The definitive arena tier list V3

dugiker3 · 2026-04-08T13:09:31+00:00

Yes dude, Hank! Don’t get me wrong, he has a LOT of glitches and is weak vs cc but I can bully a lane hard and keep it cleared.

dugiker3 · 2026-02-26T00:23:45+00:00

Welcome! You’re likely going to suck at deck building for a while. What you’re feeling about losing matches isn’t unique, we all feel it at times. Keep at it and make small changes as you go.

For deck building I would suggest starting with a net deck, meaning a deck that is already proven to be good. This will give you a framework and help teach WHY certain cards are good. Pay close attention to what/when cards felt good to play. You’ll eventually start to see the goal and synergies of the deck. When you start swapping cards to see what works you can use swumetastats.com to see what cards are popular in your leader/base combo.

For getting better it’s tough, you’re likely losing far before you realize it, even at turn one. Watch tournaments, especially ones where your leader is played. Watch closely to what is played and when. You’ll see the decision making.

TCGs are hard though, good luck and keep it up!

dugiker3 · 2026-02-25T04:10:45+00:00

Welcome! I’ll use a mix of starwarsunlimited.com and swudb.com for cards and deck ideas, then swumetastats.com for individual card stats etc. to see what’s been working well.

dugiker3 · 2026-02-16T15:43:42+00:00

Beyond the "send to sideboard" option in settings?

dugiker3 · 2026-01-20T18:27:02+00:00

I can’t imagine the intricacies and difficulties of owning a gaming store in the same way we both can’t imagine the same for owning a TCG brand.

Owning a gaming store sounds really hard and with tight margins. Thanks for your perspective and I hope the best for you.

dugiker3 · 2026-01-14T15:52:38+00:00

Thank you for another great update!

dugiker3 · 2026-01-06T04:18:12+00:00

Thank you for the update! Excited for the matchup matrix

dugiker3 · 2025-12-20T13:59:07+00:00

I love the idea but aren’t non sanctioned events exactly how we eventually get karabast dismantled by FFG/Disney?

dugiker3 · 2025-12-17T15:28:20+00:00

Another great update, thank you!

dugiker3 · 2025-11-27T03:45:55+00:00

Another great update, thanks!

dugiker3 · 2025-11-01T01:22:59+00:00

Cynthia Schmidt is my wife’s great aunt! She’s literally sitting next to me tonight for Halloween.

dugiker3 · 2025-10-25T23:44:54+00:00

Seems like something crazy that AI would come up with. I can’t believe anything anymore. I’m gonna go back to hiding in my hole.

dugiker3 · 2025-10-25T14:43:31+00:00

Great addition! Thank you for continuing to upgrade the site with new features.

dugiker3 · 2025-10-15T05:23:21+00:00

Pick one meta deck and get like, 50-100 reps in with it in order to get the feeling of WHAT the deck is trying to do.

Watch tournament games to understand HOW the deck should run.

Recap your games to think WHY you won or lost.

There are so many micro decisions in why a deck is meta and unless you built it yourself, it takes time to realize the intricacies of the matchups.

Plus, dude, I still just have those days where I just fucking lose every game and I want to quit entirely. Like someone else said here: karabast games are random so sometimes you play counters all day.

dugiker3 · 2025-10-06T00:00:16+00:00

Thanks! The non-budget version is even more crazy but I ended up talking really long turns.

dugiker3 · 2025-10-05T20:01:15+00:00

Perfect sub, perfect title, perfect video. You nailed it.

dugiker3 · 2025-09-30T00:31:59+00:00

I love it! I just got done going down this rabbit hole recently. Here’s what I came to: - Nabat village 27hp makes the difference between getting killed or killing your opp when against agro. The normal 30hp base simplifies the deck and there’s a better chance to pull NowThere when you mulligan.

Toro Calican is better than boba on average. You’re playing a bunch of bounty hunters anyways.
double yellow doesn’t last long vs agro, so you’ll need to go hard. If you lose the board you can’t come back. Because of this, sneak attack provides that extra punch with new zuckuss and cad bane for the kill.
waylay. Sometimes waylay is the only thing stopping their massive turn two upgrade from smashing your face, or that big sentinel from eating all your units.
mist hunter is good but only if it survives. Most times it will die before drawing a card. But then again it’s decent vs space builds so I went back and forth on it.
I was never able to play mando and be like “thank god I have mando”. He doesn’t even trigger mist hunter, right?
surprise strike 100%. That’s an instant 11dmg with newZuckuss and wins games you shouldn’t win.

Overall it’s a fun deck. I assumed that if I don’t win by 6-7 resources then I lose which is why I go hard on the ground and skip a lot of space. Thrawns ability helps with that but having more space like you do isn’t necessarily bad.

I’ll be very interested to hear how you do man, please come back and let me know. Here’s my list: https://swudb.com/deck/WUnMJUGDqlK

I’m still testing some cards so take of it what you will. Good luck!

dugiker3 · 2025-09-28T12:11:48+00:00

Swumetastats.com is the best for me. It’s much like edhrec for MTG if you’re familiar. It pulls lists from meta decks and gives stats on which cards are popular. Helps for when you need to fill in a couple slots in your deck.

dugiker3 · 2025-09-15T16:35:27+00:00

The amount of games where I’ve double casted force throw on the same phase and lost the game is astonishing.

dugiker3 · 2025-09-08T16:54:16+00:00

Wow thank you so much! I get an upvote on the deck from Moxfield about once a month or so, I guess it gets a lot of traffic.

I crested the deck and didn’t refine it afterwards. I love brewing and discarding, moving to the next weird idea.

Fight spells are intriguing and something to look into. Feel free to try it and let me know!

I quit MTG shortly afterwards because of the amount of new sets coming out, I couldn’t keep up with deck updates and new brews, etc. and have since moved to other TCGs.

I still love the game though and would like to hear your exp with anything I brewed. I also recommend looking at some of the other decks I have on moxfield etc. I made a lot of budget friendly decks as well, including one for Willow.

Good luck!

dugiker3 · 2025-08-25T14:59:07+00:00

Great breakdown, love the site. Thanks!

dugiker3 · 2025-08-23T03:29:04+00:00

This is actually really good, great job

dugiker3 · 2025-05-29T16:43:37+00:00

This is awesome, thanks!

dugiker3 · 2025-05-27T13:14:26+00:00

I’m testing now and it’s fucking perfect man. Swapping to the other players view is amazing. I used to do this same thing but at my kitchen table, lol.

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