Magic: The Gathering - Page 664

On December 22 2018 07:39 Sbrubbles wrote:
Good choice, izzet drakes is a relatively cheap deck to build, aside from the rare duo lands. I would run some maximize velocities in there, as drakes coming out of nowhere with haste is pretty kickass, and I don't see that many people doing it.

My first deck was an izzet wizards aggro with adeliz, which is very cheap and my go-to for aggro. It's not that reliable, but when it goes off you can get some hilarious turn 4 wins with adeliz pumping your whole board with cheap spells.

After I had all rare izzet lands I made an Izzet control deck using red burn spells and blue counters for control, a few Sarkhans and treasure maps to ramp Niv mizzet into play and opts/radical ideas to use with Niv. Sadly that wasn't the cheapest deck to build because not only did I build 4 Sarkhans and 2 Rals but also 4 rekindling phoenixes, which are pretty critical against golgari (chupacabra, eldest reborn and the occasional plaguecrafter). Overall that's a lot of mythic wildcards.

Recently I turned the same deck into a grixis control by adding a couple of Bolasses and switching red burn for black removal. It functions almost exactly the same but is more fun with being able to flip Bolas every few games.

On December 22 2018 06:10 infinity21 wrote:
Been playing this game for a few weeks now. I moved from a Merfolk deck which I found was pretty good until you run into decks running board wipes and heavy removal (which is decently common on MTG:A). Since mono red aggro was stomping me, I figured it's good and made that deck. I don't know if I just had a bad run of games but I found it to be very inconsistent. If I hit the right cards, it's unstoppable. But a lot of times I would be like < 3 life short of lethal before running out of steam. I was most likely not making the best plays but I didn't find the deck fun. The only advantage of mono red was that the games were short so I could give up early.

Switched to a mono blue tempo deck and I've been enjoying it a lot. Despite only running 19 lands, it's much more consistent even if I don't draw a Curious Obsession. I also enjoy countering everything the opponent does It's a good learning experience trying to think of what my opponent could play and trying to play around that. Just won a game where I was on the draw and mulliganed down to 5. Had just the right counters and kept a Siren Stormtamer with Curious Obsession on the board long enough to make up the card disadvantage.

I'm also pretty close to a Izzet Drakes deck so will probably spend wild cards on that if I get bored of mono blue. I have 3 copies of Niv-Mizzet so was running a (very suboptimal) Izzet burn deck for kicks. Feels good to get Niv-Mizzet on the board and just start casting spells one after another.

For those of you playing on MTG:A, which decks do you find fun to play?

On December 22 2018 13:29 arb wrote:

I dont feel like bolas in this current set at any rate is very strong unless youre just splashing black for him and playing a more standard izzet deck, but at that point why not just splash white and run teferi which is much stronger and vastly more difficult to deal with than hoping bolas doesnt get removed the turn you play him or praying you survive long enough to flip him(which by itself is usually a win)

drakes is fairly easy to build, a decent golgari explore deck isnt all that expensive either. only ones that are bad are the jadelight rangers and the planeswalkers as well as the find//finality i believe are all rare/mythic.

On December 23 2018 03:03 blade55555 wrote:
Yeah Bolas isn't my only win condition either. I have Niv and a couple of other win conditions I am brain farting on right now.

On April 03 2019 03:25 travis wrote:
I've been playing arena a lot.

As I get more and more competitive, I also get more and more annoyed. I've gone back to my original *biggest* problem with these types of games (mtg in particular).


There is a 50% chance the other player goes first. There are decks where this surely swings the winrate from say, maybe 55-45 one side to something more like 70-30 for the other side.

I'm looking at you mono blue. Gruul too. But more mono blue.

I expect there are a lot of hands where mono blue looks at their hand, sees they are going first, and know with over 90% certainty they are going to win the game. I bet that isn't at all a rare thing.


This just doesn't feel like something that should exist in a competitive game. Im gonna make my own card game.

On October 19 2019 03:32 Meta wrote:
I've been playing a bunch of MTGA this summer. Current standard is in a bad place, although Fires of Invention is a fun deck, Golos and Oko dominate the meta. Eldraine limited is also toxic, Revenge of Ravens punishes aggro so hard and many games end in board stalls and decking. The fact that blue has a common that is a mill win condition and a 0/4 for 1 means aggro will have a rough time closing out games. Although good Green/Black or Green/White adventure decks can be quite good and quite fun.

On October 22 2019 11:50 Zambrah wrote:
I really do wish WotC would just reprint some cards properly. Fetchlands don't even kind of ruin standard if you print them alongside the right lane cycles. Would fetches + fast lands really make mana too good? Or fetches + filter lands?

Feels so shitty to gate deck costs behind something as fundamental as the manabase.

Sadly banning fetches in Pioneer really screams to me that we won't get new fetch reprints in the new Zendikar set.

I also hope they don't beat Ravnica and Zendikar into the dirt too hard. I get they're popular but I'm still kind of done with Zendikar after how not good I found BFZ.

Hopefully Pioneer shapes up though, I do like nonrotating formats and maybe it'll be the less aggressively busted version of Modern I've wanted.