Halloween editionPrevious: >>499268723>News & RemindersLeyline of resonance is now banned in bo1 standard. It's also banned in alchemy (both bo1 and bo3). It's still legal in bo3 standard.World Championship 30 won by Javier Dominguez (Dimir Demons, Spanish, he/him)New set reveals: Aetherdrift (racing-themed set), Tarkir: Dragonstorm, Edge of Eternities (space-themed set)Foundations and foundations jumpstart coming to arena November 12. Pre-orders are now live.Pioneer masters coming out December 10Universes Beyond sets will be standard legal starting 2025Damage assignment order in combat is getting removed starting with foundationsAlchemy: Duskmourn is outBuy the pixel Ajani avatar and sleeve bundle, extra life sleeve and pixel Fblthp sleeve from the store until November 15 to benefit charityHistoric anthologies 1-3 available in the store until November 12https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/mtg-arena-announcements-october-28-2024https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/aligning-the-universes-making-all-our-sets-legal-in-all-our-formatshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/foundations-mechanicshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/mtg-arena-banned-and-restricted-announcement-october-22-2024>Useful Linkshttps://pastebin.com/tfQhGhVV>Free Codeshttps://mtgazone.com/codes/>TQInitial thoughts on Aetherdrift?
>>500250736>>TQ>Initial thoughts on Aetherdrift?faction slopalso the theme is so dumb I'd rather have UB
>>500250736>Initial thoughts on Aetherdrift?I have no idea why this was approved or who the target audience is.
>>500250736>Aetherdriftlooks like absolute shit. zero interest in vehicles, racing, the aesthetic, etc.Foundations is the first Standard set in a long time I'm actually looking forward to (I always liked Core Sets, and old cards being brought back).Also the Final Fantasy shitstorm is going to be great. We're at the very least guaranteed some Amano art. Can't wait to draft the fuck out of it while laughing at Standard players who now have to get cards from 80 different sets + UB.
>>500250736>tqim expecting it to be dogshit art/flavorwise and mechanically fun to playthats kinda been my feeling about magic in general the last couple years
>>500258369>I'm expecting it to be dogshit art/flavorwise and mechanically fun to playBloomburrow was the exact opposite in my opinion, but you're right about aether, it will probably be like junction, duskmourn. I liked the mechanics in those sets and hated the art and flavor
huhthese are actually coming to Arena.never thought they'd do it.god, we need more Pauper events that format will be wild.
>>500251790I'm guessing somebody at wotc is a Mario kart fan and forced this set with or without licensing, that retard seems to not know that nintendrones don't care about anything non-nintendo even if it's better made than the Nintendo version. So there's no target audience for this, there's outliers like palworld, but nobody cares about racing car references in a fucking card game.
>>500261153>Mario KartIt's literally based on Wacky Races and Speed Racer (US).
>>500261341Referencing that stupid shit? Wow, so great. Those 3 octogenarians will be thrilled to hear about it after turning their hearing aids on
>>500261341I think you mean Akira (japan)
>>500262758
>>500262758the Akira slide is simulacra by now. it's part of hyperreality. anytime it shows up people are not referencing Akira anymore they are referencing the "cool slide every motorcycle media has to do". Devin Elle Kurtz is 23. She/He/They/Xir has no idea what Akira is. Literally the UB target audience.
>They confirmed they are working on commander for arena
Hello, just started playing. What's the best budget deck I can play with the least (preferably zero) rare/mythic wildcards I can make? Happy to play any format so long as the deck lets me grind out my dailies quickly.
>>500278564Id say Mono red. Its fast, strong and is mostly made of uncommons
If they're doing more vehicles, they need to errata the crew mechanic to specify it can only be crewed by non-vehicle creatures. I remember having a 1/1 driving a Smuggler's Copter, then having the Smuggler's Copter driving a Cultivator's Caravan.
>>500278564Starter Deck Event format is the best.but if you want to make a deck then sure I bet you can make a 0 rare monored deck and reroll all your dailies to red
AJANI
>>500286447Shame they reprinted the worst Ajani they could find
>>500250736>idk wtf people play in HistoricI play Eggs and enjoy making my opponent having to sit through literal five+ minute turns.
>>500226128You'll be back, wirehead.>>500286447Asking for a ban again, fag?
>>500277771You mean Historic Brawl?
>>500290458there are worse ajanis
Can I afford to build a tier 1 Explorer & tier 1 Timeless deck with 80x common & uncommon, 44 rares and 20 mythic wildcards?Already got standard mono red leyline I jam into explorer bo1 for my daily wins.
>>500301985Probably, mainly depends on how many wildcards your spending on the landbase
>>500301985Doubtful. One for sure but both? Check the meta decks on Goldfish. Most run ~40+ combined rares/mythics so you're only ~3/4 of the way there at most right now.
