Thread 96430546

Mull to three edition

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>News & Reminders
Through the Omenpaths coming out September 23
Alchemy: Edge of Eternities is out
Cori-Steel Cutter is unbanned in Alchemy
New Alchemy rebalances are out
Arena Championship 9 won by Raffaele Mazza (Izzet Cauldron, Italy, he/him)
Arena Anthologies 1 & 2 now available in the store
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-august-25-2025

>Useful Links
https://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA

>TQ
What's your typical turn 1 play?

>TQ
tapland because the shuffler hates me

found what the average mtgag sister consumes for sustenance:

https://youtu.be/ABGv0QLbKys?si=4B4FgDivMKrLFXSS&t=304

>>96430546 (OP)
>>TQ
>What's your typical turn 1 play?
Play 1 evolving wilds and hold priority as I rope my opponent on every interaction and laugh as they get increasingly mad and leave

>>96430546 (OP)
What mono color is competitive in Standard?
I was using a mono green Timmy ramp dino but I want to switch to something better.

Something cheap and wouldn't cost me a shit ton of Wildcards.
Also nothing too complex that requires too many combos.
I was thinking of mono red direct damage spell spam, but IDK...

reminder "standard" decks cost more to make than historic decks

>>96429493
i dont know why
I thoug wizards DEI hires where too stupids to vibe code commander into the client

>>96430727
Mono green landfall or mono red

>>96430546 (OP)
>TQ
polluted delta fetch watery grave thoughtseize

>>96430546 (OP)
island
pass

>>96431340
Standard is fun thobeit

>>96431340
>free
vs
>free
????

does brawl have some win % based matchmaking or something? i feel like any time i win a lot in a row i start to get put into cancer only matches for a while and conversely if i concede a bunch in a row i start getting put against n00bs playing mono white lifegain or some shit

>>96433383
No you're just bad at keeping track of what you're actually playing against or switching decks. It weighs cards and then finds similarly ranked decks as yours to pair you against.

Having bad games? Try standing up and exclaiming, "Wizards of the Coast" out loud into your microphone to increase your User Engagement Score, this will make you more favored by the algorithm for better matches and a free cruise to Mythic, baby.

>if your opponent is red, you win
they should just write this on the cards instead of pretending they exist for any other reason

>>96434982
how do you change an opponent's color to make this card work? I'd prefer if mine were white.

>>96435695
Reprint Sleight of Mind

>>96435695
>>96435730
players aren't permanents or spells or cards.

>>96435882
play that one uncard that turns a player into a card

>>96435882
Maybe you aren't.

>>96435882
then how come they keep getting played by WotC?

>>96430546 (OP)
Duress them and see Omens.

>counter opponents commander with their own counterspell
i will never stop loving chaos wand

it's dead jim

how often do they rotate quick draft? i do not want to play aetherShit

I just played (and won) like an almost mirror match in jump in. We both had the same packs but at least 2 different cards. idk if he had more differences because he still had 13 cards in his deck at the end. It's weird because I didn't realize my 2 best cards, Susurian Voidborn and Liliana were a 50% drop and 20% drop. idk how this deck would work without those 2 cards. he had susurian but I killed it the first turn it was out with embrace obliion and he was winning but I drew vampiric ritual in my opening hand so I was able to out draw him. won with 3 cards left in my deck and I drew liliana my last turn but didn't have to play her to win. not sure if he had liliana. actually what's funny was I won because I kept hold of deadly plot all game because I was afraid of liliana and I used it my last turn to remove his flying defender which brought him low enough for me to voidborn spam him with sacking shit

>>96439107
https://aetherhub.com/MTGACalendar
EOE will start tuesday

>>96439725
it's really weird that one of this game's rigs is forcing you to play against the same deck in limited
i don't understand that one. must be data that shows this somehow leads to paypigging but that feels really counterintuitive to me

your rank, sis?

>>96440851
It forces high tier decks to face off against other high tier decks. This prevents decks from going 7-0. This was most noticeable in Ikoria as cycle decks would face against other cycling decks as it was the strongest deck.

>>96440937
what a fun "format" i'm sure you sisters love it

Kotis cuck

>>96440931
i only play brawl and the 1 draft game from the token you get from the pass, so

>>96441074
highest ranked brawl sister in mt. gag

Historic Brawl is actually the second most popular format on Arena so it’s a bit odd they don’t give it more support. I wouldn’t be surprised if they give it a ranked mode at some point

>>96440931
I have like 200 rare wc and 90 mythic and I don't even want to make any decks because alchemy is trash and standard is somehow even worse. Maybe I'll play standard again in a few sets when Vivi gets banned in November.

>>96440851
>>96440937
>>96440955
what are you talking about? I rarely gave to play money for jump in and if I ever paid real money on mtg arena it was back in like 2018 or 2019. I make enough in game money on jump in I can just rebuy for jump in. they constantly give me free jump in tickets and I have like 130k in game currency

why the fuck is roping so common in this game? are there any formats where people don't rope? I'm just trying to play mythic standard and get my daily wins with a shitty sultai mill deck, why rope against me of all people

>>96445634
I think ropers are more frequently paired against ropers. You must remember to the concede the game because if you exit out the game without conceding you'll still be in the match and the game will consider you roping.

