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  • calvinballtoMTGHelp a returning player get back up to speed?
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    9 months ago

    Here’s some resources that I use often:

    • mtggoldfish has meta decks and user submitted decks for almost all popular formats out there. They include a meta % to show how much a deck is played.
    • for more competitive meta results I use mtgdecks.net, where you can filter on recent tournaments or MTGO leagues within the format you’re interested in.
    • lastly there’s aetherhub, which I use less these days but is also a good source for meta deck finding.
    • if you’re looking for meta discussions and deck techs, you can still find them on reddit, e.g. the /r/spikes subreddit or the subreddit for the format of your choice, for Pioneer there’s /r/PioneerMTG

  • calvinballtoMTGI Hacked MTG Arena for a 100% winrate
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    10 months ago

    This was a really well-explained hack, I loved reading this, well done! So fascinating to see that bot logic runs client-side, that the code just creates two ‘seats’ for players to connect to, and you exploited all that info in a masterful way. Bravo!
















  • calvinballtoMTG"Play Boosters" announcement
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    1 year ago

    wow, in practice the changes to Limited might not be very big with this new type of booster, but in the history of MtG this is a humongous change. For the first time since 1993 Draft boosters will have 14 playable cards instead of 15. This changes the fabric of MtG. I feel that in the long run this is a very good shift, all of the problems highlighted in the article are very real, and it seems like they’ve addressed them well with the Play Booster. Fascinating stuff, I can’t wait to hear the Limited podcasts analysing how this changes the game.




  • as your collection grows, so must your storage solutions change. Here are the phases my collection went through:

    phase 1: everything stored randomly in prerelease and bundle boxes

    phase 2: buying a few empty bundle boxes online so I have 5 bundle boxes, storing per colour and in ascending mana value

    phase 3: getting a longbox (google ‘tcg longbox’) that holds 1000 cards and storing my cards in there. At this point I switched to ordering in the objectively best way for big collections: per set, from oldest set to newest set, in ascending collection number (the number on the bottom left of the card). Ordering per collection number will also automatically order your cards per colour and alphabetically for every set.

    phase 4: getting multiple longboxes to accommodate the ever expanding collection, continuing with the collection method of phase 3

    trades are still in a binder though!