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Hello all, I'm a noob to magic building my first deck. I've been trying out this flicker deck with [[Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar]] and I'm having okay results. It seems like I never draw my necessary cards to close the game out because I end up with no hand and am living paycheck to paycheck on my draw step. So I end up having an exile engine with nothing else, making it a real boring game for my friend and me. I think my deck is capable of playing both flicker and mini-Voltron with Syr Vondam at the helm, but I'm not sure what to start. Maybe I share the hate and just keep spam blinking [[Corrupt Court Official]].

Here's my decklist

Also, my friend was [[Fynn, the Fangbearer]], and I felt like I should've been able to get more creatures out on the board to stop the poison, but I was in a really passive position with one card in hand the whole time

I triggered Chandra, Fire of Kaladeshs ability, and as it's exiling ability twas triggering, an opponent played Swords to Plowshares. Would she stay exiled that way, or return to the field due to the latter half of her ability?

Aside from Lord of the Rings I've not been a fan of the crossovers. I didn't buy any Avatar,: The Last Airbender & I definitely won't be collecting the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Marvel sets.

What're people's thoughts?

Hey there, I am not very rich. Are there any magic bootlegs (full decks) as I feel kind of terrible wasting that much money to a big corp.

Maybe I'm missing something. Why doesn't Diligent Zookeeper give a +1/+1 to my lands? They are creatures, they are non-human. Is it because forest/mountain etc is not a crature type but a land type? I'm perplexed.

Not my creation. But somebody out there made a 5 color deck of (essentially) all 1/1s which:

1. Does not reliably win vs the AI (~70% I'm told)

2. Has interesting decisions throughout a game

and I wanted to share.

While MTGA has no substantial PvE content, this really tries to make a game of the little there is.

Hi everyone,

I've been actively developing my MTG Arena Deck Builder and it has evolved significantly since my last post! I'd love your feedback on the new features, especially the AI-powered deck generation and community features.

👉 https://mtg-arena-deck-builder.web.app/

🆕 What's New (Major Updates):

🤖 AI-Powered Features

• AI Deck Generation: Generate complete decks using Claude, GPT-4, or Gemini based on your preferences
• Intelligent Deck Analysis: Advanced AI-powered analysis of synergies, weaknesses, and optimization suggestions
• Smart Card Recommendations: Get personalized suggestions to improve your deck based on meta and strategy

🌐 Community Features

• Public Deck Library: Share your decks with the community and discover other players' creations
• Deck Sharing via QR Code: Share decks across devices instantly
• Fediverse Integration: Share directly to Mastodon or any Fediverse instance
• Likes & Views: See which community decks are trending
• Follow System: Follow other deck builders and see their latest creations
• Global Chat: Discuss strategies and decks with other players in real-time

📊 Advanced Deck Tools

• Comprehensive Deck Analysis: Mana curve, color distribution, card type breakdown, synergy detection
• Deck Version History: Track changes and revert to previous versions
• Deck Improvement Suggestions: AI-powered recommendations with learning from your feedback
• Similar Cards Finder: Discover alternatives and upgrades for your cards
• Multi-Format Support: Standard, Historic, Commander, Pioneer, Brawl, and more

🎮 Gamification & Learning

• Achievements System: Unlock achievements as you build and share decks
• Tutorial System: Interactive tutorials for new users
• Analytics Dashboard: Track your deck-building statistics and performance

💾 Core Features (Enhanced)

• Advanced Search: Filter by card name, type, color, mana cost, rarity, set
• Drag & Drop Interface: Intuitive card management with sortable lists
• Export/Import: MTGA format, Arena format, or share via URL
• Mobile-Optimized PWA: Install as an app on mobile/desktop
• Cloud Sync: Save unlimited decks with Google login (optional)
• Dark Mode UI: Sleek, modern interface optimized for long sessions

