As KANSAS and BaalTrap have pointed out, drafts are 100% worth it. I'm not particularly amazing at drafting decks but I do just love the format and don't mind having the occasional bad run if I make some bad picks. Experimenting with the format can be quite a fun challenge and realistically is the best way to get better at it.
ChannelFireball always has always had relevant content to help with drafting. Here's the (currently 1) stuff associated with M21. I haven't checked it out for this set, but back in one of the Ravnicas, I had success using a guide they produced. https://www.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/tag/m21-draft/
Thanks for the feedback! We've actually got some large updates planned for the card database to help fix some of these issues and had a discussion about it last week.
Standard sorting definitely needs to be added.
Currently, it is possible to multi-select Expansions and Mechanics. Holding down Ctrl while clicking on an option adds it to the list. The interface will be changed to be easier to handle though since it isn't very friendly.
This wasn't something we had discussed, but I agree this would be an excellent addition.
The reason for the results to not immediately show images was due to a "mobile-first" design decision with an emphasis on search. Loading all those cards on mobile kills the page load time which in turn can result in less than ideal page ranking on Google. It is super annoying but we need that small boost. Maybe we could do something down the line that would allow it to be a preference for people that are logged-in. I do plan on reducing the clicks needed though to get to this - one less!
Once there, you can add your deck code into the builder and it will fill the deck in automatically. At that point, you can scroll down, give it a name and set its archetype before saving it. After saving your deck, you'll receive a dedicated deck page on the site and a button that will allow you to copy the bbcode for the deck. This bbcode can be used on your forum post to embed the deck.
Optionally, once the deck has been saved, you can create a guide for it to teach others how to make use of it. That option can be found on the deck's page.
My best advice for idling is to have the tab open, but in its own browser window so that you can plop that browser window behind your main one and have it still think it has focus. That has never failed me.
Targus, unfortunately, left the team a few weeks ago to focus on real-life. We haven't solidified the plans for the meta report yet but I'm hoping we can figure something out for the next Hearthstone expansion. Personally, I'd like us to do a bit more of a twist on it, though keeping with the same format that Targus had started
It serves absolutely no purpose and could definitely be more useful as dust, but it's fun to see the pictures of the packs all together at times. I actually opened a few of them not too long ago just to see the animations go off again.
Alright, that was an amazing show. I was disappointed Kojima never showed up, but to expect an announcement of anything new with Death Stranding releasing less than a year ago was incredible optimism lol.
The design of the new console is incredible. Console design has gotten quite boring over the past couple of generations and seeing the curves on the PS5 makes me think fun instead of boring lines. That's not to say I hate console design that is simple, there is a special elegance with it and I certainly enjoy the look of the Xbox Series X, but this is something special.
The optical drive version is a little bit on the chonky side, but damn do I love it. Plus, a necessary evil for me since any game I can buy physically is always on a disk.
The games.
Horizon Forbidden West
I still haven't played the first game despite purchasing it on an Amazon Prime Day sale last year. I know its good I just haven't found the time to commit to it. Holy damn does the second look amazing. A theme throughout the panel is me asking why they don't put text in the bottom of the corner of the stream indicating what is in-game an what isn't because it is seriously hard to believe this tech is possible on a console now. I think it is crazy that some people are going to have a console that blows their gaming PC out of the water this year.
Very pretty looking game though and as long as the mechanics are similar, I'm sure it's going to be an amazing time.
Ghostwire: Tokyo
This looks like it'll be an interesting horror/psychological game. Graphically speaking A++, and the Tokyo theme will always be a favourite of mine. Tough to say much more though... I guess that's a common theme here since we haven't really had a chance to see much gameplay of anything shown today.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Okay, what the hell. Seriously, how are we rendering these games on consoles?! I'm very intrigued by their trailer (linked below) as this looks like it'll be a fun fast-paced adventure. The lighting is absolutely amazing, the little black puffy things are adorable, and I look forward to hitting stuff with magic and that sexy bow.
Sackboy
I've never really gotten into Little Big Planet much, though this looks like this will be fun. A lot of co-op gameplay which will be great if anyone else ends up getting this though I wonder if we're getting an editor. Graphics yaaaaasssss.
Returnal & Deathloop
Seriously? Two games with the same time loop mechanic? I'll pass on them.
Stray
RIP Humans =(
I'll play cat simulator though. I'd love to know a lot more about it.
Ratchet & Clank
Was never big on the series but there is no way I'm ignoring this one. The action looks like a ton of fun though it was a little painful to watch the gameplay since it is so obviously on a console with the slow turning LUL. Excellent use of the ray-tracing as far as I can tell!
