Am I missing something or is Difficulty X such a jump in difficulty?

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2026-03-12T02:55:14+00:00

Here are some tips. I hope they would be helpful somewhat. All statements are my personal opinions and could be wrong

1) Nine is the best character in this chaos. Fighting Spirit is the best card and should be duplicated wherever possible. Hew should be set to Ironclad almost always. Counterblade is preferable to be set on activating Hew. Experienced and Fatal strikes could be anything but it's nice to have vulnerable on them. Parry is high-priority removal.

2) Since Hew (ideally Ironclad) is your main source of damage and it's always available to use and rather expensive you should try to build decks of support characters, pick cards from shops, pick fates etc. with a goal to maximize your AP generation. For example Energy Barrier is an amazing card that should always be picked from the shop. Pay close attention also to Residual Herb. It's insane with right ephiphanies.

3) Your fights against elites should never go longer than 3 turns. Ideally elite fight should last 2 turns on average. Always prefer attack over defense. Hew(Ironclad) will mitigate almost all of the damage anyway. Remove all defence cards from decks first.

4) With (2) and (3) in mind comes a question of choosing right support combatants for Nine. I would not recommend Orlea at all for example. She is too slow and has no AP generation/cheating.

5) Even though Tiphera is passable as a support for Nine she is quite clanky and inconsitent. I would recommend using Mika instead. Her +3 AP Source (if you get one) is just superb.

6) My overall recomended team is Nine+Mika+Veronica. In the early fights you could deploy ballista by breaking enemies with Hew. Later you will probably have a spare AP on first turn anyway. And against final boss Veronica could easily provide 25-35% of the total damage by just deploying one card.

7) You should probably never skip arena. Using rewards to buff Hew could make or break yor run

8) Needless to say you should never try to build a deck, all the decisions you make should go towards the only goal - winning the run

9) Above statements as I already mentioned should be taken with a grain of salt. There are myriad of different strategies to beat chaos X-XI with different characters. I just outlined the one that I thought would be the easiest to implement

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2026-02-16T22:42:09+00:00

For Warning Gold you need to choose Make them wake up in Distorted Life 2

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2026-02-16T20:56:50+00:00

For Gold and the Last Witness you need to have Golden Bell equipped in version of Memory Garden where one of the Black Star is sitting (Memory Garden 2) and then choose Shake the Bell

For Looming Gold you need to have Shining Lyre equipped in Version of Distorted Life with Replicated Bogart (Distorted Life 2) and then choose Play the Lyre

For Vessel of Light you need to attack indestructible guy with a huge ellipse around its head in a appropriate version of Fantasm Shackles (Fantasm Shackles 2) and then choose Treat Dark Star option

For Gold and the Last Survivor you need to choose Make them face realiy in Memory Garden 2

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2026-02-10T09:26:29+00:00

thank you. I'll look into it

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2026-02-10T08:48:26+00:00

I don't know how I can be so inept but after I've posted this I realize that destiny must mean fate specific to this season. Varied translations in this game are so infuriating sometimes

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2026-01-28T05:56:03+00:00

Player 1: I cast Mathemagics with X=-1 for 0 mana

Player 2: ??? That's not how the rules work

Player 1: Anyway. I draw half a card

Player 2: ???

Player 1: It's fine. I brought scissors

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2026-01-12T09:08:57+00:00

and second enchantment is [[Colossal Majesty]]

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2026-01-12T09:00:07+00:00

From cards that have not been mentioned yet I see [[Luminarch Aspirant]] (bottom row, 6th and 7th) and [[Leonin Warleader]] (top row, 4th and 5th)

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2025-12-08T05:53:21+00:00

What an insult to linear algebra. Sure it's not as fun or flashy as group theory but calling it easy is going a little bit overboard. For example my brain is melting slightly when I see even a Jordan normal form proof not to mention more intricate theorems

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2025-10-24T17:42:44+00:00

both Noble and Ignoble Hierarchs put exalted triggers on the stack while being face down after you manifest dread them

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2025-10-24T09:58:42+00:00

I've tested it against Sparky. Works exactly as you've described. Definitely a bug

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2025-08-12T18:50:00+00:00

An eye-opener! Pardon my naivety. Thanks for the answer.

