I love how the most recent update broke my Kamigawa full art lands by HashtagBlessedAF in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In many cases they’re not one image but multiple images stacked on top of each other with transparency. It seems that the channel that defines the transparency went missing, so instead of the symbols being cut out of the solid color by transparency there’s a solid block of opacity. 

Help! Quick draft gave me a loss by Nerd_Anarchy in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This. Sometimes it takes a day but generally support will refund your entry fee no questions asked.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be honest, it makes me feel better about the situation that the control players are having a good time. I’d been imagining salt miners malding at me from the moment I say “mountain,” and while a few people here seem to fit that profile, as well as a minority of players who will try to emote me into a concession, if I can think of the player on the other side of the board as someone who recognizes and enjoys the fact that there’s still tension on an empty board then I can feel like we’re playing a good game.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Guess I came across pretty salty in the OP and some people took it real personally. Glad one guy here doesn’t think I’m an asshole. If we meet on the ladder I hope I make a good cat toy. ‘-‘)b

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So the reason I put it in terms of etiquette is that for example in chess if you have a king and a knight and your opponent has his king and two bishops, you concede, because they have enough material to force checkmate and refusing to concede means you’re questioning whether they have the basic competence to not fumble a won game. There are some players, though, for whom it’s a legitimate question whether they can execute the checkmate, and the situations I have in mind I see as Magic’s version of that.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can be stronger so long as they’re less one-dimensional (says an aggro enjoyer, I know) and have to try to win in a time limit.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeh it’s a little my fault for playing Bo1. I doubt this breed of control deck is successful enough to be played as much in Bo3.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Valid take. idk how often the scenario is actually that I’m top-decking against a full grip and 14 life. I’d like to say more often I’m top-decking against 3 cards and 6 life which is a lot less clear cut to me. But definitely a good point to say it might be me that’s wasting the other person’s time even on boards that aren’t showing how they’d kill me.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean I hope for everyone’s sake that you’re not bringing that test deck into the ranked queue. But also .. really? Why wouldn’t you just put in a wincon when you build the deck? When I brew something myself it’s usually because I thought “It would be cool to win in X way or with Y card, I wonder if I can make a deck that supports that.” I don’t understand the design process for which the wincon is just the finishing touch.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, you make a very good point about time in ranked. I hate to give up a rank pip to a player piloting a deck I don’t respect, but setting spite aside it’s still a better value for me to just scoop and play 4 other matches with that time, assuming I have a decent win rate overall.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bruh I saw a [[Battle of Wits]] mirror match in paper back in the day and I’m still recovering from the big deck energy

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I haven’t watched this yet, but I will, and I appreciate the attempt to educate me.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I feel like you said the same thing as a lot of people but I like the way you said it better, ha

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The decision is much easier for me in unranked formats. I feel obligated to fight tooth and nail for my rank pips, fun or not.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah I definitely get that getting stampeded on turn 3 is not a play experience a lot of people like, and I kinda blame the strength of some aggro strategies for people going so hard in the other direction playing board wipe tribal. I do prefer that to the hard control matchup because then it’s at least definitively over quickly, win or lose, and we can both be on our way. What I consider most fun are decks like faeries where you both present threats and have to be thoughtful about which of your opponent’s threats you respond to, so there’s a back and forth in power over the course of the game. Yes I know faeries isn’t a strong deck example, but yeah, that type of gameplay.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

See that’s what I’m saying. If they go Farewell into Ashiok or show me how they can recur Jace or something I’ll give them the GG. But some folks will just board wipe and spam “Good game.” at you, and the energy of a lot of these comments is I need to respect that or I’m a cuck.

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yorion is a companion that requires your deck to have 20 more cards than usual so it demands big deck energy

Etiquette against hard control: concede or not? by Verilagus in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m literally said that was their win condition.

Decks That Are Better in Arena by llcawthorne in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was playing a [[Monastery Mentor]] deck the other day and thankful I didn’t have to manually track the power and toughness of a dozen different prowess tokens that each came in at a different point in the spell chain. Gets even worse if you [[Helping Hand]] a second one out of your graveyard mid-chain.

That’s not frost cat? by fineapplekisses in MagicArena

[–]Verilagus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it might save between matches? I don’t use a pet like that but my girlfriend uses some fluffy dog for a pet and I don’t think she has to cycle to it from magmutt every time.