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Arena is making me face a lot of disgusting monoblue decks or one or the other Teferi, I'm nearly in the mood of using all of my wildcards to craft the most toxic and unfun commander deck. What is the commander you absolutely despise?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The biggest problem with Arena is no Rule 0. You can go in with your fun Madness deck you theory crafted, and go against an Eldrazi or Tiamat and have your day ruined. Then when you create your soulcrusher stax deck, you'll get put against someone playing a relatively benign mill deck.

Then that person decides to make their own soulcrusher deck, and more and more people create decks that make people never want to play on Arena again.

If it were possible to look at an opponent's commander before entering the game, that would solve at least some issues, i think. I'd personally never play against an Ulamog, Ugin eye of Storms, or Tiamat

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This one is very salty. I replaced Gideon with Avacyn, Angel of Hope and a bunch of board wipes to help lock things down. There are also a bunch more taxes effects like Ghostly Prison since this was published. I love playing this and casting Mana Tithe. They never see it coming.