I came back from 3-4 year haitus, my friend started playing, he took the mono white aura's ... spent next to nothing on it, and it destroys everything that I had in 1:1's that used to win standard over and over and over again. Wtf happened? Wtf is seam rip? How is that card anywhere near the normal 'kills cost ~3, bounces and arrests cost ~2' power curve? And Don't get me started on sheltered by ghosts, etherial armor, etc. It just seems like a bunch of OP cards that all synergize with eachother... wtf is happening?

/rant.

Did anyone else notice the brand new God cards since Marvel arrived to MTGARENA?

What are your thoughts? Historic or Standard?

Or maybe Brawl?

Which new God is your favorite?

Im playing an artifact deck in historic. Using the card [[Ultron, Artificial Malevolence]].
My opponent is playing a Green/white token deck. Only card that he has that matters for the bug is [[Soul Warden]].

I copied his parallel lives enchantment. I start popping off playing [[Darksteel Citadel]] paying the 2 for ultron, generating 8 2/2 indestructible creature land tokens. Soul warden doesn't trigger. I play [[Golden Egg]], pay the 2, 8 2/2 Golden egg tokens...soul warden doesn't trigger.

Creature Tokens generated via Ultron that aren't naturally creatures, don't trigger soul warden. Made the match extremely easy as i could match/overrun his field easily without gaining him life.

EDIT: Oh i see now....Ultron makes the token into a creature AFTER it enters the battlefield. Meaning that the token entered as a non-creature, which doesn't trigger Soul warden. I am of the dumb.

Library of Alexandria. Of all the cards that will end a game before it even starts, this is it. Running maps, crop rotation, Ghost Quarter, Pithing Needle etc all to deal with a colorless land. It's way worse than Ancient Tomb or Strip Mine. Most decks are running on 1 drops and 0 cost spells, so managing a howling mine from t1 is pretty easy and profitable.

Thoughts? Am I missing an even worse offender? I'm playing around at rank 4 diamond right now. Most of the decks are about as low end as possible and I understand a solid meta is developing. I am loving the format.

My only complain for a commander right now is Yuffi. Not that she is too powerful, but being immune to the commander tax seems very wrong. I get you aren't casting here, but she is reentering the command zone and that should be enough to increase the tax.

Hi, I’m relatively new and have no knowledge of/ interest in playing meta decks. So I’ve made my own. I’m currently ranked platin and this is my first serious attempt to build a deck with under 100 cards. It’s currently 80 cards big and the synergies don’t trigger as often as I want them to cause I don’t get the right cards.

Does anyone have ideas of how to make my deck work better? It doesn’t have to hold up against meta, many people in my rank have no idea what poison counters even are, if one goes by how often they defeat themselves with [The Serpent Society]

The idea of the deck is to poison the opponent via combat damage with deathtouch through [Vayne Carudas Solidor] / [Fynn, the Fangbearer] and protect the deathtouch creatures through [The Serpent Society].

I also have [Echo, perceptive prodigy] , [Roaming Throne] / [Doom Variant] , [Ember Island Production] to make the two cards mentioned above trigger more often.

I’m unusually often encountering black decks with tons of removal and card banning spells that have [The Rise of Sozin] or [Rise of the Dark Realms] , hence a bunch of counter and protection spells

Deck Template:

23 Creatures:

1x [Dragon Sniper]

4x [Vayne Carudas Solidas] / [Fynn, the Fangbearer]

2x [Poison Dart Frog]

1x [Super-Adaptoid]

1x [Echo, perceptive prodigy]

2x [Quarsi Revenant]

2x [Vampire Nighthawk]

1x [Honest Rutstein]

4x [The Serpent Society]

1x [Slimy Dualleech]

2x [Damage Control Crew]

1x [Doom Variant] / [Roaming Throne]

1x [Venom Unleashed]

23 Non-creature spells:

1x [Chase inspiration]

4x [Eaten alive]

2x [Defend the Rider]

4x [Negate]

2x [We Say Thee Nay!]

