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Well, I'm on winning streak on Ranked Standard in Arena so I'm completely happy with standard at the moment. No complaints here. Ask me again in a few days.
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But is it really fun to face wilderness reclamation or cat oven every other round?
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(July 12th, 2020, 20:53)Mjmd Wrote: But is it really fun to face wilderness reclamation or cat oven every other round?
I haven't yet, but I'm only in Platinum. If I do face one of those decks I'll tell you how it goes.
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(July 12th, 2020, 19:33)superdeath Wrote: "laughs in commander"
You just have 8 (?) years of Commander precon power creep instead. When my playgroup kept on getting destroyed by my lightly tuned precons (and that was Freyalise - I had Nykthos but not Cradle, Worldspine Wurm but not Craterhoof, etc), I realized there was a problem. The “free if you control your commander” cards show that WOTC wants powerful stuff for Commander but doesn’t want to touch their other formats with those products.
CheaterHater, I think you lay out the issues correctly - and M21 gives me some hope that they’re adjusting, but they need to sustain that for 3-4 sets before I ease off my power level concerns.
Limited is on a whole other level these days - they’ve made a lot of very good commons and uncommons and it shows.
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I just got an Embercleave with Ashiok's Erasure.
Oh how I wish it would have the same effect on all Embercleaves forever more...
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Yeah, Standard isn't fun (especially since you have to grind it on Arena for it to mean anything)--my Knights deck was so fun, but if you aren't running one of the broken engines there's no point. Part of me wants to start exploring Historic, but I need to wait for Jumpstart (and Amonkhet) to show up for it to be meaningful (though at least the Nexus banning means it's reasonable now).
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Well, I've gone from Gold to Mythic in about 4 days on Arena playing Standard, so I'm having fun. It's also nice that I did it with a homebrew.
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Is anyone else trying out the Standard 2021 on Arena? I've actually been really enjoying it so far, a lot more room for brewing with some of the more oppressive decks not in there.
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(August 23rd, 2020, 14:00)Mr. Cairo Wrote: Is anyone else trying out the Standard 2021 on Arena? I've actually been really enjoying it so far, a lot more room for brewing with some of the more oppressive decks not in there. I haven't, though it seems interesting. All of my recent Arena time has been playing Amonkhet Remastered; I'm doing extremely well in it (almost back up to Diamond, and would be higher if I wasn't so busy), and with a wide variety of decks to boot (obviously a RW aggro deck, but also a removal-filled RG deck, a WB not-zombies deck somehow, and a UW control/mill deck).
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(August 23rd, 2020, 14:10)Cheater Hater Wrote: (August 23rd, 2020, 14:00)Mr. Cairo Wrote: Is anyone else trying out the Standard 2021 on Arena? I've actually been really enjoying it so far, a lot more room for brewing with some of the more oppressive decks not in there. I haven't, though it seems interesting. All of my recent Arena time has been playing Amonkhet Remastered; I'm doing extremely well in it (almost back up to Diamond, and would be higher if I wasn't so busy), and with a wide variety of decks to boot (obviously a RW aggro deck, but also a removal-filled RG deck, a WB not-zombies deck somehow, and a UW control/mill deck).
Sealed or draft?
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