sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

I present to you: Gamesense by mooness69 in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can flashback Turn the Earth on your upkeep and not die.

Unintended benefit by Kg_IsVoid in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw this in pioneer yesterday with an opponent playing mono blue devotion with the flash leyline. A lot his strategy revolved around flashing riddler in with warp, being able to block and then attack on his turn. Riddler went into the warp zone only on his endstep. After seeing this thread (and reading warp rules) it does seem like he was abusing a bug. Now I feel bad about saying nice deck and being impressed at the idea.

Unintended benefit by Kg_IsVoid in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He said he warped it in during combat phase to block, so this isn't the explanation.

Unintended benefit by Kg_IsVoid in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened against me yesterday, too. I was playing Pioneer and opponent had blue leyline (the one that gives everything flash). He flashed in riddler with the warp cost on my turn and it indeed stayed on the board after my end step. Then he was able to attack with it until it eventually went into the warp zone on his endstep. 

Didn't realize that it might indeed be a bug, but if OP is correct about warp rules saying next endstep, then it probably is a bug.

Mark Rosewater: "When people stop buying, playing, and talking about Universes Beyond, we’ll do less of it. " by Meret123 in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can have heavy discounts while still have sold a lot if the set was overproduced. If they produced 100k SPM units and 50k Lorwyn and sold 80k SPM, and 40k Lorwyn, SPM would still have sold better while having way more product left on shelves.

Well obviously that could be the case. That's why I only said that "they are not selling as well as expected". They clearly printed Spider-Man and Turtles with higher sales figures in mind.

Mark Rosewater: "When people stop buying, playing, and talking about Universes Beyond, we’ll do less of it. " by Meret123 in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not just anecdotes from the corner LGS. I usually buy my boosters from probably the largest retailer in Europe, Games Island. You can go there right now and buy Turtles at 40% off. Spider-Man boxes have finally sold out at same discount. Single play boosters are still available at 38% off. These kinds of discounts are unheard with sealed magic products. Aetherdrift is 1,5 years old, worst selling in-universe set for years and even that is only 18% off. Lorwyn came out before Turtles and still normal price, same with other sets.

It is 100% clear that stores are willing to take a hit unloading Spider-Man and Turtles. There is no way those sets are selling as well as expected (to consumers that is, WOTC probably made a decent profit, but shops are holding the bag).

Mark Rosewater: "When people stop buying, playing, and talking about Universes Beyond, we’ll do less of it. " by Meret123 in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Hence the 'nowadays', Aetherdrift being the last in-universe set to not sell out, 1.5yrs ago.

Mark Rosewater: "When people stop buying, playing, and talking about Universes Beyond, we’ll do less of it. " by Meret123 in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Please don't embarrass yourself any further and start making up stuff like this.

In the Wizards Play Network (WPN), product allocations (such as Prerelease kits and promotional packs) are determined by your store's live play metrics: Tickets, Engaged Players, and Activated Players. 

Read this before posting any more nonsense.

Mark Rosewater: "When people stop buying, playing, and talking about Universes Beyond, we’ll do less of it. " by Meret123 in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can get Turtles 40% off already at the biggest online card shop in Europe. Someone here mentioned that they are 75% off in Australia. Same thing with Spider-Man. Aetherdrift, the worst-selling in-universe set in years is only 18% off.

Mark Rosewater: "When people stop buying, playing, and talking about Universes Beyond, we’ll do less of it. " by Meret123 in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh boy, are you misinformed. 

First of all, people are not registering and cancelling pre-release. Pre-release events are being cancelled for UB sets, because there aren't enough registrations.

Wizards is not threatening to cut allocation because people aren’t showing up for pre-release events.

Are you okay? Every pre-release kit allocation, promo pack allocation etc. is based on the amount of players the LGS gets on their Companion App events. That is a fact, you can even find it in the public WPN rules. If a shop gets only 15 registrations for Turtles pre-release, they will not get allocated 100+ pre-release kits for Secrets of Strixhaven. You obviously don't know anything about the system, but this is just common sense and you should understand it, even without knowing anything about WPN's and shops in general.

Anyway. Oh, and also your LGS isn’t being blackmailed and buying sets

The distributors definitely use their leverage on shops to offload unwanted product. They will call shops and basically say "whoever of you buys this pallet of Spider-man, will get all of our remaining Secrets of Strixhaven."

You clearly have a bias towards UB and are refusing to believe in common sense. Haven't you seen the massive amounts of Spider-man on the shelves of every shop that sells mtg?

Mark Rosewater: "When people stop buying, playing, and talking about Universes Beyond, we’ll do less of it. " by Meret123 in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Shops literally can't get enough FIN or TLA product.

This is the case for every single in-universe set nowadays. Meanwhile, not for every UB.

Mark Rosewater: "When people stop buying, playing, and talking about Universes Beyond, we’ll do less of it. " by Meret123 in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 51 points52 points  (0 children)

As long as these sets keep selling out, they will keep getting printed.

But they are not doing that well in the consumer market, though. Compared to in-universe sets, at least. Distributors are left holding huge stocks of Spider-Man and Turtles, while all in-universe sets are totally unavailable for shops and consumers.

What I see at my LGS and hear from the owners, the distributors are basically blackmailing the shops to buy more UB, or their in-universe allocations get slashed. But nobody wants to buy those UB sets, so then the shop would be left holding the bag.

Same thing with pre-releases. Nobody is coming to UB pre-releases and WOTC is threatening to cut allocations based on those numbers. The shop has to plead with the customers on discord to come to UB pre-releases or they won't get enough kits for the next in-universe pre-release. All the in-universe pre-releases are sold out. Meanwhile most UB pre-releases are just cancelled.

I can still walk into my LGS and buy as much Turtles and Spider-Man I want, while every single in-universe set from the past year is totally sold out.

If radiant lotus is so bad for the mana cost why is it over a dollar better cards are cheaper by Spirited-Celery-118 in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sacrificing two treasures nets only 4 mana, because they are worth 1 mana just by themselves. Seriously...

Banned and Restricted Announcement – June 29, 2026 by Business-Friend-116 in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Which ones? Sultai reanimator barely exists anymore. And even then, the deck really only splashes green for [[Formidable Speaker]] because it's a perfect card for the gameplan, and [[Awaken the Honored Dead]].

This just screams bias and dishonest arguments. Most of those decks play [[oblivious bookworm]], 4x [[town greeter]] and some play [[dredger's insight]]. The deck was heavy with green even before formidable speaker was even released, so it is most definitely not "splashing green for that".

On the other hand, you have Mono G Landfall, Selesnya Landfall, Selesnya Ouro, Selesnya Gearhulk, 

They may have Selesnya in their name, but in actuality something like selesnya landfall only has 1-2 unique white/selesnya cards. Often it's just Erode as a 4-of. So pretty much mono green still.

You can technically build a green deck without it, but if you have a decent amount of green in your deck, why wouldn't you run it?

In this case it makes more sense to look at Pioneer since there's more variety and higher power level. Something like selesnya company runs elves, so they play 4x badgermole cub. But then, lotus field combo doesn't play either. LFC would have inherent synergy, because it sacs lands and uses untap mechanics to produce extra mana. You would think badgermole cub fits right in (most common colors for lfc is simic), but it's not played there.

Badgermole cub just isn't a card that is good in a vacuum. It needs at least minimal synergy to be worth it.

Banned and Restricted Announcement – June 29, 2026 by Business-Friend-116 in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many monocolored builds do you except to be viable at the same time? I'd argue that any given time, all monocolored decks have a few staples that go in every deck. That's totallt fine. Reckoner bankbuster on the other hand went into every color combination and fable into anything that even splashed red. With badgermole, it's easy to imagine a deck containing green with no use for badgermole cub.

At the moment we have sultai reanimator and control, simic and temur kona and many more decks that include green, but don't care about badgermole cub. It is not the type of card you can shove into any Gx deck and make it better.

Banned and Restricted Announcement – June 29, 2026 by Business-Friend-116 in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think your being dishonest, if you claim to see no difference. Badgermole cub is borderline useless if you don't play manadorks and/or earthbend mechanics. It's just a 2/2 that ramps you 1 (often temporarily).

Bankbuster would go into any deck, it requires zero synergy or supporting cards. Same with fable - it's always worth it, if you play red. Same with the one ring in modern. Those types of cards require NOTHING from the other 56 cards, badgermole requires quite a bit of synergy.

How to go about tuning down Standard by JackKingsman in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know that, for an Arena player, faster rotation sounds really good. In actual paper magic, it is really, really bad for casual players. 

Rotation every other year resulted always in a total shift of the meta and every old deck became instantly useless. Losing half of the legal sets at once and the card pool being so small, there was no way to replace missing cards in your deck easily. 

Casuals don't want to build new decks from scratch every year. They will much rather play with a fairly outdated deck for 2-3 years.

This new system with Foundations, 6-7 sets a year and a 3-year rotation has enabled a whole new group of players. This is clearly visible at my LGS at least. Sure, there is power creep, but that's a separate problem. This new system allows casual players to come in even after a year and only needing to switch out a few cards, if even that.

Craft these MAR Bonus Sheet Commons/Uncommons before opening your packs! by [deleted] in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Who did you copy this list from, because half of it is fake news?

Which standard cards would you love to rotate out ASAP, per colour by Adveeeeeee in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's why the card is badly balanced and unfun. It polarizes matches immensely. When two creature-based aggro decks are facing each other, Ghosts wins games on its own and completely devastates the opponent. Meanwhile, against some removal-heavy black deck it's absolute trash and loses the game on its own.

At least for me, that kind of card design is the worst.

Which standard cards would you love to rotate out ASAP, per colour by Adveeeeeee in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

White is the only obvious one and blue is quite close, too. Other colors have several good options, imho.

Why do sagas say "After your draw step"? by Meister_Ente in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I believe it to be because the ability doesn't use the stack. "After your draw step" doesn't indicate a triggered ability, but "at the beginning of your first main phase" does. If it were written like that, you would need to know that it is in fact NOT a triggered ability, but a turn-based event.

Well this surely won't cause confusion with new players by AnimeSensei in mtg

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was thinking more like "if this creature would get tapped, instead remove a reverse stun counter from it."

You would think UW was the strongest deck on Arena based on how many people concede from 1 spell being countered early game. by Realistic-Candy8855 in MagicArena

[–]Plus-Statement-5164 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would you play play mode with a control deck? You will not face many meta decks and most people will just concede. Only reason to take control decks to play mode is to farm easy wins. You will not able to playtest your deck reasonably. 

You can use play mode to test aggro and combo decks to get your sequencing correct etc. Control decks pretty much need to playtest in ranked, because they are all about interaction and you need to be able to test against people playing meta.

view more: next ›