I’m primarily a paper edh player, but I’ve been dabbling in arena lately. There’s so many different formats, it’s hard to know where to start and I don’t want to waste my wild cards on a standard deck only to realize I like historic or brawl more.

So my question is what formats do you all play in MTGA and why?

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    I somewhat reject the “play competitive” vs “play for fun” distinction. I’d call the later casual play or similar. I mostly play competitive, but for me, that’s playing for fun. It’s not a decision between fun and competitive.

    As for the formats, I enjoy explorer a lot. In competitive formats, make sure to play BO3, as that’s what they are balanced around.

    Many people enjoy historic as well, but I dislike the Alchemy exclusive mechanics and also like that explorer is close to Pioneer paper.

    • @jake_ericEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Fair point. While I mostly play Brawl, I do have a mono-Red Standard deck, a Rakdos sacrifice Explorer deck, and a Golgari Elves Historic deck; I wouldn’t play them if i didn’t have fun doing it, even if it is competitive. I guess I mean just for fun as opposed to playing for rewards too.

      I know BO3 is more balanced and all, but I’ll admit I do prefer quicker matches with BO1.