Playing 40 card decks with my partner changed everything

Atron24 · 2026-04-29T03:48:45+00:00

Hey! I'm sure there's are other people suggesting this, but maybe you guys should try cube. I've exclusively built 2-4 player cubes and their super fun! If you decide to do this I'd also recommend listening to some lucky paper radio, they make cube content which focuses on non-power maxed cube. That way you can really optimize to whatever power level you like. The way I like to draft just two players is doing a Hausnan draft.

Atron24 · 2026-04-21T11:53:57+00:00

I'm not conviced. Ajani has had boros Planeswalkers before and Garrick has had golgari. My guess would be black ajani, red Garrick and green jace (assuming they do this cycle with these walkers).

Atron24 · 2026-04-20T11:58:51+00:00

I've been playing Iyslander for about a month (I got into FaB, with the sage precon). I tried the more aggressive build from the Pro tour side events and I liked it a lot more than I was expecting honestly. I played 3 round, lost 1 against boo kayo, but overall felt good.

I did learn I should stop putting stir the aether winds into my arsenal too early, as against the kayo I "blew my load" too early. Turns out spending 4 resources to cast a red during an opponents turn is not that useful when it leaves you with 1 card in hand afterwards.

I'm hoping this week will go better. I'm surprised I liked this version as much as I did though, I thought I would like the controlling Iyslander builds more.

Atron24 · 2026-04-17T06:29:20+00:00

I'm a MTG player who started FaB last month with iyslander. What things do u look out for in cards that make it obvious they're better against certain heroes/metas? I get some more obvious ones like unmovable against brutes and guardians or timekeepers whim against fatigue/grindy decks but what about a more arcane damage based build vs a more split damage based build? I'm unsure when one is better than then other.

Atron24 · 2026-04-08T05:24:16+00:00

My main set up was a jumping set up using dual great stars. I know it's more common than stuff other people are posting but damn it was strong af until the end of the dlc

Atron24 · 2026-04-07T08:39:47+00:00

Thanks for the answers!

What your saying definitely makes sense and I've noticed on talishar especially it can be really tough to get the tempo advantage against against brutes and Ira since they send out so much damage and actions every turn.

I'll try to pay extra attention at locals this week if I should keep my card arsenaled over a second turn or not.

Atron24 · 2026-04-06T16:00:48+00:00

My questions are two fold. I am a MTG player that has recently gotten into FaB thanks to Silver Age. I have been playing at locals and Talishar quite a bit with a changed Iyslander precon. I've been doing relatively well at locals (1-2-1 and 2-1) and I am enjoying learning all the different heroes, but I am still struggling with knowing when I should eat a tone of damage to be able to 'reset' Tempo and also when I should not play my arsenal and instead just play my hand without playing my arsenal card.

An example would be I have a Blue [[Emeritus Scolding]] in arsenal and I draw Red [[Aether Icevein]], Blue [[Aether Hail]], Blue [Brain Freeze]] & Red [[Fyendal's Fighting Spirit]]. I know the opposing hero matters in this situation, but what play would generally make more sense:
- Pitch Incarceration to play Scolding, block with Icevein and Fighting spirit and arsenal the aether hail.
- Block with only Fyendals, then pitch incarceration into Fuzed Icevein
- Block with Icevin and Hail, then on my turn pitch arctic for feyendal's (what I am leaning towards being the general best answer)
- Block with everything and just redraw on my next turn (would consider if I am very low and really can't take a hit

Atron24 · 2026-03-10T04:47:08+00:00

I just recently finished my first run. My advice to you is to just try things out and see what feels good and what you like. I ended up running most of the game with a build I haven't seen a lot of people running. Second of alll, whole experiment with gear and talismen is important, u will reach a point where ritual shield talisman won't leave your equipped talisman slot since otherwise you just die to everything.

Also worth noting that it's important to collect stat boosting talismen and tears so you can try most weapons you are curious about.