>>500239665Not that you're wrong but we just got 5k XP for free today.
>>500307087>5k xp in the mailNice
>>500305185Goldfish is wildy different from bo1 arena. I've yet to see an Innkeepers Talent cast on Diamond for Bo1 Standard yet it's 20% meta share on mtggoldfish Standard.
>>500311424Who said anything about BO1? I thought you were just doing that for your dailies, not actually playing that as your main format like a n00b.Anyway, the advice is useful regardless since doing so still gives you a rough idea of how many WCs you need for a tier deck.
>>500298023Historic.... Brawl? You mean Brawl? Theres only Brawl and Standard Braw now tard bro.
>>500307087this puts me at level 44 and i should be able to get everything and then some
>>500311424WotC ranks decks based on specific cards, so the more meta cards in your deck, the more meta decks you'll encounter.
>>500315652Just 15 more wildcards I need to spend and if I choose something proactive again sideboarding is a pure downside. Especially in Timeless I think more people are playing bo1 to nongame each other
>>50031724750% of matches are heartfire shell mirrors just like me but without innkeeper or questing druid. boros is even more common than gruul prowess which is weird
>>500315989Hello, newfriend!>>500316381Good luck.>>500317389OK, n00b.
>>500318065Ive been playing since the beta tard bro. You wanted to play semantics well you got it you stupid idiot i would absolutely obliterate you if we played a game you might even stop playing forever.
Rudy was right! Always is! boy how is he just so g darn smart. CoreSets are back! now we just call them foundations.~WeLcOmE~
>>500322794>t. kitchen table jank pile player
>t. ranny
>>500328509Thanks for clarifying, xister. Very brave of you to come out on 4chan.
What the actual fuck is this absolute dog shit? Why would I pay 600 gems for 2 uncommon and 1 rare? What do I not understand here?
>>500333249Its "fun". Lmao.
>>500333249>enter with gold>don't be shit at limited>????>PROFIT>>500333526Also this but unironically. Cube drafts are fucking fun. The cerebral nature of limited paired with the power level of constructed.
>>500333249Some people just like playing draft. People ask for phantom drafts all the time, the only issue here is that it has an entry fee.
>>500334428Yes that was my question. Why is there an entry fee at all when the reward is dogshit?>>500333871If I can plus infinity all limited mode I would be grinding other relevant packs with the spare time I have, not this crap.
>>500334896because mtg cattle is conditioned to spend money to get literally nothing in return
>>500335049so much this, a virtual booster shouldn't cost 1,50$ and considering it contains half as many cards a real booster it's way too close to something you could own and most importantly resell.
This game is stupid. I wouldnt be surprised if i could actually cast this thing from my graveyard.
>>500335723i actually read that as elder deep fried
>>500335663not to mention wotc has been known to delete peoples' accounts for not supporting progressivism enough.
>>500338719Link?
>>500339254Heres a youtube video about it https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
>>500342221>retarded r*dditor doesn't know about embedding
>>500250736>It's STILL in there.
>>500278564the most common answer you will get is mono red, but the meta is currently very prepared to deal with mono redsimic terror is similarly cheap and much more fun to playazorius enchantments is another budget option but im not familiar with it personally
>>500250736any advice. Never built a deck before
>>500250736>Initial thoughts on Aetherdrift?The spoiled cards gave me a very positive impression about how limited might play, I usually like artifact sets and there was some alternative ways to animate vehicles and I think there's a lot to explore there. A lot we don't know but pretty optimistic.
>>500350819You have a very low curve, and no draw, you'll likely run out of gas quick. That might not matter if you can close out games quicker, but everyone is building against red aggro right now so you're likely to get caught in the crossfire. Plus you have no removal yourself, so you're not likely to win against red either.
>>500350819RollToTemporaryLockdown.dekI think it's worth considering ditching the white, I don't want to make you craft rares but I would like some kind of dual lands, you could also use some removal. This deck would love an anthem and there's one coming in foundations for these colours. The curve is so low you can maybe cut a land or two but go slowly and see how it feels because people love cutting lands. Also you have a lot of cheap creatures, I don't think they're worth protecting that much, if you have to play reactive I think you're going to have abadtime. And definitely we can do better than sunshower druid.
>>500352505>>500352929Hows this deck. My main win is pumping my monsters till they have to use destruction cards. so far I won a few but I'm still building. I got rid of white for blue so I can have draw power and couter spells
>throwing away 30 years of tradition to print the first Saproling creature cardI don't know if this game can survive these diverse modern game developers.
Anyone ITT still being an assmad faggot about UB and standard announcements, or have you hand-me-down redditors also stopped now that the spoilers have picked up?
