What're the names of your preconstructed decks? Also: glad the Soldiery worked out for you!

In terms of tournaments, I've only done draft. Strong preference for that format.

You should stop on a high note.

Oh man, a preconstructed enchantment deck. Interesting! Missing Armadillo Cloak though. =( Also Ancestral Mask.

Green, Red, White... all you haters need to embrace the one true color. Blue.

I haven't played in yeeeeeeeeeeeeeears although the latest interest everyone seems to have out of no where definitely makes me want to. When I did play, my Blue/Red deck pissed off so many people, even when I lost which was most of the time.

I play the Blue deck in the pc game almost exclusively, even if that puts me at super disadvantages a lot.

Yeah... I've been playing Magic for close to 15 years now. I occasionally hit up a tourney if I have the time off and nothing better to do.

Hmmmmmmm.... That is precisely the sets I have.

I started playing with 4th edition, when they removed all of the dual lands, so no dice there. I wouldn't mind trying this draft thing sometime; it seems like it would level the playing field, such that the dude whose rich grandma bought him all his cards doesn't automatically win. Also, I'm pretty much addicted the Duel of the Planeswalkers 2012. Ten bucks and I'm over 100 hours of play time in. Money well spent. Can't wait for the expansion.

I'm not complaining about the preconstructed deck thing; you get, what, ten preconstructed decks to tinker with for ten bucks? Compared to Magic Online, where absolutely everything is a micro-transaction, I'm loving it.

It is good for someone like me who has little idea what they are doing and playing more to experiment with colors. I am thoroughly enjoying white so far.

Dave said:

Also, more than four people I know already own it, so that doesn't exactly jibe with the multiplayer.

Also I can just play it IN THE REAL WORLD LIKE COOL PEOPLE DO. :D

Fuck you, hater.

Dominion is great and all but its not as much fun as magic, and if you like dominion you should try this other game called Ascension. It plays almost exactly the same as dominion except instead of 10 random cards to make the supply you just have an entire 300 card pile of which only 6 are available at a time. If you are interested msrp is $35 but you can find it here http://store.channelfireball.com/catalog/board_games/595 for $25.

I need to call my parents and have them tear apart the shed for my cards. I had at least 6 volcanic islands.

I know what I'm doing the next time I visit my father.

On the steam game the decks I've done the best with are the white, blue, and the red/black. Blue seems to have a lot of dick moves, and I am fine with that.

bkeu!

So for starters the older the better, but most people who have old cards that are worth something would have revised or 3rd edition which was originally released in 1994 and was in print until sometime in 1995. Then as far as valuable cards go it was pretty much a drought from 1995 until 1996 or 1997. The thing to look for is the expansion symbol in the right hand middle of the card, or use this wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Magic:_The_Gathering_sets to determine what sets your cards might be from.

Made my first deck today. I went White/Blue, but I don't know if it is any good, but I hope to try it out this friday. Tell my what you think
3xGriffin Rider
2xSquadron Hawk
2xStormfront Pegasus
2xPeregrine Griffin
2xGriffin Sentinel
4xAssault Griffin
1xCloud Crusader
2xSerra Angel
1xChancellor of the Annex
1xAegis Angel
2xCancel
3xUnsummon
2xSleep
1xSpell Pierce
1xMana Leak
1xTurn the Tide
2xSpirit Mantle
2xDivine Favor
1xInspired Charge
1xSafe Passage
1xLifelink
1xAngel's Mercy
9xIsland
15xPlains

Anything I should change? I was debating on weather or not to put in a few Pacifism in place of something else.

Is it tournament legal to have more than one copy of a Planeswalker in your deck?

Yep, you just can't have two Jaces out at once!

ALSO, I heard a pretty great story about Stoneforge Mystic.

So I guess Stoneforge Mystic is banned in standard tournaments because it was turning out to be too good. Unfortunately, one of the premade decks, War of Attrition, contained two Stoneforge Mystics... so WotC ruled that as long as your deck was an unmodified copy of War of Attrition, you could use the card.

This one guy, I don't know his name, hears about this and decides to use his experience as a Magic judge to see what he can get away with in terms of trolling. He goes and builds a card-for-card copy of War of Attrition, except that a lot of the cards are unusual versions - foil, foreign language, etc. but still mechanically identical. He enters a tournament, they verify his deck, and he sits down to play his first round.

He plays Stoneforge Mystic, and his opponent sighs, and calls for a judge - "you can't use that card, it's banned." The judge comes over, takes a look at the situation and his notes, and says "No, it's okay because he's playing the War of Attrition deck."

... at which point our protagonist calls out "JUDGE!", pulls in the judge's superior, and declares "This judge just gave him information about my deck build. Per the rules, that's an automatic forfeit of this game to me, and a suspension of the judge for this round."

I assume at this point he cackled maniacally for a good minute and a half, but I don't know that for a fact.

that seems like a really weird rule to have especially if a match is in progress.

I'm surprised that card is considered that overpowered. Though, I guess I dropped out of Magic before there was equipment. I didn't know what they were until we started playing again, and I could see how having this think out in the second turn and dropping "makes your creature indestructible" plate armor on the table could be considered pretty OP. In a deck of 40 cards with 4 of them and 4 plat armor that's pretty decent odds for your opening hand, not to mention the other criminally better equipment cards out there.

EDIT: HOLY FUCK. Like this one, for example. http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Body-Mind-Mirrodin-Mythic/dp/B0045H385S/ref=pd_sim_t1

For a long time people were running 4 copies of Jace, The Mind Sculptor, in any deck that included blue and shortly after people started throwing in 2 or 3 Jace Beleren as well. Planeswalkers work the same way as legendary creatures so only one with the "Planeswalker - Jace" type can be on the field at once. And since literally 85-90% of the decks in play were the exact same deck wizards made some smart ban decisions.