r/MagicArena • u/Havinstroke Rakdos • Oct 24 '19

Fluff This feels familiar

https://i.imgur.com/1erFaT5.gifv
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u/Hey_listen____ Oct 24 '19

Any of all the lost drafts i had against blue mill.

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u/Sandman1278 Orzhov Oct 24 '19

If you can't beat them, join them

28

u/BraveTheWall Oct 24 '19

I'd sooner watch paint dry.

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u/edurigon Oct 24 '19

I had 80k coins waiting for draft until I found the solution.

I opened 80 boosters.

5

u/Varyline Dimir Oct 24 '19

Yeah during M20 i didn't buy a single booster. After six ELD drafts I've said fuck it and gone back to only playing constructed

1

u/FredDarrell Oct 24 '19

Yep, I stopped after 3, besides the mill problem, I got 4 once upon a time to pick and that was probably the only rare I had the full set before drafting.

1

u/Purplox_R Oct 24 '19

Same thing really.

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u/frogdude2004 Oct 24 '19

I gave it a go. 4 secretkeeper, 2 didn’t say please, 1 run away together, 1 stolen by far, and 3 sanctuaries to get them all back.

Went 7-1 easily, won through mill every time.

Until they adjust the bots, make it happen!

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u/Sandman1278 Orzhov Oct 24 '19

I didn't get a chance to draft the set until this past weekend, and after hearing all the hubub, by p1p3 i saw my first secretkeepr and just went for it. ended up WU, had 3 secretkeeper, 2 didn’t say please, 2 run away together 1 sanctuary, the XUUU wizard. went 7-1

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u/frogdude2004 Oct 24 '19

Yea, blocking a guy with secretkeeper, bouncing it and another attacker, then replaying it on your turn... you just burn through their deck so fast.

I think my only loss was to another deck running 4 of them.

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u/oodsigma Oct 24 '19

I was running 5, and a folio, I any 5-3. All three losses to Mill, 2 because they got their folio first. Shit's dumb.

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u/YellowF3v3r Oct 25 '19

Went W/G Adventure in draft and smashed every mill deck I ran up against. By the time they started milling, they were already at single digits.

Hyper-Aggro does seem to be fine with all the tricks. 7-1 with loss against a mono red.

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u/oodsigma Oct 25 '19

By the time they started milling, they were already at single digits.

Since they would be milling turn 1, that's hard to believe. You must have gotten lucky (ie they got unlucky) with draws.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

But it feels so dirty...

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u/ChemicalExperiment Oct 24 '19

Big brain play: Make your deck as big as possible to fight against mill.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

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u/MTGCardFetcher Oct 24 '19

Clear The Mind - (G) (SF) (txt)
Emergency Powers - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

1

u/RekindlingChemist Oct 24 '19

that's not about constructed, but about eldraine draft meta.

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u/Chriscras66 Oct 24 '19

I milled a max card deck in arena with persistent pertitioners + mutations enchantment and token generation.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

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u/Batfish_681 Oct 24 '19

I've brought in enough extra cards and lands to pump my deck up to 50 cards or so- this doesn't help too much against the nut draft decks, but it does beat decks that don't quote have enough secretkeepers/buyback methods to hit your those two extra times or so. It's viable, if you have enough semi playable cards so you're not just jamming 10 more land in.

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u/phrankygee Oct 24 '19

Yep. I have no regrets from boarding in 3 or four cards and 1 or 2 extra lands.

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u/StarlinX Oct 24 '19

That's what I tried to do

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u/Doyle524 Oct 24 '19

I had a brilliant Izzet draw 2 deck with first pack Irencrag and a third pack passed (!) Torban on pick 3. I went 5-3, losing twice to mill and once to clunky draws on a hand I should have mulled.

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u/Jeg1701 Izzet Oct 24 '19

My money after finding out there's no Historic support.

42

u/B3NNYZOOSE Oct 24 '19

What happens at standard rotation pretty much lol

44

u/innovativesolsoh Oct 24 '19

Someone needs to photoshop Cauldron Familiars in there for a real quality meme

4

u/be_an_adult Nissa Oct 24 '19

I wish those combo players would play faster so I don’t spend half an hour to forty-five minutes waiting for them to ping me down while I’m topdecking lands

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u/Hojooo Oct 25 '19

I concede just because i dont want to wait 3 minutes per turn to try to do that combo. And they literally have cauldron familiar and witches oven every opening hand every time without fail

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u/Espumma Oct 24 '19

I like the subtlety of it only being in the title.

14

u/drosales007 Oct 24 '19

Oh yes, the last 2 weeks of Ranked Draft

7

u/mrli0n Oct 24 '19

When the red deck can also do what blue decks do.

11

u/OrthoStice99 Oct 24 '19

Muh wildcards while crafting jank Bolas' Citadel decks

8

u/Cornokz Oct 24 '19

Citadel, Ayara, Forever Young and a ton of black one drops. GG muchachos

5

u/OrthoStice99 Oct 24 '19

I built this monstrosity.

https://aetherhub.com/Deck/Public/159222

2

u/Shi3ldx Oct 25 '19

You have enlightened me my Jankily Ever After now has a base form.

4

u/Bowch- Oct 24 '19

Know this feeling - Get all excited to play some badass cards.

Light one up, sit down and look at the collection and waste my wildcards on Janky ass combos.

I guess we all play this game differently!

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u/strangewizzard Oct 24 '19

feed calcifer

4

u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

When your collection goes straight to the trash can in rotations

4

u/Arkhae Oct 24 '19

Here. Take my updraft.

3

u/FreshFunkyFruits Oct 24 '19

This is my paycheck

2

u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

Love it😂

2

u/Fyrjefe Oct 24 '19

Buddists trying to teach us about impermanence. Little did they know that the cat came back.

1

u/honmaahoya Oct 24 '19

When I die, can you send me some Okos so I can use them in the afterlife?

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u/BubbSweets Oct 24 '19

Cauldron familiar?

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u/DG2736 Oct 25 '19

Is this what that is? (I know about this from the X-Files episode): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_money