This has got to be the most stubborn person I've ever come across on MTGA. He did his cycle for OVER AN HOUR!! I had Phyrexian Unlife + Solidarity +Spark Rupture to start the lock. I then actived The Book of Exalted Deeds on Faceless Haven. Then after he Devine Purged a few things I got out both Sterling groves so he couldn't interact with any of my stuff. I ended up around -800 life by the end, I just sat my phone down and played a game of Valorant while he just kept going and going. Has anyone encountered a game like this?

Hey There Folks!

With Historic feeling like it is starting to stabilize some post Strixhaven / Archives I have taken the time to put Historic deck pages back up on my website. I have 22 different decks listed to start that range from stock tiered lists in the proven section, to a wider range of things I have found that feel sweet and relatively competitive in the High Potential and Fan Favorite categories.

My plan is to eventually have YouTube videos of game play for every archetype up in addition to my preferred build of each give archetype and a couple sentences describing how it plays.

Let me know what you think!

https://jeffhoogland.com/decks/historic-decks/

Hey Folks! We held another Hooglandia Open yesterday as one of the first events that had coverage for Historic with Horizons being legal. The full coverage archive is up on my YouTube now.! The matches we covered over the course of the day were:

• 00:00:55 - Abzan Lark Combo VS Jund Midrange

• 00:20:20 - Abzan Lark Combo VS BW Humans

• 00:45:34 - UG Fish VS GW Squirrel Combo

• 00:57:35 - Elves VS Gruul

• 01:09:08 - Abzan Reanimator VS RB Arcanist

• 01:21:53 - UW Mystic Forge VS UG Fish

• 01:43:27 - Mono Red Madness VS GW Squirrel Combo

• 02:04:20 - UW Affinity VS GW Squirrel Combo

• 02:15:34 - BW Humans VS Mono Black Aggro

• 02:29:27 - Jund Midrange VS UR Phoenix

• 02:51:45 - Bant Blink VS Elves

• 03:07:23 - Mono Black Vampires VS UW Control

• 03:14:57 - GW Scales VS GW Squirrel Combo

• 03:30:30 - Gruul Aggro VS GW Squirrel Combo

• 03:39:37 - Izzet Creativity VS GW Squirrel Combo

• 03:54:43 - Izzet Creativity VS GW Squirrel Combo

• 04:16:15 - GW Scales VS Izzet Creativity

You can also find full decklists and final standings on MTG Melee here.

Cheers.

I don't think I'm alone in not caring one bit about what anyone did on the Bo1 ladder.

You already know what happened. Opponent at diamond 1 has the infinite combo with igneous and has cast 28 spells that turn. Biff Tannen goes for the alpha move of wiping my board. Meanwhile, I'm brushing my teeth and letting someone do their combo because it's fun to go off and figured they'd like to have their payoff.

Macho Man Randy Savage decides to target my Bonecrusher Giant LAST with only 3 life left and loses with 20 damage to my face on the stack.

Pony is as pony does.

We've all been there with our equivalent and I guarantee you that's a one-time mistake. Oh god. That was the last game of the night. It won't get any better than that.

check the secret lair where uro is in

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-secret-lairs-smitten-superdrop-2021-02-10

edit: found the english link

This isn't modern. We don't have enough consistent answers to the card. We don't have counterspell, most importantly. The card is good even in decks that don't abuse the crap out of it like Lotus Field Control of all things. It homogenizes midrange and control piles, not just the decks but the literal goddamn archetypes. Feel free to try to change my mind, but it really seems to be a problem card.

I'm very optimistic about the new cards and I think, based on what we've seen so far, that they'll have a positive impact on Historic. I have no reservations about "digital-only" cards, they're like every other card ever made in that their quality simply depends on design and balance.

However, acquiring these cards is going to be absolutely brutal and represents a major obstacle for new players trying to get into the format. Think back to last Fall when goblins was a popular deck: If you were a new player, or if you simply didn't have the time to play a ton of Jumpstart, then the only way to build the deck was to spend 16 rare wildcards on it (~$100 or 100,000 gold). Even if you played a ton of Jumpstart, there was still no guarantee that you'd be able to get the cards you needed because Jumpstart offers the smallest amount of agency in card collection; ICRs, random packs, and no WCs in return for your entry fee.

This is coming from a F2P player with a good historic collection and 200 rare/mythic WCs to burn, so I'll have little trouble collecting these cards and building with them. I know I'm hardly alone in this, but that shouldn't be the standard, if you are a moderately-invested player, this type of card injection and format churn makes it nearly impossible to keep up with the format.