Can someone teach me arena?

[Zee-1630]

I got sucked back into playing BSM in Standard for the last couple of weeks, but I have mostly been playing Arena for the last year. I am not an infinite player, but I am above average.

I recommend watching a few drafts done by streamers who do a good job of explaining their card picks.

I would normally recommend Kolst, but he stopped streaming Arena about 4 months ago.

This guy (DoseofCoffee) also does a great job:

https://youtu.be/3DgxEWOSoco?

We have had three dual-class seasons in a row, which I like. I was just starting to get a lot 6-0 runs before I took a break.

Picking a good combination of classes is quite helpful. Some of my best runs have been with Mage-Shaman, but Rogue, DK, an Paladin are among good choices as well.

Removal (especially board clears) is key in the current meta. Some or a lot of healing can be quite important too, depending how aggressive your deck is.

Arena is still plagued with barcode accounts, so you need to be aware of that. I will post some links to some recent threads on this topic:

Barcodes in the new Arena season

A barcode account is a bot account that was used to farm gold, which is then purchased by players who buy and retire Arena drafts until they find an insanely strong deck, which they then use to stomp other players. So a new dual-class Arena season began August 20th, which forced-retired any incomplete barcode runs, and for the first 48 hours it was quite pleasant to face less barcode decks, while more regular players popped into Arena to check out the new season and meta. But it’s 3 days later…

Will they break again the Arena?

In last developer news they announced future changes for Arena. I’m worried, even afraid. Finally after some years they made a good change 1 legendary Card per Arena in the draft. This made Arena playable, and lots of players (as they shared in some stats on game modes) started playing Arena, on the other side, this made developers believe again in Arena and announced changes for future. As I was saying I’m afraid that too many changes will break the Arena again. So I think a good idea can b…

Something is wrong with arena

Every single run I am put up against the most insane decks the first 2 games before things even out. Is this happening to anyone else where the first games are just complete BS? It’s happening every single run, I wish I could draft as powerful decks as the ones I am facing.

The current health of Arena

For Magic the Gathering, my name once appeared on one of the first Top 100 lists in the world for Limited. I thought those skills would translate into me becoming an infinite Arena player, but that has yet to happen, but I still manage to play a lot of Arena. Having recently made some posts about Arena in other threads, which were taken down, I thought I would rather respond to the following quote in a separate thread rather than in one about how Arena or HS is a Scam. Basically, the abunda…