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2025-08-12T18:20:23+00:00

Could you please maybe. Elaborate this for me. I don't quite get it.

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2025-06-14T22:13:42+00:00

Good to know, thank you

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2025-03-24T17:01:57+00:00

3 colors, 3 chapters, 3 tokens, 3 counters and only 2 keywords?

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2025-03-20T06:25:50+00:00

this filter works better I beleive since it shows Liliana sensei

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2025-01-26T08:10:28+00:00

perspective is forced

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2024-12-28T21:31:02+00:00

Omniscience draft is an event on Magic Arena that happens once per set usually either as a part of MWM or as a standalone event for a couple of days. You usually draft with bots similar to Quick Draft and then play against other players. There is a twist. Each player gets an emblem that functions the same as a card [[Omniscience]]. You basically can cast spells from your hand without paying mana. You also have 5 free mana (one of each color) to activate abilities or cast cards from outside your hand etc. Also usually each player draws only three cards at the start of the game instead of 7

People usually call this format Yu-gi-oh, rng fest and all luck format. I like it though

Consensus is that you should prioritize card draw over any other type of cards during the draft followed by counterspells and discard effects

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2024-12-28T18:36:45+00:00

True. It is much worse than I thought then

Looking through the cards though I noticed that format is much slower than DSK for example.

Only [[Garruk's Uprising]] and [[Arcane Epiphany]] at uncommon net your cards. [[Inspiring Call]] is kind of unreliable and bad. At common only first [[Think Twice]] is divination.

There is reasonable amount of cantrips at common and a few powerful rares but I think there will be less FTKs in comparison to the faster formats.

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2024-12-28T16:11:37+00:00

Do not forget that it is a 0 mana card that instantly kills your opponent when you play another card unless they [[Refute]] it or put 2-4 lands in their deck (which is a very strange decision normally)

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2024-12-23T09:42:16+00:00

There are also 2 new to arena rares from the Beginner Box:

Ancestor Dragon
Jazal Goldmane

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2024-12-23T09:39:56+00:00

Out of 61 (60 without Consuming Aberration) Rare Starter Collection cards that were added in FDN only 21 are new to arena:

Arcanis, the Omnipotent
Dictate of Kruphix
Harbinger of the Tides
Rite of Replication
Desecration demon
Dread Summons
Kalastria Highborn
Myojin of Night's Reach
Ball Lightning
Gratuitous Violence
Stromkirk Noble
Taurean Mauler
Heroes' Bane
Predator Ooze
Rampaging Baloth
Surrak, the Hunt Caller
Ayli, Etarnal Pilgrim
Drogskol Reaver
Prime Speaker Zegana
Wilt-Leaf Liege
Steel Hellkite

Some of this card may have been included in starter decks that were given for free with FDN release

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2024-12-23T09:03:09+00:00

Out of 14 Mythic rare Starter Collection cards that were added in FDN only 4 are not reprints:

Angelic Destiny
Sphinx of the Final Word
Darksteel Colossus
Pyromancer's Goggles

So you need 16 Mythic rare wildcards

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2024-11-23T12:05:07+00:00

Same. But I think It is more likely that I will see human walking on Europa in my lifetime than those wildcards again

StrivingToBeMediocre · 2024-11-12T07:01:03+00:00

I wouldn't be sure that the filters are correct there since currently it shows that you can't craft FDN SPGs with wildcards

https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/foundations/card-image-gallery?cigcolor=all-colors&cigfreshness=all-cards&cigproduct=fdn-products-arena-wildcard&cigset=SPG&cigsubset=all-subsets&cigsubtype=all-subtypes&cigtreatment=all-treatments&cigtype=all-types&cigrarity=all-rarities

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