It's been around three months since I started playing Magic. Since then, I've played mainly mono white. I invested all my wildcards into the deck, and I'm just slowly building up a collection for other strategies. Since I don't have a lot of experience with building Magic decks and I'm missing a lot of card knowledge, most of the decks I (want to) use are copied from the internet or adjusted with a little bit of personal flavor. They're a base for me to learn the game itself, but I'm missing out on a lot of building know-how. That's something I want to change!
Starting today, I'll post sort of a diary for my deck building process. I'll build a new deck every other day. But I don't want to invest in new cards I might not need for bigger projects. So, I'll build decks only using my limited card pool that I collected in the last couple of months as a F2P player.
Day 1: :white: :green: :blue: +1/+1 counter
This is my first attempt because a lot of strategies I enjoy are focused on counters. This deck is more or less a hybrid of two decks I'm currently building anyway (Heavily "stolen" from others). It's just missing the same key cards 😅😅
The most important card in the deck is Brokers Ascendancy, which creates very explosive growth together with Botanical Brawler and Kami of Whispered Hopes. Jugan defends the Tempel and the Planeswalkers are also doing a lot of work.
The biggest downside is the lack of early removal because the deck tends to be overwhelmed with opponents building an aggressive board state early on, but I'm considering getting rid of some other cards to make room for it. I'm just not sure about which removal would be the most useful with Ossification and Lay Down Arms dead to the lack of basic lands.
I played the deck in Standard without rank. Win rate was pretty even. The deck has a lot of potential and I'm excited to play a more refined version in the future.
Bin immer noch durch, weil der CDU-Bundesvorsitzende #Merz die #Brandmauer gegen #Faschismus & #Antisemitismus angegriffen hat. Für mich als Christdemokrat seit über 30 Jahren undenkbar & untragbar.
Schaue gerade auf einen Brief, den mir unser Jüngster mal zum #Vatertag, zu #DnD & #MagictheGathering schrieb. Ich will & werde nicht zulassen, dass unsere Kinder in einer rechtsextremen Gesellschaft aufwachsen… 🇩🇪🇪🇺🤨✊
I have a #MagicTheGathering card price question for anyone who might know: I liked the new D&D movie enough that when the Secret Lair for it dropped, I picked up a non-foil set (my first SLD ever, actually). Since then, I've watched the price of #Themberchaud go up and up and up. It's over $40 a copy right now! As much as I like the card for flavor, it just doesn't seem powerful enough to warrant such a price tag, even considering its scarcity. My question is this: why in the heck is Themberchaud worth so much money right now?
Musing: Is there a more flavourful multi-card interaction in the LOTR set than sacrificing Balrog, Durin’s Bane—to a Lash of the Balrog—to kill Gandalf the Grey?
Maybe Samwise the Stouthearted returning a Frodo that was killed by Shelob?
What’s the highest number of cards we could ram together into a book-accurate interaction? #MagicTheGathering
I bought Sauron because I was so excited about him as a casual #Commander in #MagictheGathering but now I’m trying to figure out how to make him fun but also not broken. Keeping Grixis commanders from becoming near CEDH levels is really hard for me.
Name a card you love unconditionally, regardless of how good it is and the fact that it barely sees any play.
For me, this card is Curse of Hospitality. The trample is nice, and the other effect is beautifully silly. It's just such a fun card to play in a deck that goes wide and to beat the opponent with their own weapons. Also, very fitting that the card that says, "Your deck is now our deck!" is red. #MagicTheGathering#MTG
I don't like the current Standard format. I want to play decks that build impressive boards and want to out-grinde my enemies on the battlefield. Sadly, that's barely playable in a format where all decks feel like 80% removal spells.
This Hipsters of the Coast article has me conflicted...
On one hand, I think it's fantastic that they published an article illustrating that even moderately experienced players get rejected by some of the turnstiles which are erected around the game, and that not knowing the secret language is okay.
On the other, I think it's a reckless assertion to make that everything which is hard for cis people is harder for queer people.
How likely is it that a Mana Crypt/Sol Ring ban in EDH is incoming? I just watched a Command Zone episode about it, now Sheldon Menery is coming out and saying they're a problem. It sounds like they're laying the groundwork to prepare everybody.
I've been watching some youtube videos that had themselves labeled as "prerelease guides" for the LOTR #MagicTheGathering set, but they all focus too much on higher rarities.
I don't need a prerelease guide to tell me that Gandalf the White is strong, I'm already playing that it I open it. Most of your prerelease deck is going to be commons, by definition - focus on those in your guides, people!
#MTG hot take, maybe. ONE and MOM have been the best sets to come out in years, but the momentum was halted with the LotR stuff. These Universe Beyond sets are nothing but cash grabs and I refuse to spend any gold on them. Even if I do enjoy the base series.
to any of my mutuals that keep up with #magicthegathering, have the lotr cards had much of an impact in modern yet? I'm real curious how things have been adjusting around their introduction
Hey Mastodon #MTG community - what Selesnya-coloured decks are people running in Pioneer? I don't normally play the format but am going to have a chance to later in the month and those colours tend to be my wheelhouse 🙂
Okay, so. Obviously more Universes Beyond sets are coming to Magic. What are some other big IPs that nerds like? I've thought of Minecraft, Star Trek, Dune, Harry Potter, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda (with implied other-Nintendo-stuff). Disney-owned stuff is out, because Lorcana (btw where's Lorcana?), and D&D is out because it's not Beyond, but what else do we need on the forecasting grid?
I have thousands of MTG cards, mostly worth pennies, and my small baseball card collection (2 random boxes of cards bought from Walgreens) averages $2 a card (including a 1989 Bobby Doerr worth $60)
I love how #WOTC hyped up the 5 Year Anniversary of #MTGA saying ''keep an eye on your inbox on Sept 19th for some sweet rewards'' and all they gave was a single full-art card style for a random mythic😩 Like are you serious?🤔 For fuck sake give us some wild cards, or at the very least some free packs you cheap pricks😖 #MTG#MagicTheGathering