Magic: The Gathering C/D

yeah i think it's sweet because i love triple-large-set draft formats and don't really like full block draft formats with the exception of Ravnica block

exactly - I loved the way Ravnica came together but stuff like the Scars block where you'd suddenly be pushed into doing blue/white infect knowing that there would be nothing for you in the next 2 packs was pretty awkward. but I do like 2/1 drafts with a large and a small

for me it's mostly that being able to consistently get certain cards esp. uncommons makes drafting various gimmicky archetypes a lot easier. like in 3x Innistrad draft, there's a real deck you can draft that plays out like this:

step 1: play out a bunch of defensive creatures to stall the game
step 2: mill your entire deck into your graveyard until you have no cards left
step 3: on your upkeep before you'd draw from an empty deck and lose, flash back Memory's Journey to put Runic Repetition into your deck and draw it.
step 4: use Runic Repetition to get back Memory's Journey

at this point you can use Memory's Journey and Runic Repetition to draw whatever card you want each turn. Now you can play Gnaw to the Bone to gain 20+ life if you're close to dead, then loop Spider Spawning to make enough tokens to kill them.

it sounds like someone's weirdo casual combo deck but you can actually draft this, and it actually works! and stuff like this is really only possible in a 3x large set format when you have the maximum number of chances at getting the important cards

i've never seen anyone pull that off. i did make a (somewhat successful) deck with 4 creatures and a bunch of dream twist/curse that mills 2 each turn which struck me as a very odd thing to do in a draft. you can definitely do really goofy things if you're drafting 3x a small set. i remember the first draft I did of Morningtide in which I picked up 9 of these guys: http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=152736

i guess i'll have to see how the INN/INN/DKA drafts play out - I agree that 3x INN was a great format.

i actually don't think it was a great format. there's a lot of cool stuff you can do but most of it gets crushed by whoever at the table was lucky enough to end up with the best G/W aggro deck, or blue tempo deck with invisible stalker. i've had more frustrating losses than in any other limited format i've played, due to a lack of hard removal and a lot of powerful tempo cards like Silent Departure that punish you for tapping out for something big.

the worst example i can think of was that i actually had to concede a game before my 2nd turn because it was impossible for me to win

i'm not saying its terrible though, it's still a fun format! just not as balanced as other ones i've played

and the Dark Ascension pack should fix some of the problems too

picked up this dude's new game - king of tokyo. looks sick...

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.

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.

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

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

i have not gotten to win a game with lab maniac yet, and i am jealous of everyone who has

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

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

i would really like to do an innistrad draft online w/ ilx mtg players. is such a thing possible?

probably not, there's only like 5 or 6 of us and we'd all have to be online at once

we would just have to draft together. we could schedule the games at our convenience

sealed is 100x easier to coordinate but i'd be down for either

yeah I think coordinating a draft will be impossible but I'll do sealed

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?

if there is a good sealed generator outside of the one that was included in magic workstation I have not found it

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.

i would play either draft or sealed with yall

sealed is hella fun id be up 4 it

if it looks like we can get 8 people we can do some knockout tournament

http://i.imgur.com/SBSsE.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lahtedTO031qzgp6f.jpg

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mario made out of magic cards?

oic

I wish I had cards to go to this w/
http://www.theawl.com/2012/02/midtowns-magic-gathering

the 'token white guys' thread on sna always makes me lol/confused

lmao

mtg-playing tumblr whites

http://i.imgur.com/HuGiY.jpg

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.

really excited cuz im playing a block constructed tournament tonight and i think im really, really happy with my deck

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