Does anyone else play or played this in the past? I recently got into it with a couple friends and its actually fun. Never been much of a fan of card games, but this was simple enough for me to pick up and catch on.
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Does anyone else play or played this in the past? I recently got into it with a couple friends and its actually fun. Never been much of a fan of card games, but this was simple enough for me to pick up and catch on.
Used to play about 4 or 5 years ago. Went Friday Night Magic every week and entered some bigger tournaments every now and again. I've still got loads of cards, 8 Wraths, 9 BOPS, 5 Chrome Moxes. I can't even remember whats good any more.
It's a fun game but I grew out of it and the new sets started getting shitter and shitter. I have a game against my brother every so often, with older decks, of course.
i play mtg. casually though. never entered into any tournaments. but it's a really fun game and it's a good activity to do with friends.
That's what I thought until I entered tournaments, so much more fun and competitive. Drafts and pre-releases are so much fun, I love opening the new packs and attempting to build a half decent deck.
I played like, 6 or 7 years ago. Haven't even looked for my cards in years.
i was thinking of playing at a FNM or something. sometime. but i think of myself as more of a casual player. i do, on occasion, do a small draft with my friends. thats quite fun. and actually quite draining; the whole attempting to build a deck out of cards you never expected, or sometimes wanted, to get. that and our drafts take a long, long time. it's fun though.
You should definitely try a pre-release, they're awesome. This thread got me wanting to play again so I'm downloading Magic Online. I't wont be the same but it's worth a go.
I used to, briefly. I didn't play it enough to get good at it though.
I used to play, but I recently sold my collection for like $80.
I play competitively in the local tournaments. I'm currently running a Counter Manipulation deck building on Kulrath Knight, and Necroskitter, and a White weenie deck maxmizing the synergy of kithkin
Played competitively from Judgement through the end of Kamigawa. I won a few small tourneys amounting to about $1000, but quit when my local shop shut. I still draft (very rarely) from time to time; I'm actually going to one this weekend. I'm interested to see this new block, and be confused as hell as to why there are keywords like Vigilance and Shroud.
P.S. Drafting is the best way to get into competitive magic, assuming you show up a little early and hang out with the other players at your shop, or stay a little after.
My friends play Legacy format.
They've been playing for...oh, maybe 12 years now.
I don't play with them because their card collections are topping the amount it would cost to buy a new car. P9 alone is fucking ridiculous, and I think there's at least 2 sets in the house.
legacy is ridiculous. I've seen people win turn 1 before their opponent can even drop their first mana.
Insane.
Legacy is Type 1, right?
Assuming so, this tends not to happen very often as the statistical probability of drawing all of a combo is in the hundredths of a percent, compounded by the fact that the vast majority of such combos contain multiple restricted pieces.
Legacy isn't type 1, as far as I know. Type 1 is extended.
And I doubt you know what you're talking about, cause I've seen quite a few people win within two to three turns, on a consistent basis, and yes the truly devastating combos do, but there also some you can pull off with non restricted.
Fuck, I can win turn two in type two pretty easily with my black green deck. I've won turn 3 more times than I care to count.
And more often than that I've seen stasis and control decks lock the field so they might as well have won within as many turns as well.
Edit - I might be thinking of Vintage. I can never keep them straight.
Extended is extended (the last 6 blocks)
Type 1 is everything with restrictions and bans
Type 1.5 is type 1 but all restricted cards banned instead.
Type 2 is Standard (2 blocks)
Two or three turns does happen, I know that, it's turn 1 that is rare. I've done it once, but only once. (Tolarian Academy + Mirrodin worked well.)
Most of my competitive play was Mirrodin/Onslaught or Mirrodin/Kamigawa Type 2.
I don't know the current Standard; I stopped playing for the most part at the end of the Kamigawa block.
One of the main reasons those people win in turn one is more than likely because they have a Black Lotus or 4.
http://www.trollandtoad.com/p80182.html
At the moment, with Shards coming out, I'm making my Type 2 to run Green,White,Red and a splash of Blue. At the pre-release it did surprisingly well, really enjoying the new spells they've added.
