries to use Repurposing Bay >flash in Oppo Agent>following turn>tries it again, Oppo Agent still on board>following turn>tries it again, Oppo Agent still on board>concedesSure
1000% chance they make them too expensive to ever be worth buying with gems/gold.
>>98362972Just like their Summer Sale that made wildcards finally purchasable with in-game currency but made them more expensive than just buying them with actual money lol
>>98362966Opp agent is such a fucking saccy card in singleton formats. Basically loses you the game on the spot if cast early enough
NGL MTG has some cute content creators that surprisingly are tranny.
>>98362635IF i wanted to pay to play pauper i would probably play chatterstorm because its fun. But i dont so i wont.
>>98363123It's one of those cards that can instantly win you the match, 1 game out of 20The other times he's a big fat brick that does nothing, especially against Blue I used to have Aven Mindcensor in the deck as well but that's basically worse in every way, it comes out way too late to be a reliable body to fuck with Raffine's fliers for example
>>98362972>>98363120It did not say wildcards anywhere there its going to be hand picked shit ass chaff for 10% off. Lol.
>>98362972They are probably only doing this to show a difference between real cards and card skins in the shop. I'm sure a ton of new players buy the alt arts in the shop thinking they get the card to play with.
>>98363282Having random rare/mythics in the shop each day would be totally fine if the price was low enough to be worth buying, but we all know that won't be the case.
>>98363297Which is hilarious because it says right on the card its a style for a card and not an actual card.
>>98363329How much gold would you pay for a card you want?
Whoa guys look out only 263 hours before the daily deals expire.
:3
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=AmwEICOrifYThe tmnt board has the best soundtrack while i epically dunk on people.
>>98362881Bx unholy annex sheoldred midrange, azorius control and monoRed prowess
Why the fuck does ClipChamp require OneDrive to work? I wish all microslop employee a very painful parasitic infection.
>>98363868What?
this is your reminder to NAME, SHAME, and BLAME jesKIKE faggotrannies for the state of this game
>queue into guy called BLACKCONTROL>playing monoR aggro with Gut
slitting tranny throatshanging every niggergassing all kikeshow the FUCK do you solve mtg otherwise?
>>98362480this is reportable, right?
>>98362966oh is the tony stark larper playing in timeless not up to date with your faggoty commander cards? shocker
>>98362966wait is this mythic brawl???? LMAO, who gives a fuck you homo. you are not mythic and you never will be, brawltroon
Conan had it wrongwhat is best in life is obliterating shitty lifegain decks
>>98363683So basically exactly the same as it was like 18 months ago lmao
>>98367803as it should be
>>98366756I think someone said that you're supposed to alt f4 and relog when something like that happens to resolve all the triggers.
>>98367933that's fucking stupid
>>98363683>azorius controlin your dreams. where the hell is greasefang in your list
>play limited on Arena in 2019>opponents somehow always have a premade deck>play limited on Arena in 2026>opponents somehow always have a premade deckTruly one of the worst feelings compared to in-person draft.
Standard is so fucking miserable, just endless URx and badgermoles.
paypigs are fuming
>Higher entry cost than every other metagame challenge>Worse prize structure, breaks even later and pays out less for a trophy>Bo1, even with the "extra" game loss you're more likely to wash out due to variance>A high stakes competitive currency sink event for a format no one plays except maybe on random Wednesday eventsWhat did they mean by this?
>>98368370>>Higher entry cost than every other metagame challenge>>Worse prize structure, breaks even later and pays out less for a trophyWhile this is true, paying out in gemmies is significantI easily profited off a few runs by playing turbo fog since it shits on all the meta decks and used my spare gemmies to pick up a playset of rare WCs. I also got quite a few packies (will post once the event ends).
