Magic: The Gathering Online

I'm sure he's going to be playing sewer cam and he's going to be like top 16.

He has been destroying everybody on MTGO with that deck.

So I, I think the deck is going to be very powerful.

Also, like in Oklahoma, over the summer, that deck was really popping off too.

The reason it's specific to Pauper is...

Because this type of thing has shown up in other formats, but it's more important for Pauper because Pauper usually gets played online on MTGO rather than in person.

There are decks that... are significantly better in person because you can take shortcuts in a way for for like stuff you were doing

you're like i'm gonna i'm just gonna tell you where all my triggers go i'll put this card exactly where it's supposed to go yeah like you're not cheating the middle years is way better in paper

Yeah, stuff like that.

There's stuff that is legitimately a really good deck that is a sizable meta threat and it's something you should think about.

But also, if you look at the metagame for the format, it is like, nobody is doing this on MTGO.

because you are on a chess clock and you are going to get owned if you try to click through all this stuff.

But that is a good point to make.

But I think another good resource is obviously Magic Online.

If you play in leagues, you're going to play against a whole bunch of stuff.

If you want to get a little bit more targeted testing against some of the more prominent decks in the format, playing a challenge is a really good resource and a really good way of doing that.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, that'd be great.

If you want a little bit extra practice, next Saturday is the Legacy Showcase Challenge on Magic Online.

So a lot of really good players.

Now, they tried to say that Secret Lairs aren't a regular Magic product, and they shouldn't really be considered for the poor performer.

But this created a backtrack from them because pretty much the unwritten rule is that if a card's been printed in paper or is on Magic Online at Common, it is proper legal.

Something that happened at my local store at a pre-release when somebody was talking about Magic Online, And they went and said, oh, yes, if it's cards online for Magic, that means it's cards that are on Arena, right? And I'm like, no, there's actually another programme called MTGO, yeah, Magic, yeah, the Gathering Online, yeah, which predates it.

And this kind of got me thinking that actually...

Maybe there are newer players out there that also get confused by the fact that actually, you know, Arena is an online client and maybe the cards on Magic Arena should be considered Pauper legal if they're common, you know, on Magic Arena as well.

It would be something I would actually like to see.

Overall, I know most of us listening to this podcast are like established pauper players.

we know what magic arena is we know what magic online is we know what paper magic is and we know the difference yeah for pauper legality purposes but after the recent incidents with secret lair zeta yeah where the lines were blurred i just think that going forward it might just be something to consider for the future that maybe we do include the cards from arena yeah in pauper as a whole just to make it that bit simpler And if that means we have to ban or review certain cards when that change comes into place, then so be it.

I think mostly in the Japanese scene.

And we have a few of the American players testing it out on MTGO.

It's definitely below the surface now.

But yeah, it's something that you can actually see going into a bigger tournament.

There's some trying out there.

I think mostly in the Japanese scene.

And we have a few of the American players testing it out on MTGO.

It's definitely below the surface now.

Another is to record your games.

This is pretty easily done on like Magic Online or Arena.

and then go over the replays and look at what you could have done differently, maybe anywhere where there was a spot where you noticed there were two players and you thought both of them were reasonable, and you did one of them, you can maybe look back at how you think the game might have played out in hindsight if you'd done the other one, or just look and see if you can find anything that you did that in hindsight, when you're out of that game, you recognize as an obvious blunder.

Maybe like write that down and try to find trends in the kinds of mistakes that you're making.

in the arena cube.

This is like the headliner for me because I've more or less missed this card because I've pretty much switched to drafting on the power cube on arena rather than magic online.

I still have magic online and I can do it, but you know, from ease of use and stuff, I just jump onto arena and, And, uh, and this is a card that Luis has talked about a lot as being part of one of my favorite decks, which is the lands based deck.

And we haven't had access to it.

Bail off prime is now on arena and in the cube.

Certainly.

And also, I think twin... is not the strongest two-card click-intensive combo.

Twin, I would say, was probably stronger in 2014, 2015 Magic Online Vintage Cube than it is today because half the decks at the table were running few-to-no creatures, so a lot of decks ran minimal disruption or couldn't kill a Deceiver Axe arc.