Babies had to do some egregious roping for me to report them (less than 5 conduct reports in as many years of playing). But now that the option is accessible, all of a sudden I am thinking about using it, while I'm waiting during the sudden apparent "disconnects" after I am starting to win)
A while back there was a comment from the designers that they try to include a standard competitive deck within every set. So like Avatar has the Ally deck, ECL has the evoke Elementals. What's the one for the Hobbit?
At first glance you might say Dwarves, but they barely hold their own in Standard with all the variety of equipment they can borrow from other sets, certainly they're not viable just from Hobbit cards. Probably not Goblins or Elves or Wolves.
So is it Human / Recruit? or is it some odd mix and match of a Smaug combo? Bear deck? Any ideas?
I'm playing this in the ladder and i'm getting a positive win rate. But i know i'm reaching the ceiling with this deck. Any tips and sideboard ideas for it to become b03 playable?
Deck
4 Baron Helmut Zemo (MSH) 87
22 Swamp (TDM) 289
4 Cecil, Dark Knight (FIN) 91
4 Bloodghast (DFT) 77
4 Timeline Culler (EOE) 121
4 Day of Black Sun (TLA) 94
3 Zodiark, Umbral God (FIN) 128
4 Overlord of the Balemurk (DSK) 113
1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater (DSK) 120
1 Rise of the Dark Realms (FDN) 183
1 Ardyn, the Usurper (FIN) 89
4 Bitter Triumph (SOA) 26
4 Dream Beavers (TMT) 62
I’m someone new to the game, but understand well enough to regularly win games against live players. I started this new event called something like starter deck challenge play a simic deck they let me play. My opponents are stunningly hard. Last night, my opponent's final turn gave him + 18 health and hit me for an astonishing -41, like I had 5 life and finished -36. There is no possible way to play against these kind of opponents with a starter simic deck.
It's so fun and whenever it's here for the midweek magic I play it an unreasonable amount. Please make it a permanent queue!
Finally,the ability to report roping players.
Yes, like and play everything that you are drawn to, this isn't a post about which is "better" or which is "trash" this is just me trying to evaluate in writing what I'm recently rediscovering with magic, which I used to play in real life back in the 90s and also just gaining more reflection on how different designs have different draws.
Hearthstone got me back into CCGs because a friend from way back in the day pitched me on it during a phone call when I told him I had an urge to start playing CCGs again.
I'm not a particularly competitive person. I'm not especially driven to play games in order to attain a particular rank against other competitive players.
I do really enjoy the collecting part of CCGs...gaining a larger and larger collection of cards, that vastly expand my options for building a homebrew deck that I really like and have fun executing. The options with how large the total card pool is on Arena are freaking fantastic and will theoretically keep me busy for many years.
I also really love that homebrew aspect. More cards means more tinkering options. A lot of people say craft decks not cards, but that's not really me...To some degree sure, like getting my first viable historic deck put together mostly on spec in that first month, going with something that fit my idea of "fun" to play and competent...but more fun is had as I continue to play historic and gradually redeem wildcards in small batches to say...okay, let's see how this card fits in, or a handful of these....what if I swap out these ones for those ones....and play some to continue to tweak. That's incredibly fun and rewarding for me and really calls back to old-school days as a teen.
So much of the fun was, can I make something like this work, cause it would be cooler if I can.
I really like board-play and absolutely love that I've had multiple games with literally hundreds of creatures on board or literally tens of thousands of damage points...even if I lose. I just think it's fun and epic to play out. One dude hit me with over 20,000 damage in one turn, from creatures, and I bragged about it to my friend.
I've also noticed that I concede differently in Arena compared to HS. Since in either game my long term goal is collection building, conceding once I know I'm going to lose in Arena makes way more sense. I don't get reward track experience for losing...as best as I can tell. From what I've seen it looks like most people are more like that in Arena, though I have run into at least a couple on here who have made clear they hate when people concede and would really rather them continue to play a losing situation or even an RNG screw.
Also, since the card pool is huge in historic and I'm not a super competitive player, it's a flat out blast seeing how different everyone's decks are. Even regarding differing card choices within the same archetype. Love that.
I haven't managed to really do anything in Commander yet, it's totally new and I haven't dived in...but I'm guessing once I have some semblance of ability to build synergy with that many unique cards, hopefully the design part will click and I'll love it.
Every month I've cheesed my way up the ladder in BO1 with an aggro deck. After missing the top 1200 last month I decided to try to make the climb with the deck I've been having fun with in BO3 unranked.
I'm a big fan of Mono Blue tempo but filling up my graveyard with cheap spells and doing the Crab/Sunderflock thing doesn't really do it for me. I'm always finding a different way to win with this deck and there isn't four of any single card. I've been using the Soul Cauldron with Glen Elendra Guardian, Loch Mare, and Sleep-Cursed Faerie's abilities. The Cauldron also works as decent built in graveyard hate and occasionally I'm able to use my opponent's creatures' abilities as well (Formidable Speaker to untap my Cauldron and use it again and putting Iron Shield Elf's ability on a big Wah Shi Tong come to mind).
