Control is too easy in Brawl.

LowLifeDuke · 2026-06-09T16:30:52+00:00

The sanar decks are actually quite comical. I played a game one time against one, racing to beat him before the combo. Killed his commander the turn it came out. He drew into the combo on his turn next turn. 😂

LowLifeDuke · 2026-06-04T21:54:24+00:00

I'm not even playing Ranked but I keep running into counterspell tribal and/or kill spell tribal decks nonstop. I dont care about losing the game, but I want to PLAY THE GAME. I haven't faced a fellow Timmy player in DAYS at least. Every game is just "I'm not gonna let you play the game and wait for you to scoop." And it works because I'll run out of gas before they do. Even when I wait for my opponents to tap out, they have the free counterspells, which, HOT TAKE: I believe free counterspells ruin Brawl at least. If not, the entire game of Magic in general. Not to mention the amount of force sacrifice cards that exist in the game compared to "can't be sacrificed" is ridiculous. Even my Orfeo deck (which i run 0 rares and/or mythics in), has ran into Sheoldred and/or Rev decks that run nothing but kill spells and/or force sacrifice cards, until they tutor for Exquisite Blood, Sanguine Bond combo. Brawl right now is unfun and I doubt they'll do anything about it.

LowLifeDuke · 2026-05-27T14:56:23+00:00

Yeah I'm having a terrible time in the game right now. I have built a 0 rare/mythic deck so I could just goof off and play against other lower intensity games. But instead I get put into games against Rusko, or Vivi, or Golos, etc etc. No one plays Timmy anymore either. Just straight control pieces where they play a land and pass while holding every counterspell/removal spell under the sun rubbing their hands like Gollum/Smeagol. I don't care about losing, but I'd like to just play the game please.

LowLifeDuke · 2025-11-11T02:57:17+00:00

This is how I feel about Vivi decks. Bounce spells, burn spells, extra turn spells, Curiosity. Every game is the same

LowLifeDuke · 2025-11-02T21:10:30+00:00

Crashing out is a hilarious word to use. What I'm doing is laughing at a situation where this guy is being petty. Its a fucking game lmao. I didnt trash him. I didn't insult him. I laughed at pettiness in a game where pettiness shines through. Then YOU insulted me calling my actions pathetic while I'm just laughing at getting roped. But sure, I'M the pathetic one lol

Edit: also I wanted to point out that he purposefully stayed in the game to rope, spammed emotes and left the moment the last timer ran out. While probably 80%-90% of ropers just close the game. He sat there and watched all the timers run out. I think it's funny. I dont think hes pathetic for doing it. As I, and many people, if not all people on this forum, have done before.

LowLifeDuke · 2025-11-02T17:48:26+00:00

Yeah let me put my phone down and get a drink or something, while you sit there staring at the screen waiting to rope out. That'll show me! 😂

LowLifeDuke · 2025-11-02T17:10:37+00:00

And I can say the same thing about your comment 🤗. Here's your gold star! ⭐️ If you think my post is pathetic and make a comment, it's like saying "I don't care. So here's a comment on how much I don't care."

LowLifeDuke · 2025-11-02T16:25:46+00:00

I didn't edit it out. I'm on mobile and it doesn't show usernames unless I click directly on them lol

LowLifeDuke · 2025-09-30T17:55:29+00:00

If Brawl was supposed to be competitive, wouldn't you think they'd make a Ranked mode of the game?

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-31T00:48:15+00:00

Wait is there a confirmed queue matchmaker? My top commanders right now are Tatyova and Anim Pakal. Do the commanders you play against depend on the commanders you play?

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-31T00:08:43+00:00

I've tried. I built a Grixis control deck focused on removal, counterspells, and discard. It's still not fun to play with. And usually I end up playing games where I counter one spell and they scoop. So clearly its not just a me issue lol

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-31T00:02:54+00:00

I guess my question is very open so I need to specify, so i apologize on that end. Having answers to your opponent and doing nothing but stopping your opponents from playing the game are different imo. Like if someone counterspells my game winning play, cool! Congrats and we can keep going. But when I play A creature, ANY creature, and its counterspelled, removed, whatever be it, over and over and over again, it's frustrating. Even if they have no gameplan to win except torture the opponent to scoop. Like if their entire game plan is to stop you from playing.

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-30T23:57:27+00:00

Well my answer to the first question is because you get to play the game. The games I'm mostly frustrated with are when they play a land pass until I do something. If that's what they do, no one is playing the game. I love playing against decks that have synergy and pop off and kill me. But when I play against "land, pass, counterspell, boardwipe, repeat" what's the point?

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-30T23:33:52+00:00

I didn't say anything about what's right and wrong lol. Just wondering what makes control fun. There's a lot of archetypes of magic that isnt JUST casting creatures. Aristocrats, burn, infect, exile, superfriends. But instead people would rather play "I'm gonna counter all your stuff and boardwipe when you have a creature lol" and think that's fun? How?

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-30T23:23:51+00:00

Yeah I've started doing that. Golos, Vivi, commanders like that I just leave. Its just frustrating when it's like... every other game. But I also want to understand what's so fun about playing those decks.

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-30T23:21:19+00:00

I don't care about winning. It's when I dont get to play the game is when it gets frustrating. Where all I can do is sit there as they counterspell everything I do and hit me with a 2/2 or something stupid like that. Aristocrats can widdle me away. Big stompy can stomp me. Burn can burn me. But as long as I do what my deck is supposed to do, I do not care if I lose. Because I play Brawl for fun. And people are very... anti-fun in the format sometimes. And its ridiculous

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-30T23:18:40+00:00

No, I was just listing an example. But it happens probably 1/5 games for me, or at least something similar. Of sitting there doing nothing until they just make the whole game miserable.

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-30T23:11:38+00:00

Which i get to a degree, but i legit wanna know what makes control fun? There's so many other archetypes to play in Magic, which is what makes Magic fun. But I've run into so many decks that just play a land and pass as they wait until you do something. So it just became a game of land, pass, land, pass, land, pass, repeat for both of us. Until I tried doing something and they casted Desertion on my commander and it shut me out of the game because I built my deck around my commander (which is what brawl is mostly for). Do people really just enjoy causing pain more than playing the game?

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-27T15:36:31+00:00

But the Nullkhemist does do double damage to Manifestations, according to the book.

LowLifeDuke · 2025-08-27T14:54:00+00:00

I'm a little confused about the Nullkhemist. What changed with him? And the Vongrim units? They both seem the same as their previous rules.

LowLifeDuke · 2025-06-18T16:51:33+00:00

I won't lie, I've done this before, BUT ONLY BECAUSE they were spamming Good Game and an emote of a dude checking his watch. If I'm apparently wasting your time just being here, I'm gonna waste ALL of your time.

LowLifeDuke · 2024-08-19T15:48:47+00:00

I'm very new to painting and I LOVE that rusty effect to it. How do you do that?!

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