Spiderman Miles Morales
I still haven't played Spider Man on PS4... yet I own it much like I own Horizon Zero Dawn >.>
Should be dope af! REALLY want to see more of the game.
Gran Turismo 7
The game clearly looks better than Forza Horizons 4 with the car interiors, tracks, and of course the sexy beasts the cars themselves, though I don't think I can get into GT again. After playing sim racing in virtual reality, there just isn't any desire to play super sim on the TV anymore. Forza let's me play arcade racing with as much sim as I want to add on to it, and I know GT lets you do that to a degree as well, but the game is too serious imo.
The trailer today really makes me look forward to the next Horizons on Xbox Series X and PC, so thanks Polyphony!
Project Athia
Square Enix displays, you're already going crazy in your mind wondering what tricks they have up their sleeve today. No signs of a release date means this is at least a couple of years out but daaaaamn that dragon looks INSANE.
It sucks that we didn't get more of a look of a lot of these games but at the same time, that wasn't really what today was about. There's some really cool stuff to look forward to though so that's awesome! I'm really curious to see what the launch lineup is going to look like since that still seems to be in the air, as it the price of the console. I'm hoping its a $100 discount for no disk drive so they can get pumping out those units to get people onto new hardware asap and studios can start to use these consoles as a solid baseline that will only further improve what we have available on PC.
I'll always be a PC person at heart, but damn the PS5 is ballin'! These graphics are just so incredible and honestly, that's the summary of this post. I just really wanted to be able to link these trailers since I think they're the highlights.
If anything would push back a set announcement, it would be coronavirus related would be my guess. I think things have become more normal though recently with people adjusting to working from home and the like so hopefully it is business as usual.
Throwing in my two cents.
As KANSAS and BaalTrap have pointed out, drafts are 100% worth it. I'm not particularly amazing at drafting decks but I do just love the format and don't mind having the occasional bad run if I make some bad picks. Experimenting with the format can be quite a fun challenge and realistically is the best way to get better at it.
ChannelFireball always has always had relevant content to help with drafting. Here's the (currently 1) stuff associated with M21. I haven't checked it out for this set, but back in one of the Ravnicas, I had success using a guide they produced.
https://www.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/tag/m21-draft/
Hey Theodrinus,
Thanks for the feedback! We've actually got some large updates planned for the card database to help fix some of these issues and had a discussion about it last week.
Hey ViktorVonVox!
In order to embed a deck on the site, you'll need to add it to the deckbuilder first.
https://outof.cards/legends-of-runeterra/deckbuilder/
Once there, you can add your deck code into the builder and it will fill the deck in automatically. At that point, you can scroll down, give it a name and set its archetype before saving it. After saving your deck, you'll receive a dedicated deck page on the site and a button that will allow you to copy the bbcode for the deck. This bbcode can be used on your forum post to embed the deck.
Optionally, once the deck has been saved, you can create a guide for it to teach others how to make use of it. That option can be found on the deck's page.
I've had it count but also not count at times.
My best advice for idling is to have the tab open, but in its own browser window so that you can plop that browser window behind your main one and have it still think it has focus. That has never failed me.
Targus, unfortunately, left the team a few weeks ago to focus on real-life. We haven't solidified the plans for the meta report yet but I'm hoping we can figure something out for the next Hearthstone expansion. Personally, I'd like us to do a bit more of a twist on it, though keeping with the same format that Targus had started
It wasn't used very often for an evergreen keyword and Blizzard said that it was just easier to use "while damaged".
Here's the blog from Peter Whalen on why it was changed.
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/21614307
I love my little pack collection!
It serves absolutely no purpose and could definitely be more useful as dust, but it's fun to see the pictures of the packs all together at times. I actually opened a few of them not too long ago just to see the animations go off again.
I do the exact same thing with MTG Arena.
No special interaction with it for record's sake :D
Apparently concede didn't make the cut. Also, Sorry does exist too! Here you go.
https://youre.outof.cards/media/uploads/c0/69/c069d21d-ea0d-46f4-a432-7887debb6f38/aranna-sorry.ogg
https://youre.outof.cards/media/uploads/22/fc/22fc7fea-5019-4c2f-a7af-652cf2425ec5/aranna-concede.ogg
Somewhat newer so I'm not surprised! We'll have it linked more prominently on the site once more content ends up on it =)
This was certainly a frustrating one. Oh did your opponent back to back flyers early on? RIP. Not once did I see a creature with Flying =(
Hahaha. For real though, I do want to know more about it because some of those bugs looked absolutely delicious.
