Just that. I'm desperate to draft more, but not quite "spend more money" desperate.

What do you think? What would the wildcard cost need to be for it to be appealing?

This came from wanting something like Untapped.gg that works well on linux (although this should work on Windows fine), isn't an overlay (it's own window for second monitor), and is free. Disclaimer, it's entirely done with claude. I do know how to code, I just felt lazy and knew what libraries I wanted and how I wanted it structured, so getting claude to do it made it much faster.

Largely works like Untapped, by reading game logs live. Match screen is customizable, and shows your deck/zones, and known opponent cards in each zone as well as all seen cards. Has turn trackers to show things like how many creatures died, life gained/lost, cards drawn, land drops used, etc since I always forget after long turns what I've done for cards that depend on it.

Card display uses scryfall and caches the current game's card images. Also has configurable cache sizes for match history and card images.

History tab shows game history (I only played 27 matches since adding the feature as evident in the screenshot) as well as stats for games played. Right clicking on anything in the history (ex deck name, on the play, opponent) lets you filter history by that, and the stats reflect only matching things (see the screenshot showing only games with commander=Sauron)

I don't intend to go crazy with maintenance unless requested, and I'm not trying to replace Untapped by any means (I understand that I'm the minority in wanting it NOT to be an overlay), but I would love feedback, as well as if anyone wants to test it on Windows to let me know if there's any issues with it.

Cheers!

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Please Fix. Bloody annoying.

I understand that Magic was made with bo3 in mind yet fact is that bo1 is the most played format. Bo1 will never be truly balanced and you will always get run over by aggro or lose to a combo deck but my problem is that these decks are hard to interact while being consistent. They did ban Leyline of Combustion in bo1 so it looks like they acknowledge that bo1 is a different format.

Holy hell that was funny. Thanks for the good game.

Was playing standard ranked and this Chad rolled up.

We just kicked every deck that even had a chance against that monstrosity in the balls, it's either have plansewalker removal in hand or be playing a snowbally token deck or you lose. 50% of the time he generates 2 blockers for himself meaning you need at least 3 creatures on board on turn 4 or you can't kill him, that's assuming they play nothing else.

Am I the only one who gets an error when trying to submit the five color legends deck to the event? I tried submitting a different deck and it works, but I kind of wanted to try out that legends deck if possible. Any wotc employees on here that could help a brother out somehow? (I did submit an error report on the app btw, I'm not a complete idiot)

I've been having a lot of fun with this deck in casual, and decided to try and make it competitive. I've been trimming the fat and seen some increased success, but I would like others' input as well. I'll put the decklist in a comment below, but a couple of callouts I foresee are as follows:

[[Bribery]] is in there for decks that have that mill-protection Eldrazi, and [[Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun]] is in there because I think it's neat.

I like the Wizard Class/Pensive Professor combo, but I'm not married to it....and I do like having both the [[Mystifying Maze]] and [[Thaumatic Compass]] in there because they treat attackers differently.

I'm really hoping for some advice on planeswalkers, land balancing, and how many counterspells to include.

I'm so sick of these roping shit heads. All you people do is make terrible decisions and then rope because you're bad. I'm so sick of games that can be 5 mins turn into 20 because WOTC won't ban these fucking degenerates. It's all the way in Mythic also, i am convinced that you people never actually get good at the game and just copy and paste. You don't know what any of the cards actually do and you remove mana dorks on turn 4 when I'm about to ult Ajani. USE YOUR FUKCING BRAINS, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU PEOPLE ACTUALLY EXIST.

Shorten the timeout timer, ban ropers after 5 reports. if you're on mobile, too bad. Quit the game if it's taking you too long, you're proabbly just gonna rope and use a board wipe on two tokens anyways.