>>98368360Yeah, it is an absolute fucking joke. The whole game is the most shit free-to-play model I have personally experienced. I tend to favour Master Duel these days despite enjoying the game of Magic more just for the simple fact that you are able to 'disenchant' the cards you don't need. I always have a deck in construction in Arena and it physically hurts sometimes just buying packs over and over again to get wildcards. I am curious to see how they handle the new introduction of cards themselves to Daily Deals - I expect they will sell staples for Brawl and Standard at astronomical prices and only purchasable with gems.
>>98365444Mardoodoos be seething over Chadskais
>>98368484Speak English you nog.
I love these shenanigans>>98364872I wanted to quickly edit vid related, but apparently microslop want more training data for their shitty AI, so they prevent people to use their own computer to do stuff
Why there's no pauper as a format?
What's the best draft event cost/benefit?
>>98369869How would they sell rare wildcards 3€ each? >>98368360Think of the poor shareholders anon
I've been trying out top meta in standard and pioneer because why not and desu they are not fun to play, and the jeskai lessons mirror might be one of the most annoying mirrors I've ever played. Worse than golos fotd oko. How do people stand this?
>>98370816why are you playing jeskai lessons? y'gay?
>>98370910Well lessons is barely any wildcards, already had lands. Gran Gran, Tablet, and Badger Mole should absolutely be banned in standard. At least Vivi Steelcutter killed you immediately. Otter should be banned as well, especially since it's rotating in a few months.
>>98367960I admit I forgot greasefangI was going off memory from goldfish's pioneer meta list
>>98370816they don't, nobody actually plays standard outside of arena ladder99% of games are just whoever goes first wins because standard has the most pushed threats ever with no real interaction
>THE NEW META?? CHECK OUT MY AWESOME DECK WENT 14-0 ON RANKED MADE IT FROM BRONZE TO MYTHIC>look inside >Bo1
>>98371293>no real interactionlmao no, the problem is most "interaction" isn't defensive or used defensively. it's interaction intended to stop answers to your threats. pioneer also has this problem>>98371299>sideboardslopper playing with 4 other sideboardslopperslol
>>98371299People don't want to play twice as long just to see who opens their sideboard floodgates.
>>98371299magic as richard garfield intendedsideboards were introduced by trashfire latecomers
when did manamorphose become a thingbecause uhI am going to ruin several formats now
>>98371819Garfield also clearly intended for UB sets to be a thing from the start as seen with Arabian Nights.
>>98371306>>98371599>>98371819samefag
>>98372032It's fucking 2026. The sideboard is disliked by most tcg players nowadays. Nearly every newer tcg are designed around NOT having a sideboard and being played in bo1 in official tournaments. You are delusional as fuck to think 3 posts hating on siding must come from the same person when it's an extremely common sentiment.
>esl babbleopinion discarded
I've been playing this game for 3 years and I still have absolutely no clue how wildcards work, when opening packs or getting random rewards I assume the hordes of commons and chaff that you get from drafting are wasted past the initial 4, but what about the rest, from other sources?
>>98372578You get wildcards as a bonus from opening any packs not for a sealed pool. 6 packs get you either a rare or mythic you can see your progress on the packs screen. Opening more than 4 of a card gives you vault progress if its a common or uncommon, rare and mythic gives you 20 or 40 gems and no vault progress. You can randomly open wildcards from packs not in a sealed pool as well and they replace the rarity slot of whatever they are. So instead of a rare you might get a mythic or rare wildcard, common and uncommon wildcards replace themselves. It kind of sucks because you can get 4 copies of the same card from different sets and it just adds them to your cards and you get no vault progress or gems. Thank you for coming to my tedtalk.
