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Should I wait for the rotation and outlaw junction to spend my gold or do a few "Jump In!"s now to get more cards?

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This week's Midweek Magic event on Arena is "Omniscience Draft". You do a bot draft and then throw out just five of your 45 cards, because you have an emblem that says you can cast spells from your hand for free and you can add WUBRG once a turn.

Maybe your brain automatically corrected that to "you can cast a spell for free once per turn." I know I kept re-checking the rules as I was drafting, because I was sure that I was missing something. But no, you just dump your hand on turn one, and your opponent does the same, and then you see what's what. Every game is decided in the first turn or two, and once it is, the loser never waits around to see it play out, and who can blame them?

I don't like to sound ungrateful; Midweek Magic events are usually free, they're a nice change of pace, overall I really appreciate them. But this one is kind of unbearable.

If you do decide to play this one, here's your pick order:

1. Anything that draws more than one card.
2. The biggest creatures you can find. Evasion is good as usual. Deathtouch is better than usual because you'll need to be able to block enormous creatures immediately.
3. Creature removal.
4. Smaller creatures.
5. Combat tricks.
6. For some unknowable reason there are lands in the packs. Do not take them. You might think you're going to set up some cute combo with a card that cares about your land count, or pay some activation cost that needs two mana of the same color. Ask yourself how that strategy stacks up against a turn-one [[Rust Goliath]].

There have been a few Arena events lately where the premise seems to be "what if everybody just played bananas powerful cards all the time?" I will never understand why that sounds like fun to some people. Magic cards have mana costs for a reason.

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This seems like a really cool idea, curious what anyone's decks are like.

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You may have noticed clues in your inbox relating to Murders at Karlov Manor. Each one has a code solution that you can enter in the store (or on your Wizards Account page if on mobile)

The answers for each clue in order are as follows:

1. alquistproft (or alquist or proft)
2. impeccable
3. murdered
4. izoni (or greenblack or golgari)
5. oba

Each of the first four codes will get you 500 xp and a MKM parallax card style. The last one will give you 1000 xp, a card style and a Totally Normal Event token.

The Totally Normal Event is open until March 27, and gives more card style prizes for the first 5 wins. You can choose from 11 preconstructed Brawl decks in the event

There's also one more bonus code that gives a Red Herring as a reward:

• 2005

Gives out 500xp and a full art card style for Coerced to Kill.

Click here for the code / solution:

The event lasts until Tuesday the 19th. You play Bo1 games with 60-card decks using cards from GRN, RNA, WAR, and MKM, and you're not restricted to cards in your collection.

About
Name Ravnica Flash

Deck
7 Island
7 Plains
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Meticulous Archive
2 Mobilized District
1 Cryptex
4 Doorkeeper Thrull
4 Deduce
4 No More Lies
4 Sinister Sabotage
4 Absorb
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Chemister's Insight
4 Warrant // Warden
2 Intrude on the Mind
3 Time Wipe
2 Commence the Endgame

This one is maybe a little mean for a fairly casual event, but then again maybe not, since I'm seeing a lot of people play similar decks. I don't know; I just seem to gravitate to blue decks where you can play most of your cards on your opponent's turn. You actually have several options for curve-toppers here; consider [[Dream Eater]] or [[Angel of Grace]] as alternatives to the ones I went with.

About
Name 2 Massacre 2 Girl

Deck
6 Swamp
4 Plains
4 Godless Shrine
4 Shadowy Backstreet
3 Escape Tunnel
2 Blast Zone
1 Mobilized District
2 Price of Betrayal
4 Dead Weight
4 Hunted Witness
4 Imperious Oligarch
4 Despark
2 Bleeding Edge
1 Kaya, Spirits' Justice
4 Massacre Girl
4 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
3 Ethereal Absolution
4 Slice from the Shadows

You can play both Massacre Girls in this format, how cool is that? I got this idea from an opponent but I didn't remember their deck well enough to copy it. I think they had a lifegain focus. Mine is basically just toughness-based control. Be careful how you stack your triggers! Sometimes you want your tokens to come into play in time to die. The two Prices of Betrayal are a nod to our bad match-up against Superfriends decks, which understandably are pretty popular in a format where War of the Spark is a quarter of the card pool.

The next clue in the investigation is available!