... a return of the set I played my first Magic. Long, long ago. Just like Ravnica showed up again, can't KAMIGAWA?

I know they talk about possibly bringing back full sets to the Historic Format. Maybe at least there, although I would like to see it in Standart, too. But of course, their plans for future expansions IRL might be different ...

Just because we can't be friends (yet), doesn't mean we can't be friendly. So post and maybe you'll hook someone.

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MTG experience: Beginner
Looking for: Friendly duels
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Started a week ago, just figured out how to use the turn stop feature while my opponents' are playing their infinite combos and 8+ planeswalkers. lol

I played MTG arena for a few months before WOS came out. Izzet Drakes was my favorite deck and it worked out pretty well, i won more games than i lost. I took a break from Arena and now i wanna go back into it but my old deck loses to just about everything now. I don't know enough about this game to optimize it myself and every deck i find online on recommended sites suck as mtggoldfish is Bo3. How do i transform a Bo3 deck into a Bo1?

My old deck was made by myself on the skeleton of Izzet Drakes but now with all these new cards i'm lost at what to do. Planewalkers give me a headache as my core removal cards like Lava Coil now are worthless.

So, I recently starting playing MTGA, and so far I'm just looking at all of the basic decks and leveling them up. Then I'll get to the real ranked play.

What I will say is that the starting deck lineup in MTGA is definitely much better than the starting deck lineup in Hearthstone.

On the board, I control a Season of Growth (to the right) which draws cards whenever I cast a spell on a creature I control. On the board, I control Gargos, Vicious Watcher (which pairs extremely well with Season of Growth because of its ability to fight when you cast a spell on it). I buff it with Giant's Growth (which I decided to do for the fight ability of Gargos, as well as advancing a quest I had at the time), with causes me to draw another Giant's Growth, which caused me to draw a Growth's Cycle, which in turn resulted in me having a 19/15 Gargos (it's damaged because it fought two creatures this turn due to its ability).

In just a few days I'm going to celebrate my 33th birthday, and my mom (yeah, my beautiful mother :D :D :D) decided to buy me a Magic: The Gathering 2020 Core Set Booster Box (x36 packs) for it, as if I were still a f...king kid!!! :) :) :) I'm starting to wonder why I need friends and brothers with a mom like this... :P :P :P

Ok, ok, hehe, I know, it's really not something impressive for most of you, but I wanted to share this with my beloved ex-Hearthpwners because I know many here started playing Magic: the Gathering through MtG: Arena and never opened a single real MtG pack on their lives (which really sucks, I know... sorry :( ).

I'm going to post a lot of pics in a few days on this same thread, so wish me tons of luck!!! :D :D :D

Note: the pics are going to be about the cards, not me, neither about my birthday party. :P :P :P

It's so frustrating. My internet connection is somewhat unstable for reasons unknown. Lately. I try to download the latest update, but at some point in time, before the update is complete, the connection gets lost for some time. When it's back, I have to start from scratch, because the download is not saved during the download (or if it is, the launcher ignores that and starts anew anyway).

Why does this not work like a torrent? For example.

Is there any workaround other than improving my connection?

There is a super fun event called Ravnica Guild Battle atm. They provide the decks and its a fun way to explore archtypes.

How is F2P in MtG:A at the moment, compared to Hearthstone?

How much cards and stuff can you get without paying, playing from time to time?

And do you think, when times go by, and there will be more expansions... will it be possible to keep up as a new player?

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/developer-update-core-set-2020-2019-07-10

Progression

Let’s look at these changes in practice:

• If you complete your quests and earn all your weekly wins, you’ll be able to reach Level 67 by the end of set, even if you only play once a week (before any codes or events). Previously, you’d only be able to reach Level 32.
• If you play more than once per week, you’ll be able to reach at least Level 74 by the end of a set (before any codes or events). Previously, the minimum level you could be expected to reach was 46.

Hey,

There are two new codes added:

PlayM20

LevelUp

1. right click on Notepad - select Run as Administrator
2. answer "yes" to the pop-up about allowing changes - blah blah bla
3. open the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (you'll have to change the file-type drop-down to "all" instead of txt files since hosts doesn't have an exention)
4. go to the bottom and paste the next line into it
5. 40.84.40.16 client.arenagame-a.east.magic-the-gathering-arena.com
6. save and close
7. Start MTG arena

Original post came from Magic Arena forum.

https://forums.mtgarena.com/forums/threads/57298

Anyone else play commander format with paper? These are my current commanders: 

Yeah most of them are from precon decks but the mill deck I made on my own :D 

So model after the shell of mono red with some more late game.

