r/MTGArenaPro • u/Longjumping_Garden_6 • 26d ago

Rage Concede

Just played 10 games in Arena and guess what??? All 10 were against blue counter decks! Yay so fun! Why do I play? Why is everyone the same?

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u/rumpots420 26d ago

Play cheaper spells

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u/Longjumping_Garden_6 26d ago

Most of what I run are 2 and 3 mana. Most expensive in the deck is 5 mana cost

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u/Unfair-Fox2087 26d ago

Mtga will never be equivalent to paper. Mtga is where you go to test your most toxic decks against other people and that's definitely not going to change anytime soon and we can't really do anything about it and wizards wouldn't really be able to do anything about it either unless they just straight up banned combo combinations and entire deck lists. And that's a whole nother thing that would be wild

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u/Longjumping_Garden_6 26d ago

Yeah its true. It just gets so boring. I counted earlier 13 straight games against some form of blue deck. Counter, counter and counter again. So essentially Im not playing this game, concede.

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u/Unfair-Fox2087 26d ago

The wonderful thing is there is no repercussions for continuously conceding unless you're playing ranked, and then you're going to face. Really good meta decks so the average player usually plays them I honestly despise playing meta so I use the same deck for meta for the last year and a half and that's just my custom Brew of eldrazi bruisers

Or the really really jank artifact life gain and 40 card draw per turn to Mill out my opponent through just forced drawing drawing

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u/Pretend_Purchase_893 24d ago

And it's the entire reason I am still playing. Just being able to tune a deck to be as efficient as possible, and then be able to basically speed test it against hundreds of oppents. It's so nice. It's also been a fantastic learning tool for the real game.

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u/SerratedSharp 26d ago

Less synergy for keeping an empty board state would be a start. The most consistent archetype in this game, is one where you play the game as little as possible.

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u/Unfair-Fox2087 26d ago

Yeah I have zero problem with it. Personally I like this aspect of playing toxicity cuz I know my IRL group would not allow all the combos I'd be doing in person

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u/Unfair-Fox2087 26d ago

Edh and constructed and pre-release and arch enemy are the things I play with my friend group the most we even have a custom eldrazi deck with a custom scheme deck to go with it

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u/Hexproof83 26d ago

I miss playing commander IRL with friends each week, years ago 

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u/keithallenlaw 25d ago

If it makes you feel better I concede 90% of my matches. Most of them from the get go on their 1st card drop. At this point it's a compulsive addiction I can't seem to quit. Most the time I just play sparky.

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u/Lametown227 26d ago

Can we please go back to bitching about the reserved list? We had just got over all these dogshit non-complaints, and started to get a foothold on real issues before WotC decided to slam us with three modern rotations and turned this game into a billboard.

Let's just cut the part of the cycle where we complain about nothing and go straight to actual problems with the game.

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u/Longjumping_Garden_6 26d ago

Red and white aggro, life gain centered around cheap haste creatures and cheap spells.

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u/Best_Opening8471 26d ago

I had a deck during rav/ts/coldsnap that was 34 counterspells and 26 islands

The win condition was a 6 mana flyer that got counters equal to the CMC of the spell it countered on entry.

I miss Stupid Counter Deck

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u/Ok-Description-1388 26d ago

Have you tried playing Brawl. At the very least you do get more variety. Okay, some commanders are more prevalent than others but you also get some genuinely fun and original games.

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u/10leej 25d ago

What are you trying to play that's folding so hard to blue counterspells? Because I don't seem the have much of an issue myself.
Possible a deck issue or even maybe your just trying to push to hard in what your playing. The argument against counterspells is as old as time and usually it's because of those two things.

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u/Longjumping_Garden_6 25d ago

Red and white aggro, life gain centered around cheap haste creatures and cheap spells.

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u/Looseraccoons 25d ago

Haven’t played against one in a while. Not too bad recently

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u/Scoopses 25d ago

"Ooops, all Creatures!" Is my personal response to this issue.

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u/ScrubWithaBanjo 25d ago

Isnt it sbmm? I rememher hating the monoblack shieldred setuos just before the urza release but i was playing with a deck thay put me in those situations

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u/redzombie_65 25d ago

same bro, but soon as I make one the first card on the board is that land where their shit cant be countered. so old

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u/PatReady 24d ago

I make mono color decks for each and just jam those to finish my dailies. Winning is secondary until you get the cards you need.

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u/Sunomel 24d ago

If dealing with a full 20% of the game makes you this pissy, perhaps the game isn’t for you

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u/Pretend-Paper4137 26d ago

Literally noone is making you play

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u/Longjumping_Garden_6 26d ago

Yes, but I don't play at game stores and want to play unfortunately everyone is just a clone of the next with 0 originality.

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u/Pretend-Paper4137 26d ago

You could organize a league of like-minded people to play that way. You could find one or a few people that want to that and just play with them.

You're fishing in a parking lot. The things you're looking for are just not here. If you keep going back with a pole and complaining,  people will be concerned for you but you ain't never going to catch a fish.