Magic: The Gathering

[Kara]

I find ninjas gets really slammed at the 3 drop spot. Seems like you had the same problem (though you still beat down?).

KAI BUDDE IS IN THE TOP 4

[Kara]

Blue / green Nexus of Fate versus white / blue / black Hero of Precinct One in the final has been about as putrid as you'd think it'd be.

Planeswalkers were a mistake, they're nothing but

[thisismyusername]

Planeswalkers were a mistake, they're nothing but

[Kara]

Inspired by Joe I went 2-1 (5-3) with this pile of ninjas and bombs.



-I was more or less mono-blue up until pack 3, pick 1 where I opened the Fallen Shinobi and snap picked it
-Fallen Shinobi... what a disgusting bomb; the power on this creature is probably 2+ points too high
-Bazaar Trademage was ridiculous with Ninjas and Smoke Shroud
-Lesser Manticore is very nostalgic, probably the only successor to Masticore that actually feels like playing with the original Masticore
-I tried running 17 lands in round 1 and that was a mistake; I think I might have gone 3-0 with this deck if I'd gone 16 lands from the beginning
-Shout out to Lords of Limited for convincing me to take the Onslaught block cycling lands with high picks
-Windcaller Aven makes Ninja of the New Moon a reliable 12 points of damage instead of 6; that goes a long way in this archetype
-I got to Man-o'-War a Marit Lage token
-Twisted Reflection is wayyyy undercosted

[Kara]

https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1141819142476984320

This is not true at all. Core Set 2020 is more complicated than Origins and that was the gold standard for complicated core sets.

SPEAKING OF, the blue knight in the cycle of mythic knights is Brainstorm on a body.

[Raist]

https://scryfall.com/card/m20/172/legendary-hydration


wat

[Joe Molotov]

-I got to Man-o'-War a Marit Lage token

OOF

[Joe Molotov]

Going to MagicFest this weekend (it's Modern Constructed). I think I'll probably play Izzet Phoenix.

[Kara]

-I got to Man-o'-War a Marit Lage token

OOF

It was in the final. In game 1 I won very quickly with some unblocked ninjas and had no idea what I was l playing against other than it was probably a snow deck. In game 2 my opponent slams Marit Lage's Slumber on turn 2 and I do the "kid looking at camera with burning house in background" meme face because I kept an opening seven with Man-o'-War and 3 lands. 😈

[Kara]

  What a troll card.

[Joe Molotov]

Just in case your Rakdos deck needs Ball Lightnings 9-12.

[Kara]

Grafdigger's Cage and Faerie Miscreant reprints in Core Set 2020.

Reprint Stifle in a Modern legal set you cowards.

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I see you cast The Elderspell this turn. I'm going to go ahead and bring back my Teferi, Hero of Dominaria and my Teferi, Time Raveler.

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[Joe Molotov]

Yeah, but your Teferis are tapped.

[Raist]

[Human Snorenado]

3 free random mythics from GRN, RNA, and WAR on Arena with the code MYTHICMAGIC

[Kara]

you, foolish - black / red is a sacrifice deck
me, wise - black / red is a spells deck with a sacrifice subtheme

(yes, I know there are some questionable card choices in here but this deck humssssssss )

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more like Ugin, the Unbeatable lol

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[The Sceneman]

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this is a Planeswalker deck card to fetch its planeswalker. Its weird and bad as per usual. News at 11

[The Sceneman]

my current brew for new standard. Im obsessed with Cavalcade of Calamity and looking for the sweetest config.

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/boros-cavalcade/?cb=1561534063

Note that the list has Skyknight Legionnaire in place of the recently spoiled Skyknight Vanguard:



 

[Kara]

Full Core Set 2020 spoiler is out. Black has... Murder and Bone Splinters at common and Disfigure at uncommon. I'm willing to give Play Design the benefit of the doubt but prima facie that does not look reasonable.

My hot takes:

Card I'm most going to force all the time due to nostalgia.

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The "How is this a common?" common of the set (other than Murder).

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The replacement level card I'm going to cast too many times.

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The Goblin Gathering Award for Most Likely to Beat You in a Surreal Draft Deck.

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The "So you thought Monored Aggro in Type 2 was dead eh" card.

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My spec for "Most Low-key Backbreaking Card".

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Best limited reprint.

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Most glaring absence.

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[The Sceneman]

good take man - enjoyed those picks. Yeah that black common is ooooohhhhweee. Gonna make a splash in pauper?!

Not sure on that lizard - on paper it looks ideal for the brew I just posted, but it just feels too low impact. If it had haste it would replace Fanatical Firebrand RIGHT NOW. I remember being lukewarm on ol Viashino P when I first saw him so lizard may surprise me.

