and the Dark Ascension pack should fix some of the problems too
― ciderpress, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
picked up this dude's new game - king of tokyo. looks sick...
― is it hrostep? (cozen), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
huh? what did he play ...or did you just mulligan to 4 or 5 ? (usually that ends things)
I like Innistrad draft b/c it gives you a lot of avenues to explore without 'forcing your hand' (unlike Lorwyn, which was all about how many creatures you could get in your tribe) - instead of drafting colors, it's more about drafting an archetype. Especially since most of them use the graveyards in different ways. Only thing that I hate is Invisible Stalker + Butchers Cleaver which seems to crop up fairly often and is just unfair as hell.
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
i was on the draw, he played t1 delver of secrets, t2 flipped it revealing brimstone volley, then played spectral flight on the delver and hit me for 5. I now have 2 turns to get rid of a 5/4 flying creature before i'm in burn range, and my hand/deck had no outs to that for less than 4 mana so i just scooped.
― ciderpress, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
well flipping delver on t2 is pretty damn nuts in standard so yeah not much you can do there
worst I've gotten it was turn 1 Pilgrim, turn 2 Midnight Haunting, turn 3 double Travel Prep, I was on the draw and hadn't even played a card yet
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
ive enjoyed innistrad draft but i think ciderpress is right. on the other hand ive managed to win some games with really terrible decks like blue/black mill with a lab maniac and four other creatures
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
i have not gotten to win a game with lab maniac yet, and i am jealous of everyone who has
― ciderpress, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
i made a t2 deck with him. basically it was a ton of cheap draw, looters, etc., with 8 counterspells and unburial rites to take Jin-Gataxis out of the grave, draw a ton of cards and win with Lab Maniac. really fun to play and it could really work well if you drew the counterspells but it was really easy to sideboard against
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
lab maniac is not very good in limited, i drew really lucky to get it to work and was playing a b/w deck with almost no removal
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
i would really like to do an innistrad draft online w/ ilx mtg players. is such a thing possible?
― Mordy, Monday, 30 January 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
probably not, there's only like 5 or 6 of us and we'd all have to be online at once
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
we would just have to draft together. we could schedule the games at our convenience
― Mordy, Monday, 30 January 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
sealed is 100x easier to coordinate but i'd be down for either
― ciderpress, Monday, 30 January 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I think coordinating a draft will be impossible but I'll do sealed
― iatee, Monday, 30 January 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah, i assumed it would be sealed. i guess i didn't realize draft only meant w/ passing packs around.
so is there a way to coordinate that online?
― Mordy, Monday, 30 January 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
if there is a good sealed generator outside of the one that was included in magic workstation I have not found it
― iatee, Monday, 30 January 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, this thread really took off since the last time I posted in... 2003? Jeez. I never really stopped playing, but I'm happy to see more people into the game again. The last few sets have some of the best-designed cards in a long time and I guess it's not surprising they're hooking people.
http://ccgdecks.com/ is a decent place to do sealed if you don't feel like installing Magic Workstation, though the interface for building the deck is a little hard to manage. I end up doing drafts on that site too, those usually work out well.
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
i would play either draft or sealed with yall
― chillin in the volvo, listenin' to alva-noto (fennel cartwright), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
sealed is hella fun id be up 4 it
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
if it looks like we can get 8 people we can do some knockout tournament
― iatee, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/SBSsE.jpg
― ciderpress, Monday, 6 February 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lahtedTO031qzgp6f.jpg
― Z S, Monday, 6 February 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
?
― Lamp, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
mario made out of magic cards?
― Mordy, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
oic
― Lamp, Monday, 6 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
I wish I had cards to go to this w/http://www.theawl.com/2012/02/midtowns-magic-gathering
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
the 'token white guys' thread on sna always makes me lol/confused
― Lamp, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
lmao
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
mtg-playing tumblr whites
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HuGiY.jpg
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
what's awesome about that is that I have a buddy who looks EXACTLY LIKE that, to the point where he's able to convince people who don't play that he won some kind of contest and got to be on the card. i gotta post some pictures of this dude.
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
really excited cuz im playing a block constructed tournament tonight and i think im really, really happy with my deck
― Lamp, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
did u include a lot of serra angel cards in it to head off MTG misogyny?
(jk)
― Mordy, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
haha i totally do love angel cards and im psyched for the new block which seems like its gonna be angel heavy but im playing G/R undying
― Lamp, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
was playing W/b/g tokens but post-ban thought id give something different a go
i also love angels. white is my fave color by far. angels + white weenie just makes me so happy
― Mordy, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
i made a Tenab the Harvester EDH deck recently (for when my MTG friends came to visit us from NY) but really i was just enthusiastic about playing the white cards (i do have some killer green moves too). maybe i'll make a white/green EDH deck. or mono white!
― Mordy, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
whites my fave color too - ive been fucking around with a mono white legacy deck on cockatrice but itd be like $700 to build irl and not actually very good. i just want to run a bunch of stall enchantments like moat and castle and island sanctuary
― Lamp, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
I think I figured out how to get cockatrice to work on my shitty old computer, we should play again soon
― iatee, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
Lamp people actually play block constructed where you live?
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_lightbox/hash/6d/d0/6dd0c8962db9df3706a61569ff42354b.jpg
new preview card
sure have come a long way since the days of Seraph. this thing is insane.
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
they already made a 'you win' card didn't you? eventually they'll just make it cost 2 blue mana or something
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
it's not even particularly playable in constructed though. a lot of the best removal exiles or -X/-Xes things, both of which get around indestructible. you can bounce it too
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
this is what a big angel with an ability that actually wins you the game looks like: http://magiccards.info/zen/en/13.html
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah compared to Plat Angel and Iona it's pretty tame. but we're in the era of Unburial Rites now. if Iona and Unburial Rites were legal at the same time that would warp the format.
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
Iona is AMAZING. I played an EDH deck with her once and basically shut down the game once she came out.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
man... i just know i could never go down to the game shop w me shitty old decks and play this game. things done changed.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
Haha unburial rites was my first thought my second was that she protects virtue and orb from most removal
idk I think shell see some play in W/x tokens
― Lamp, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it is amusing to look at the first four or so sets. because you think about Legends and Arabian Nights and you think about Library, Mana Drain, Nether Void, Tabernacle, Mirror Universe, all these insane Type 1 cards, then you look at the rest of the set and it's filled with stuff like this:
http://www.magicdeckvortex.com/cardpics/GOLD/lord_magnus.jpg
I remember going through the Arabian Nights spoiler list and realizing that there's really only ONE card in the entire set that they would print today, and it's Juzam Djinn.
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
guess that image didnt take. this is your typical Legends card:http://static.tappedout.net/mtg-cards/legends/lord-magnus_medium.jpg
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link