I actually tried MTGA, liked it a lot. Built a meta deck, liked it was having fun. A week later BB drops and half the deck is unplayable and the game has no dust system to recover value. Immediate permanent quit for me.
@yavivanov6650 no deck survives forever in MTG standard its a fast rotating format. My issue is the fact I'm paying for virtual proxies of cards and have no ability to exchange them in any way. No trading, no buyback, no dust mechanic, nothing. I'm just left with dead weight in my virtual collection forever. If they had a mechanic where I could port in physical cards I own in the real world, this problem wouldn't exist but they just can't resist double dipping on their customers.
The meta didn't actually change. The matchmaking algorithm matches you based on the cards in your deck, along with considering things like rank, so he just got matched with opponents who had similar deck ratings according to the matchmaker. Seriously. On Arena we even call high tier deck matchmaking "hell queue", though it's only really noticeable in unranked formats like Brawl, where the matchmaker doesn't consider things like rank.
@@marginis Matchmaking value is only for unranked formats, its not a system used in ranked. There is probably still hidden MMR though, it just dosen't take your deck into account.
"I need to grind to super high rank in a very competitive format in order to join a very very casual format of MTG with the homies" is a super wild way to tackle a challenge.
From "can they block if I attack a planeswalker" to mythic in a month is one hell of an accomplishment. God damn, Rarran. Also, these streams with CGB were some of the most enjoyable content for me in a while. Literally binged them. Please, do more collabs with him or voxy, playing magic!
The other day I won a match playing lifegain. Opponent scooped when I DIDN’T block despite it being exactly lethal. Math may be for blockers, but i was not about to be outdumbassed by mono red
I’ve been playing this game off and on for 30 years, still nothing more enjoyable than watching a new player dive deep or a returning player find their groove again. I know it’s expensive, but my other hobby was golf and when I broke my wrist Magic came back into my life.
Just got mythic tonight with red green dino might. Haven't played magic since onslaught block. Been playing on my phone.. haven't spent dime. Been loving it.
Apply to all TCGs honestly. Boarding to counter your opponent's decks and AND to counter your opponent's counter to your decks it's such a mind game where a good player could flop hard if they're bad at boarding.
Best of 3 is necessary because of how magic is designed. Needing to draw lands and spells leads to a much wider variety of outcomes compared to a fixed mana system. Bo1 on arena helps even things out with the hand smoother but this only helps linear aggressive decks like modern red. A deck that traditionally gets much worse in game 2 of a Bo3 because now you can respond to the strategy.
@@CatManThreeIt definately is! I found when starting I would build a deck without a sideboard or sometimes just a few cards i thought my be interesting to try. As you play and see other decks you begin to see where your weaknesses are and that's when you get a better idea of what to sideboard.
Part of plateauing at Platinum is that up until then the game was giving you 2 points per win and 1 point removed per loss. So now you actually need over 50% winrate to climb.
Totally expected to skip through the video to see if you got it, but your storytelling made me watch the entire thing! Great Video and congratz on hitting Mythic!
I'm so proud of you Rarran congratulations, most of players stops in the platiniun like me because the reward is only two miserable boosters and you have show us how is difficult and frustrating is to become a mythic but not only that. You have show us with perceverance and pacience that anyone can go anywhere even with low time experience and about the budget you have expended think about the programmers, designers, technicians and orthers employeers that maintaining the app, so your money has been used for a good cause.
@@Charles_Markus Ha, "done playing"... Though, honestly, I wonder if that does make it easier to convince yourself you want to stop playing MtG? Imagine if somebody gave you money for every addiction you beat.
@@buttonasas I played magic from 1994 till around 2016. WotC / Ha$bro made it very easy to quit , because the commercial direction they took. I only play some chaos draft or cube draft now with old cards and only a few times a year
@@Blackadder75 I also play mainly cube draft and other limited formats but I must say I like new cards a LOT better than old cards. They're much more friendly and fun (certainly more fun than popping off or stalemating - cube often devolves into those extremes)
The mtg experience is spending hundreds of dollars on a deck, having half of that cost be just the manabase, and enjoying the relief that your next deck will be cheaper as long as you reuse lands
Watching him grind rank was one of the most relatable things ever. I went for mythic a while back and used mono red to do so and I am so strongly reminded of how miserable it was at points. Also he probably would have had a better time if he had done best of threes instead of best of ones. But then he has to learn how to sideboard and that's a whole nother can of worms. Great video either way Rarren keep up the good work and don't let MTG get you down.
Even having watched all the streams, your storytelling skills kept me captivated the whole time. You've gotten really good at that. Also congrats. Hope you enjoy commander!
It's funny that he wants to reach mythic to get the confidence to play EDH, the most casual format there is, when most of the EDH players couldn't even reach Plat or Diamond without Mono Red. :D
I think it makes sense. You don't really want to derail a show like that by being a complete noob, so playing enough to reach Mythic seems like a fair goal to do before going on a show
That's a pretty big misconception. If anything the only thing an EDH player would struggle with is constructed deckbuilding and meta knowledge. Hitting Mythic isn't hard with any decent deck. You can get to plat with like a 30% winrate.