>>500260545I liked the flavor in junction desu>>500362197t4 jank with 0 synergyYou're so lost that idk where to begin with giving you deckbuilding advice. Play and lurk for 1-3 months before posting. Read the useful links in the OP. We just had Worlds a few days ago, watch some games from that. Until then, fuck off.
>>500347969Red is still strong even with everyone ready for it, honestly. There's enough protection running around that even cheap removal isn't always enough. That RW list based on enchantments can kill you in 3 or 4 turns while holding up shardmage's rescue, it's kinda fucked up.
>>500364859>I like that wotc is turning their game into a trojan horse for advertising other intellectual propertiesYou need to be able to stop sucking wotc dick long enough to be able to understand how stupid of a decision that actually is for the long term health of the game.
>>500366520You are completely retarded if you don't see that this will result in greatly increased profits, new player acquisition, and existing player retention. FF will sell like hotcackes and existing players will eat it up. MTGA goyim will love 6 real sets per year. Spiderman will bring in more new players than any set in history, and design will make it fun enough that existing players will stomach its out of place thematics.
>>500367478here's your (((you)))
>>500364859I'm excited now since I cracked the codelooking forward to Uub from dbz being in mtg. and he's a perfect fit as a POC
I'm so tired of this it's unreal. I got 10 removal spells in my deck but because I didn't draw them I just lose because I can't use my card draw to try to draw them.
>Fynn in Foundations>poison decks for the next five years
>>500367478you gotta look at the bright sidethe joy of playing magic in 2024 is being able to bully fags and trannies without consequenceswhy be upset about a fresh crop of unsuspecting victims?
>>500372150It should have been "at the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life, and you gain that much life"
>>500366520Elaborate more on that> dumb fuck UB like spongebob is bad for the theme of the gameCorrect but that's another issue and are already happening. Also at least FF fits the dark fantasy theme.> More card badWould be correct if we don't already have 9 trillions card per rotation and 90% of them being completely dogshit useless. Why does it matter if it's now 95%?> PowercreepAgain, already happening> I can't complete setLike you could ever without whaling. Set completion is the most wasteful retarded shit ever when you will only ever use like 3 rares from each set. No your funny haha t4 deck doesn't matter.
i am never alone
>>500364859Was never upset. Lore integrity was already gone half a decade ago, and even before then it stopped being worth anything for years before that. The lore was a corpse of a corpse before the UB announcement.The only thing upsetting is the accelerated release schedule as a F2P player, but I was already halfway switched over to Tabletop Simulator. So I'll try to keep up and when I finally burn through my hundreds of WCs I'll just stop playing.
What's a decent poison deck?
>>500364859I was never upset about UB, and have been looking forward to making several Marvel commander decks and possibly some paper standard ones.I am upset about a new set every two months. I usually spend the first month of a set drafting, then I like to refine one or two of my existing standard list and maybe try out a meme brew.There's no time for that now.They made Standard rotate every three years, but with this many releases a deck won't stay relevant for six months.
I’ve been playing mardu every in timeless and it fucks I get to being back my stuff and power my shit with the extra energy. I also get to run ring which lurrus won’t let me.
are you enjoying the spooky and FREE midweek magic bwos?
>>500391135Fuck no they could at least let us do a duskmourn draft you know the spooky set planned for October. Could’ve made it a phantom draft if they didn’t want us to own any of the cards we pulled. Wizards ain’t that cool tho
>>500364859Are you STILL a tranny and, what's worse, outside of your containment board? Fuck off back to your den of degeneracy: >>>/lgbt/>>500391135No, it fucking sucks.
How are they gonna make it up to f2p players for upping the number of sets drastically?
man I want to fucking kms.idk what WotC did to the software in the last year since I played but now I can't join any drafts, the game just crashes.
>>500391135As a casual thing I did, Sultai recursion on main, Jund removal on alt. Still I feel I would have enjoyed Midnight Hunt more.
>bad guy has TWO planeswalkers in sealed
my Sealed deck is essentially 20 removal spells and 1 copy of thisMidweek Magic is great sometimes
>Get dogshit cards>Forced to play 20 games for three wins
Can you play Boros Mice Enchantments to Mythic without dual lands/only plains+mountains?
I want to the fish
>>500394072>make it up to f2p players???
>>500394072play explorer, I just play rakdos midrange and green devotion and never get even close to using up wildcards
>>500398708>*gets countered*>>500409280Did you rike it?>>500406762You can play any multi-colored deck without duals but your WR will always suffer as a result due to an increase number of games where you get mana-screwed.
