people should all be blown up
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
in my middle school the biggest fight i got into was between pog players and m:tg players
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
i was obviously a magic player
green & white deck, in case anyone is wondering
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
omg pog
― deeznuts, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
if i remember those years correctly i was more worried about the shame my seminoles starter jacket would bring me after danny wuerrfle's gators pounced on them in the orange bowl than anything having to do with those fucking things
― deeznuts, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
I used to play magic back in the mid-nineties, I still have a hundreds and hundreds of those cards in some box around here. I never paid much for them though, because I stole most of them from bookstores. I wonder if that stuff is worth something these days, the oldest cards I have are from Revised Edition or whatever it was called.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
god, my nerd days were spent playing Avalon Hill wargames. and banging chicks of course
― brownie, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
my best nerd days are ahead of me still.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
mine did not look quite as good as this one but I got pretty good
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
i had a revised shivan dragon worth $50
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
and my color selections were more noise
haha shivan dragon. back in 1995 my friend's proudest accomplishment was owning 4 shivan dragons. I wonder if those cards are worth anything today.
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
blue + black deck, my sengir vampires and royal assassins were so so gangster.
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
i had two revised royal assassins
maybe more, hell if i remember
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
at my 10th bday party i beat the rich kid in magic even tho i had no allowance, i had birthday money and was a HUSTLER with trades
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
i think sometimes i threw in some green too, but only if u could throw all mana down first turn and i would use it solely for my force of nature
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
8/8
i have a shivan dragon signed by the lady what painted it ;_;
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
haha i think i some signed by artists too :-/
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah i kept that shivan solely because it was worth money since i played green/white almost exclusively, i shoulda sold it off
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
I saw this stuff mostly when I was in college - 94 - 98. I was too busy playing (then) horrible blues rock, drinking and trying to get laid. Trying being the WAY operative word there.
― B.L.A.M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
I sold a revised "Fork" for about 50 pounds.
― Ronan, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
reading a thread for the first time and then realising you posted to it four years ago c/d
― webber, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
Okay guys how similar is Pokemon the card game to Magic: the Gathering? Bcz I am getting stupidly good @ Pokemon (which did eat up all my spare $$$ this summer...sheesh Abbott).
― Abbott, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 01:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
Y'all heard about The Eye of Judgment?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhlq_GhYGsM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_Judgment
It's a Magic type game for PS3 that uses real cards and a camera, just came out. The camera scans the cards as you put them into play and then the monsters on the cards battle it out on your TV. The game keeps track of all the stats and shit too, of course. I haven't played it but it's getting decent reviews.
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 01:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
I probably spent twenty bucks on it total, maybe thirty. It was one summer, a fun thing, a moment in time, a nice little cultural artifact.
This is me w/ M:TG btw, but I've also done the "use Portal decks and ignore most of the rules" thing.
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 01:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
I found a coffee table on the streets of Madison once whose top was a glass plate covering a tiling of just a single magic card. I don't recall what it was, but it must have been the "unwanted" card.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
there was originally some card that involved ripping one of your opponents cards that got "banned" under the sanctioned rules...have no idea what it was called.
I had a mox sapphire! and sold basically everything i had owned at some point in '98 (when i was 19) probably for like 450 on ebay...
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
spent several hours on saturday night playing Magic with ian and was pretty consistently beaten by his blue & black deck.
― elmo argonaut, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
people used to call blue and black decks "bruise" decks.
― Ronan, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
apparently people play creatures in type 2 nowadays? I am sort of suspicious of this, it's not pokemon. I wish I hadn't lost all my cards.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
i am so mad i couldn't find my old white/green deck when i was home this weekend.
― ian, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
my favorite is the red & white deck.
― bell_labs, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- Ronan, Monday, October 29, 2007 9:16 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
fuck yeah
― deej, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
red & white is a hard deck to play!
― max, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
there were good all red or all green decks around the time the "mirages" (was that its name) edition of cards came out.
― Ronan, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
Lightweights. I suspect Gravel may be hardcore, if he's referring to the fact that Morphling used to be the only playable creature.
Creatures are for Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh. Magic is a game of technique.
― s. morris, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
I can only say all this after spending way too much time sniping cards on eBay in order to play something like 3 times in the last year.
The fortunate thing is that Magic card prices seem to be way more stable than the dollar, so that's money in the bank folks.
― s. morris, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
I did Magic waaay early on. By the time I was too cool for it I gave everything to some neighborhood kid, if only I had sold it for $$$ ;_;
― Jordan, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
Was not at all impressed by Wizards Of The Coast's headquarters. It's like a mile from Ikea in Renton and looks like any other corporate headquarters. I at least expected animatronic dragons or constant fireworks displays or something other than reflective glass and a fucking fountain.