>>98373506Clear as day, thanks anon
>>98372139yeah that's horrendous english right there, i bet it's the faggot who keept calling others esl or some analoguethese bots all look the same
you really shouldn't be allowed to use the internet if you're under 25, there are literally baby brained zoomers and gen aers itt, ew ew ew
>>98373575to add to thisthe vault is a joke. 1000 duplicate commons gives you a whopping 1 mythic wildcard and 2 rare wildcardsyou need 1000 points to open it, each copy of a common beyond the 4th gives 1 point and each uncommon beyond the 4th gives I think 3 points
>>98369906
Playing brawl for my dailies while on vacation (updated the mobile app last night)>>98369906Unironically pick two at the cost of a shit drafting experience>>98373636Uncs belong in the paper thread but you're spritually young so you're alright
>playing against control in any format>sad experience everytimeThere should be a supertype for every format "no blue allowed", it would fix the game.
>>98374165the real problem with control these days is threat diversity, dovin's veto and removal spells hitting every permanent under the sun. old control decks could be beaten in a a variety of ways because removal spells were either situational or slow. nowadays enchantments and artifacts get killed (or bounced) by everything. just look at the abortion os design that is jeskai revelation
I stopped playing around the time Spiderman released. Sometimes youtube recommends me some game designers that talk about Magic and I check the spoilers to try to keep up a bit. What's been the reaction to the Teferi Wakanda set? I chuckled when I saw the ad and they say how they've been talking to black history professors and this woman starts talking about how important it is for hair to be represented. I feel it has a really small target audience and apparently there's trouble making non UB sets so I'm a bit surprised their research told them to gamble a slot on it.
Nashi more like N-ACK!-shiOn a more serious note, it's kinda insane how much Tithe Taker gets mogged by Voice of VictoryIt's only ever marginally more useful against activated abilities, but I have yet to see one that you want to actively cast during oppo's turn instead of your own (outside of Limited gemmies like Wanderbrine Trapper)>>98374165I just fucking hate how versatile Blue control is, whilst also having access to excellent card draw and card filteringYou can't play shit into open Islands lest you get massively outvalued and then he gets to draw/fix his hand for freeI don't mind sweaty 40 minute games against all other types of control, but monoU is always a miserable experience because every turn you're basically gambling the other guy's gotten unlucky for once
>>98374165Control is the only honest deck archetype so long as it's 1-3 colors. Once it touches 4 and 5 it's an aberration that signals a format is in very poor health.
>>98374201Revelation is only playable because of tablet and gran gran enabling it. Control is actually pretty dogshit currently, you either play lessons and hope they aren't mainboarding hand destruction or see rest in peace after sideboard, or you go 4 color to have an answer to absolutely everything. Way too many pushed UR cards for over the last year, and badger mole being the only thing that can stand up to them makes it even worse.
>>98374511revelation was in fact played before tablet, 4c control used to play a few copies before they started doing lessons bullshit
>>98374552Because of other UR cards enabling the shell like Shiko or River Regent that have since been powercrept. Nevermind the other UR cards that have been banned like Vivi and Steelcutter. I fucking hate UR and UG, if those colors are meta you know you're never going to have fun regardless of winning or losing.
>>98374440hasn't been honest since war of the spark when they got veto>>98374563shiko is jeskai. the main culprit is blue having insanely versatile bounce spells, just like white having insanely versatile removal, that had hit any permanent, everything else surrounding that is just a symptom because you can't go over the top of them or stick a permanent they can't disrupt like starcage
>UR and UG are gay :((((((probably some Orzhov nigger with his infinite "xd ur entire board is exiled forever" niggery
>>98374571Problem is just powercreep. Design team is overworked and coked up bunch of faggots that's incentivised by the profit that each set makes. So they cram each new release with shit ton of overpowered cards for a few meta decks that are currently floating around.>green too weak?here comes badger and edge of eternities with landfall epics and mythics>lifegain too weak?hobbit>jeskike too weak?picerelated
>>98374612flashback has been replaced with thor now anyway. again, if you could stick permanents like enchantments or artifacts that an all instant deck shouldn't be able to intreact with, jeskai would be manageable. badgermole cub is a retarded snowball card, as is orouboid, but you should be able to play day of judgment decks to beat them. the reason that you can't is because of blue bounce and white removal killing enchantments and artifacts
>>98373995Dont forget to bolt the bird
>>98374612And everything is powercrept, not just creatures. Stock Up and Flow State are staples in *vintage*. And that's not because of specific combos or a particular context, they just decided to print the best generic draw spells in ~30 years.
