I feel bad with it being this simple.
Google top decks… copy/paste for the season… winning feels endless.
Is this because of how the game has changed… it didn’t feel like this 3-4 years ago.
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Yes it did.
Netdecking has been around since the 90’s.
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I actually bookdecked a Magic deck back then. Someone had written an excellent book on deck building and play then wrapped it up with a blue white control deck and a great primer on playing it.
It won me lots of tournaments, though a big part of that was also because I was a Ms. Suitcase then.
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Congratulations.
Which Legendary did you get?
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If you truly didn’t feel this way 3-4 years ago, you were likely either stuck in the newbie ranks or just not aware that the decks you were facing were netdecks.
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Even in the early days of MTG decks that did well at tournaments got around through word of mouth. Later on Scrye magazine made its numbers each month from the decks they posted in it. Playing said decks correctly is still much harder to accomplish.
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Op, do you think it was by dumb luck everybody and their mothers were playing the same Undertaker Hunter back then?
It’s an online game. All they did was simplify something everybody was already doing.
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You shouldn’t feel bad. Because it’s not true.
So, since your statement is false, you don’t have to feel bad!
Happy Holidays doomsayer!
Do people get undeserved wins and such from a broken deck? Of course, but once you get to like Diamond, everyone is playing those same decks. And if you’re at that rank and that deck inflated your rank, you’re going to run into people who simply make better decisions in the game and you will lose as a result.
Even in this meta, if you make a mistake or two such as trading when you should just go face, vice versa, miss lethal, play off curve when it’s suboptimal etc will cost you games in Diamond.
So no, a bronze player isn’t firing up to legend from a deck alone, it’s just not enough
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how can a new player know that?
exactly, even if there was no hsreplay or vs, you’d just copy the deck your previous opponent used to defeat you
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