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Re: Magic Arena OO talk

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Zarathud wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2019 9:31 pm Fell into this addiction again. Keep thinking about new deck ideas but only have two really reliable ones. My Adventure based deck needs optimizing.
How big is your collection? This is the Adventure Deck I have been working on, if you want to import it and play around. I don't buy cards beyond the $15 total I've spent but I do play enough (and draft explicitly to expand my set using the Magic Tool) that I have probably 60% of the whole standard set.

Green/Black, Adventure Destruction with a bit of night power. The rarest thing in it is 3 rare Dread Presence. Not sure if I would go to 4 if I had 4. I would throw in more innkeepers if I had them, though I'm not sure what would get removed. I also might pull the witches cottages. I seem to need the mana not being tapped early more often than I appreciate pulling a critter from the graveyard to the top of the deck.

It also needs work but in single shot competition, it's slightly above 50% so far.

Deck
4 Lucky Clover (ELD) 226
10 Forest (ANA) 65
7 Swamp (ANA) 63
1 Edgewall Innkeeper (ELD) 151
3 Foulmire Knight (ELD) 90
2 Reaper of Night (ELD) 102
4 Order of Midnight (ELD) 99
2 Murderous Rider (ELD) 97
1 Lovestruck Beast (ELD) 165
4 Beanstalk Giant (ELD) 149
4 Overgrown Tomb (GRN) 253
1 Castle Locthwain (ELD) 241
3 Dread Presence (M20) 96
4 Witch's Cottage (ELD) 249
1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World (WAR) 169
4 Deathsprout (WAR) 189
1 The Great Henge (ELD) 161
4 Smitten Swordmaster (ELD) 105

Black really seems to be the power in this round. I have a couple of reasonable black/green and black/red decks. I tend to stay away from blue because I don't want to slip in to playing a thinking man's game when I'm not paying attention and then become hypocrite.

My most fun deck is a death deck also Black/Green but it is much more rare intensive. It needs a 4th embodiment of Agongies and probably other stuff too.

Deck
7 Swamp (ANA) 63
1 Knight of the Ebon Legion (M20) 105
4 Vampire of the Dire Moon (M20) 120
1 Orzhov Enforcer (RNA) 79
3 Embodiment of Agonies (M20) 98
3 Rabid Bite (M19) 195
2 Sedge Scorpion (M20) 192
1 Kraul Stinger (WAR) 165
1 God-Eternal Rhonas (WAR) 163
4 Leyline Prowler (WAR) 202
1 Pitiless Gorgon (GRN) 218
4 Vraska, Swarm's Eminence (WAR) 236
1 Oakhame Adversary (ELD) 167
1 Midnight Reaper (GRN) 77
1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General (WAR) 97
1 Vindictive Vampire (RNA) 90
2 Moldervine Reclamation (M20) 214
7 Forest (ANA) 65
1 Foulmire Knight (ELD) 90
1 Ayara, First of Locthwain (ELD) 75
1 Syr Konrad, the Grim (ELD) 107
1 Questing Beast (ELD) 171
1 Storrev, Devkarin Lich (WAR) 219
4 Fabled Passage (ELD) 244
1 Witch's Cottage (ELD) 249
4 Overgrown Tomb (GRN) 253
1 Castle Locthwain (ELD) 241
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Re: Magic Arena OO talk

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I really want to be a fly on the wall for their matching algorithms. I really do feel like they are testing how deck types match up. I face the same type of deck five times in a row. I get annoyed. I switch decks. Then I face a different deck type multiple times.
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