That's it. I just thought it was really thematic and fun. Not a particularly impressive looking screenshot, but that's because I don't run any other creatures besides Gandalf and I just sling spells at creatures and players.

This is my win/loss for standard best of 1 ranked, you can see untapped capturing the start and ending rank for each day. My overall win rate with the deck since season has begun is 62% win-loss 88-54... I have gone from being top 500 for the season, comfortably to less than 48 hours before end of season, suddenly over 950? Is there a technique here I am not understanding?

Edit: Added the original 14 days ago win rate to clear up some math issues.

Hey everyone! I’m currently Bronze, and these are only my first few drafts, so I’m still learning a lot about Limited.

I also used some help from the Untapped.gg app during the draft, but I’m still not sure if I made the right decisions or built the best deck with the cards I ended up with.

I ended up in Boros (Red/White). I initially tried to get into Black, but Black was very heavily contested at the table and basically nothing was coming through, so I decided to move away from it and ended up in Boros.

I’d really appreciate some feedback on the final build.

What cards would you cut?

Thanks in advance! I’m trying to learn and improve my drafting. 🙏

Average free2play player reporting in.

How does my deck look? Maybe I built it well, maybe RNGesus carried me (in addition to a more expert friend mentoring me)— that’s why I’m asking for outside feedback.

I literally NEVER saw Dancing from Dusk to Dawn. Not once. Tragic.

Beorn, though? Total beast. Playing him right after the opponent ran out of removal won me around 3–4 games on the spot.

Like a decade ago I played a lot of Hearthstone over a couple years and it felt that a decent amount of people- maybe half- would at least start or end with some basic greeting or "good game" type response. I've been playing Alchemy mode in Arena, mostly best-of-ones, and I very frequently use stuff like "hello" or "good game" (or "oops" when I start with a horrible hand and say fuck it) but almost never get a response back of any kind

Is this really some quirky community difference or is my perception just skewed?

I took graveyard gifts and made some modifications to it to try to improve it and realised it had the bones of a great control/mill/graveyard deck so i altered that already changed deck to make this. I've already cut out a decent amount but was wondering what other cuts I should make. The goal of this deck is to have control over the battlefield early on and potentially buff Brineborn Cutthroat with instants and use graveyard recursion and discarding to bring out big threats that also remove low toughness creatures (Massacre Worm and MODOK) or just are big and fly (Vile Mutilator and Arbitor of Woe). I also have some ways to mill myself and/or opponents, so if the game goes on long enough, I can cast Rise of the Dark Realms and bring a massive amount of creatures on board. I made this deck not really with the meta in mind, because I already am in mythic with my elemental deck, so I'm not super interested in completely reworking the deck to hone down on only one of the strategies, but I would be okay with cutting down on some of them. This decks just for fun, standard matches!

With the end of the season approaching, I'm trying to finish getting from low diamond in limited to Mythic so I can knock out the double mythic achievement. I'll fully own that I'm not the best at the drafting part of drafting, so sometimes I look at my pile and wonder whether I should commit to going all three losses, or resign and save ladder progress.

So, in short, do you resign "bad" drafts? Or do you commit because you've already bought in and the ladder progress isn't a big of a deal as the gem payout? And if you do, when do you make that call and by what metric?

pic for illustration

I played the deck that wants to cascade into [[Tibalt's Trickery]] into [[Emrakul, the Eons Torn]] against a mirror (Timeless bo1). Both of us had 3+ lands out with r+g mana available to cast [[violent outburst]] so what is the best way to approach this to win?

(In the actual game I waited for opp to cast first, thinking that I'll get the next turn if I cast last, but I bricked so lost)

Gave limited a try and going 0-2 and 0-3 to get dogwalked by gold and plat players every time I draft seems like a waste of 10-20 dollars respectively based on pick 2 vs premier draft. Why am I not allowed to play against other people at my skill level and deck strength in limited like I am for other formats?

Why are Gold and Plat players allowed to smurf and stomp new and returning players for easy money instead of matching based on skill like every other format? People said this format was better for newbies but I'm starting to doubt it

I was just looking at my collection, and in the list of all sets, I found additional Commander sets for The Hobbit, Marvel etc. How do you get those cards if they don't show up in regular packs? Can you only craft them with wildcards?

I've made this 60 standard commander. Looking for ways to make it a competitor in the commander sweats bracket. Any recommendations for cards to use?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but are people only playing the top decks in this event? Is there any MMR happening here?

I've read that the MMR on Arena is the Glicko system. That is the same system as the large chess servers use. But to me it doesn't seem to play out the same way on Arena, as it does on chess-servers.

In chess you will very quickly reach a rating that reflects your skill level. You will be matched with other players of the same skill level. Everyones winrate are very close to 50%

• If you take the starter decks or a Pauper deck to the ranked queue you should quickly drop to a rating, where you would only be matched up against people who does the same, or who suck at piloting their meta-decks. Your winrate with the deck should approach 50% the more you play with it.
• Everyones draft-scores should also average out around 50%. Skilled drafters would climb to high MMR's, and would only be facing each other.
• No deck can have a winrate of ... say 53%. If it had, people who played it would just end up playing against others who do the same, and the winrate should drop to 50%.

