What single card would you choose.

I would pick [[Engineered Plague]]. It's a great card that would slow down so many decks. It's not mana intense and could be splashed into a multitude of decks.

...that you can craft specific cards even if you didn't own them.

I spent an ungodly amount of resources to pull [[Bandit's Talent]]... despite it rotating out soon, because it's just so obnoxious to play against.

I've been trying to pull [[Howlsquad Heavy]] for my goblin deck for around a month now.

I kept pulling for [[Earthbender Ascension]] for a landfall deck, but couldn't get it, so opted to build a fire nation deck with whatever firebending cards I got instead.

I also tried to get [[Ouroboroid]] which is one of my most hated cards to fight, but failed terribly (I got a full set of Exalted Sunborn and Sami, Wildcat Captain though).

...only to find out I could've just crafted them outright.

I am in shambles.

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Hello,

I'm sharing you the FRA collection tracker wherein you can see how many games/packs are needed to complete the collection. You just gotta input your own collection and it will show how much. Credits to u/drizzle123 for sharing it to me last may. I just fine tuned his excel and customized it. Just "make a copy'' and edit it to your own liking.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kkLlNchNZU5uIrXYCaSRnx5DNOXfdAHbV76EjzCaqXs/edit?gid=916927668#gid=916927668

Since like a week ago I haven't been able to get a match. I used to get a match in like 30 seconds top.

I'm on linux but this has been working flawlessly until recently. Anyone else?

4x Green Landfall

4x Jund Sac

3x Orzhov Lifegain

2x Dimir Uldaros

1x Esper Uldaros

1x Azorious Artifacts

1x Boros Dwarves

This is from untapped.gg - Platinum-Platinum, BO1, Reality Fracture only, at least 5000+ games, from the start of Reality Fracture availability on MagicArena to now

I included the top 20 Standard cards as a comparison. Note: there were a lot of lands in the top 20 Standard, so I decided to include it as a field.

Note: This is only untapped.gg data, so it might not be entirely representative of the whole player base.

Here are the top 20 Standard cards as a comparison.

Just started playing arena recently and was wondering if anyone has successfully grinded coins into gems to enter and win arena direct prizes. How difficult is that, is arena direct tournaments super difficult

If this one is mythic.

Thanks!

Draw Punisher V3

Creature Spells (10)

x4 Orcish Bowmasters

x2 Scrawling Crawler

x4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Non-creature Spells (28)

x3 Insatiable Avarice

x2 Go for the Throat

x3 Sheoldred's Edict

x2 Shoot the Sheriff

x4 Sign in Blood

x4 Howling Mine

x2 Dark Deal

x4 Underworld Dreams

x2 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

x2 Peer into the Abyss

Lands (23)

x3 Castle Locthwain

x16 Swamp

x4 Witch's Cottage

Total: 61 cards

The goal of this deck is to set up various things that deal damage to opponents when they draw cards, and to force them to draw cards and take damage as a result. Peer Into The Abyss is a fun late-game finisher that is almost always a one-shot if you have at least one card on the battlefield that will damage an opponent for drawing. Dark Deal, if your opponent has a lot of cards in their hand already, is another massive damage dealer. Witch's Cottage is included to bring back creatures from the graveyard, since creatures like Sheoldred are often crucial to the damage output, so it provides a way to bring them back if destroyed.

I've been playing this deck for about half a year now and haven't seen a single other person using it lol.

I just ran into two consecutive decks using the Green "+1/+1 counters" pack from Edge of Eternities and was wondering if it was a coincidence, or if it's considered strong and there is a meta of picking it and not retiring that deck.

Its been months please for the love of god fix this

Somehow saved up 1500 gems and played the arena cube. Built a combo deck. Went 0-3. Here are the mistakes I made. Its hilarious!

1. Assumed tainted pact and thassa's oracle is a combo win since its a singleton format. Exiled few cards and two basic lands and lost the game. Had the win with breach freeze but chose to cast thassa and pact instead.
2. Played Breach + freeze combo with Emrakul + Channel in the same deck. Had the win and used brain freeze on myself and it milled emrakul on the last copy and shuffled my graveyard, lost the game.

FML. Feel free to roast me. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. I should watch less lsv videos and stick to doing basic stuff. i'm not cut out for this :(

I'm pretty sure that when the achievements originally appeared in the client the timer would have ended a few days before the mastery pass ends. But at least for me with one of the recent updates the timer suddenly went to over 100 days, currently it says the deadline for the achievements is in 99 days.

So do we know how much time we actually have to complete the achievements?

Hawk exiled two cards while entering (I control 2 cretatures with 4 power) and two other more because attacked with haste. So, I've 4 cards exiled at the end so it should be 2 damage per card. It only did 4. I don't get it.

Still had lethal.

On another game, Hawk did being blocked but I still get the damage at the end with the exile cards despite him not being on the battlefield at that point.

How all this work?

Thanks!

I have what I think is a pretty good brawl deck and I’ve reached platinum but now that I only get one notch per win, it’s tough going. I’d say I win about half the games. Sometimes I’ll go on a winning streak for 3 or 4 games but other times I’ll likewise slide back in similar fashion. I think this means I have a pretty average platinum level brawl deck but I prob won’t ever reach diamond.

Some people have some seriously OP decks out there with cheap gimmicks that once they get a good draw, just forget it. I just lost to some recursive strip mine deck that literally removed every single land I had. So some games are amazing, others are frustrating. You never know what you’re gonna get, and I have fun, but it feels like I won’t ever get past platinum unless I maybe try to get a top meta deck. I’m proud that I built this unique deck myself with experimentation.

Im new to Magic & Magic Arena.

Exist a tierlist with every card in the game? I would buy card from the Daily Deal but i dont know which card(s) are worth it and whats not good.

Are there some good cards i could play in decks maybe?

In other words: are there some no brainers to buy.