>>98374571Veto wasn't even a 4x of the entire time it was in standard and still isn't in pioneer. The most egregious part of UW during WTS was Time Raveler and they took their sweet time banning it when it should've never been printed. Funny enough, Star Cage doesn't really do anything against the main threats and those that it may effect are bold enough to bring artifact hate mainboard to counter tablet, so it ends up being mostly a dead card.
>>98374790time raveller was primarily a defense grid for field of the dead and other ramp abortions and veto was a maindecked negate (lmao) that warped control mirrors because you couldn't force through threats with counterspell backup so you had to overload on threats which is why we went from elegant teferi as the only wincon in esper decks to the current abortions with beza/ emperor/ a billion manlands>Funny enough, Star Cage doesn't really do anything against the main threatsjust an example
So over the past week, I have been sick and unable to function most of my brain, so I thought to try out MTGA as my choice of time machine into the future. I typically love to play rock, because it is the most reminiscent play style of old. You go one for one in trades and use above average creatures to close it out. You play to the board and see how it goes, so G/B Rock in Pioneer was again my weapon of choice. And it was fine until I hit jade, and then I just couldn't win anymore. I tried pushing harder and harder against these unfair decks and I couldn't win no matter the sideboard or mainboard. Against "fair" decks like U/R prowess, I dominated, but against anyone with a combo or flow state, I fell behind. This is the deck. You might have seen it before a few months back.https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/15-07-26-rock/Then I wanted to play another type of deck not so suseptable to combos or aggro, so I gave standard's jeskai control a whirl and I just kept winning. It is not just powerful, but very hard to counter, I see. Like, first match aside, how do you counter the deck? Control harder! Nothing else works with simple sideboarding. GY hate? the instants are at normal cost for rate as is, so the deck still functions until you get to jeskai revelation. More aggro? Bro, I am boarding in wraths. More hexproof? Bro, I am boarding in wraths. Less kill spells? Okay, I get to loot for free with gran-gran for the whole game.No deck can improve it's odds against Jeskai control than controlling harder. Duress and negates, or bust but if you do that, you are playing a control mirror which is the problem. It's very wild. For as stuck as I was at jade with G/B Rock in Pioneer, as soon as I switched, I got into Mythic in an afternoon on one switch. I just cannot get over how well the deck just does everything with too much value. I don't like it.https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/15-07-26-jeskai-control-standard/
>>98374894oh yeah, and the reason I switched from pioneer to standard, is that I fucking hate the learn mechanic. It is so blatantly broken, that I want nothing to do with that format at all. If you said, "I have a one mana instant that let's me wish for a card from my sideboard that deals with this exact situation" I would call you fucking stupid and to stop cheating, but this is where modern wizards design is at. Now I could have jumped onto it, but that isn't how I want to play the game. I don't want to play 12 planeswalkers wank or 12 wishes wank. I think it's gay so I will not partake.
>>98374894Yeah, basically using the board is now for chumps, or decks that can kill you in three turns
>full control and hold priority at every opportunity >rope at every opportunity >the moment opponent presents lethal concede at light speed
>>98374679True. There's also Boomerang Basics. That card was specifically created for Izzet decks. They knew that Cutter and Vivvi were banned. "NP guys, here's one mana card that is capable of returning Stormchasers Talent, AND it draws you a card while doing that!" It'd be enough to keep Izzet a top deck, if it wasn't for even stronger powercreep everywhere else.
>>98374894>https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/15-07-26-rock/Try Sami's Curiosity, Follow the Lumarets, or Shared Roots instead of Scientist. It won't be a massive increase, but 2/2 body is completely irrelevant in today's economy.That would be a B deck in standard right now. Discard is loosing against card draw. And all the card draw engines have "look at cards" so even Sheodred won't be helping you there.