Playing BO3 has been less frustrating and it's nice to get a break from Mono White Auras, Reanimator, etc. My final boss before Mythic was actually the UW artifact deck you usually see in BO1. Maybe they entered BO3 by accident, lol.
This deck absolutely wrecks Tablet control/lessons decks as well as Dimir Excruciator. Toughest match ups are Mardu Discard, Spellementals (You'd think it'd do okay but that hasn't been the experience), and UW Flash.
Anyway, here's the decklist and I'm open to any suggestions to make it better:
Cauldron of Hate // Standard deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder
Deck
20 Island
3 Spell Snare
3 Sleep-Cursed Faerie (I've tried the Fluttering Nuisance as my one drop, but that thing just dies. People make all sorts of mistakes attacking into this thing with a smaller creature while it's tapped etc.)
3 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
3 Tishana's Tidebinder (my favorite card. I'll miss my girl when she rotates out)
3 Three Steps Ahead
2 Into the Flood Maw
3 Long River's Pull (call me crazy, but when someone casts revelation I want to be able to counter it rather than sit there with a thumb up my ass and a Get Out in my hand)
3 Enduring Curiosity
2 Floodpits Drowner
1 Bounce Off
1 Quantum Riddler (Just one. I dunno. Another card drawing source is welcome)
2 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
1 Agna Qel'a
3 Glen Elendra Guardian (When black taps out to board wipe it gets countered and now they have another 3/4 to deal with).
2 Loch Mare (Kind of too slow for Standard. Not really hoping to have in my opening hand, but mid/late game can be great. Or put it out early, have it die, and add it's ability to something else later).
3 Hydro-Man, Fluid Felon
2 Petrified Hamlet (prefer over Demolition Field)
Sideboard
2 Annul
3 Aetherize (usually a direct swap out for the Cauldrons against aggro decks)
2 Azure Beastbinder (this thing is wonderful)
1 Long River's Pull (my 15th card. Replaced a Noggle. Hoping it'll help against UW Flash and Spellementals)
2 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island (control hates this)
2 Waterbending Scroll (for grindy games)
2 Glen Elendra's Answer (against other decks with counterspells, Ugin etc.)
1 The Ooze (new addition. Trying this one out against graveyard heavy decks. Hasn't come into play much)
Hey folks. A couple weeks ago I posted my artifact Food Fight deck. Somebody suggested I splash black for Rottenmouth Viper and the idea got out of hand and it morphed into this thing that I absolutely love.
Behold! My horde. Please share ways to improve this build
PSA: Report actual misconduct, not annoyances.
EDIT: The meme is depicting overzealous reporters.
Happened yesterday and I'm still cringing thinking about my misplays.
Game 1: I used scry 2 and then shuffled my library, ([[Bilbo Baggins, Burglar]], [[Roads go Ever, Ever On]]) instead of the other way around. Which lead to me drawing only lands for the rest of the game.
Game 2: Opponent attacked with lethal and I used targeted removal on their creature ([[Thorin Oakenshield equipped with [[Dwarven Mattock]] + [[Bifur, Melodic Rider]]) instead of just using [[settle the wreckage]]. I only had two mana to pay the ward and forgot Bifur would double it.
I'm so mad at myself.
I'm all for it, and it's definitely needed for the ropers and stuff. But I feel like toxic people are just gonna report folks every time they lose and stuff.
Answers to the Riddles.
>!1 - Mountain !<
>!2 - Teeth!<
>!3 - Wind!<
>!4 - Darkness!<
>!5 - Egg!<
>!6 - Fish!<
>!7 - Time!<
>!8 - MyPrecious!<
Decklist for last Riddle:
DECK NAME: Riddles In The Dark
2 Gathering of Darkness (HOB) 68
7 Island (FIN) 297
1 My Precious (HOB) 176
1 Lake-town Mariners (HOB) 44
8 Swamp (FIN) 300
3 Velvetwing Butterflies (HOB) 30
9 Plains (DSK) 277
2 Stone by Sunlight (HOB) 27
2 The Mountain-king's Return (HOB) 22
1 Gnashing of Teeth (HOB) 69
4 Well-Worn Spatula (HOB) 180
Always remember folks, the opponent across from you isn't your only enemy, you still have the shuffler to worry about.
I want to hear some funny experiences that blew your mind, mostly because it will never happen ever again. crazy interactions. Anything!
Cheers!
Tried for the Format All-Star title off and on, most recently through ranked and unranked brawl. Off all the formats Alchemy and Standard Brawl were my favorite for different reasons. Getting this title taught me I’m a better player than any single day may suggest, and most players (including me) misplay A LOT. Finally feedback: don’t concede, I won way too many games from opponents that had the win but conceded too soon.
