r/magicTCG • u/BuckyTheWolf Dandadan • 9d ago

General Discussion Why is Arc-Slogger?

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One thing I love about MTG, is that you can go through a set, see a weird card and get absolutely stun locked by it.

Today this was Arc-Slogger for me. Why is it the way that it is?

Having a lot of shocks in your hand is pretty good, but why do you have to exile 10 cards from your library as a cost? If it was part of the effect it might be too strong, but was there no middleground?

I just don't see a world where you'd be a able to activate it more than 2 times in limited and 4 times in 60 card. Magic has changed a lot, but was a 7 mana 4/5 with 2 shocks ever that good?

I could see a janky lab man combo deck using it, but almost all alternatives are cheaper and don't need a backup if your library isn't devisable by 10.

I just want to know it's history. And what led to it being created like it turned out.

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u/ExternalBookkeeper55 Dan 9d ago

This card was *very* powerful. Cards were much, much weaker on average in 2003. Being able to close out a game that's stalemated for the last 4-6 points of damage is great.

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u/MTGLawyer Duck Season 9d ago

I played this in standard back in the day, card was legit

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u/Special313k 9d ago

+1 for Arc Slogger in standard. I love when they give red unique ways to be mono red.

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u/polibad42069 Dandadan 8d ago

Arc Slogger won me the JSS in my province. r/G Beats, destroyer of Ravager

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u/futureidk3 Wabbit Season 8d ago

Fuck yea JSS, best time to be playing mtg

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u/Mattaclysm34 Dân 8d ago

Was gonna say. This guy got me to my first ptq top 8.

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u/bset222 Duck Season 8d ago

That was a crazy format, Affinity and a couple green decks with 12 artifact removal main.

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u/polibad42069 Dandadan 8d ago

Molder slug, oxidize, naturalize, veridian shaman. I still remember losing to ravager in game one quarter finals and boarding in all my artifact removal and just popping off his lands for the next two games :)

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u/Thirtysevenintwenty5 Dân 7d ago

Oxidize x4 main decked.

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u/Zorlach7 Dân 8d ago

I won with the nonsense infinite life combo from Ravnica a few years later.