I absolutely loved watching this, because when i first started a handful of months ago i was in the same situation as you. I tried so many decks, watched so many youtube videos and finally started to figure out what i was doing with a mono black deck and when i hit mythic for the first time i didnt even want to play a game in mythic rank because i was scared to lose it. Thanks for the quality video man.
Honestly impressive! I have played for years and never hit mythic. That is a really fast growth speed! Hope you stick with the game and we get to see some more mtg games on your channel :)
18:43 "even though there was a couple of mistakes here and there" Sir, I was there. Don't you lie to the good people now. Tell them how many misplays you made because you were freaking out about the rope. It was great by the way. I could /feel/ CGB alternate between laughing and cringing through my monitor.
Lands themself are a mini-game oriented to serve your over-all strategy. The advantage of this is that you're also able to ramp - that is - generate a bigger mana-base to allow advanced plays to happen sooner than a linear 1-per-turn increment would allow. Once you get your head around it, it's just another strategic component. In commander I use omnath locus of mana to pool mana across multiple turns, so that i'm not obliged to waste everything on mid plays for the sake of mana economy. You could also produce a bunch of treasures and use numerous loop-holes to summon big things for little to any cost. It just takes a minute for that system to sit comfortably amongst all the other madness
Now that I have been to your lives for these types of videos, it makes me appreciate the youtube experience even more. Thank you rarran! Also I was in there day 1 telling you to play rabbits. I'm glad it worked out in the end.
This has been a blast to watch! I also started playing MTG Arena recently and finding all the vods was awesome. Didn't catch a live stream, but watched everything like 2 weeks behind. Seeing all the similarities was great. I also made it with rabbits 2 days ago. So seeing these last matches felt so familiar :D Looking forward to more magic content! Cheers.
I cannot wait to see how he tackles the social aspect of commander tho. 😅 "Wait, wait wait... If you give me one more turn, I'll attack him instead of you!"
As someone who has gotten bottom mythic 20+ times, congratulations. It wasn't the smoothest run but with a weasel and a falcon being your teachers, and you doing it in bloomburrow, I am pretty sure you count as a Disney Princess and a card carrying card gamer.
This was so dope! Congrats on reaching mythic :) I can't wait for you to play Commander with CGB, I'm sure you're gonna love the format, it's tons of fun!
MTG Arena rewards longevity - I'm into my 3rd year following my return and have no problems crafting any deck I want - the key thing is little and often for games
@@Dragostorm21 You mean the more cards are in a format the more good high rarity cards there are and you run out of wildcards? Yeah, I wish I could so easily have a good Timeless deck... imagine if you could turn 3 copies of any mythic/rare into one copy of any other mythic/rare.
Nice! Veteran aggro player here who sometimes dabbles in midrange (aggro+control). Love watching you go through the same albeit speed ran version of what most magic players end up doing. Play an aggro deck. Get tilted when op has all the answers. Decide to try more controlling decks. Realize it sucks trying to have all the answers and its better to be asking the questions/presenting the problems. Aggro player for life.
This is was so fun to watch. Now to enjoy magic as it was intended irl, you need to get into best of 3 and possibly try higher power formats like Pioneer (Explorer on arena). Paper magic is more fun, but as far as arena goes, Explorer is much higher power level. Also in Bo3, the whole obsession with mono red fades because you can sideboard cards to easily deal with them.
100% agree that the Arena economy is atrociously bad for new players. I don't agree about the mana system though. I think the land system is quietly a stroke of genius, but you have to get pretty deep into deckbuilding before you start to apprecaite just how much it adds to the game. It can be very frustraiting, but it adds a shocking amount of depth to the game that's extremely hard to see at first. I loved the series though, and I hope we get to see more Magic on your channel!
You want to build a real competitive deck here? Better grind dailies for a year so you can pull packs and hope you get what you need to build the new meta... or pull some good red cards and get to winning with a cheap to upgrade shell.
@@Greg501- I played F2P, used the golds for drafts. If you are good, you make a profit with every draft. Also there is so much stuff for free, I can craft several meta decks.
Idk if you’re gonna read this or do this challenge again. But, unless what you’re playing pre combat affects combat. It’s almost always strictly better to play your spells in main phase 2, opponents operating with less information
time is money, friend..... to quote some warcraft goblins . I spend €0 on MTGA, I didn't even buy the welcome bundle. Yet I have thousands of rare and mythic cards , all F2P. Note I am not even a regular player, I have skipped many sets and do not play for months sometimes... If I played all year round I could easily have 5,000 rares by now
Well Magic does have a metric shit ton of cards and Rarran went in spending money in most horrendously inefficient way possible. I still believe it's a much better F2P experience than Hearthstone. Or at least what it used to be, I heard they made some changes in recent years.