>>96445634
the lower iq the format is, the more low iq players there will be therefore more roping

>>96445771
>said the alchemy player

alchemy is the highest iq format and only iq=<56 troglodytes will disagree

>>96445829
it's a great format for people who are bad at deck building

>>96445838
that's standard too, thouhbeit.

>>96430546 (OP)
>TQ
Hollow fountain tapped, pass.

there goes mr. mtga zone

>>96445829
You have terrible opinions about magic but you are right that it is very underrated. It has a lot of things that other formats do not have, like staple cards that are actively more powerful when you are on the draw and is pretty balanced with a lot of viable archetypes.

>>96440937
>>96440851
>why do you play against stronger decks after getting several wins when the system matches you to opponents with the same number of wins

literal retards

>>96441474
i got to diamond constructed and plat limited with ease before playing brawl, i just don't find the formats appealing anymore sis

>cast 20 blue or black spells
You know what time it is

getting something like emrakul with my commander always feels so funny

>>96433706
Thank you for explaining why my shit jenova deck gets easy games vs the games my Xenagod experiences.

>>96433383
not really, i only feel that if you lose like 5 games in a row you get matched against a bot or some shit but i have a commander with a like 80% winrate from 30 games

>>96440931
>still hasn't posted his wildcards
>still hasn't sold his account
kwab

how to win against black discard deck that uses the little bat fella? just pull straight land until you get a fat creature?

Arena's version of Spider-Punk

>>96448065
It's a 1/1 so you want to look for an opportunity to force it into a fight.
If you're an aggressive deck, you want to ignore the bat and attack, the opponent will eventually be forced to block.
If you are forced into a prolonged fight, you have to remember these rules
-the dedicated discard deck revolves around Bandit's talent. This means that you may never have less than 2 cards in your hand or bad things happen.
-the discard deck does very little damage. You have to be patient and accumulate cards in your hand and then deploy and protect your win condition later.
-you must use either card draw or 2 for 1 cards like Hallowed Healer that bring things back from the graveyard or that spawn tokens.
-creature lands are particularly useful because they serve as lands and then turn into creatures when you need them later
-the discard deck is really heavy on attacking creatures in particular and tends not to handle artifacts and enchantments very well

>>96448211
nigger

>>96448211
The only time it would be okay to put a niggress and call it a black widow or somethig like that and they fumble it.

Any pioqueer fags here? What decks have a nice advantage against orzhov discard?

>kill opponents tifa in response to them cracking a fetch
>they spam the zzz emote for 3 timers and then concede
lole

I have not played in awhile and got all this. What are some fun standard decks that will have some longevity

>>96448691
Whatever version of this thing you want to use. Monoblack Unholy Annex + whatever will remain relevant until 2027.
Aclazotz has been a major part of it and he works with Dubious Delicacy as well, doubling it from 3 damage to 6 damage. The rest of this particular deck are just piles of whatever I've got lying around, pick whatever black strong cards you want.

>>96448691
Build a pioneer deck please. Nobody plays the format, it will last you years.there's like 2 cards from 2025 played in the whole format. Please play it, I can't stand the waiting time anymore. Come on. Please play it. It's fun.

>>96448211
I'm so glad I won't have to look at Spider-punk's dumb ugly face. Instead I'll have to look at the digital-only dumb ugly text boxes.

>>96448580
>orzhov discard
?
Do you mean pixie?

I can't wait to see what kind of burka they give the arena exclusive version

>>96449950
It'll probably be a man

>>96447774
she posted a screenshot from april where she didn't have any rare or mythic WCs. No reason to think she has more now.

>>96449989
black man*

>>96450134
Gay black man*

>>96450134
maybe. The spider-punk alt wasn't really any indication of how the set will be since spider-punk is also a black man.

>>96448211
sideboard for the dumb val trela deck

also horrendous i can make better art in 30 secs with my ai thingy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Olc8UCxA8

"most popular format in arena"

Going first is too big of an advantage.

The most powerful card ever printed.

>>96440931
Is anyone actually in the diamond limited rank? I don’t see how you could consistently dodge the variance of limited.

>>96451989
do you mean specifically for this past month by drafting EoE or...?

>>96449878
No, I meant the Greasefang deck.

>>96452274
Regular black/rakdos midrange, Phoenix, Spirits

Your go.
Your go.
Your go.
Your go.
Your go.

>>96453745
Good game
Good game
Thanks
Hello
There’s a hole in your plan
When nature calls, run
Hello
Hello
Good game

>standard is the joke of the mtg community
>lost half is competitive playerbase in 6 months
>wotc: next qualifier STANDARD

never change

>>96453312
I guess I must be shit at piloting mono B. I'll try phoenix or creativity.

Standard rotation in 2027. Wake me up then.

>>96454261
x-men ub, star wars ub, mlp ub, one piece ub and ygo ub won't be rotating in 2027, sis

>>96454287
I wouldn't mind a MLP UB if it had a UW for digital and only paperfags had to suffer

>>96454301
Why wait?

>>96454325
I'm not a violent person but I'm pretty sure I'd shoot Pinkie Pie in the face with a 12 gauge shotgun and feel no remorse

>>96454301
i was memeing, hasbro has shelved mlp for the next 10 years or so just like dnd but you can replace mlp ub with pokemon ub if someone from wotc is married to jap woman or they suck enough nintendo p1p1

>>96448397
they have to save this idea for when Marvel's Black Widow comes next year with another UB Marvel tie-in.
or they are just regarded and would never think of that

>>96451989
Feels like there’s too much variance in limited formats to get to diamond/mythic. That or it would be an exercise in paypigging.

