Game is not fun anymore
This game is not fun anymore. I enjoyed it for a while until something happened in these last few months. Everyone plays the exact same decks with the same cards which cost a fortune and are annoying and awful. They basically just stop people from playing anything for enough rounds until they have enough mana to play a wipeout spell. It is extremely frustrating and not at all what this game is supposed to be, or has ever been, paper or otherwise. The new expansions haven't helped. Alchemy hasn't helped. Now Historic is going by the wayside.
If I wanted to play a game of ping pong I'd get a **** ping pong table. Countering and unsummoning and board wiping back and forth is BORING, yet you seem to be creating more and more and cheaper and cheaper cards to do that. Why???
I'm out. I was considering dropping a few dollars to buy some new cards and compete until recently, but this has gotten ridiculous. I don't even want to try to come up with new combos and decks anymore, which has been the GREATEST part of my magic experience for nearly 30 years. Goodbye. I'll spend my time and money elsewhere.
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Raky#51371 commented
Unfortunately blue gets all the cheap card draw, all the cheap counterspells, and all the cheap big un-targetable creatures, Wite and black have 2 card combos, but lose to control, Wizards just killed magic unless you enjoy playing blue and saying no or your deck pumps out 2-3 creatures per turn, all other deck types are dead in constructive.
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Hawk3015#56213 commented
Oh my gosh! I was seriously afraid I was alone in feeling this way. I've been playing since the Dark, and have always considered MTG to be the greatest game ever produced.
Now, after 30 years, you've managed to finally kill the joy I once found here. I hope that WOTC can seriously analyze what made the game successful in it's first decade and bring back the spark (pun intended). Otherwise, I'll never purchase another card of this sludge. -
Minigoat87#61171 commented
This has only gotten worse. Black and White colored decks either need severely nerfing, or people need to be more original. I’d say the top 25 - 50 decks that are used in worlds should be banned in all formats each season to premote more original deck creation/strategy. I’m sick and tired of facing so many unoriginal decks. If it doesn’t get adjusted then the random battle generator needs fixed, and why not put it so the 15 win reward can be done against the Ai or change the reward entirely.
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Gradius9989#54610 commented
This game is a stagnant bore fest. Fkn hate these same 3-4 decks. Life gain, shrines, tribal boreing bs i hate wotc.
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Burscheid#12380 commented
constant 25 minute games against boring control board wipe. think I fell asleep during a game today
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Thanatos93#92585 commented
agreed currently the latest xpac is the All will be one, phrexia. And all i'm facing in a span of three days is: red/black token sac, blue/black toxin control, mono green toxin, mono white toxin. Trying to win my daily 15 games has become a chore and introduce more stress for me. This is probably the last time i'm actually going to pay for the pre-order but arena isn't worth it anymore
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EmptySin#83127 commented
100% agree with this. i am new to magic and thought i would play this to try and learn it, so i could replicate it hopefully in irl. so many of my matches are paired with people with tons of instant kill cards or cards like borrowed time, its not fun placing cards and instantly removing them or having them locked. ive noticed no one really builds unique decks. anytime i ask for help i met with answers like "just look up a deck and copy it". i also feel like arena shuffler is rigged or has a really bad shuffling algorithm, lots of matches i lose right out the gate. i either get land flooded with no creature or vice versa. i have put 4x or 2x of multiple creatures just to never see them in my hand or i wont get the lands to play them. lastly i hate the roping system, I don't mind some one taking the time to think of a strategy, but i have been in so many matches where someone makes a decision right at the last second before it forced to me. i don't know if its lag or trolling at this point, but all i know is I don't see how people take the time to drive to events to deal with some of these lame mechanics.
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Comrade#07991 commented
YES!! this is it. its literally the SAME BS deck over and over. people dont create unique decks anymore they just google high success decks and thats that. On top of that everyones goal now is to either infinite loop you or 3 turn you. at which point, why even bother to sit down and play a 30 second match in the first place?
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Agent1103#98483 commented
I've been hating the game for awhile now for many of the same reasons. There is no longer a competitive sense of the game. They just keep coming out with more and more cards that make playing this game miserable. There's no longer any strategy. Blue-dominated decks, combos everywhere... Then there is Arena. Arena is a cesspool. In their quest for greed and profit, all they did was ruin the game.
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Eragon Stwong#25344 commented
I am in 100% agreeance with you I will be dropping arena as well it's just not fun to play anymore. It's a chore to play it now it doesn't matter what you do in this game it's all the same meta and it's tedious and aggravating to play so I will be saying goodbye to it for a very long time.