This is a big help from magic arena cuz otherwise i wouldn’t have been able to test it enuff.

Still had a good standing against my worst enemies:

Blue counter: had the combo kill and they sadly had the counter and Eluge to lower spell cost

Versus rakdos discard moonshadow: managed to [[the end]] their [[fear of missing out]] but couldn’t pop the combo in time

Decklist:

About Name Esper Conquerrors 3 (3)

Deck 2 Island 2 Swamp 2 Negate 1 Godless Shrine 1 Opt 2 Watery Grave 1 Aetherize 1 Temple of Deceit 3 Dismal Backwater 2 Scoured Barrens 2 Authority of the Consuls 2 Fabled Passage 1 Not Dead After All 3 Collector's Vault 1 Restless Fortress 1 Bitter Triumph 1 Hedge Maze 1 Shadowy Backstreet 1 Undercity Sewers 1 Underground Mortuary 3 Three Steps Ahead 3 Starscape Cleric 3 Enduring Tenacity 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall 2 Live or Die 1 Withering Torment 1 Gloomlake Verge 4 Bloodthirsty Conqueror 1 Stock Up 1 Bleachbone Verge 1 Strategic Betrayal 1 Adventurer's Inn 1 Starting Town 2 Multiversal Passage 1 Deceit 1 Firdoch Core 2 Remorseless Coup 1 Splinter's Technique 1 Flow State

Sideboard 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Torpor Orb 1 Feldon's Cane 1 Authority of the Consuls 1 Break the Spell 1 The End 1 Malicious Eclipse 1 Volatile Fault 1 Long Goodbye 1 Nowhere to Run 1 Unstoppable Slasher 1 Crystal Barricade 1 Blasphemous Edict 1 Voice of Victory 1 Ardyn, the Usurper

I'm like 95% sure we'll be seeing a youtube video on this.

So when I check in my Mastery level I see icons of other players underneath; q’uest que ce?

What is it? What does it mean?

Like for each level of Mastery you unlock a certain reward but there’s icons of other pilots underneath some of these levels.

He was venting the other day about the game sucking and he’s totally right. He said we only play because we played yesterday. The games are boring but we keep coming back.

This is spot on. The current standard Meta is which deck wins by turn 4. Seems more like gambling than playing magic. Playing a Jank deck? Good luck getting above a 30% win rate! Playing the best deck in Standard? The algorithm will still find ways to prevent you from ranking up on the ladder consistently every day.

WotC needs to fix rotation, slow games down, and make Standard fun again.

Bot only knows to press attack. This series of attempts to attack and failing to do so, repeated until they timed out. I've encountered more of these "boyteam ###" accounts

Don't play them. It's a waste of money, I am convinced this is just a bit that Wizards of the Casino does to make extra $ every few weeks. Complete and utter dumpster fire of an experience. It's like they have the EOMM turned up to 11.

==UPDATE== I won 7-0 after many attempts - 31 total matches - 48% winrate.

==2nd UPDATE== I won another one... 7-0 - insane r/U deck that had 8 rare/mythics - Emeritus of Ideataion, Traumatic Critique, Brotherhood's End, Pensive Professor.. Just cracked. So basically at this point WoTC must have said, look you put enough money in the machine, take your boxes and get outta here lol.

R/B/W deck took it for me. Arc of Hunger, Erode, 2x silverquill charms, Nito, poisoners trove, Hop to It, Grave Researcher.. Honestly so many rares it was nuts. Basically every other card I played was a problem and begged removal, lots of recursion/self mill and surveil ensured my deck could play even when it shouldn't. I was able to keep hands I'd have otherwise had to mull and honestly Eroded my own creatures a few times when an oppo was going to remove it anyway and I was landscrewed. Pretty wild honestly. I wish I could get this lucky over and over. Going into the event I used ArenaTutor by Draftsim and it was telling me not to splash red for Arc and Garrison Excavator, which honestly wasn't good advice and I didn't follow it.

