You missed an important detail. MPL/Rivals gone and replaced with … nothing. WOTC don’t plan to support pro magic as a career going forward.
Won $2k last weekend with this (very good to great, imho) pool. Never once got Confront the Past, Reduce to Memory, or Intro to Prophecy.
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That looks like an insane draft deck let alone sealed. Congrats :)
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Thanks, man! I did drop a game to my own refusal to Lash of Malice a Scurrid Colony on turn 1 on the draw (I had Eager First Year and Leonin Lightscribe and thought I should hold it for the extra 2 damage on my turn 3, but my opponent played Essence Infusion turn 3 and I lost to the squirrel beatdown). I also got punished for one of my all-ins with Shandrix Silverquill (#ChampagneProblems) but still would have gone for it in retrospect.
That was just an excuse to post the AOC thing, figured people could look up the details on their own
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So I started playing this. My buddy has played for years and he finally introduced me to it about four years ago. I’ll never spend money on the game but I really enjoy playing budget decks against other noobs like myself.
Finally got the courage to play against real people on arena and it’s going surprisingly well. Been playing with the stomp stomp starter deck and tossed in some shocks, a lovesick beast and an embercleave in place of some high mana cards. Finding that turn 1/2 flexibility is more valuable than having four big creatures in hand that I can play one at a time. I’m like 8-3 so far with it.
I still haven’t quite figured out what “ranked” means considering it seems like my ranking guess up regardless of I’d I win or lose
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Lower ranks you go up more than you go down if you lose. Higher ranks it’s the same (with some protection on falling a full rank). Your rank determines your end of season rewards. However there’s a hidden ELO as well the matchmaker uses (and other things come into factor like your commander if you play Brawl). They generally try to match people with small collections vs other people with small collections
Might want to be careful if you’re playing standard, the cards you’re crafting will rotate out in a month (i.e. can only be played in Historic, the format for all cards in arena instead of Standard the last 2 years of cards)
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Ah. I knew they rotated it but didn’t know it’d be that soon. Thanks for the heads up
Will anyone be going to https://www.mtglasvegas.com in november? If Biden pulls his finger out and allows Brits to enter the US again then I’m planning a trip.
Too far for me to make a trip just for Magic unfortunately.
Thought it might be +EV just to go and jam Mystery Drafts all Weekend
Don’t think I’m ready to do indoor, even if masked + tested/vaxxed policies. If it was vaxxed only, then maybe I would think about it.
Any ideas on how to sell the rest of my MTG collection? Probably 1-2K of legacy staples I’d like to get rid of.
Buylist to CardKingdom, Star City Games or someplace like that if you want easy. If you want more money per card, ebay, TCGplayer or a secondary site.
Got up to platinum this season. Went like 22-6 in gold. Started with the sky patrol deck and have been tweaking. Never spent a dime on this and don’t ever plan on doing so.
Played an event and went 5-3. Pretty much all my wins are being dead in one turn, attacking a guy with 12 life with a stonebinder familiar that’s 4/4, they don’t block because what could I possibly do. Foretell something to make him a 5/5, play Kaya’s onslaught to make it a 6/6 with double strike. I can feel the tilt emanating through my phone. Even beat a double Alrunds Epiphany this way.
I’d love to play a mono green deck but I’ll never have the wildcards for that
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Made it to diamond! I’ve peaked as a human being
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Made it to mythic this month. Point me to the pro tour
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Initiate flashbacks to a block format so bad it caused me to quit the game entirely.
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OT but:
Last month, I played MtG with one of my students after over a decade of not playing.
Apparently, they removed combat damage from the stack in 2010 and that completely ruined the vibe for me. It probably shouldn’t have but it did. I got my ass kicked big time.
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Haha yea I missed that too but it didn’t really make sense, I think it’s a fine change
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