I run across them regularly. How are they getting good cards . I lose to them every time . And I'm no slouch I've regularly gotten to platinum and diamond twice. I know others do better but I'm regularly doing solid against 60-90 card decks but always get trounced by 200+. I would love to see a list of what they have . Maybe I'm just overthinking it

So, I am a new player, and have plenty of wild cards. Should I invest some of them into a meta mono red deck, that has multiple cards in it that i already have, like shock, and others(I like the red playstyle too)?

The main question is: do mono red aggro decks maintain themselves in the meta for a long time, is it worth it to buy it quick?

Just played against a deck that felt literally impossible to beat. Turn 2 they had +10 first strike trample creature and then turn three it was 17/16.
I'm new to magic, just started playing in person 2 weeks ago and started playing arena to practice. That's to say that I'm sure I could play against it somehow but I'm not sure how. Any advice? Or a decklist so I can steal their strat?
My deck is just a bunch of lifelink creatures and creatures that benefit from lifelink. I'm mono white, but I'm thinking I need black for removal maybe?

https://preview.redd.it/p5m8789e2wge1.png?width=1919&format=png&auto=webp&s=caab7bdf6a24b12616fd41f8f4d877a43eac27c2

Elesh is just there because I think shes neat

https://preview.redd.it/w5o8xbxi9vge1.png?width=1664&format=png&auto=webp&s=60489eab6154271d2aa8b1410153295a57bf1098

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Pick 1 pack 1 was [[Hellspur Posse Boss]] and pick 2 was [[Vial Smasher, Gleeful Grenadier]], so I started looking for rakdos cards with token synergy early on. In pack 1, black and green were mostly picked clean but red stayed open which allowed me to fill out my core with a ton of valuable cheap outlaws and some wide synergy. The only solid removal in the deck, [[Unfortunate Accident]], was my first pick in the 2nd pack. For some reason black was still a hot ticket in pack 2, but I still managed to snag a couple creatures to round out my mana curve. At several points I was considering pivoting to grixis or izzet but ended up with enough cards to make the rakdos work. I actually picked up a 3rd vial smasher but he didn't make the final cut.

In-game it worked out to be an extremely nasty aggro deck with just enough damage spells to trade up with my tokens while keeping a wide board presence. More than once I had the dream opening of: turn 1 [[Forsaken Miner]], turn 2 Vial Smasher, turn 3 [[Prickly Pair]], and turn 4 Posse boss. [[Deadeye Duelist]] provided nice value by letting me pull my miners out of the graveyard after the opponent traded into them. Before using the deck I was worried that [[Outlaws' Fury]] would end up a narrow win-more finisher that spends most its time as a dead card, but it proved to be somewhat versatile. I did manage to use it as a finisher once, but in a pinch I was also able to use it as a slightly over-costed combat trick cantrip to trade up with a token and get a card. The real MVP was [[Ferocification]], without contest. It allowed me to keep swinging for face even when the opponent put down blockers that would otherwise stop me in my tracks. If they had too many blockers to utilize the 'menace' mode, then I could have it and my mercenary tokens pump my [[Reckless Lackey]] and make them terrified of losing a creature to a 1-drop.

One loss came from a mana flood, and the other came against a dimir deck that had all the right counters/removal and then played some late-game bombs my deck wasn't kitted to deal with.

Is it just me or is the new pet cosmetic super obnoxious?

I have emotes turned off, so the pets "sleep", I wish I can turn it off completely, I don't need them to play, but the stupid Mario Kart blue shell robot has a idle animation that makes a "pew" noise and shoots across the playfield every few seconds sometimes.

Anyone else bump into this?

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The charm of this deck is that your opponents deck is probably not ready for it. So it’s for Bo1 Standard.

This deck has no creatures and just damages your opponent and its creatures, and to my surprise it actually performs. Two ways of winning, getting your opponent to 10 health and using Hidetsugu. Or, with artist talent fully upgraded you can get them from 20 life to zero life with four mana. If creatures are played early, you have to prioritize killing them, and if you have Artist Talent prioritize upgrading it.

My friends and I just started playing Magic, and I'm the newest of the group. I've only played about four games of Commander, but I think it's a really fun hobby. While I'm out of town for work, I got MTG Arena to play with them and learn more. However, I've been getting decimated. I just finished the new player color challenges, but now in ranked and standard, every opponent seems to have a much better deck. I have some cards, but I have no idea where to start when building a deck, and I can't win enough to earn rewards and get more cards. Are there any tools for deck building? I've watched a lot of Game Knights, Command Zone, and other YouTubers to understand the game better, but the skill gap feels overwhelming. After about 15–20 losses tonight, I just feel stuck.

