Magic the Gathering Arena

[Catacombs]

Might not be what you want depending on what you're looking for since the temporary nature of 4chan threads means it's a lot of casual conversation and bitching.

I want something more longterm. 4chan is good for those quick hits.

 

[Gyor]

The Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur's Gate's pre-release kit comes with arena codes (expansion code CLB) so cards from CLB might be coming to Arena.

CLB is bringing back dice rolling and dungeons (a new Dungeon called Undercity).

I am getting tired of folks bitching about the set being in FR, crying about the deep lore of MtG. Deep lore my ass, Elminister has had shits that have more lore then MtGs shallow as fuck settings. It never occurs to these folks that WotC doesn't, want to use up all the old characters that never got card in a single year, especially when Brothers War s coming later this year, plus at least 2 Brothers War Commander Decks.

Little skeptical on bringing commander-specific cards to historic brawl, but I guess they might not be that backbreaking since a lot of good commander cards are built for multiplayer and since hbrawl's 1v1 a lot of powerful commander cards are probably shit for it. Also talking out of my ass since I have no clue what's in the Baldur's Gate commander stuff to begin with, I guess it might also be like secret lair codes that just give sleeves in Arena.

I don't give much of a damn about MTG lore but I do prefer non-brand planes. But D&D at least meshes with MTG better than inexplicably cyberpunk Kamigawa even though Kamigawa's a previously existing MTG plane and I even enjoyed this new set, but tone-wise it's less jarring for someone to play Minsc than it is some generic flying mech. God knows what the 20's wizard gangsters will be like in the next set but in theory I'd still feel like D&D gels with MTG easier even if I prefer new planes and just doing whatever the fuck. Still will be happy with more Dominaria and potentially phyrexians (Since they've been showing up) just because I'm not above some old man pandering but I've been having fun with the new shit like strix/kaldheim/eldraine so eh.

Arena is getting it's own Baldur's Gate set in July 7th, Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate, a mix of straight up cards from Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB), cards from CLB that have been modified for 1 on 1, and new digital only cards. We are talking about hundreds of new cards.

And it's getting it's own season with Mastery Pass, Draft modes, etc... (Maybe a Brawl Draft).

I finally figured out what the Horizons means in these set titles btw, it's sets that skip Standard to go straight into none eternal formats. Modern Horizons 1 & 2 straight to Modern, Jumpstart: Historic Horizons when straight to Historic, and Alchemy Horizons sets (because we know AH: BG won't be the last Alchemy Horizons, I think these will be what Arena gets in the Summer when something like LotR set isn't happening instead).

Possible future Alchemy Horizons: Include Alchemy Horizons: Un-Verse, Alchemy Horizons: Warhammer 40k, etc...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articl...mander-legends-battle-baldurs-gate-2022-03-24


PS to all the doubters I was right bitches!

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Arena is getting it's own Baldur's Gate set in July 7th, Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate, a mix of straight up cards from Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB), cards from CLB that have been modified for 1 on 1, and new digital only cards. We are talking about hundreds of new cards.

And it's getting it's own season with Mastery Pass, Draft modes, etc... (Maybe a Brawl Draft).

Nothing against Baldur's Gate but I hate alchemy and I dislike alchemy stinking up historic. I guess if they add pioneer there'll be an eternal format on Arena without too much fuckery until they inevitably make Pioneer Masters or whatever. That date seems suspicious too, gangster set is supposed to be late April so this BG alchemy set would be butting up close against Dominaria I'd think. I guess one potential bright side is when alchemy gets basically entire sets like this it differentiates it from standard even more so maybe, MAYBE it'll kill alchemy and then people just have to suffer with it in historic. Since it's not really just "Standard but we're trying to make it a digital card game" if you're dropping sets with hundreds of cards in.

 

[lukaszek]

i doubt its hundreds of digital only cards, id guess its more about bringing staples to arena

 

[Newfag-er]

Make moar cards get moar money ez

 

[lukaszek]

historic is getting more and more ridiculous. None of my decks that I considered fun-ish were able to climb to gold during first days. Actually had to switch over standard

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

historic is getting more and more ridiculous. None of my decks that I considered fun-ish were able to climb to gold during first days. Actually had to switch over standard

Just been forcing myself to play some Izzet phoenix to drag myself into gold constructed and for knocking out dailies. Tolerably fun to play, fairly quick, fairly effective. If it wasn't for the F2P pain of losing daily gold/gems/card accumulation I'd probably take a break from Magic for a while since I haven't had a deck that really hit the spot since probably Jadar historic brawl, and that one's finally worn off for me. Then again I guess I'll probably have fun doing limited in the new set if it's at least as good as Kamigawa. Just gotta keep spinning my wheels until then.

