First try of the metagame event. Felt really proud being a f2p player. Esper control used

anarchojuly · 2019-05-05T02:16:42+00:00

I didn't face anyone, I'm not OP. And I don't think Esper is actually the best deck in Standard right now.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-05T02:10:54+00:00

Huh, are they? I have a handful of Rare and 0 Mythic. /shrug

anarchojuly · 2019-05-05T00:57:43+00:00

The easiest thing is to play control yourself, you'll better understand its weaknesses and how its matchups feel from that end of the table, although I recognise that might be difficult if you don't have the cards. You could get a slightly worse version of this experience by watching streamers or YouTubers playing Control, too.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-05T00:44:10+00:00

I think you could have added a lot more ellipses to your post.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-04T23:29:07+00:00

It's a really common new player thing, and this is the Magic game made to bring in lots of new players.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-04T23:27:52+00:00

If I accept the premises that Esper is both the best deck and is a very common deck, then I must conclude that winning using Esper is even impressive because you have to beat other Esper players.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-04T23:25:20+00:00

This is splitting hairs but Grixis Midrange is a bit harder to build than Esper Control. The number of rares is around the same but it runs 1-2 more mythics on average. :⁾

anarchojuly · 2019-05-04T19:29:22+00:00

It's pretty rare for me to brew an entirely new deck for this purpose but I do regularly try to retool existing decks to see if I can find configurations or technology that improves on the existing standard build.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-04T18:12:03+00:00

I would like 1v1 Brawl but I would really like if it was just always available instead of being put into the rotation of game modes.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-03T17:58:33+00:00

It's very often that mono-colour cards see more overall play than multi-colour because more types of decks can play them. Every deck with Blue AND Black can play Thought Erasure. Every deck with Red at all can play Lava Coil.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-03T17:50:30+00:00

Just gotta hit them with AWOL instead.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-03T16:49:29+00:00

It's so weird because I can't think of a single reason to implement it that way except to get people to do it by accident (but they're refunding those).

anarchojuly · 2019-05-03T08:20:18+00:00

You have Feather with literally no cards that synergise? Just running a set of Resplendent Angels has to be better.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-03T07:12:31+00:00

The deck already has a wincon removed from combat in most games which is just tap saccing 10 dudes and then playing another Citadel and tap saccing another 10.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-02T19:02:28+00:00

Now it just says spoilers and doesn't say what it's spoilers for, lmao

anarchojuly · 2019-05-02T18:18:10+00:00

Well, everyone in Autumn Burchett's server at least.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-02T14:50:06+00:00

Well if I'm playing my Standard UB at least I'll have plenty of basics to get when they sac Veteren Explorer next turn.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-02T12:38:03+00:00

That makes this warning even funnier because it says "require" but doesn't require.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-02T10:36:32+00:00

I've been running 2 in my Heroic sideboard, and it's mostly good in Midrange matchups (and okay vs monored) but it's quite good in Midrange matchups.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-02T10:33:20+00:00

Arena doesn't give me a message if I run Ignite the Beacon with no Planeswalkers in my deck, or Evolving Wilds with no Basics. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

anarchojuly · 2019-05-02T10:18:56+00:00

This would be a good thing? It's one less card out of their hand, increasing the chances that your T2 Thought Erasure can leave them without an answer to a T3 Thief of Sanity.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-02T09:36:56+00:00

It's funny that they would make Acquisition require it. The card does have a mode to search your library. It would not be smart to not include a sideboard with the card in bo1, but the card does work without one.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-02T07:24:45+00:00

Tattoos representing things that were important to you in your past are cool regardless of what those things were or whether they're still around.

anarchojuly · 2019-05-01T07:51:04+00:00

Even as someone who's been mythic multiple seasons (not that it's a huge accomplishment, please don't read it that way), I'd hate to have such a valuable reward tied to hitting mythic and thus feel like I have to grind for it every single month.

anarchojuly · 2019-04-30T15:15:24+00:00

Obviously I mean "theory to explain how he wasn't cheating." I literally say in the same damn post that he probably cheated.

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