>>98373697Its shit but its better than nothing. I got a handful of vaults just from drafting foundations and final fantasy by opening packs after i was done drafting.
These dumb bastards at WoTC should just copy duel commander rules and ban list. It's 10x better than whatever the fuck this is.
the dinner
>>98375330>its better than nothingthis is the most bootlicking shill thing I've ever heardeven turbojewish hearthstone let you convert 4 cards of a given rarity you didn't want into a single copy of a card you did want of that rarity, and it was a secondary resource so it was totally fungible. got a shit legendary? dust it for 400 dust and make an epic you wanted. pulled a golden (foil) legendary? dust it for 1600 and make a legendary of your choosing. pulled a bunch of narrow epics you're never going to play? dust 4 of them for 400 each and make a legendarymeanwhile arena demands you open ONE THOUSAND commons to get 2 rares of your choice
>>98374930>is that I fucking hate the learn mechaniclearn is currently in standard and part of one of the most played decks in the format
>>98369210spending any real money on MTGA is maximum lol because there's 0 resale value and you have literally nothing to keep physically to show for itphysical MTG is jewish enough imagine spending on imaginary digital MTG
>>98375677Looks good. Needs a salad or something.
>>98375770I had cucumbers with it just ate them first
>>98375746You mean lessons? I have not seen anyone use Learn in any deck
>>98375779yea I'm getting my formats mixed up, it's in alchemy right now
>only level 20 in battle passIm not gonna make it...
>>98375758I agree with the sentiment of what you're saying: whaling in MTGA is retarded, however why does something need to have resale value to be worth money?
>>98376435In a f2p vidya that costs 60$ a year. Maybe that's fair. Paypigs drop 1000$ and more into this game. It creates attachment, they want to get something out of the game, so they keep dropping money into the game. They're psychologically raped, hooked and addicted. It's a vicious monetisation system.I'm bloody fucking rich, I could drop that kind of money into a meaningless game, and It wouldn't mean a thing to me financially. But I'm bloody fucking rich because I know what to do with my money. f2p forever.
>>98376945post bank account
>>98375677Eat some vegetables you fat fuck
>>98376945I'm not saying it needs to be, but MTGA is strictly contrasted with MTG physical format, where the decks and cards you buy will either be something you can physically keep for the future for a cool physical collection, or contain multiple cards that will appreciate in value that you can sell to fund buying new cards to play with.That's just not a thing in MTGA, so putting money into MTGA is putting it into a black hole, while putting it into MTG physical format somewhat self-funds, or allows you to sell off and switch hobbies years down the line if you choose to.It's not about needing to have resale value, it's about hobbies traditionally having the option and giving people the agency to resell their goods, and the digitization of hobbies removing that agency and people slurping that up being hilarious.
I was kind of hoping to get in casually with F2P but looking at the thread periodically the past couple weeks it sounds like it's really not worth it with how tight resources are. I ultimately think paying for your game pieces is a cucked thing and I'm glad I left paper a long time ago. But this is a horrible alternative. I feel like the power level is already kind of high with the premades as well. Not sure how bonkers it gets later on.
>>98377934I unno I'm f2p and I'm having fun
>>98375677>light beerFaggot. Is that chicken satay it looks good needs some pickles or something.
>>98374982Its fine lil bro while you seethe and shit everywhere im playing another game on my pc lmao.
>>98377474Yea that's all well and good until wizards rotates your modern/legacy deck and all your cards are worth 5% of what they were.
>>98378373everyone plays commander anyways lel
>>98377934Its easy to stay f2p if you just have some patience, they give you enough boosters and wildcards at the outset that you can build a functional deck that will get your daily wins.
>>98378395You can also not build a deck and play starter duel until you have over 1k wins like me the starter duel GOD.
