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Is it controversial that I liked the Predator Slivers, Come on they're in different planes thus you can get away with Slivers looking different.
I'd personally would like to see another collab with Games Workshop so we can see more Tyrannid choices for a Tyrannid vs Sliver deck.
Magic's fun and I enjoy the deckbuilding - but I'll also literally play almost any other game before it.
Me and my wife will only play EDH now if we can get a good size group. Otherwise there's other 1v1 games to play. Hell I'll even play a video game and I rarely do that nowadays unless I'm paid to. I get too bored with those.
 
They only have 2 formats (well, more with all the Bo1/Bo3/AI drafts) because the limited playerpool after the first week or so is small and the queues get really bad as it is.
That's a pretty bad sign if their playerpool is so small. Though I'm surprised they didn't come up with a "join first available" event option as a lot of people would probably play whatever. You could even let players select to opt out of specific options in the join first available to keep it from becoming a rapid queue of shit.
 
I think these commander masters premades are perfectly fine decks - they're just being sold at way too high of a pricepoint.
That's LITERALLY the complaint. It's not a "perfectly fine deck" if you're being charged way too much of it. An all common red aggro/speed burn deck is not "perfectly fine" if I'm charging you a hundred bucks to buy it. As I've said multiple times already - at $80, the things better have much better mana bases to them. If they want to cheap out on those, then drop the damn price.

That's a pretty bad sign if their playerpool is so small. Though I'm surprised they didn't come up with a "join first available" event option as a lot of people would probably play whatever. You could even let players select to opt out of specific options in the join first available to keep it from becoming a rapid queue of shit.
I still say the worst ever decision Arena made was making one of the daily quests WIN 10 games instead of PLAY 10 games. I know for me I was just getting burned out trying to grind my way up to those without doing a copy/paste of whatever was the current tier 1.

But then I also swore off arena the time i had an opponent swing with a massive scute swarm board and I had blockers up to possibly survive and the game timed out and killed me before I could assign all of them.
 
That's a pretty bad sign if their playerpool is so small. Though I'm surprised they didn't come up with a "join first available" event option as a lot of people would probably play whatever. You could even let players select to opt out of specific options in the join first available to keep it from becoming a rapid queue of shit.
That's basically what it already is and that's the problem. Most of the time Quick Draft and Bo1 are mostly fine (unless you're a few weeks in and the set sucks ass) but if you queue up in the weird hours in Bo3 the game will start desperation matching you against literally anyone. Silver players getting wrecked by Diamonds is common. If it was up to me I'd get rid of best of one and give people the choice of Bo1 drafted against bots or Git Gud Bo3 but I'm pretty uninvested in limited and only do a few matches every new standard set.
 
That is the biggest complaint about the game in general for everyone not a "collector" Retard like Rudy.
I mean I don't complain if the mana bases in those "intro" commander decks that are like $20~30 are weak. Those are intro, they're not that expensive, so they can have the cheaper lands. Don't charge me premium prices and give me dollar store shit.

Not excluding the general complaint about the mana base being screwed up in general. But that goes beyond the products.

(but then I'm still MAJORLY pissed that if you buy a basic lands secret lair, you get ONE of each land in it - for like $30! That's not even enough for a 5 color commander deck! You should at least get 5-10 of each.)
 
you get ONE of each land in it - for like $30! That's not even enough for a 5 color commander deck!
TFW my 5C deck plays exactly one of each basic..and wouldn't even do that if like 5 cards didn't exist
 
It's not a "perfectly fine deck" if you're being charged way too much of it.
Well, no, see, because if it was a reasonable price-point, it'd be a perfectly workable deck out of the box in a casual format. Here's the Sevinne precon. This deck is not one of their first forays into Commander decks - the first suite being bad is forgivable. This is well after several solid, great designs. This is the one that Dockside comes from, and is (ostensibly) supposed to be about flashback.

