im down for historic brawl content.

Love the historic brawl content. If it’s a format you want to play, I’ll probably watch it.

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We do love it! Please, make it a regular here :D

I would love to see you do historic brawl content too!

@@witchcraft2264 Did that once, but mybe I find a way to sneak in some Historic Brawl again. It's still the format I play the most ☺

I literally heard this comment 😂

Id love to see you and Seth play some Grindy modern midrange

Yes, it’s so fucking annoying. I’ll make some crazy funky and janky deck and then the one time I finally get it to start working they concede before I can do anything

@@SilverWolf340 A big problem too is, there's too much damn control and aggro and competitive metagame stuff in the historic brawl queue despite the fact that it's unranked and not meant for competitive play. Everyone's just trying to kill you as fast or as brutally as possible while all you're trying to do is have fun and send a message... I think some people need to be reminded periodically that magic is a GAME and that the point of playing a game is to have fun with it in your spare time socially. That means making sure the game is fun for both players. Not one person gets to play and the other person doesn't get to do shit. Besides, isn't the win much more satisfying if it felt like you won by an inch rather than by a mile?

@@ryangainey94 lots of people just like to win (me included) so that is what i am trying to do in every format.

@@ryangainey94 It's rough. I started out doing the fun stuff in HB, only to get controlled out of my mind. Then at one point I just said "if you can't beat them, join them". All it takes is just a couple of people going full try-hard and tadaa, you have an entire gamemode transforming. That said, they do do some amounts of matchmaking. For instance I meet nothing but Kinnan, Winnota, Tefari and the 5-cost bolas planeswalker when I play with one of my deck. It's like that's literally all there is in that pool of players... so it's not as if they don't do something to keep the over the top decks separate.

@@ryangainey94 It's because Arena's quests incentivize winning.

Hugely underrated format.

@@zachgray4767 Yeah fr!!! I only play Explorer instead of Historic because I don't like the digital-only mechanics... but for Historic Brawl, i don't really care. It's a sillier, more casual-feeling format so I say go crazy with the seek, conjure, draft stuff

@@williamscerbo458 Honestly I prefer playing Highlander in a digital format. It"s way faster to build decks, I don't have to seek out random obscure singles at shops or wait for tcgplayer to ship them, and I can make changes on the fly and try them out in real-time. The last time I played EDH in person, I was so bored.

Facts. I see people run go shintai against me at my lgs and try to mill me with it and I have to point out it’s better to mill themselves to use their commander’s activated ability

@@ayllipkhieu8659 Not only the activated ability of Go-Shintai itself but there are a few other mass recurr spells for enchantments, that this selfmill can support a lot

@@lukeisstrange1533 exactly. Vastly underrated. Even have the option to not use it. Tho, I can understand that the new shrines aren’t “as good” as the other shrines since you have to pay for them to work but oh well

What are you talking about. I've been playing historic brawl exclusively as well and I rarely see anyone play an alchemy card (except me).

what alchemy cards are seeing play in combo decks in historic? dragonstorm and faithless looting are not alchemy cards, just in case you arent aware.

Enjoy it while you can, before it explodes in popularity. The reason it’s so varied is that no one has “solved” it yet. No one’s quite figured out the best, most consistent decks/meta calls and put that information into circulation. This happened to casual EDH when people figured out that durdly decks with strong value engines, good protection from aggressive decks, and few obvious threats tend to run away with the game. It’s still a pretty new format, and hasn’t quite reached high popularity levels, so everyone is still experimenting.

@@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai that's true, but the fact that there's some kind of matchmaking on deck competitiveness. I didn't play it a lot after the update yet, but I played hundreds of games before and the cool thing was that if you try to play some junk you kost likely get paired with another junk deck. If you played pre-nerf Winota and Omnath, or Kinnan or pre-ban Golos you usually see the same 3/4 decks over and over. But I had the most fun playing junky tribal decks against other subpar decks

@@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai I think it's a VERY solved formats. Everyone knows Kinnan is just most busted and it's not even close, then it's followed by things like Teferi, Bolas, Niv, Golos, and Esika/Bridge. Even wizards themselves admit it's solved by putting these commanders in a separate queue. And that's the reason why it feels varied. They basically quarantined the meta and kept the best decks out of the queue to keep it varied lol.

Yeah, my main complaint is the lack of variety in the decks that people play. It can be pretty tiresome to play against the same deck so often.

There is definitely a meta in Historic Brawl that you don't see so much in true EDH. This is obviously due to the 1v1 nature of the format, as it's much more competitive.

You'll always see golos and esika. No matter what you play, that's because nobody wants to play a deck that doesn't have a uber win ratio.

@@jeremyobriant7266 LEt's be honest. It's because it's Arena. The anonymity is a huge problem with Arena in general. So many tryhard decks and people who quit the second they think they might possibly lose. (I'm guilty of it too, I simply won't play my helipad deck against certain decks as it's that not fun. I'm looking at you Bolas... Or pretty much every "Plainswalker as a commander" deck out there.

@@AngelusNielson Yeah, it's just boring playing against 5C piles again and again.

Sadly Wizards said we'll never have the technology :/

@@Zosh_ money has a funny way of making "impossible" things possible.

@@Zosh_ They have had 2 headed giant on mtgo for 20 years.

@@Dagg3r89 it really doesn't. You cant re write the code of a strictly two player game to be 4 player just like that no matter how much money you throw at it

@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters I know. I'm just saying Wizards' word. I would love for it to happen. But they built Arena with the goal to squeeze money, not with future proofing in mind. It would cost them money to try to implement more than 2 players matches and why would Wizards ever spend money to improve their products?

Completely agree. I play a version of the budget Vivian brawl deck more than most anything else.

Me too. But I find myself playing it less and less since alchemy started creeping into the format. Started playing explorer more

yeah, after the anthology dropped it seemed like every other person was playing shrines. I started main decking back to nature because of it, and haven't been playing any of my decks that don't have access to green or white as much

Thumbs are by Adriano Kitani

@@oscher88 well then Adrian is great @ what he does.

Agreed. I've actually been paired against this commander so many times that I've included Back to Nature in my deck.