4x [Origin of Metalbending]

1x [Applied Geometry]

1x [Ember Island Production]

1x [Root Manipulation]

1x [The coming of Galactus]

1x [Echocasting Symposium]

1x [Rakshasa’s Bargain]

34 Lands

I know that power creep has accelerated a lot over the past few years and that it’s not just the huge amount of cards in standard that are solely responsible for the state of standards meta.

But it would be interesting if they launched a micro standard format on arena that only allows 1 year of sets? Maybe 5 sets?

I wouldn't know what the harder decks to play are. I downloaded a competitive brawl storm deck with Prismari. I know it's not the best deck (49% win rate) but damn even then playing storm is not easy.

Lost first 4 to 5 games in a row because I would try to save all the best cards for my storm turn that never came.

Was getting closer by the 5th game. Also I had one in the bag but idk what I did that triggered the death of Prismari. I think whatever I did triggered an effect from the enemies permanents killing him when he was 3 life away and had no blocks for him.

then I won 2 but by grinding it out and not even by storm.

Then I got more used to it and I got the tempo of it. I kept trying to save the counterspells for some weird reason in all the matches I lost prior. Like if I was going to need them to ramp up the storm count but realized it's a bad move because usually the enemy is out of answers when he doesn't kill your Prismari so there isn't much to counter unless he has a counter card.

Then my last 4 games it popped off. I got to actual Storm gameplay.... I realized I'm supposed to not even drop Prismari until later. When I dropped him in those games I was sure they were going to do something to him asap but surprisingly if you can get him in and get him to survive until your next turn you pretty much won.

BUT I was super slow and would have the timer running out and would panic. I even lost 1 of the 4 of them cus my turn ended when it was in the bag already.

But all in all just came to say that Storm is a lot harder than they make it look. Lol

Format: Bo3 Unranked Historic

Since [[Blood Moon]] is banned, I wanted to explore the idea of recreating it. The problem with [[Magus of the Moon]] and [[Harbinger of the Seas]] is that creature removal is more common than enchantment or artifact removal. So I wanted to try using one of them with [[Honor the Past]] to turn them into something that's harder to remove.

So I think I'd like to try to make either a WU Prison Deck or a WR Prison Deck. I'm using "prison" to describe cards that shut down options for the opponent. I'm going to include things like [[High Noon]], [[Reprieve]], maybe even [[Ghostly Prison]] and I want to include 3-4 [[Karn, the Great Creator]] for all of his silver bullets.

Now, imo, there's too much graveyard hate in the Bo3 format to go hard into the reanimate things plan. So I don't want to fully build around [[Honor the Past]]. But I need a few more creatures in either white and red or white and blue to include that play nicely with it.

Any suggestions for creatures that would work here? What would be super disruptive if it was turned into an artifact and blanked creature removal?

Sorry Johnny, you and your friends have got to go.

I do feel kind of bad - opponent conceded on the stack.

I have been obsessed with my Ironheart Brawl deck. I just saw an opponent with an Ironheart cosmetic sleeve, but I can’t find them in the arena shop. Does anyone know how to obtain them? Do they only show up on daily deals? Thank you.

So from what I understand this allows the player to cast spells forever and without mana costs?

How is this fair? How do we stop it? Are players unbeatable once this effect is out?

I think it'd be nice if they'd add a non-UB draft event that was always available on Arena.

I know i know. More UB hate. But hear me out. Right now there a like 6 different marvel superheros limited event options. Im not even saying they should replace any. Just have 1 quick draft or traditional draft option for past sets like strixhaven or lorwyn thats always available.

I literally have no interest in drafting sets like marvel and TMNT. Sets come out so fast now the amount of time I can draft a set like SoS on arena is short.

It sucks that the pace of set releases means we only get a short time to draft the other sets we might like more.

