ppl are also leaving BG because of new microtransactions. i'm so mad, i love this fucking game. it's just sad to look at. i'm also an overwatch and a starcraft fan

The whole point of mercenaries was to be grindy with pay to skip grinding. Gameplay was an afterthought.

Sorry.. Game is still ok, good, have players.. Will not die any time soon... I gave like 2000$ and i do not regret one second of me being addicted and enjoying the game for almost 9 years now

Bro just move on. HS will never be good and Blizzard will never create a good game again.

Hearthstone is dying for like 10 years

im coming back after i dont know 8 years.... and the game looks the same... evertyhing is the same... how boring.. Even rank system is so fking boring. Im not motivated to grind

The new nefr actually make Demons Seed now a tier 2 deck in the wild at best.

because there are no meaningful turns anymore, its just OTK, clear and instant effects. setup and planning is a thing of the past like this game is about to be.

wild s tier

I grinded Mercenaries and maxed out all characters for free and shortly after they introduced the Final Boss mode (forgot the exact name) the entire mode just started crashing as soon as I logged into it.... literally unplayable, can't click on anything, get to see main menu for 2-4 seconds before the client crashes. I kept coming back every day for 2+ months hoping they would fix it and I could continue farming worthless renown and coins but it just kept crashing.

Sorry mate I have to do this. "mercanieries". Love your videos though

"328,324 on January 02, 2025" It's 100% dead

coins should be removed and replaced with renown at all levels. you should have a multiplier on your account that will increase as you buy packs - this is to accomodate the infinite grind. this multiplier will improve value of packs no need to change balance for mercenary levels. some balance changes for pvp, and new mercenaries. you can have community design the mercenaries and just 1 person implementing it in the game - propably using existing assest. i do not think mercenaries can be heavily profitable but it should be a good gold sink.

I'd love if we got like 1 solo adventure per year, had a ton of fun with these modes...

Arena is most fun

Recently returned and found out duels were removed. Fuck you blizzard it was my favourite mode

In my opinion, wild is the best mode. It's an only real f2p mode. Time goes, but u have all your cards from previous expansions and can build different decks for all classes.

try turning down you framerate. hearthstone is bugging out and lagging when your system is better than their servers lol

keep putting out content. I love anything hearthstone BG

The code please

31:48 it’s become golden because wisdom ball

In my opinion Cultivate and Kodama's Reach aren't that good, if not playing Big Mana or Lands or needing color fixing. A 3 mana ramp in green is actually quiet expensive compared to all the 1 and 2 mana package in green ramp. If you want to play your 4 mana commander turn 3, it overlaps. So especially three visits and natures lore are much better most of the time.

When I start a new deck, I add 40 basic lands and go from there. I will replace some with utility lands and maybe cut a few lands for example if I have mana dorks. My decks are usually 38 to 40 lands in the end. I have an elf deck with 36 lands but that's because I have so many mana dorks and most elves are cheap to cast.

Thank you, for some fine tips.

As a Rakdos enjoyer I'm pleased with this, I'll send this to the higher division to see if they approve of this.

The warhammer chaos precon was kind of a demon tribal deck if you ran belakor as the commander

Winning is a possible outcome not a necessity. Players who play the same Commanders and Cards prioritize winning and try nothing else, which becomes boring and frustrating if the Commanders are only the Top Ten. Finding the Balance is hard, but not impossible.

Thanks for the great advice! Always looking for ways to improve my gameplay

Its not your responsibility to make the deck fun for others. It should be a consideration tho.

3:10 you my friend haven’t seen the changeling ur dragon. Basically a bunch of different creature specific anthems and some changelings.

I generally agree with the video and would also point out these problems: - playing overly complicated cards. If there is a card that has three different abilities, each of them a paragraph of text... as a commander or just a couple cards on board it might be ok, but otherwise it is just too hard to remember what does what and under which conditions, leading into many weirds triggers and other effects., which can be just overwhelming. - decks that have problem tracking their board state. E.g. creatin numbers of various small tokens and tracking which have summoning sickness, which are tapped, which of them have a +1/+1 counter on them... or copying creatures from graveyard, then doing weird stuff with the yard like putting the card to hand, but the card is on the table representing the copy... This made me cut the Sundial of the Infinite from the Feldon deck. - decks that don't do much but stall the game. The Hive Overlord decks seems fine to me, e.g. Unsummoning the lord by an opponent is a big weakness right there. But if then the game becomes a wipe after wipe without the Slivers really doing anything, it just gets tiring quickly - decks that can not rebuild and decks that don't run interaction, which can kind of lock someone out of the game even if the opponents don't want to do that (e.g. by a wipe, exiling the key combo piece which is the only way to win...) - decks that plan doing very complicated things for too many turns. Big turns are fun if they contribute to ending the game. They are not fun if they result in 10 minutes of playing solitaire and then passing the turn without anything really happening and then repeating this process over and over next turns