Can see why the may want Lightning Strike rotating out. Most functionally equivalent stuff (ie. Skewer, Lava Coil) is sorcery speed, and Jaya's Greeting is instant and scries but doesn't hit face (which makes it a lot worse). Might've made too many games too easy to win for mono-red? Who knows

[Raist]

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this is a Planeswalker deck card to fetch its planeswalker. Its weird and bad as per usual. News at 11

Huh, didn't realize, was just scrolling through the spoilers. Are these non-playable in regular formats then?

[Joe Molotov]

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this is a Planeswalker deck card to fetch its planeswalker. Its weird and bad as per usual. News at 11

Huh, didn't realize, was just scrolling through the spoilers. Are these non-playable in regular formats then?

They're standard legal, but they're basically designed to be bad.

[Joe Molotov]

3 free random mythics from GRN, RNA, and WAR on Arena with the code MYTHICMAGIC

https://twitter.com/livingcardsmtg/status/1143652318153519104

[Kara]

good take man - enjoyed those picks. Yeah that black common is ooooohhhhweee. Gonna make a splash in pauper?!

Not sure on that lizard - on paper it looks ideal for the brew I just posted, but it just feels too low impact. If it had haste it would replace Fanatical Firebrand RIGHT NOW. I remember being lukewarm on ol Viashino P when I first saw him so lizard may surprise me.

Way back when Phyrexian Rager was a staple in Pauper's Monoblack Control but that deck is (mostly) dead. Rager still sees play there and in the white / black Pestilence deck so I could see a swap happening. Decks get on the board early in that format, though, so I'm not sure how much attacking it could realistically do.

I see Scorch Spitter as a sidegrade to Viashino Pyromancer (until Pyromancer rotates, obviously). Against a slower deck Spitter will rack up a lot of free damage and it's not very expensive which is relevant during Experimental Frenzy turns.

[Kara]

Arena collections won't wipe at rotation.

They're making a pretend format that doesn't rotate for Arena called Historic even though it's the youngest format and there's a mechanic called historic in the game.

Amonket and Kaladesh blocks will not be legal for Historic. Smell you later, Kaladesh.

[thisismyusername]

Amonket and Kaladesh blocks will not be legal for Historic. Smell you later, Kaladesh.

Technically, they aren't in the game anymore AFAIK? They removed them with the account wipe and never brought them back.

BUT they have said they plan to "in the future" bring those back.

Honestly, I just want to complete my Dominara collection and play that in classic jank-destroyed Vintage.

[The Sceneman]

Arena collections won't wipe at rotation.

They're making a pretend format that doesn't rotate for Arena called Historic even though it's the youngest format and there's a mechanic called historic in the game.

Amonket and Kaladesh blocks will not be legal for Historic. Smell you later, Kaladesh.

Such baffling decisions

[Human Snorenado]

I fully support keeping Kaladesh and energy out of as much of the game as possible, so that part is fine with me.

[Kara]

Ended up going 4-2 with that sweet black / red deck. In my 4-1 match I had a non-game and a functional non-game that lasted 15 turns because I wouldn't scoop. The deck had some flaws and variance caught up with me at an inopportune time. I also don't have the stomach to Vancouver mulligan in War of the Spark limited.

The most memorable match was the one where my opponent cast Toll of the Invasion on me in two separate games when I had Ugin, the Unbeatable in my hand and did not select that card in either instance. I then proceeded to cast it N turns later and win the game by burying my opponent with the +1 loyalty ability. What a silly planeswalker.

Speaking of Toll of the Invasion: Over the last year I have been making a concerted effort to identify weaknesses in my drafting or play, then improving them, and for the most part I've been satisfied with my progress. However, playing with 3x copies of Toll of the Invasion in this deck really hammered home to me that I am not good at playing with Thoughtseize effects. There was one game in particular where I just missed a line of play that won my opponent the game after my copy of Toll of the Invasion resolved. So, even though RUG Snow returned to the Modern deck dumps I'm going to pick up WBR Pyromancer instead.

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Like I'm going to pay RUG Snow if it doesn't have Nimble Mongoose in it.

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[Raist]

Arena collections won't wipe at rotation.

They're making a pretend format that doesn't rotate for Arena called Historic even though it's the youngest format and there's a mechanic called historic in the game.

Amonket and Kaladesh blocks will not be legal for Historic. Smell you later, Kaladesh.

This makes no sense whatsoever

Anyway, here's a guy on youtube who's always a good laugh.

[naff]

I fully support keeping Kaladesh and energy out of as much of the game as possible, so that part is fine with me.