>>96454973
>Feels like there’s too much variance in limited formats to get to diamond/mythic
Anon you only need to maintain a barely above 50% winrate to both get your gems back and climb. there's no such thing as such great variance that you are deadlocked to a 50/50, even flipping a coin 10 times has a good chance of going positive on heads.

>>96450134
trans gay black man*

>>96455389
there you go, now al you have to go is get some ai art program and submit your resume to wotc and you'll a hired artist

>>96455071
did you factor the game being rigged into your calculations

Im rank one mythic and next week i am having bottom surgery

>>96455679
there we go, submit your application NOW

>>96455071
>5-3 is 50%
Go back to school retard

>>96455939
the average mt. gag sister can't count that's why xyr thinks draft is better than constructed play when it comes to getting gemmies

Mt gag on deez nuts scrubs you always talk about the meta but you never meta girl before

wanted to play brawl after coming home
wtf is this
can they have 1 update where they don't fuck up things

>>96456227
>Emergency maintenance into 1 gb patch
Bro what did you do

ok i can't play any format right now it seems

magic is uh...saved?

can any of you people play right now

>>96456329
oh didn't see this ffs

>>96456272
Spiderman will save us for real this time

through the omenpaths is available for preorder

>>96456458
i will buy the pass as always, that's it

version of cosmic spiderman

"yargle day archievments" available

>>96456458
whoever buys this should be put on a gov list for willing chemical castration

Still cant get into a game.

>>96455679
fixed it for you btw

>>96456806
>im urza

>>96456828
:)

Looks gay as fuck great job bro

>>96456526
will try my luck with this shit for 2 achievs at once when i can play again
for the "eat the world" achiev i guess you need something like traverse the outlands

>>96456458
>>96456488
I don't understand why they can't just get the licensing. Disney owns Spider-Man, Disney allowed and wanted Spider-Man to be in Magic, what is preventing them from putting it on Arena? Hasbro has the money to get what they need and Disney is willing to play ball, so what is the hold up?

>>96457043
$$$

arena is "run" by unpaid interns and minimum wagies

you have to see it to believe it the amount of rigging it's being done to push the val surveil deck

>>96457422
>still hasn't sold the account

Im gonna buy it for a reasonable price but xhe wont give me one

>>96457422
You stupid Baiano

>topdecks the one ring
brawl is a very high skill format

>>96458062
why did the retard even concede?

>>96458166
no sac outlet for his own one ring im assuming though he could have at least drawn 11 more cards in an attempt to find one but maybe he just didnt have one in his deck at all and knew that it was over

man these matches are such rng fiestas with this guy, finally got 2 at once, only 1 left for the emote

>>96458299
wait am i retarded or why didn't i get this shit? i have only yargle in my deck so there is no chance i didn't play any other creature

>>96458318
Hover over the medallion, you have to play at least 5 creatures.

>>96457043
marvel has their own digital card game, so they didn't grant wotc the digital rights to the spider-man set (and other future marvel sets). hasbro said fuck it and went ahead with this clusterfuck of a solution.

>>96458553
Companies are so fucking retarded. Not adding Spider-Man to Magic isn't going to cause people to start playing Snap slop and Spider-Man in Magic isn't going to take away the 50iq tards that play that shit either.

I think id be perfectly fine with this Universes within bullshit if they made physical copies of that too. Market it as an option for people who arent as into the Universes Beyond set. Double their money, and it would make MTGA players feel like they arent playing at the kids table with their made up cards.

Does that mean that there's a plane where population's just filled with spider people? Are there even other creature types in the set, seems like all of them are human lmao. What's the name of the plane?

do these people think their combat tricks gain extra stats if they tank for 1 million years before playing them?
stop wasting so much fucking time, wtf

tfw when you purposefully tank your rank so as to get points instead of the token cause the token is only valid for 1 month and this month's "standard"

>>96459769
I qualified in limited and probably won’t play. I have no desire to play standard it’s genuinely unplayable . Even beyond Vivi the other tier one decks are also lame and unfun to play with or against

>>96459779
>Even beyond Vivi the other tier one decks are also lame and unfun to play with or against

finally a quote from a draftfag i can agree with

>>96459769
>tfw you don't sell your account and instead grind mythic

>>96455939
Never even remotely said that.

>spider people set
>????
>profit

>>96459769
Why do you waste your time tanking instead of just winning in the first place?

>>96461222
That's scuffed Nadu, so it's fine

Is this an actual reference to something from spider-man, or is it just another example of a retarded diversity hire putting random food shit into superhero stuff?

Now that I think of it I guess it could be both.

>>96461579
Probably both. It is jew york after all.

>>96456897
>for the "eat the world" achiev i guess you need something like traverse the outlands
Just got it after queuing up with a 0 land deck like 15 times. Someone finally got the memo.

that has to hurt morale

>>96462522
>actually winning instead of waiting for someone to pity scoop
I tip my hat to you

Who enjoys this yargle garbage? It's hearthstone-level RNG.

>>96462522
miles morales reference??