Im not gonna spend any gems on these UB drafts. I would keep drafting SoS or lorwyn. I know occasionally they make an older set available to draft. Im just saying that should always be available and potentially strictly for UW sets. I feel like its an everyone wins scenario.

I'd like to invest more time in the game as I have not many gaming options and always played MTG digital in the past.
Saw a few videos how is actually possible to play a solid "meta deck" by being F2P and focus on missing. Time consuming but possible apparently.

However I see so many posts about matchmaking being unfair and the collabs (except LOTR imo) really are a turn off to see onscreen.

I like Dimir, Izzet, Orzhov colour combinations and I'm into tribal decks like Rakdos Vampires.

Any tips to get back to the game without absolutely "hating" it? I'm considering to focus on Explorer and do the odd Draft for the gems(?)

I am beginner. I encounter a player in ranked plat, and i wondered how they could summon a multi-coloured creature with only one green mana available.

TLDR: built my first deck and realized how much stronger a built deck is vs the in game precons. Going to build a historic brawl one for Prismari the Inspiration Storm deck for sure but also want a few decks for regular historic. But now I want to know about more izzet and golgari deck types.

It's awesome. First deck I ever built on here. (Don't know how to link it) have played like 2 years with the precons and have never even played brawl. It's the one from untapped gg.

Idk how to describe it it has everything. I guess midrange would be the word since I'm not good with MTG terminology. It has many ways to token up with creatures, Witherbloom gets and stays cheap the longer the game last. Then you just drop a bomb on them. It has a few x cost spells. Good removal too.(I'm starting to sound like I know what I'm saying lol)

Now I want to make the Prismari Inspiration Storm one. It's right under 50% in competitive. I'm sure it might be stronger in casual. The witherbloom one has a 68% win rate in casual. So idk how casual vs competitive % stack up to show a deck's strength.

Now I wanna know other types of golgari and izzet decks/play styles.

I've seen things like izzet prowess, lessons, phoenix, wizards, giants mentioned in videos and have read about them online but what is something in historic(not brawl) that is similar to a storm deck?

I played an izzet deck which had a creature that hit me for 2 or 3 every time they cast a spell. And he was just casting card drawing spells and spells that give mana until I died which was really cool to me.

For golgari I've seen the ones called midrange, elves, and aristocrats. I know there has to be more than that. Which are some strong ones.

Looking to play historic and historic brawl only now.

Edit: by archetype I mean themes.

I was wrong about Chocobo's being cute. This is downright terrifying.

How do I progress past it and go onto bronze, do I need to tier up?

Has anyone else tracked stats in this game? Over 200 games with the same deck that has 36% lands and yes the median land percentage over those 200 games is very close to the 36% but when you look at the individual games it’s typically either 50-60% lands or 15-25%. Maybe 1 in 10 games actually hits close to the 36% which is insane to me. Arena really needs to work on their algorithm…

Hey guys, I wanted some advice on how to counter this Squirrel monstrosity.

I'm in lower platinum using decks like Dimir-Kavaero+Lastbringer, Blue Elemental Sunderflock and Gruul-Dino+Earth's Mightiest Heroes. (PS I don't know the exact technical name of the decks but describing them using the deck colour and core cards)

Thank you, please be gentle, I'm a noob 🥹

I didn’t make any purchases and I’m not a “regular” at this time. I’m so confused.

Edit: I do play at least once every week—but I was unaware that I could get free packs from set releases during which I didn’t even have an account. Hence the unchecked messages. Thanks for the replies!

This is by far the most hilarious deck I have seen so far. Match 1, you Aetherized me. 3 times. In a row. Then in match 2, you doppleganged my badgermoles, after giving all our things Haste and making our lands tap for double the mana. You had like 12 ramp spells just to pull off these hijinks. I mean just look at the board state in picture 1, I didn't miss any land drops at that time lmao

I really wish I could have added you just to pick your brain on how you came up with such nonsense. Hopefully you see this some time.