I agree, but also can't say I didn't enjoy playing aetherworks marvel jank and as long as they keep out utamog and crew I don't see it being that broken again.

That said, smugglers copter would be the jitte of the format and yeah. There's just a lot of problematic shit in those sets. Having to pre ban felidar saheeli is prob something they don't want to do either.

[Joe Molotov]

MagicFest, bitches.

Just finished getting my butt kicked in a single-elimination sealed WAR GPT. I had a decent deck (I think) but I mulled to 5 in game 3 then kept a bad hand because I didn’t want to mull again. My opponent curved out perfectly and I died before casting a spell. That’s Magic.




Now I’m just browsing the vendors, trying to not buy any of these waifu Narsets.

[Raist]

I'm not sure why the energy mechanic is so hated, I thought it was bringing an extra "management" layer that was pretty cool.

Certainly would take it any day over the distinguished mentally-challenged runaway steam kiln bullshit.

[Raist]

MagicFest, bitches.

Just finished getting my butt kicked in a single-elimination sealed WAR GPT. I had a decent deck (I think) but I mulled to 5 in game 3 then kept a bad hand because I didn’t want to mull again. My opponent curved out perfectly and I died before casting a spell. That’s Magic.


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Now I’m just browsing the vendors, trying to not buy any of these waifu Narsets.

39 cards...?

[Joe Molotov]

One of the forests is hidden.

[Joe Molotov]

Now I’m just browsing the vendors, trying to not buy any of these waifu Narsets.

Mission failed. 

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I actually didn’t directly buy Narset, but I did buy 5 packs of JPN WAR and opened a Narset and nothing else of interest or value, so you can decide for yourself if that is less pathetic or more.

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[Kara]

Just finished getting my butt kicked in a single-elimination sealed WAR GPT. I had a decent deck (I think) but I mulled to 5 in game 3 then kept a bad hand because I didn’t want to mull again. My opponent curved out perfectly and I died before casting a spell. That’s Magic.


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Don't think you were fishing for feedback, and it's hard to offer the most constructive feedback without seeing your whole pool, but:

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1. Triumphs are sideboard cards. I imagine you were hard up for removal so you went with these.

2. I think Vivien trapped you. (I assume a lot of these replacement level creatures are in the deck because of her.)

3. Never played with Single Combat but no one I know likes it. Figure it's the same sitch as #1.

4. Leyline Prowler is good in a base green / black 5 color deck. Did it work out for you here? Looks... wasted.

5. Bloom Hulk also looks wasted. No Pollenbright Druid, no Courage in Crisis, no New Horizons. Et cetera.

 , I know.

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Anyway, sorry about scrubbing out.

[Kara]

I started a turn with this deck having the following in play: a 3/3 amass token; Ilharg, the Raze-Boar; and Angrath, Captain of Chaos.

Before combat I used Angrath's -2 loyalty ability to make the amass token a 5/5. During combat I put an Invading Manticore into play tapped and attacking off of Ilharg, the Raze-Boar's trigger. When it came into play my token ticked up to 7/7.

Attacking for 17 in limited like it's Infect outchea.

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Now I’m just browsing the vendors, trying to not buy any of these waifu Narsets.

Mission failed. 

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I actually didn’t directly buy Narset, but I did buy 5 packs of JPN WAR and opened a Narset and nothing else of interest or value, so you can decide for yourself if that is less pathetic or more.

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i would like to play these alongside the jp teferi's in uw control. tho im pivoting towards esper with jvp, snap and monastery mentor instead of the pw route now anyway.

[Joe Molotov]

Yeah, I saw Esper Mentor decks popping up as the new under-the-radar hotness. I've always wanted Mentor to be a legit card, but it's disappointed me before.

[Kara]

After the Monastery Mentor debacle in Type 1 (where they restricted cards instead of restricting Mentor like it was Mishra's Workshop or something) I'm cautious about it popping off in Modern. Guess the cantrips are bad enough, but they're also not exactly banning creatures if they can help it which was the problem in Type 1 to begin with.

[naff]

ancestral, misstep, gush, moxen, lotus, force etc etc. so many broken spells to surround mentor with in vintage. a modern that has a good enough supporting cast for mentor to be good is the dream, and maybe, there are just enough cantrips and cheap interaction for mentor to do work rn.

 

[Kara]

I got drunk this weekend, did a Modern Horizons draft (??) and drafted the blue / red "draw more than 1 card a turn" trap deck?? Somehow I'm 1-1??

4x copies of Spinehorn Minotaur, 3x copies of Urza's Rage, 1x Pyrophobia, 1x Magmatic Sinkhole... yeah, this is a deck I'd draft if I was not thinking clearly.