@@Blackadder75 I also spend nothing and can make about 90% of what I want, I used to play HS spending £35 per a set gaining maybe two useable legendaries (compared to MTGA which gives you rares and mythics and wildcards constantly.) I recently installed HS again to find that the Battlepass is 'payed entrance only' MTGA gives you enough gold and play tokens that a few drafts earn enough premium currency (gems) to buy the next Battlepass and genuinely play for free.
@@matevzgolob6782 I just came back to hearthstone after not playing for years and so far f2p has been great. They give you "returning packs" which have a bunch of cards from the last few expansions, also a bunch of free packs. I got something like 80 packs + 100 cards + my choice of a tier 1 constructed deck all for free.
"On a scale of 1 to 10, how well am I doing in your opinion" "Okay... Mhhhh..." Absolutely killed me ! Came here from CGB, loved to watch the journey and hoping for more Magic in the future !
Well as much is i would like to see Raran playing a Storm Deck i would find it funnier if he gets a Group Slug or Group Hug Deck, like why do i let you guys draw Cards or what is Politics?
When I first got into MTG a year ago, I made it to mythic in my first week of playing by building a 250 card mono white pile. My 20+ years of YGO experience transferred over pretty well.
Awesome video. Magic is undoubtedly expensive. Especially if you don’t play consistently because of time commitment and other things but it does get cheaper the long you play for, especially if you are an above average player/drafter.
Let me be honest. Most commander players also don‘t understand the game. Threat evaluation is often just a joke, people sit around niche interactions and discuss them for around 30 minutes but have no clue how it actually works
@@yargolocus4853 yes but no. In my playgroup there is a nice mix between good players that know their stuff but also a player who is totally new to the game. But have you seen how many commander shows there are on youtube and how little clue they sometimes have. This was not meant as a dig against commander players. It was more meant that grinding ladder on arena is much more frustrating than playing commander because commander usually is not only about winning but about having a jolly good time with your friends and just hang out. I personally think I could never again just walk into a store and go play commander with complete strangers because it can be very exhausting to not be on the same level regarding decks or personal intent
To all of those people watching who are mortified by how expensive it is: he probably went about the most expensive way to build decks. You can easily build decks just by paying free to play, or maybe you spend $5 weekly doing drafts. It doesn't have to be super expensive.
Doing Drafts is a good way to grind and is actually just a lot of fun. Not every deck is totally busted, the games are longer and the deckbuilding is great... just nothing for total new players, but if you come back after a long time and get comfortable with a set you can do nicely .
I really understand that you don't like lands in Bo1 Standard, but I think in older formats and Bo3 lands become much more enjoyable to play with. Beeing able to play fetchlans + shocklands or surveil lands and not immedately lose, when you get mana screwed or flood, mitigate a lot of the downsides. Plus there are many busted lands, which are really fun to play with. That's why Timeless is my favorite fromat (and you have actual decision making as early as turn 1). From a deckbuilding standpoint it's also way better than HS system imo, because you are not locked into playing some cards only in a specific class, while also having dimishing returns for multicolored decks, such as having to pay a lot of life for shocklands or hatecards for greedy manabases (e.g. Bloodmoon). That being said for learning the game, Standard Bo1 is probably by far the best way to start. It's just not Magic at it's best imo.
I finally hit legend in Hearthstone this month, first time since starting all the way back in closed beta, with a self-cooked Big Spell Mage variant. I get what you mean with the nerves. I was SO bad during my games in Diamond 1 and SO tilted when i was on Diamond 1 with 3 stars and a Pain warlock dropped 11/11 in stats on me on Turn 2, obviously knocking me off of the threshhold.
Making a deck in MTG is expensive but you can always find some solid budget deck to craft if you're a new player and then progressively grind towards a more elaborate one
I really think you should consider giving the Pokemon TCG another chance. The game is in a really good place right now, with a ton of decks being completely viable, and for less than $30 I was able to craft EVERY SINGLE CARD that appeared at the recent Worlds event. Literally 16 different decks, with all their different tech options. It's hard to overstate how good the economy is in Pokemon TCG Live, it's almost like they're giving it away.
i made a black-green tempo deck that just revolved around getting phyrexian obliterator + bushwack to resolve and i got mythic in like 2 weeks. cards like shakedown heavy and awakened sleeper carry my earlygame, then i just blow up their lands on turn 5. i think i only ever got someone's hp to 0 a handful of times because most people scoop before it gets to that point.
Never been this confused, trying to keep track on what's happening in a card game before. (first time ive seen the game played) super complicated game to understand but probably super rewarding when you do.
