Magic: The Gathering

[Guest TaraD]

Yeah I started with 7th edition and stopped at Mirrodin, I still play just not a fan of a lot of the newer sets. I prefer to trade them out for older stuff like Unlimited through Judgement and of course the Onslaught Block was one of the best. My main deck is a nasty Black/White Cleric Bleeder with mass defense combos. (Ex. once made a 1/1 foothill guide take 30dmg and survive.)

oh wow thats mean. I wish I still Had my stasis Kismit. It made so anything that gets tapped stays that way and anything that is played is automaticly tapped. I had 4 krontogs that let me skip my draw phase. It was a very agrevating deck.

[Guest Aviannè_Annabella]

oh wow thats mean. I wish I still Had my stasis Kismit. It made so anything that gets tapped stays that way and anything that is played is automaticly tapped. I had 4 krontogs that let me skip my draw phase. It was a very agrevating deck.

oh yeah I know that deck. That's an old school combo and a really nasty one as well, almost as nasty as the Gaseous Form, Lure, Thicket Basilisk combo (IE Creature Sweeper).

[Guest TaraD]

oh yeah I know that deck. That's an old school combo and a really nasty one as well, almost as nasty as the Gaseous Form, Lure, Thicket Basilisk combo (IE Creature Sweeper).

Ya cost me about $300 to find all the cards need for it. Creature Sweeper is one of those decks that no one wants to play including me. LOL!!!!

[Guest Aviannè_Annabella]

Ya cost me about $300 to find all the cards need for it. Creature Sweeper is one of those decks that no one wants to play including me. LOL!!!!

Yeah very few people play those old combos anymore. I'm missing Gaseous Forms to finish my creature sweeper deck. I still prefer my main B/W Cleric deck.

[Guest Cynthia Of Creation]

IN yugioh I wond dulest league 4! ITS actually was really easy, it was more like a yugioh scavenger hunt,

Anyway magic was not bad, pokemon never like,

love digimon, Yugiohs not to bad but like the old stuff more!

Never got into magic cuz i couldnt ever find anyone to play with magic. although I might get a ton cuz my sister I recently found use to have em, so maybe we pick it up and we play over video chat, OOOOO perfect!, video chat to have real card matches not a bad Idea,

Like to forum users hook up on video chat, and play like yugioh,magic,pokemon,digimon,DBZ,YUyuhakosho, or some other crazy card game no one ever heard of.

camera of course being on the field of play!

get a chance to actually dust off those old cards that Ya cant sale anyway

[Guest TaraD]

sounds cool to me got to find my cards.

[Guest Aviannè_Annabella]

Yeah I need to find people to play against. My Cards are getting dusty!

[Guest Risu]

If anyone here is an Xbox/Pc/PS3 game there are 2 Magic games available on their game marketplaces and steam on PC.

I higly reccomend the newer game, Magic 2012 but people still play both and both games have some awesome decks. The thing about Magic 2012 is that it has new game modes like 2 headed giant and archenemy (1 vs. 3), and regular old free for all modes all of which you can play with a remote teammate (meaning you don't need to be on the same system) and best of all you can find people to play with 365 days a year, 24 hours per day as people play world wide. Decks are limited to set cards with set themes and strategies but are customizable.

As for real life magic, Maybe we could play over webcam or something?

I have a totally awesome and Patriotic Red, White and Blue Angel deck but I live in a small town where its hard to find people to play with.

And for the record... I hate Platinum Angel...

[Guest Aviannè_Annabella]

Yeah Platinum Angel was really cheap for an actual card and not something from Unhinged or Unglued. What types of cards are in your angel deck???

[Guest .Christine Elizabeth.]

I had tons of cards, but I haven't been able to find them since the move

[Guest Risu]

Yeah Platinum Angel was really cheap for an actual card and not something from Unhinged or Unglued. What types of cards are in your angel deck???

Hmm... it's pretty much all Angels. Lightning Angel, Battlegrace Angel, Deathless Angel, Serra Angel, Guardian Seraph, Razia Boros Archangel and Firemane Angel as well as some Reya Dawnbringer. Because most of my angels have such a high mana cost I filled the rest of the deck with cards like Faith's Fetters and Prison Term, and since it's multi color I put in some Terramorphic Expanse and Evolving Wilds so I can pull colors I needs if I have to, as well as non basic land cards that give me more than one color at a time like Red and White or White and Blue.... if any of this makes any sense xD All in all it's a solid deck and the angel's abillities really compliment each other.

[Guest Berenice_TS]

Ah! I love MtG, only been playing it for about a year, but I'm already super into it. I've seriously spent a ton of money on like well over a 1000 cards, but it's certainly fun enough to be worth it.

