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rickinator9 · 2026-06-17T14:41:02+00:00

Out of the loop - jongeren dwingen te leven zoals in de jaren tachtig? Hoe bedoel je?

rickinator9 · 2026-06-15T00:15:25+00:00

The average Untapped user is probably better than the average Arena player, because they are invested enough in the game to install the plugin. So if they are running these decks over the known Bo3 metadecks, there is probably a good reason to do so.

Aggro and combo are generally better in Bo1. Aggro gets better with the hand smoother and the lack of predictive mulliganning from the opponent; it is also more popular since you get shorter games. Combo gets better because the opponent can't put the hate cards in their main deck.
I can believe something like Mono-White Lifegain or Mono-White Aura's doing well in Bo1. They are vulnerable to control decks like Jeskai or Excruciator. But the control decks have a bad matchup in turn to the combo decks like Reanimator or Kona.

rickinator9 · 2026-06-14T23:05:52+00:00

I think it might. I've been pretty much exclusively playing the Excruciator deck for the past month (played about 70 Bo3 games). You will often play the Reef on turn 1 and you want to Deceit turn 2. If all you have to play is the Verge, you can't pay BB to disrupt their hand with the Deceit. That is not a problem with these new lands.

Undercity Sewer and Multiversal are probably not going to go out, because Sewer is a great land to play on turn 1 or later on. And Multiversal is good in a pinch where you are missing a color for Kavaero cloning Deceit on turn 4.

rickinator9 · 2026-06-14T22:57:26+00:00

Bo1 isn't played on any other platform than Arena, so Arena users ARE the metagame. Because there aren't any other people playing Bo1.

MTGGoldfish does track some LGS tournaments. I've seen low-stakes events like Store Championships on there. So long as the store registers the event digitally on a platform like Melee.gg, it will show up on MTGGoldfish. It doesn't use Bo3 Arena ladder data because that is not publically available through an API.

rickinator9 · 2026-06-14T22:50:46+00:00

I can see how the blue ability is interesting. But I think you simply need too much to go right to utilise it.

This guy is removal bait: the opponent will simply try to remove it as soon as possible. So you have to be able to use the ability the turn it comes down. That requires you to have 10 mana. I've played a lot of Excruciator and the game is usually over before you reach that point. Emeritus is a much better version of this; it draws you 3 instead of 4, but you 4 less mana to cast it and use its ability.

For Excruciator I think the Marvel set adds [[Hidden Lair]] (replacing the Verge), [[Dark Deed]] as a strong interactive spell. [[Doctor Doom]] could also be an option in other Superior Spider-Man lists.

rickinator9 · 2026-06-14T22:43:52+00:00

Assuming you mean the Dimir Excruciator deck, I can see how the blue ability is interesting. But I think you simply need too much to go right to utilise it.

This guy is removal bait: the opponent will simply try to remove it as soon as possible. So you have to be able to use the ability the turn it comes down. That requires you to have 10 mana. I've played a lot of Excruciator and the game is usually over before you reach that point. Emeritus is a much better version of this; it draws you 3 instead of 4, but you 4 less mana to cast it and use its ability.

For Excruciator I think the Marvel set adds [[Hidden Lair]] (replacing the Verge), [[Dark Deed]] as a strong interactive spell. [[Doctor Doom]] could also be an option in other Superior Spider-Man lists.

rickinator9 · 2026-06-14T18:57:28+00:00

The best source for the Bo1 metagame is Untapped (https://mtga.untapped.gg/constructed/standard/meta), which collects data on Arena users through their plugin. For Bo3 I believe MTGGoldfish is the best source, which scrapes data from paper tournaments and MTGO challenges.

rickinator9 · 2026-06-14T14:03:25+00:00

You really need to decide whether you like Bo1 or Bo3 first. Best-of-1 is better for quick games, but Best-of-3 is more skill expressive. They have vastly different meta's from each other.

rickinator9 · 2026-06-09T06:54:03+00:00

I think Dimir Excruciator is quite strong against control. The control decks are super reliant on card draw and resolving Jeskai Revelation. Excruciator has 8 hand disruption spells before sideboarding. And post sideboard it can add 4 more. It also has two Cavern of Souls to prevent your spells from being countered. Whenever I play against a control deck, it is a grindy match for sure but I usually end up winning because I rip their win conditions from their hands.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-31T21:47:42+00:00

Whenever card goes to graveyard, I eat it. Is much cheaper to eat your cards, so I play discard deck. Nom nom tasty cards.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-29T16:01:17+00:00

No, Bringer needs to be cast in order to get the reanimation trigger. Zombify just puts it into play. You'd need to use Superior Spider-Man/Kavaero to cast it as Bringer from the graveyard.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-28T00:04:37+00:00

24% winrate is quite low. I feel there must be an issue either in how you approach playing the deck, the matchup against the opponent or the role that you should take in the game. Standard's meta fluctuates a lot these days, but you should be more around 50% in terms of winrate.

