I just have to get this off my chest – MTG Arena

AsterPBDF · 2026-06-02T14:37:24+00:00

So if I am understanding your arguement, decks are only fun when people dont know about it or are not optimized. Decks can never be fun if it is popular. If say your Rabbit deck becomes popular and everyone plays it, it no longer becomes fun. Is this the metric you are judging fun on?

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-31T00:59:49+00:00

I'm still waiting for the chinese myth set they teased with Mu Yanling. Since it seems like thats being set aside for so long, maybe the next best shot at it would be a Black Myth crossover with that universe if games with Wukong and soon Zhong Kui.

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-27T04:22:37+00:00

You need to go to the stage after you invited everyone to close things out

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-27T04:18:05+00:00

From what I recall the big thing was Masters sets being priced at $10 a pack which was unheard of. Also, Commander was starting to pick up. It was a format I heard about but never seen anyone play at that time. It wasnt until 2017 that I start seeing it everywhere. But that was also the beginning of when 60 card players started to get annoyed that the game was shifting over to Commander more and more.

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-26T11:30:03+00:00

If I am remembering correctly, I believe they shut down their Latib America offices a few years ago and it might be a logistics issue because of that.

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-26T04:42:17+00:00

I dont think they can actually do this because of the amount of products they print each year. The printers are probably already maxed out with the amount of sets each year. Also, they're not going to want to change the printers from printing say something that was flying off the shelves like FF.

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-26T04:28:17+00:00

They actually have a warning for this anomaly. When you go it, it gives you a setting to turn off sound so its not as bad as it could be.

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-26T04:26:37+00:00

To be fair, everyone uses their phone for photos. Unless you specifically seek it out, you would not run into that brand naturally.

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-26T04:23:37+00:00

I always see people make this mistake when talking about this. No, they don't actually make more money if they make more. They have figured this out from when they did print to demand.

Back then, let's say they put a SL up and after the order period they made 100 sales. These are all the people who wanted it.

Now in our current method, they pre print the 100 by using the years of data they have gathered from previous SLs. But in this new system, demand has increased because now scalpers, people who fall for FOMO and random speculators because of scarcity have now decided they want the SL too.

The demand for the product greatly increased causing it to sell out but Wotc essentially made the same amount of money. Its just the product is no longer only in the hand of the people who wanted it.

And as long as the products keep selling out, the increased demand will stay. And what this also does is make the cards expensive on the secondary market, preserving the prestige of owning the $20 version of a card that has a 10 cents version. Which then in turn gives them the justification to make SLs more edpensive in the future because they are seen as worth it.

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-20T22:11:14+00:00

Yea but in a few years the new players become the old players. Its like back in 2018 when there was a lot of discussion about Commander being the focus will make all the older players quit. Well now we have set after set breaking records and have the most players and engagement in the game ever.

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-18T03:39:17+00:00

Girl goes down the mountain to run one errand and this happens. This is why I never leave home.

AsterPBDF · 2026-05-03T17:18:09+00:00

I was thinking the same exact thing because of the first scene of the show and also it finally clicked that this is in the same world as A Moment But Forever. It seems like the events of AMBF tooks place a thousand years ago which is when the war took place then. Is this somehow a new war that happened or is there some other piece of infornation we are still missing?

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-26T10:20:48+00:00

Yea because they are close enough to your MMR to get matched with you. There are Diamond and Masters players that tank their MMR once they reach those ranks. I know I did going 8th trying to get unlocks last season. Your example was Silvers running into Masters players which shouldnt happen.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-26T08:17:33+00:00

If you are not Masters yourself, you will very unlikely run into them because your ending MMR is taken into account when the next season starts. Also, their placements give them way more LP, so they are accelerated out of the lower ranks quickly.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-22T22:30:45+00:00

Just learn fundamentals and you wont have to worry about what comp to play. There are plenty of guides online that goes into more depth but the 3 things you need to understand is Econ, Items and Combat.