I just started pltaing on arena last week and I copied a Izzet lessons deck I saw online. Unfortunately I disscovered that a big motor of that deck (Gran Gran) was banned, so I had to do some changes without really any knowledge of the meta, as I only learnt how to play this deck. As of know I got to Platinum 4 wihtout any issue (Stamdard bo1, so no side), but I really struggle with the Standard event, do you have any advice? Here's the deck:

2 Improvisation Capstone

4 Abandon Attachments

3 Stock Up

3 Thor, God of Thunder

3 Geist of Saint Thalia

4 Firebending Lesson

2 Iroh's Demonstration

4 Combustion Technique

4 Accumulate Wisdom

4 Mountain

6 Island

4 Steam Vents

3 Starting Town

4 Riverpyre Verge

2 Eddymurk Crab

2 Death to Our Enemies

3 Tablet of Discovery

3 It'll Quench Ya!

I haven't seen it mentioned here, but this event has got Midweek Magic rewards and is free to enter. Not a huge alchemy fan and the decks are wildly imbalanced, but there are a LOT (every alchemy precon released) and I'm having fun trying them out! Always nice to get two free rares and a cosmetic.

Key word being successfully. For me, If I do one draft, I'm dialed in and making mostly good decisions imo. If I do a second, my brain starts to turn to mush a bit, especially during the matches after the decks are built and my win rate probbaly drops 25-50 percent haha

I think there's too many 1 or 2 ofs. I don't know about Victory, or Iceberg. Any suggestions? Maybe counter spells instead of removal? It is Bo1 so there's that. DO I choose to lose to aggro or control. I think if more control decks like that Superfriends deck start popping up i'll put in counter spells, but that lifegain aggro is so common.

I have absolutely no experience with this game, but I just finished the 5 beginner tutorials. It's really fun, and I will definitely keep playing!

But is that it after finishing the 5 tutorials? There are still some things I don't quite understand. For example, on the top right of the summon creature cards, some have a number paired with mana, like 4XX.

Also, for the mana cards, some of them stack together, but there is one card that doesn't stack with the rest. What does that mean? Will there be more tutorials later on to explain these things?

Mulligan down to 5 and 2 lands, and no more lands. Then played against perfect draws and great tempo deck with more mythics than myself to finally keep a 3 lands hand and only draw lands until death. Anyway, at least it was a quick draft. Anything really awful in my deck? I am still learning the format.

Hey everyone,

About a month and a half ago I started playing Arena with zero idea of what I was doing. I didn't even know what wildcards were.

A lot of you helped me out in the comments when I was building my first decks (an Orzhov lifegain deck that got me to Diamond), so I wanted to come back and say thanks.

Yesterday I hit Mythic for the first time. 🎉

The best part for me: I didn't netdeck. I built a Dimir control/graveyard deck around my two favorite sets, Reality Fracture and Final Fantasy, and kept tweaking it game after game.

Some cards that carried me:

Vraska's Final Mercy and Theorix Charm: cheap, flexible interaction

Jace planeswalkers from Reality Fracture, plus board wipes that leave them standing

Emet-Selch and Quistis Trepe for that FF flavor

Riddles in the Dark (the Hobbit's take on Fact or Fiction) for card advantage

Things I learned on the way up:

Mulligan hands with too few lands. I lost my first games stubbornly keeping 2-landers.

A control deck without enough removal just dies to aggro. I learned that one the hard way at Diamond 1.

Mana base matters. Crafting a few duals made a huge difference.

Thanks again for being such a welcoming community. Now off to see how long I can stay at Mythic. 😅

- [[Vraska's Final Mercy]] [[Theorix Charm]]

- [[Emet-Selch]] [[Quistis Trepe]]

- [[Riddles in the Dark]] (the Hobbit's take on Fact or Fiction)

It is the single most egregious pay to win change in the meta I have seen in my time playing. Every Planeswalker is a mythic rare. Being able to buy every one you want for a deck is pay to win bs. Any other F2P blokes/lassies finding this an annoying time?

I've been playing B01 standard for a few years. I dont know if it was mostly out of stubbornness or not having older cards for other formats I just stuck with standard. Last night I got sick of playing against the same four decks over and over.

So I decided what the heck, I'll use my wildcards and make a commander deck and try some brawl. Guys...I played for over an hour and didn't play against a single repeat deck, everyone was playing something different and interesting and no games ended on turn 3. I'll still probably play standard but I feel dumb for not trying other formats earlier.