When did you start? I know they renamed them somewhere in late Mirrodin / early Kamigawa, I just never bothered to learn the new names since I was mostly playing standard and Limited (draft / sealed) at that point.
Ancestral Recall has always been better than Black Lotus :)
I didn't mean to doublepost ...
Black green is the way to go
I played when I was younger. However it cost me too much to keep up with it, which was frustrating because some of my friends made money off the game.
(sorry for necromancy)
I'm trying to get back into magic right now. I've managed to acquire some pretty good cards over the years too.
4 lightning bolts ftw
I played this casually 6 or 7 years ago, then last year I decided I wanted to play again. Couldn't find all my old cards, so I dropped a hundo or more on new ones, and then ended up never playing. I gave the cards to my sister, she plays in bars with her boyfriend and their friends. I doubt I'll ever get back into it again.
Yeah I played 4 years ago, I got a few friends who started playing it again, but schools out and I'm moving out to college. I feel like my deck would be too outdated and I'd have to relearn everything so I didn't feel like getting back in :[. Maybe if someone taught me to play I'd finally get back in :]. Not that great though, just 4 decks. Not a real hardcore player but yeah.
I played all throughout high school, then donated my cards to a tournament crawler when I left for college. I was pretty good, had an old 4th edition hard box that I put my six main decks in. I was pretty hardcore. I recently downloaded the Xbox Live Arcade version and enjoy it very much. I play it for an hour every few days. It is cheaper than getting back into ti for real, and the experience is still intact.
I used to play, but after I quit, I ended up selling all my cards to a friend.
While this game was great a few years back it's pretty much a thing of the past for me. I gave my deck to my little brother. He still plays I think.
I have five decks in my car right now. No one will play with me. :(
I'd play with you vanilla bear :)
Hahaha...
Played from beta through Odyssey. I was a JSS champion, level 3 judge, and Tour competitor.
Power 9? Probably still have my full sets of it at my parents house, unless they decided to destroy my huge collection.
Artifacts/blue was my favorite deck for screwing around. TINKER!!!!!
Its actually quite expensive to play competitively unless you are a winner.
this is how i felt about the game when i was younger
i mean the mechanics were aight and could be potentially fun if you played with the right people but the vast majority of mtg players are freckly nerds who spout rules and combos all day and i personally always had a strong urge to kill them with a pipe in the ballroom
Is this like pokemon?
yes but instead of sticking your dick inside pikachu you stick it inside a swamp to play dark ritual
what about yugioh?
in yugioh you stick your dick in an eggroll
Sligh was the best deck ever s my d fags
I play an all color deck with over 100 cards.
10 of each color land, with a bunch of really powerful creatures that cost a lot to play.
I use a lot of "search your library for x" cards, so i can get those powerful creatures on the field, and i have 4 copies of a card thats like. "1 forest, Tap: Play a creature card from your hand."
Topped off with a bunch of equip cards (Whispersilk cloak+Loxodin Warhammer+ Plated Slagwurm= 11/8 Lifelink, Trample, Unblockable, cannot be target of spells or abilities your opponent controls) and That which was taken, my deck is decent.
i just remembered i dreamt i was playing this in a big way last night
it was pretty good fun.
ELF DECK GONNA POUND YA
Ahh yes I still have one deck I made...I called it the Grave Crusher deck
Main premise: If you do not have cards in your graveyard you are basically locked down.
Key cards in the deck:
4x Mist of Stagnation
4x Web of Inertia
4x Gravestorm
4x Scalpelexis
4x Withered Wretch
4x Psychatog
2x Haunting Echoes
The neat thing about this deck is I came up with the idea when I bought a booster pack and got Gravestorm...I thought it was a really shitty card but then I tried to find a way to make it good, oh god did I ever make good use of it. This is probably the best deck I have ever made, and the best part was (at the time) it was Type 2, which meant it was legal for tournaments at the time. The rest of the deck are basically just assortments of counterspells, standstills and whatnot. Everyone hates playing against it because it completely locks you down.
Just donate them mortal coil
I've found most "Strategy" decks are actually pretty awful because they are typically interrupted by one well placed counterspell. and with the availability of cheap and excellent counters (Countersquall makes death my bitch lover) it's too easy to fuck up combo decks.