Lake im staying at>>98378296Nah just chicken with spices
>>98378587Hell yeah. Looks nice are you fishing or some something?
>>98378616Went yesterday and it kinda sucked, not much fish in this lake
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/planar-cube-draftnew cube
>>98379027this nigger mad because he cant make it out of plat
>>98379027>playing A*therdrift niggerypot kettle etc
>>98379027>Jeskai>it's Yore-TillerUm....
>>98379205Its jeskai with black it won the world championship in my dreams so now i hate everyone relentlessly.
>>98379027>platinum Lmao absolute fucking state of this general
>>98363440you really are a pathetic loser faggot fuck you nigger loving kike
>>98379813Post your rank. Faggot. >>98380123Post your collections or deck faggots. Fags. Fuck Brazil too you fart porn loving NIGGERS.
…does this game still not have a replay feature?
>>98380497Nope. But untapped does.
Good luck whoever gets it.Pls post results33191-8D929-94626-D1ADB-2C1F4
>>98380615I got excited when I saw the x40 but quickly realized it was only one pack
greedy tripfag
>>98380497Why would you ever want to relive this? Lmao.
Why don't 75% of Brawl opponents actually read what my commanders do?
Tell me: why do posters ITT feel the need to attach an identity to their posts that no not require them?
Try that again in English
mfw when I find some off-meta deck that is reported to have a good winrate against meta deckls and then I go 1-6 with it against meta and generally weaker decks.
Ashlizzle loves off-meta decks!
sry not sry
>>98382335also funny in black
>tripfaggot>constant off topic posting about his own life like this is a personal blog
>>98373636Still modding reddit? I can't tell since you hid your profile from us.
How bad is standard right now? I haven't played since early FF. Part of the reason I stopped playing was because the entire format was ruled by either insane izzet aggro or combo-control decks that can win by turn 4 if you don't have a counterspell. I know aggro got hit with bans but what about everything else?
>>98383057Its landfall vs izzet/jeskai right now and its garbage. T4 omniscience is legal and unplayable. Honestly the game is dog shit i only play at work or drunk and high and its fine.
>>98378985does it release at 12pm EST? another half hour?
>>98383181Yeah I immediately regret trying to play this game when I booted it up, updated my deck slightly, then fought a niggerish landfall deck. Absolute retarded format.
>>98383279>I lost to landfall>ah yes but the problem is not that I suckin tears rn
god this marvelslop is so fucking badUB was a mistake
>gets Armageddon'd>closes the app without resigninggj wasting FoW on my 2-drop you dumb faggot>>98383057It used to be pretty fucking awful a few months agoThen SoS came out and it got even worse because of le tablet of balanceAnd now it's even worse because capeshit introduced 0 (zero) playable cards, so you either play a deck that wins by t3 or you lose to Jestrannies
>>98383334Post your deck or rank or anything showing you actually play the game or fucking kill yourself nigger faggot. Do it now.
>>98383375>it keeps happeningCome back Austin my bro, in 3 turns if you're lucky you can maybe get to counter a spell
>>98383375>UB introducing no playable cards Exactly how it should be
look at me everyone i'm a massive faggot who uses the thread as my blog making numerous off topic posts with irl photos and am allowed to cause gay mods like me. i've been doing it for months and i love showing my small 4:3 computer screenoh my god i fucking love tainted pact so much too
>>98375712Play a different game or something man its been like this for more than 5 years im tired of you retards bitching about the same pointless shit every fucking thread. Maybe if your entire identity wasnt tied to pussy mtg you would understand but idk man fuck you suck my cock.
>>98375712uhh anon you should be grateful, according to the store 2 rares and a mythic are worth like $20 in gems. they are giving you money for FREE! and you dare complain? screw your head on right you must thing WOTC is made of money or something.
> I hate this rigged cheap ass gameI think its fine for a free phone game heres why. >REEEE FUCKING SHILL REEE KYS ok buddy take your meds and get some rest ok big guy?
