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ChichiriMuyo
04/24/22 4:47:44 AM
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There's a new set and a new format headed to MTG:Arena next week. Discuss.

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Peace___Frog
04/24/22 8:31:02 AM
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I have the chance to do sealed at pax today, but am honestly kind of worn out by a really frustrating mystery draft experience from yesterday.
I went in blind and went 1-1 so it wasn't the worst, but it took so long because I had to read all of the mechanics. Not nearly as fun as drinking over a kitchen table for a draft.

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The Mana Sword
04/24/22 8:33:26 AM
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Did a prerelease on Friday. Halo Fountain is pretty good so ended up going undefeated.

This set is kind of a miss for me though. I loved Kamigawa, but the interest isnt really there for this one.

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masterplum
04/24/22 10:35:15 AM
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I have honestly never had a better prerelease deck. Went Bant, has 3 Bant rares and 2 of the 2/1 flying cantrip angels and 2 of the 3 mana Bant 2/1 double striking shield counter guys all the while with 2 tri lands and 3 dual lands

Went 4-0/ 8-0

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banananor
04/24/22 11:01:01 AM
#7:


Snc is fun!

I'm really hoping we're not about to enter an era of 4 color goodstuff standard

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NewerShadow
04/29/22 6:18:54 PM
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First 7-win draft of the new format:
https://i.imgur.com/j8yGmtm.jpg

early impressions: this format seems really slow to me. With all the tapped sacrifice lands and duals that you need for fixing, you can almost afford to go lighter on 2s without getting punished too badly.
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BlackDra90n
04/29/22 7:41:11 PM
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I did prerelease last week and got second overall with a Maestro's deck.

I opened up an Elspeth in my pool but didn't use it and got a second one in my prize packs. Pretty decent time overall.

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masterplum
04/29/22 7:43:11 PM
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Draft format isn't really doing it for me. It's fine, but something about it isn't as exciting as usual.

Maybe I'm just not feeling magic as much anymore. I was kind of hoping I would get some Khans of Tarkir fun from it

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The Mana Sword
04/29/22 7:51:04 PM
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Its definitely not even close to Khans. I havent hated it so far, but it feels pretty imbalanced from my early impressions.

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masterplum
04/29/22 7:55:32 PM
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I'm actually wracking my brain to try to figure out what my problem is with it. I've only done 4 drafts or so.

I think my biggest issue is all of my decks are feeling like piles of good stuff. There is supposed to be like 15 different themes but it feels like there are so many themes none of them ever really come together and I end up mixing and matching into good stuff piles. Maybe that will change if I draft more.

Come to think of it, my favorite format in the last couple years was strixhaven and that had really clearly defined lanes and the decks felt wildly different. Maybe I just like unique play experiences.

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ChichiriMuyo
04/30/22 3:32:33 AM
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I think the general consensus is that it is a "pile of good stuff" format. I've even seen it argued that the best draft strategy is "always take the best card in the pack, play five colors."

I agree with the notion that formats with clearly defined lanes are more fun. I preferred Kami over Strix, but that format is also largely laid out with "themes" for the decks you can build. I think the idea that a card can be good in one type of deck and bad in another, even if both of those decks use that color, and that's rarely the case for SNC.

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The Mana Sword
04/30/22 7:12:43 AM
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Yeah, the fixing is so good in this format its very easy to just jam everything into your deck.

And for what its worth, I think Neon Dynasty is the best draft formats in years, so following that up was going to be a talk ask.

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MoogleKupo141
04/30/22 8:03:31 AM
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I take it in like the middle of a pack usually?

At least the first couple dual lands/evolving wilds type things are more important than whatever kinda good spell you would otherwise take at that point.

Ive been pretty much sticking to three colors so far and doing well

i love the black sorcery that lets you get one creature of each color back from the graveyard for 3. Its pretty easy to get 3 cards out of it, and I even got 4 one time. Feels good.


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ChichiriMuyo
05/04/22 12:28:21 AM
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So I played the phantom bot draft for fun and the silly bots let me draft 5 murders. First opponent plays turn 3 Nimble Larcenist, sees 4 murders, decides to self-mill to death with the black and blue hideaway cards and as much draw as he can muster.

Ended up playing to 4-0 to get all the prizes and just to see how ridiculous the deck is. No one should ever be bale to draft 5 murders, even in a set with shield tokens. I also got the red bolt with damage can't be prevented and the black -3/-3 in case of shield tokens. Just sick, sick, sick removal.

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Emeraldegg
05/04/22 9:25:29 AM
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The story is a bit tamer than I expected but maybe that's just cause kamigawa was such a gutpunch. I was expecting more stuff with Urabrask but he barely made an appearance if you could call it one.

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masterplum
05/04/22 10:26:10 AM
#22:


UltimaterializerX posted...
I pass Murders because of shield counters.

Murder is still good, just isn't as good as some of the other commons for this reason

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ChichiriMuyo
05/04/22 5:09:36 PM
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Shield counters make Murder a little less good, but half of your opponents won't have them and the other half will still have multiple good targets. Passing Murder in SNC is definitely a worse decision than passing Power Word Kill in AFR.

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NewerShadow
05/07/22 4:43:12 PM
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Went 7-0 with this brokers deck, including a couple mulligans:
https://i.imgur.com/InsdnG9.jpg

my fixing was mostly cards and not lands which probably shouldn't have worked out as well as it did, but Disciplined Duelist/2x Lagrella/2x Darling are just so powerful.
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masterplum
05/10/22 3:51:36 PM
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Ok, random ask

Anyone want to do a vintage rotisserie draft? I joined a discord for it and I am pretty overwhelmed

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The Mana Sword
05/10/22 4:19:57 PM
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Just take power and then pick an archetype and stake a claim on it. Time Vault combo is a good one if you can snag Time Vault early and then try to pick up a Tinker + Keys.

