Achieving Legend rank is so common these days, that it seems more of a participation trophy vs any real sense of accomplishment. I mean, at this point, lets just remove all those Bronze, Silver, Gold, etc. brackets and go back to straight numerical-I see your ranking you see mine - of the past. Cause, at Legend you play all the other brackets Anyways.
It all seems so utterly pointless to even bother to say you made Legend, other than, Congrats on your new card back to add to your collection
As with so much of this game lately, nothing makes sense anymore
I will say, I have never hit legend. Maybe because Im extremely stubborn and refuse to play the meta decks floating out there - I have a better sense of accomplishment if a home brew deck I made actually got to the finish line.
I would do this in MTG Arena alot too, but with Arena it feels alot easier. I made it to mythic quite a bit using a Yorion control deck that was efficient in surviving aggro, and outlasting some control decks. Among some other home brew decks. It was very fun and rewarding.
So maybe the luster of hitting legend has not worn off on me quite yet, I can see how it can feel like a participation trophies to others who hit legend on the regular.
As someone who loves building and playing homebrews, I highly recommend playing a meta deck to legend then using legend to test decks with no worries about rank.
Ofc you did, but that method has limitations. For example, you can only learn from people who you get matched with, which are players of similar skills as yours, which is apparently not much.
Also, some weaknesses of decks you can only learn by playing them and realizing “Oh, I see, this feels bad for the pilot of this deck, I’ll remember this as a weakness for when I face it next time”.
It’s not up to an individual. It’s a proven fact.
But I mean, I’m just saying that in case you want to speed up your progress. I’m sure you’ll get there eventually if you want.
Its not an excuse. Its how I choose and find enjoyment in playing HS. If you want to criticize others for how they want to play, by all means go for it. But its uncalled for.
I didn’t criticize how you like to play, I said until you make legend you can’t use homebrew as an excuse.
It’s an excuse, copium of the highest order, and among the most common refrains of people who have never made legend.
“I play my own decks, so…” Well, either you’re a bad pilot, your deck sucks, or some combination of both because lots of people both homebrew and make legend each month.
Ahhh yes. My ego is so inflated to the point where I refuse to play netdecks. And in turn I choose the life of self sabotage! Bravo! You figured me out!
Give me a break. Stop concerning yourself with the way I choose to play, and move on.
It’s just another rank floor to get you so more free stuff. That’s basically how you should treat it. Anything else beyond that has no real rewards unless you are top .1% of players trying to get into the only tournaments left.
Your position is way more contradicting than you might think. If you are very good at homebrewing you WILL end up making an existing netdeck anyway or at least the most likely scenario is that you will end up either with an existing netdeck (if you’re good) or something close to a netdeck with variations.
That’s because the good combinations of cards in this game are VERY finite; let’s say I want to make a good flood paladin; am I really going to drop the 5 or 10 cards of the netdeck that are the bread and butter of it if I know what I’m doing when there are NO OTHER CARDS that can do what I want?
You literally brought it up here and literally told us exactly this:
The fact of the matter is playing homebrews isn’t stopping you from hitting legend, so you’re just making excuses for the fact that you aren’t good enough or your decks aren’t good enough.
That’s what you said, that you’re too cool for other people’s homebrews.
And I challenged you to put up, go play a real deck to legend, then you might have some credibility in this topic.
But to admit this means they have to also accept that they aren’t nearly as good at the game as they believe themself to be, and that’s not going to happen.
It’s like the guys who tell you they could have gone pro in whatever back in highschool but X or Y was more important, etc.