― s. morris, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
By the time I was too cool for it I gave everything to some neighborhood kid, if only I had sold it for $$$ ;_;
-- Jordan, Monday, October 29, 2007 2:25 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
i did this too ;_;
― deej, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
jordan is leading my parallel life i think
type I was all about DUAL LANDS right? my best deck was mostly blue, counterspells, those djinns that only cost 3 that were misprinted green; then red & white & green sprinkled in also...black was fairly worthless. i miss my magic cards!@!!
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
black can be great if you play it right, especially with red or blue!
― max, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
i had a black/red deck for a long time but all my best cards were green/white so i tended to stick to that
my best deck was mostly blue, counterspells, those djinns that only cost 3 that were misprinted green
Now we're talking. Your mox sapphire alone would go for like $400 on eBay.
― s. morris, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
i know! damn my 19 yr old self!!
cant remember what else was in it. maybe JUGGERNAUTS? the (actual) green djinn that was 4/5 and only cost 4 to cast? dunno...
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
this dude, so bad ass:
http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=1221
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
Well Pack Rat is one of the three most broken Limited cards of all time while Aetherling requires seven mana to get going; for that you get Gruul Ragebeast which is almost always a win too
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2013 17:52 (Yesterday) Permalink
gruul ragebeast is not almost always a win. i have cast it followed by giant adephage and still lost to a removal-heavy deck
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 May 2013 17:54 (Yesterday) Permalink
also you're allowed to play aetherling on turn 6 which is a pretty big difference from 7 in terms of the probability of getting there in any given game
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 May 2013 17:56 (Yesterday) Permalink
err on 6 mana i mean, not turn 6
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 May 2013 17:57 (Yesterday) Permalink
It has been an auto-win for me! and yeah I guess you can chance it with Aetherling (not a whole lot of cards take out a 4/5 anyway) but I still feel like once you get into the 6-7 mana range there are a lot of real bomby rare/mythic creatures that are tough to lose with. Aetherling may be near the top of the list but it doesn't inspire the type of helplessness that Pack Rat does. You can still power through it or win with flyers. It's a card that wins on turn 9-10 most of the time.
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2013 18:08 (Yesterday) Permalink
also is that article above suggesting you need to stick with 2 colors in DGR drafts? I did that once (with Azorious) and actually swept the draft even though my deck was pretty awful (my first round opponent played 4 colors and could have easily won the match with that dude that lets you sac something to give all your creatures +1/+1 but I think he just didn't see it). I think 3-color decks can be excellent but you need fixing badly.
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2013 18:10 (Yesterday) Permalink
aetherling inspires just as much helplessness. it cannot be killed, cannot be blocked, attacks for 8.
― iatee, Friday, 24 May 2013 18:11 (Yesterday) Permalink
my best decks have all been 3 colors
just like any deep limited format, there's no 'right' way to construct decks, just make sure you have a plan and then execute on that plan
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 May 2013 18:14 (Yesterday) Permalink
xp yes but you get at least 5 turns before it lands and more often something like 6-8. whereas the Pack Rat is already a huge problem on turn five.
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2013 18:15 (Yesterday) Permalink
my stronger decks have been closer to two colors, although they usually splash a third for one or two bombs
I'm onboard for a strategy that sticks reasonably close to two colors. You may end up with a slightly dull deck, but casting spells on curve is a huge asset in this format when so many decks aren't able to do that.
― Moodles, Friday, 24 May 2013 18:39 (Yesterday) Permalink
someone i know whose opinion i trust says he's done well in this format just by playing a bunch of cluestones and 5-drops and just slamming 5-drops from turn 4 on until his opponent runs out of disruption. which is about the opposite of how i've been approaching things, so who knows, i think pretty much everything is viable if your deck is focused
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 May 2013 18:51 (Yesterday) Permalink
yeah my initial strategy was to try to stay two colors although unlike BenS i wanted to force an rtr guild although i can see the sense in setting yourself up for a good pack two by forcing gtc guilds early. in my last three or four drafts i've been experimenting with taking guildgates really high and looking to go 4-5 colors.
i definitely don't think i've got a great handle on this format though - i've only managed to 3-0 a small % of my mtgo drafts (i've also done way fewer than i had with rtr and gtc at the same point) and while my win % in paper has been really good i've also opened bombs p1p1 almost every paper draft i've done. i'm really interested to start working though some of the different approaches tho, i had thought about the cluestone + 5-drop plan simply because the cluestones are so open rn
― Lamp, Friday, 24 May 2013 19:30 (Yesterday) Permalink
the good thing about taking an RTR guild is that your deck is more defined by that point so if you go into the last pack looking to fill 8-9 slots you have a much clearer idea of what you need. it is risky though in that if the pack just doesn't work out then your deck could wind up weak. whereas if you go for a GTC guild and it doesn't work you can always try to luck into a decent 3-color splash.
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2013 19:34 (Yesterday) Permalink