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Tamer Anode/Cathode:

--- Quote from: commandercool on September 28, 2018, 04:00:54 AM ---Magic Arena open beta started today. Is anyone playing? I created my account today and therefore missed out on a bunch of free mythics, but oh well.

There's a free singleton league available during launch week that's nuts. It gives a guaranteed rare if you do well enough (I've seen four opened so far and three of them were mythics) and it's pretty easy to game the system and just craft one-ofs instead of playsets with your starter crafting materials to get way higher deck quality than most people are working with.

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I had an account since closed beta, I'm trying to farm up enough coins from dailies to draft again since the reset

commandercool:
Ugh, prerelease went terribly. Played Golgari, went against four Boros decks in a row. Golgari seems... okay. But it's definitely pretty midrangey and doesn't like tons of early pressure. The payoffs aren't that exciting and there's not enough recycling to go hardcore grindy. I opened a Ral which was decent but definitely couldn't go in my deck and isn't worth enough to recoup my entry fee. Oh well, playing another one for free on Arena with the code card will be fun.

Tamer Anode/Cathode:
Yeah, my Golgari deck had a similar experience. I feel like you really want to fill out your early curve with stuff like Portcullis Vine, Pilfering Imp, and Burglar Rat, which can act as roadblocks against aggro and help fill your graveyard for later stuff.

Wound up going 1-3, my main cards worth anything are Mausoleum Secrets (1 regular, 1 promo) and a Chromatic Lantern. Might try again tomorrow with the Selesnya or Dimir pack, depending on how I feel

commandercool:
My paper Golgari prerelease went badly (2-2 and pulled a mid-value mythic) but it was solid gold next to my online Boros one (0-3, only the trashiest trash rares, never attacked once in three games). But I pulled a mythic wild card from my pity packs so oooooh weeeeell.

Edit: Wow, I've run into a couple of salty Rat Colony players in singleton league now who insta-scoop the second they see a repeatable removal effect. Free wins for me I guess...

commandercool:
I've been slowly refining a Golgari deck built around Izoni on Arena and it's getting pretty savage. It's very Explore-heavy to smooth out my mana and make sure I hit at least decent Undergrowth numbers. Journey of Discovery is secretly incredible, I've gain 30+ life off of Wildgrowth Walker+Journey of Discovery+Izoni surprisingly many times. The real glue that holds the deck together is Find//Finality though, Find is a fantastic card that I would absolutely play even without Finality, and an added board wipe is just extra.

Building Golgari is crazy right now, there are so many playables that you can build three solid decks with almost no overlapping cards. It makes cutting stuff challenging, but it means there's tons of room for experimentation which is super fun. Unfortunately means I've been neglecting completing my mana base to try weird new strategies though, so I'm definitely losing games to all of my crappy budget lands occasionally.

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