 

[Scruffy]

FunIsntFree

AlwaysFinishTheJob

ReadTheFinePrint

InformationIsPower

CrimeIsAnArtForm

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

FunIsntFree

AlwaysFinishTheJob

ReadTheFinePrint

InformationIsPower

CrimeIsAnArtForm

Thanks for mentioning those, aren't too shabby for sleeves. Bonus points for not having MAGIC THE GATHERING ARENA plastered on to them.

 

[lukaszek]

Bonus points for not having MAGIC THE GATHERING ARENA plastered on to them.

looks like they received the feedback, still id hope they would remove it from old sleeves

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Bonus points for not having MAGIC THE GATHERING ARENA plastered on to them.

looks like they received the feedback, still id hope they would remove it from old sleeves

That'd be nice. That's the biggest sleevekiller for me and I have no fucking idea why they did that shit to so many of them

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

MTG Arena: State of the Game – Streets of New Capenna | MAGIC: THE GATHERING (wizards.com)

TLDR summary: "Explorer" is a format made up of all pioneer legal cards on MTGA (No fuckery with alchemy) as a non-rotating format that will eventually just be pioneer once they add the rest of the cards.

 

[lukaszek]

strong words for basically turning the clock on historic backwards

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Fingers crossed that MTGA doesn't shit the bed with the new set, since I haven't done any limited this month so I'll try to bang out a high roller draft on the new set for my welfare packs. I guess the new set leans toward 3-color factions which may mean slower decks so it may pay off to be a one or two color asshole and be as aggro as possible. Haven't looked over the cards enough to have a decent idea how feasible that is but it'll probably be my initial plan.

 

[Kjaska]

I hope all aggro assholes like you only get matched with other assholes at launch.

 

[lukaszek]

lulz thats draft 1:1 - is set in question slow or fast? Removal heavy? Cowperson is making prediciton that its going to be slow. Question is whether there are enough cards to support aggro, or its better to grab that 1 slow 3 color combination that will shat all over others.

My plan is usually to go gold/plat 2 months in a row when sets releases. Paired with mastery it seems enough to get nearly 1x of everything. Only things im missing is jumanji and that rare black land. Even after crafting them I'll still be ahead.

I will probably spend more gold on jumpstart than quick draft. I uh... actually have blex hb deck and its one thing I still didnt get. Decided to give it last try when latest set gets added

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Question is whether there are enough cards to support aggro, or its better to grab that 1 slow 3 color combination that will shat all over others.

That's more of a long-term question for me since I've only half-assed glanced over the new cards. Get a much better sense of what's in a set after I play a few drafts and then I can start making educated decisions on archetypes to shoot for and shit like that. When I don't know what the fuck's going on it's a lot more loosey goosey, I'm just leaning a lot more toward aggro since if this is promoting multi-color shenanigans I'm assuming there's room to go under 'em.

Good call on the jumpstart though, I'll have to do some of that too. I generally play until I get one full whiff which since I played a lot earlier means it'll probably be quick, but that still worked to get me first copies of the wandering emperor and the ninja walker and shit like that. In fact the only Kamigawa mythics I didn't get ANY copies of are Tezzeret, Jin Gitaxias, and Tamiyo which is a mild pain in the ass since they all seem like good shit for historic brawl. Better than goddamn blade of the oni anyway. Tezzeret in particular since one of these days I should make an artifact hbrawl deck and I assume the merfolk chick is in the gud gittin professional cardist tier commanders.