Magic is deeply complex and with the highest skill ceiling of any card game out there. Because of that though, the skill floor is much higher than what it is in hearthstone or pokemon. Give it a shot if you can, way better game than hearthstone imo
It took me 6h from D4 to Mythic with a dumb discard deck with 4x Rottenmouth Viper, 4x Bandit's Talent, 4x Nezumi-Informant and 4x Psychic Whorl. Add some removal that leaves stuff on the board for the vipers and some targeted removal for planeswalkers and creatures and some more discard cards and you're good to go. It's so frustrating to play against if you have a decent hand. Every 10th player just concedes when you start playing, but i recommend to not start discarding if you have the first turn. If the enemy plays a little smart they can recover unless you have the absolute nuts on hand. The decks stats were 47wins / 24 lose when i reached mythic.
First time mythic btw. I never reached Diamond before that either. It took me two weeks to reach Diamond from Silver with a blue/white control deck and 6 hour to reach mythic from that xD
"the second we started playing it the meta game drastically changed" is probably the most relatable sentence I've heard in a while
I actually tried MTGA, liked it a lot. Built a meta deck, liked it was having fun. A week later BB drops and half the deck is unplayable and the game has no dust system to recover value. Immediate permanent quit for me.
@@mungobestmage yep, it was your mistake to craft a deck, which won't survive rotation. Read before you do anything new, I guess
@yavivanov6650 no deck survives forever in MTG standard its a fast rotating format. My issue is the fact I'm paying for virtual proxies of cards and have no ability to exchange them in any way. No trading, no buyback, no dust mechanic, nothing. I'm just left with dead weight in my virtual collection forever. If they had a mechanic where I could port in physical cards I own in the real world, this problem wouldn't exist but they just can't resist double dipping on their customers.
The meta didn't actually change. The matchmaking algorithm matches you based on the cards in your deck, along with considering things like rank, so he just got matched with opponents who had similar deck ratings according to the matchmaker.
Seriously. On Arena we even call high tier deck matchmaking "hell queue", though it's only really noticeable in unranked formats like Brawl, where the matchmaker doesn't consider things like rank.
@@marginis Matchmaking value is only for unranked formats, its not a system used in ranked. There is probably still hidden MMR though, it just dosen't take your deck into account.
"I need to grind to super high rank in a very competitive format in order to join a very very casual format of MTG with the homies" is a super wild way to tackle a challenge.
its not really the reason why, he just wants to make a vid grinding to mythic on arena. he just wanted a storyline
real
He just wants to make sure he understands everything fully. And is used to doing these types of videos, lol
@@Minifig3D It was a joke, I respect the dedication.
People who start the game playing 1v1 are drastically better at the game than people who start by playing commander, so this is good.
Tax write off goes hard with this one
liver still gone
I remember during one of the coaching sessions someone in chat said they reached mythic with rabbits. CGB refused to believe it.
It was Rarran from the future trying to save his past self all that heartache
Reaching Mythic with top 3 BO1 deck?
Unheard of.
I did it with squirrels tbh - took a week.
@@matevzgolob6782 reaching mythic without even properly knowing the game mechanics at the start of the same month? I think that was the point.
The full magic experience is climbing with mono red until you can afford a deck with a lower win chance.
*Arena experience
Omg why did you describe my first time playing 😂😂
you climb as monored cause playing bo3 takes longer and its too damn expensive to build anything else. damn, even in arena magic still hates the poor
From "can they block if I attack a planeswalker" to mythic in a month is one hell of an accomplishment. God damn, Rarran.
Also, these streams with CGB were some of the most enjoyable content for me in a while. Literally binged them. Please, do more collabs with him or voxy, playing magic!
27:26 Rarran learns one of the most important rules of MTG. Math is for blockers.
I won many games because the aggro player didn't do math and I did XD
The other day I won a match playing lifegain. Opponent scooped when I DIDN’T block despite it being exactly lethal. Math may be for blockers, but i was not about to be outdumbassed by mono red
I’ve been playing this game off and on for 30 years, still nothing more enjoyable than watching a new player dive deep or a returning player find their groove again. I know it’s expensive, but my other hobby was golf and when I broke my wrist Magic came back into my life.
Just got mythic tonight with red green dino might. Haven't played magic since onslaught block. Been playing on my phone.. haven't spent dime. Been loving it.
@@didisaythat4230 I play on an iPad sitting in a tree near the beach sometime …. Loving it
I've got shoe boxes full of MTG 20 era, been playing on arena lately having a blast. What was your experience getting back into real life playing
@ best part was making a vintage cube, I like drafting once and a while with people, also really enjoyed playing commander with my kids
A thought occurs: The amount of organs you parted with in this video could have been used to fund a HS deck tracker :D
No, he will never sell his soul
A 2-day subscription on the most affordable deck tracker, more like.
@@ender4101 Try 2 hour
@@bencheevers6693 I hardly know 'er
Best of Three is kinda where it's at for competitive Magic, sideboarding adds so much depth to deckbuilding it's unreal.
Sideboarding can be hard for newer players in fairness.
Apply to all TCGs honestly. Boarding to counter your opponent's decks and AND to counter your opponent's counter to your decks it's such a mind game where a good player could flop hard if they're bad at boarding.
