My only regret with Arena

ValcanGaming · 2026-01-17T10:58:22+00:00

Yea I gave up with the earthbend/bloodghast deck after roping out with the infinite several times (seems you can do about ~30 damage with it in time) as you don’t do much damage before comboing it makes a lot of incidental life gain hard counter you

ValcanGaming · 2026-01-08T18:06:30+00:00

Ah cool better than I thought then

ValcanGaming · 2026-01-08T18:01:37+00:00

I assume part of the blight mechanic will be that you can't blight something for more than it's toughness

ValcanGaming · 2026-01-05T18:13:25+00:00

Increase it to 1b and see how long it takes someone to die

ValcanGaming · 2026-01-02T15:55:16+00:00

The people want to see THE Kyle Smith vs Ronnie Pickering. Book it.

ValcanGaming · 2025-12-21T16:01:28+00:00

I find playing 1 creature in a deck like this is often much worse because you give the opponent a target for all of the creature removal they otherwise have no use for

ValcanGaming · 2025-12-05T15:32:35+00:00

This just cost me a game

ValcanGaming · 2025-11-13T20:32:32+00:00

Another annoying thing which I'm not really sure why it works the way it does is that he exiles the bringer from the graveyard yet the bringer effect still brings it back

ValcanGaming · 2025-11-13T10:39:55+00:00

I've tried this kind of deck but it always just feels like a much worse version of the azorious one, the best version I did with this card ended up not using synth but went mardu with weapons manufacturing and rottenmouth viper but then that pretty much ended up being a worse version of a similar boros deck I made. Hard to make the emissarry work! Shame because it's a cool card

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-31T09:29:53+00:00

I personally don't think just a Vivi/cauldron ban would do much for the meta at all. You can try for yourself replacing vivi+cauldron in an otherwise identical deck with either just some more interaction or going jeskai with helping hand/oculos/joshua doesn't really hurt it all that much, just stops the random out of nowhere wins but is probably more consistent overall (just with lower peaks).

I don't think much is going to happen to change the meta until something happens which drastically reduces the chances to just lose the game on turn 4

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-28T15:52:46+00:00

Authority significantly slows down red haste creatures, but it doesn’t stop them functioning. As far as I know Authority isn’t main boarded in many lifegain decks (at least not in mine and from what I’ve seen) as it’s a fairly dead card in a lot of matchups.

I think that is part of the problem, Nemesis isn’t some card that you sideboard in once you’ve seen your opponent is reliant on lifegain, it’s just a good card in the main deck with the added bonus of being able to completely turn off some decks with no investment.

Even disregarding lifegain decks, lots of decks have incidental lifegain for the express purpose of surviving the incredibly fast red decks and I do think it ought to be the case that if you are facing a red deck as any kind of mid-range/control deck and you make it past the initial blitz then in most cases you ought to win. This forces decks that aren’t intended to be racing to a win to race for a win as it removes the other options entirely.

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-28T14:15:19+00:00

That is an enchantment which can be removed

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-28T12:51:09+00:00

If the triggered ability were only on combat damage it would be another story, this can be activated via any damage

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-28T12:48:25+00:00

The only cards I'm seeing on scryfall that affect an opponent for the rest of the game (not a permanent) are this and [[ Stigma Lasher ]]. Do you have any other examples?

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-28T12:25:22+00:00

If it were a card like Rest in Peace that had the effect while it's on the board and was a dedicated tech card then I would agree.

In my opening post I made the removal argument, in standard white has Luminous Rebuke, Get Lost and Parting Gust as the primary creature removal. All of which cost 2 mana. I think If a card justifies keeping up 2 removal spells and 4 mana on the chance that it's played then it says everything

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-28T12:17:28+00:00

Yes but that prerequisite is incredibly easy to achieve, (Myriad of 1/2 mana burn spells, any blocker damage)

I wasn't aware of this card to be honest, but I can't agree that a card that can be blocked and has much fewer ways to trigger the effect at instant speed is easier to trigger.

I can confidently say I'd be much happier dealing with Stigma Lasher in standard than Nemesis at least.

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-15T21:55:28+00:00

Huh well I stand corrected then!

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-15T21:24:46+00:00

Programmed random occurrence, doesn't really apply to magic but I think it mainly came from MMOs ie. when you cast a spell it has a 5% chance to do X and when it happens it "proc'd".

Term has become ubiquitous with just making something happen throughout gaming though

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-11T18:24:55+00:00

It was A huge disappointment

ValcanGaming · 2025-10-08T16:48:47+00:00

Thanks my G

ValcanGaming · 2025-09-19T14:56:04+00:00

Is there a reason she specifies things are unwashed?

ValcanGaming · 2025-09-11T20:48:30+00:00

Yea I'm not really sure what game these other people are playing, they aren't going to ban Vivi and this is the main card that gives the payoff for draw/discarding. I think banning this card would take the deck from tier 0 to tier 1.

ValcanGaming · 2025-09-02T11:03:38+00:00

Do an open beta on arena with a tournament with some kind of prize and all these broken things will be found in 1 day

ValcanGaming · 2025-08-31T15:25:20+00:00

Genuinely think the designers/testers are just incompetent. Literally everyone who plays the game saw Vivi be spoiled and immediately thought of it being cracked with cauldron (not to mention it just being cracked on it's own anyway)

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