Hello everyone, I have been a long time player, almost since the beginning of MTGA and I also played physically for 5-6 years during the original Mirrodin to just before Lorwyn.

Here are my few takes on this app.

1. are we going to get a "better" system to search for a/multiple set, now that we have almost 30 different ones, other than just this drop down list? (basically a better way to look through the sets instead of just this pure dropdown list)

2. i would wish to hide/unhide card, since we dont have a "dust" or get rid system, we should have a way to hide card from any search, except hidden.

3. the ?styled search criteria is basically pointless because it's also give you cards that have parallax, which is basically 99% of the cards, I would like a search critiria for cards that have a "special" art, not the parallax

4. if I search for cards I dont own (using the "not collected option) in a sets, tell me if I own the cards from another set, I once did the mistake to craft a rare I had... I dont want to have to search if the card exist in another set there is.

5. are we going to see any sets from the very older one? Like anything from 7e edition to battle for zendikar.

6. (extra idea for no 2) hidden cards kind of exist already, like Special Guest and some Highlander cards but we have no set name in the list, please add them. and since its possible to have "hidden" card, no 2 should be easy to implement

7. how about some funky special event, like we could have "build a rainbow staircase deck" or such 😆

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I just played some crazy Galvanic Iteration Big Score Invoke Despair deck in explorer ranked. I was playing my favorite mono white enchantment control. Some twenty turns in my 14/14 Lion Stache has been swiped, my Restored Enganjios destroyed, Emperor killed, then drops multiple Invoke Despairs to my death. But alas, Breykdown concedes. Good game..

I have recently returned after a few year break from arena and mostly enjoy Brawl or Explorer and was excited about some of the cards like Temmet and Thopter Spy Network but remembered they never used to add the commander only cards to arena I assume that’s still the case?

looking to make a blink historic brawl deck using [[Vannifar, Evolved Enigma]] as the commander. so i am looking for any card suggests or if anyone already has a deck list.

By and large a free to play guy..

I'm sure it's been asked a lot, so I'm sorry. I've been playing since the beginning and have bought the pass a few times, but other than that I'm f2p. I didn't buy one for a foundation, and kind of found myself regretting i didn't since I played so much and went far past level 90. I'm thinking about picking up the aetherdrift one even though [[sita Varma, masked racer]] doesn't look good. What do you think?

Ever since yesterday, my game has been crashing as soon as it finds an opponent for a game. I've tried force stopping + clearing cache, uninstalling + reinstalling, and it keeps crashing as soon as I get into a game. Anybody else having this problem?

Idk why but I love this Art so much. It's so simple and so majestic. The main reason why I started as a new Player to play an Angels Deck. Sadly [Archangel of Thune] is not legal in Standard :/

Which Cards you feel have the best Artwork?

I’m posting this because aetherdrift is about to drop and going from digital to paper can be scary.

I have played a decent amount of arena and recently spent what for me is a degenerate amount of $ on drafting in arena after I trophied a couple times. I have hit mythic top 90% in constructed before. I thought that given the amount of $ I’ve spent on arena draft maybe I should go in person and I would actually get some sort of actual return on $ spent. I went to my local game store’s draft night last Friday with nothing but the $20 entry fee to see what it was like.

It was even better than I thought. Everyone was super helpful. We drafted foundations and I ended up mono white. I lost all 6 games that I played mainly due to drawing not enough or too many lands. One persons life went below zero but their life link simultaneously brought it back. (Felt scammed) I didn’t draft any mythics, but I got an overlord of the boilerbilges, unholy annex, and drag to the roots promo pack edition, an art card, some tokens and even drafted some foils. Pretty sure I could resell some and get my entry fee back if I wanted to.

If you’re on the edge about going to the sealed prerelease for Aetherdrift, but you only play arena, do it.

Hi guys, I made this deck and it works well, but I still can't figure it out the mana base, and I still think there's room for improvement. Can somebody give me help me?

https://aetherhub.com/Deck/urza-meld-bant-

Never Head a Game with so Max tokens, so many big creatures. Lasted about one Hour 😅

Greetings, I have been running the same braw decks for a while. I was wondering if anyone could graciously suggest a commander or deck that’s fun and cheap and easy to get working. Y’know kind of like how those [[tatyova, benthic druid]] decks go. Like they just do the thing they’re supposed to every time. I would prefer 3 color decks with at least blue, but not looking for anything specific. I like casting my timmy spells [[hullbreak horror]], [[vaultborn tyrant]], [[lumra]], i like stealing my opponents permanents [[mass manipulation]], [[trickster god’s heist]], and [[blue sun’s twilight]], and i like running lots of value non creature permanents [[cabaretti revels]]

Lmk, thanks 🙏 :]