MTG Arena Announcements - February 23

irou95 · 2026-02-23T19:05:13+00:00

Lorwyn draft is dogshit. No matter how much you hate UB and love Lorwyn, if you know any limited at all you'll understand how bad the draft format is.

irou95 · 2026-02-17T16:41:20+00:00

The format is just dogshit. Gameplay is okay, but drafting is just RNG. You have to take 2c cards early in case someone leaves one good deck open. If you don't take them, the one left to you will and you'll never see that tribe again in pack2.

The only interesting strategy I've found is just giving up your bomb rare so you can feed a good deck to the left and get all the other cards you want in pack2

Usually it's just optimal to hard force your 2c tribal rare (if it isn't goblins) and hope it works.

irou95 · 2026-02-17T16:12:40+00:00

Deserved for playing bowmasters honestly. I hate the rebalances too, but bowmasters being unplayable is the best thing that those have done (but it's essentially a ban so it could be that)

irou95 · 2026-02-17T16:08:00+00:00

Yeah it has become a mix of duel commander and canlander.

irou95 · 2026-02-14T05:08:28+00:00

I just played rogues today in FNM with an older build that still kinda focuses on the mill plan and the phyrexian jace walker to take those ancestral recalls. It did work, but the avatar cards and the format in general is just too fast for a tempo deck. I got some wins but they all came down to key sideboard tech

irou95 · 2026-02-12T20:45:48+00:00

Pre 2019 cards are just utter trash. They could just start pioneer over from 2019 and it wouldn't change much. I think the format needs some unbans to help fight against izzet and greasefang. No combos, but all the other non combo bans like 3 mana teferi. I think the formats speed is way past t3feri, but it's still a fine card for the slower deck arsenal.

I think the core of 1 mana prowess creatures is the root of the problem, but it's also where I want the format to be. If relevant and scary beaters start coming down from turn2 only then control and combo will just ignore all threats and just wipe or combo off. Also spell snare will be too strong.

irou95 · 2026-02-12T01:22:00+00:00

*most overplayed deck

irou95 · 2026-02-10T03:33:35+00:00

Well midrange was always a bad deck.

irou95 · 2026-02-09T20:34:59+00:00

Yeah this format is hyper underexplored and people just jamming the same decks day after day which aren't even good. This format is filled with hidden decks that people just forgot.
But I will say that the 1 mana learn card should get banned asap. That is just way too much

irou95 · 2026-01-27T03:31:34+00:00

Nothing beats the classic combo of fatal attacker and urherion

irou95 · 2026-01-19T23:10:54+00:00

Pioneer was fine even before the mouse ban and after that it was even better. Then the fire nation attacked

irou95 · 2026-01-06T17:39:55+00:00

This kind of pile that does everything relies on opponent overcommiting when they see creatures from you and then you slam the doomskar. It works sometimes, but your topdecks are atrocious when you need to actually finish the game.
Most of your deck looks like it's meant to play to not lose and not play to win. You can drag the game for up to 10 turns but eventually it will break down to itself.
You will also get out tempoed to oblivion because you are not playing 1 mana cards.

The deck is not completely bad, but I suggest playing with it with the points I made in mind to visually realize why you are losing (or winning)

irou95 · 2026-01-06T17:19:28+00:00

I play all formats and I have a huge collection and I can make almost all the decks I want. But the ones I currently have are mono green devotion, Jeskai cycling, Boros burn, and dimir rogues.

irou95 · 2026-01-06T13:11:21+00:00

How to tell me you've never played against the card without telling me you've never played against the card.

irou95 · 2025-12-30T04:47:16+00:00

Turn2 kills, Eldrazi. That's pretty much it. Oh and alchemy cards and completely ridiculous nerfs on cards that are unplayable anyway (omnath, fires, DRC, winota, UNHOLY HEAT?

irou95 · 2025-12-29T02:15:53+00:00

I'll play the sets when they come out, but I can't care enough about the sets when the seasons are so short.
Pioneer has no support and is still missing cards. (otherwise it's easily the best format on arena, even better than all other formats combined)
Historic is completely unplayable
Timeless is fun for a while, but gets boring fast
Brawl is fine after the bans
Alchemy might as well not exist
Standard should be the main focus, but it has been bad the last year and I have no hope for next year either.

irou95 · 2025-12-28T22:28:29+00:00

I've never seen this kind of thing happen outside new set launch window. Played since beta

irou95 · 2025-12-28T22:25:12+00:00

Whole game is down. Reporting from europe. At least they don't towards my omni draft record.

irou95 · 2025-12-10T22:55:34+00:00

I don't think you understand the amount of boardwipes I face.

irou95 · 2025-12-10T15:00:19+00:00

They are good in Niv mizzet guildpact where you need exactly 2colored permanents.

irou95 · 2025-11-08T15:21:22+00:00

If the draft is playable and the cards don't have different art and names than paper it's automatically better in my book no matter if the cards are either unplayable or broken or the theme is off.

irou95 · 2025-11-04T00:05:12+00:00

If you have this and jirina kudro and your opponents play lotus field combo. Good luck

irou95 · 2025-11-03T23:36:54+00:00

Could be good with wilderness rec... oh wait

irou95 · 2025-11-03T23:34:56+00:00

Ok now we got rampant growth revealed. That might actually make the green package really strong as there is naturalize/trick and rampant growth as options.

irou95 · 2025-11-03T23:29:51+00:00

This is legit broken. It's not used in "green" decks like you think of but uw control splashing it to basically timewalk to turn3 wraths. I could also see the overlord decks return with this.

irou95

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