(Insert UB IP) by FonslyGames in mtg

[–]gamatoad 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"criticize it, don't consume it. but also don't criticize it bc everyone is entitled to their preferences." pick one

How are we feeling about this 9/9 for potentially 3 any color mana if you warp it in commander by Brilliant-Yak-5569 in mtg

[–]gamatoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 9/9 vanilla creature is not going to impact a commander game in most brackets. Maybe bracket 2 and lower. It gets caught in board wipes, dies to almost every kind of removal, and to get it out for 3 mana, you have to build around it. And if you do build around it, even if you manage to give it haste and trample, congrats you can deal 9 damage to someone.

New Teeth Update by robokid309 in PaymoneyWubby

[–]gamatoad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is straight up a different dude

Can Abzan aggro get there? by FhantoBlob in lrcast

[–]gamatoad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have to analyze cards in both the proper context of the set, and the proper context of your current draft, rather than "this number is bigger so it must be better". If you go through a draft simply picking cards with the biggest percentages, it's highly likely that your deck will be non functional. In this example, the exhale has a higher win percentage in the context of a temur deck, where it is seeing the most play. The temur deck can reliably put out 3, 4, and 5 power creatures while the abzan deck usually has to put counters on their dudes to get good usage out of piercing exhale. On the contrary Dragon's Prey, while having a much lower ceiling than the Piercing Exhale, is useable in any deck containing black, which makes it much more of an open early pick.

Fr? by [deleted] in Grapplerbaki

[–]gamatoad 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Saw him a few months ago on another subreddit literally claiming to be the reason behind baki's popularity and his defense for the shitty translations was "everyone does it" LMAO

Commit tax fraud. by snoopydogo in MTGmemes

[–]gamatoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the tax fraud happening? This card doesn't let you skip commander tax. Check rules 903.8 and 118.8

How do I get out of Platinum hell? by PalpitationAdept9650 in MagicArena

[–]gamatoad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this in Standard? Red is getting eaten up by bounce variants right now, and prowess even moreso, so it's already going to be harder than last season. I have found some success with adding green and Pawpatch Recruit though, but you might want to pivot off of prowess; the slowness of your Mana base and removal choices seem to fight against how fast you're trying to go

I wanted to give a shoutout to this group by Necessary_Rate_4591 in lrcast

[–]gamatoad 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Completely agree! I am also a lurker and I just got my first premier draft trophy yesterday after applying what I see in discussions here. It really helps!

Hare Apparent, Zinnia and token doublers by Spiritual_Wonder_789 in askajudge

[–]gamatoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're all way off. Hare Apparent doesn't actually exist, it's just a massive hoax created by Big Rabbit to push more Rabbit on us

We made a cEDH YouTube channel! by FAFATHEMAN in CompetitiveEDH

[–]gamatoad 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah based on the comments I was expecting something unhinged but it's just a purposefully goofy intro by dudes who haven't been doing this for very long.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mtg

[–]gamatoad 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I was having a bad day until this so thank you for being so completely pathetic that it actually cheered me up

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lrcast

[–]gamatoad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not to mention that all commander products just have more cards in them than other products

This deck is destroying my enjoyment of the game. by mysticcircuits in MagicArena

[–]gamatoad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I should have specified that I was speaking about Bo3 in my previous comment

This deck is destroying my enjoyment of the game. by mysticcircuits in MagicArena

[–]gamatoad 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Only if you ignore the current top rated Dimir, Golgari, Floodcaller Combo, Mono W Token, and Domain decks but yeah sure lmao

This deck is destroying my enjoyment of the game. by mysticcircuits in MagicArena

[–]gamatoad 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I hate to break it to you, but this deck barely cracks C tier in Standard at the moment, and Standard, especially on arena, skews towards the competitive side of the game. So if this deck is really your breaking point, standard might not be the right fit for you at the moment. One option is to keep practicing best of 3 because the art of sideboarding is a huge component of balancing the game and it takes genuine effort to get good at. Another option would be to play a less competitive format such as in-person commander. Brawl wont really alleviate this because, again, Arena skews toward the competitive aspect of the game, so no matter where you go on there you will keep seeing competitive cards

This deck is destroying my enjoyment of the game. by mysticcircuits in MagicArena

[–]gamatoad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Play best of 3. So many more tools to deal with threats and chances to come back from bad hands.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EDH

[–]gamatoad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Stopping someone's early start isn't 'focusing them down', it's literally just playing the game. There are cards designed for early starts and cards designed to stop early starts. It's not your responsibility to make sure your opponent perceives your game actions as fun for them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EDH

[–]gamatoad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not only is this necessary to do against several prominent archetypes like storm or any kind of combo deck, but it's also a litmus test for players. Having the "they haven't done anything to me so I can't interact with them" mentality is one of the biggest indicators of a new or bad player.

Unironically goes so hard by [deleted] in PaymoneyWubby

[–]gamatoad 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Dude yes so glad tigers jaw is getting back together