Brawl and Historic Brawl are broken and noone pays attention
Historic Brawl and Brawl is supposedly a fun format that you get to play your retired cards, but also find home for all this otherwise junk cards that you open in boosters. This is not true, however. Due to the nature of 1v1, rather than multiplayer, everyone plays the most efficient and not the cards "to experiment". Commanders (like Kinnan, Niv-Mizzet) are incredibly OP. The algorithm cares for the commander and not the deck built. Summary, there is no room for casual games, as everyone plays hyper-efficient cards. Getting thoughtseized or duressed turn 1 is bad in constructed, imagine how much worse this becomes in a singleton format. Kinnan decks ramp for 8-10 mana by turn 3-4. Fix the mode - it is no longer fun and I am getting this feedback from pretty much my whole local community.
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Sindrelari#41376
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These fat retards really print worst fears? Of course because 5 color ******** isn't strong enough. This game is dogshit and those who support this company like to eat ****.
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Sindrelari#41376
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ANDDDDD I DRAW AlL ISLANDS. Previous game I got no islands. Fix your shuffler you fat idiots.
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Sindrelari#41376
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Forced alchemy because no one wants to play this garbage.
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Sindrelari#41376
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Rigged game. Even MWM is dogshit.
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Sindrelari#41376
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Hey **** tards why is that brawl these ******* running mono blue get every counterspell made ********. I hope you all choke and die. You ******* ******** pieces of ****. I hope your children get hit by cars. I hope your children get run over and your lineage goes extinct. You are all cheating sacks of **** and deserve to suffer eternal damnation. This game sucks. Bunch of cheaters getting every single card they need perfectly every time. I hope you and all your families at WotC get stuck in a burning building. I hope you watch your children be extinguished and you all lose your jobs. I hope you all ******* die of liver failure when you fat cheating pieces of **** get drunk at the bar before running your car in through your ****** mansions. Devs for this company and the corporate suits due nothing.
They get paid to do absolutely nothing. You all deserve to lose your jobs. You're all wastes of flesh and you should KILL YOURSELVES! -
Sindrelari#41376
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These people deserve to go die of cancer. Terrible matchmaking with absolutelty busted cards. These ******* rats I hope get in terrible accidents.
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Sindrelari#41376
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These dirty ******* rats still can't balance matchmaking. no way in **** should my kaito mill be going up against fat greasy fingered chomos playing Kinnan, or golos. Cards that never should have been made but were because some fat, divorced, worthless loser decided those were the cards they needed to push. This game is terrible. Matchmaking is terrible. I hope to ******* Jesus ******* Christ that these devs lose their jobs. WotC employees lose their jobs. I hope this company fails and Hasbro sells them and most of these worthless employees lose their ******* houses and are forced to live on the streets. They took a great card game that required ingenuity and made garbage like hullbreaker horror and then "alchemised" them but still couldn't balance them. These stupid devs have two brain cells that are fighting for last place. I HOPE they lose everything. These developers offer nothing to society and the most they'll ever accomplish is when they rot 6 feet underground and feed the soil with the **** they spew. KYS
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Sindrelari#41376
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Game is still a cancer and pay to win. These ******* Atraxa and tergrid players get everything they want because they pay the proper price. Uninstalling the game. I can get cancer for free and it would be more fun than playing historic brawl in this **** game. Dear WotC, ya'll are idiots and your devs and corporate overlords are a bunch of morons. I hope you all lose your houses in california.
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Sindrelari#41376
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Once again I can't even play because some ******* ****** decides he's going to run every ******* boardwipe in ******* esper queen of agonies. Shocker. He drew everyone. This game is rigged and all the devs should be sent to North Korea like the worthless **** they are. These devs are lazy and terrible and give worse odds for people not paying for this game, than a ******* casino.
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Sindrelari#41376
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Lol jbis the only **** these Chinese devs know is what comes out of their mouth and their ***. Not much difference.
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Sindrelari#41376
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These ******* idiots at hasbro can't even keep their brackets straight. Went up against an atraxa deck that was all counterspells today. Johnny Law the massive cocksuckers. This game is terrible and I hope hasbro goes bankrupt and everyone at it loses their job. They can't even balance cards anymore (hello t3feri). I remember now why I uninstalled this dog **** game.
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Jbis206#39405
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I bet if you showed up to their office with a sack of bananas and a blindfold, you could finally get those apes to spit out some code actually worth its salt.
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Jbis206#39405
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These stupid, chimp devs. They don't have the brain power to wipe the dribble from their mouths let alone balance this format.
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Sindrelari#41376
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Wouldn't expect this greedy disgusting company to pay any attention. Hasbro ruined magic and I hope they all get sent to Russia.
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Sindrelari#41376
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Why would they? They still get the fat retards paying for these alchemy cards. And suckers like us still play this clearly rigged game. Terrible game design with absolutely no interaction. Play your commander and watch some fat neckbeard cast mana drain again...and again...and again.....and conjure their power 9. Game design is stupid and is exactly why I hope magic arena fails along with Hasbro. The employees can do what they do best and go eat from the garbage bin.