Best of 3 is necessary because of how magic is designed. Needing to draw lands and spells leads to a much wider variety of outcomes compared to a fixed mana system. Bo1 on arena helps even things out with the hand smoother but this only helps linear aggressive decks like modern red. A deck that traditionally gets much worse in game 2 of a Bo3 because now you can respond to the strategy.
@@CatManThreeIt definately is! I found when starting I would build a deck without a sideboard or sometimes just a few cards i thought my be interesting to try. As you play and see other decks you begin to see where your weaknesses are and that's when you get a better idea of what to sideboard.
he learned the game from cgb so he probably doesn't even know what a sideboard is
Part of plateauing at Platinum is that up until then the game was giving you 2 points per win and 1 point removed per loss. So now you actually need over 50% winrate to climb.
Tbf tho he had a good winrate regardless. People are just not playing well at low ranks.
Totally expected to skip through the video to see if you got it, but your storytelling made me watch the entire thing! Great Video and congratz on hitting Mythic!
I'm so proud of you Rarran congratulations, most of players stops in the platiniun like me because the reward is only two miserable boosters and you have show us how is difficult and frustrating is to become a mythic but not only that. You have show us with perceverance and pacience that anyone can go anywhere even with low time experience and about the budget you have expended think about the programmers, designers, technicians and orthers employeers that maintaining the app, so your money has been used for a good cause.
Rarran did in fact get good
Congratulations, and thank you for the hours of entertainment this journey has blessed us with!
The PLATeau was really tough to watch. Bro's morale bottomed out
Just like Avatar Aang with the 4 elements, Rarran is on a journey to master all TCGs
The question is, what games are left to crown him the TCGatar
@@AnnoLP there's still Yu-Gi-Oh, but I don't think Rarran will be touching that one
38:35 Ironically one standard deck in paper costs about this much.
on the flipside you can actually sell your paper cards after you are done playing.
@@Charles_Markus Ha, "done playing"...
Though, honestly, I wonder if that does make it easier to convince yourself you want to stop playing MtG? Imagine if somebody gave you money for every addiction you beat.
@@buttonasas I played magic from 1994 till around 2016. WotC / Ha$bro made it very easy to quit , because the commercial direction they took. I only play some chaos draft or cube draft now with old cards and only a few times a year
@@Blackadder75 I also play mainly cube draft and other limited formats but I must say I like new cards a LOT better than old cards. They're much more friendly and fun (certainly more fun than popping off or stalemating - cube often devolves into those extremes)
The mtg experience is spending hundreds of dollars on a deck, having half of that cost be just the manabase, and enjoying the relief that your next deck will be cheaper as long as you reuse lands
Watching him grind rank was one of the most relatable things ever. I went for mythic a while back and used mono red to do so and I am so strongly reminded of how miserable it was at points. Also he probably would have had a better time if he had done best of threes instead of best of ones. But then he has to learn how to sideboard and that's a whole nother can of worms. Great video either way Rarren keep up the good work and don't let MTG get you down.
Watching him yelling "where are my lands?!" made me laugh as a Magic player. That's the real Magic experience
Even having watched all the streams, your storytelling skills kept me captivated the whole time. You've gotten really good at that.
Also congrats. Hope you enjoy commander!
genuinely so excited to see u play commander. congrats on mythic!!
I love your storytelling ! It's so engaging, even as someone with 0 MTG knowledge
It's funny that he wants to reach mythic to get the confidence to play EDH, the most casual format there is, when most of the EDH players couldn't even reach Plat or Diamond without Mono Red. :D
Kind of. And then you have those that play cEDH that cant do that even with red(Yet can beat 3 other ppl at table on turn 3 :D)
I think it makes sense. You don't really want to derail a show like that by being a complete noob, so playing enough to reach Mythic seems like a fair goal to do before going on a show
That's a pretty big misconception. If anything the only thing an EDH player would struggle with is constructed deckbuilding and meta knowledge. Hitting Mythic isn't hard with any decent deck. You can get to plat with like a 30% winrate.
I think it's s funny that he thinks knowing Magic is what will make him good at Commander.
I absolutely loved watching this, because when i first started a handful of months ago i was in the same situation as you. I tried so many decks, watched so many youtube videos and finally started to figure out what i was doing with a mono black deck and when i hit mythic for the first time i didnt even want to play a game in mythic rank because i was scared to lose it. Thanks for the quality video man.
you can't lose it
I am so excited for a commander show with you in it
Honestly impressive! I have played for years and never hit mythic. That is a really fast growth speed! Hope you stick with the game and we get to see some more mtg games on your channel :)
Rarran's body is just a shell now, completely devoid of any organs.
"It has the potential to win the game because it is so aggressive" describing the best deck on ladder is one of the sentences of all time
18:43 "even though there was a couple of mistakes here and there"
Sir, I was there. Don't you lie to the good people now. Tell them how many misplays you made because you were freaking out about the rope.