[Guest Groove_Ghost]

I love this game soooo muchy I even have the White Mana symbol tattooed on my left arm <3

Been playing for about ten years now, God that makes me feel old I first picked it up when my dad brought a PC gaming mag and handed me the free Magic cards he got with it cause he had no interest in them, then me and my best friend got a few decks and started up a Magic gaming club in our school

I used to play a few rounds at my local Friday Night Magic where I live but it dwindled and eventually no one but me, my friend and the guy who owned the hobby shop played LOL

I play either a pure White Mana deck or a pretty awesome Green/Black combo that my GF hates

One of the first things that attracted me to my GF was her love of the game, then I realised she was far better than me and I have yet to beat her more than 5 times in our 4 year relationship but one day *evil laugh*

Sadly now though their are sooooo many new rules and card types its hard for an old girl like me to keep up with the young uns' LOL

[Guest Berenice_TS]

Oh, the new rules are not so bad, though I do admit I'm new I can certainly use the old rules just as well! I'm more of a White or Green user, but can really make any colored deck, though I have a thing for multi-color.

[Guest Aviannè_Annabella]

I love this game soooo muchy I even have the White Mana symbol tattooed on my left arm <3

Been playing for about ten years now, God that makes me feel old I first picked it up when my dad brought a PC gaming mag and handed me the free Magic cards he got with it cause he had no interest in them, then me and my best friend got a few decks and started up a Magic gaming club in our school

I used to play a few rounds at my local Friday Night Magic where I live but it dwindled and eventually no one but me, my friend and the guy who owned the hobby shop played LOL

I play either a pure White Mana deck or a pretty awesome Green/Black combo that my GF hates

One of the first things that attracted me to my GF was her love of the game, then I realised she was far better than me and I have yet to beat her more than 5 times in our 4 year relationship but one day *evil laugh*

Sadly now though their are sooooo many new rules and card types its hard for an old girl like me to keep up with the young uns' LOL

Rofl yeah my local store that ran weekend magic tourneys and such stopped doing that too. Yeah the newer packs really aren't great I stopped collecting seriously when Mirroden was the new pack. I didn't like the crap they added that completely unbalanced the game. Mirroden Block wins almost always against anything thats not also Mirroden. You just can't play a good old fashion Thicket Basilisk Creature Sweeper deck or some of the other classic styles against the new stuff. Really Onslaught was the last really great block. My entire deck is almost completely Onslaught Block stuff, plus a few things that though from Mirroden or later sets are actually just reprints of older cards.

[Guest Groove_Ghost]

I stopped playing around the same era, you are like so right Mirrodin owns everything I may sound old here but when I played against anybody, even someone new to the game with a lot less experience than me, no matter what cards I had or moved I tried I could never win! Those stupid antique cards and stuff had sooo many status effects it was unreal *cries* me and my GF and sometimes a few friends get together on weekends to have a couple of games but we always use old cards. I adore the Arabian Nights set, for some reason thats my era, that and Ice Age, the artwork was stunningly beautiful and the game was balanced right for me. Onslaught was good, especially for Green Mana users, the monsters were just unbeatable and could easily hold their own against a deck built round magic and thingies. Twas' a good time *reclines back in rocking chair* these young uns' just don't know....... *falls asleep drooling*

[Guest Risu]

I stopped playing around the same era, you are like so right Mirrodin owns everything I may sound old here but when I played against anybody, even someone new to the game with a lot less experience than me, no matter what cards I had or moved I tried I could never win! Those stupid antique cards and stuff had sooo many status effects it was unreal *cries* me and my GF and sometimes a few friends get together on weekends to have a couple of games but we always use old cards. I adore the Arabian Nights set, for some reason thats my era, that and Ice Age, the artwork was stunningly beautiful and the game was balanced right for me. Onslaught was good, especially for Green Mana users, the monsters were just unbeatable and could easily hold their own against a deck built round magic and thingies. Twas' a good time *reclines back in rocking chair* these young uns' just don't know....... *falls asleep drooling*

Totally understand you there. Personally one of my favorite blocks was the Ravnica: City of Guilds blocks. I can't comment on balance, but I just loved the art and how each individual card in a Ravnica Booster Pack told another piece of the story of Ravnica.

One of the reasons I kind of lost interest in magic was because the card shop I began to play at started doing the Friday night magic with the Judges, where it used to be Saturday morning casual and people used custom made decks, now suddenly everything had to be "In Standard". So I bought a Mirrodin starter deck or whatever, and was extremely unimpressed and down right dissapointed. I recently bought a new deck they have because it had a cool looking Angel as the foil card and... it hasn't improved yet and since I am now financing the cost of transition I don't have the money, time or interest to stay "In Standard" with all of my decks. Which is why I stick to the online magic these days. Pre-built customizable decks with varying themes and strategies built in, learning the strengths and weaknesses of each deck and then how to defeat them simplify the game for me and help keep it quite a bit of fun when I need to scratch my MtG itch.

