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
MAGIC CARDS.
so we have three decks now.
blue/black: all counterspell, hymm to tourach, serendib efreet, dark ritual, sengir vampire, demonic tutor etc. brainstorms & frantic search.
green/white: standard ernham djinn/serra angel/armageddon deck with sol ring, dual lands, savannahs, giant growth, savannah lions & llanowar elves.
red/green: needs taigas. blood lust/giant growth/kird ape. plus fireballs & 'bolts, assorted creatures and creature enhancers with an eye towards quick playability. i think the red/green deck has the maze of ith. there are also lots of coin-flipping cards in this one, like bottle of suleiman, mana clash and mijae djinn.
― ian, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 05:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
thats a p sweet deck
― Lamp, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:07 (8 hours ago) Permalink
'you too can easily 3-0 with tajic and a bunch of aggressive 2 and 3 drops plus some removal'
thanks for the encouragement there cider, will keep that one in mind next time a draft goes sour
― Lamp, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:08 (8 hours ago) Permalink
I'm watching my friend stream 4p sealed and he's won 3 games w/ guild feud (I suggested adding it)
― iatee, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:08 (8 hours ago) Permalink
haha i guess its not that bad i just felt really gross about it when i ended up with only a few 2-drops and had to play a gatekeeper with 2 gates
2-drops seem barely existent in this format, no matter how high i move them up my pick order
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:12 (8 hours ago) Permalink
i went 2-2 at fnm with two two drops in my otherwise fine deck, i lost to a bunch of 3/1 haste guys. i realized that i really need to prioritize two drops in this format regardless of how slow or controlling i think my deck is - i had mostly been staying p clean but that deck was a true three color mess. i was happy to start 2-0 with it but then mad to lose two in a row, even if it was a bad deck
― Lamp, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:25 (8 hours ago) Permalink
biggest mistake was passing up a fifth pick tithe drinker pack one and not moving in on orzhov, ended up passing lots of really good white and black and i should've recognized that as a clear signal.
― Lamp, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:26 (8 hours ago) Permalink
figuring out where to take the gates is the big one for me right now. because I'll wind up with like 9-10 good cards in DGM but they will almost all be gold ones, then try to pick up gates in the other two packs but straight up not seeing any or having to pick a bomby rare/uncommon over them. and then inevitably you'll lose at least one match to mana screw.
seems like BUG is really working for me. Drown in Filth is like this set's Death's Approach in that I always end up with 2-3 of them and they work very well. i'm still waiting for the time I use it and mill four good cards and whiff, then draw nothing but lands the rest of the way. It's interesting because you never quite know who to mill. The Golgari cards all want you to mill yourself but if you're using Drown, Grislies, the GTC mill effects, and now Pilfered Plans on yourself you can really get decked kinda easily.
― frogbs, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:39 (8 hours ago) Permalink
There aren't a lot of gates in RTR and GTC comparatively, right? Kind of taunting to have to pick up Gatekeepers and most of your gates in the first pack.
I actually drafted BUG today in my very first draft of this format, top 8 of a GPT for Providence. I was reasonably happy with how it went - even though there were no bombs, I got good fixing, a few removal spells, good attackers like Rakdos Drake and Beetleform Mage. But my round 1 opponent had Teysa, Trostani, and Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage, so that was that.
― Vinnie, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:54 (8 hours ago) Permalink
yeah I agree about drown in filth. it's also kinda fun cause it adds a gambly element to your play.
― iatee, Monday, 20 May 2013 04:18 (7 hours ago) Permalink
I had a sweet jund deck tonight w/ deadbridge chant, desecration demon, 2 augers, putrefy etc etc. deadbridge is pretty fun to land.
― iatee, Monday, 20 May 2013 04:21 (7 hours ago) Permalink
I curved spike jester, dreg mangler, desecration demon one game
― iatee, Monday, 20 May 2013 04:22 (7 hours ago) Permalink
lamp, it's encouraging to hear you've continued to roll with that american shell. i think i might dip back into block constructed as a precursor to finally learning standard. gonna try and go for it.
i always thought the big problem with that deck was the 2-drop, and i'm wondering if electromancer might be the card there, just to speed things up a turn. shaving a turn off verdict is probably huge against those burning tree zoo decks that seem to be dominating. i was hoping it would reduce the turn/burn cost to 1UR but even at 2UR it's still pretty good. also considering running warleader's helix against zoo, too.
so i think i might add:
- skymark roc (which on second thought after looking at the tourney winner lists seems kinda dodgy... i need a 4-drop bad)- turn/burn- electromancer- lavinia- hellraiser goblin SB- essence backlash SB
and take out:
- skyjek- judge's- hypersonic- a bunch of charms
hopefully i'll get a chance to test that out this week... it's a toss up whether i get time or not. i'm working outside for the summer so i think about magic a fair bit during my toiling job, with precious little time to actually play
― beetlejuice mane (fennel cartwright), Monday, 20 May 2013 05:50 (6 hours ago) Permalink