It was great by the way. I could /feel/ CGB alternate between laughing and cringing through my monitor.
The least backseating chatter just arrived
@@missingdays1 Hey I didn't backseat at all. I felt the actual pain at the misplays but I kept it to myself thank you very much.
voxy must be in the commander game too
Lands themself are a mini-game oriented to serve your over-all strategy. The advantage of this is that you're also able to ramp - that is - generate a bigger mana-base to allow advanced plays to happen sooner than a linear 1-per-turn increment would allow. Once you get your head around it, it's just another strategic component. In commander I use omnath locus of mana to pool mana across multiple turns, so that i'm not obliged to waste everything on mid plays for the sake of mana economy. You could also produce a bunch of treasures and use numerous loop-holes to summon big things for little to any cost. It just takes a minute for that system to sit comfortably amongst all the other madness
man gotta say i've really been loving your new videos. you're slowly but surely becoming one of my favourite content creators. god bless your soul
Now that I have been to your lives for these types of videos, it makes me appreciate the youtube experience even more. Thank you rarran! Also I was in there day 1 telling you to play rabbits. I'm glad it worked out in the end.
Awesome video Rarran! So glad you showed the ups and the downs with your thoughts over time. It's very authentic and fun!
This has been a blast to watch!
I also started playing MTG Arena recently and finding all the vods was awesome. Didn't catch a live stream, but watched everything like 2 weeks behind.
Seeing all the similarities was great. I also made it with rabbits 2 days ago. So seeing these last matches felt so familiar :D
Looking forward to more magic content! Cheers.
Was following the grind closely :) Looking forward to that commander collab!
Congratulations Rarran! Nice to see your journey. I hope the money you spent comes back tenfold with your MtG content.
Sick video dude, the streams vods were great to watch. Genuinely looking forward to seeing you on the commander show!
just started MTG, and coming from HS, why'd no one tell us their cards look so damn cool???
If you like blood and gore look up macabre waltz specifically the 2015 one.
30 years of art!
It got everything for everyone one! (No drama ever spark from this at all. Nope)
Because HS cards appeal to children while MTG cards appeal to everyone
Bro, the art in this game is INSANE. I could look up specific sets and just look at the art for hours.
Pictured: Rarran losing 13 of his kidneys (HD)
If Rarran and Gordon Ramsey had a child “WHERE IS THE LAND SAUCE?!?!?!”
I cannot wait to see how he tackles the social aspect of commander tho. 😅
"Wait, wait wait... If you give me one more turn, I'll attack him instead of you!"
"Glad to hear it, but I'll save you the effort...."
Now we need to see Rarran play the real MTG experience: MTGO playing a format like modern
“I was one win away from mythic”
*8 minutes of the video remain*
This is such an honest look at the new player experience
As someone who has gotten bottom mythic 20+ times, congratulations. It wasn't the smoothest run but with a weasel and a falcon being your teachers, and you doing it in bloomburrow, I am pretty sure you count as a Disney Princess and a card carrying card gamer.
This was so dope! Congrats on reaching mythic :)
I can't wait for you to play Commander with CGB, I'm sure you're gonna love the format, it's tons of fun!
Rarran when you play Commander. Be prepared to be annoyed in ways you never thought possible.
The curse of 1-win-away. It always hits.
“It’s turrnnnn 3” flinnnnggg
38:23 Congrats. Making it to mythic in your first month is a feat.
MTG Arena rewards longevity - I'm into my 3rd year following my return and have no problems crafting any deck I want - the key thing is little and often for games
The @6:30 "I HAVE 20 LANDS!" outrage regarding mana screw is so funny
I loved the WHERE ARE THE LAAAAAAANDDDSSS. Gotta love going on a 10 game win streak and then getting land screwed 3 games in a row.
38:04 "The master gave rarran a mythic rank ?? Rarran is a free elf!!!"
Coming from CGB's subscribers, and love to see the climb. You have a new subscriber, good sir!
The wild thing about MTGs economy is most decks run like 12 rares just in lands. Youll always have plenty of everything else; even mythic
Unless you play timeless, then you have 40 rares and no mythics
@@Dragostorm21 Timeless is for the established players that have been building up cards over years.
@@Greg501- you still will run out of mythic wildcards tho, even historic has less mythic wildcard tax
@@Dragostorm21 You mean the more cards are in a format the more good high rarity cards there are and you run out of wildcards? Yeah, I wish I could so easily have a good Timeless deck... imagine if you could turn 3 copies of any mythic/rare into one copy of any other mythic/rare.
@@Greg501- The format is unusually high on mythics due to special guests. I agree with you on the last part, i'd literally only play timeless then
Nice! Veteran aggro player here who sometimes dabbles in midrange (aggro+control). Love watching you go through the same albeit speed ran version of what most magic players end up doing. Play an aggro deck. Get tilted when op has all the answers. Decide to try more controlling decks. Realize it sucks trying to have all the answers and its better to be asking the questions/presenting the problems. Aggro player for life.