Most people think i am playing aggro mono red and over commit resources. Kind of a fun deck.

1 Sarkhan the Masterless (WAR) 143
24 Mountain (RIX) 195
2 Dire Fleet Daredevil (RIX) 99
1 Mizzium Tank (WAR) 138
2 Legion Warboss (GRN) 109
3 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin (WAR) 137
3 Chandra, Fire Artisan (WAR) 119
1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen (M19) 149
2 Goblin Chainwhirler (DAR) 129
1 Demanding Dragon (M19) 135
1 Burning Sun's Avatar (XLN) 135
1 Siege-Gang Commander (DAR) 143
4 Shock (M19) 156
4 Ghitu Lavarunner (DAR) 127
4 Lightning Strike (XLN) 149
3 Runaway Steam-Kin (GRN) 115
1 Tibalt, Rakish Instigator (WAR) 146
1 Rekindling Phoenix (RIX) 111
1 Light Up the Stage (RNA) 107

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I mean, as much I'd love to, I don't see Out Of Cards becoming an important MTGA site compared to the many other wholeheartedly sites dedicated to the game.

As happens with HS, there are the best sites for stats, others for deck lists, others for community interaction/forums etc. What would be a well rounded site for MTGA daily needs? Much like HearthPwn was for me personally. News, decklists, forum.. It had all. I want that for Magic too!

Does anyone here play Magic in real life outside of Arena? If so what formats do you play? I've been looking for a place to talk about older formats and drafts since the shutdown of MTGSalvation, and I'm already on this site for the HS content.

Put in the store for a free MTGA booster pack.

Based on my current collection I was able to make a deck that performs decent.

1 Banehound (WAR) 77
2 Healer's Hawk (GRN) 14
1 Vengeant Vampire (G18) GP3
1 Dreadhorde Invasion (WAR) 86
2 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord (WAR) 217
13 Swamp (RIX) 194
11 Plains (RIX) 192
2 Ajani's Welcome (M19) 6
2 Ajani's Pridemate (WAR) 4
1 Divine Arrow (WAR) 10
1 Kinjalli's Sunwing (XLN) 19
2 Territorial Hammerskull (XLN) 41
1 Resplendent Angel (M19) 34
3 Leonin Warleader (M19) 23
1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty (DAR) 35
1 God-Eternal Oketra (WAR) 16
1 Angelic Guardian (G18) GP1
1 Eviscerate (DAR) 91
2 Ravenous Chupacabra (RIX) 82
2 Murder (M19) 110
1 Mentor of the Meek (M19) 27
1 Dusk Legion Zealot (RIX) 70
2 Blood Divination (M19) 86
1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General (WAR) 97
1 God-Eternal Bontu (WAR) 92
3 Orzhov Guildgate (RNA) 253

Feels a little bit like a mix or aggro and mid range.

So I have changed my mind about aggro game play. I have been playing mono-red in arena and its giving me a different perspective from aggro in hearthstone. The reason I am playing aggro is because it was a very easy deck to craft with out too many resources and it performs really well. I have to say that the interactions are not too complicated but do you have to be careful with what you play and when. Mono-Red is not just Smorc.

In hearthstone I am always annoyed by aggro game play, however I have a lot of resources so I don't have to resort to it. When new players its a great choice to play cheap aggro decks.  With that in mind I think having cheap aggro decks its actually healthy for the game. To allow new players to come and experience with out too much commitment.

The block system in arena is very interesting and interactive. Would be great to be able to force some minions to block (not just taunt.) like spells or abilities that enable taunt like effect on certain minions.

They just announced a MTG TV Series for Netflix!

https://www.polygon.com/2019/6/3/18648018/magic-the-gathering-netflix-series-joe-anthony-russo

even tough im more a fan of Hearthstone right now i played MTG for almost 15 years and read lot´s of books about the Storys etc.

I excited to see some of the MTG Lore on TV - i would have prefered it more as an Real Life Adaption but i guess some sort of Anime/Animation is fine too - as long as they make it good :) :)

So far i'm excited! What do you think ?