Magic: The Gathering

MrFun · April 24, 2002, 00:34

You know --- that strategy card game based on fantasy realms where you create decks using various cards of the colors white, black, green, red, and blue that represent different elements??

Anyway, it has been about five years since I have played, and I would like to get back into that game soon, with some people in my local area.

But who else plays this game?? Who plays the game online??

chequita guevara · April 24, 2002, 00:38

Magic: The Addiction.

MrFun · April 24, 2002, 00:43

Quote:

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Magic: The Addiction.

Just because you're a popular commie on here, does not mean you have the privelege to give such a vague answer.

Do you enjoy playing this card game?

MrBaggins · April 24, 2002, 00:49

I have MTG: Encylopedia...

I could play online.

I am a newbie though...

Urban Ranger · April 24, 2002, 00:52

Jaakko is a master in the game. He lurks about.

The game is a great sinkhole of money for sure.

Don't you have to pay $$$ to play online?

chequita guevara · April 24, 2002, 00:52

Quote:

Originally posted by MrFun
Do you enjoy playing this card game?

Of course. Even the Fabulous Bunnygrrl likes the game.

MrBaggins · April 24, 2002, 00:53

Quote:

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Jaakko is a master in the game. He lurks about.

The game is a great sinkhole of money for sure.

Don't you have to pay $$$ to play online?

MTG Enc allows you to play over TCP for $0

It costs initially... but not much

MrFun · April 24, 2002, 00:54

My two favorite colors are white and blue, and I usually combine them in a deck to create my own versions of control decks.

monkspider · April 24, 2002, 01:09

I used to put Communism into action in my Magic: the gathering scene. Basically, the tourney scene boiled down to myself and a few other super powers who were the ones who bought the most packs (read: the capitalist pig-dogs) so my friend and I created a much more balanced play environment by distributing some of our rares amongst the unfortunate "proletariot players". Ah, those were some good times!

I usually played white weenie.

Jon Miller · April 24, 2002, 01:20

I play with my freinds cards

so I don't spend money

Jon Miller

Jon Miller · April 24, 2002, 01:25

I like weeny

usually green/red weeny or white/green weeny

I have a completely blue (and a couple of dream thrushes) counter deck right now though

I only play casual (and preferibly emperor or two-headed giant)

Jon Miller

MrFun · April 24, 2002, 01:28

I have never played in official tournaments, but I absolutely enjoyed playing this game with friends.

Triped · April 24, 2002, 02:39

I used to play Magic all the time until I realized I was spending money on a game I played to win instead of for fun, so I stopped. I had a wicked blue + black mana denial deck, though.

-=Vagrant=- · April 24, 2002, 02:43

I have aprox 7000 cards. Oldest are from Revised. Haven't played in a few years, but I just can't throw those cards away!
Favorite colors: Black and Red
RAARGH! -=Vagrant=- SMASH!

My favourite deck is the Urza's Misery= black&blue bumerang-discard-damage-lose life killer combo.

Still, it is fun to play with newbies. "Antakaas kun setä näyttää"
translation "Here, let the Ol' man show you how it's done"

Kassiopeia · April 24, 2002, 07:25

Oh God. Not MtG. Nothing but that.

My friends got addicted to that a year or so ago. I'm glad I didn't join in the frenzy; now they've got giant sheets of cards around, worth a heckuva lot of

yet they have no practical use, except when setting up a bonfire.

Sava · April 24, 2002, 07:27

A couple of my friends in high school were obsessed with that game. I, on the other hand, thought it was stupid... hmmmm.... and still do

.

Zoid · April 24, 2002, 08:09

[patronizing old boardgamer mode]

Magic - The Gathering is for children and losers...

[/patronizing old boardgamer mode]

Chowlett · April 24, 2002, 08:21

Decent enough game - just find ways of playing for free. Like the current open beta of M:tG - Online, or the old M:tG computer game, or Apprentice.

And I tend to go white/black creature decks.

Jon Miller · April 24, 2002, 08:32

Quote:

Originally posted by Kamrat X
[patronizing old boardgamer mode]

Magic - The Gathering is for children and losers...