 

[lukaszek]

Tezzeret in particular since one of these days I should make an artifact hbrawl deck and I assume the merfolk chick is in the gud gittin professional cardist tier commanders.

i own a number of artifact hb decks, its actually where majority of my wc were spent. I must say that Tezzeret one is fav of them all so far - strong synergies, much draw. Probably not the strongest though, nothing beats ramp to ulamog commander

 

[Scruffy]

PlaySNC of course

 

[lukaszek]

20k spent on jumpstart, waay to many whiffs. I did managed to get ob nixis and 60% vault progress lol.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Nice bant deck with multiple rares including the bant soul of emancipation. Would be a shame if you got nibbled to death by weenies with an unblockable 1/1 fish getting you down to 3 so a grixis charm could finish you off with a deck with no rares.

Not overly thrilled with my deck since it isn't as aggressive as it should be but I did snag two copies of the charm so I've got 6 points of face burn potentially available, and I drafted 3 fucking copies of murder because it felt like no one else in the draft was taking any black cards so that's nice. It doesn't fit my gameplan at all but I did draft "Cut your losses" which is a 6 mana "Opponent mills half his deck" card that you can copy if you sacrifice a 2+ power creature which I allllllmost want to run because halving a deck twice in limited sounds good, but since all my creatures are cheap garbage I couldn't stall out very well except for my removal.

Fluff-wise I like the look of the new set at least. Despite the pseudo 20's thing going on it isn't as jarring as Kamigawa. Biggest complaint I've got other than the usual old man bitching of BACK IN MY DAY THE ARTISTS RAN WILD AND FREE is that stylistically it feels too similar to Strixhaven and some of the "Big honkin' city" stuff going on in some of the art feels too Ravnica. Am digging it though. Haven't played enough to weigh in on the set mechanically but I like the look of it more than most of the other stuff they've done recently.

Edit: Nice, also picked up Ob Nix in jumpstart! Only done a couple runs of it but my only whiff was getting a 5th copy of the mythic rat ninja so at least it was a 40 gem whiff.

 

[Kjaska]

I like how the Thriving type lands are now the proper colour at first and change into dual-colour once you select the second. Real neat and shows there is some technical guy in there working, caring and actually playing the game.

I don't like how after cyberpunk, we get another non-fantasy theme back to back with this mafia shit.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I like how the Thriving type lands are now the proper colour at first and change into dual-colour once you select the second. Real neat and shows there is some technical guy in there working, caring and actually playing the game.

Yup. It's also nice how we get that little counter next to cards that want X number of cards, card types, CMCs, etc in the graveyard and/or in exile. Can be slightly weird if you have a couple counters counting different things but still less of a hassle than bringing up your yard and totting it up on the fly. For all the stuff that's fucked in the MTGA client it is nice when you get the occasional handy piece of interface.

Also noticed the new format's live so I probably should throw my historic decks in the trash and start making some decks for explorer. Mild shame since I spent so much on jumpstart when they had the modern horizons cards in there so I could get playsets of near everything but that was before they fucked historic up so such is life. Don't really know what to expect in explorer but I might do something dumb like go for simic self-mill. Self milling's always a good time and I haven't done that in ages. Especially if wilderness rec isn't banned so I can just load up on card draw, fog, and Jace.

Edit: Ah, it's banned. Should've expected it. May fuck around with it anyway.

 

[Gyor]

New Capenna really feels like a Brawl set to me. I've already made a bunch of new Brawl decks and am having a blast.

First my Cabaretti Enchantress Deck, Commander is Jinnie, Jetmir's Second, and it's mostly filled with Enchantments, especially ones that produce any kind of token, plus some general Cabaretti stuff like their Courtyard, Charm, Ascendancy, Jetmir & his Garden. Tons of fun. I spent a wild card to play get her.

Then it was Jaxin that mono red Riveteer that is Blitz focused. First red commander that is actually really good at card draw.

Third was Raffin, just threw shit together just to try her and won the one game played with her. I got her from a pack.

Then a for shits and giggles I tried Mr. Orfoe, the Boulder a uncommon I got cracking packs. Mostly a mix of Green ramp and Dragons. 4 or 5 games with him so far and only lost once. Why is this card an Uncommon?

 

[lukaszek]

speaking of aggro, try this if you want quick wins in h brawl:
https://aetherhub.com/Deck/kapteeni-ripley

normally im not the one for aggro, but in here you get not played commander and deck that focuses on synergies. You know, as opposed to random value piles that are common now.
I wish planeswalkers get banned from being commanders. You see mainly planeswalkers now and random board wipe piles