But if you're hoping to be able to reliably draw the combo, enough mana, and a counterspell you might as well just hope the other guy mana burns himself. The only really good combos are ones that turn into turn 3-4 wins and only involve one or two cards.
Fake Edit - I just went through and gatherer'd your cards. That seems like it's an extremely complicated and expensive version of stasis. I mean, to each his own, but certainly not tier 1, and your friends are probably retarded if they can't beat it, especially with the almost retarded amount of removal in the game these days.
mana burn doesnt exist l2p noob
i dont even play the game and i know that they scrapped mana burn
don't you dare start arguing with me you ungrateful little bitch
you're lucky i'm so fat irl and don't need to use belts or i would whip you
Used to play briefly.
Keep in mind that this is back in Odyssey days.
As long as I can pull out a Web of Inertia and Withered Wretch I can typically stop any creature deck from getting to me. If it's a non-creature based deck it becomes slightly more complicated as I would need to rely on Mist of Stagnation.
Used to play, sold all my cards to a shop for wayyy underpriced what they were worth cause I needed the money but
My favorite decks were a blue/red counter/burn deck way back in the day
a Blue/artifact stasis/card loss (Idk what the name for it is anymore, pretty much opponent discards a card x a whole bunch) deck. <-- def my favorite, I had a guy throw the table we were playing on because I played three traumatize in one turn.
Also had a black vampire deck that was pretty cool. Had a bunch of legend vampires, like baron sengir and some others just dont remember.
PSYCHATOG & STINKWEED IMP SON
Yeah, I had 4 sengir autocrats, that when they come into play they put 4 vampire counters into play, and I had some card that if I sacrificed a creature I could give one of my other creatures +1/+1 so I buffed my legends up awesome. Also clestial sword which could only be used on legends, dont really remember that much at all about it, that was years ago.
There's one vampire called the Krovikan Vampire that whenever he damages a creature and it goes to the graveyard you gain control. Sexy.
I always liked Sengir Vampire and I don't know why
3/3 that heals you for each point of damage it does.
Costs like BB3 man I need to kill myself
3/3 WIT LIFELINK SO BROKEN MAN
o wait sry i force spiked u turn 1 bro
blue is so broken
lightning bolt oh man link this life yo
Well this thread has taught me that I don't have the memory of an elephant
On the bright side, I only forget the game text of faggoty CCG games so I'll live
yeah, what kozzle said. also, it has flying.
sengir vampire is one of the old-school cards that is frequently listed with cards such as lightning bolt, counterspell, and the like: powerful, color-defining cards, most of which are banned today (sengir, of course, is not one which is banned).
if by "most of which" you mean "counterspell" then sure :)
it has been reincarnated roughly 3000 different ways though in standard tho
though
dough
Just curious- do any of you LARP? I've been invited to a Magic tournament this weekend and afterwards we're going to LARP~
That's cool. I find it a bit strange myself but to each his/her own,right?
no, you're a dumb faggot
anybody who says LARP that isn't referencing somebody else saying it is a sweet dood
anybody who does or has ever associate/d with people who LARP is a sweet dood
shut up nerd you're a nerd
well that was a pretty good post i have to give it to you
So I went and checked out this magic tournament today.. 6 hrs worth of this shit. It was kind of interesting but I definately felt like a nerd. I can't say I won't go back. (Some people are just way TOO devoted to this though.)
hey buddy how are you that is also a great post
I'm going to ip ban him for being a LARPing vampire faggot like that guy from Fallout 3.
Also for being a terrible poster. This sin is unforgivable.
I played up until like 2000. I should sell my 5th edition cards. I wonder if they're worth anything
i play magic the gathering every friday night at 7 pm and sundays at 1 pm and tuesdays at 5pm and thursdays at 6pm
i used to run a red/blue counter/dd deck that performed terribly, and then i turned 12 and stopped playing magic, but i still have a fondness for it. I stopped playing when they did that story arc about the weatherlight and introduced shadow and the slivers.
also, baron sengir is a badass
Yu Gi Oh > Magic the Gathering.
Just to piss you off, CC.