>>98383633Maybe if you didnt act like a massive elitist faggot over a phone game and spam your schizo tranny life to everyone things like this wouldnt happen. You wont stop though no matter how often someone tells you to quit being an annoying FAGGOT on here. Man im glad im not you lmao.
In unrelated news, MTG made more than $500 million in a quarter.>>98382335>>98382369*Starcage your weenies*
>>98377934You can get to play top decks if you know what you're doing. A little bit of patience with wildcards and you're good.>>98383057Badgermole landfall, Badgermole lifegain, Badgermole ramp. Monwhite enchantments. At least three different versions of blue red dominant decks. Standard Izzet, Jeksai, Sunderflock. Mono black discard. That's about it.>>98383416>Exactly how it should beIt was again a big powercreep...Mindstone, Thor, Namor, Ten Rings, Jennifer, Loki, Avenger Dissassembled, Cosmic Cube, Black Widow... Thor is brilliant in lessons deck. Even if he dies immediately he can still fetch Accumulate Wisdom or Jeskike Revelations from your graveyard that can decide the match. If he doesn't die, he can clear the board by himself with his damage dealing ability. Once I had just Thor on the board vs. Ouroborid and seven other creatures. Before my turn was over opponent had one earthbended land for a creature.
>>98384084Nobody is playing Starcage. Too many big threats around. I'm getting easy and fast wins with that deck.
>>98384160I do >>98369864 (but yeah, that's a meme deck)
>>98384191Artefacts decks are getting some new cards, but it's pretty obvious that they're keeping them in check. Though why red and blue keep getting fantastic cards is beyond me.
>>98384545In the Hobbit? I pretty much saw only equipments, which are completely useless, even for creature decks.
TQDimir Faes, but doesn’t having access to Cast Down and Thorn of the Black Rose really hurts the deck. Still having fun tho, the Arena version of Moon-Circuit Hacker is so busted with the scry 2 hability. Also fuck this shit being BO1, that’s so dumbed down.God i just want a permanent pauper ladder, a man can dream….
>>98372052This is one of the most retarded, low IQ, “look i suck at the game” post I’ve ever read. Specially when talking about competitive, tournament Magic. Sideboard is and always will be an extension of player skill and meta awareness. Some decks are unstopable if it is on play (i.e burn) and the oppo can’t have a game where it goes first.“Muuuh other tcgs nowadays don’t have sideboard hurrrr” that’s why they’re all garbage trying to be MTG but not having a fraction of the depth MTG has. If you play BO1 only you literally, unironically never played real Magic.
>>98384733Not a very good argument when MTG is being propped up by UB commander kiddies. They certainly don't give a shit about your sideboard.
>>98362480https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzkNIScAvsk
>>98383733kys goycattle
>>98383633No meme arrow you know what that means
I play paper a ton (mostly a mix of modern/edh), but how's Arena? Can I actually make functioning decks without shelling out shitloads of money? Do people play the other formats on it besides standard?
>>98385102>Can I actually make functioning decks without shelling out shitloads of money?It's rough to jump into without either a lot of grinding or spending some initial money. Once you've got all the staples in your preferred formats it then becomes easy to pile up currency and wildcards to make future decks.>Do people play the other formats on it besides standard?Yes. I'm pretty sure Brawl (raped duel commander) is more popular than standard. The queue is a bit slow for some formats if you choose Bo3 though.
i just started and aside from just copying whatever tier 1 decks there are, what would you lads recommend as a first constructed deck if you were to go back?
Pauper packies
>>98385179>grinding or shelling outEugh. I guess I'll go see if there's any hope of making decent stuff for Brawl out of all the free packs they give.>Bo1 vs Bo3Am I crazy for not wanting Bo3? Sure I've played Bo3 with paper prereleases, but the way I envision me playing Arena is as a quickie that doesn't take too long.