Out of the box, this is a terrible, disjointed fucking deck. Several cards interact in no meaningful way with the strategy of the deck, or even the strategy of the backup commander -- which itself doesn't interact with Sevinne. It's just really, really fucking bad. None of the Commander Masters decks are bad like this, they're just overpriced.
 
Oh speaking of Retardation in Deckbuilding.

"Lets make a commander that gives cards cascade" *Puts in 6 cards that are absolutely horrible to Cascade into like XX creatures*
 
Well, no, see, because if it was a reasonable price-point, it'd be a perfectly workable deck out of the box in a casual format. Here's the Sevinne precon. This deck is not one of their first forays into Commander decks - the first suite being bad is forgivable. This is well after several solid, great designs. This is the one that Dockside comes from, and is (ostensibly) supposed to be about flashback.

Out of the box, this is a terrible, disjointed fucking deck. Several cards interact in no meaningful way with the strategy of the deck, or even the strategy of the backup commander -- which itself doesn't interact with Sevinne. It's just really, really fucking bad. None of the Commander Masters decks are bad like this, they're just overpriced.
Ok if you mean "a better play experience out of the box" I'll grant you that but several of their recent commander precons are really solid. (Like I have not touched the b/w party deck from BDCL - I got it purely as a lark and it's dumb how many games it keeps winning.) Especially compared to earlier stuff. Like I said way back, the U/B/R wizard deck from 2017 is horrible with multiple divergent lines of play. It's a massive mana hog with like... 2 ramp cards in the whole thing. The face commander makes temporary token copies of your wizards and the deck barely has any ETB stuff in it.

But having "better playable" decks is not much comfort if players can't afford them. "Wow I bet it would be great to play that - someday..."

Oh speaking of Retardation in Deckbuilding.

"Lets make a commander that gives cards cascade" *Puts in 6 cards that are absolutely horrible to Cascade into like XX creatures*
"let's make a R/G enrage commander and NOT put any green fight cards in the deck!"
 
"Lets make a commander that gives cards cascade" *Puts in 6 cards that are absolutely horrible to Cascade into like XX creatures*
Ahh, but you get -two- cascades! One to flip into something terrible, and the other is the real one! The backup commander's theme is also a little awkward and doesn't really fly with the included cards, but the deck on the whole will still probably be playable enough.
Like I said way back, the U/B/R wizard deck from 2017 is horrible with multiple divergent lines of play.
I think it's... It's in my realm of passable-not-great. It was a huge step up from the original suite of decks, and while it presented three different commander opportunities (etb/copies, spells-from-grave, activated-abilities (whoops forgot to include good activated abilities)), it had some good-enough cards and felt wizard-y. But yeah, compared to modern stuff like Party Time, they've gotten way better.

The WBR vampire deck also sucks balls from that time period, it just had Edgar in it. (And Teferi's Protection).
But having "better playable" decks is not much comfort if players can't afford them. "Wow I bet it would be great to play that - someday..."
Ehhh, just wait a year for the amazon dump! Easy sell! I got some of the New Capenna commander decks for $15 on Amazon about a year after they'd come out.

But no, I think these price-points suck balls. I want them to go back to offering the $20 decks with 3 new cards and everything else reprints, mid-power: those were great! However, the whales keep incentivizing them to print overpriced, retarded shit. I still benefit - again, most of these as singles will be cheap as shit because of the absurd amount of retarded "investors" who are cracking packs because their gambling-addicted brains have convinced them that jesus owes them a serialized card - but I'd really prefer a more sane, sensible approach.

I don't remember exactly when they swapped from the $20 precons with new sets + 1 suite of $40 precons to $40 precons with every set -- I think it was Midnight Hunt - but man, that has not panned out. Almost every one of those decks now regularly retails for around $20 anyways, and stores have stopped buying product from distribs that they know won't move.
 
I still say the worst ever decision Arena made was making one of the daily quests WIN 10 games instead of PLAY 10 games. I know for me I was just getting burned out trying to grind my way up to those without doing a copy/paste of whatever was the current tier 1.
I can't even be bother to grind out 10 games, yet less 10 wins. That sounds retarded.

