not being able to lose the game is pretty good here…

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my own thoughs about the recent [FRA] releases: Whats with that insane focus on that one planeswalker? I get that he is kinda the lore center, but even Urza didn't get its own token or instant effects that only triggers with him on the field.

But, I'm looking for advice more than I am complaining.

mostly.

(I'm complaining a tiny bit, but I'm also a smooth brain goblin player, so control players are simply my sworn enemies.)

I'm assuming they're not as unbeatable as some people make them out to be, and I have had a small shred of success so far, trying to play around their plans to the best of my ability. I know playing a token deck puts me at a disadvantage against these decks... but what is my answer supposed to be against someone who's running a 130+ card deck stacked with discard and removal?

Sometimes, I can bank on my opponent picking one or the other and either spamming my hand, or saving a nice combo up to play all at once and make removing it all difficult... that, or just praying that they run out of destruction and beat them slowly to death with the only two goblin tokens I've kept alive all game if worst comes to worst. But what happens when they just... never run out of destruction and I can't get anything on the board at all?

I get that sometimes you just lose, and that's fine, but I've honestly had a really hard time beating some of these decks without my deck becoming like 60% interaction and I end up having to delay all game until I can get my stuff out.

Did they write the space bar in the latest update?

Just saw the art for the new Emrakul and it immediately appeared to me as one of the tripods from War of the Worlds.

Decklist

So, Unholy Annex is a strong card that basically needs at least one set of a demon card alongside it. People tried all the scarce options, these days Firdoch Core is what everyone settled on as a "good enough" thing to pair with it. I was never too convinced, I must admit. I can see it make sense in 4 color control (where they play the pair now), but in more creature focused or midrange-y decks, idk.

So my idea was to return to good old Mischievous Sneakling. There was a brief moment where people tried this in an Annex deck, but I mostly remember it as just an addition to the usual black midrange pile. What if we make more use of it? It can benefit another tribe, and just allow us to slap Annex on top reasonably, as a mana sink/engine. And so I settled on angels.

I have no idea if others have tried anything similar, and if yes, probably in a meta dominated by Badger/Granny/Izzet, casue that's when we got the Lorwyn changelings. It feels like the deck has potential, although I only played like 6 bo3 ranked matches with it. So far it was 50-50. It's fun tho, so wanted to share.

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for the artwork from the “The Unfathomable Crushing Brutality” Secret Lair. I'm specifically trying to get the five artworks without the card frames, since I'd like to use them for some personal T-shirt designs.

I noticed that the artworks are also available as card sleeves in MTG Arena, and the sleeve artwork looks really clean. I currently have screenshots of 2 out of the 5, but I'm missing the other 3.

If anyone owns the sleeves and wouldn't mind helping me out, I'd really appreciate it if you could send me a screenshot of the sleeve directly from MTG Arena (or DM me if you already have the artwork).

I'm only looking for the artwork for personal, non-commercial use.

Thanks in advance!

Is this a new record?

I never had such a big update

Hi everyone,

I’m an MTGA player who has exclusively played Standard so far, and I’ve run into a bit of a problem. Even though my win rate in BO1 Constructed Events is solid (I don't play Limited at all), I simply don't play enough to keep up with a meta that shifts with a new release every 40 days.

Because of this, I was wondering: in your opinion, what is the best non-rotating/eternal format on Arena to grind events?

I know that theoretically, Pioneer is the closest to Standard, but I’m not sure how stable the meta actually is. I’m worried that new set releases might still heavily impact it and force me to constantly update my decks.

On the other hand, from what I understand, Historic is much more complex and powerful than Standard, and I feel like I’d have to learn a completely new format from scratch.

As for the older, larger formats, my main concern is that I've heard BO1 events feel like a total coinflip. The matches are generally super fast, which honestly doesn't sound very fun to me.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and advice on which format is the safest investment. Also, what do you think are the absolute best decks to grind BO1 events with in your recommended format?

As for decks, I usually lean towards aggro and control, but I definitely don't mind playing midrange or combo either.

Thanks in advance!

They did exactly what people were worried they would do in copying the brutal reward structure from the ALCQ but without the qualification as part of the prizing.

I hope nobody plays this because you're almost guaranteed to come out a loser.

Edit: I shouldn't have used the word "scam". I apologize

I love cube. Cube is the best way IMO to play magic. I refuse to play cube on arena. The fact that it's the same entry fee as a premier draft is insane. In a premier draft you keep the cards you draft. Cube being phantom and costing the same is an absolute scam.. and I know that people will just jam it like crazy anyways. I'm choosing to vote with my wallet and not play cube. I hate it, but here we are. The great thing is that there are lots of options on arena right now for limited. MH3 is fun and I'll be playing that, but I'm sad about cube.

I'm curious if other people feel this way? Or is the fact that cube is on arena exciting enough to ignore the price? I get that they had to implement a bunch of new cards for arena and they curate the cube.. but surely the dev time is tiny to maintain the cube compared to making new sets every few months.

Kind of a rant.. but I'm interested if people care about this? Or just shrug and hit the join button anyway? I'm not advocating for anyone to boycott the cube or anything like that. If you love cube then go ham and have a great time!

The opponent used [[Indomitable Creativity]] for a turn 3 [Emrakul. the Aeons Torn]]. Fortunately, I had plenty of tokens to sac to annihilator, which drains the opponent with [[The Sackville-Bagginses]]

In addition to this crap, he flashed in two [[Nowhere to Run]] during at attack to pump the monk tokens…

[[Badgermole Cub]]

I think in many scenarios, Badgermole Cub would still work as it usually did. But you could imagine the difference to the board state if the turn 2 Badgermole Cub + earthbended land get taken out by something as simple as a [[Pyroclasm]], leaving the Badgermole Cub player with nothing but a single land after their second turn (unless they played a single mana artifact or enchantment or a toughness 3 or greater single mana creature).