>>500410469No fucking idea how I replied to the wrong post, the >Did you rike it?was meant for >>500401182
>Opponent plays black>auto ropeyour decks are trashpiles that cant win 4
>>500410580No. getting blown out by people with multiple removal spells/ good rares just kept reminded me how bad my sealed cards ended up being
>>500413490No shit.
This game is legitimately unplayable. How do you retards stand it? It takes 2 minutes just to start a single game because faggots can take super long to even mulligan and then when they wake up/close Pornhub you instantly lose if they go first.
>>500415503Dunno what gay format you chose but that's objectively false in the ones I play.
>>500415739This is simultaneously the slowest and fastest card game in history because you can be roped for 10 minutes straight and also know you lost on turn 1.
>>500416191>>500415739
>>500415503Im the one who ropes. I do it when i flood, when i starve, when i go second, when i mulligan. Just close the game and go do anything else lmao while you have to wait. Never been punished and im gonna keep doing it.
the flooding is the punishment
Im happy just fucking off to another game if i get banned fuck it the game is trash anyway.
>>500422475>Oh no, I get to watch a YouTube video while my salty retard opponent chimps out and I get rewarded with a free win by the end of it! The horror!Please, do keep it up, chump.
I dont care what you do im gonna imagine you raging that i dcd and goon until i coom then maybe ill do it all over again.
>>500430510>then maybe ill do it all over againI'm asking you to.
>>500396045steam or standalone?
>>500430783Yeah i bet you would like me to jack it to you again you little queerbo
How do you like them apples, control faggot?
>>500432772The *shooting* rope part is optional, you depraved homogay, it's the roping itself that I'm telling you to continue.
>>500410308They gotta make game more f2p friendly or it will start losing players rapidly omce 2 month cycle kicks in
>>500442836No, it won't.
>>500442836it already rapidly loses players when you have to wait for over a minute to get a match in every queue
>>500435062Thats what gooning is retard ypu dont know anything your stupid
>>500444806LMAO, check out this dyslexic downie who didn't even get the joke. He even tells others "your[sic] stupid". What a riot!
>>500447880Your is correct because you posses the stupid checkmate retardo
Also im a comedian i get all the jokes bitchhead
After the number of sets goes up we should all collectively stop completing sets, just update a handfull of your favourite builds and move on
>mulligan down to 4 to have at least 3 lands in my hand >20 cards deep into my draft deck>only drew 1 another additional landI knew the game decided that I had to lose after winning 3 games in a row, but could they do it in a less obvious way?
Anyone else loving the new ajani avatar for charity? Got this bad boy with mastery pass gemmies. Also stifle claims another victim.
>>500379334Dimir proliferate
Half the Explorer decks are like: 1) Thoughtseize + rest of discard package 2) Black Removal 3) Bloodtithe Harvester + Fomo + Fable of the Mirror-Breaker 4) slow 4 piece limited tier combo
Why isn't Reanimator style deck viable in Timeless?
>>500460808i like pixelart in general so yes
>>500372150red wins on TURN 2HELLOWHO IS CASTING SHEOLDRED
Instead of being an ass blasted faggot that your elf tribal got out ramped just concede
>>500486424>WHO IS CASTING SHEOLDREDPeople above gold
When rakdos comes together it's my favorite deck in this format.Sticktwister is like a rare.
>>500409280Wonder if this fits in the occulus deck? Fuels the graveyard and you can reanimate it as well.
>>500486424the people farming the fuck out of mono red because mono black is a fucking awful matchup for redsheoldred is literally in the color best equipped to deal with what you are complaining about
Good morning, I hate scarab god in cube draft.
Just hit Mythic with Izzet Artifacts, fun stuff.
20 games in a row going second, how?
>>500512194Pics or it didn't happen
>>500477242reanimate is pretty good, is it not viable anymore?I think the pure renanimator builds ran it alongside the Sorin + huge vampire package.turn 1 reanimate Grief is good. turn 2 reanimate Troll usually needs a lot of disruption behind it to get there.the deck kind of builds itself. good black cards and faithless looting. or some kind of UB frog version with more disruption and maybe unearth/Occulus
Got back into MTG recently and wanted to try the closest thing to Modern Jund from back in the day in Historic, but I keep losing. Does anyone have any advice?>inb4 don't play an outdated deckI don't mind using newer cards, but at least I want that same solid shell feeling the deck was known for.
>>500514804post deckJund has been pretty good in Historic (before MH3 at least)
>>500514986This is my current list.The one-ofs are cards I'm still trying out, mostly because I ran out of wildcards.
>>500516089looks fine. although there have to be better 1-drops than JRC (Nethergoyf, Ragavan).I always saw Jund lists running this bullshit card called Jarsyl.1-2 Inquisition of Kozilek could help too.
>>500517518Ragavan is banned in historic.
Please bring back my baby!