That is the biggest complaint about the game in general for everyone not a "collector" Retard like Rudy.
Speaking of which, I think he said he didn't buy booster boxes for Commander Masters but went hard on the Commander Decks this time around. Wonder if distributors were offering to dump them on him for an attractive price so now he's just trying to move them.
 
"let's make a R/G enrage commander and NOT put any green fight cards in the deck!"
"let's make a deck, call it Eldrazi Unbound, and put just like 10 of them in"
Oh wait, they actually did that. And I can't even complain about them not putting Eye of Ugin in there, since there's really not that much eldrazi to discount.

But fuck this. Commander masters is soooooo yesterday.
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"let's make a deck, call it Eldrazi Unbound, and put just like 10 of them in"
Oh wait, they actually did that. And I can't even complain about them not putting Eye of Ugin in there, since there's really not that much eldrazi to discount.

But fuck this. Commander masters is soooooo yesterday.
Check this shit
Can someone explain how the tenth doctor isn't the worst card ever printed.
 
I think it's... It's in my realm of passable-not-great. It was a huge step up from the original suite of decks, and while it presented three different commander opportunities (etb/copies, spells-from-grave, activated-abilities (whoops forgot to include good activated abilities)), it had some good-enough cards and felt wizard-y. But yeah, compared to modern stuff like Party Time, they've gotten way better.
Actually what made me laugh is when i was looking at the deck the other day, while it had 3 "primary" commanders (you can tell because they were foil) it was actually stocked with a 4th commander that was so much better...
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I feel so dumb to actually giggle at the return of suspend. It was such a silly, weird concept that was... fun?

Also if I was to get a Dalek deck, you know exactly how I will pronounce "REP-LI-CATE" when casting a spell.

(Commander is not about winning, it's about driving the rest of the table, insane, right?)
 
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Ugh, It's so fucking lame. They made the doctor lame as shit with their "UwU I wuv nerd culture, look at these references to the silly parts" and completely ignore the fact that if you push the 10th far enough he will fucking end you.
That's exactly how it's going to be played at the table though. Like Beamtown Bullies looks like a funny good time commander and then you inevitably use him to give people a free Leveler.
 
while it had 3 "primary" commanders (you can tell because they were foil) it was actually stocked with a 4th commander that was so much better...
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I like her, but she's a lot less scary than is Inalia. Part of the reason Inalia doesn't have that bad of a reputation anymore is that people quickly realized: it's always correct to target the Inalia player first. It's not fun to both be hated out of the game immediately, and for that to be the correct choice every time.

There also haven't been too many wizards printed more-recently that have made Inalia any more broken than she was before, since a lot of them now have on-cast triggers (or don't really interact with the tribal theme). Mairsil is fucking miserable to play against - there isn't a way to build that guy that isn't just a lock-and-combo commander that also means it's always correct to target the Mairsil player. And while Kess is cool, Anhelo has kindof shit all over her position as Grixis value spellslinger.

Marchesa works as a wizards commander thanks to Sage of Fables (and the excellent Metallic Mimic), but she's just such a versatile card that you can build her around so many different things, it's absurd. Thran Vigil is another way to ensure creatures return with counters, Haunted One is absolutely insane if you build around Wizards or Humans to provide counters even if you're in the life-lead, and of course she also just works as a value engine - Grave Betrayal is simply hilarious, because you get the things back twice.

It's impressive how boring and on-rails all of the Commander Masters commanders are. They're strong, sure, but they're really, really one-dimensional. Rukarumel is the most unique, and she doesn't really even work because she only affects non-token creatures. The fun of playing Xenograft + Dragon Tempest was that it turned Secure the Wastes into (X)W: deal X damage X times to up to X targets. Conspiracy decks usually want their commander to offer tribal-based benefits (Gisa & Geralf, Yuriko, Haakon, etc) because you can run several conspiracy-ish effects in the deck that all connect with the Commander, whereas Rukarumel being one herself means you have less incentive to run Arcane Adaptation or Maskwood Nexus or whatever.
 
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