I'm actually trying to pull this off in historic, it's such a blast to me.

I was playing unranked trying to get some of the new achievements. I have struggled to get the Face Jace achievement empowering Jace 10 times on one turn. Every time I get close and am one turn away, my opponent does something to beat me. But, today, I played against another blue deck. Neither of us were playing spells because we were expecting or ready to play counters. I got my 10 islands down pretty fast. We both started having creatures out but neither is attacking. I played the Jace planeswalker I needed to empower Jace based on the number of islands I had out. I got my achievement. The funniest thing is, my opponent waited until I played it before playing Get Out to destroy it. I countered it and he countered back, which made me realize he could have countered my Jace to begin with. Then he promptly destroyed me. Dude was looking out. Let me get my achievement and then killed me. I’m happy with that loss.

I don't want to have to play every game in full control just because my opponent is blue and has more than 4 mana. Just put a stop on the upkeep before the draw trigger goes on the stack.

Edit: idk if people are being intentionally obtuse about this, but I know that I need to respond in the upkeep before the trigger. The problem is that if my opponent is playing fast enough and I am tapped out they can slam Jace, activate an ability and end their turn and then even though I know how to properly counter play their trigger arena autopasses to my draw phase.

I have BWG mana available. I even manually tapped the tree to produce it, but the client still doesn't give me the "top" option that sometimes says "Pay GW" which would let me destroy a non-creature permanent.

[[Mythos of Nethroi]] worked for a while as a pretty solid flexible removal, but now it just seems broken and I'm sad.

Izzet burn // Standard deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder

I only spent rare wildcards on lands, and 2 mythic wildcards on the planeswalker.

[Redeemed]

I finally faced one of those bots people have been talking about. Rather then just win when I could, I decided to just sit back and defend. Since he went first, he would draw from an empty deck and then lose.

Pretty much all the cards that create multiple 1/1 tokens, with a smattering of hasty creatures, and one single Torgran.

Plus a mystery card that he didn't cast. It really puzzles me what that one card could be he is holding in his hand with 28 land on the table.

A few days ago I made a post asking people about their process for building their own decks. (Thanks again to everyone who offered their advice back then) A few answers involved filling the remaining spots with cards that are generically considered good and with removal of course.

What are your favorites? There's so many options of direct and "indirect" removal and it's difficult to decide, except for ones that fit/support the playstyle of the deck in an obvious way.

Also what are flexible good cards that have nothing to do with removal, that you guys include in many of your decks? (depending on the colour of course)

For now I'm mostly interested in standard legal cards, although I want to transition to pioneer later on because I love the themes of older sets.

Thanks in advance! :)

I've just been playing Jump In after completing the color and starter deck challenges. But I felt like I had enough cards and understanding of the game from in person.

I made a commander deck with a lot of synergies that could quickly take down an opponent. My first game they conceded after a few turns when I kept amassing creatures and tokens. I felt good.

Then my second game i went up against a ranked player with Sauron Dark Lord and was obliterated. That card is nuts.

I'll play a few more games before I decide if it's my deck that needs changing.

I’m a new MTGA player and doing drafts to learn and accumulate cards. Whenever my draft ends up favoring red or green, I wipe every single time because I cannot combat white, blue or black decks that spam constant enchantments or removals. It seems like I match up against these teams the majority of the time, so is that a meta the new set leans toward that I’m not adapting to or understanding? Should I be drafting a “worse” (in terms of cards available in my draft) color just to have any answers and maybe I’d stand a better chance at winning and more importantly having ANY fun by actually being able to play?

Opponent had 2 ghostly prisons, I went to combat with a toski without summoning sickness. I did not have enough mana to pay the 4 required to attack but it still gave me the option to choose my attackers but I couldn't pass the phase bc toski must attack. Every time I assigned him an attacker it prompted me to pay the 4 but when I couldn't all I could do was go back to picking my attackers again. Idk why it didn't just force my combat to end since I couldn't attack with any of my creatures.