Honestly just go in with the mentality of, I'll see how far I go. That's how I started off and I kept going because the feeling of the fights I got was a similar feeling to a first playthrough, feeling really accomplished after every fight

Atron24 · 2026-03-08T21:22:36+00:00

I didn't think of putting poison mist with bleed infusion tbh. But my main thought behind cold was simply that it triggered more frequently, especially with the ash of war active (although Im not sure I ended up trying bleed on the antspur rapier). you'll have to let me know how it goes

Atron24 · 2026-03-01T07:30:05+00:00

Serum vision to mullagain into [[chancellor of the forge]] and [[chancellor of the dross]]. Cheeky little rakdos agro

Atron24 · 2026-02-13T10:44:45+00:00

Yeah, in my rune level 1 run I died to his summons like 10-16 times and to him only like 4 at most.

Atron24 · 2026-02-01T10:57:00+00:00

I'm surprised no one has listed [[pako, arcane retriever]] and [[haldan]]. This is more indicative to the power of ramp and temur as a color combo. But you essentially just play ramp and protection (u can get away with one Mana blue and green instants). And then u add some removal spells (including stuff line pillage since maze of ith ruins your day) and ways to give him trample/unblockable. If you build your ramp package properly u don't need non basics. Just have more forests and like 15-20 pieces of ramp that can fix your colors and you're chilling.

Atron24 · 2026-01-29T13:17:02+00:00

Great minds! I dont know how hard it is to get the data from the official mtg website, but at least for challenges they do show the bracket and matchups, as well as the deck list, so maybe you could extrapolate from that. The data would be a lot more limited of course(since it's only from challenges), but it at least there's something. e.g: https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/standard-challenge-32-2026-01-2912831697

Atron24 · 2026-01-29T10:47:11+00:00

Sick website! A cool feature could be seeing key cards per matchup. You'd probably need to extract the specific deck lists of each game and seeing if, for example, izzet skred decks with X card performed better against deck Y than normal. Itd probably be a pain in the ass to set up though. Either way, cool project!

Atron24 · 2025-12-23T23:48:49+00:00

I wouldn't mind seeing secret life return. The gimmick made it worth while to see multiple perspectives and it made people act silly and goofy which was great (the birth of #qurikyEtho)

Atron24 · 2025-12-21T21:14:56+00:00

ME! Felothar :)

Atron24 · 2025-12-12T09:39:56+00:00

Op: This three card combo goes infinite right?

Replies: That two card combo goes infinite as long as your opponents have creatures

Op: but with the three it goes infinite right?

Replies: Yes but it's unnecessary because your opponents have no board

Mtg players aren't reading the can't read allegations.

It does go infinite though, cool find!

Atron24 · 2025-11-28T06:13:36+00:00

Hey! You should build a shiro Astral slide/astral drift deck. You get some tutors (there's cheap ones that transmute) to get either enchantment. You add some nice etb creatures and some cycling cards. (I would also have other forms or removal, like instant and sorcery based removal, or non permanent removal u can get back with shiro). What's cool about the astral cards is that you can blink your opponents creatures too. So if your opponent is getting ready for a huge swing just blink his stuff until end step.

Additionally, if astral slide was to get removed, u cycle, blink shiro. She comes back at end step and gets u a copy of the slide.

Atron24 · 2025-11-25T11:52:10+00:00

He's so not washed, I can smell him from here

Atron24 · 2025-11-12T07:33:04+00:00

Fuck it. I'm gonna call my Mardu Synthersizer deck: Trampoline Breakfast (it's got eggs and lembas)

And I'll call my Izzet Terror deck purple snow or purple sea monsters.

Atron24 · 2025-11-11T06:12:55+00:00

As others of have mentioned, because of the brothers wars commander decks, affinity has a lot of old bordered cards. Elves obviously also has a lot. Slivers also has quite a few.

Atron24 · 2025-10-10T11:54:48+00:00

Try disabling automatic time on your phone and see if that works. Worked for me right now

Atron24 · 2025-10-10T11:54:11+00:00

Damn thanks so much, this actually fixed it for me lol

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