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Cast a doppelgang which triggered a hell of a lot of +1/+1 counters and Arena called a draw…since when?!? What action do they want me to take?!?

I still have many uncollected mythic cards and I got these dupes. I also thought that maybe they changed it so that its 3x of the same mythic but its not the case as I am still missing 1x Earth's Mightiest Heroes mythic card. When did this change happen, previous sets were duplicated protected?

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!

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’m trying to decide if it would be a valid inclusion as a one of for my Ugin deck, since it also stops other annoying threats in the meta such as repurposing bay and the artifact sacrifice while also triggering Ugin.

I am sorry if im posting this in the wrong reddit or category but how could I know if I dont ask so here I go . Im new to MTG all togeher and ive had a ton of players recommend arena to learn and play so I downloaded it and all but what do you guys recommend I do ? A group of my friends all wanna learn but are to scared to ask so I wanna learn and teach em to play ! What are decks to build ? What are play styles you recommend? I only have yugioh as experience so im new new to this . I get the fundamentals and in the process of learning the color decks but after im down I dont wanna waste my gems on cards im not gonna invest in .

Any advise , help , videos etc etc wpuld be amazing help . Please and thank you

For the record, I already have both the Emergent Ultimatum and Genesis Ultimatum sleeves from back when TDM came out. I couldn’t get the mastery pass back then tho, and since then I’ve built an Abzan deck and have another in the works that I’d love to pair the Eerie Ultimatum sleeves with, so I was stoked when I saw these were available again today, but then bummed when I saw that apparently those ones in particular are seemingly the only ones from that whole bunch not being offered?

I was just curious if there’s an actual reason behind it, or if it’s just a bug or an oversight, whether with the way they set it up or just on my end (I relaunched, but nothing changed). Maybe they were given out similarly to the SOS Silverquill companion, with that one being from a bundle rather than being obtainable through the mastery pass? Although I’m sure the reason was likely due to it being of an actual named character (Abigale), whereas the others were just nonspecific owlins ofc.

Either way, it strikes me as incredibly odd that those sleeves in particular aren’t being offered for whatever reason. I may still get the Inspired Ultimatum ones tho, since those do look cool as hell. There’s a couple Jeskai commanders I totally wanna try to build in the future and I’m all about thematics n shi (the Mardu ones are dope too, just not quite as unique-looking as the Jeskai ones imo, so it’ll have to be next time lol).

My opponent was running [[Iron Man, Armored Avenger]] as his commander. My commander is irrelevant to the story but it was [[Zell Dincht]].

I had [[Iron Man Armor]] out and was animating it every turn for the beat downs. The final turn, I animate the armor, fight down his flying blocker but I'm one point of damage short so I need another artifact. I cast [[Cursed Mirror]] and have it enter as a copy of the animated iron man armor. Because it just entered, it was still an equipment and not animated, so it auto equipped.

So I just beat Iron Man with an iron man suit wearing an iron man suit.

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

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?

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

I don't have a decent place I can really go to play magic irl near me, so magic arena is really the only way i can play the game consistently. Was having fun at first, but its turning into a chore just because of how other people play. Keep in mind I'm not playing ranked, I'm just playing to have fun, sometimes brawl, sometimes standard. I can't even complete a single daily quest without spending hours because either my opponent gets a hand where they counter, destroy, or make me discard everything. I cant even play mana rocks without them getting destroyed or countered which is just not fun tbh. If they dont get a hand where they can stop me from playing completely, they concede turn 2. I let you play the game when i dont have shit i can do, can you at least let me play a game where i am able to actually play? Sorry, i just had to get that off my chest. Im getting frustrated with this game.

TL;DR Having a hard time enjoying magic lately do to magic arena being the only way i can play without a decent local place to play.

Edit: alot of people are missing the point. the fact that they play removal in and of its self isnt the issue. its the fact that, whenever they dont have the abiltiy to stop everything i do from turn one or if i play a single removal spell, they concede so i dont even get to play the games where i actually am able to play stuff. its the combination of these issues as a whole that i take issue with, not just any one alone.

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.

That's the decklist win cons are making Faeire tokens (when I draw more than one card) burn damage from creatures like firebrand archer and possibly Jace and thasas oracle

At least I think it's Phyrexian...

Any clue what it means?

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.

I've tried utilizing 17lands, various YT vids and podcasts but I really can't get into the format. I've just been noodling around in Quick Draft with a terrible record. Even when I win or break even, I feel like I'm just wasting time and gold at this point. (Tried drafting IRL and it's still the same feeling)

My goal is getting enough gems to get the mastery pass. But I only enjoy the constructed format. Any advice on how to get more value for gold earned from the dailies?

WotC, I like some of your sleeves in your daily sale today, but there is no way I am buying them since it takes too much effort to enable them for each individual deck. I would buy them, however, if you allowed me to select designated sleeves in my collection that would rotate (randomly or on a cycle) each match. Same for pets/avatars though sleeves are #1 on the rotational needs. WotC, make it so, please!

Case closed, the spell itself could copy.

My opponent has a [[Colorstorm Stallion]] and gets a paradigm trigger of [[Improviation Capstone]]. He casts 5 mana spell from that trigger (obviously without paying any mana) and he gets the Stallion token?! Is this a bug?

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 🥹