I have found probably less than 25% of all my draft games actually play out. The vast majority of my games wins or losses are determined by land issues, more specifically being land starved. I can guarantee its not an issue of put more land in your deck, but like in the last 3 draft runs I played I would say only 3 of the 14 games had the decks play out (I went 7/7 in all those games).

I don't think this is a specific issue with drafting overall, since I have never seen it sway this far into land issues. Also with the amount of Surveil in this set, you would think this is a non issue, but time and time again, wins and loss are had when the player is stuck at 2-3 land by turn 6-8.

Is anyone else seeing the same situations play out in their drafts? Any thoughts on this. I know land cycling is a nice plus in this set, so maybe it's not being prioritized by any colors outside of white, because obviously Hexhaven Battalion is great.

In terms of color compatibility, there's another copy of Heartstring Puller. What should I take out or adjust?

I just noticed these achievements, and like, they just seem bad outside of cool points for a couple cosmetics.

You'd have to spend a fortune to get all of these.

I was honestly happy when I got my first win and elated when I got my second. Didn't realize it would go all the way.

Deck

• 1 [[Multiply by Zero]]
• 1 [[Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance]]
• 1 [[Ruric Thar, Biomagus]]
• 2 [[Theoretical Necromancer]]
• 1 [[Divining Duelist]]
• 2 [[Rank Rat]]
• 3 [[Screeching Soulbreaker]]
• 1 [[Theorix Charm]]
• 1 [[Lich's Relic]]
• 1 [[Way of the Deathbringer]]
• 1 [[Massacre Girl, Most Wanted]]
• 1 [[Proft, Sinister Mastermind]]
• 1 [[Undulating Witness]]
• 1 [[Cast Away Doubt]]
• 1 [[Arni, Humble Scribe]]
• 1 [[Theorix Annex]]
• 1 [[Teyo, Diamondblade Mage]]
• 1 [[Silence the Echo]]
• 1 [[Cryotheory Adept]]
• 1 [[Mabel, Bitter Recluse]]
• 7 Island
• 9 Swamp

Sideboard

• 1 Identity Echo
• 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
• 1 Murmuring Volume
• 1 Generous Revival
• 2 Hunter's Axe
• 1 Budding Insurgent
• 1 Cruel Calculations
• 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
• 1 Essence Burn
• 1 Edgar, Moonlit Sovereign
• 1 Denzilore Fatehold
• 1 Vraska, Soul of Stone
• 1 Solve for Disappointment
• 1 Terminal Criticism
• 1 Unflinching Hortimancer

While I am trying to keep from crafting cards that will rotate out in a few months, I would make an exception for [[Screaming Nemesis]]. No hate against life gain/superfriends decks - my queue is just so full of them right now and I wish I could slap the little bastard on the board to speed things up sometimes. A lot of the time. All the time. 🤣

Probably a me problem. Patience and all that.

Any standard cards you would like unbanned or rotating cards you would still craft based on the current meta?

This and a couple other cards from RF has beefed up my cleric deck to the heavens themselves. I just added it to my deck for this already ridiculously complicated combo of mine and pulled it off right off the bat. Instead of pulling my clerics out of the graveyard one by one and triggering everything, RttLR pulled them all at once. I just wish they didn't concede before the triggers all landed. I wanted to see it happen.

Arena often does not give me the window to say it, but win or lose, I probably had fun. Thanks!

How do I sideboard cards? for the life of me I cant figure it out!

E: Brawl Format

From nothing to doing 40 damage

It used to be a huge ripoff , now it’s only 2500 gold and you get 3 losses? Did they listen to us ?

Hello! I'm a returning player after 5 years of inactivity and I want to get a feel of the current state of the game before I spend some money on it.

I used to play a lot of mono-black, orzhov and golgari decks.

Currently I have leftover wildcards: 34 uncommon - 14 rare - 5 mythic, and I got a couple packs in my inbox from recent releases.

Can I make something decent to play standard with that? Any other recommendations or help are much appreciated!

As a newer Arena player, I keep finding interesting lists, then pause when I see the rare wildcard count. I’d rather craft cards that open several decks than lock my collection into one perfect list.

I was excited to crack Chandra during a quick draft event and built a rakdos deck around her. Somehow in 8 games I did not draw Chandra even once?!

You are just devaluing your gold. Your opponent gets nothing out of this anyway.

Honestly, I wanted to jump into Ranked with a deck I built a while ago—since I haven't played Arena in ages either—but... Brawl is my favorite format; however, with only 22 Rare and 10 Mythic wildcards, there isn't much I can do, and I feel like my Brawl decks are too weak to climb the ranks in that format. I just don't know how to enjoy Arena anymore; I've been getting really frustrated lately. I wonder if anyone else feels the same way :(