I triggered Doom Reigns Supreme and this was their top 5 cards. I'm so glad I got to prevent mana flooding for my opponent.

Here’s my deck list. Entity tracker draws cards whenever you cast any enchantment/room, you’ve got the 2 drop enchantment creature that procs eerie on etb and lowers the cost of all enchantment by 1, gremlin tamer to make a huge board whenever you cast auras/enchantments, blue Itself has some good auras and you’ve got counter magic and things like get out to protect your creatures and enchantments in the case of removal or board wipes.

Mono white aura decks aren’t resilient. If they remove your board the deck gets shut down. Azorius seems to be the move I’d love to hear people’s thoughts though! Also feedback on my deck thanks!

When Badgermole Cub got banned, I assumed Green would take a major step backwards. Instead, Landfall seems to have come out of nowhere as one of the biggest winners.

But I'm curious where everyone else has landed.

Mono Green for consistency? Gruul for power? Selesnya for something different?

Here's my thoughts:
https://youtu.be/HpAs3TcICZo

Top 250 is a qualifer token for either limited or constructive. But reaching double mythic gets you 20 play in points, but do you not get the token

Also im getting mixed results on if top 1200 at the end of the month gets you a token. I assume it doesnt.

Can anyone break this down for someone trying to get into comp play

This was my hand at turn like 7 or 8. What a joke. 🤡 BTW 22 lands in decks.

I've been grinding a lot of standard and brawl but the meta gets a little boring once you reach diamond. I just saw that Alchemy is on a 2 year rotation and the new cards at least offer some entertainment value. Anyone have any tips and which sets have the best Alchemy cards? I know bloomburrow rotates pretty soon.

I love it when a game starts and first turn opponent cast Duress looks at you're hand and they are like nope i am out of here had it happen twice today.

This is the 3rd game IN A ROW this has happened. I am playing brawl and after about 5 turns the game just stops doing whatever it’s supposed to do. If it’s my opponents turn they just won’t do anything and run their time outs until the game stops right before making them concede or passing the turn, it just sits there and my pc isn’t fast enough to close the game and relaunch in time. If it’s my turn my own timer will pop up and not let me progress at all. Can’t pass the turn or play anything. What is happening? I am sick of getting a couple turns into a game just for nothing. Brawl already sucks enough it doesn’t need this problem to occur.

EDIT: I guess this was, indeed, a hot take.

TL;DR: I feel like eternal formats provide a better wildcard value for players without much to spend, but new players are rarely pushed in this direction because of a perceived cost-barrier and prohibitive power level. I personally see Standard as the format with a high barrier to entry in the form of wildcards. Much more so than Historic or Pioneer.

I see a lot of newer players come into the game and post here asking which standard deck they should craft now that they've earned up a small pool of wildcards, and it's always sort of baffling to me that this is the default constructed choice.

Maybe it's personal preference, but the rotation of Standard has never appealed to me. When I first started playing MTG ~10 years ago I skipped Standard and went straight into Modern. I was in a financial position to be able to do so, and at the time, that was the main barrier to Modern - older cards that haven't been reprinted, but are staples of the format and ergo expensive. I remember when Scalding Tarns broke $100 a pop!

In this context, recommending Standard makes total sense. The dollar value of a standard deck is a fraction of a modern deck, so it's more friendly to newcomers looking to buy in. However, on Arena this isn't how the economy works - a Timeless deck using 10 rares has the same purchase cost as a Standard deck using 10 rares. 10 rare Wildcards.

But then we get into the value of each Wildcard spent, and how long those cards will remain useful to you. Standard decks still require tens of rares and mythics, but they're seldom strong enough to become Historic staples and so end up collecting digital dust in your collection until they're potentially reprinted into the rotation.

I get it if you play a lot of limited, and ergo complete or near-complete entire standard sets, allowing you to build meta decks for free, but most new players can't pull that off and never go infinite with their gems. They're collecting wildcards and looking for a deck they can get good with over time.

New players are also typically FTP, so building a deck can take weeks or months to gather the resources for. This is often the argument used in favor of Standard, as eternal formats can be more wildcard intensive and include cards not printed into draft sets, but if you don't already have that standard collection from chaining drafts, the wildcard costs are similar. Plus, every wildcard investment in Historic/Pioneer/Timeless is more likely to remain relevant - especially lands.

Mono G Landfall in Standard costs over 30 rare wildcards for the maindeck alone. Jeskai Revelation is 34 rares and 8 mythics for the maindeck.

Historic Izzet Phoenix, a top-performing deck in the format, can be built with 8 mythic and ~15 rares, and it's an archetype that has existed for as long as Arclight Phoenix itself has been around. Barring bans, you'll likely be able to play that deck for years to come. My fiancee built it using budget lands for a few slots in the short-term with nothing but the wildcards you get from the free packs in your inbox on a new account + the $4.99 welcome bundle.

