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After my complaining yesterday I've had a couple of good games in my #MTGKTK sealed deck. Both of which I think played to something I'm good at doing, which is identifying when I'm in the beatdown position.

In particular, in many Magic games there comes a time when either player could be the beatdown, and that position naturally goes to whoever was on the play. But if one person decides not to seize the initiative, then the other person can take it away. This depends on a lot of factors, but I find it's the case that many players still default to turtling up and not attacking. (This is a really hard habit to break, as every player experiences if they keep playing.)

The deck I'm playing is good at generating a lot of token creatures, which plays well on both defense and offense, but I feel like if my opponents had decided to be the beatdown then the games would have gone very differently.

#MagicTheGathering #MagicArena

After my complaining yesterday I've had a couple of good games in my #MTGKTK sealed deck. Both of which I think played to something I'm good at doing, which is identifying when I'm in the beatdown position.

In particular, in many Magic games there comes a time when either player could be the beatdown, and that position naturally goes to whoever was on the play. But if one person decides not to seize the initiative, then the other person can take it away. This depends on a lot of factors, but I find it's the case that many players still default to turtling up and not attacking. (This is a really hard habit to break, as every player experiences if they keep playing.)

The deck I'm playing is good at generating a lot of token creatures, which plays well on both defense and offense, but I feel like if my opponents had decided to be the beatdown then the games would have gone very differently.

#MagicTheGathering #MagicArena

It might be time for me to put #MagicTheGathering away for a year or two. My draft+sealed win rate since the start of #MTGWOE is about 30% and it just hasn't been fun for quite a while. (I've been playing a bunch of #MarvelSnap this fall and enjoying it a lot more than Magic.)

I'd say it's because of the fast limited formats - and I do hate the fast formats we've had this year - but I haven't been doing well at #MTGKTK either.

My suspicion is that the much faster pace of formats being solved in the 17Lands era means that even the bad players on #MagicArena are consistently better than I am these days, and whatever edge I thought I had in playing the games (IMO my strongest part of limited) is being wiped out by my relative deficiencies in drafting and deck construction.

(More broadly, regardless of the reason, I think the player base is getting better and I'm not. And that's not a recipe for me staying in the game much longer.)

It might be time for me to put #MagicTheGathering away for a year or two. My draft+sealed win rate since the start of #MTGWOE is about 30% and it just hasn't been fun for quite a while. (I've been playing a bunch of #MarvelSnap this fall and enjoying it a lot more than Magic.)

I'd say it's because of the fast limited formats - and I do hate the fast formats we've had this year - but I haven't been doing well at #MTGKTK either.

My suspicion is that the much faster pace of formats being solved in the 17Lands era means that even the bad players on #MagicArena are consistently better than I am these days, and whatever edge I thought I had in playing the games (IMO my strongest part of limited) is being wiped out by my relative deficiencies in drafting and deck construction.

(More broadly, regardless of the reason, I think the player base is getting better and I'm not. And that's not a recipe for me staying in the game much longer.)