Wait, we're not supposed to want to eat bugs...
Alright, that was an amazing show. I was disappointed Kojima never showed up, but to expect an announcement of anything new with Death Stranding releasing less than a year ago was incredible optimism lol.
The design of the new console is incredible. Console design has gotten quite boring over the past couple of generations and seeing the curves on the PS5 makes me think fun instead of boring lines. That's not to say I hate console design that is simple, there is a special elegance with it and I certainly enjoy the look of the Xbox Series X, but this is something special.
The optical drive version is a little bit on the chonky side, but damn do I love it. Plus, a necessary evil for me since any game I can buy physically is always on a disk.
The games.
Horizon Forbidden West
I still haven't played the first game despite purchasing it on an Amazon Prime Day sale last year. I know its good I just haven't found the time to commit to it. Holy damn does the second look amazing. A theme throughout the panel is me asking why they don't put text in the bottom of the corner of the stream indicating what is in-game an what isn't because it is seriously hard to believe this tech is possible on a console now. I think it is crazy that some people are going to have a console that blows their gaming PC out of the water this year.
Very pretty looking game though and as long as the mechanics are similar, I'm sure it's going to be an amazing time.
Ghostwire: Tokyo
This looks like it'll be an interesting horror/psychological game. Graphically speaking A++, and the Tokyo theme will always be a favourite of mine. Tough to say much more though... I guess that's a common theme here since we haven't really had a chance to see much gameplay of anything shown today.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Okay, what the hell. Seriously, how are we rendering these games on consoles?! I'm very intrigued by their trailer (linked below) as this looks like it'll be a fun fast-paced adventure. The lighting is absolutely amazing, the little black puffy things are adorable, and I look forward to hitting stuff with magic and that sexy bow.
Sackboy
I've never really gotten into Little Big Planet much, though this looks like this will be fun. A lot of co-op gameplay which will be great if anyone else ends up getting this though I wonder if we're getting an editor. Graphics yaaaaasssss.
Returnal & Deathloop
Seriously? Two games with the same time loop mechanic? I'll pass on them.
Stray
RIP Humans =(
I'll play cat simulator though. I'd love to know a lot more about it.
Ratchet & Clank
Was never big on the series but there is no way I'm ignoring this one. The action looks like a ton of fun though it was a little painful to watch the gameplay since it is so obviously on a console with the slow turning LUL. Excellent use of the ray-tracing as far as I can tell!
Spiderman Miles Morales
I still haven't played Spider Man on PS4... yet I own it much like I own Horizon Zero Dawn >.>
Should be dope af! REALLY want to see more of the game.
Gran Turismo 7
The game clearly looks better than Forza Horizons 4 with the car interiors, tracks, and of course the sexy beasts the cars themselves, though I don't think I can get into GT again. After playing sim racing in virtual reality, there just isn't any desire to play super sim on the TV anymore. Forza let's me play arcade racing with as much sim as I want to add on to it, and I know GT lets you do that to a degree as well, but the game is too serious imo.
The trailer today really makes me look forward to the next Horizons on Xbox Series X and PC, so thanks Polyphony!
Project Athia
Square Enix displays, you're already going crazy in your mind wondering what tricks they have up their sleeve today. No signs of a release date means this is at least a couple of years out but daaaaamn that dragon looks INSANE.
It sucks that we didn't get more of a look of a lot of these games but at the same time, that wasn't really what today was about. There's some really cool stuff to look forward to though so that's awesome! I'm really curious to see what the launch lineup is going to look like since that still seems to be in the air, as it the price of the console. I'm hoping its a $100 discount for no disk drive so they can get pumping out those units to get people onto new hardware asap and studios can start to use these consoles as a solid baseline that will only further improve what we have available on PC.
I'll always be a PC person at heart, but damn the PS5 is ballin'! These graphics are just so incredible and honestly, that's the summary of this post. I just really wanted to be able to link these trailers since I think they're the highlights.
McDonald's Drive-through. In fact, just sleep inside the McDonalds and never cook again
I love the Planeswalker land frames so much! That's great for paper, I'm curious what flair, if any, they'll have on Arena.
Yeah, I thought it was very funny that half the people that were finalists received premium and really didn't need it. Staff rigged confirmed!
Oh no =(
Glad you got it fixed up though!
If you need to think about it a couple of days, don't worry about it! Grats =)
If anything would push back a set announcement, it would be coronavirus related would be my guess. I think things have become more normal though recently with people adjusting to working from home and the like so hopefully it is business as usual.
Get in touch with someone on the list that didn't win, or find a friend that plays! It is now your burden to find a recipient =D