[Magic The Gathering Arena] Fires of Treachery banned!

DanHibiki

with that out of the way, let the gathering of Magic begin!

https://magic.wizards.com/en/mtgarena


might as well plug some magical Youtube channels yall might like:
M20 Commander: all things Elder Dragon
https://youtu.be/lyFayKHVSsw
Tolarian Community College: Product reviews and other valuable MTG information, I mean you've probably seen the Professor if you've watched any MTG video, he's slowly infecting everyone.
https://youtu.be/PPBM_8KIyLA
Mono Black: Fun MTG Jank on Arena
https://youtu.be/00_yC6Dl5Dw

Elbasunu

I'm loving LRR's Sick Rips videos.

This one was made back in 2015 but they are putting it up now.

https://youtu.be/qA_zSHYOx7s

Munkus Beaver

Oh Jesus Christ I laughed way harder at that than I should have

Bizazedo

Had a game with Chromatic Black where I managed to get Golos down and trigger him. I immediately drew 3 lands.

I calmly, yet sternly, explained to the game that I was a whale and did not deserve that treatment and tried it again on the next game. It kindly gave me Niv Mizzet, Zacama, and Mastermind's Acquisition.

I felt we connected in that moment. Truly, the shuffler is not random.

Zombie Hero

Rule of Law sure is an enjoyable way to shut down experimental frenzy. Threeferi and Rule of Law sure is a great way to feel like a big jerk and have all the fun.

Vyolynce

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

Oh Jesus Christ I laughed way harder at that than I should have

Their Jund deck tech yesterday was brilliant.

https://youtu.be/QWReVySMKbw

R-dem

In lieu of actually playing Magic, I instead watch Day9 before falling asleep.

Good Lord is he funny, and I love it when he just says Eff It and plays jank.

Winky

Elbasunu wrote: »

I'm loving LRR's Sick Rips videos.

This one was made back in 2015 but they are putting it up now.

https://youtu.be/qA_zSHYOx7s

Goddamn birds with swords

Jace and I remember that meta well

DanHibiki

R-dem wrote: »

In lieu of actually playing Magic, I instead watch Day9 before falling asleep.

Good Lord is he funny, and I love it when he just says Eff It and plays jank.

for pure roller coaster mtg comedy I highly recommend MTG Arena Original Decks:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP4rccaiVAo1DvOze5vnmUw

Munkus Beaver

WotC gave me 10k gold to refund the two drafts I entered where I encountered the gamebreaking pass-turn bug.

I had paid with gems to enter the things, but it's better than nothing.

Squeaky wheel gets the grease and all.

Elldren

DanHibiki wrote: »

R-dem wrote: »

In lieu of actually playing Magic, I instead watch Day9 before falling asleep.

Good Lord is he funny, and I love it when he just says Eff It and plays jank.

for pure roller coaster mtg comedy I highly recommend MTG Arena Original Decks:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP4rccaiVAo1DvOze5vnmUw

I love this

Vyolynce

Just won a game vs. Esper... Teferi, I guess? Was running both plus Spark Double for maximum annoyance. Wincons appeared to be Bell-Haunt, repeatedly bouncing Oath of Kaya, and maybe pinging me to death with Sorin. I Desparked the only Sorin I saw, Wrathed away at least two Bell-Haunts, and eliminated Teferis as the opportunity presented with the tools at my disposal. I get them down to 6, they draw and give me the GGs. This is followed by Doubling little Teferi and bouncing my threat.

O...k...? Still haven't presented me a winning board state here, so let's earn that GG, bucko.

I mostly let them have their fun, bouncing things and drawing extra cards while keeping the time mages under control if possible. Eventually one of their Big Teferis threatens an ultimate. I topdeck Oath of Kaya and shoot it; they... respond by hitting their own PW with Vraska's Contempt? They must have been watching their life total, but I was watching their library. (EDIT: They must have been preventing me from gaining 3 life. That tracks if their wincon was 3-damage packets.)

More extra cards drawn, including Chemister's Insight and the new Dig Through Time. Eventually it looks like they will be able to use their last Bell-Haunt and Oath to get there, but they tuck the Bell-Haunt in their library for reasons that are unclear to me. Possibly to avoid decking? I dunno, because that's how they ultimately died with me still at 4 life and what I'm assuming was a grip full of kill spells and/or lands.

I would have probably scooped to Jace at any point but he just wasn't in the deck. *shrug*

I did not GG them when their library was empty on my last turn.

Shadowen

I never GG first when I think I'm about to win unless there is literally nothing on the board that can stop me from killing them this turn and they have nothing they can cast. 1. It's rude. 2. It's tempting fate.

Vyolynce

Shadowen wrote: »

I never GG first when I think I'm about to win unless there is literally nothing on the board that can stop me from killing them this turn and they have nothing they can cast. 1. It's rude. 2. It's tempting fate.

I don't GG first unless it's followed by my own concession. Although if I'm dead on board I'll usually let them finish.

Yilias

I've had two different people today use Negate on a Spell Pierce.

milski

Yilias wrote: »

I've had two different people today use Negate on a Spell Pierce.

Stonks

Munkus Beaver

I don't GG unless I am either dead on board or I have my own lethal attack.

And if they can stop my shit then I respond with a Nice!

It's only polite, I think.

jmcdonald

Just went 7-2 in the 2020 draft with a temur elementals deck. Only had one risen reef and it still did a ton of work. Can’t imagine what a second would have done.

initiatefailure

Yilias wrote: »

I've had two different people today use Negate on a Spell Pierce.

most of this game is about sending a message

Shadowen

jmcdonald wrote: »

Just went 7-2 in the 2020 draft with a temur elementals deck. Only had one risen reef and it still did a ton of work. Can’t imagine what a second would have done.

