Magic the Gathering
What's the best, well-rounded MTGA fansite?
Submitted 4 years, 10 months ago by
Siegfrieddo
I mean, as much I'd love to, I don't see Out Of Cards becoming an important MTGA site compared to the many other wholeheartedly sites dedicated to the game.
As happens with HS, there are the best sites for stats, others for deck lists, others for community interaction/forums etc. What would be a well rounded site for MTGA daily needs? Much like HearthPwn was for me personally. News, decklists, forum.. It had all. I want that for Magic too!
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I mean, as much I'd love to, I don't see Out Of Cards becoming an important MTGA site compared to the many other wholeheartedly sites dedicated to the game.
As happens with HS, there are the best sites for stats, others for deck lists, others for community interaction/forums etc. What would be a well rounded site for MTGA daily needs? Much like HearthPwn was for me personally. News, decklists, forum.. It had all. I want that for Magic too!
That’d be mtggoldfish.com for me. Daily updated meta list and daily articles and videos. But the thing I really miss is a Vicious Syndicate in depth type of meta analysis. With MTG I have to deduce what’s best against what, match-ups, meta trends, that kind of stuff.
Some youtubers produce some interesting content but it’s not the same as a good old written article.
Yeah MTG goldfish is always a great site for pretty much any format. The issues with having a full vicious syndicate-style application for not only MTGA but also just MTGO and paper MTG are that each has tons of small differences in the meta. The clearest examples are how Nexus of Fate is banned on MTGA despite it being one it is one of the largest payoffs for Simic Ramp, resulting in an imbalance in the meta. Another issue is just that certain cards are more accessible than others just due to how you obtain cards on MTGO and MTGA. A huge example of this is in how in the MTGA beta, they basically gave you all the cards you needed for Mardu Vehicles and as such, that deck saw an incredibly large play rate compared to how much it saw in the other ways of playing the game.
That being said, one of the best ways to learn the meta is through either just playing the game more and trying out things yourself or there are several websites that host their own content that is all very helpful to learn the game. The channel I mostly watch to learn more about the meta of different formats is Channel Fireball, most specifically LSV, Mengucci, and Reid Duke, albeit none of those really cover standard so you might be a bit SoL for learning about standard matchups. Both Channel Fireball and another site, Starcity Games both also upload articles to their respective websites, so maybe that's more what you would be interested in.
All that being said, I also remember the same people behind HS replay trying to create a MTGA replay thing. Not sure how well that has been working since I'm not a fan of using that type of program. There's also this program I found from a quick google search but once again, I don't personally use it so I do not know whether it costs money or anything of the sort.
Hope this helps!
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