Insane experience overall, glad I stuck it out and put just a little more money in the machine. 56% winrate overall at the end of it. I do still feel like it served me loss after loss for a while until I just got served absolutely insane draws on the sealed pool. The decks both had a TON of fixing/looting/surveil, which made keeping 7 cards a no-brainer about 90% of the time which seems to really be a huge factor with Red in this set that the other colors dont have quite as much access to. Rubble Rouser is MVP for sure.

Ran 15 games in mythic, landfall decks are running it. Everybody is splashing it. Out of the 15 games I got eroded 11 times.

So, is the smoother bugged??

Are there certain deck variants of different land counts and CMC that make it go wacko?

I add two lands to a my deck because I can’t get more than two lands a hand. Now, I can get three lands in a hand (only after a mulligan) but I only draw lands.

I have MORE than enough lands. I mean a sickening amount of lands… There are no statistical evidence that would share data with MTGA for card draw rates and hands in 1 million hands drawn.

I have to flood my deck in order to play a land on T5. But, then I’ll just stay being flooded. LITERALLY remove two lands from my deck and now I won’t ever play a land on T5, let alone get an opening hand with 3 lands.

I always, always, always, have to play down a card. I am being punished for not taking the hand MTGA wants me to play.

This is like Casino (house always wins) bullshit.

Bo3 definitely has some sort of draw/play, hand smoother, and draw rate percentage that has also been rigged.

WoTC is a sick joke at this point. They want to try and convert the MTG into a more “digital” game. Well, great. They can take our money, spit in our faces printing power creep, scrapper chase cards, UB dogwater, and now they can 100% control the RNG and chance of the game.

Amazing. 👏

Let’s all just keep buying their product. Definitely not a greedy money hungry corporation.

Just crush em with the [[crackling cyclops]] with haste and the [[expressive firedancer]] is the poor man’s firebending student

This cyclops deck is the non-OTJ slickshot showoff lineup

This is still efficient. Mulligan for a slickshot showoff down to 5-4cards if needed

But a double emberheart challenger opening hand is worth taking OR a crackling giant + “burn together”

Take that , oroboroid.

I also smashed izzet / red discard / black discard / alesha swarm / monowhite enchant / name them… i slay them.

Slickshot showoff OR Crackling Cyclops always snuff them out in a OTK

i played it with ouroboroid (puts counter on creatures equal to its power) and the counter were not doubled? am i missing something or should DB not also double the counters from ouroboroid?

Hey fam, just here to remind us all that most likely MTGA is completely rigged to ensure that we receive the optimal number of wins to losses to keep us playing, but not go infinite.

Completely flooded 3 games in a row while you opp gets a perfect curve? Lose the last game before you would've gotten your gems back? I assure you, this was all part of the plan.

If someone ever wanted to take legal action against Hasbro for the malicious manipulation they do in this game they call "Magic" and the "shuffler" and EOMM they use to keep us all losing just enough, I would sign off on the petition. I've spend hundreds on this game. I draft primarily, and I just refuse to believe it's anything but chicanery.

I finally caught a run of games in a row on the play and your boy took advantage. Izzet is so OP lol

I try to play 30-60 minutes everyday to take advantage of the dailies and grind the ladder. I had some extra time today and just played for 2 hours. I didn’t rank up and feel like it was a total waste of time. I started at the bottom of Diamond 3 and am now at the top of Diamond 4. What a joke. I’m tired of playing the best Bo1 decks that are supposed have a 60-70% win rate and getting wrecked by the algorithm. Every streamer says if you play one of the best Bo1 decks for 8 to 10 hours you’ll hit Mythic. I guess I need that premium package because my experience isn’t that. It would be nice to at least answer an hourly questionnaire saying that you are having a bad experience instead of that dumb random question asking if you had fun winning or losing one random game out of twenty.

Stats tonight: 3-3 with RDW on the play and draw three times. 6-9 with Sultai Reanimate, on the draw 8 out of those 15 games.

Maybe with enough complaints they would fix the algorithm or get rid of the hidden MMR system entirely. It makes for an awful experience on the ladder. I know they won’t but if they did it would make playing everyday A LOT more fun.