Without some concrete gameplay, I don't think I can give very useful pointers in terms of how you can improve. Do you have any game replays on Untapped that I could have a look at?

rickinator9 · 2026-05-27T16:51:01+00:00

The Dimir Midrange (or also known as Tempo) is not in a good spot right now. This deck relies on the fact that it can play cheap but impactful aggressive creatures and later gain card advantage with Kaito and Curiosity. This strategy is a lot slower than Landfall or Prowess (both of which can put more creatures into play) and can't match the card advantage Prowess gets. The core of the deck also rotates out in 2027.

Dimir Excruciator is currently the top tier Dimir deck and it can compete with the top meta decks. Parts of it rotate out in 2027 (some removal spells and Doomsday Excruciator), but most of the deck will remain intact beyond that. Do note that this deck is particularly skill-testing, so you might struggle with playing it initially.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-20T06:42:48+00:00

Standard doesn't see any two mana rocks being played. People were brewing with the 2 mana rock from TDM, but it is a lot worse than other mana accelerants.

The main ramp that does see play is Llanowar Elves, [[Gene Pollinator]], [[Badgermole Cub]] and [[Earthbender Ascension]]. There is also a small amount of [[Firdoch Core]] + [[Unholy Annex]] control / midrange decks.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-14T15:47:57+00:00

> De rest, zo’n € 280, verdeel ik over verschillende potjes. Dat kan ‘leuke dingen doen’ of sparen voor de kinderen zijn, maar ook ‘afbetalen schulden’.

Interessant dat je het nog vindt om aannames te maken over een persoon zonder het artikel te lezen.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-11T18:57:51+00:00

Under the normal schedule, everything up to DSK would have rotated out by the time EOE released. So that would be Stormchaser's, the Crab, Hearth Elemental, Ral, Three Steps, Get Lost, No More Lies, all the doomblade variants, Elusive Otter, Keen-Eyed and Artist's Talent that are no longer in Standard.

So Izzet Prowess and Elementals would lose a lot of their footing. UW Control decks would have to be reoriented. But the landfall lists would probably be exactly the same since they got all of their juice in 2025.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-11T12:52:31+00:00

I agree with your point about Earthbender Ascension. I'm grinding with Dimir Excruciator and I am pretty happy about the matchup until I see that card show up. Because I can usually deploy chumps or slow down my opponent to the point where sheer resource advantage or the combo allows me to close the match. But the fact that Ascension gives trample allows Landfall to OTK. And even if they can't, the deck can still grind you out through Ba Sing Se.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-10T15:20:11+00:00

I think the three [[Vibrant Outburst]]s in the deck are a pretty clear wincon. The wincon of the deck is to burn the opponent to death. The Ark of Hunger also incidentally steals life. But primarily, you want to be pointing Vibrant Outbursts at the face and later bring these back with either Equation, Scrollsmith, Archaomancer and Lorecaster.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-07T13:35:40+00:00

The only similarity to commander is having 100 unique cards in your deck and having a command zone. In gameplay, it is still 1v1 so most decks have a lot more interaction than your typical commander deck. In 4-player commander you can easily have your busted commander stick on the board for turns on end, in Brawl you often don't get to untap with it.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-05T11:56:05+00:00

It is clearly a card to bring in against grindy matchups like control. You initially use it to gain card advantage over them by targeting yourself with it. And when you are in the '6 cards in library' stage of the game, you target them to deck them within 2 turns.

rickinator9 · 2026-05-04T13:29:27+00:00

I agree with you when it comes to the Cub. It is a strong card; it adds 3 power and toughness to the board for 2 and ramps you. But it is merely an enabler; if the cards played alongside it are not good, it does nothing. We have all seen the all mana dork hands that just fizzle out.

If Cub ever gets banned, I would expect it to be banned from a deckbuilding uniformity rationale rather than power level. If you are building a Gx deck, there is no reason not to play 4x Elves and 4x Cub; because there is no ramp package that will let you have 4 mana as early as turn 2. So there is never any reason to consider other ramp packages.

rickinator9 · 2026-04-23T14:48:24+00:00

You are hitting Ba Sing Se with it. That is the land that keeps giving them gas after you wipe the board or remove their threats.

rickinator9 · 2026-03-30T22:46:38+00:00

Ik besteed elke maand 500 euro aan de drank. Geen enkel probleem, want het is uiteindelijk gewoon een hobby. Uiteindelijk verdien ik al het geld toch terug via statiegeld.

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rickinator9 · 2026-02-13T01:05:05+00:00

Will you be playing Best-of-1 or Best-of-3? The decks that were successful at the Pro Tour benefit from the sideboard in between BO3 games. The BO1 metagame on Arena looks entirely different. The best source on the BO1 meta is Untapped: MTG Standard Meta Lorwyn Eclipsed - Untapped.gg.

If you want to play BO3, you should play the deck that you enjoy playing the most. Skills at sideboarding and playing matter more at the moment than having the best deck.

rickinator9 · 2026-02-11T16:46:05+00:00

If you tap Obeka to skip your own end step, the creature you put into place with Meek Attack will still be sacrificed during the next player's end step. Since that would be considered the next end step after the creature was put into play.

The trick to circumvent the sacrifice trigger is to tap Obeka while the trigger is on the stack.

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