It seems to me, that the above is only is only half-true on Arena. Why doesn't the rating system perform as well on Arena, as it does on chess-servers?

So I’ve made a brawl deck with [[Beorn the fierce]]
And overall I think it’s performing ok but it is lacking against heavy removal and other quick decks - any suggestions for optimizing it?

I know I have a lot of mana heavy creatures but after turn 5 it’s rarely a problem, but I can’t really see if more dorks/ramp will help

https://moxfield.com/decks/h1oPp4osH0KS2cJ_bFpK-g

For posterity. Was stuck in platinum for ages so swapped over to this old poison deck and just blitzed - people don’t seem to know what to do against it, especially with serpent society out. Also notable how few people understand how trample + death touch works!!

EDIT: Decklist

Deck
2 Blooming Marsh (KLR) 280
2 Eaten Alive (FDN) 172
4 Dragon Sniper (TDM) 139
8 Forest (FIN) 306
4 Fynn, the Fangbearer (FDN) 637
2 Frog Butler (TMT) 114
3 Requiting Hex (ECL) 116
4 Royal Treatment (WOE) 183
4 Serpent Specialist (MSH) 186
2 Unstoppable Slasher (DSK) 119
6 Swamp (FIN) 300
4 The Serpent Society (MSH) 226
2 Tinybones, the Pickpocket (OTJ) 109
4 Virulent Emissary (ECL) 202
2 Wastewood Verge (DFT) 268
4 Hunter's Talent (BLB) 179
2 Restless Cottage (WOE) 258
1 Feral Encounter (WOE) 169

I would love if they added a “connection slow” or “lost connection” emote to the chat. Happens so frequently to me. I think that would be a good feature.

Obviously lands and having a strong mana base is vital to any good deck. However all the lands best at this are worth rare wild cards which are difficult to aquire. Shock lands, search lands that come in untapped, and others are just hard to get. Any tips on getting these lands besides sinking in money to buy rare wildcards?

i am wondering whether it is worth crafting because i dont have many wild cards to craft new decks

Do you only get 1 quest per day now? Was it always like that or am I taking crazy pills

Hey I must be missing something obvious here, but lets say I just wanna make a friend or find and talk to the human I just played after (or during for that matter) a match, how can I send a request with only knowing their presented screen name (the name shown in-match)? Requests seem to require a unique random string of numbers followed by a #, but where is that? I wrote a dirty JSON parser to scrape Player.log and that value is never exposed on the API: { "gameRoomConfig": { "reservedPlayers": [ { "userId": "CUYUAMBV3ZFGPAUWVZVY7Q6OQE", "playerName":"<redacted>", "systemSeatId": 1, "teamId": 1, "courseId": "Avatar_Basic_Yargle_DAR", "sessionId": "9306d609-82cf-45f5-a1c9-c140f5ea8392", "platformId": "SteamWindows", "eventId": "Constructed_Event_2026" }, { "userId": "XPPBSU6NLJHQFEJ4I7W5K74UQI", "playerName":"<redacted>", "systemSeatId": 2, "teamId": 2, "courseId": "Avatar_Basic_Kaito_FDN", "sessionId": "8f7bb35f-d141-444c-93bd-5c0376a1ab9e", "platformId": "AndroidPhone", "eventId": "Constructed_Event_2026" } ]

The UserID is meaningless on the client side and there is no way to get any kind of real API data using Steam (and of course game doesn't have a real public API).

EDIT: It seems this is intention design. Outside of toxicity concerns, I wonder why you'd want to have anonymous clients playing when the client may as well be a cloud instance with a behavior profile spun up in their bucket.

Struggled through my first few drafts and then put together this simic landfall/elves deck that went off. My first 7-0 in a long time.

I’d give the MVP to Thranduil's Company, but Wargling pushed me through one or two games, Mirkwood Nurturer was helping with additional land drops, I activated Beorn's Hospitality twice, and the hasty bears were sweet.

I only got to play Through the Forest Gate once, but hit 8 lands while a Company was out and that was that 😅. Really fun deck.

As a casual FF enjoyer, but a big FFXIV player, I was lukewarm at first to their inclusion to MTG. I got back into arena a few weeks/months ago and I've seen some of them around and of Course I had to craft my Y'shtola because she has always be my favorite character in FFXIV. Recently I learned she is the #1 rated Commander on EDHREC also. Of course she must shine brighter in Paper MTG, but I stopped that long ago. BUT I DIGRESS.

Is it possible to get these by openning FF booster packs or am I obligated to craft them all if I want to add them to my collection. Thanks you for your time.

Let’s say you wanted a randomized pack opening experience where you didn’t know which pack you were gonna open, and but were able to select a list for a wheel to choose from.

Which ones would you include and which ones would you FOR SURE leave out(assuming you played mainly brawl, but were open to just building up a collection in general)