Magic the Gathering Arena

[[UCHIHA]XxDarkSasuke420xX]

guys i miss war of the spark standard so much

Teleports behind you and bounces a creature back to your hand and draws a card
Pssh, nothin personnelle. Let's slow this down

IF they had an ixalan->WOTS standard queue I would accept a 3feri ban
as soon as ELD came out 3feri went from "probably op" to "barely playable"
fuck eldraine

Spoiler

speaking of, still pissed that wotc refuses to refund my 3feri card style, that I spent like 1000 gems on, even though he's literally banned in every format

 

[lukaszek]

serves you right for buying white cards fancy pixels

You should focus on mono black instead, those cards get banned before they can even appear on arena

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

IF they had an ixalan->WOTS standard queue I would accept a 3feri ban

Just cut WotS out, Ixalan to the Ravnica sets. And speaking of WotC's wicked ways:

 

[[UCHIHA]XxDarkSasuke420xX]

what u guys think of my new deck?

 

[Gyor]

IF they had an ixalan->WOTS standard queue I would accept a 3feri ban

Just cut WotS out, Ixalan to the Ravnica sets. And speaking of WotC's wicked ways:

This news should bump Kaldheim higher on the Rabiah scale, I mean it beat Ravnica and Theros winter sets, so it should be at least a 3.

 

[[UCHIHA]XxDarkSasuke420xX]

guys my new deck gets roped a lot

 

[Jason Liang]

guys my new deck gets roped a lot

Mystical Dispute is the way.

 

[John Keel]

Clear the mind maindeck is garbage, add some Narset she's insane in current meta
Lapse ain't great without tef5ri
Also maybe cut 2 roil for 2 brazen borrower or sharknado

 

[[UCHIHA]XxDarkSasuke420xX]

Clear the mind maindeck is garbage, add some Narset she's insane in current meta
Lapse ain't great without tef5ri
Also maybe cut 2 roil for 2 brazen borrower or sharknado

I think ctm is the nuts, every time you cast ctm it improves the spell to land probability of your draw
also I don't really want permanents besides fae for wishboarding I just want to counter everything and board wipe until opponent rage concedes or runs out of cards
I'm kinda half and half on lapse, buying an extra turn and fucking opponent's draw is pretty good but I wish they didn't ban counterspell cuz I'd just run that instead

anyway the deck's kinda shit but when it works i get roped a lot so it's at least good for trolling

 

[lukaszek]

900 packs discounts are more and more a thing
historic brawl continues to be paid, time limited format

 

[John Keel]

Clear the mind maindeck is garbage, add some Narset she's insane in current meta
Lapse ain't great without tef5ri
Also maybe cut 2 roil for 2 brazen borrower or sharknado

I think ctm is the nuts, every time you cast ctm it improves the spell to land probability of your draw
also I don't really want permanents besides fae for wishboarding I just want to counter everything and board wipe until opponent rage concedes or runs out of cards
I'm kinda half and half on lapse, buying an extra turn and fucking opponent's draw is pretty good but I wish they didn't ban counterspell cuz I'd just run that instead

anyway the deck's kinda shit but when it works i get roped a lot so it's at least good for trolling

Clear the mind isn't nuts, it's total garbage. Use Commit//Memory instead, also you already have Fae to fetch CTM .....
If your absolute goal is to make ppl ragequit, a resolved Nars3t makes ppl concede way faster than anything your deck is currently doing

You realise ppl roping you ain't a win right ? They just afk to take a shit or brew coffee and let you hang, you're wasting YOUR time but w/e

Also if you're hellbent on Fae grind, add Riptide Laboratory, it's insane with bae fae

 

[Jason Liang]

Any ideas on how to make Mind's Desire work? I splurged 3 wildcards on it so far, and even with a stormcount of 11 it was unspectacular.

I tend to get a lot of turn 1 concessions with PO, just by casting Tormod's Crypt or Grafdigger's Cage.

 

[John Keel]

Either try to storm-off with Birgi, Paradox Engine or Bolas Citadel backed by Aetherflux Reservoir ?

