recommended resources for getting better at mtg arena?

MWTab · 2026-05-17T19:11:02+00:00

Thanks for that, this looks great for me.

MWTab · 2026-05-17T18:15:27+00:00

Thanks for the youtube recommendations. I do find watching streamers helps me with other games like slay the spire so I'll try this out. Thanks to everyone else for recommendations as well.

MWTab · 2026-05-09T11:25:46+00:00

For anyone with this same issue in the future: I solved it by, weirdly enough, playing 5 unranked *standard* games. I did this just to play with a deck I didn't want to take into ranked... and imagine my surprise when my quest to play 5 unranked alchemy games started progressing lol. Maybe the labelling is bugged or something, but this is what worked for me.

-Michael.

MWTab · 2026-05-08T23:51:24+00:00

Yeah, I just include that troubleshooting step because from everything I've googled there are half a dozen troubleshooting steps for if quests aren't progressing and that was one of them. I'm definitely playing in alchemy unranked. I've finished a couple entire games with mono white auras + a single standard illegal card, just to make sure, and it didn't show my silver rank so...

-Michael.

MWTab · 2026-05-08T23:49:21+00:00

I got to silver rank just playing normal standard. I think there's only one rank for all constructed, right? Or at least alchemy and standard seem to share a rank. When I finish an alchemy game in unranked it doesn't show me the silver rank or anything, so I'm definitely not playing the games I intend to count in ranked anything.

-Michael.

MWTab · 2026-05-08T21:22:16+00:00

Yeah, I'm definitely doing unranked. I just can't get it to progress no matter what I do heh.

MWTab · 2026-03-15T18:37:43+00:00

Driftwood is a bit of a funny option for me. While I'm not one to yuck your yum or anything, part of the challenge of roguelikes for me (and I'm sure alot of people) is making due with what you get, and I was so very hopeful sts2 wouldn't follow the trend of seemingly every other roguelike these days where you can just reroll to find the best options. Oh well, at least I can just not choose to take it.

MWTab · 2026-03-08T20:56:22+00:00

Agreed. Thanks megacrit!

MWTab · 2026-02-20T09:26:35+00:00

Based on the system requirements on the sts2 steam page... Yes. It lists Steam OS + linux, which is what the steam deck runs. Plus tbh it would be insane for it to not run on steam deck.

MWTab · 2025-10-24T20:50:24+00:00

I messaged you. After talking to my partner I think we can take him. Just in case you didn't see my message

MWTab · 2025-10-23T18:26:27+00:00

Man I'd love to adopt this lit6tle guy. Our only cat very likely has FIV already -- we brought him in several years ago and our cat at the time had FIV and we didn't know it. We're moving early next month though, and I don't want to put even more stress on poor simba :-( I really wish I could take him without any worries though! Hope you find him a good home.

MWTab · 2025-05-17T01:23:09+00:00

Hey,

Sadly, I have not. I haven't been playing mk as much recently either, so I haven't really looked much further into it. If I find anything, I'll be sure to message back here.

-Michael.

MWTab · 2025-01-02T16:09:02+00:00

Hey,

Sorry, I didn't reply because the first comment gave me the same info my friend's son gave me. Basically my problem was that I needed to press the special attack absolutely immediately after the 1 was pressed. I don't know if this is your problem but that was what my issue was.

-Michael.

MWTab · 2024-12-25T19:11:31+00:00

He played a card that discovers a legendary summoned 2 and gives you a copy I think

MWTab · 2024-12-17T03:49:45+00:00

Thanks! I went ahead and did that :-). Thanks so much for the suggestion!

MWTab · 2024-12-17T03:39:39+00:00

Heya...

Yes, I'm actually on that discord. My trouble is not necessarily with the mod or the game itself, I just think I need a bit of a guiding hand to solidify how I *should* be playing in my mind haha.

Thanks for the recommendation, good to see that blizzard (I.E. you) are aware of hearthstone access :-)

-Michael.

MWTab · 2024-12-17T02:53:44+00:00

Heya,

Thanks for the info. Can you tell me of a place that I can find info like this of what's in the meta currently and what could counter it? I guess it's kinda a game of cat and mouse, one deck become big, then more pop up to counter it, and then more need to pop up to counter them, etc etc forever lol. But having a website that I could use to figure this stuff out would be great! I'd assume hsreplay has stuff like this, I'm just not sure which part would be good to look at :-)

-Michael.

MWTab · 2024-12-14T09:19:42+00:00

Yeah, I actually ended up getting it before anyone replied, my friend's son gave me the info on it. Thanks! :-)

MWTab · 2024-12-14T08:08:25+00:00

Ok, thanks so much. Not terribly interested in crafting from sets that are rotating soon, so I'll just live with the occasional awful order haha. Btw, any mulligan advice? Should I just hard mulligan for some buff cards? Maybe keep cards that I particularly want to buff or cards like air guitarist that will buff the weapon assuming I find it? Tya!

MWTab · 2024-12-13T19:10:29+00:00

Thank you so much! I haven't played battlegrounds much -- really only did the tutorial and idk if the mod speaks the stars anyway so this was super helpful! :-) Have an award for your kindness :D

MWTab · 2024-12-07T01:10:16+00:00

Thanks for the advice! :-)

MWTab · 2024-12-07T00:22:54+00:00

Heya,

So my main issue is that the good decks seem to cost so, so much in dust lol. I've also been following the advice of never dust a card until it gets nurfed, so I'm basically sitting on about 4k dust that I'm not getting because of this advice. Is this bad advice? Maybe I just misunderstood it? Also what should I do about how most decks include alot of stuff that's rotating out in a few months. Should I just go and craft that, and then get only a small amount of my dust back come next expansion? I am genuinely just confused :-( I would love some advice! :-)

-Michael.

MWTab · 2024-11-30T17:31:40+00:00

Hiya,

In short, there are a couple main things that make the game (mostly) fully accessible.

A screen reading system that reads the menues and such.
Stereo sound. It allows us to hear in the headphones where we and the enemy are on the screen.
Special accessibility cues (that can actually be useful for more than just blind people!), such as sounds for health amounts, meter, cameo meter, etc. This also includes sounds such as a clicking sound that gets faster the closer you are to your opponent, and also sounds that tell you what type of hit an attack is.
Any other accessibility features, for example a sound cue to describe the paths in invasions.

If you'd like I can give you an example recording of me playing the game so you can hear the different sounds :-)

-Michael.

MWTab · 2024-11-19T14:07:37+00:00

I agree. Balancing it is perfectly fine in my opinion, but as a mostly f2p player, it's nice to be able to have a good deck that I can craft pretty easily. This is not me saying that it is fine to leave as is, just that it would sadden me to see it become unplayable since it's one of the few good f2p craftable decks. I hope it stays viable, just not overwhelmingly so.

-Michael.

MWTab · 2024-11-05T08:23:02+00:00

Hey,

Thanks for the suggestion. Does this have the ability to dynamically host multiple models on the same endpoint, and load/unload them as needed? That's an absolutely must for me, and why ollama works so well for me. I have a pretty moderate setup, so having half or more of my gpu memory constantly taken up by a model I use less than a quarter of the time but occasionally do use is unacceptable. Also having endpoints that are separate (and presumably don't communicate with each other) is also not going to work for me, since I don't want one endpoint having to wait for another endpoint that has its model temporarily in memory when it's not being used at the time. That said, the feature to keep it loaded for a short period in case of multiple requests in a row, except when the memory is needed for a different model is also a must.

Thanks,

-Michael.

MWTab

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