🔧 Quality of Life

• Auto-Save: Never lose your work
• Bulk Operations: Add multiple cards at once
• Card Preview: Hover to see full card details and images
• Mana Symbol Display: Visual color identity and mana costs
• Bug Report System: Integrated feedback tool

🧪 Still Improving:

• The AI recommendations are continuously learning from user feedback
• Community features are actively being expanded
• Performance optimizations for large deck libraries

🎯 What I'm Looking For:

• AI Generation Feedback: How accurate are the AI-generated decks for your playstyle?
• Feature Requests: What would make your deck-building experience better?
• Bug Reports: Found something broken? There's a bug report button in the app!
• Community Input: Would you use this to share decks with your playgroup?

🆓 Completely Free:

All core features are free to use. Optional credit system for AI features (with free credits included).

If you play MTGA or enjoy deck building, I'd love to hear what you think! The app has come a long way and the community feedback has been invaluable.

Thanks for checking it out, and happy brewing! 🎴✨

Update: Since the Spiderman/Into the Omenpath release Untapped stopped working with Proton 9.0-4, works with Experimental though

I am fairly new to Linux gaming after I recently switched fully to Linux (Fedora 42). As you probably know, most steam games will run in Linux out of the box thanks to proton and Valve.

However in case you want to run games like MTG Arena together with a third party tracker like Untapped.gg things become a little tricky. As I only found outdated threads on reddit I thought we might as well need one here on Lemmy.

Quick summary for beginners: We want to install the Untapped companion Windows (exe file) inside the steam/proton environment that is used by Steam to simulate windows. These simulated environments are called "prefixes" and this was already used before Steam/proton by the popular windows emulator called Wine. Which is why you will sometimes read about "wine prefixes" or "proton prefixes" or tools like protontricks or winetricks that help you to configure those prefixes. Also you will read about "verbs" which are little "helper scripts" or recipes for winetricks/protontricks.

I found this neat little verb someone created for the untapped companion and it probably should work very easily in case you have the flatpak version of steam and protontrick:https://github.com/sabedevops/wine_untappedgg_companion

However I have the native Fedora 42 versions of steam and protontricks which is why also explain the manual steps here using the protontricks built in GUI. Whenever you install protontricks it should come with an GUI app in you applications folder. When opening this app it should list all installed steam apps together with their "app IDs". 

For Arena will look like this:

After selecting the Arena app you have to choose a "wineprefix", just select the "default" one, then select "Run an arbitrary executable" and select your manually downloaded Untapped.gg+Companion+Stable+Installer.exe  This will install the Untapped companion in your MTGA prefix.

Now you could always manually start the companion app within the mtga prefix via the proton-launch command and knowing the path of your steam wine prefix (which might be different depending on your distro or if you used flatpak). You can find your wine prefix folder also via opening the protontricks UI app and select "browse files" after selecting the default prefix for MTGA. protontricks-launch --appid 2141910 "/home//.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2141910/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Programs/untapped-companion/Untapped.gg Companion.exe"

Hint: It is better that remove the "." dot in "Untapped.gg" and the default whitespace that the exe has via the proton file explorer for example or via your normal Linux file explorer. This can cause unnecessary problems, see below.

What we actually want is that the companion automatically starts each time we open MTGA via Stream. As described in the github verb above, the trick is to use the Steam game launch options and use the PROTON_REMOTE_DEBUG_CMD variable which will pause the game start and open anything you pass to it before starting the game. So go into your steam library and add the following to MTGA -> properties -> General -> Launch options. Beware of the different handling of spaces in path names and use the "" after "Untapped.gg" and replace the path with the actual path to the compoanion app that you installed above via protontricks: PROTON_REMOTE_DEBUG_CMD="/home//.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2141910/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Programs/untapped-companion/Untapped.gg\ Companion.exe" %command%

Additional Information: Update: Overlay now works fine in Fedora 43 Plasma and Proton 10.0-4 The overlay functionality used to be broken (at least in Fedora 42 using KDE Plasma+Wayland) and will cause random window glitches and not show up most of the time. However there is an option in the Untapped app that let's you open your deck window in a separate window outside of the game: Click on MTG Arena -> Deck Wndows -> enable "show player deck window".  So unfortunately no overlay possible right now but at least I can use the tracking and also see my deck statistics while in a match.

