Competitive MTG events need to immediately take on what other games like Riftbound are doing for promo prize structure. They get crazy good payouts via exclusive promos all over the place. This kind of thing is already done with events like eternal weekend, bring it to PTs and RCs as well.

Can someone explain to me what the hell this card is doing in the cube? It's like someone just did a search for creatures that ETB untap for twin combo and never stopped to think about how the card doesn't work with twin or kiki jiki

I'm begging the arena cube designers to make up their mind on what cube they want to be. If you want power cube, make a power cube with high power level cards. If you want to be weird quirky interactions cube then don't be power cube. This shit with power cube but 50 cards are garbage just sucks

not sure if this is good enough to sit on my rank through the end of the season and still make top 250, but I'm gonna try it anyway.

I'm sure this is just my boomer side, but Star Trek is going to easily be my most hated set of all time. Everything about these cards rubs me the wrong way. The art, naming conventions, designs... I don't want any of it. Worst of all, it's going to be the limited set for like 2.5 months.

This is my train wreck cube draft. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

I have reached the pinnacle of the draft format, there is nothing left for me to do here.

I have reached my "bored of drafting the good stuff, just trying to get meme wins for achievements" stage of the format. I guess cuz they were at 20 they felt safe to not block

Third collector box acquired with this very stupid pile of rares. I felt bad for some of the OPs as I just did some silly curve outs like Gideon into Chandra into Sphinx. I calling it quits this direct early while I'm ahead, 3 boxes on 12 bullets. Despite winning a lot I can't say I like the format.

The irony of being told the importance of getting at least 6 hours of sleep in an appointment they scheduled in the early afternoon when I'm normally asleep cuz I work night shift, so I had to wake up after 3 hours of sleep to be at said appointment.

Don't ask me how, but this deck was apparently good enough to get my second box in the arena direct. I apparently owe an apology to UW in this set, as it just looks so mopey and slow I didn't think it could possibly be any good.

Got there for the RC invite in today's limited RCQ. Didn't drop a game all day despite not really having any of the busted rares/mythics that are rampant in this set. 9-1 over the weekend in matches I actually played. Not too bad.

Lost in the last round of limited RCQ today to not get the Q. Running it back tomorrow. I for sure could have played a bit better at spots, but I overall felt like I was playing pretty well today and managed to steal wins I probably had no business winning.

Standard decks this new set has me pondering: Lizards with Ingris Ru leyline Momo angels Jund delirium (I just want to haste a big goyf off break out) Ojer Axonil red

My cube trophy streak has come to an end. RIP

trophy #8 in a row and into mythic, going from plat 4 to top 300 mythic in a week and under 10 drafts.

Another trophy, up to 7 in a row. This is by far the most combo pilled of the decks so far, although I did manage a win or two off nemesis + goyf beatdown

trophy 6 in a row. Didn't ever draw time walk sadly, but got lucky with some good fastbond draws (let me t2 boo a couple times along with a t2 stripmine lock). Also was happy I got 1 upheaval win :)

I have trophied my last 5 arena cube drafts now, but this one is by far the most nonsense of them all. I have clearly been watching too many content creator streams/VODs. I need LSV to rate my Lurrus deck, as he has poisoned my decision making into forcing the Lurrus deck.

Ended up with a minor sinus cold after getting back from Dallas. It hasn't been all that bad, but this shit is just lingering forever.

Thank god. Alchemy overstayed it's welcome by years and it will be great to no longer worry about cards being nerfed alchemy versions in cube. LETS GOOOO!!!

Moxfield@moxfield.com · 2mo ago

It's time to say goodbye to this format on MTG Arena. Reality Fracture will be the last set released to the Alchemy format.

I've tried to make the biotech specialist deck work multiple times in the last year. Would be cool if Baggins managed to push the card over the edge to be a real deck

Robert Taylor 🔥@fireshoes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Standard Challenge Top 8 decklists for Monday, Sept 7 (50 players) #mtg #mtgStandard Jund Sacrifice and Dimir Excruciator split the finals! 👨‍🔬⏳🏆 Izzet Spellementals gets 3rd and 6th 🦀🦀 Boros Tokens finished 4th 👺 Dimir Midrange takes 5th and 7th 🥷🥷 Boros Dwarves at 8th 🪓

I've already fired off like 25 bullets in the arena direct, and head of the hunt is easily the card responsible for more losses than any other card. It's a tough card to try to play around in a format that wants you to race so much, especially when it's more likely the OP is just holding up removal

I have played a lot of Hobbit sealed in the last couple of days, but this is by far the most disgusting line I've had.

Had a rough first day in the arena direct. Still 0 boxes firing about a dozen bullets. Can't quite put my finger on what I'm missing, but feels like I haven't figured out the format still. running about .500 in games, which it's a competitive environment, but still you hope to do a lot better

Is this just a better card than blasting jelly in pauper tron?

The current Arena cube is a really cool idea that is just ruined by Alchemy cards. The majority of Alchemy cards in the cube just play like MH3 cube cards: they aren't cool, fun or interesting, they are just generally stronger that all the other cards. Power creep is not good design

In the beginning, the bonus sheet was cool cuz it had a bunch of weird build around stuff to do in draft. Now the bonus sheet just makes limited worse, as every bonus just looks like 5 sweeper variants, 3 baneslayer variants, 2 giant ass dragons, SoFaI and Jitte...

The 4th of July has been my least favorite holiday as an adult, and it's significantly worse now that I work night shift. No chance of trying to sleep during my normal hours as people start shooting off fireworks at like 9am.

My 3rd collector's box is with this masterpiece. Nick fury is so good, well worth being 5 color for it.