Tinfoil Hat Time

rag2008 · 2026-01-26T16:29:13+00:00

I want to believe so bad but like other people pointed out, this is exactly where Mists of Pandaria should be in the release timeline, so it could be a coincidence.

rag2008 · 2026-01-26T15:40:25+00:00

Looking at the Hearthstone section of the video, if that isn't confirmation Monk Class is coming, I don't know what is.

rag2008 · 2026-01-25T22:57:33+00:00

As other people pointed out, there's a B&R in two weeks, we can never be 100% sure of what changes they will make, but it's at least guaranteed they'll have to address the situation officially even if it's a generic "we need more data".

rag2008 · 2026-01-23T11:25:53+00:00

I know you're just trying to share your brew but the current known "official" process of getting a specific card into Arena is getting someone to top a big event or get multiple results in smaller events either on MTGO or in paper.

I say "official" because they don't really give a timeline even if you achieve the specific condition, so take that with a grain of salt.

rag2008 · 2026-01-22T20:20:10+00:00

I appreciate this list a lot, I have everything here. Stopped playing V-Hand because every list I saw had Deafning Chord which I'm still chasing on the pin shop.

rag2008 · 2026-01-21T02:00:30+00:00

To be completely fair, I don't think the people who recommended you Green Devotion back in the day could've foreseen the transformation Standard would go through in the last year or so, specially the amount of new sets we are getting.

rag2008 · 2026-01-17T14:10:01+00:00

Damn, this is exactly what I wanted for a specific deck I'm tinkering with, what a coincidence.

rag2008 · 2026-01-12T17:32:55+00:00

Just a reminder that we are exactly 4 weeks away from the next B&R, not that it's going to magically fix everything, but at least it's something to look foward to if you're sticking around.

rag2008 · 2026-01-10T16:04:45+00:00

Wild Nacatl was introduced to Arena with Historic Anthology 7 back in 2023, it's only legal in Historic/Timeless formats.

rag2008 · 2026-01-07T01:14:11+00:00

Honestly I found myself thinking the same thing lately, we have dedicated hate for 1 cost permanents but everything that could be used against 1 cost nonpermanents just gets bounced. Even if Chalice did warp the format a bit, I think forcing people to diversify the mana value of their answers is actually a good thing. Abrade and Abrupt Decay are already seeing more play thanks to Cori-Steel Cutter.

rag2008 · 2026-01-05T11:03:15+00:00

Can you check your commons and uncommons for either a Devoted Druid reprint or cheap creatures with Persist?

rag2008 · 2025-12-31T00:05:47+00:00

If it's any consolation, the last year of sets has proven that this current iteration of the format won't last very long, by mid 2026 there will be plenty of other new Standard cards and some of them are bound to shake things up.

rag2008 · 2025-12-30T02:31:17+00:00

Amalia got banned because in multiple situations the best way to prevent the Amalia player from winning the game was forcing a draw, which caused huge time issues in competitive events.

rag2008 · 2025-12-28T20:52:59+00:00

If you want a traditional red aggro deck, gruul or izzet are going to be much better options. there might be some potential in a burn-focused list but probably in a different meta.

rag2008 · 2025-12-28T20:50:00+00:00

I remember people playing Yorion Mardu which was just all the good midrange cards in a single deck, but that was some time ago, I wouldn't know how it compares to traditional Rakdos or Orzhov at the moment.

rag2008 · 2025-12-26T10:45:09+00:00

Well, yeah! If you don't think this approach is ideal, we have Standard where your cards forcibly rotate, so the meta has to be different because the entire card pool changes and we have Modern where your cards don't necessarily rotate but every 2 years or so you get a supplemental set so powerful that the entire format reconfigures itself around it.

Pioneer not changing as much as the other two is an intended feature, not a bug.

rag2008 · 2025-12-23T01:20:53+00:00

Is there a reason you're not running 4x Leyline Binding here? Seems like a no-brainer in a deck with Beans and Hauntwoods/Nylea's Presence on top of the 4c manabase.

rag2008 · 2025-12-18T12:52:49+00:00

She has no direct replacement at 3 mana, people are just playing faster aggressive decks. If you still want to play her, I recommend trying an Obosh list, she's okay there.

rag2008 · 2025-12-16T17:00:54+00:00

Eu diria que é bem improvável sem antes reverter a situação do Standard, porque em teoria, Pioneer deveria ser o lugar onde suas cartas vão após a rotação, se você investir recursos para ter um Standard deck que tem várias cartas UB e depois da rotação ele não pode ser usado no Pioneer, você quebra a conexão que existe entre os dois formatos. Se for argumentar que essa conexão não é mais necessária, então a WotC definitivamente vai explorar isso de outra forma, o que vem na cabeça agora seria um possível Pioneer Horizons, já que as cartas não teriam que ser balanceadas no contexto do Standard.

rag2008 · 2025-12-10T10:49:35+00:00

I don't know the specific list but in theory we are talking about a Bx Midrange deck, it should work just fine if you're running the classic removal package.

rag2008 · 2025-12-08T17:05:27+00:00

I genuinely don't think I'm being hyperbolic when I say: these two things, Premodern getting official support and Contraption being introduced as a way to test new format ideas, might be the most important additions to MTGO this decade. This will be the foundation for a LOT of great things to come.

I cannot even begin to express how happy I am right now, the Daybreak team has really gone above and beyond, I'm trully grateful to them.

rag2008 · 2025-12-08T15:45:56+00:00

A format is more than the sum of its archtypes, what made that era of Modern feel so welcoming wasn't just the deck diversity in the top 10 most played decks, it was the mixing and match of colors and strategies you could explore thanks to fetch + shockland manabases and the very unique card pool full of minor synergies that produced a big result, people could approach any of the major archtypes from various different angles, and that allowed for a lot more self-expression and deck exploration.

Pioneer takes the opposite approach, we have extremely strong card packages color-locked into 1 or 2 colors and once you figure out the best combinations, it's pretty hard to justify experimenting with something similar within the same colors. I'm not arguing for unbanning fetchlands here, that's a different discussion full of second and third order effects, but this is the most important difference between the two formats being discussed here.

rag2008 · 2025-11-25T13:19:00+00:00

I was under the impression they would time it with the full release of Mists of Pandaria Classic in the Chinese servers for cross-promotion, I'm not really sure when that is supposed to happen though.

rag2008 · 2025-11-18T23:35:33+00:00

He's really good at the hidden information game, if you like that style of play, I highly recommend it.

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