>>96460633
yeah not buying this mastery pass or the next

also not playing this qualifier or any qualifier with the word "standard" or "sealed" in it

>>96458994
Tell that to the old shits who hold the high seats

nice midweek magic reward

le 'variance' tranny face

>>96458333
OH FFS
why are they such jews

>>96462869
nice

>>96456526
>>96462662
friendly reminder that the Yargle event does NOT give progress towards the Yargle achievements. Thanks Wizards

>Was trying to do the Vanilla monster achievement before they told us it was bugged
>Doesnt even matter because in the event I get 4 monsters on the board they spite concede me.

This Bargler title is fixing to be the rarest title in the game since half the achievements hinge on your opponent not just conceding the moment things dont go their way, which Arena players are famous for doing.

Why is "Vehicles" capitalized but "crews" and "stations" arent?

>>96462887
nice account bro, how much you want for it?

>game bugs and wont let me block
>restart game
>bug is still there
Can someone fucking kill all poojeets?

>>96463850
Because in that text "Vehicles" is referring to the type, which is a proper noun, and "crews" and "stations" are used as verbs.

>>96464050
2 oxen, 5 wagon wheels, 2 axles, 50 bullets and 100 food

>>96464476
if this was true then why isn't "instant" "sorcery" or "spell" capitalized here?

>>96464735
Because those are card types, Vehicle is a subtype. See cards like Tough Cookie, where Food gets capitalized but artifact and creature don't.

What are the lowest CMC Black vanilla creatures available anyway?

>>96465178
https://scryfall.com/search?q=c%3Db+is%3Avanilla+game%3Aarena&order=cmc

Why do the people who play this game hate it so much and act so toxic to one another but simultaneously refuse to play something else?

>>96465178
If you're after the Yargle Vanilla achievement it's currently bugged

the best part about alchemy is that I DON'T HAVE TO FACE GODDAMN FUCKING ELDRAZI RAMP SIX TIMES IN A ROW

>>96465815
Addiction. Don't hold it against them, they literally can't help it.

>>96465815
actually it's cause it's f2p, runs on a potato and it's on mobile so it has just about the same reach as something like genshin except way less appeal cause anime bitches >>>>> tranny hags of diverse colors

Its because the game is infested with stinky filthy brown people shitting up the board and the que. its why it takes two minutes to mulligan because a sub 70 thurdie is trying to read the cards and make a decision. Its why the game is rigged so these subhumans can feel like they are gamers too and are having fun so they might spend money even if it is worth less than real money.

>>96465815
See what I mean, this nameschizo >>96465975 has talked about quitting and selling his account for ages, yet he continues to play every day and post about it too. He even blatantly lies to defend it, the mobile performance is objectively terrible and is well known to not work well on older devices. But he's addicted, so he always finds excuses to keep playing.

fuck off cunt

You can literally go into the previous thread and see his posts about selling the account and how it's really true this time, not even two weeks ago. Sad to see.

Its either play mobile mtg or farm beans what do you expect the shithole thurdie dumbass to do besides shitpost and suck cock at the glory holio

Dirty ass bean eating fucking nigger monkey fuck you

is there an easy way to filter for cards with X in their cost?
if there is one I can't find t

>>96466630
https://scryfall.com/search?q=m%3A%7BX%7D&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name
Add "f:format" to that, where format is the name of the format you're looking at.

there goes ali eldrazi

win so far:
a bunch of arena devs
covertgoshill
altheriax
seth also known as UHPPONENT
alieldrazi
mtgajoe

loses:
cuckiez

heard some low skill individuals here still hasn't completed all the yargle achivements

heard some low skill individuals still haven't reached top 1 constructed ladder

cant hear alchemy shitters due to the sound of my bargling

nevr gonna make it

>still hasn't sold his account
>still hasn't explained why he needs to tank his mmr before getting play in points
>still can't edit card names
kwab

>>96465975
Okay but why do you keep playing? Its not the only f2p game and its not the only game with low spec requirements.

>>96466051
>>96465952
It certainly seems that way. I guess I just don't understand why people would sink so much time and effort into something they claim to dislike.

finally got a non retarded opponent who got the assignment and let us just attack back and forth with lifelinking yargles

>>96465830
>>96463627
no it isn't

can someone explain how is this balanced? also, the landfall green niggers that double their power every time a land enters AND have trample for 3 mana?

I will be chasing this high forever

>>96467684
My worst opponent was a Yargle player who should had understood we could hit each other with lifelink Yargles (could even enchant theirs if we got that understandment) yet first thing that drooling birdbrain did was launch removal into my Yargle once I dropped mine so I threw removal into their Yargle too when they dropped theirs on their turn. Could even let em have the win once their library was empty in case they needed that chievo too but they chose to be pricks first

>>96468883
It doesn't do anything if they don't also have Bloodletter

>>96464476
>>96464799
Makes sense, thanks anon

>>96469005
Hey cool, this is like the prisoners dilemma.

the pioneer play queue just being golgari yargle decks is sovl

I've never had so much fun in my life.

ffs, why rope and lose your own time by staying there

>>96469854
because your deck plays itself

>>96469523
Mono black for me. Got the damage by putting Eternal Thirst on mine and my opponent's Yargle for an extended slap fight.

...Anonymous
09/03/25(Wed)21:18:32 No.96469703
I have a shit ton of wildcards to craft- i haven't logged on to Arena since 2022 and when I logged on today I had a ton of packs. What is the best standard deck to craft for long term viability right now other than that vivi cauldron bullshit?

Also I hear of people winning real booster boxes of paper cards from arena. Is the best way to get that by grinding standard? Is RDW viable in this day and age?

Why is everyone talking about Yargle now? Is there an event of some kind?

>>96470338
Yes

>>96470338
FOMO cosmetics event for Yargle

>>96470392
>>96470357
>cosmetics
Oh okay nevermind then.

>>96470406
Theres a temporary mode to get some free stuff for winning a mirror match with a pre-built Yargle deck

>>96468831
Oh ncie they finally fixed it

Wish you could "rent" cards for some gold/gems, it would make building a deck much easier. MTGO has that no?

>>96470519
imagine caring about achievements

i despise the steam/xbox generation you are almost as bad as nintentrannies

>>96470738
>I don't like magic any more
>I'm selling my account
>

>>96470738
even a broken clock is right twice a day

>>96470738
>imagine wanting to get free stuff on this free game that I play because I like it. couldnt be me.

>>96470754
>>96470757
>>96470797
stop replying the tripfag's low tier bait

I've been trying this second spell deck, it works sometimes but it's fun most of the time.
Anyone have any ideas how to improve it?

>>96470887
>playing vivi: the format

baka

>>96470887
Psionicist is probably a scam, and maybe Poised Practitioner too. Maybe more 1/2 cost interaction is better over their slots. Have they done well for you so far?
I messed around with Taigam a little bit when he first came out. Super fun card and seriously pops off when he's allowed to stick around. Anyway, I recommend trying out a Three Blind Mice or two since the copies come in as tokens so you can just make a shit ton of mice for funsies. Might fit your go wide style with the Cosmogrand and Sage of the Skies.

me personally i just draft. just drafts for me

>>96470909
Psionicist combines with things like sage of the skies. You can drop both of them on turn 4.
Poised practitioner isn't great I knew I'd have to replace it when I put it in, just haven't figured out what. I might craft more sage of the skies and put in those. Sunstar Lightsmith also kinda sucks but I haven't figured out a better card draw. I've considered Caretaker's talent, but that's a turn 3 do nothing when I'm playing a deck that relies on pressure to get anything done.
Taigam's problem is that his best case scenario is copying one 2 cost spell on turn 3, that comes online on turn 7. It's pretty rare for a game to go all the way to turn 7. I included the card because it's a fun and I like it, but I don't think it does anything but attract removal more than one game out of 10 - 15.
> Maybe more 1/2 cost interaction is better over their slots
I'd agonizing over removal because casting spells on my opponent's turn doesn't trigger my second spell triggers. So my best removal are sorceries and enchantments. I've been looking at that nigger drix fatemaker, I've got a couple of those and beyond that maybe banishing light or seam rip or cryoshatter etc.
Or just more creatures.
If I knew how to math properly I'd work out the exact ratio of double spell payoffs to low cost enablers and just do that but I do not actually know how the math works out for these low cost decks.

thanks chat gpt

early in the morning is the absolute worst time ti oplay alchemy cause there's japs and their 15 min ygo solitaire simic decks

>>96471024
get a job

DO NOT actually get a job. That's Jewish propaganda.
t. job haver

are people being ironic/trolling when they say this game isn't rigged?
like, literally queue with mono red and show the game you have a brain. every single fucking game is rigged against me it's actually fucking insane that people tolerate this shit
oh wow i'm on the draw again against a white deck again who gains life every single time they do anything, again! wow! i guess i lost!

You can't just admit to playing mono red and expect sympathy.

>>96471312
if you can't beat your hard-counter on the draw, you're a noob
just get better at the game

>>96471316
15 years ago this sentiment maybe made sense but what's the alternative these days? tifa lockheart into deal 20 damage on turn 3
turn 3 make one million 7/7 dinosaurs
and other clown fiesta bullshit. it's not like mono red is unique in it's non-games at this point. you're just spouting some shit from 2 decades ago

>>96471264
get me one

>>96471289
i have been trying to sell my home for 3 years to buy a cabin in the middle of nowhere and start mailing people bombs as a hobby

>>96471359
The top deck right now is white/red and the follower alternates between blue/black Kaito, green/white rabbits and then the various faggotry control decks. Then you get to Vivi (which is actually a best of 3 deck it doesn't perform in standard best of 1 that the majority of people play).
Monowhite life gain is characteristic of lower ranks where it is by far the most dominant deck which is why your dumb ass keeps running into it. Play monogreen poison or green/black poison to get out of the lower ranks, then once you're past 90% Mythic you can try something else.
The best ranking deck is artifact printer btw. but that requires a bunch of rares.

thank chat gpt

>>96471428
>makes up random stats and expects them to be taken seriously
>unreasonably hostile
why are are all transsexuals like this

>>96471316
I play a dimir discard deck
I used to feel bad for my opponents, but forcing them to discard platinum angels, ulamogs and ugins is a lot of fun

>>96471886
>discard
>no graveyard exile

ye is fun to life/death them

>>96470825
but he is right. Chievo chasers are all sub 50 iq zoomer retards

>>96472089
>no graveyard exile
why would I prevent them casting permanents from their graveyard? it's so much more fun when i bounce it back to their hand and then force discard

>still hasn't sold his account
>still hasn't explained why he needs to tank his mmr before getting play in points
>still can't edit card names

reason to live:

1. antagonize urza
2-999 ???

>>96473042
>what are etbs

>>96473223
It's not antagonizing to ask you normal questions like why do you need to tank your mmr and why haven't you figured out how to edit card names.

>>96472959
>t. is too dumb to do achievements
stop projecting your iq

>brawl
>opponent is playing Vivi
>if I kill it they scoop
>if I can't I'm in for a round of solitaire

That is the name of the shit format I play, yes

btw there's no way to change cardnames unless the tranny proves it and posts a tutorial for analysis

>wins me jump in games despite the other guy having a much better board state
haha, nothing personal, trannies

imagine playing BLACK and drawing instead of tutoring

>Achievement for winning with only textless creatures
>It doesn't count unless you play 4 or 5 of them during a game
>Magic is so degenerate that all matches are over by turn 3 and most people would rather scoop than waste time so even if you're winning you'll never get it
I swear to Christ WotC sits around thinking about the most annoying fucking shit they can put in Arena

>>96474906
skill issue

>>96474906
>I swear to Christ WotC sits around thinking about the most annoying fucking shit they can put in Arena

don't forget this is what they are paid to do instead of building on the arena client so it leaves the pre-alpha tage before the game becomes a decade old

>>96474906
Not their fault the user base is full of toxic retards whose ego can't handle seeing their life total go below 1

>>96473473
vivi, rofellos, nadu, ugin is insta concedes to me usually. i aint about that lyfe, i dont want to get cancer at the ripe old age of 40

>>96471312
Human beings have a cognitive bias in games where if they don't win 90%+ of the time they think its 'rigged'.

Its sort of like how everyone had that little cousin who sucked at card games but would accuse people of cheating when they lost.

>arena proven rigged for years
>some condescending noob wants to play the psychiatrics/psychology 1st semester rookie

this is precisely the kind of sheep wotc preys on

>>96475068
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the daily win system. No way incentivizing you to win for your gold actually makes a difference. Never in a million years.

>>96475148
yeah the system with the bare minimum rewards for wins actually makes the toxic actually. have you ever met a person that plays mtg

Just got to diamond after starting playing last week. This is hell. Just try hard decks copy and pasted. Grim.

>>96475094
all of you "not rigged" advocates depend on made-up strawmen like this
no one, not a single soul on earth, is talking about having a 90%+ winrate or being salty because they lack it. you literally just made that up. and granted, i understand you were being hyperbolic, but the point is, no one was talking about this. you just made it up. i'm not salty that my winrate isn't 90%, 80%, 70%, or even 60%+. i'm not salty about winrates at all. i'm salty about the game being rigged in an obvious way. i'm not complaining that i can't climb, or that it's too difficult to win, or anything like this. reminder: you made that part up because your argument depends on the strawman
but it's okay, i don't expect to ever convince your kind that the game is rigged. you people will believe in santa until the day you die. and that's fine.

I genuinely can't decide if omenpaths is the best idea or the worst idea of all time

>>96475288
it's fucken slop trash with ai art of tranny hads (male) of diverse ethnicities and absolutely not worth replacing the art/names (yes i know how to do it but you don't)

honestly changing it back to spiderslop should be a paid endeavor but i'm sure some janny-tier cuck will do it for free, post it then take it out after a few days cause of fear from hasbro

oh and the best part is that giga cucks on reddit are actually defending omenpaths and saying they'd rather have it cause 'is no capeshit lmao'

the level of self-humiliation these fools are at is nintendo fan class

>tfw been climbing with this nonsense but now I'm out of platinum its not cutting it
Honestly crazy that it does so well with no big threats

7 Swamp (FIN) 301
1 Hollow Marauder (OTJ) 90
2 Outlaw Medic (OTJ) 23
1 Scavenger Regent (TDM) 90
9 Plains (FIN) 294
2 Guardian of the Great Door (LCI) 16
2 Consumed by Greed (BLB) 87
1 Cease // Desist (MKM) 246
1 Fiendish Panda (FDN) 120
1 Vincent Valentine (FIN) 125
1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket (OTJ) 109
1 The Darkness Crystal (FIN) 96
1 Dust Animus (OTJ) 9
1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary (FIN) 243
1 Scoured Barrens (DFT) 263
3 Shadowy Backstreet (MKM) 268
1 Rise of the Dark Realms (FDN) 183
1 Split Up (DSK) 32
1 Unstable Glyphbridge (LCI) 41
1 Come Back Wrong (DSK) 86
2 Miner's Guidewing (LCI) 24
3 Jackdaw Savior (BLB) 18
1 Ultima (FIN) 38
1 Requisition Raid (OTJ) 26
1 Hunted Bonebrute (MKM) 87
3 Gloryheath Lynx (DFT) 14
2 Not Dead After All (WOE) 101
1 Bleachbone Verge (DFT) 250
1 Godless Shrine (EOE) 254
1 Enduring Innocence (DSK) 6
1 Insatiable Avarice (OTJ) 91
2 Undercity Dire Rat (FIN) 123
1 Sothera, the Supervoid (EOE) 115
1 Avishkar Raceway (DFT) 249
1 Bitter Triumph (LCI) 91
1 Clarion Conqueror (TDM) 5

>>96474251
imagine needing to tank your mmr to win play in ponts

>>96461579
Lol imagine not living in New York and getting mad at a bagel

>esl idiot with 6 yr old level english still doesn't understand i tanked my rank to not get the qualifier token and get the play-in tokens instead cause i ain't playing standard

you should be required to take a grammer and reading comprehension test in order to post here

>>96475498
>i tanked my rank to... get the play-in tokens
tanked and spanked

hola please give premodern. its the one thing we have that we didnt steal from Portugal

never gonna get higher than a1 'proficiency'

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-september-1-2025

September Qualifier Weekend Format: Standard

September 6: Best-of-One Play-In
September 7: Bonus Play-In (Edge of Eternities Sealed)
September 12: Best-of-Three Play-In
September 13–14: Qualifier Weekend

>>96475522
jannies pls

>>96475527
>begging for jannies after calling other people esl
kwab

>>96473607
>seething this hard over not being able to change letters

>>96475488
I get on my knees and thank Jesus Christ every day that I don't wake up in NYC.

>>96470897
nta, Im bronze and play unranked standard because its the quickest way to do dailies.
I think Ive seen Vivi like 2 or 3 times total.

What's the best way to grind up the standard ladder? Do 1 off games work or is it better to go 2/3?

>>96476520
How do I play ranked standard? I haven't logged on this shit since 2022

>>96477152
I find it easier to do bo3 since you gain/lose two pips at a time instead of one. The players are better though, so you might want to do bo1 aka shitter queue for a bit if you're rusty

>>96477159
Click "Play" on the bottom right of the menu > Find Match > Ranked > Standard

>doing the rat colony strategy for 20 matches
>keep getting matched against rat colony decks but less budget than mine so I keep losing
>decide fuck it, put poison the water and zero point ballad in my deck in case I fall behind
>stop playing against rat colony
>suddenly start playing against removal.dek brawl decks
I hate this event

What are the best common or uncommon alternatives to Emberheart Challenger that are legal in standard, for RDW?

What the hell is the point of the mail system if it just gives you a link that takes you out of the game?

>>96478442
It's less work to give you a link to one page than it is to make two identical pages.

Are there any viable izzet tempo decks in timeless/historic?

>>96478517
google izzet wizards
arclight phoenix is cringe (in my opinion)

>opponent roping because I drew a playable card after 5 lands off the top while he drew all gas
why is mtg such a manbaby game

>>96478800
Because draft is a navy format

This took half an hour. He got bored first even though he'd probably win eventually. Because his deck had like a hundred cards for some weird reason while I was down to 20.
Also that's Elspeth on the right hidden by the stack.
I also got the 12 artifacts or enchantments achievement out of it because of the drones.

>>96480059
Highly unlikely he'd win, you make chump blockers every turn for the pridemates, plus have actual card advantage. Not to mention requisition raid to get rid of the lifelink on the big pridemate, you outscale the healing.

Remember to do all the dailies, because ICR seed is increased at the very end.

>>96478270
Asking this again. Until I get enough rare wild cards, I need a creature to fill in for emberheart challenger that's common or uncommon. Right now im running 4 magebane lizards in the spot but I need a 2 drop that's more aggro

>>96480240
Probably heartfire immolator or brazen collector.

>>96480318
Ty

>>96480240
Picnic Ruiner, Viashino Pyromancer, and Cunning Coyote are worth considering. Picnic Ruiner really shines if you are playing a list with more pump spells, which I assume you are since you're on a budget list.

>>96480240
Your first 40 rarecrafts should be shocklands

Stock RDW in standard has 22 rares and 6 mythics. All for a deck that will be pushed out with a new busted standard set. Craft smarter. Craft shockies and play eternal formats. RDW in Pioneer has 15 rares and 4 mythics. Literally a cheaper version with a bigger share of the meta and you fags (gay people) still play standard for reasons unknown.

>>96480532
>>96480630
>crafting lands
lmao

Rape

>play rat colony in brawl
>apparently matchmaking thinks 50 rats and a couple of uncommons is on the same powerlevel as full power Urza and Emry decks
Okay

where's the fun in a pure control deck? not creature control or artifact/enchanment control, just throwing 12 board wipes and 16 counter spells in a deck and having some win condition that you'll never even get to play because your opponents will quit out of boredom before you do

Why is there no
>fucking kill yourself you roping tranny
emote?

>>96481944
The fun is in seeing you sperg out while I lol and lmao at the situation on rhe stack.

>>96481989
this
played against someone earlier who missed some lands and he went on to rope every single turn while i was just watching podcasts for 20 minutes or so and i won
didn't even bm him before winning because i just felt bad for him in the end for putting so little value on his own time, but holy shit

>>96482025
i don't suppose you'd give me a serious answer?
i play the game to have fun and i hope most other people do too and i just don't see the fun in having 0 interaction

>>96482055
I just played against some fucking mill faggot who was roping for some reason even though I had unblockable on the field. like there was no reason to fucking rope because he had no way to win

>>96482094
was probably just hoping that you'd get tilted enough to concede, like the one i played against
on the one hand, that makes me think elo means a lot more to him than it does to me but on the other i just can't give him the satisfaction

>>96482141
I play jump in, I don't think it even keeps track of win loss

>>96482168
that guy was a giga loser then

>>96482074
What do you mean by 0 interaction, my whole deck is interaction and I have to constantly gauge the level of threat and how to answer it. I have to have the counters for every deck I see, be it tempo, aggro, midrange or combo. I have to contantly read what the opponent's presenting with his land drop order, and his play patterns. What high-brow giga-IQ deck are you playing? Get good, sperging about control is the biggest newfag signal.