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Monsoon#20716
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Seriously, Alchemy has ruined Historic Brawl. There should be its own Alchemy format for brawl. It ruins the game with things like conjure out of commander color, drafting from spellbooks, seeking, and so much other non-magic mechanics that should be left to its own terrible format. Please listen to the players on this one. WE USE BRAWL to test cards for commander, and alchemy makes that ridiculous. This is what should happen IMHO:
1. Alchemy Brawl (so no key to the archive, no mythweaver poq and other ridiculously overpowered cards in regular brawl
2. Historic Brawl - ban all the worst contenders in each color, ragavan, mana drain, dark ritual, the one ring, teferis protection, primeval titan, paradox engine, wash away, sundering titan, griselbrand, maybe even a couple others (basically things that are banned in commander shouldnt be allowed in brawl, because its tougher against just one person.
3. Have a Hardcore Timeless Brawl format where literally ever card is allowed, alchemy, everything, Oko, etc. And then don't allow concedes either.Having Historic Brawl separated into three formats would make a lot of players happy. You can play the lighter janky normal format if you're looking for some casual fun, if you like alchemy you can play that or the hardcore version going into it knowing you can't concede and anything goes.
I feel like this one change to brawl would make the most impact on the player base's happiness.
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AndSig#00344
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Arena is bull.. i either am forced into playing low mana cards, extra removal and protection. If a four mana commander doesnt make it out safely its first cast, odds are your pummeled and may as well quit and start over. Build better decks? Where are the people who like to see janky interactions? Volo mutate always makes me laugh and i want to see how you finish it out. Oh... another mono black discard... and you remove my creatures until turn 5 and im out of hand... this format needs a four player set up. They also need a way to punish stallers. I want my coins too, and if my cards played out better than yours and your sad, tough crunchies. Anyone who wants to play janky tribal or obscure wincons feel free to add me as a friend on arena. Most of my decks are EDH I have at home or as close as possible. Also F@#% alchemy, those cards are bulls. And im not a fan of the overpowered LoR cards either.
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Sindrelari#41376
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WotC doesn't agree. The format is dead and the only people who play it are playing top tier commanders. They ruined it by adding alchemy. They ruined it by ruining the casual and promoting wins only. Wizards of the Coast can really only save the format of online commander by actually not having anything to do with it. This company is terrible and run by a bunch of greedy jerk offs. It's exactly why after coming back I find myself ready to uninstall and quit. WotC and Hasbro killed Magic, they killed magic arena. They kill pretty much everything they can get their grubby little hands on. Yugioh has a more caring corporate overlord in the form of Konami. I hope Hasbro goes bankrupt and their board of directors lose everything ( I would include their thoughts but they apparently have none since WotC can't balance ****.)
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bonsai#70698
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Amen.
It's so disheartening to have witnessed all the efforts from folks like LRR's Ben Wheeler https://wiki.loadingreadyrun.com/index.php/Benjamin_Wheeler to get alternative "casual" formats into Arena only to have them spoiled by WotC's lack of leadership and common-sense software product management.
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VVarlock#59667
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As you can tell, Wizards don't care. It has been the same for EDH/Commander since fans invented the format. At first Wizards would not support the format, because it did not help sell packs of new cards. They gradually and, I feel, reluctantly tried to add formats that made standard cards, relevant. Pioneer, planechase etc. But, these formats never had the success of Commander.
Nowadays, Wizards has taken to promoting the format by finding it a lucrative way to sell reprints. Both Modern and EDH feed the reprint market. They also release pre-constructed commander decks that have success where their previous pre-contructs failed.
With that being said, you would think that Arena would have been a great environment for EDH. Instead though it allowed the format in Historic Brawl. True to form this is limited in the fact that it is single player only and not ranked.
Being a singleton and single player format players build decks that win, no matter what. Negating the fun aspect of building a deck of cards that you just like and want to experiment with. Most times, when you spend hours building a fun tribal or inventive deck, you face an OP infinite combo/ramp deck that kicks your butt before you can even see if your deck works.
Combine this with the fact that most out of control EDH decks usually have at least a couple of other players help balance the playing field. Along with players that quit when they don't get the ideal starting hand. Despite having a free mulligan!!!
Anyway. As someone that loves the game and has been playing since 1994, I am never astounded by how WOTC consistently manages to upset its base. The players that keep them making money. If we want to play, we have to suck it up. End of.
So, much like with the paper version, I go through periods where I play Arena a lot and then stop for many months. When I begin to miss the creativeness and fun side of magic I go back to playing a lot. After a spell of playing against annoying decks. I stop. Rinse and repeat.
MTGO has multi player commander. But, the software is stuck in 1995. Shame. If it looked and felt like Arena, it would be much more popular. Perhaps that's why it doesn't.
End of rant.