Planeswalkers R Us! Let's Play Magic: The Gathering!
 

Players> 2-8
Format> Casual
Play Order> By Posting Order
Rules

1. 40-card Min to 60-card Deck Max. No Side Decks.

2. Decks that are listed in the Banned or cards listed in Banned are also Banned here.

3. This is just a game and hence, no going off when a play doesn't go your way.

4. If you are unfamiliar or just starting, I wouldn't reccomend jumping into this. If you also can't be on day to day to check, same applies.

5. Posting your plays. Use the Gatherer to link us to the card you play if it's not a land. Keep the link going and try to not use Quotes button. We can look back to see how the game is going if we want. So format as follows>

Life Counter: 20

1x Forest
1x Swamp

Robin taps 1 Forest and summons Hana Kami.

(This changes if it's a spell or enchantment)

6. Phases and Steps will be done day by day posted individually. Everyone involved gets 24 hours from the post to play instants. If an Instant is played, players get 24 hours to respond. Reminder of Turn Structure for everyone.

7. When done with your round of play, you must declare it at the end of you final phase. Than we repeat Step 6 for the next player in order.

I am doing a max of 8 players for this game and you can tell I would like people to respond within a timely manner. That said, as the one opening this game, I'm first as we can't flip coins. So any who want to play, declare yourself. Also, no need to take pics of your layouts but keep them where they won't be disturbed so you can reference everything. Also, if you see where I can improve the rules, let me know!



I give one week for sign-up before we begin. ^_^ Let's all have fun and enjoy some Magic!

Play Order>
1. Robin Starwing
2. Vauron
3. Gregness
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

I suppose I could give this a shot. I'll lose horribly, but whatever.

Edit: Any format in particular?

I'm totally in. I have a few questions though:

What format? This affects things like legal cards and banned and restricted lists. Alternately, this could be just a casual game.

Any special game types? There's a ton of special multiplayer rulesets out there that are tons of fun, but the standard FFA can be pretty kickass too.

How are we going to enforce rules here. I mean, there's no way you can say I DIDN'T draw three Wrath of God's in a row.

Also (sort of related to the above), since this is an electronic format, are we limiting this to cards we own? I mean, I can't afford a playset of Jace, the Mind Sculptor, so does that mean I can't play here with a deck that has a full playset?

If we can get satisfactory decisions on these issues I think this thread has potential!
=8^)

Wait, FFA? I thought this was gonna be a bunch of 1v1s for some reason. Well, that decides which deck I'll use. I'll wager everything on a longshot.

I'm just aiming for Casual with the rules above. As to your other questions.

Rules will be enforced by honor system. That and I can find out where you live. *evil smile* Just kidding. ^_^

And yeah, this is decks we own. I got my own deck ready to go.

Honor system it is then. I'll take a look through the decks i've got and see what I want to bring out.

So far got Gregness and Vauron commited I think. Anyone else? Deadline is one week for signing up or if we get 8 slots filled.

Most of my decks combo off too fast for this kind of thing...

Yeah, wait, this won't really work too well, I don't think. The problem is that every spell you cast you have to give the opponent a response time. You don't go, "Okay, I summon this, do this, end turn", you go, "Okay, I cast this. You have a chance to respond now.", for every spell and ability that you do. And you have to be able to give your opponent the whole end of turn spells thing.

Edit: Wait, 40 card min? Legal decks have to be 60. You use 40 for drafts and such.

Double edit: Not to try to shoot this down or anything. You might be able to use an online magic playing thing, and set up an NPF league.

Don't got money for the Online and this is a casual game rpgdemon so we aren't going for the rules, just for fun.

I'd be all for an NPF MWS or Apprentice (preferably Apprentice) league. Im kind of a dick though.... other than drafts my one deck is U/r Izzet Guildmage-Lava Spike-Desperate Ritual Infinite damage loop.

faux-edit: I put the Wizards' forum [c][/c] tag around the cards. Old habits die hard.... I used to spend most of my internet time there.

This may be relevant to our interests. Wait, holy crap, 85 dollars? I suppose no one is going to pay that. But there's a mod for multiplayer. Which is free. If only the publishers were still around to print new copies of the game that could be bought for reasonable prices in support of their work, then I'm sure no one would even consider piracy. In fact I'm sure everyone here is good and kind enough to not consider downloading the fixed and updated game from that mod site anyway, as abandonware is a legal grey area. Let's just forget the whole thing huh.

I've actually heard of apprentice before, but keeping in mind the piracy policies here, would we be allowed to use it? I'm honestly not sure of the technicalities involved.

Apprentice was officially acknowledged and licensed by Wizards of the Coast, as it only uses publicly-available rules and lists of cards. Looks much better than my thing, legally speaking. Wish I'd checked it out before making my post. >_>

Yeah, it uses all publicly available stuff, and the actual program has no rules support.

If any of you are into limited/draft (like I am :P), I recommend netdraft too. Its a draft program that has you draft from most sets, build a list, then save as a .dec file to open in Apprentice. If you want a good laugh/horrible game draft 6 packs of Alpha

Apprentice is great, and legal. I've used it in the past, and it has a lot of manual user stuff/a bit of a cluttery UI, but works really nicely.

Have they been keeping up to date updating it? Last I knew, there was no patch past 10th-ish edition.

people have updated it, you just need to google (set) Apprentice patch. Magic-League, the site that hosted most of the "official" updates only has up to future sight.

Sweet. In that case, I am totally up for joining in on some Nuklear Forums Apprentice Magic League.

Oh shit, oh shit, I'm joining! ^^

If I can get it working that is. I had no luck in the past due to a certain issue...

EDIT: BTW, what's the latest set that it has been patched up to?

Also, are we following any particular rules/variants to avoid stuff like Tinkering a 0 cost artifact to get Blightsteel Colossus? (Kills in 1 unblocked hit, regardless of foe's total lifepoints).


Hmmmm, I'm wondering how we deal with cards outside of our deck such as with cards like this one...

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Ca...verseid=193535

for that, I'd say no more than one of each eldrazi. But, honestly, other than Infinite mana shenanigans (which should mean you win anyway :P), I don't see a conceivable way to make that work.

Just have a 15 card sideboard. Apprentice supports a sideboard, and the official rules on the card means that you can only grab them from your sideboard.

I've seen cheating the Eldrazi into play elevated to an art form.

I don't have a problem with this, but can you clarify which ban/restriction list are we talking about here? There are several ban lists depending on which block/variant we're playing. And some of the cards are banned on one format but restricted on the others (or not banned at all like Sword of the Meek)

You can check up the ban list by looking at the Reference tab of Apprentice to see what I mean.

I'm assuming that he means the legacy ban/restricted list, since vintage doesn't have any bans aside from ante cards, and he never mentioned being only one set, or standard, or extended.

Honestly though, I'd be fine with having a league for all of them.