Poll of the Day > What do Magic the Gathering decks look like these days?

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I used to play YGO and that's a game that changes meta hourly (hyperbole)

But I heard MTG still has old decks that are relatively stable. Of course, last time I played Mana Burn was still a thing.

I mean, I remember when Disintigrate burn was a thing, but it's been wholly replaced by Banefire which still isn't even a thing. And there's new Greens like Druid of the Cowl which would have been outright broken back in the day.

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so ya, IDK what the even these days

Since my fav strat at the time was generating absurd amounts of colourless mana, I wouldn't mind working a deck that goes for the same spirit, so stuff with a lot of (X) cards where X can be any mana. At this time I was using White/Green since, well, poor and didn't know what was doing so my deck was mostly weird commons like Whip Vine, Poison Snake/Scorpions and poison counters in general

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Typically they're stacks of high quality thin cardboard, with the IP logo on one side and unique artwork/text on the other.

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Sometimes they use card sleeves too.

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https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/standard#paper

Here's a general overview of the standard format, which only allows new cards and is the most common format for tournament play. There are a ton of other formats that allow various subsets of older cards too, commander is the most notable and is a very popular format for more casual players.

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They have been mostly broken because Wizards keeps printing overpowered cards to push pack sales. They just banned a bunch of said broken cards, though, so Standard is looking much better.

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Spells got weaker and creatures got a lot better.

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Honestly, just sorta shit these past few years.
They've been printing too many good cards, going "well we can't ban the newest card", and then swinging the banhammer wildly.

This is for basically every format that they touched has been awful.

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Depends on what format you're wanting to play. In the modern format, there a deck called Tron that should be right up your alley. It tries to get 3 lands(Urza's Mine, Power Plant, and Tower) which then the lands tap for 2, 2, and 3 colorless mana respectively. The plan is to assemble the 3 Urza lands(like assembling Voltron, which is why the deck is called Tron), and just keep playing big threat after threat until the enemy dies.

There are a bunch of variants on it now too, depending on what you want. There's Eldrazi Tron(and color variants on the Eldrazi Tron), Standard Tron(focused on playing Ugin, Karn, and Wurmcoil Engine mostly, but does splash a bit of green to play cards that look for specific lands and threats to help assemble Tron easier, and to find the threats), and Blue Tron.(this variant plays some counter magic, basically tries to stall the game until it finds the Tron pieces)

I would recommend Standard Tron, but Eldrazi Tron is very powerful and has a better early game(which means it has a better match up vs. aggro decks). Blue Tron has been mostly been abandoned, but it does show up from time to time, and puts up pretty decent performances when it does show up.
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lihlih posted...

Depends on what format you're wanting to play. In the modern format, there a deck called Tron that should be right up your alley. It tries to get 3 lands(Urza's Mine, Power Plant, and Tower) which then the lands tap for 2, 2, and 3 colorless mana respectively. The plan is to assemble the 3 Urza lands(like assembling Voltron, which is why the deck is called Tron), and just keep playing big threat after threat until the enemy dies.

There are a bunch of variants on it now too, depending on what you want. There's Eldrazi Tron(and color variants on the Eldrazi Tron), Standard Tron(focused on playing Ugin, Karn, and Wurmcoil Engine mostly, but does splash a bit of green to play cards that look for specific lands and threats to help assemble Tron easier, and to find the threats), and Blue Tron.(this variant plays some counter magic, basically tries to stall the game until it finds the Tron pieces)

I would recommend Standard Tron, but Eldrazi Tron is very powerful and has a better early game(which means it has a better match up vs. aggro decks). Blue Tron has been mostly been abandoned, but it does show up from time to time, and puts up pretty decent performances when it does show up.

There's also pauper tron, if you wanna slam something a lot smaller/weaker than the modern variants.
But, it's cheaper.

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shadowsword87 posted...

There's also pauper tron, if you wanna slam something a lot smaller/weaker than the modern variants.
But, it's cheaper.

I don't know too much about pauper, legacy, vintage, or commander. Is Tron is pauper viable? I've always wanted to get into pauper,but never knew where to start.
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Oh it's 100% viable and it's one of the T1 decks.
Pulse of Murasa seems like a bad card from the outside, but the 6 life swing can really stabilize you in most games.

In general, the builds of tron lean more towards a control deck than "play big fatties" like other tron variants, but it's still the same sort of idea.

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2019 and 2020 have completely warped every eternal format. And standard has been facing more bans than ever before.

In short, shits on fire yo.

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reminder that oko, uro and omnath were intended to all be in standard at the same time

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Dynalo posted...

2019 and 2020 have completely warped every eternal format. And standard has been facing more bans than ever before.
In short, shits on fire yo.

We YGO now.
New set comes out, and then stuff gets banned a few months later.

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shadowsword87 posted...

We YGO now.
New set comes out, and then stuff gets banned a few months later.

try a few weeks

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i use a mono white deck

fear me

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Speaking of Banefire burn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoacncF-ovM

Lokarin posted...

I used to play YGO and that's a game that changes meta hourly (hyperbole)

Standard is a format comprised of the last two blocks and a core set, so basically every year MtG changes. I'm not sure YGO does anything like that.


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shadowsword87 posted...

New set comes out, and then stuff gets banned a few months later.

Months? That's a bold assumption these days.

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they look expensive

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lihlih posted...

Depends on what format you're wanting to play. In the modern format, there a deck called Tron that should be right up your alley. It tries to get 3 lands(Urza's Mine, Power Plant, and Tower) which then the lands tap for 2, 2, and 3 colorless mana respectively. The plan is to assemble the 3 Urza lands(like assembling Voltron, which is why the deck is called Tron), and just keep playing big threat after threat until the enemy dies.

There are a bunch of variants on it now too, depending on what you want. There's Eldrazi Tron(and color variants on the Eldrazi Tron), Standard Tron(focused on playing Ugin, Karn, and Wurmcoil Engine mostly, but does splash a bit of green to play cards that look for specific lands and threats to help assemble Tron easier, and to find the threats), and Blue Tron.(this variant plays some counter magic, basically tries to stall the game until it finds the Tron pieces)

I would recommend Standard Tron, but Eldrazi Tron is very powerful and has a better early game(which means it has a better match up vs. aggro decks). Blue Tron has been mostly been abandoned, but it does show up from time to time, and puts up pretty decent performances when it does show up.

This is kinda how I played since the 3 Urza cards were pretty much the best I had

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To give you an idea how long ago I played MTG, I had this card.



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captpackrat posted...

To give you an idea how long ago I played MTG, I had this card.

I think the ante cards are all banned now, there's an artifact card that outright steals a card

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Lokarin posted...

I think the ante cards are all banned now, there's an artifact card that outright steals a card

Yeah, ante cards were on the very first banned list and I think Revised was the last set to have them.

I always found the text "if the opponent doesn't concede immediately" on that card to be funny, because that's technically how all cards work.

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Dynalo posted...

I always found the text "if the opponent doesn't concede immediately" on that card to be funny, because that's technically how all cards work.

I think the secondary effect is why it was actually banned. Since you don't play for ante in tournaments the ability to thin your own deck by several cards is a good effect

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