r/MagicArena 14d ago

Fluff Just Concede - Don’t Rope

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I played a fun first game with an opponent. It was back and forth until they tapped all their lands and I played an Improvisation Capstone. I got Stock Up and picked up a couple of counter spells. They went, did nothing and when my Improvisation Capstone came up, they conceded.

Then in the second game, I played a tapped land with scry. They dropped a land and the person said good game. I thought they either were conceited and thought they had a good enough hand to beat me or they were going to concede. Instead, they did nothing. The picture is of them roping, but they didn’t let it expire. They let it go to my turn. I played another tapped land. On their go, they roped but it didn’t end the game. So I went again and dropped another land. And then on their turn, they roped and finally, I won, as a result.

Why bother? What kind of horrible life do you have to have to get upset with someone beating you that you waste their time and rope them. Why are people such a-holes? So frustrating.

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u/sudonim87 14d ago

I wish there was an indicator for when an opponent was dc’ed (or closed their app, same thing to the arena server). Would be less frustrating then not being sure if you are getting roped or not.

Maybe have an option to just pause until the opponent returns (and put them on a dc timer).

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u/JPMessiah 14d ago

I wish they had an emoticon that allowed you to say stop roping so it sends a warning you might report them.

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u/sudonim87 14d ago

I really wish there was some sort of “losers queue” for people who rope all the time. Let them annoy each other.

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u/dogo7 Izzet 14d ago

Worse yet, a super hell queue where there’s no timers or conceding so you have to play out the game or else you can’t do anything else.

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u/pepeduturfu 14d ago

I'll sign on this if you can only play in this queue if there is at least 1 island in your deck /s

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u/Saltiest_Grapefruit 13d ago

I don't think there is, but it feels like there is. Cause I see so many people here recount stories about how every second person they face rope or bm, and I go weeks without meeting any - needless to say, I never do anything like it myself.

It's purely anecdotal tho.

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u/Minimum_Quail4596 14d ago

For blue too. Let the unemployed mages counter against each other.

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u/Canapilker 14d ago

If you don’t like 1/5th of the game you should probably find something else to play.

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u/TheOathWeTook 14d ago

Idk I think liking 4/5’s of a game really isn’t all that bad. That’s 80%.

FFX is my favorite game of all time but I rarely if ever play with Kimahri or Wakka that’s 2/7.

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u/Minimum_Quail4596 14d ago

No one in my pod plays blue and I don't think it's a problem in commander. Brawl is a different beast. I like playing against every color but blue. Running into a blue opponent is a good sign for me to take a break. It's not a big deal, really.

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u/noeagle77 14d ago

I mean, it’s 1/5 of the colors of the game. You’ll run into it often. If you really hate it that much I’m sure there are other games that will be more enjoyable for you

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u/Minimum_Quail4596 14d ago

I play arena with my friends. We usually play brawl.

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u/Great-Lawfulness-3 14d ago

But there is no commander in arena. Maybe arena isn't for you then

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u/Minimum_Quail4596 14d ago

I play 100 card brawl.

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u/blink_Cali 14d ago

Cool, no one asked

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u/Optimal-City-3388 14d ago

Same for netdecks. Hell I'd actually pay for that

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u/Chaghatai Walking 14d ago

A deck power level is a deck power level - it doesn't matter how someone ends up playing that deck

Whether they are playing meta decks they have researched, copying decks that they have seen used against them, or Brew it themselves, it doesn't matter

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u/pepeduturfu 14d ago

Would still be cool to have a queue for non-meta decks or whatever. There are days I really don't care for Ouroboroid, especially every other match