Finished 12th!
I thought I had an outside shot for win and in but my breakers weren't there, so IDed for top 16 @ 11-3-1. Fantastic weekend for the 919 homies (Jesse P in top 8!!!!)
7-2 Day 1 in the Spotlight Series with Mono Green landfall after audibling to it 7 am this morning 0 games played.
Thanks @yoman5.bsky.social for the list, @phblthp.bsky.social (8-1!) for coaching, @bobinchese.bsky.social for crushing my bad deck, and @turnonechalice.bsky.social for the cards!
I think builds trying to be more midrange fail. They have to play too much interaction which dilutes the deck.
I also don't want to play a bunch of bad creatures like gingerbrute.
Green splash is too painful.
Deck is tier 3 no matter what until viable 0s or additional ways to cheat mana.
I never got to an Affinity list I would feel comfortable registering in standard. But my ideas of where it needs to focus:
1) Very low land count with Fountainport Bell. Supports Rust Harvester as well as out next card.....
2) Lady Octopus starring as Aether Vial
3) Frostcliff Siege to finish
Carrot Cake should be Mystical Teachings here :)
9 MTG cards that made me #My9MTGCards soichirow.github.io/my-9-cards-m...
Has anyone found a good (testing vs tier 1 meta, not just early access vibes) Affinity list in Standard yet? So far seen nothing from mtgo.
I'd love to be casting cranial plating in Richmond. Save me from playing Dimir Mid.
Nothing in Standard is working for me and I have to find something for the Richmond Spotlight FML
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9th - 21st had the same record as 8th, but they are completely irrelevant ya know?
So when does this rationale extend to MTGA plug-ins, Untapped and 17Lands, which procure way more data? And if it doesn't, why not? Why is MTGO being targeted specifically? This makes no sense.
Ripped this from @TheQonfused from the other platform, since folks wanted hard analytics on what the reduction in published MTGO challenge results could mean for a metagame. @inspiringtimmy.bsky.social since you were asking.
How far are we from "WotC has decided to disable the API plug-in access to MTGA. Data from 17Lands and Untapped were too impactful to the game."
I'm honestly extremely curious by who (what role) at WotC is motivated to force this change. I can't fathom who this benefits.
If their concern is metagames 'solving' too quickly: We live in a 7 sets a year world - it's gonna change in 3 weeks anways!!!!!
B&R Standard: "Nonetheless, Standard is currently accomplishing one of its major objectives: no matter what kind of Magic player you are, there's a deck in Standard for you."
Me:
EDH Grindcast coming soon
Among the worst designed cards for limited in all of Magic. You're playing an in-depth game, jockeying for board position, holding your removal for the proper threats, and BAM the entire last 15 minutes are completely invalidated. Miserable play experience.
A pioneering statement. Evokes feelings of greatness. It's simply elemental.
Absolutely rigged
PT Lorwyn Eclipsed was a banger!
Been working on this Protean Hulk / Sam combo deck in Modern. It's a turn 3 combo deck that can play to the board as well with Asmo. Lots of flexibility. The mana and sideboard are stumping me a bit though; it's maybe supposed to be a 4x Finale of Devestation deck? (see primer in moxfield)
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My favorite plains! They actually pair extremely well with beta islands, too
I'm very much not a fan of typal sets for limited, even if this one is supposedly done better than most. But yea the bigger problem is it brings NOTHING new to the table, its literally just Lorwyn pt 2. Things that were exciting back then (hybrid mana, evoke) are very old hat now.
Yea this framing was mostly around limited for me, and the lack of new abilities plus me just not enjoying typal set drafts is leaving me sour lol
OK yea you're right, I think my unexcitement for Lorwyn made me post this too quickly because warp was pretty cool.
It feels a little bit like all the cool, new mechanics are getting reserved for UB sets now:
FF: Saga Creatures, so dope 🔥
EoE: worse vehicles ☹️
SM: eh this is a skip no matter what ⛔
ATLA: Earthbending and Airbending are SICK 🔥🔥🔥
Lorywn: Literally nothing new except... blight? 😭
Really really appreciated this snippet - clean, accurate, to the point, and makes it feel painfully obvious all at the same time. If only we had a path to get there.
