Beast's kinda too weak for explorer. Especially since it's green, generally if you come up against green it's people playing mono green devotion and questing beast ain't shabby but doesn't do anything too exciting and isn't as good for maximizing devotion so you get infinite mana to draw your entire deck and wishboard with Karn. Plus beast would be too weak against Greasefang since most everything Greasefang wants to do would go over it, and too weak against the turn 4 or 5 "Well well well looks like I have 3 gearhulks now" shit. Would be fine against soldiers and red aggro but even then not too exciting. And then my current preferred flavor of explorer cheese being angels generally wouldn't care about it either.
The time has come lukaszek , supposedly tomorrow's patch will add the ability to mark "Favorite printing" on cards including lands. I doubt it'll retroactively change the versions you've already got in decks but it'll let you have a new default for future decks/drafts/etc at least.One day we'll have the technology for favorite lands. ONE DAY. DARE TO DREAM OF A BRIGHTER FUTUREsleeves are better, you can set favorite
im aware. Im curious how nonlands will be handled, whole feature got surprisingly little explanation/spotlight.
Mono blue tempo shit's pretty enjoyable in general. Not as slow as control or midrange, has more thought to it than just turning your creatures sideways since you want to know when to hold up mana to counter shit your opponent's likely playing, etc. Even if someone's countering all the shit I try to play it's not as irritating if he's actually got some creatures to kill me rather than relying on a Teferi emblem or slowly poking me to death with 1/1s made by land or whatever.
some cards just feel really great to dunk on. I don't play much explorer but in standard I always get a dopamine hit from countering wandering emperor or sheoldred or invoke despair or that fucking kinky-jiki enchantment
At least wandering emperor's a bit easier to play around, though you gotta be careful you don't mindgame yourself into not attacking since your opponent has 4 open mana with double white. Sorta like settle the wreckage.
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yeah like other online card games you can basically always have 2 or 3 solid decks as f2p, but if you want to get creative and play with a wider range of decks you'll need to pay up
To a certain degree. Like Drift said you won't really have the card pool to go nuts and play anything you want in every format, but if you hoard your rare and mythic wildcards and use them wisely you can get top tier decks in not much time. There's also historic brawl as an option which has one advantage in that it's singleton, but the disadvantage of 100 card deck size so you could theoretically fill a deck with an obscene number of rares. HOWEVER I did just see a budget bear hisbrawl deck with only 15 rares which looked absolutely fine so yeah, there's some cheap viable shit even for that format.
