Magic the Gathering Arena

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[spectre]

Yeah, I was told there was supposed to be an email of sorts. Eh, they're probably shit anyway.

Run a test vs. the Sparky test AI. I didn't have much expectations, but it still dissapoints. It only seems to play the monocolored starter decks which doesn't really make for a good sport.
It's decision making is also dubious - at one point he sacrificed a vanilla 2/2 instead of stitcher's supplier for card draw.
If it can play a card, it will do so. If it can attack safely, it wil. Doesn't seem willing to be trading creatures and doesn't appear to "see" deathtouch.
When blocking it will chump to kill creatures, this lead to a scenarios in which it deprived itself of blockers and lost.
Not sure if it can handle combat tricks, one time it had one on hand, it was discarded for Disinformation Campaign instead of something else... not sure what as it didn't play if for the next three turns.

Predictably, it doesn't progress any quests or win counters, but that's fine. It would trivialize 15 wins if it did.
Although it would be nice if it could use a custom deck. An autoplay green stomp or RDW could actually be useful for goldfishing.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

God damn it. Did a draft for Allegiance since I figured I may as well to get the single pack for bronze rank since you don't get ANY pack if you don't play it, and I shit myself and went 1-3 despite a decent looking Rakdos deck. Learned some really important lessons like "Turns out you need to enable full control to use bladebrand on daggercaster or Judith", both of which lost me a game each since I figured normally when you've got instants shit goes on the stack and you can react, but nope. On the bright side I did get a few cards I was wanting (Finally got a copy of cry, and another Judith is nice) and I'll just hope that bronze 4-2 pips is enough for the welfare pack at the end of the season. I'd probably play more but I'm still hoarding gold for spark and hoping for the best.

 

[Jason Liang]

Judith may not be the best card in RNA but she's been my personal MVP

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

I think that Rakdos is the weakest draft guild in this set.

Was fucking around with my zombies deck earlier and ended up with this crazy board state:

sacrifice gutterbones + reassembling skel every time, force them to sacrifice something, immediately ressumon gutter + reass, open graves and desecrated tomb spawn tokens w/ each sacrifice

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Judith may not be the best card in RNA but she's been my personal MVP

She's surprisingly fun. Rakdos in general is more fun than I thought they'd be considering they're pretty aggro. They might not be THE BEST guild/color combo when it comes to being aggro but if you're looking at fun/unfun rather than good/bad they're solid.

Managed to knock out the treasure event 5-1 on my first run since AS IT TURNS OUT being a dirty fucker and playing mono-blue when you essentially always have mana up for counterspells is good. Who'd've thunk?

Codes for freebie moviecards thus far:
STARTERSTYLES (Gets you a MTGA cardback and 5 or so styles)
SUPERSCRY (Gets you 1 copy of pirate-opt and style for pirate-opt)
PARALLAXPOTION (Gets you 1 copy of revitalize and style for revitalize)

 

[spectre]

I also used mono blue in that treasures event. You can tweak the usual build a bit by adding Skilled Animators and Djinn of the lamp for a bit more muscle, also going down to 18 lands has no downside.
Took me two tries and I am very happy never playing this crap again.

Am I missing something, or apparently there is no way to switch the artsy version off? There should be some kind of toggle in the collection view, but I cannot confirm the change.
The new sleeves are already pissing me off. Looks like baroque cotton candy. Glad they price it like this so maybe every faggot out there won't be using them.
I would seriously consider an option to pay judengeld and never see any of this shit again.

On a related note, I wonder when the first complaints will start that about the holographic card pictures giving folks motion sickness or frying their potato laptops.
If you overload on this shit, the board looks like you're playing drunk which isn't bad.

EDIT: Ok, I think I got this shit.
If you want to turn off the art style, here's what you do: Right click the card in Deck builder view (won't work otherwise), click on the art style toggle above the card, select vanilla version and you can now and press Select to confirm.

 

[Jason Liang]

The new Arena back looks like crap

The styles would be ok if they removed the swaying. I like the ripple effect on some of the cards (like Mortify), that's pretty cool. Although the swaying kind of makes sense for pirates

I've basically pulled everything for a Gates deck out of boosters and rewards (missing 1 Guild Summit) so I think I will try that this weekend for treasures event

then the plan is to work on 3 color pirates from now until rotation.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

I think the styles look good on a few cards (negate and mortify are good examples) but they're really lackluster on a lot of cards. Definitely not worth the insane gem price for most, they could have done better

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

rotation can't fucking come soon enough though I hate this meta

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[spectre]

Well, I'm not exactly keen about the 100+ planeswanker spam that seems to be coming in the next expansion.

Although I'm actually looking forward to the expansion just to see what the Arena Extended format is going to be like. Will they be going all the way back to Origins? Would be pretty cool.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Style code for deathbloom thallid: FOILFUNGUS

Edit: Oh yeah, they're apparently going to be adding styles as ranked rewards for the next season. Gold rank will get you wizard's lightning, and platinum gets you Vraska's contempt, and diamond and mythic don't get any extra styles. Same packs/gold as before too.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

nice how they keep giving away bullshit RDW styles for that asshole deck

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

I present to you, a Dawkinsfan69 homebrew special:

Netdeck Hate!

Spoiler

Built specifically to grind ranked, where I know your entire fucking decklist based on the first land you drop. Unmoored ego will tear your deck to pieces.

U Tempo? Bye-bye Djinn. Esper? Cya Teferi! GG
Mono red? Heh, no risk factor, no experimental frenzy.

What's my win condition, you ask? I'll whittle your netdecking ass down with my dawn of hope token. One health per turn. Feel the fucking pain you filthy copy pasting son of a btich

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

OH IZZET, WHATEVER WILL YOU DO WITHOUT YOUR DRAKES?

Spoiler

SULTAI EXPLORE, RUN OUT OF CREATURES?

WHAT DOES THE COMBO DECK DO WITHOUT THE COMBO?!?!?!?

MONO GREEN SEES WHAT'S COMING

 

[Jason Liang]

nice hand against control

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

mission briefing?

I think ctm does a better job of cycling it in this deck because it also brings back all my other control things

guys have you seen the leaked planeswalker cards? holy fucking shit this set is gonna be cancer

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Code for fanatical firebrand style: SHINYGOBLINPIRATE
Code for druid of the cowl style: SPARKLEDRUID

Spark spoilers: https://scryfall.com/sets/war?order=spoiled&as=grid There were/are apparently more spoilers (Like Niv Mizzle is now a rainbow dragon of fabulousness) but I've only seen them in shitty super low res where you can hardly read 'em.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

lol jesus fucking christ they should rename the game to Planeswalker: The Planeswalking

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Here are the other cards in micro-vision.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

OH LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!

OOPS!

 

[spectre]

lol jesus fucking christ they should rename the game to Planeswalker: The Planeswalking

Dibs on calling it The Planeswanking.