recently picked up magic again and for the first time im looking into commander format, was a great video to watch to hear some tips i should think about as a new player. i was actually looking into Rakdos as a potential commander I'd want to try. do you perhaps have a decklist for the one you have made? would be nice to see how others, more experienced players are building him

Think of it like cake. Too much frosting can make it taste off, while too little can leave you wanting more. This idea applies to Commander too-it's about personal taste, not a strict right or wrong. This is a 'rule 0' conversation: telling someone they're wrong for loving tons of frosting is like calling someone foolish for preferring less. Just as with decks, win conditions, or card choices, people have different preferences. Some enjoy playing with stax, board wipes, or combos, while others might avoid them entirely. When you’re playing Commander with new people, play what you genuinely enjoy. Over time, if others enjoy similar playstyles, you’ll likely find a regular group at the game store. Embrace what you love-whether that’s the "frosting" or not-and seek out others who share your style, while staying respectful and courteous to those who play differently.

Truth!

My buddy has a grixis Marchesa deck, and I hate that thing. Not much can be done against it once it gets rolling. I have made 5 commander decks. They're all fun to play with and against. Buuuuuuuut the can drag on. Green black red spider style deck. Makes a lot of death touch things and summons big nasty critters. Blue black zombie deck. Makes an insane amount of zombies and beefs them up. Denies opponents to react if drawn correctly. Rainbow sliver deck. It's slivers with a preatorial twist... It's jin gitaxias lol Red black white demon, dragon, and angel deck. It's slow to start, but it mid game and onwards is oppressive. And a black tribal demon deck. It makes deals and screws all players over indiscriminately. It's really funny to me.

Even though this technically doesn't apply to all decks, it's advice almost every commander player should follow. You can only really get away with very few lands if have a lot of draw and/or ramp and know what you are doing, and given that we are playing commander, I can confidently say that we almost always never fucking do.

If I play a deck with low cost spells and good draw engine I would drop to 32, elsewhere 37 is pretty fine to me

My favourite commander to run is Kami of The Crescent Moon. Drawing two cards per turn means that getting mana screwed is very rare for my table, and it's a mill deck so it still progresses my own gameplan.

I play 33 lands and 13 mana rocks (2 mana cost and only 1 4 cost ) XD

I play 31 lands in my primary deck. I'm usually flooded, because I play a combination of catchup spells (such as land tax) and mana rocks that add up to another 11 cards. So I have 42 possible draws that would give mana in some way.

my magic number is 34 it works really fine

37 lands is more then 1/3 of your deck. You can do with 30.

I always run 50+ cards that produce mana in every deck.

I run 32 land and it works i run less cause i run a combo deck, you dont have to run 37 all the time it depends on your strategy and how low your curve is, i can also run less cause my mana curve is pretty low. My particular build doesnt use mana rocks i use dorks cause i need weak creatures to sac sometimes

I make all my decks with 30 lands. They work. Deal with it.

I find your take a bit too superficial. Just bumping up to 37 lands isn't going to fix anything. Landbase is so deck dependant you can't put a single number on it. Nor for card draw, ramp, removal, ... I have decks where I run 37 lands but I also have decks where I only run 33 (E.G. commanders that give you mana in some way don't require a massive landbase). In addition I don't think you need a landdrop every turn, sure it's nice but not every deck needs it. Also, I'm sure I misunderstood, but I hope you're running more than 2 ramp cards in your decks :D On top of that "no maximum handsize" is so overrated and unnecessairy, unless you desperately need every single card in your hand and you're consistently drawing a ton of cards every game every turn. Just because I don't fully agree with your take/statement doesn't mean the video is bad! These are all opinions anyways.

In my experience, I run 33-35 and I've never run into any issues. Now, the first thing I do is run 10-15 pieces of draw. I do play mostly blue in all of my decks so it makes easy. So I usually have some way of continuously drawing. Rarely do I miss lands due to my heavy drawing energy. And even if I'm not dropping my whole hand right away, I usually have a nice grip throughout all my games.

Very good video, don't stop !