[/patronizing old boardgamer mode]

when it takes away from board gaming it is

if however you are too tired to do real gaming, or you are waiting for a player

it can be a decent time waster

Jon Miller

Urban Ranger · April 24, 2002, 08:40

It's good for a few quite games, or when your brain is too fried for anything else. We used to play Illuminati or something silly like that during those wee hours of the morning, but I reckon M:tG is just as good if it doesn't suck up so much money.

Anyway, seems like the new tournament rules kill off a lot of popular decks people love. Heck, even Mind Twist is now illegal IIRC.

I used to have a white/blue control deck that just drives people crazy

Chowlett · April 24, 2002, 08:42

I have to admit, I'm pants at creating decks. If I posted my electronic card holdings here, could people suggest possible decks for me?

Urban Ranger · April 24, 2002, 08:44

I'll try my best.

Jon Miller · April 24, 2002, 08:46

Quote:

Originally posted by Chowlett
I have to admit, I'm pants at creating decks. If I posted my electronic card holdings here, could people suggest possible decks for me?

I am good at creating weeny speed decks

(and a few others)

hey, I will ask a question

does anybody know if there is an enchantment that is green that is like rancor (comes back when sent to the graveyard)

Jon Miller

connorkimbro · April 24, 2002, 10:02

i used to play in college, and would play again but nobody i know around here plays. i also have MTG: Encyclopedia though, so if anyone wants to play online sometime, lemme know.

Raging Mouse · April 24, 2002, 12:10

Sure, I've played Magic. Unfortunately, I didn't care much for deck constructing, so I mostly lost. Still, I've got a fair number of cards. Nowadays? Now I play the Babylon 5 CCG....

Velociryx · April 24, 2002, 12:27

One of my favorites. I still have a handful of theme decks I created when I used to play a lot, but have been slowly selling off my cards. Sadly, yes...most of the decks I built as the game evolved are now illegal....some of my favorites tho are:

The wee beasties deck - Red green, constructed during the Revised (third edition) period - Dual Lands and Kird Apes...a fist-ful of cheap green critters, backed up with Giant Growths, Blood Lust, Lightning Bolts (and later Incinerates, too - Ice Age), 4 Howling Mines for speed and a Zuran Orb/Feldon's Kane for Longevity. Vicious. If even one critter makes it through on any attack, it's good night Princess.

The deck everyone hated - Rack 'em....pure black, pure card denial. 4 howlers for speed (mind twist, hymn to tourach, hippy spook and that other card-stripping flying critter, anti-critter cards (terror), and speed cards (dark ritual) to round it all out. Hopeless to play against decks like that tho, all they do is really irritate your opponent.

The Good Guy Deck: White weenie - mostly first strikers with a few banding units tossed in. Enough healing and preservation cards to keep 'em alive long enough for the kill. Sweet deck that could be run on all of four mana (and that's COUNTING mana for fast effects on the other guy's turn!).

What's yours is Mine: Black Blue deck that was all about counter spellin', killin' critters and animating them later and/or controlling them away and beatin' the ever-living hell out of your opponent with his own stuff. A little slower than the Rack Deck, but every bit as annoying. Featured Feldon's Cane and Skull of Orm to keep reviving all those enchantments....

A few others, but those were always my favorites to play...had a sweet pair of infinite recursion decks that you could play forever and simply run your opponent outta cards...now THOSE are annoying...lol

-=Vel=-

MrBaggins · April 24, 2002, 12:33

I played a Guardian Beast, Alladin, artifact deck one time... annoyed the living **** out of my opponent and beat him down...

Monk · April 24, 2002, 15:10

Played for a couple years and just loooved blue/white control while I didn't fancy black or red that much... but the only great deck I ever managed to build, and the only deck that actually won significantly more than it lost was a pure black discard thingy which was mostly done for fun. It's a cruel world.

Chowlett · April 24, 2002, 15:15

Hmm, I appear to have 2700 virual cards - let's not copy all that down. Any tips on how to reduce the number under consideration would be appreciated, MtG Online has a nice filtering system.

The Boss of You · April 24, 2002, 15:19

I used to play Magic a bit in the days before the Tempest expansion. I had a red green deck that I loved both for it's effectiveness and because the colors looked pretty. Basically it used a bunch of small critters to overwhelm the defense. Plus direct damage to finish em off. It wasn't real fancy, but it wasn't expensive to build either. I had a white weenie that owned my friends' decks too but I got rid of it because it was basically too straightforward and easy.