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  • I stopped by the soldiery today (good call Jon) to buy a magic deck. A random guy offered to play a few games with me so I could learn to play, and the store gave us both free half-decks to play with. I ended up buy 2 starter decks, a red and a green. I think I like the green a little more then the red, but I can't wait to try them both out.
  • What're the names of your preconstructed decks? Also: glad the Soldiery worked out for you!
  • I've only played a little Magic and none recently, but my friends all seem to enjoy drafting way more than constructed - does anyone here do that regularly?
  • In terms of tournaments, I've only done draft. Strong preference for that format.
  • 'Sacred Assault' and 'Blood & Fire'. Also I won the first game I played. Some people may say it doesn't count, since he was teaching me, but I like the idea that I currently have a 100% win record.
  • You should stop on a high note.
  • We just did a draft. Our friend brought one of the new starter packs, which seems to just be like 145 cards (9 boosters) and a bunch of lands. We thought it had starter decks too, but that was just us misreading the packaging. It was pretty fun, but we couldn't play a true draft because of the few cards we had. Instead we all played dual color decks. Despite having new cards, Graz just made another pony deck (unicorns and pegasus) and won half the games we played. I got green/red, which is a good combo because of Kurd Apes... except I had no Kurd Apes. Instead I had a bunch of enormous creatures when I normally try to avoid playing with decks of creatures whose casting cost goes above three or four. Most of my game was me sitting ineffectually off to the side, watching Ajay and Graz play. At one point I buffed one of Graz's creatures to keep her from dying, knowing that if she died I'd soon follow because I STILL had two mana on the table. This pissed Ajay off mightily, so I guess I had fun due to my accidental troll.
  • Oh man, a preconstructed enchantment deck. Interesting! Missing Armadillo Cloak though. =( Also Ancestral Mask.
  • I won by having a elemental creature on the board that doubled all my spell damage, then I played a spell that did 5 damage, doubling it to 10. I think I still had like, 18 health.
  • Green, Red, White... all you haters need to embrace the one true color. Blue.
  • Nostalgia is almost making me look for my old Blue/Green deck.
  • 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.
  • Does this happen to you when you start playing?

  • 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.
  • so if you have older cards particularly any of the dual lands from the revised (or 3rd edition) era even if they are in poor condition they are worth between $50 and $125 each. So if they are sitting around somewhere you should probably ebay the shit out of them. If you have cards from beta it can be even more ridiculous.
  • Hmmmmmmm.... That is precisely the sets I have.
  • Gard dammit. I got so many of those bullshitty cards hidden at home somewhere. I want that sweet sweet cheddar.
  • 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 would buy that game if they just gave you a bunch of cards and let you make your own deck instead of forcing you into preconfigured decks with a limited amount of cards you can change.

    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
  • 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.
  • Yeah, but data is free. If they don't want to give you every card $10, because they know they can sell them for microtransactions, they should at least put every card they were willing to give you into a pool and let you build whatever you want. Half the fun of Magic is building your own deck, not adding or removing ten cards from a deck someone else built for you.
  • 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.
  • I say this as someone who has probably spent a couple hundred dollars on magic cards in his lifetime:

    Play Dominion, people.
  • 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.
  • xenomouse said:

    Play Dominion, people.


    YES. Do this.
  • 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.
  • Dave you really should go find your old cards and sell them, any blue dual lands are worth at least $75 a piece tundra and underground sea are worth about $125 now. Also if your interested in selling your collection I can help you get an idea of what its worth or even just sell it for you if you want to ship it out to California, my friend works for what is probably the second largest vendor of magic card singles in the world so they offer pretty competitive prices.
  • I need to call my parents and have them tear apart the shed for my cards. I had at least 6 volcanic islands.
  • Well shit. I really wish this conversation came up two weeks ago when I was in Philly. I would've tried a hell of a lot harder to find those cards.
  • I know what I'm doing the next time I visit my father.
  • Playing a pickup game of Magic??
  • 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.
  • That is definitely blue's raison d'être.
  • Feddy said:

    Dave you really should go find your old cards and sell them, any blue dual lands are worth at least $75 a piece tundra and underground sea are worth about $125 now. Also if your interested in selling your collection I can help you get an idea of what its worth or even just sell it for you if you want to ship it out to California, my friend works for what is probably the second largest vendor of magic card singles in the world so they offer pretty competitive prices.


    How old are we talking here?
  • 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.
  • well I'm pretty sure all my old cards are around the 4th 5th and 6th edition :(
  • 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.
  • Here is something I am currently working on. http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=919222

    Planeswalkers:
    2 Jace, Memory Adept 

    Creatures:
    3 Laboratory Maniac 
    2 Mirror-Mad Phantasm 
    4 Solemn Simulacrum 
    2 Tree of Redemption 

    Spells :
    2 Disperse 
    3 Dissipate 
    2 Fog 
    2 Green Sun's Zenith 
    4 Mana Leak 
    3 Noxious Revival 
    4 Ponder 
    3 Surgical Extraction 
    3 Visions of Beyond 

    Lands: 
    7 Forest 
    4 Hinterland Harbor 
    10 Island 
     
    Sideboard:
    3 Autumn's Veil 
    4 Flashfreeze 
    2 Fog 
    3 Ratchet Bomb 
    3 Volition Reins 

  • Is it tournament legal to have more than one copy of a Planeswalker in your deck?
  • Absolutely. Same rules as with other cards, 4 of at max. Though running 4 is hardly necessary.
  • Yep, you just can't have two Jaces out at once!
  • I think I heard something about how for a little while, there was a version of Jace that was so powerful, people would start running copies of the less-powerful Jace in their decks just so they could use them to remove the more powerful one when their opponent played it.
  • 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.
  • Never was "epic rules lawyer FTW" a more appropriate thing to say...
  • that seems like a really weird rule to have especially if a match is in progress.
  • That story is pure gold.
  • 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
  • http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/events.aspx?x=mtgcom/events/prerelease-facts

    This weekend. I think there's still an event at Vet's Memorial in Columbus. Time to rock.
  • 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.
  • I can think of no better way to honor our veterans.