Stuff like Shahrazad having you play a side game, Karn making you restart, Aeon engine reversing the turn order, Chaos Orb, goblin game, etc.

I've got a really half-baked idea to just throw all of these wacky cards into a deck to see what happens. Not expecting it to be good, just a fun thing to throw into the mix once in a while for casual play.

Sticking to "real" cards, no need to dip into the un-sets, they've made plenty of strange cards over the years.

Arena is making me face a lot of disgusting monoblue decks or one or the other Teferi, I'm nearly in the mood of using all of my wildcards to craft the most toxic and unfun commander deck. What is the commander you absolutely despise?

https://moxfield.com/decks/AJwNm2DD6kOgAZXvxE-RQQ

Let me know what you think.

My Feldon deck isn't my best, but it's by far my favorite to play. Every time I do, I discover new fiddly interactions I hadn't even considered before. It's capable of getting out of the craziest situations with enough mana and shenanigans.

I recently threw in karn the great creator to test it out. Ended up wishing up rings of brighthearth from my binder, but it played so well in putting it in the main (not sure why I didn't earlier, honestly). My dilemma is I don't have many other artifacts outside the deck that I would really want.

Main question/TL;DR: what are some situationally good artifacts that could go in a mono red artifact/graveyard deck.

Decklist if you're interested. Not up to date but close enough.

I do love when in Arena people play the baddest discover deck against me, my Elesh Norn Mother of Machines blocks their triggers, 5 seconds pass with them reading top to bottom Elesh Norn, then they concede. Best feeling in this game.

Here is a little something to ponder: how much damage could you do in a single game? Well, I spent about 65 hours to find out.

If you're not familiar with Forge, I definitely recommend to check it out. It is a Free/Open Source M:TG engine that has a (not entirely dumb) AI, network play, and just about every single card you could imagine. With this engine, I constructed a non-legal deck with a card combo with an infinite loop and exponential growth both in damage and creatures. And then I played games until I could execute the combo and see just how much damage I could do.

Unfortunately, the software isn't really built for these kinds of Johnny tactics, and it got incredibly slow. So slow in fact, that by the end, when the stack had 512 Scute Swarm triggers, it took days for it to resolve (and give the AI a chance to respond to each and every one).

Anyhow, here are some screenshots I took, and the deck. I tried to include the game log, but I think I am bumping up against a body length limit on posting.

::: spoiler Buglandia Deck

[metadata]
Name=Buglandia
[Avatar]

[Main]
2 Altar of Dementia|TMP|1
2 Coat of Arms|EXO|1
1 Concordant Crossroads|2X2|1
3 Crucible of Worlds|2X2|1
3 Fastbond|LEA|1
4 Forest|ONE|1
5 Forest|ONE|2
7 Forest|ONE|3
4 Forest|ONE|4
2 Horn of Greed|STH|1
4 Jaddi Offshoot|IMA|1
2 Khalni Heart Expedition|ZEN|1
2 Lifecrafter's Bestiary|AER|1
4 Lotus Cobra|IMA|1
3 Scute Swarm|ZNR|1
2 Scythe Leopard|BFZ|1
2 Tireless Provisioner|PLIST|1
2 Tireless Tracker|PLIST|1
2 Well of Knowledge|WTH|1
1 Zendikar's Roil|ORI|1
3 Zuran Orb|ICE|1
[Sideboard]

[Planes]

[Schemes]

[Conspiracy]

[Dungeon]

:::

Or, is anyone else bothered by Innistrad having only 4 provinces?