Didn’t realize the ppl that made magic boght dungeons and dragons
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Yup.
I love matches like this where they come down to the wire… either person’s game. This time I won, but the previous match I lost. Good times…
If you want a mill deck and like the idea of a swarm deck, take a look at the merfolk mill decks.
They’re pretty cheap to put together and, if you do it right, you can get hundreds of tokens into play pretty quickly.
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I’ve got a good mill deck now but it doesn’t hold up past platinum ranked. I’ve got a colorless deck that does though. It ruins people’s day and I’m here for it. I’ve had so many games where the opponent must have been sure he had me and got wrecked.
edit: For the record, I enjoy it because that is typically what they’re trying to do to me. I play so many decks that seem designed just to piss me off. I played one the other day with 250+ cards that seemed like it was designed entirely around the idea of being so annoying, opponents are forced to quit. It did nothing but stall. It doesn’t happen often but I’ve milled dipshits like that and it’s glorious.
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It also feels like the match-making algorithm is designed to give you the most annoying matchups! Ridiculous life-gain, Hare Apparent, Mill… I haven’t run into Shrines lately, but now that I’ve mentioned that here, I’m jinxing myself for sure.
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I try not to be bothered when it’s something that makes sense. Elves over and over again gets old but at least it’s an effective and in my opinion fair-ish theme. There are hundreds if not thousands of insta-win combos now and those are so tiresome. Remember channel/fireball and how absurd that was? That was one of the first combo that was just, broken. It’s sad that’s become the norm and those decks are never fun to play against. They either offer no resistance because they’re just trying to stall until they get their win-con or they win NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO because they happened to draw the cards necessary.
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It’s frustrating because we face those types of decks all the time due to how matchmaking works. I want to face a larger variety of decks. I realize that the majority of players are probably playing to the current ‘meta’, but still… I want to see something new and interesting! I want to play against a deck that makes me say, “That was neat!”…
But, like you said… stupid life-gain and/or stall tactics until you get an insta-win combo into play.
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I have a couple real fast win-con (turn two) decks I only use when I need to get my daily wins in a hurry. I don’t enjoy using decks like that any more than I enjoy playing against them. My best deck right now was my own design and it feels so good to pull off the most unlikely wins. Best part is I have a bunch of different win-cons.
Fuck. I’m having such a bad day on Arena today. I’ve been playing most of the morning (between work projects) and I’ve only gotten 6 daily wins so far. I’m usually wrapped up my daily wins by now…
This win was satisfying though.
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We gripe about the matchmaking like old people but it’s a very real thing. Sometimes I can have an 80+% win rate then out of the blue, I’ll lose twenty in a row in the same ranked tier with the same deck. That’s one of the reasons I made the colorless deck, in fact. It’s much less susceptible to matchmaking fuckery. I’m still weak against super fast decks but you don’t see those as much in the higher ranks.
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I’m hopefully not jinxing myself, but I’ve been on a roll today. I took out Kotis, the Fangkeeper with Riveteer’s Charm… my opponent was forced to sacrifice it, so he conceded. More times than not, I concede early if the opposing commander is Kotis. Heck, I often concede before the match even starts!
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I don’t like to quit at anything but I am honestly beginning to think “concede decks” is a strategy in high level ranked play. Decks that are just so incredibly unfun to play against that people will quit even with no wincon in sight. An unfun deck that’s actually good is one thing but I run into decks that are almost entirely stall decks. Just counter, delay, extra turn, repeat.
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I’m kinda the opposite. If I know I’m in for a frustrating, unfun match, I quit. I play the game to have fun, not get pissed off.
Earlier today, I had a match where I was playing my Life-Gain-Necro deck. I went up against someone who was “going wide” with tokens. It was a long, drawn-out match with my opponent stalling on turns, but I think his stalling was predominantly because he couldn’t figure out how he was going to win. I was gaining life faster than him, but using it to pump a creature he was unable to block (flyer… he had no flyers or creatures with reach).
So, that wasn’t really a fun match… it was simply boring because of how long it was drawing out before I won. I’m okay with that. Had I lost, sure… I would have been pissed for about 30 seconds, but I would have been okay with that as well.
Did you ever have to play against the Nexus of Fate decks? Thank god they banned that card… but they let it stick around for too long. Many of those decks didn’t have an eventual win-con. They were designed for the pilot to play Magic by themselves. They’d play Nexus of Fate, take an extra turn, reshuffle their deck, & repeat. Absolute bullshit!
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I’m sure I’ve played against it plenty of times. I don’t know what they’re thinking with cards like that, man. How do you not know it’ll be abused immediately upon release? Same with some of these bullshit combos. Some of them are just unfun 100% of the time.
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Do you even Platinum Angel bruh?
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I love creatures like that because as soon as they get yeeted into oblivion, the other guy quits. Lol
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