[Guest Groove_Ghost]

I always hated that about pro Magic games, you ALWAYS had to have up to date cards I get they need to sell them but for players like me it was just so annoying! I tried a new deck recently, me and my GF were in a game store and thought we may at least give it a go and it wasn't my thing at all, not just the new rules but everything about it, it wasn't the Magic I know and love, maybe I am stuck in the 90s I dunno

The place where I used to play was informal but people kinda lost interest after the craze died down, they all went and played Yu Gi Oh, could never get in to that myself. So it was down to about four of us playing on weekends

What I like about making your own decks is that I always felt that you could tell someones personality by the colour they played as, how their deck was structured. It was such a personal act making your own deck just the way you want it, I can't tell you the amount of times I have been backed in to a corner only to pull out my favvy card, Dross Golem or Cathodian BTW, a card that has one me many a game and I still keep a copy of each in my CKY wallet to this day that feeling of "yeah good ol' faithful" and its given me such a buzz but in official games I have to use new cards I am not used to. Hope I don't sound strange here! But thats how I feel about the game. If you are a head strong person maybe you are a Green Mana user with little magic but lots of strong, natural creatures etc Me I play White Mana, I like to take care of my monsters like I value my friends, wanting to help them and support them so my playing style is smaller monsters with lots of healing spells

[Guest Risu]

I believe it was also around the time of Mirrodin they changed the rules so there is no more Mana Burn... I think that is one of my biggest pet peeves. Unless you have a card that allows you to have an infinite mana pool I want the limits to stay in effect! It made so much more sense that way.

I play a little bit of all colors but my hands down favorite colour is white. I remember when I was 12 or 13 years old a friend of mine was teaching me how to play Magic which had already been around for 5+ years. Anyway, he had a card in his deck called "Pearl Unicorn" and I begged him to let me have it. Sadly he refused, but thanks to ebay I have all the Pearl Unicorns I could want. Not that it's a great card, it just made such an impact on me. It was a sentimental thing.

I think the colors I am worst with would be green and red. Green because I hate not having flying creatures... though I do love my elves. Besides an elf deck though, I haven't made any green decks of my own. I did make a green and white deck that I love but I think it's around 130 cards... so many beautiful and amazing cards it's hard for me to trim it down xD

Then there's red... the instant spells and indirect damage I get, but proper use of creatures with insanely high attack and no defense just doesn't click in my mind for some reason. There are so many creatures in the red color that are 2/1, 3/1, 4/1, 5/1, 6/1 and probably higher and I dunno... to me 5 mana cost for 5/1 or a 6/1 that doesn't have trample or first strike seems worthless to me. I know a lot of them have haste... but when they have haste they usually also have "Sacrifice this creature at the beginning of your end step". I can play red, don't get me wrong... but I can't build red decks and I just don't appreciate red creatures overly much.

So generally I stick to white. I'm not a fan of counter heavy blue decks and it's hard to find black cards that aren't ugly *laughs* not that it matters but... you know... My favorite thing about black cards are the discarding and the instant death. As for blue... I've been working on a Merfolk deck for a while now. A co-worker told me that "back in the day" people used to build Merfolk decks which were like the original elf decks. Sadly, I just can't seem to find any merfolk creatures that compliment each other so it's kind of been on hold. I hope to finish it one day but we'll see.

[Guest Groove_Ghost]

OMG I so agree about the unlimited mana pool thing, how unbalanced does that make the game? You get some kid with a Green deck with a bunch of creatures, especially one with say trample or haste and you have more of a tactical deck, what chance do you have of winning? It isn't fair and dumbs the game down

I play some Black decks apart from White one, I like the gothicky creatures and the magic can get pretty interesting if you search hard enough plus my GF plays a Black deck and I wanted to see if I could beat her at her own game .....I didn't! Damn her.....

I agree completely on Red decks, its unbalanced, why do they have no defense? I bought a Red deck when I was like 17 after realising I had never really played one and instantly wondered what I had spent my money on. All the Mana cost of every other colour with added status effects and no defense.... If someone makes me one I can play it fairly well, but tell me to build one and I sit there imagining my immenent defeat. Especially Goblins... Most of them die after one attack or can't equip weapons!

When my GF first started playing she played a pretty strong Merfolk deck but I haven't really played anyone else who could use one all that well, and "back in the day" makes me feel even older HAHA I have always wanted a decent Elf deck but haven't got round to it, I must admit my Green deck is pretty all "stomping" creatures and very powerful spells, so it feels cheap when I win with it.

