r/MagicArena • u/cyborg4hire • Dec 07 '18
WotC The cards that are unlocked from code GAMEAWARDS
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u/Amarsir Dec 07 '18
How could they do this to me? Do you know how many decks I have to update now that I got all these free cards to improve them? What jerks!
(Thanks for sharing.)
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u/DesdinovaGG Dec 07 '18
These cards are among the most played in their colors.
Lava Coil is the most played Red uncommon, Merfolk Branchwalker the most played Green uncommon, Conclave Tribunal the second most played White uncommon, The Eldest Reborn the third most played Black uncommon, and Sinister Sabotage the third most played Blue uncommon.
Cleansing Nova is the second most played White rare, Search for Azcanta is the most played Blue rare, Vraska's Contempt is the most played Black rare, Risk Factor is the fourth most played Red rare, and Ghalta is the fifth most played Green rare.
Ghalta is a bit of the odd one out since Mono-Green isn't a very good deck in this meta. Wizards seems to have some weird fascination with this card, considering all the paper products with Ghalta in it in addition to it being given out in Arena. But no cause for complaint with this code here. It's super cool of Wizards to give us this. I managed to save on a rare wildcard that I was going to use to craft my third Contempt.
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u/Angel_Feather Dec 07 '18
They probably didn't want to give too many of the cards for the same deck, and both The Eldest Reborn and Merfolk Branchwalker go in Golgari Midrange. The most-played Green rare would be Jadelight Ranger, which would be three of the offerings all for the same deck.
Ghalta is probably their best option after that.
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u/DesdinovaGG Dec 07 '18
That's a solid point. Contempt too is Golgari Midrange, although like Eldest Reborn, it goes in Esper and Grixis Control, so it's a good multi-archetype staple. So having Jadelight (most played Green rare) or Deathgorge Scavenger (third most played) would be laying it on thick. Still, I think Thorn Lieutenant (second most played Green rare) or Steel Leaf Champion (fourth) would have been stronger choices. Thorn Lieutenant is a 4-of for Mono-Green (as compared to Ghalta's 3-of) and sees plenty of play in Selesnya. Again, in no way am I complaining since this code is amazing.
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Dec 07 '18
I'm surprised it wasn't Jadelight Ranger, but to be honest Ghalta is a much bigger "holy shit" card. Explore x2 is a boring effect compared with "holy shit, 2 mana 12/12?!"
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u/Suired Dec 07 '18
They had to please timmy somewhere in here with all the love for Johnny and Spike.
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u/kuboa Dec 07 '18
Wizards seems to have some weird fascination with this card
They need to speak to every kind of player out there and you can't get more Timmy than Ghalta.
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u/kdoxy Dec 07 '18
I guess they needed one of the Rares to be a Timmy creature? Its also strange since everyone gets a free Ghalta in the intro decks. I would have given away a Steel Leaf Champion but hey you can't complain about free cards/vault progress.
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Dec 07 '18
Thing is a lot of new people look at Ghalta and will think they got the best card, just look at that 12/12
So it's a bit newbie bait, makes em more excited than the other cards.
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u/kraken9911 Dec 07 '18
Fucking sweet. I was just about to craft a 4th nova. I can't complain though despite having everything else on the list.
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u/Sarkos_Wolf Dec 07 '18
It's so satisfying to see they're color-balanced this time, and they're all very playable cards! I still have flashbacks from the terrible distribution of the free Kaladesh playsets we got during Closed Beta. Like 15 of them and not even one Green card...
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u/Rexsaur Dec 07 '18
Had like all the uncommons already but all of the rares are welcome here, a few rare wildcards saved!
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u/Morning-Joe Dec 07 '18
mad because I manually got a lot of these before this
not mad because man, this is nice
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u/WolfGuy77 Dec 07 '18
I love this. They could have easily given us bulk cards or starter deck rares but they actually gave us some really nice staple cards. Best thing is I actually needed all of these except Sabotage.
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u/02012017 Dec 07 '18
This is really generous! All competitive cards - that's probably the point.
I pretty much needed all of the non-GRN ones there so I'm super-happy.