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Every guild is viable and they are all pretty close. There's been this weird thing since Battle for Zendikar where people are hellbent on calling a color or combo unplayable. I guess it's because in that format green actually was unplayable and magic players, ever falling victim to hyperbole, just have to parrot what they heard pros say during that time period every set to try and sound smart.

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02-10-2019 , 01:36 PM

#14352

Regret$

burnt out

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 12,124

Love how every streamer i watch has autotap enabled and it never costs them a game. I play like 2 games and lose to it. I've had it disabled since beta when it was TERRIBLE.

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02-10-2019 , 03:22 PM

#14353

bgordon

adept

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 917

There's just no way Rakdos is better than Orzhov. Two of the three Rakdos gold commons are replacement level. Red's commons are not very good. There's four that are unplayable and only three or four that you actively want in your deck.

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02-11-2019 , 01:58 AM

#14354

Anssi A

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Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3,202

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Originally Posted by Regret$

Love how every streamer i watch has autotap enabled and it never costs them a game. I play like 2 games and lose to it. I've had it disabled since beta when it was TERRIBLE.

Whenever I know I want specific lands untapped, I hover over the spell/ability first to see what lands it will tap. If it is going to be tapping incorrectly, I'll tap manually.

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02-11-2019 , 09:30 AM

#14355

dkgojackets

DKGOAT

Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 86,123

Ive gotten so used to auto-tapping that I wont play gates because having to manually tap for guild summit even when I only have 3 lands out pisses me off too much

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02-11-2019 , 11:35 AM

#14356

Krayz

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Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 47,277

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Originally Posted by Regret$

Love how every streamer i watch has autotap enabled and it never costs them a game. I play like 2 games and lose to it. I've had it disabled since beta when it was TERRIBLE.

Everytime I play against someone who always manually taps I wonder if they enjoy self torture. It's annoying enough having to wait for the tapping, I can't imagine having to actually be doing it

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02-11-2019 , 12:10 PM

#14357

bluesbassman

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Originally Posted by bgordon

Dagger Caster + Bladebrand = auto-win. Admittedly Orzhov is pretty good. Both guilds have access to the best creature in the format, Priest of the Forgotten Gods.

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02-11-2019 , 01:42 PM

#14358

krimson

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 3,613

Huge eyeroll everytime I end up against someone playing Mono-Red / etc and are manually tapping their lands every turn.

Auto tapper is fine but you does occasionally need babysitting. I find it just becomes muscle memory to recognize situations it MIGHT f-up and hover over the cards first to check.

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02-11-2019 , 01:54 PM

#14359

Anssi A

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Originally Posted by bluesbassman

Dagger Caster + Bladebrand = auto-win. Admittedly Orzhov is pretty good. Both guilds have access to the best creature in the format, Priest of the Forgotten Gods.

Priest is quite good, but it is nowhere near the best creature in the format. It is pretty bad whenever opponent has Afterlife cards. It is very good against the bad decks, though.

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02-11-2019 , 05:38 PM

#14360

bluesbassman

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Originally Posted by Anssi A

Priest is quite good, but it is nowhere near the best creature in the format. It is pretty bad whenever opponent has Afterlife cards. It is very good against the bad decks, though.

One big problem with Orhzav is that one of the best cards, Final Payment, is bugged. (The "sacrifice a creature" option usually doesn't work.) I've reported the bug to WoTC but I just played it and it's still bugged.

And yeah, got crushed by Radkos again playing Orhzav. The former is far better than the latter even without the bug.

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02-11-2019 , 08:50 PM

#14361

Nonfiction

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I've never had a problem with final payment and have played it ~30 times in the last week or so

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02-11-2019 , 09:05 PM

#14362

JimHalpert

Howlpert

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 50,746

I think whats happening is you're clicking "sac a creature" and then clicking the creature you want to sacrifice, then it asks you to sacrifice a creature and you're confused. The first click needs to be the creature you wanna kill. So it should go Final Payment -> sac a creature or enchantment button -> opponents creature -> your creature to sacrifice -> ok/resolve/whatever it is.

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02-11-2019 , 09:15 PM

#14363

bluesbassman

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Originally Posted by JimHalpert

That's what I thought, so when I tried to play it today, I clicked through the prompts slowly, just like you show above. It still didn't work. It may not happen every time, but there is a bug.

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02-11-2019 , 09:19 PM

#14364

JimHalpert

Howlpert

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 50,746

That sucks. I'll keep an eye out for anyone else having that issue and post here if I find a solution it.

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02-12-2019 , 04:10 AM

#14365

Priptonite

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Finally decided to spend some wildcards and play constructed. Izzet Drakes is super fun

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02-13-2019 , 09:35 PM

#14366

Priptonite

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So do people enjoy playing Nexus? Seems not very fun for either party

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02-13-2019 , 11:59 PM

#14367

Anssi A

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I'd imagine playing the deck is reasonably fun, at least for a while. I doubt anyone actually enjoys casting Nexus for 10 times, but making it to the point where you turn the game around is always satisfying.

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02-14-2019 , 12:19 PM

#14368

Priptonite

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welp, Nexus banned in Bo1

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02-14-2019 , 12:24 PM

#14369

dkgojackets

DKGOAT

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good stuff

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02-14-2019 , 01:04 PM

#14370

Anssi A

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Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3,202

In 2 months Wotc will show us how no one plays bo3 on Arena so they are switcing to bo1 only.

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02-14-2019 , 01:59 PM

#14371

the pleasure

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Originally Posted by Regret$

Love how every streamer i watch has autotap enabled and it never costs them a game. I play like 2 games and lose to it. I've had it disabled since beta when it was TERRIBLE.

i just dont get this at all. they autap with ease while it ****s me over.whats the deal??

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02-14-2019 , 02:02 PM

#14372

the pleasure

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Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 6,093

Hate to bring it up again ut MTGA needs to push toward drafting against humans or have a gamemod for human drafting. ridiculous what you can JAM whetever you want on 85% of your drafts lol

make ranked against humans at least

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02-14-2019 , 04:06 PM

#14373

bgordon

adept

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 917

Waiting for humans in a draft kinda sucks.

I remain completely unconvinced that making the bots decent is a difficult problem. WoTC is in a tech hub trying to attract talent with McDonalds money though so don't hold your breathe.