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Where do you go to find new decklists, brew ideas, etc? (mtgzone.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I pretty much only go to mtgdecks.net to find anything but lately I've found it all to be a little stale there. I'm not really sure why. I used to use mtgazone.com but that also seems to be updated infrequently or just not very diverse at all. I do love their writeups and sideboard guides.

I was curious where everyone else went to look for new deck ideas, theory-craft ideas, new brews or anything like that. I've found mtggoldfish.com and tappedout.net to be decent user hubs, but it's difficult for me to search effectively and it seems like there's so many decklists that it's hard to distill it down to what works well.

One thing I like about mtgdecks.net is that they also post the winrates that the deck achieved during the latest run. Twitter sometimes has some decklists with more some writeup about it which isn't bad.

All suggestions are welcome!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

For commander I use EDHrec and Scryfall. I also do searches of builds among Moxfield's decks to see what other people are doing with it.

[–] morphballganon 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Commander? I see a new legend I want to build around. Example: I've never done a group hug deck. But I may build Sergeant John Benton because his art screams "not fantasy in any way" and that's funny to me.

Modern? I see an interesting combo piece I want to build around.

Then I just scryfall search for the kinds of effects that would pair well with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A shortage of deck ideas has never been a problem for me. The limiting factors are (a) the difficulty of obtaining the cards and (b) eventually finding out that the decks I make aren't viable. And I guess (c), finding enough time to play them.

I've gotten into the habit of reading through the "Traditional Ranked Standard Decklists" that get posted weekly at https://magic.gg/decklists , looking for any archetypes I haven't seen before, or any new tech in familiar archetypes.

If there's a draft archetype I enjoy, sometimes I try to turn it into a constructed deck. That works fine for casual play, but usually doesn't yield anything competitive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Oh wow ty I didn't realize they posted those, that's a really good resource

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I know its bordering on necroposting , but i would love to actually go out with a bunch of cards to my LGS and brainstorm there with people at the table