00:04 Rarran lied as easily as he breathe
Only a 38 minute video? That is impressive for how much footage you had from livestreams, excited to watch!
Honestly, Rarran. Props on doing hard things. Dedication like that is hard! Despair is common!
This is was so fun to watch. Now to enjoy magic as it was intended irl, you need to get into best of 3 and possibly try higher power formats like Pioneer (Explorer on arena). Paper magic is more fun, but as far as arena goes, Explorer is much higher power level.
Also in Bo3, the whole obsession with mono red fades because you can sideboard cards to easily deal with them.
Loved your magic streams! Love from Belgium ❤
Finally. Rarran has escaped the hole, and embraced an adult's card game.
100% agree that the Arena economy is atrociously bad for new players. I don't agree about the mana system though. I think the land system is quietly a stroke of genius, but you have to get pretty deep into deckbuilding before you start to apprecaite just how much it adds to the game. It can be very frustraiting, but it adds a shocking amount of depth to the game that's extremely hard to see at first. I loved the series though, and I hope we get to see more Magic on your channel!
You want to build a real competitive deck here? Better grind dailies for a year so you can pull packs and hope you get what you need to build the new meta... or pull some good red cards and get to winning with a cheap to upgrade shell.
@@Greg501- I played F2P, used the golds for drafts. If you are good, you make a profit with every draft. Also there is so much stuff for free, I can craft several meta decks.
@@Ghost-Raccoon Jokes on you, I am terrible at draft.
Idk if you’re gonna read this or do this challenge again. But, unless what you’re playing pre combat affects combat. It’s almost always strictly better to play your spells in main phase 2, opponents operating with less information
That Dragon roost island background music earned you my like :D
Yay MtG. Couldn't watch all the streams so a summary is amazing
cangratulations, well deserved, you put a lot of effort into this
The fact that you spent 500 dollars on a digital card game and you still only have access to a fraction of the cards is insane.
time is money, friend..... to quote some warcraft goblins . I spend €0 on MTGA, I didn't even buy the welcome bundle. Yet I have thousands of rare and mythic cards , all F2P.
Note I am not even a regular player, I have skipped many sets and do not play for months sometimes... If I played all year round I could easily have 5,000 rares by now
Well Magic does have a metric shit ton of cards and Rarran went in spending money in most horrendously inefficient way possible.
I still believe it's a much better F2P experience than Hearthstone. Or at least what it used to be, I heard they made some changes in recent years.
@@Blackadder75 I also spend nothing and can make about 90% of what I want, I used to play HS spending £35 per a set gaining maybe two useable legendaries (compared to MTGA which gives you rares and mythics and wildcards constantly.)
I recently installed HS again to find that the Battlepass is 'payed entrance only' MTGA gives you enough gold and play tokens that a few drafts earn enough premium currency (gems) to buy the next Battlepass and genuinely play for free.
@@KM-qr4li we present to you: The Whale!
@@matevzgolob6782 I just came back to hearthstone after not playing for years and so far f2p has been great. They give you "returning packs" which have a bunch of cards from the last few expansions, also a bunch of free packs. I got something like 80 packs + 100 cards + my choice of a tier 1 constructed deck all for free.
"On a scale of 1 to 10, how well am I doing in your opinion"
"Okay... Mhhhh..."
Absolutely killed me ! Came here from CGB, loved to watch the journey and hoping for more Magic in the future !
So, predictions on Rarren's commander when he inevitably plays EDH?
Well as much is i would like to see Raran playing a Storm Deck i would find it funnier if he gets a Group Slug or Group Hug Deck, like why do i let you guys draw Cards or what is Politics?
I think he'd like some kinda prison deck
Based on what he pulled from packs on stream, Sidisi or Meren seem like the most likely picks.
@babatazyah oh damn I'd love go see Sidisi
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When I first got into MTG a year ago, I made it to mythic in my first week of playing by building a 250 card mono white pile. My 20+ years of YGO experience transferred over pretty well.
The misplay on the game before Mythic is so classic. We've all been there! Congrats bro! One of us!
Awesome video. Magic is undoubtedly expensive. Especially if you don’t play consistently because of time commitment and other things but it does get cheaper the long you play for, especially if you are an above average player/drafter.
I’ve pushed mythic once or twice, all with homebrews and it’s seriously no joke. Congrats.
Let me be honest. Most commander players also don‘t understand the game. Threat evaluation is often just a joke, people sit around niche interactions and discuss them for around 30 minutes but have no clue how it actually works
Commander is best specifically for a persistent playgroup, so this is mostly a take on how your friendcircle plays
@@yargolocus4853 yes but no. In my playgroup there is a nice mix between good players that know their stuff but also a player who is totally new to the game. But have you seen how many commander shows there are on youtube and how little clue they sometimes have. This was not meant as a dig against commander players.