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Tectonic Reformation in the blue red "draw more than 1 card a turn" trap deck.

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1x Viashino Sandsprinter is a heads up filler pick. Not bad, me.

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I won a game with Ravenous Giant.

[Joe Molotov]

Color-shifted Juzam Djinn still too stong.

[Kara]

https://twitter.com/BasicMountain/status/1131595159790075904

[naff]

I got drunk this weekend, did a Modern Horizons draft (??) and drafted the blue / red "draw more than 1 card a turn" trap deck?? Somehow I'm 1-1??

4x copies of Spinehorn Minotaur, 3x copies of Urza's Rage, 1x Pyrophobia, 1x Magmatic Sinkhole... yeah, this is a deck I'd draft if I was not thinking clearly.

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Tectonic Reformation in the blue red "draw more than 1 card a turn" trap deck.

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1x Viashino Sandsprinter is a heads up filler pick. Not bad, me.

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I won a game with Ravenous Giant.

i did this and nearly won my first modern horizons draft, losing to some ninjas deck that got some great nut draws games 1 and 3. phantasmal form is nuts with the spinehorn minotaurs. i had 5 minotaurs, 3 phantasmal form and the thundering djinn 

rain of revelation was also great. lots of janky cards and it was pretty fragile, but the card draw matters deck was p fun.

[Kara]

It's fun but it's a trap deck, especially for players whose experience with cantrips are little more than casting Serum Visions, Sleight of Hand, or Opt. (So, the average Modern player.) Ninjas is the better type of deck like that.

It's a little too setup intensive when compared to the decks that can consistently bruise like red / green land discard does too.

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Every time Legacy Cube is on MODO there's always that game that kills me a little inside when a player inexperienced with playing with Brainstorm goes turn 1 Island, Brainstorm but no way of shuffling afterwards.

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[Human Snorenado]

With the new set out, people are playing ABSOLUTE JANK on the ranked standard section of Arena, like r/g elementals with no/very little removal, and I'm still just jamming RDW and crushing them with no mercy, dat ranking gonna be good this month fam

[Kara]

With the new set out, people are playing ABSOLUTE JANK on the ranked standard section of Arena, like r/g elementals with no/very little removal, and I'm still just jamming RDW and crushing them with no mercy, dat ranking gonna be good this month fam

This is pretty funny, thanks for the suggestion.

Monored can really storm off. Who needs Baral, Chief of Compliance.

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Casting planeswalkers outside of limited.

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[Kara]

Speaking of limited, I'm doing one more War of the Spark traditional draft atm and I've got yet another black / red deck because lol bot drafting and I managed to beat an obnoxious white / blue deck that had: Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor; Narset, Parter of Veils; Saheeli, Sublime Artificer; and Teferi, Time Raveler when my only planeswalker was Tibalt, Rakish Instigator.

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Furiously digging for one of your 3 copies of Heartfire to win the game using Spark Reaper and Dreadhorde Invasion amass tokens.

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[Raist]

Where are you seeing all that jank? Bronze league?

I keep running into the usual lame'o esper superfriends / monobored / lifelink kitties.

[Human Snorenado]

Where are you seeing all that jank? Bronze league?

I keep running into the usual lame'o esper superfriends / monobored / lifelink kitties.

Nah Gold. It may be different by this point when people realize they're not good at brewing decks. people that don't netdeck

[Kara]

I'm in bronze. Haven't played anything but draft and sealed on Arena for a long, long time.

[Kara]

Do not recommend Core Set 2020 in best of 1 limited.

[Kara]

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2055711

Is this a Type 2 deck?

 

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2055690

I could fuck with an Infect deck that uses Giver of Runes to make creatures unblockable.

 

[naff]

i dont play rdw on arena, the closest i got was a wizards deck. might actually be ok again with Lightning Stormkin.

preliminary list, sb is eh. i dont have all that stuff, but i will try it primarily for bo1. still playing a mostly old std esper control list in bo3 https://deckbox.org/sets/2400451

[Joe Molotov]

The sub dad joke tier pun of Scale Up. 

[Kara]

Nothing helps you get over stinking it up fierce in Core Set 2020 sealed like the bots in Ravnica Allegiance draft. 7-X, baby.

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Outdrawing an Azorius deck because your Ill-Gotten Inheritence lets you go Blade Juggler into Blade Juggler into Blade Juggler.

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[thisismyusername]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/c9ffrb/wizards_say_the_daily_xp_gain_is_not_capped/

[Raist]

I'm in bronze. Haven't played anything but draft and sealed on Arena for a long, long time.

Are you made of money?