So why is this seen as the best way for new players to get into constructed play? Is it simply because Standard has always been seen as the, well, "standard format"? To me, Standard seems more like a format you play competitively, ignoring any idea of a budget, and chasing the meta with your wildcards every rotation. It's the format that limited players, streamers, and pros can afford to mess around in because they have entire sets completed and a bank of wildcards. It's also the format with the most tournament event representation, so it will naturally attract the best players looking to qualify for the next Arena Championship or what have you.

It's not much more "casual" than any other constructed format as far as gameplay or power level, but punishes casual players more severely by making them spend wildcards every rotation if they want to actually win games.

Been theorizing around [[Overrun]] as a finisher in Standard Bo1 but hitting a wall. Might be nostalgia on my part but I remember it as a game-ending bomb. Is it too low-powered for today's power crept Standard?

I despise jeskai control I’m so tired of seeing it so I decided to go a different route. I like making/playing off meta decks that are still competitive so I made a bant control deck. It’s got the same interaction/card draw of Jeskai and Azorius control with green splashed in for ramp/more artifact/enchantment removal for all those pesky tablets and annex’s.

Overlord of the hauntwoods can be played for 3 mana giving you an everything land which ramps you and m can tap for any color. Combine that with biblioplex and cornucopia and casting together as one for the full 5 colors is very easy. Also gives you a big blocker mid to late game that can ramp you even more when it attacks.

Bant has access to dopplegang also which is another great finisher. Also has access to wistfulness which is a personal favorite of mine.

Here is my deck list! Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts/opinions and get some honest feedback thanks!

https://moxfield.com/decks/BWoj5RQmQUie61II68dRxQ

After more bans and the release of The Hobbit, Standard is changing, and the five decks below (non-Tier 1) have been gaining traction and performing well in recent Challenges!

So I really enjoy the food and fellowship precon IRL, and I figured hey it's in the shop, I can afford it why not! About 17-20 matches later and not even remotely close to a win, I can say money well wasted. Just a friendly reminder, do not buy store brawl precons, they are a trap!

I’m looking at Reality Fracture’s release and it is supposed to be on Sept 29. The Ranks are supposed to reset on Sept 30. I was hoping to play a whole bunch of Reality Fracture Limited before the sweatiest players get reset. Am I just delusional?

Hi everyone, I'm undecided between which of these 3 decks to play bo1 I should craft:
-ABZAN lifegain
- mono g landfall
- jeskai artifact.
In your opinion, which of the three decks can perform better in the long run? Ty all

Hello I am a new player I want to ask if is there any way to watch my previous game and how can I add friends and can I have a chat with the people that I payed with some of them were pretty nice and fun to play with not too strong not just standing there thank for your help in advance

I feel like this image captures how over powered sentry is in the game and in the comics.

Anyone able to solve this problem when running MTGARENA? I cant open. I keep getting message UnityPlayer.dll cannot be located.I havent install any arena enhancement

Why does he have 3 pairs of giant legs?

I am tired of anything related to the standard. The same 5 decks over and over. I am also tired of having to play the same boring meta decks to have fun, so I'm hoping to find modes that encourage jank decks!

Woo! Just got my first draft trophy in MONTHS. After a few 3-3, 0-3 runs in SOS and HOB before, I’m proud to say pulled a trophy jamming B/G aggro.

I got the tip from another redditor who said they’d miss HOB quick draft, where they could easily jam B/G aggro, because the AI often skipped black in the pool. By the time I logged on SOS quick draft was up, but lo and behold the strategy still worked lol

Started off 0-2 and was really expecting to go 3-3 at best, but the lifegain combo worked out well. I got the sign posts for golgari: 2 [[pest mascot]] 2 [[bogwater lumaret]] an [[old-growth educator]] and [[moseo]] who came in clutch for my last 3 wins. being able to recur [[mindful biomancer]], [[thornfist striker]], and even the mascot at the end of the turn was CLUTCH.

The secret fav that pulled me out of the 0-2 hole was [[leech collector]]. collector plus lumaret is a nasty combo. 2 damage each turn for 1 black adds up fast.

I do build new decks sometimes but I stick with one deck for a very long time and even with old decks end up between plat and mythic. I play while I eat at work and sometimes at home a little bit, so I get the daily quest but rarely filling up the daily wins.

The only thing I do is adjust my decks with

new cards if I see something if I happen to see it from an enemy. So I stocked up a shit ton, dunno how long ago but I was at 100k and used it to build a deck, since then it stocks up again and I mainly refuse to touch it because I want to see how far it can go.

Am I the crazy one?

I suck at building decks and I have Bard, the queen and I have belladonna took I want to build a token deck around. Can anyone assist with a deck list or suggestions?