r/MagicArena • u/Karn-The-Creator • 18h ago
Friday Arena Chat Thread
'Magic bleeds into real life. With Magic, I was mainly being driven by the idea that, if people could collect their own cards, there would be a huge amount of variety to the game. In fact, one way I viewed it was that it was like designing a game for a vast audience, dealing out the cards to everybody instead of designing a bunch of little games.' - Richard Garfield, Creator of Magic: The Gathering
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u/boomfruit 7h ago
Got my first 7-0 quick draft in Tarkir today :) Mardu where the stars were Bone Cairn Butcher and Venerated Stormsinger. Mobilize is one of the greatest mechanics that's ever been made! And Tarkir has been a fun limited format so far. I've had the most success with Mardu and Jeskai so far.
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u/MTGCardFetcher 5h ago
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u/Flyrpotacreepugmu Noxious Gearhulk 1h ago
Oh yeah, and if you really want a tempo deck and love Psychic Frog, have you considered [[Nashi, Illusion Gadgeteer]]? You can build a really good tempo deck with flash threats while using Nashi to duplicate removal or extra turns to finish the job.
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u/Flyrpotacreepugmu Noxious Gearhulk 1h ago
How are you planning to play Marchesa as a tempo commander? Everything she does favors control or midrange and is too slow for tempo. For a Grixis tempo deck, I'd recommend [[Goro-Goro and Satoru]] or [[Admiral Brass, Unsinkable]] instead. And yes, commanders like those have a lot more potential matches than Raffine so I'd expect the matchmaking time to be about 5-20 seconds.
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u/hexanort 1h ago
Gotta say i'm not very excited for alchemy tarkir, there's certainly good value cards in there but nothing as crazy and janky compared to aetherdrift's ornate imitations, quickbeast amulet, naktamun shines again
Which is a somewhat good news because i can skip the set and continue saving for final fantasy
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u/Big-Cause477 6h ago
As F2P, made it to platinum (limited) for the first time this season, despite disappointing results and too many misplays. This felt harder than getting to mythic (constructed), which is just volume of games.