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BlackDra90n
05/18/22 11:38:35 AM
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https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/urra6a/clb_tasha_the_witch_queen/

Damn, she seems like a fun commander. Might be replacing Lazav with her.

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NewerShadow
05/19/22 3:32:06 PM
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Some more draft success, this time with a 7-1 to get into Diamond ranks.
https://i.imgur.com/aQkuUWx.jpg
Trip report: Ziatora is busted, winning 4 games, including 2 where my opponents peaced out after it hit the field. One of those I got him down t4 with the treasure from Most Wanted which was disgusting.

The loss was to t3 Disciplined Duelist, t4 4/4 Angel trick, t5 Angel trick and +2/+2 trick, otherwise this deck was super strong.

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The Mana Sword
05/19/22 3:42:47 PM
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BlackDra90n posted...
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/urra6a/clb_tasha_the_witch_queen/

Damn, she seems like a fun commander. Might be replacing Lazav with her.

I've already got a decklist drawn up for this. Very excited to try it.

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TomNook
05/19/22 4:26:35 PM
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I thought everyone on this board hated EDH.

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The Mana Sword
05/19/22 4:38:01 PM
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I hate playing EDH.

But I like building decks.

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Lopen
05/19/22 5:19:35 PM
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I prefer EDH with stupid commanders like Baron Sengir or Akroma Angel of Wrath. All the specialized EDH commanders I'd rather use in different formats.

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ChichiriMuyo
05/29/22 11:04:03 PM
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no purge

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BlackDra90n
06/04/22 11:36:43 AM
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Prerelease yesterday was pretty fun. It's neat to have a draft format where you pick two cards instead of one, and having to build a commander deck out of that was pretty cool. I ended up playing white/blue and got a lot of decent build around cards, but couldn't really get enough pieces to get it going.

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TidusOfTheX
06/04/22 12:14:27 PM
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I went to the prerelease draft for baldur's gate yesterday, all three of the packs I opened had a ton of uncommons, like probably 15 each. I have absolutely no idea why though. It was the most fun draft I have done despite only playing one game.

Somebody gave me all their draft cards because they don't play commander

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BlackDra90n
06/04/22 12:37:42 PM
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It's definitely a fun format, especially with the multiplayer aspect. I'd do this again for sure.

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masterplum
06/13/22 10:05:02 AM
#39:


Finished my first asynchronous Vintage rotisserie draft

My deck is sweet

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/gpy-qa0YU06zEseztg-mKQ

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ChichiriMuyo
06/24/22 2:59:31 AM
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up

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banananor
06/24/22 10:24:06 AM
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masterplum posted...
Finished my first asynchronous Vintage rotisserie draft

My deck is sweet
how did it go?


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masterplum
06/24/22 10:35:38 AM
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banananor posted...
how did it go?

Matches have been slow, so I'm 2-1 right now

Had a lightning draft which was synchronous which is wrapping up. Currently 4-1 in that one where I have 2 weaker opponents to face still. I made a few mistakes on this one because it was real time drafting but have done better than I thought I would! There is even a video replay of commentary on this one

Deck 1:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/gpy-qa0YU06zEseztg-mKQ

Deck 2:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/LqJFY2a7zUe9FxglCpfpBw

You might look at that decklist and wonder why I drafted tainted indulgence. That is because It was the 45th and final round and was completely blank on what else to draft

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MoogleKupo141
06/25/22 4:55:45 AM
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ok so Im in a Modern Horizons 2 event

my opponent mills Calibrated Blast into my graveyard (reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a non land card, deal damage equal to its CMC).

I have five lands at this point, so I flash it back. it reveals the one 7 drop in my deck so I burn the guy mostly to death. which was obviously lucky, but not too crazy.

The crazy part is when it was revealing cards from the top of my library until it hit a non land, it revealed seven consecutive lands.

I would have deleted MTGO if I had actually sat there and drawn seven lands in a row, thats so many!

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ChichiriMuyo
06/25/22 7:28:43 AM
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If I was oppo I think I might have just laughed at the irony of that result.

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banananor
06/25/22 11:05:09 PM
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masterplum posted...
Matches have been slow, so I'm 2-1 right now

Had a lightning draft which was synchronous which is wrapping up. Currently 4-1 in that one where I have 2 weaker opponents to face still. I made a few mistakes on this one because it was real time drafting but have done better than I thought I would! There is even a video replay of commentary on this one

Deck 1:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/gpy-qa0YU06zEseztg-mKQ

Deck 2:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/LqJFY2a7zUe9FxglCpfpBw

You might look at that decklist and wonder why I drafted tainted indulgence. That is because It was the 45th and final round and was completely blank on what else to draft
it's been a long time for me- i forgot those things can move slowly if you want!

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masterplum
06/26/22 11:07:38 AM
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Up to 5-1 and 3-1 with those two decks. If I win my last match I force a tie breaker against the 6-1 I lost against.

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masterplum
06/27/22 6:46:45 AM
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Youtube video of my VRD is up :O

https://youtu.be/obUBdAZDOtg

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BlackDra90n
07/03/22 9:53:30 AM
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Oh damn I forgot this was 2x2 weekend. Don't think I can make any events. Might just get a pack or something.

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