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― Lamp, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
mario made out of magic cards?
― Mordy, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
oic
― Lamp, Monday, 6 February 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
the 'token white guys' thread on sna always makes me lol/confused
― Lamp, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
lmao
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
mtg-playing tumblr whites
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 04:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
did u include a lot of serra angel cards in it to head off MTG misogyny?
(jk)
― Mordy, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lamp people actually play block constructed where you live?
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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:
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
guess that image didnt take. this is your typical Legends card:
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
there is something great about the innocence of it all
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
they didn't know the cards sucked! they really had no idea how badly the cards sucked
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
alpha has so many garbage rares but its practically a different game so it's sorta pointless to compare
― Lamp, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
basalt monolith.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
o.g. magic >>>>>> numagic fuiud
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
for sure
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
ian do you wanna play irl sometime? I have zero cards. but I sorta want to go to this: http://www.theawl.com/2012/02/midtowns-magic-gathering
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
what is "vigilance"?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
just a new name for the serra angel ability
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
i would go play in the magic midtown meetup or w/e. it seems okay. monday is a good day for me, at the moment, because i don't work late.i have a few decks, we could share. there is a green/white and a black/blue and maybe a red/green as well..
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
but but but that's what made the serra angel so special.
all pretty much using cards from around revised/fourth edition/weatherlight era.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
sorri 'm not maing ayny sense.
if i still have any dual lands not in decks i think i am going to trade them to the game store for Diplomacy or Settlers of Catan or something.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
that was the golden age for me too
wanna go next week?
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like the look of the cards and general vibe of really old magic esp like arabian nights - antiquities and a/b/u but i didnt play magic in 93 and i dont really have the money to spend on those cards so
it was just a one-off as far as i know but my friends and i play strictly block cuz we all p much stared playing/playing again w/innistrad
― Lamp, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
card art used to be better too..
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
iatee, i will try for next week! i do not know what time? and i can't commit 100% because i'm starting a new part time gig that day and am not sure what time it finishes.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
that link doesn't say, it seems so informal that there might not be a set time? I get off at 5 in midtown but can hang around til whenever.
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Inspired by this thread/the equiv thread in the sandbox, I found some local bars here that have weekly drafts and went along to a couple of them after getting some practice in (also, reading about a decade's worth of Mark Rosewater columns on design, heh) - was pretty easy to slip back into (sets seem pretty draft-friendly), but quite a different game to when I stopped playing (Tempest-y?).One of the nights they ran a "Chaos draft" using a couple of boosters from nearly every set back to The Dark & Homelands - they make Legends/Arabian Nights look pretty powerful, heh. Lot of people seem to play EDH/Commander, but I don't think I could easily rustle up a deck.
― etc, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
chaos draft sounds rad, wouldn't that be super expensive tho
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
revised and later packs are actually p cheap because there are so many unplayable rares
― Lamp, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink