Magic the Gathering Arena

[lukaszek]

from constant effects you also have those options:
rampaging ferocidon
tibalt
tainted remedy
kalitas
roiling vortex if you are willing to save extra mana
there are some instant spells too.

Anyway it seems you are interested in mono red aggro, in which case rampaging ferocidon is standard choice

 

[Jason Liang]

The art quality and production value is noticeably higher this set (duh). Love it, despite all the identity politics shoved in. I'm still not buying their pass, because it's still mostly skins for cards I'll never use and you can just wait until the relevant styles become available in the Daily Deal for gold AND they keep making the pets ugly. I'm still on that owl from ages ago.

Is there a counter to Life Gain fags I can deploy earlier than this:

Preferrably also a creature.

I would just play some form of Rakdos sacrifice.

 

[Kjaska]

Anyway it seems you are interested in mono red aggro, in which case rampaging ferocidon is standard choice

Thanks for the numerous suggestions, but I'm not playing mono red. I just "splashed" this dude into my ultra-jank rainbow pile.

 

[Akratus II]

This was turn 5 I think lol

 

[Jason Liang]

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This was turn 7 or something lol.

Green is best

 

[Pocgels]

The art quality and production value is noticeably higher this set (duh). Love it, despite all the identity politics shoved in. I'm still not buying their pass, because it's still mostly skins for cards I'll never use and you can just wait until the relevant styles become available in the Daily Deal for gold AND they keep making the pets ugly. I'm still on that owl from ages ago.

Is there a counter to Life Gain fags I can deploy earlier than this:

Preferrably also a creature.

From the new set

 

[Kjaska]

Yeah, I also saw her yesterday while browsing and put her in. I need a bigger deck

 

[Newfag-er]

The art quality and production value is noticeably higher this set (duh). Love it, despite all the identity politics shoved in. I'm still not buying their pass, because it's still mostly skins for cards I'll never use and you can just wait until the relevant styles become available in the Daily Deal for gold AND they keep making the pets ugly. I'm still on that owl from ages ago.

The pass is still value for the gem spend even discounting the cosmetic. The draft token is worth 1500 gems

It should still be worth it even without the draft token. Twenty packs is worth 4k gems along. The pass also have 4k and 1.2k gems. Making the pass effectively cost 2.2k gem

If someone can grind all the reward the pass is the most worth item in game atm

 

[lukaszek]

The draft token is worth 1500 gems

its hit and miss. However this time around it was definitely a hit, with me reaching 5 wins while rare drafting - loot included 6 rare lands.
I did however play a bunch of newbies on early bronze, managed to steal 2 wins by baiting bad plays

 

[Kjaska]

The draft token is worth 1500 gems

I don't draft, it's almost useless to me. I'm also good on packs, as most new releases hold only a few cards that interest me.

What I want is some cool cosmetics for once and not this gay goblin shit.

 

[lukaszek]

hi im luka and im addicted to jumpstart. Or more like collecting cards from it.
I even own this fancy spreadsheet not only showing me what I own, but also doing calculations. It shows me that i sunk so much gold into this event, that my odds of receiving 6 bad packs are 22.43%
Im 83% rare and 49% mythic complete

 

[Kjaska]

were there new jumpstart cards released this update as well?

 

[lukaszek]

were there new jumpstart cards released this update as well?

yeah, they do with each update. baldurs gate one was special as they prepared for rotation. Now it seems that with each update they change rewards even for old packs, making tracking harder. Id say that if there is any rare card you want and its part of jumpstart, you should sink all your gold into it until you obtain desired number of copies.

In my case it also fills vault like crazy

 

[lukaszek]

pushed 5k more and gotten liliana. Its not craziness, master strategist here!

Spoiler

looking for next excuse to sink more gold, eyeing that sphinx

 

[Gyor]

Anyone else wiah the 40k decks were coming to Arena? They look pretty sweet.

 

[Gyor]

Chaos Balor + Wand of Orcus + Raphael, Fiendish Savior = One Sided Board Wipe and a huge amount of life gain.

 

[lukaszek]

Anyone else wiah the 40k decks were coming to Arena? They look pretty sweet.

no word on it so likely no. However we did see some commanders included in jumpstarts

 

[spectre]

So, I've gotten this urge to setup a new account, grind some standard then perhaps try and sell it.
Also WotC apparently forgot to send me my "2 years MTG-free" coin.
Think I'm on a verge of a relapse. Help?

 

[lukaszek]

Think I'm on a verge of a relapse. Help?

will be hard to play hbrawl so why bother. Unless you get old account back.
It will take a 1year grind to have proper standard deck. Unless you also want to sink funds?

 

[spectre]

Unless you also want to sink funds?

Nah, just the pure, unadulterated joy of drafting and playing standa.....dkjhdskljghd
okay, nevermind. Thanks. I think I got it now.

But seriously, any major features in these two years, or is it mostly same old, same old?
I've seen they've added mobile support, so more faggots to get roped by.

 

[lukaszek]

any major features in these two years, or is it mostly same old, same old?

no features, still waiting for default lands.

actually there was one new feature - you can now set avatar, sleeve and pet per deck.

Owners are getting even more predatory. Recent mastery pass could be completed only by top 5% of the players

 

[spectre]

Not unexpected.
I was silently hoping for some actual incentive to play this with buddies, like that's ever going to happen.

 

[lukaszek]

Not unexpected.
I was silently hoping for some actual incentive to play this with buddies, like that's ever going to happen.

closed pod drafts is another feature that was time and time requested, but no news of it even being acknowledged.
Id imagine it would make a lot of money

 

[Kjaska]

Gems for Gold in the shop today

 

[lukaszek]

alchemy would be so much better received product if they focused on fun stuff like this

as opposed to cards conjuring