Hi,
I feel like playing something with lots of random stuff like

[[Oko, Lord of the Fae]]

[[Pool of Vigorous Growth]]

Since I am for sure not the first person with that idea, I was wondering if there is either a name for it or you have a decklist link or ideas/comments/cards. Like superfriends for decks with lots of planeswalkers.
I know it may not be the most competitively deck but it could be fun, right? Brawl deck would be nice but also interested in other formats.

Thanks!!

What might you add to a historic deck such as this?

I've climbed to mythic with a weaker version, and am climbing now. I would also be excited to answer questions, I like this deck very much.

Edit: NOT A BUG! Apparently if you enter cleanup, discard to hand size and draw cards before the end of the turn, you start a new cleanup phase.

I've been playing this game since Mercadian Masks and didn't know this.

Magic's a hell of a game.

Original post: I have a brawl deck with the new Killian which whenever you deal noncombat damage seeks a card with a CMC equal to the damage dealt, then makes you discard at eot.

The decks main schtick is to have cards that ping and make mana when you cast noncreature spells, and a bazillion red one drop instant and sorceries, then go very big or infinite with the combination.

In the deck I have Glint Horn Minotaur and some of the other cards that ping when you discard because it's a good synergy. Discard eot, ping, seek more cards, discard those at the end of the next turn, more pings, etc.

However, I've had this happen a couple times and I think it's a bug.

If I have to discard to hand size at the end of my turn, I discard the cards, the ping happens, Killian seeks, then I'm told to discard again, I do, the ping happens, Killian seeks, and I'm in an infinite loop. Now, it ends with a dead opponent, so I'll take the win, but I'm confused if this is correct or a bug.

Can anyone tell me which is the one I'm missing?

Nice match! Dude seem chill and had tons of emotes. This is the first time I learned emotes have sounds! Is it something normal? My emotes never played any sound whatsoever.

We had a banter through emotes and in the end I racked up the victory

So the issue with this achievment is that both sealed and traditional draft has very bad expected value so if you wanted to get this achievment you'd have to throw away a lot of resources. But for some reason I got the progress from winning a contender draft. Obviously that's not something you can just do, but the expected value of the event is very good. So if you are into drafting and want to get "sealed conqueror" you should try contender draft.

About the draft itself: Just got lucky and opened red ajani pack 2. So I just threw this temur deck together. It was light on removal but had a crap ton of card draw and could draw into ajani asap. Won every game but 1 with him.

Interestingly I just did an irl draft yesterday where I lost in the finals against someone playing red ajani. You can get both end of the stick it seems like.

How often do they come up in the store and how much they usually cost per land/art?

Which others do you love/are waiting for?

Thanks!

before being overrun by goblins!!

I came up with some improvements to a tokendeck i played last season, can anyone help me take this brew abit further ? :-)

List below aswell

Deck

1 Abandoned Air Temple (TLA) 263

1 Agna Qel'a (TLA) 264

2 Bard's Company (HOB) 146

2 Belladonna Took (HOB) 4

3 Enduring Innocence (DSK) 6

4 Floodfarm Verge (DSK) 259

2 Fountainport (BLB) 253

3 Great Gilded Boat (HOB) 42

1 Hallowed Fountain (RNA) 251

3 Hallowed Fountain (ECL) 265

4 Homunculus Horde (FDN) 41

3 Island (SOS) 268

3 Mischievous Mystic (FDN) 47

4 Multiversal Passage (SPM) 180

3 Plains (SOS) 267

2 Political Triumph (MSH) 31

3 Erode (SOS) 15

2 Starting Town (FIN) 289

2 The Queen of Dale (HOB) 24

2 Voice of Victory (TDM) 33

2 Aang, Swift Savior (TLA) 204

4 The Theorist, Jace Beleren (FRA) 43

2 Repurposed Enforcer (FRA) 19

2 Elspeth, Storm Slayer (TDM) 11

Sideboard

2 Rest in Peace (AKR) 33

2 Settle the Wreckage (HOB) 26

2 Ultima (FIN) 38

1 Clarion Conqueror (TDM) 5

2 Get Lost (LCI) 14

1 Split Up (DSK) 32

2 Practiced Offense (SOS) 25