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Everybody complains that the opponent always goes first, but if that’s the case, who’s the opponent? Turns out it’s me. 73% go first rate in the last 26 Competitive Brawl games.
u/AllRightLetsSeeIt — 23 hours ago
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Having trouble breaking through with Raffine
[[Raffine, Scheming Seer]] is my favorite commander to play with, and I know she’s supposed to be good, but I just have trouble breaking through with her. I’m mired in Plat4 with a winrate of 47% despite playing what I think “should” be a good deck.
The goal is to attack aggressively and land Raffine on curve, relying mostly on free interaction to allow me to be aggressive. I based this on an mtgdecks deck that purportedly had a 75% winrate, but hell if I can repeat his success. Most of my changes involved removing [[Oracle of the Alpha]] which I think is mostly a Timmy Trap; [[Land Tax]] which seemed underwhelming in a deck with so few basics; and the [[Grindstone]] / [[Thassa’s Oracle]] combos in place of other cards that I think would synergize with a tempo strategy.
If the answer is “you removed the combo pieces from a combo deck and that’s why you suck,” I’ve also tried the non-combo variants at the top of this list and I still suck.
What am I doing wrong? Countering the wrong things? Walking into counterspells? Hard so say. Any general advice on the recommended playstyle?
u/AllRightLetsSeeIt — 2 days ago
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Does your commander impact your opponent in competitive Brawl?
I know there’s a hidden scoring algorithm in regular Brawl that matches you against similar-powered decks.
Does this exist in competitive Brawl as well?
I ask because I just tried switching from a competitive commander ([[Raffine, Scheming Seer]]) to a jankier one ([[Kaito, Cunning Infiltrator]]). I assumed I’d see no difference in my matches.
Instead, I just lost four of the last five games to recurring [[Strip Mine]]. It could be horrible luck, but I don’t think I’ve run into that many recurring Strip Miners in the last 30 days up until this point.
Coincidence, or some matching algorithm that somehow pits lower-power decks against Strip Mine?
u/AllRightLetsSeeIt — 9 days ago