When playing with friends I do usually ignore the card limit rule and just make massive decks so we are still playing while eating pizza, don't worry, my personal favvy deck is protected with card sleeves

What made me want to use White as well was the pretty Angel cards, *sighs* I want to beautiful like they are. My friends know when I get certain cards I like, I have little songs and dances I make when I pull out a favvy monster

[Guest Aviannè_Annabella]

Thats the problem with the newer cards and sets, they don't require any strategy! I know plenty of people who can play a straight red deck and slaughter anyone with it! Also I've played green beast decks several times with my BW Cleric Shield/Bleeder deck and won. Its all about knowing your deck and having a plan. I didn't even know about the unlimited mana pool thing. I've never dealt with mana burn so doesn't really bother me much, and technically the newer rules don't apply if a card overrules em so the older decks with Tap Death strategies work fine. My biggest problem with the mirroden and such is the crap like Platinum Angel and all the stupid no planning required BS that also showed, Affinities, mass overload of 0 cost cards and such. Mirroden Block was absolute junk in the opinion of a lot of people I know who've been playing since 4th edition or earlier. These new decks rely on overpowered cheap shots and require no skill to play. Lets see a noob player try to play a good old Wizard powersinker!

[Guest Berenice_TS]

Mirroden and other modern blocks have gone up in power, but there have also been older broken blocks, such as Urza's Saga blocks. The main difference is that Magic has generally shifted to focusing on creature combat than anything else.

[Guest Edu]

T1: Forest, Arbor Elf; T2: Forest, Heartbeat of Spring; T3: Cultivate, Forest (just fetched); T4: Early Harvest into Emrakul, the Aeons Torn oops

Long-time player here I really enjoy building and trying out crazy stuff from time to time. You know, thinks like putting 15 mana on a legendary, nearly unstoppable, 15/15 annihilator... on turn four ^^

Another piece of combo I tried once (just using proxies, no way I could afford that!), on a free-for-all 8-player game:

Turn 1: Forest, Black Lotus, Zuran Orb; tap Forest to play Fastbond; sacrifice Lotus to play Crucible of Worlds; sacrifice forest to the orb for 2 life; then re-play it taking one damage (via Fastbond) from the graveyard (thanks to the Crucible), and tap it: this nets me one green mana and one life (I gained 2 but lost 1). Sacrifice-replay-tap forest again for another mana and lifepoint. Again, and again, and again until I'm at 41 life and have 21 green mana. Hurricane. After that I just took out a "normal" deck and played a normal game, but the faces of my friends were priceless

On the opposite extreme (going from IMBA-expensive to IMBA-cheap) I once made a deck containing only commons from a single set (not even a whole block!). So you Force of Will my Devouring Greed? Ok, but the costs are already paid, so all those Zuberas trigger anyway... the deck wasn't overpowered at all, but it caught most opponents by surprise and they never knew how to deal with it

One "combo" I'm really fond of was my "female deck": all creatures on it were unambiguously females (although they were snakes). The core of the deck was Sachi, Orochi Eggwatcher, Orochi Leafcaller, and Aggravated Assault, with support from Fervor and/or Mass Hysteria. The whole idea was to loop into infinite mana, make some tokens, attack with them, then rebuild the army and attack again, and so on. Quite hard to pull off, but really rewarding. I had another version that used Isochron Scepter with Call to Glory and Rise of the Machines. Even more complex, but it was standard-legal at the time (Mirrodin-Kamigawa-9th Ed.) No need to mention the couple of Fireballs I added as alternative outlets for the mana engine

I could go on with my exploits around Mirari's Wake, Djinn Illuminatus, or Followed Footsteps, but I hope you can already get an idea of my overall playstyle

Of course, from time to time I just grab my shocks, bolts, hammers, mines, incinerates, tarfires, ... and a dozen mountains and roast some friend's face in 3-4 turns ^^' But I get bored of that kind of deck rather quickly.

There is, however, one card I always wanted to build (and play!) a deck around it, but never had the chance. No less than Ladies' Knight from Unhinged. I bet you can figure out why ^^'

[Guest Aviannè_Annabella]

Mirroden and other modern blocks have gone up in power, but there have also been older broken blocks, such as Urza's Saga blocks. The main difference is that Magic has generally shifted to focusing on creature combat than anything else.

I'll agree that Urza's was a bit overpowered, but there at least you could still win just wasn't as easy. Ever tried to take a mirroden deck on with a deck of all pre-6th edition cards. No way to win. Yeah it really has shifted away from what made it so different from crap like Pokemon and such. I mean my main deck can hit you for 30 without ever actually attacking.

[Guest Berenice_TS]

I suppose those used to older sets prefer spell-slinging rather than creature brawls, but they still wind up being about the same. At any rate there are still many great instants and sorcery's being introduced, and a lot of creatures with older spells attached to them. I mean they even just recently brought back flashback and all. Also are you guys talking original Mirroden block? They've already been back to Mirroden block and it's fallen under Phyrexian control, if you know Magic storyline stuff.