It seems like all of the conversation about the meta has fragmented into a bunch of discords and paywalled data aggregation. Where does an aspiring serious player go to fill in the 2-3 years of missed meta knowledge?
mtggoldfish has meta decks and user submitted decks for almost all popular formats out there. They include a meta % to show how much a deck is played.
for more competitive meta results I use mtgdecks.net, where you can filter on recent tournaments or MTGO leagues within the format you’re interested in.
lastly there’s aetherhub, which I use less these days but is also a good source for meta deck finding.
if you’re looking for meta discussions and deck techs, you can still find them on reddit, e.g. the /r/spikes subreddit or the subreddit for the format of your choice, for Pioneer there’s /r/PioneerMTG
This was a really well-explained hack, I loved reading this, well done! So fascinating to see that bot logic runs client-side, that the code just creates two ‘seats’ for players to connect to, and you exploited all that info in a masterful way. Bravo!
I am HYPED for Amsterdam, this is close enough to my home that I’ll be able to go! At the same time it’s disappointing that the EU Magiccon will feature the modern pro tour two years in a row, I hope they switch it up for the coming years.
wow, in practice the changes to Limited might not be very big with this new type of booster, but in the history of MtG this is a humongous change. For the first time since 1993 Draft boosters will have 14 playable cards instead of 15. This changes the fabric of MtG. I feel that in the long run this is a very good shift, all of the problems highlighted in the article are very real, and it seems like they’ve addressed them well with the Play Booster. Fascinating stuff, I can’t wait to hear the Limited podcasts analysing how this changes the game.
I got that album thingy with inserts, but whats bugging me is - if im not aiming to collect a whole edition, how do i organise my cards? by color? by some other order? I have mixed WoE and Commander Masters cards, but would like to have them somewhere nice when they are not in decks....
as your collection grows, so must your storage solutions change. Here are the phases my collection went through:
phase 1: everything stored randomly in prerelease and bundle boxes
phase 2: buying a few empty bundle boxes online so I have 5 bundle boxes, storing per colour and in ascending mana value
phase 3: getting a longbox (google ‘tcg longbox’) that holds 1000 cards and storing my cards in there. At this point I switched to ordering in the objectively best way for big collections: per set, from oldest set to newest set, in ascending collection number (the number on the bottom left of the card). Ordering per collection number will also automatically order your cards per colour and alphabetically for every set.
phase 4: getting multiple longboxes to accommodate the ever expanding collection, continuing with the collection method of phase 3
Very fair! I would posit that for a large collection where you keep every single card you open, and for which you have an online collection tracker such as deckbox.org, using the organising system I mentioned is still the best. There will always be one single place that a card you’re looking for would be, and nowhere else.
Well that’s why I said it was only good if you have an online collection tracker where you catalog all your cards . I know exactly where all my copies of The Doctor are because I have recorded which versions I have. I can then build my decks online, and once I’m ready to play them I just go to my collection with a list of set and collector numbers and I can pull out exactly what I need
Well, this last week sure hasn’t gone as we planned. What was originally scheduled to be a celebration of five years of fun hasn’t quite lived up to that promise, so today I wanted to apologize. We’ll talk a little later about some of the “how,” but one of the things that I emphasize with the team is that players...
I’m a big fan of how transparent they’ve been about mtga development over the past few months, from the dev writeups to the clear messaging when things go wrong.
I’m curious as to you guys opinions. It could be Mastodon itself or a Mastodon client. What features would you like to see that are not currently available?
100% better migration options. I want to take my posts with me, I want people going to my old profile to redirect to my new profile. I feel like I’ve been stuck on my Mastodon instance, which is very small and is not tended to by the admins a lot, because of the lacking migration functionality.
Um omg this is amazing news haha! I should have followed the mastodon updates more closely it seems, I had no idea we could do this now. Thanks so much for bringing that to my attention 😀
You’re right about the premium treatments and the pricing. I don’t think the fact that 4 out of 10 tier decks are under 200 bucks will bring more people to standard though: if you’re on a budget you look at the standard metagame and see that you can sleeve up mono red aggro for under 100$. But at the same time you see that you’ll never be able to afford other tier decks like golgari or esper midrange, which are about 500$. If you don’t have access to the option of creating the tier deck you want, only the tier deck you can afford, it creates a feeling of being locked out of (part of) the format, and creates resentment toward those that càn afford a golgari midrange deck.
Help a returning player get back up to speed?
It seems like all of the conversation about the meta has fragmented into a bunch of discords and paywalled data aggregation. Where does an aspiring serious player go to fill in the 2-3 years of missed meta knowledge?
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How do you keep and organise your cards (advice for editions im not aiming to have complete)?
I got that album thingy with inserts, but whats bugging me is - if im not aiming to collect a whole edition, how do i organise my cards? by color? by some other order? I have mixed WoE and Commander Masters cards, but would like to have them somewhere nice when they are not in decks....
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Well, this last week sure hasn’t gone as we planned. What was originally scheduled to be a celebration of five years of fun hasn’t quite lived up to that promise, so today I wanted to apologize. We’ll talk a little later about some of the “how,” but one of the things that I emphasize with the team is that players...
Mastodon features
I’m curious as to you guys opinions. It could be Mastodon itself or a Mastodon client. What features would you like to see that are not currently available?
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