If I had to build a Mind's Desire deck I'd try to have high value spells instead of trying to OTK, such as Timewarp, ultimatum etc....

Or you can play some kind of Temur spell based ramp deck, and Overload Mizzix Mastery with desire in the GY

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Clear the mind isn't nuts, it's total garbage.

It's like Dawkins' favorite card though. The heart wants what the heart wants, and at least it isn't wh*te.

 

[John Keel]

Your heart may have Down syndrome then

 

[Jason Liang]

Either try to storm-off with Birgi, Paradox Engine or Bolas Citadel backed by Aetherflux Reservoir ?

If I had to build a Mind's Desire deck I'd try to have high value spells instead of trying to OTK, such as Timewarp, ultimatum etc....

Or you can play some kind of Temur spell based ramp deck, and Overload Mizzix Mastery with desire in the GY

Paradox Engine should probably win by itself if it gets on the battlefield, not sure what Mind's Desire would add to it.
The other issue is at this point in 2021 Mind's Desire just seems to be a bad Emergent Ultimatum. It's only real advantage is that it is less mana intensive (and unlike Ultimatum, improvisable). And even then, with Mind's Desire you are still committed to u/b as the only win-con that makes sense is Tendrils.
Mizzix's Mastery is kind of interesting, since it and Mind's Desire can cast off of eachother. Hitting Mizzix's Mastery off of Mind's Desire is basically the same as hitting a 2nd Mind's Desire (i.e. casting your whole deck) since you can just recast your original Mind's Desire. Maybe Grapeshot?

 

[John Keel]

You don't need a storm-based wincon with mind's desire though, you can go regular midrange-ish value and stack extra turn etc....

Tendril is better with Citadel, mind's desire is better imo with extra turns & planeswalkers.

May kind of work in a temur shell, early game you interact + ramp/explore/spiral, try to ditch mind's desire in the gy with faithless looting then setup for a bigass turn with overloaded Mastery.

It is obviously worse than OTK mastery with sphinx + ultimatum, but if you're dead-set on Mind's desire......

Without any kind of ritual, storm without Citadel is pretty bad anyway , except Birgi I guess but it's mostly on the back of steam-kin + monument

 

[Jason Liang]

You don't need a storm-based wincon with mind's desire though, you can go regular midrange-ish value and stack extra turn etc....

Tendril is better with Citadel, mind's desire is better imo with extra turns & planeswalkers.

May kind of work in a temur shell, early game you interact + ramp/explore/spiral, try to ditch mind's desire in the gy with faithless looting then setup for a bigass turn with overloaded Mastery.

It is obviously worse than OTK mastery with sphinx + ultimatum, but if you're dead-set on Mind's desire......

Without any kind of ritual, storm without Citadel is pretty bad anyway , except Birgi I guess but it's mostly on the back of steam-kin + monument

Yeah. I'm looking at some sort of u/r Chandra tribal with Mizzix, Mind's Desire, and Inspiring Statuary.

 

[Newfag-er]

Why play clear the mind when you have Gaea's Blessing

 

[[UCHIHA]XxDarkSasuke420xX]

very disappointed that you all don't appreciate the awesomeness of clear the mind
apparently none of you have drafted RNA

 

[lukaszek]

strixhaven draft drags forever. I dont run my first quick begdraft to stay in game for 4h lol

yes, bots are generous, 9/10 rares is what you can expect. This counts upshifted too

 

[[UCHIHA]XxDarkSasuke420xX]

o shit i didnt know qucikdarft was up
i just drafted the msot garbage ass deck in premier my god that pod was awful

 

[[UCHIHA]XxDarkSasuke420xX]

angry gobbo boi emote spammed me for 5 minutes ccuz of this :/

note the clear the mind, epic based card

 

[Jason Liang]

First Strix quick draft. I reckon the deck is kind of shit, but I feel like a winner regardless.

 

[lukaszek]

i think you are awarded duplicate award gems for picking banned mystical archive cards. Worked both for dark ritual and channel