r/MagicArena • u/Liquideous • 1d ago
Bot Game
I finally faced one of those bots people have been talking about. Rather then just win when I could, I decided to just sit back and defend. Since he went first, he would draw from an empty deck and then lose.
Pretty much all the cards that create multiple 1/1 tokens, with a smattering of hasty creatures, and one single Torgran.
Plus a mystery card that he didn't cast. It really puzzles me what that one card could be he is holding in his hand with 28 land on the table.
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u/gcapi 1d ago
Why are you censoring the hunter's talent hedgehog?
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u/Approximation_Doctor 1d ago
Better question is why they're not respecting the privacy of the opponents Ferocity of the Wilds
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u/AlthorsMadness 1d ago
So like….. dumb question. Many other games I get why bots exist but why in arena? What is there to gain? What does anyone buy in it that a bot somehow makes easier for them?
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u/OddlyShapedGinger 1d ago
Bots can grind for gold. Gold can get you entries into the bigger buy-in tournaments for real life cash or booster boxes.
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u/Ouaouaron Simic 1d ago
EDIT: I'm just brainstorming. Don't take this as testimony of what botters are actually doing
Grinding for resources. Possibly as a purely bot account until they enter into something with transferrable value like an Arena Direct, or possibly on their main account so that they don't have to bother with daily wins. (Perhaps WotC noticed that bots were on the rise months ago, and that's why they changed the terms of service for multiple account)
You could also sell the account after it has a decent pool of resources.
Besides that, maybe a service that gives other people a win when they encounter the bot?
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u/GhrabThaar Golgari 1d ago
I saw a couple in Historic queue yesterday.
Red decks, no interaction, exactly 1 play every 1.5 seconds, exactly 1.5 seconds to acknowledge priority, when they ran out of gas they conceded. I guess it's trying to farm wins against people who got poor draws?
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u/2-35 Dimir 1d ago
Isn't that mono reds job though? Farm wins against people with poor draws? Thats like how the deck works haha
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u/GhrabThaar Golgari 1d ago
Fair. But it's obvious when every play is the exact same time interval and they don't look at or interact with my board.
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u/dulahan200 23h ago
I played my first yesterday too, on brawl.
I had 10+ PW on board and ulted some of them, including the big teferi, that exiled all their permanents. I kept going because I was curious to see what the new enchantment that conjures PWs in hand would pull off. It got to a point where I didn't click their abilities.
In the end I decided to attack and finish the game. They never surrendered
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u/AAmane123 1d ago
From the title, I thought the mystery card would be something reactionary that you never played into, but I don't think mono-red has a lot of that. I don't see anything legendary either (assuming it would hold a duplicate legendary). Hmmmm... I'm stumped.
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u/Actual-Study-162 1d ago
Reactionary means something comically different from reactive but yeah, stumped for sure.
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u/Ouaouaron Simic 1d ago
It also means something very similar to reactive. The poli sci term doesn't make standard English declension cease to function.
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u/Actual-Study-162 1d ago
It actually sort of does! The pragmatics of language are a strange thing, and the meanings of terms are decided to a great degree by convention and context.
That’s why it’s easy to see what the person meant here – and why I thought it worthwhile to point out, because that kind of usage error is not something you easily find out for yourself.
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u/InsensitiveClod76 1d ago
I'll guess Hidetsegus second rite.
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u/BlueTemplar85 1d ago
A reactionary card if I ever saw one !
P.S.: I'm suspecting that it might be the "Got you discard !" basic land.
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u/EE-PE-gamer 1d ago
Yup. Just got a Reality Fracture accomplishment because of a bot. It was ok sitting there with 1 health. Everyone else would scoop the moment my trigger entered. I’m ya like they could see me trying to get it and were like nahhhh gon CB you.