It was more meant that grinding ladder on arena is much more frustrating than playing commander because commander usually is not only about winning but about having a jolly good time with your friends and just hang out.
I personally think I could never again just walk into a store and go play commander with complete strangers because it can be very exhausting to not be on the same level regarding decks or personal intent
How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lands System
To all of those people watching who are mortified by how expensive it is: he probably went about the most expensive way to build decks. You can easily build decks just by paying free to play, or maybe you spend $5 weekly doing drafts. It doesn't have to be super expensive.
I've been playing for four years, daily for quite some time, and I've never spent a cent. It's very possible.
Doing Drafts is a good way to grind and is actually just a lot of fun. Not every deck is totally busted, the games are longer and the deckbuilding is great... just nothing for total new players, but if you come back after a long time and get comfortable with a set you can do nicely .
I really understand that you don't like lands in Bo1 Standard, but I think in older formats and Bo3 lands become much more enjoyable to play with. Beeing able to play fetchlans + shocklands or surveil lands and not immedately lose, when you get mana screwed or flood, mitigate a lot of the downsides. Plus there are many busted lands, which are really fun to play with. That's why Timeless is my favorite fromat (and you have actual decision making as early as turn 1).
From a deckbuilding standpoint it's also way better than HS system imo, because you are not locked into playing some cards only in a specific class, while also having dimishing returns for multicolored decks, such as having to pay a lot of life for shocklands or hatecards for greedy manabases (e.g. Bloodmoon).
That being said for learning the game, Standard Bo1 is probably by far the best way to start. It's just not Magic at it's best imo.
I finally hit legend in Hearthstone this month, first time since starting all the way back in closed beta, with a self-cooked Big Spell Mage variant.
I get what you mean with the nerves. I was SO bad during my games in Diamond 1 and SO tilted when i was on Diamond 1 with 3 stars and a Pain warlock dropped 11/11 in stats on me on Turn 2, obviously knocking me off of the threshhold.
Im gonna watch the hell out of your Commander games Rarran :)
10:45 I died, went to the graveyard, then got exiled 😂😂😂😂
10:41 that was most Canadian holyyy I have ever heard I love it hahahaha 🇨🇦
Damn haha good job dude that’s nutty 🙌🏼
Halfway through and I hear that Rarren on a commander show is on the line and IM INVESTED I NEEEEEED IT
Making a deck in MTG is expensive but you can always find some solid budget deck to craft if you're a new player and then progressively grind towards a more elaborate one
I really think you should consider giving the Pokemon TCG another chance. The game is in a really good place right now, with a ton of decks being completely viable, and for less than $30 I was able to craft EVERY SINGLE CARD that appeared at the recent Worlds event. Literally 16 different decks, with all their different tech options. It's hard to overstate how good the economy is in Pokemon TCG Live, it's almost like they're giving it away.
i made a black-green tempo deck that just revolved around getting phyrexian obliterator + bushwack to resolve and i got mythic in like 2 weeks. cards like shakedown heavy and awakened sleeper carry my earlygame, then i just blow up their lands on turn 5. i think i only ever got someone's hp to 0 a handful of times because most people scoop before it gets to that point.
Can't wait to see you play the Commander show!
Never been this confused, trying to keep track on what's happening in a card game before. (first time ive seen the game played) super complicated game to understand but probably super rewarding when you do.
Magic is deeply complex and with the highest skill ceiling of any card game out there. Because of that though, the skill floor is much higher than what it is in hearthstone or pokemon. Give it a shot if you can, way better game than hearthstone imo
Nice one, congrats. I do hope you try best of 3 at some point, you might like it even more. Bo1 favors aggro strategies.
I watched all the stream vods of this and it was a really good time
I hope to get to watch you do this again ❤
Commander is the best! Good on you for knowing
It took me 6h from D4 to Mythic with a dumb discard deck with 4x Rottenmouth Viper, 4x Bandit's Talent, 4x Nezumi-Informant and 4x Psychic Whorl. Add some removal that leaves stuff on the board for the vipers and some targeted removal for planeswalkers and creatures and some more discard cards and you're good to go.
It's so frustrating to play against if you have a decent hand. Every 10th player just concedes when you start playing, but i recommend to not start discarding if you have the first turn. If the enemy plays a little smart they can recover unless you have the absolute nuts on hand.
The decks stats were 47wins / 24 lose when i reached mythic.
First time mythic btw. I never reached Diamond before that either. It took me two weeks to reach Diamond from Silver with a blue/white control deck and 6 hour to reach mythic from that xD
Congratulations, man! I've been playing Magic for 5 years and never made it to Mythic
I enjoyed this. Make it a series!!!
30:48 I can only imagine how many times he made that joke on stream lmaooo
The banger is here. Can't wait for more MTG content!
Congrats rarran !
Most mtg players dont grind anywhere close to that high !