Oh yeah, it’s a terrible way to lose.
Fuck that card. 90% of the time, if that card hits the board I’m conceding the match.
The best control color is Blue. From there, White & Black are the better complimentary colors for a control deck, though Blue/Red (call “Izzet”) has some really good combo/control elements.
If you care:
Blue/White = Azorius
Blue/Black = Dimir
Blue/White/Black = Esper
Anyway, another thing you can do is keep an eye on the home page. Those scrolling “announcements” always include the most recent top decklists. When I’m short on ideas for something new, I click the link to scroll through what the current hot decks are. Sometimes I’ve found a deck or two that I really end up liking, though usually I find myself building a budget version of those decks because they’re totally optimized with more copies of rare/mythic cards than I’ve acquired. I wind up playing the deck for a few days and then abandoning it because it simply doesn’t “speak to me”…
Fuck your commander (Progenitus).
It’s a totally bullshit commander, but it’s Mana Value (formerly known as CMC) is prohibitive. I’ve played against this a few times and it’s never gotten onto the board.
Haha! Fuck this guy! I blasted him with Casualties of War, then a few turns later hit him with Command the Dreadhorde. He was spamming “Your Go” just to be an annoying cunt (I wasn’t stalling, he was!). He finally conceded.
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lol. His cats and bunnies didn’t have anything for the Gojira hydra.
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^that’s just rats with a different name/color
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^This little bitch. I’m playing him right now. I exiled his Commander and he quit playing. Not conceding, he’s just letting all the timers run out to waste my time.
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^This is toxic behavior I simply don’t understand. It makes no sense. If your opponent has a better draw, better boardstate, better deck, whatever… SIMPLY HIT THE “CONCEDE” BUTTON!!!
This happens multiple times per day. This is the 2nd time it’s happened to me this morning and I’ve only played 4 matches!
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I have that and the old, “Your Go” six seconds into my turn constantly. It’s so tiresome. I’ve run into the thing that made me take a several years break as well. When the new set came out, the meta in high level ranked play shifted dramatically. My best deck that won something like 70%+ all the way to the top of mythic is useless now. It’s extremely frustrating and I feel like it’s deliberate to force you to chase new cards to stay competitive.
I’m not quitting any time soon but it does make it less fun.
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The “grind” really does get to me and I find myself a lot less engaged as my favorite decks rotate out of playability. The problem is that nothing in the last few sets has really piqued my interest. Yeah, there are a few cards here and there that look like they can fit into one of the decks I’m already running, but nothing that is inspiring me to build something new.
The Brothers’ War and the last Phyrexian sets were awesome! Lots of great cards that I got excited about! I built a number of new decks in Arena and 2 new decks in real life while majorly retooling 2 other real-life decks.
But like I said, since the completion of the Phyrexian arc, I’ve only found a card here or there that I’ve considered swapping into an existing deck rather than being inspired to build something new.
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I hate when people do that shit.
It’s a faggot move.
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Holy Shit, new annoying deck alert. Izzet “Hidden Strings”, tap/untap, Arclight Phoenix bullshit. Once it pops off, you sit for 15 minutes while your opponent plays Magic by themselves…
You can’t tell me the matchmaking isn’t sus’. ^This is the bullshit I’m talking about. I have never faced a Maha-themed deck before. Yes, I’ve seen it played one or two times, but not with the deck specifically built around it.
My VERY FIRST GAME playing my Maha-themed deck, it’s a fucking mirror match. We were playing most the same fucking cards. Only difference is my opponent was using Rakdos while mine is mono-black.
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I have experienced that as well. Built a new deck that I had never played against then played the same (or nearly the same) deck three or four times in a row.
I built a deck to counter all the elves and white life decks but I’m only matched against them, maybe ten percent of the time when I use that deck.
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It’s infuriating. You build a creature-control deck and you wind up playing a practically creatureless deck more often than not…
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Fuck. I was at 84 life and this jackass pulled off the infinite life-gain combo. But it won’t let me concede. We literally are forced to wait out the resolution of the combo… That’s a waste of 5 minutes.
Commander, right?
This is totally not a stealth tag