Magic: The Gathering C/D

did u include a lot of serra angel cards in it to head off MTG misogyny?

(jk)

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

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

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!

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

I think I figured out how to get cockatrice to work on my shitty old computer, we should play again soon

Lamp people actually play block constructed where you live?

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.

they already made a 'you win' card didn't you? eventually they'll just make it cost 2 blue mana or something

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

this is what a big angel with an ability that actually wins you the game looks like: http://magiccards.info/zen/en/13.html

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.

Iona is AMAZING. I played an EDH deck with her once and basically shut down the game once she came out.

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.

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

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.

guess that image didnt take. this is your typical Legends card:
http://static.tappedout.net/mtg-cards/legends/lord-magnus_medium.jpg

there is something great about the innocence of it all

they didn't know the cards sucked! they really had no idea how badly the cards sucked

alpha has so many garbage rares but its practically a different game so it's sorta pointless to compare

basalt monolith.

o.g. magic >>>>>> numagic fuiud

for sure

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

http://princessleia.com/images/MyImages/Magic/palladia-morsChronicles.jpg

what is "vigilance"?

just a new name for the serra angel ability

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..

but but but that's what made the serra angel so special.

all pretty much using cards from around revised/fourth edition/weatherlight era.

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.

that was the golden age for me too

wanna go next week?

o.g. magic >>>>>> numagic fuiud

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

Lamp people actually play block constructed where you live?

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

http://www.coolstuffinc.com/images/Products/mtg%20art/Fourth/Meekstone.jpg

http://www.coolstuffinc.com/images/Products/mtg%20art/Fallen%20Empires/Icatian%20Moneychanger1.jpg

http://static.starcitygames.com/sales/cardscans/MAGBET/demonic_attorney.jpg

card art used to be better too..

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.

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.

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.

chaos draft sounds rad, wouldn't that be super expensive tho

revised and later packs are actually p cheap because there are so many unplayable rares

http://s.ecrater.com/stores/64306/4a7b4803ae949_64306b.jpg

Don't think there's any equiv to the Stasis artwork these days. Used to love all the Tennyson/Shakespeare/Poe/etc quotes on Legends-era cards, too.

http://i.backpackgnome.com/11858172334dbcf0ae334519.67025441.jpg

xpost It was 15 euro to enter IIRC (as opposed to 10 for the normal draft) - the guy who organises the weekly events has heaps of boosters lying around apparently and does something like this once a year; I don't think there was anything "valuable" like Alliances/Revised/Antiquities involved. They also had a few packs of Renaissance in Italian, which got confusing pretty fast.

they didn't know the cards sucked! they really had no idea how badly the cards sucked

That's what makes them so entertaining to look at! Especially the legends, their abilities/mana cost/power and toughness wouldn't coorelate at all. It would all seem so random. There would be 2/3 creatures with First Strike, where it's like, what sense does it make to have a first striker with a higher toughness than power? Just things that made no mechanical sense at all. I agree that's there's something endearing about it all! (especially in the art)

haha 2/3 first strike is p rad

i want to build a vintage deck out of all the weird enchant land cards in white cuz they are my absolute favorite kind of cards but its funny how little most of them end up doing

frogs are you playing standard at all? what are you playing?

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

We tried this on Netdraft once with the first five expansions. Those sets were clearly NOT made to be drafted. I thought it would be a lot more fun than it wound up being.

frogs are you playing standard at all? what are you playing?

Yeah - my local store is running tournaments with a $1k prize pool which is getting people from all over the state. I wound up getting 3rd/4th with a Seance deck - it was one of the most mentally exhausting tournaments I've ever played. Basically the idea is to win with Lab Maniac, but you can also win with Sun Titan/Phantasmal Image. Now I'm working on an Undying/Proliferate/Culling Dias deck, but I'm not sure if I can get it to compete.

haha i saw that seance/lab maniac deck online and was... skeptical

i have a decent undying deck but its not really standard ready, G/r aggro seems p neat tho

i got 2nd place at a ~60 man tournament last month w/ my birthing pod deck, i think i'm cool with that being the pinnacle of my competitive MTG career

there's a starcitygames open in providence next month that i wanted to play in but then i realized its the exact weekend the new set comes out so i'd have about 24 hours to get any important new cards to update my deck with

xp - Where'd you see it online? basically I've been trying to use Mirror-Mad Phantasm for a long time and Seance seemed like the perfect fit. I really had no idea what to put in the deck so I'd be interested to see other people's ideas for it. Feel like I got lucky with it though, lots of very close victories and I didn't have to mulligan all day.

G/R aggro definitely is good - Strangleroot Geist and Huntsmaster are so ridiculously powerful. Along with Geralf's Messenger that's three insane "2 for 1" (or more!) creatures that can't be dealt with efficiently at all. Sadly I never pulled a Huntsmaster so G/R is off limits for me. Also they're all insane with Birthing Pod. Pod seems like such an insane card now that "Sacrifice a creature" instead means "put a +1/+1 counter on a creature"

there should be a thread on it on mtgsalvation i think he was using snapcasters and armored skaabs in addition to i think 2xlab maniac and 2xmirror-mad

haha i pulled total garbage from innistrad packs but i got three huntmasters (and a sorin) in the dka packs ive opened and traded two cages and a drogs reaver i pulled for the last garruck i needed so i have a p expensive deck for the cost of like half a box? predator ooze is a p insane card too and the combo of undying + blasphemous act is really powerful esp if you have some flayers out and i did really well in the block tournament but i dont think it has enough power for standard...

frogbs i was testing a 4-color seance/unburial deck last month, i'll find the list when i get home from work. it was pretty sweet, though maybe a turn too slow to be really competetive