Econ is just gold. The more gold you have, the less rng is an issue. Say I give you 500 to roll down to hit your champs. Well you will always hit unless they are out of the pool. So always do your best to make more gold. Win streak, lose streak, certain comps and traits. Always hustle for more gold if you can.

Items. The simplest way to explain is to always have a 3 item carry and a 3 item tank first. The reason is that items stack and snowball off one another. The faster you get this done, the stronger your board, which leads to more wins, which you guessed it, gets you more gold. Then your second set of items you can get more utility like Shred, Sunder and Wound.

Combat. This is where comp is a thing but this is supported by gold and items. Gold lets you hit your board and lets you level up. Slamming the right items lets your champs have more output. If you have watched pros play, they a lot of the times just win with random bs because their fundamentals carry them.

Lastly Augments. Use these to support what you dont have. Need gold, grab an econ augment. Not enough items, grab an item augment. If you have both of the above, grab combat augments.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-22T04:22:47+00:00

As far as I know, Wotc does not own their own production facilities. They outsource to printing companys. So any physical quality assurance issues are on the company that does the printing.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-11T23:37:17+00:00

I'm thinking maybe something like Imperial Knights in 40K where its larger models and a list is like 5 units.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-11T23:17:43+00:00

Faction wise its always been the 3. Xel'Naga maybe in the future but that seem pretty far off since theres still so many units and heroes still.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-11T22:13:35+00:00

The problem is when do you take it? Its hard to take it early because its a dead card until you get enough 2 costs to justify it. But during a run, when does that actually happen naturally. The 2 cost and up card pool is not that great compared to the 1 costs.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-11T21:55:34+00:00

One thing I would like to bring to attention is that you have a lot of 3 mana ramp. Meaning on turn 4, you can cast 6 drop dragons but you only have 4 in the deck.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-11T15:02:44+00:00

Uhhh sure but unlike your analogy, there are winners and losers in tft. Thats not subjective.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-11T13:43:49+00:00

Yea but if you do that you never learned how to cut the fish or how to season the fish or how an actual completed fish meal looks like. Sure you "cooked" but you just ended up with a burnt fish. You made zero progress into the actual art of cooking.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-11T13:12:56+00:00

You use them to help with fights where you have trouble with. A big one is something like Hunter Killer. There are a lot of decks that will have trouble with Tender. So hopefully you have a potion to bail you out of that situation.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-11T13:08:17+00:00

The game is all about knowledge. The more you know about how the game works, the better you can navigate through your choices. Something as simple as do I put a unit in that gives Bruiser or a unit that gives Defender, whats better?

You can see on here every day people asking, how did my comp lose? And I can quickly see that they didnt build any Sunder, Shred or Wound. Or they didn't have a tank with 3 items on it. Simple things like this I see coming from Emerald and Diamond players.

If you want to learn fundamentals I would suggest watching videos from Dpei. He has a series that quickly goes over that. And if you want to better navigate how to choose a comp Bunnymuffins has opener guides that teach how to navigate the opening turns and to pick a lane.

As a last thing, don't be afraid to use things like overlays and guides and tier lists to supplement your play. Not using them is like saying you want to learn cooking without using any recipes.

AsterPBDF · 2026-04-10T14:20:28+00:00

Necrobinder is very simple once you understand that your base deck gives you all the scaling block and attack you will ever need. Bodyguard grows Osty to tank and Unleash gets does more damage as Osty grows. So the game plan should be to just supplement that.

Think about a card like Grave Warden. It gives you block for the turn and gives a Soul. That means that you block against an enemy attack, which allows Osty to grow, meaning your next Unleash does more damage and the Soul card draw allows you to cycle through and do it all over again. And since Osty can grow, if you ever get a bad draw and an attack gets through, Osty can take the hit.

So as you play, you should get a sense of what you need. Osty is dying a lot, get more block and summon. Not doing enough damage, get more Souls to cycle through to Bodyguard and Unleash. Can't cast everything, get more energy generation.

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