This is great, I just want to throw out that MTG Online has "Penny Dreadful" as a format:
Penny Dreadful is an unofficial Magic Online budget format where the legality rules include only cards that cost 0.02 ticket - roughly one penny.
I like your idea a lot! I would certainly play this a ton.
This is exactly how I feel. I second all of what you said and now I feel like the only thing I can do anymore is try to grind Arena drafts and hope to net positive on it with the rewards.
Yeah I agree. I can't understand this. This makes me in no way want to go to an in person draft. It was already kind of expensive and time consuming, but now why would I pay even more.
Oh wow ty I didn't realize they posted those, that's a really good resource
Personally, $4 for a single basic land card is way too high on its own let alone a daily deal. I don't understand why these are priced so high when on a deal, they should be 1000 gold each.
Yea I agree. I played this in Dimir Control and now I just moved it to the sideboard. I think it will still be good against the control mirror, like Narset, at punishing card draw but what is crazy to me is that it seems like card draw is just gone from the format now. Most cards let you look at the top X and put them in your hand to avoid the insane card draw punishment they've been printing lately.
I will first say you can ask as many questions and post as many things as you want to this community and you will always get answers from people, and the questions will always be well-received.
Are you looking to just play with your child, or are you looking to play at a local store or something else? That will help us narrow things down a little.
Does black white deck where you clean the board with wrath of god then return zombies from the graveyard work?
If you are just looking to play casually at home, this deck and all deck ideas you have will be playable and fun. This tends to not do so well in the current formats, but there is a deck you can play on Arena in the Historic format that you might like. Search for "Historic Orzhov Zombies", and here is an article and video from 2021 about the play style: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/historic-101-orzhov-zombies
How do you play with two sided cards? Are they just for sleeves?
There are a few types of two sided cards, sometimes referred to as MDFCs (Modal Dual Faced Cards):
There may be more types but this is a good primer.
Where to get informed? What works now? I see more people are playing chilled, for a difference back then you would get obliterated.
I would suggest starting with Youtube videos, and search for things like "Metagame overview for new players" or "Meta decks for returning players" or something like "2023 Standard meta overview". The videos are extremely helpful I find. You can also search for "_____ Deck tech" where the blank is the type of deck you are curious about. Like "Orzhov zombies deck tech", and sort videos by newest.
The next best place is your local game store. These stores are wonderful places for educating people, and normally filled with other players looking to help and looking to expand their play groups.
Wow I love these nerfs, really good upgrades and I think this is a great thing for the format as a whole. This kind of stuff makes me happy to play Historic and continue with it. I think it's one of the most fun formats in Magic, and I don't think either of these downgrades will make me stop playing the cards. What they will do is stop making them so over the top oppresive. Even the one mana on The One Ring is a big difference. It can't replace itself so easily to the opponents removal next turn.
This has got to be the best week or two of rewards from Arena since it launched. I hope they do this every year, every year is technically an anniversary :D
LOVE these rewards, this is amazing.
Congrats @WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org!! This is a great deck. I see another fan of Witch's Mark :P
I'm very jealous of the Recruiter, Hopeful Vigils and especially that Knightly Valor. I've never been able to draft those yet.
I think a draft event like this would be really fun actually. I would make the trip into my LGS to do this if they offered it lol. I just like how level the playing field is and how fun those games would get. You'd play with cards never even considered before and have to make them work somehow.