Wait all cards have been revealed already? It's such a small set? Not that i'm complaining, but what the fuck are they doing?

>>96482312
>hmmm, do i play my counter spell for a 1/1 1 drop when my opponent has 4 untapped lands?
>do i play one of the three cheap board wipes in my hand now or when i'm dead?
i've mained control in every other tcg i've played in the last decade but it's just boring as fuck in mtg unless it's creature/artifact/enchantment control, where i'm not not just playing solitaire

>>96482364
>three cheap board wipes in my hand
You've never played control and it shows, don't embarrass yourself further.

>>96482450
far more embarrassing to out yourself as an autist who doesn't understand sarcasm

>>96440931
But I keep reading it's impossible to go infinite with drafting.

So, thunder junction or EoE for Premier draft? Which one do you guys think is easier to win in? Too swingy? too lopsided to a few colors?

thinking for more than 2 seconds is insanely selfish

>>96482358
https://youtu.be/Nms5vaZ_4-k?si=tvyx0Hfc850Pf0h7
This video explains what happened with the Spiderman set

So how the fuck am I supposed to do the win with no lands quest if I don't have the wildcards to build an entire fucking charbelcher deck?

>>96482725
There's a separate Arena thread, anon. Ask there.

Holy esl

>>96482738
Anon, this is the arena thread.

>>96482751
Xyr forgot to direct the bot to right thread baka

>>96482751
Oh then, I have two watched so I jump between. Carry on.

I had another cocksucker try to slow play mill me. why do all the mill players play so fucking slow? I beat him with 4 or 5 cards left in my deck because I had that void born who does 1 damage +1 heal when a creature dies and the ghoul that lets you sac creatures for +1/+1 counters

>>96482703
11:54 holy fuck, even this guy has children?
it's over for me

>>96483012
It's literally his wife's son.

>>96482725
You just play with MDFCs and moxen until you get a fast enough start your opponent rage scoops because you used removal on his commander

>>96481989
I use these.

>>96483366
i primarily use tarkir basedjak pointing + sleeping zendikar hexadron + laughing wolves

>time for some Bo3 draft
>opponent mulls to 5
>scoops it up as soon as his 2 creatures are both dealt with
>game 2
>mulls to 5 again
>hits me with a good game and concedes
Now this is real magic

>quick draft
>open two sunset saboteurs
>cruise to 7 wins
it's just that easy

>play Bloodletter
>opponent commits suicide with Bitter Triumph because he doesn't know he takes double damage
He had 4 cards in hand, all he had to do was discard one and not kill himself

>>96484445
lol, my first eoe draft i also opened 2 of them and despite the rest of my deck being absolute garbo, the saboteurs still got me to 6 wins.

>come home from vacation
>see this
what now jews

>>96485978
same on my phone...

we did it sisters

it only took us 8 days and we reached the bump limit

and only half of it was posts from people who sold their account and quit playing

>>96486620
>nearly 60 posts
yoikes

>>96487053
why would you play a mill deck and not plan for your best cards to be milled?

GABAGE EVENT
FUCK THIS YARGLE AUTISM

>>96487193
it's jump in, that's my only mill card and I have no way of recovering nonzombie cards from the graveyard. it's just a really fucking ass card for that pack. I think there are 3 cards that are supposed to work with the graveyard and I only have 1 of the 3.

Finally got a Kuja deck together

>>96487562
>off color fetches in brawl
disgusting

>>96487601
how are they off color?

>>96487641
They're not RB

>>96487562
You can play fetchlands also in commander since the land itself doesn't have a mana symbol, the only important part is being able to fetch one of your commanders color

>>96487687
>You can play such* fetchlands

FRESH THREAD
>>96487796
>>96487796
>>96487796
>>96487796
>>96487796

Craziest raredraft ever
I won't even be mad if i go 0-3 here
Honestly though I'm shocked how late some of these rares/mythics were floating around

>>96489683
ended with a 4-3
Misplayed a couple of times, but I'll take it

>>96443649
They're bringing multiplayer "Commander"/Brawl to the game eventually (sometime this year or next, IIRC), so I'm pretty sure historic/legacy is going to get a boost for that format since it's the only thing carrying Magic at this point (for the worst).

>>96445634
There is no penalty for it. Arena should adopt the timer that MODO and Pokemon:TGC:Live have.

>>96448211
>Fumble the biggest non-X-men license
>because you can't convince Marvel (Disney) to compete with their shitty mobile game
I seriously don't get it: Why agree to doing the expansion if you can't get all your ducks in a row?

>BUT THE MONEY!
You can literally get another I.P. (shit, FF is fucking selling better than they thought it would) to replace Spider-man. It's Marvel's loss, not yours at that point.

>>96456272
Is that Commander? Because if not, why the fuck would Wizards care?

The cancer that is killing Magic: the Gathering.