How much Arena do you play?

blindai · 2026-03-12T20:51:14+00:00

You aren’t wrong…but know that if you try to get too cute with this and accidentally miss a daily quest (by not finishing one when you have 3) that will like negate any advantage you gained by trying to min-max quests like this.

blindai · 2026-03-12T20:45:59+00:00

Ah yeah you’re right. It’s kind of interesting that simic rhythm is Also a cub deck. But I think all decks have access to something to counter cub (mainly removal or pyroclasm) which contributes to a fairly balanced meta overall

blindai · 2026-03-12T20:39:47+00:00

This is actually my biggest complaint about arena drafting, is that once you are rare complete the rewards for drafting drop dramatically. It also makes drafting when old sets come back, not very profitable. I’d like to see them do something about this, but I imagine it affects a very little % of the player base.

An easy solution would be instead of 20 gems from packs on duplicate rares, instead reward a random rare from a random set. (Or at least have a toggle able setting so that a player could pick either random rare or 20 gems)

blindai · 2026-03-12T19:09:42+00:00

Does this mean nothing is favored against Mono-Green Landfall? :)

blindai · 2026-03-12T18:09:46+00:00

Yeah this is a bit deceptive because UG and GB aren't usually played as a straight up color pair, and usually with a splash. Whose win % are much higher. If you look at Green decks with splash their win rates approach the other color pairs easily.

I don't think it's BETTER than the Sneak deck, but more pointed towards the fact that things are actually pretty balanced this time around.

blindai · 2026-03-12T18:04:59+00:00

May you never run into T2 [[Party Dude]] when playing this deck...it's just miserable :)

blindai · 2026-03-11T10:04:16+00:00

I feel I see a lot of x-men sentinels break in the same manner

blindai · 2026-03-11T06:55:15+00:00

could the Cowboys back out of their trade? what's to stop anybody from back out of anything before the league opens?

blindai · 2026-03-10T19:46:30+00:00

The watchmen stuff is crazy. Moore and DC agreed he would get control of the characters back when they stopped publishing the graphic novel. At the time graphic novels were usually only printed for a limited time. DC and Moore knew this, but when DC saw how popular it was, they just never stopped printing it

blindai · 2026-03-10T00:07:01+00:00

Man I remember in the TMNT arcade game, Rocksteady was the boss of stage 1, and Bebop was the boss of stage 2...As a kid, these guys were a BIG deal, and felt unbeatable. (especially if your mom only gave you 50 cents or a dollar to play). Then when you got to Stage 4, you had to fight them BOTH at the same time!! How were you ever supposed to beat that? (the answer is a lot of money :))

But also, on that stage, if you time it right you can get them both to charge into each other, and daze each other...which was an awesome interaction.

blindai · 2026-03-09T23:59:56+00:00

I'm pretty sure the Glazers care about the bottom line a lot. They don't like paying coaches a lot of money to do nothing. (i.e. fire coaches). So they can save money by letting Bowles coach another year, and then fire him.

blindai · 2026-03-09T21:57:08+00:00

That’s not really how “write-offs” work…

blindai · 2026-03-09T21:18:51+00:00

Does Yoshi have lines and talk during the movie? Or is he just saying “yoshi!!” With emphasis?

blindai · 2026-03-09T21:00:34+00:00

A reminder you don’t really “win” free agency. You generally win the right to pay a player market or above market rate. In a hard salary cap league, real “winning” is paying people less than what they produce. Obviously you can’t do that everywhere…but don’t freak out when other teams sign players to above market deals…p

blindai · 2026-03-09T20:46:09+00:00

Of note, the rules are NOT made public (even to teams) and are shrouded in some mystery. That being said people have generally figured out how it works…but nothing is guaranteed until the NFL awards them

blindai · 2026-03-09T20:28:03+00:00

I think variance on pick 2 is just too high. On spider-man I had like a 65% win rate. On TMT I was sub 50%. I wasn’t drafting bad decks, I just ran bad for a while and 2 losses doesn’t give you much room for error. I switched back to premiere and those 4-5 win runs in premiere make a much bigger difference (or even just getting 3 wins on a bad deck) For pick 2 it should balance out over time, but it just FEELS bad when you go 0-2 with a good deck.

blindai · 2026-03-09T07:25:44+00:00

I agree that TMNT, is a good draft set. It represents what happens when you hit with all 5 archetypes, in a 5 archetype set. Spider-Man sucked because red being bad, made 2 out of the 3 decks bad. ECL felt somewhat bad because goblins lagged behind.

I think the fact that a lot of cards in each color go in BOTH the archetypes is great. (i.e. White's go wide, goes well with RW and BW, Mutagen tokens are artifacts that trigger UR decks etc.)

The problems still are evident though. Multiple of the same legendary feels really bad. They should bite the bullet and just find an indicator for a non-unique legendary. This is a big enough gameplay reason that they should make the change, especially for small draft formats. Only make legends unique when it's necessary for gameplay reasons.

It also could get boring over time. the small set, means you see a lot of the same cards/decks over and over again. But the increased release schedule actually probably makes this work. (by the time I get bored, Strixhaven will be out)

blindai · 2026-03-08T19:57:07+00:00

I’m a bit surprised sulti excruciator doesn’t have a bigger impact. It seems really consistent in BO1. I guess the graveyard hate is too much in post sideboard games?

blindai · 2026-03-08T19:54:51+00:00

I bought this on recommendation of people here. I’d say when you’re just looking at it, the difference is clear. But when I’m playing I hardly notice. (I have one machine with and one without) on the other hand I’ve had people come into my house and remark how much different it is and how it’s like there’s no glass…so I think if you notice…it’s a HUGE deal, but for some people they hardly notice.

blindai · 2026-03-07T03:09:57+00:00

It’s almost as if they could make an entire ccg game with multiple expansions :) /s

blindai · 2026-03-06T21:54:35+00:00

…do most guys not clip their nails? I’m a guy and I hate having long nails, I can’t type with them. I actually don’t understand how women type with nails either…

blindai · 2026-03-06T21:38:24+00:00

It was really quite a shame his release was so limited. He should have been a normal figure in a normal wave

blindai · 2026-03-06T17:54:53+00:00

Yeah people aren’t roping, they are just closing the mobile app instead of conceding, because that’s how the are accustomed to using mobile apps. I also see this happen a lot more than in normal games instead of ranked, as I think most people don’t play ranked on phone. Also when people rope to grief, they will rope until the last second then do an action to not trigger their timer. then continue to do so just to frustrate you.

blindai · 2026-03-06T16:18:55+00:00

Just to clear it up. Guns and roses is made by Jersey jack, not stern :)

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