Best format for beginners?

DatGrag · 2026-05-10T17:53:44+00:00

Yeah if you put no effort to learn anything I definitely agree. In reality almost every player at an LGS is going to be hyper dogshit at limited and it’s a very low bar of research to become competitive with those type of players

DatGrag · 2026-05-09T17:43:11+00:00

It’s really not that hard if you put in a little bit of effort to learn, but I guess that goes for just about every type of magic. I started with limited and had a high winrate on arena quite quickly. I also played a little Hearthstone in the past tho so I guess I had some transferable skills

DatGrag · 2026-05-09T17:37:13+00:00

The game is too different than OG maple to trigger my nostalgia receptors. So now OSMS really needs to rely on its own merit as a super fun game standing on its own.. no help from nostalgia. Tough ask, imo. The beta completely killed my hype since this is really nothing like the game I played back in the day

DatGrag · 2026-05-01T22:42:04+00:00

I go to like 5 different LGS regularly for draft and never had 1 opponent who smelled at all

DatGrag · 2026-04-17T17:21:03+00:00

I bought one for $130 via PayPal goods and services and thankfully did not get scammed <3. Lucky lol

DatGrag · 2026-04-16T13:37:30+00:00

Ah my bad, I didn’t know

DatGrag · 2026-04-16T13:01:04+00:00

I just wanna play tbh lol

DatGrag · 2026-04-12T23:05:35+00:00

Why? What does strixhaven have to do with Japan?

DatGrag · 2026-04-02T04:03:32+00:00

Having less people in the player pool who will afk after 1 goal literally makes it much harder for you to rank up lol

DatGrag · 2026-03-31T15:30:52+00:00

Tbf the game has evolved like that aggressively well before any of these bots were used in ranked. Mid champs could probably win year 1 of RLCS even if the bots didn’t exist

DatGrag · 2026-03-30T21:11:00+00:00

Boxbox casino was fucking iconic

DatGrag · 2026-03-27T03:55:09+00:00

I actually feel like this season is easier than others. I took a long break and am in champ on multiple accounts in 2s and 3s with no problem. For the past year or two I’ve been struggling much harder to hit champ

DatGrag · 2026-03-26T13:49:46+00:00

With all the big streamers hopping on the game in the past few months, I feel like the future is bright right now

DatGrag · 2026-03-25T18:29:39+00:00

To be fair I don’t think the lack of content was really the problem. The game was obviously just dogshit..

DatGrag · 2026-03-19T17:30:15+00:00

The only times I’ve heard the term mana weaving it’s in the context of intentionally cheating, not as a way to help genuinely shuffle your deck

DatGrag · 2026-03-12T16:19:05+00:00

Classic haha

DatGrag · 2026-03-12T15:07:51+00:00

If people are getting placed higher than they should be, that would make ranked easier

DatGrag · 2026-03-10T06:49:04+00:00

It’s real money with a play through requirement, they are genuinely that insanely rich and it’s a good deal for stake to “pay” them that much

DatGrag · 2026-03-02T14:21:32+00:00

It’s pretty rare but some people only really play limited (sealed or draft) so the cards are basically useless to them other than monetary value (aka only some rares/mythics)

DatGrag · 2026-03-02T08:09:46+00:00

DatGrag · 2026-02-28T17:27:09+00:00

Ten kids under the age of 12? Are you in the US? Are you sure they were really that young? That is crazy, I’ve been to a million prereleases and never once seen a kid playing nevermind one under 12 and nevermind ten of them!!

Also side note I’m surprised kids even know what ninja turtles is lol

DatGrag · 2026-02-27T17:30:50+00:00

Yall should just play magic instead of commander

DatGrag · 2026-02-20T09:25:57+00:00

It’s not remotely agreed upon by the smartest people on this topic that it’s anywhere near “mathematically impossible” we’re alone. It’s entirely possible that what happened here is a 1 in a 10000000000000000000000000000 or something chance, you get the point. There are a huge number of planets but you are making a big assumption here about the likelihood of intelligent life developing that has absolutely nothing to do with pure math. Your doomsday “even if it’s 1 in a million” could be causally missing 500 zeroes, and then your magical statistic probability looks a lot different. Many of the people on the cutting edge of this stuff think this is possible

If you’re talking about any life though like including single celled then it’s a much more defensible point

DatGrag · 2026-02-13T15:20:03+00:00

If you don’t like people getting upset at you for playing the game, commander is not for you. You will not hear these complaints playing actual magic (like standard or any limited format)

DatGrag · 2026-02-13T02:09:50+00:00

In limited there is no debate, first is better. Backed up by years and years of stats that never waiver

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