I have accidentally decked myself tuning my temur elemental deck against Sparky, so...

initiatefailure

Hey did they ever do anything with the vault? I'm at about 90% now and I don't know what happens these days when you max it out?

Echo

Wow. Electrostatic Field + Chandra's Spitfire, killing me on turn 3 by getting me down to 12 with various stuff to the face, buffing Spitfire to 13/3.

Echo

Hostage Taker'd some guy's Sephara and he alt-f4'd on the spot.

Shadowen

initiatefailure wrote: »

Hey did they ever do anything with the vault? I'm at about 90% now and I don't know what happens these days when you max it out?

I'm pretty sure you still just get 1 mythic, 2 rare, and 3 uncommon wilds.

Yes, that's it, for (at minimum) 300 uncommons, or 900 commons, or some mixture.

Echo

Why can't they start the weekend events on Friday or Saturday instead of 5 pm on Sunday my time?

Echo

My grod, people in this event. Yes, treasure is a trigger, stop staring at it for 20 seconds each turn.

SniperGuy

How long does this ixalan treasure event last anyway?

Snicketysnick

Til tuesday same as last time

milski

Oh my god Karn is stupid in this event, he stops your opponent from using treasure tokens and if your opponent is aggro enough to threaten him, you can just kill treasure tokens so he's 6 loyalty and they probably won't stop you from wishboarding in something stupid next turn.

Elbasunu

hahaha i completely forgot about karns static ability

initiatefailure

I wonder if I can just win with mono red...

Tomanta

initiatefailure wrote: »

I wonder if I can just win with mono red...

Probably can. I made a very janky RDW and powered through my last few matches. Worst case, you win or lose quick.

Snicketysnick

I just wish it was pre-cons all the way down for these events, what's the point in a farewell tour of Ixalan if it's RDW and Superfriends for both of my 2 games this evening?

Yilias

Ramp seems pretty good too. I just had an opponent open with shockland > growth spiral into forest > arboreal grazer into land > go. 3 lands in play on turn 1.

initiatefailure

Precons for these events would make me actively want to play them instead of begrudgingly do it without being able to give it time to deckbuild something fitting the format

Echo

Yilias wrote: »

Ramp seems pretty good too. I just had an opponent open with shockland > growth spiral into forest > arboreal grazer into land > go. 3 lands in play on turn 1.

I brought the "Cascade" deck into this and that's what I do.

milski

Deck based matchmaking felt in play during this event and my sample size was small, but decks that felt good during this event:

RDW: Not necessarily actually good, but extremely fast and capable of explosive starts with Steamkin that punish any durdling. Probably best to shave lands and go with the more all-in wizards and efrenzy package than the Bo3 builds that have Chandra's Spitfires and Ember Haulers.

Ramp in general: Turning temporary treasure resources into permanent resources is huge. Scapeshift obviously benefits here too, but doesn't actually speed up that much because the trick is getting seven lands, not a lot of mana.

BR Mayhem Devil: Hilarious. Every treasure token pings something for 1.

Mono-Green Tron: Turn 2 Nissa (with elf) or turn 2 Karn are both a ridiculous beating. Put two amulets of safekeeping in your wishboard and Scapeshift basically can't kill you. 2x Sorcerous Spyglass, 1x Graffdigger's Cage, 2x God-Pharoah's Statue, 1x Scyscanner, 2x Meteor Golem, 1x Fountain of Renewal, and other stuff to taste is probably what I'd settle on as the core "this saves me in most every situation" board. Note if you don't want to pull in a card because your Karn is at risk, you can just blow up a treasure and -2 when you actually have mana to cast things.

KalTorak

Mayhem Devil triggers off Treasures, if you want to play around with that. Woodland Champion too, though that's less fun.

Smurph

Not a huge fan of this treasures event. Seems like a recipe for "Whoever has the most planeswalkers wins" which IMO is the worst kind of Magic.

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade dropped on turn 1 can mess people up though.

Elldren

milski wrote: »

Deck based matchmaking felt in play during this event and my sample size was small, but decks that felt good during this event:

RDW: Not necessarily actually good, but extremely fast and capable of explosive starts with Steamkin that punish any durdling. Probably best to shave lands and go with the more all-in wizards and efrenzy package than the Bo3 builds that have Chandra's Spitfires and Ember Haulers.

Ramp in general: Turning temporary treasure resources into permanent resources is huge. Scapeshift obviously benefits here too, but doesn't actually speed up that much because the trick is getting seven lands, not a lot of mana.

BR Mayhem Devil: Hilarious. Every treasure token pings something for 1.

Mono-Green Tron: Turn 2 Nissa (with elf) or turn 2 Karn are both a ridiculous beating. Put two amulets of safekeeping in your wishboard and Scapeshift basically can't kill you. 2x Sorcerous Spyglass, 1x Graffdigger's Cage, 2x God-Pharoah's Statue, 1x Scyscanner, 2x Meteor Golem, 1x Fountain of Renewal, and other stuff to taste is probably what I'd settle on as the core "this saves me in most every situation" board. Note if you don't want to pull in a card because your Karn is at risk, you can just blow up a treasure and -2 when you actually have mana to cast things.

There is no tron in standard

No urza lands = no urzatron = not tron!

It’s simple! Call it something actually descriptive and less massively confusing because I have no idea what you’re talking about

milski

It's still "mono-green ramp into casting big colorless spells", and easy to find by googling. I've also talked about it in the threads multiple times.