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I never play this card, but it's so powerful for one mana.

• Gains you life (good vs aggro + lifegain synergies)
• Slows down red hasty aggro
• Singlehandedly pushed Urabrask's Forge out of the meta
• Pulls the brakes on convoke (and Ixalan taps)
• Pushes back blockers 1 turn if you rely on those to survive in ramp control decks

I always think "oh, that's going to be a bit annoying" when they drop it on turn one, then I lose to it over the game.

Got killed after this because they top decked a haste flyer and I was low on health.

I'm wondering since it isn't caused by an attack if it's considered non-combat.

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Disregarding the possibility of course that they may not viable for the format you're playing in.

For me it will come down between Sultai and Abzan, since both tend to play with the graveyard which is my absolutely favorite thing to experiment with in Arena.

Although I must confess, for the first time, I take an interest in Mardu. I am usually not much for playing with tokens, but something about the released cards has my curiosity. I may at least give that a try.

How about you?

I paid the 4000 gold for this art style and it says its not in my collection did i just waste gold?

i hate rakdos so much. mono red is not even the boogeyman of the format. mono b devotion felt really good in the meta. let me know if you have any piloting questions!

I’ve been really enjoying returning to MTG, albeit digitally! However, the cards are shockingly more powerful than they were when I began playing as a teenager (dating myself, OG Innistrad).

I remember [[Thragtusk]] / [[Restoration Angel]] combos and [[Geist of Saint Traft]] being considered broken / OP. Those cards are tame compared to the stuff I see in Standard today 😂

Most Arena games are either over or basically decided by turn 5, and not just when fighting RDW. Maybe that’s intentional, it is a mobile game so I get it.

I wonder if there’s much room for janky combo decks that work like 2/10 times anymore, or silly themed decks.

I would have conceded, too, but it is done now.

Anyone got any cards they think are gonna change up the standard meta? Personally I think a lot of the cars in the set are a little too durdly for the really fast paced meta we have now, but I'd like to hear some other opinions

I've only really played draft IRL once (for Bloomburrow, since I love that set to death) but I largely prefer constructed Commander/Brawl style formats that focus on big synergies. Now that I'm playing Arena, though, I want to get better at it since it's pretty much the only way to get a meaningful amount of gold without waiting for weeks.

The problem? I have no idea where to begin. I tried out MKM draft after saving up 5k gold, and I got absolutely pounded. I try to identify synergies and look up tier lists and whatnot, but almost every time I end up getting brick walled by some creature I can't deal with and ultimately my opponent runs away with the game. I think a major issue with my approach is that while I can find plenty of tier lists of what cards/strategies are good, they don't tell me anything about why those cards are good or if they only work best with certain other cards.

To those who have more experience with draft, what videos, articles, or other sources do you recommend I check out? Also, if there's any particular draft environments that are more beginner friendly I'd love to hear recommendations. Thanks!

Had my ramp deck turned against me. Took like 5min for all the effects to trigger but no way was I going to resign when my opponent had the chance to swing for this much damage!

I played the paper game in the mid-late nineties; I came on board just as Mirage was released, and stayed with it until mid-1999 when I realized that as a newlywed with a son on the way, the game was just too expensive for me to keep up.

Pretty much ignored the game in the following years until about six months ago, when I got a new PC, the first one I ever had with a good enough graphics card to run this game smoothly.

I love how the game works, but after another few months at the game, playing primarily with an Orzhov Standard deck that I like the feel of, that I don't think I'm ever going to be good at it.

I try to spend as little money as possible, collecting packs and wildcards at the pace that playing for free-ish allows me, but every good deck out there is chock-full of rares and mythics that I just don't have and can't get at a fast enough pace. Then when I finally am able to put together a deck that I like that works in the meta, that meta has passed it by and moved on to something even better.

I've never really had much of a mind for strategy. I know the rules of chess, for example, but the ability to see five and six moves ahead and set up gambits and stratagems seems beyond me. Unfortunately the amount of Rube-Goldberg style decks where there are nine or more cards on the board that all interact and synergize with each other, taking four minutes to complete a turn while I'm sitting there waiting to place another swamp is intensely frustrating.

Does this come to people in time, or is the game simply to fast for me to keep up?

Just want to say thank you to whoever designs arena cube. This is the best iteration yet! The card choices have been great and trying multiples of lands has been a very interesting experience that I think is positive.

I've yet to find an archetype that doesn't feel viable and have had successful decks with just about everything including even monocolor which surprised me with all the great fixing.

I’m not normally one to post trophies but this felt like shooting the moon and is too cool not to share. I usually see sealed as a bomb reliant format so this was extra satisfying.

I'm asking because things like Shifting Woodland and other things seems to lock it out.

I checked the meta on Aetherhub. In the top 100 decks (Basically anything that's played that's 1% or more of the meta, there's no control). Is there anything for the archetype that's viable?

probably not the most crazy stash, but it makes me so sad when my friends complain about not having wcs and it makes them wanna play less. especially since i got this from 90% free play

After reading up more I decided to just do Quick Drafts because they are easier and no time limits. But I do know it's against bots, so are there any strategies I should know about?

I read somewhere that the bots don't hate draft, and they also don't utilize synergies that effectively. Is this true?

I was not doing well, until my rival decided to pray to the RNG, dropping Exquisite Blood on my field, and I barely had enough forests to activate Archdruid's Charm and start the magic

Went from 2hp vs 33 hp to what you see here

Boy it feels dirty when it works like that

Hello everyone! This past friday i went to my local lgs and played the prerelease. As I understand, the new policy is, you login to companion using the same account you play arena with. I did that, but no packs showed up in my mail box ingame. Will they appear only after the prerelease event is over or do I need to contact my lgs or wotc? Thanks!