[MTG] The discussioning!

Tev · 04-13-2011, 03:31 PM

So yeah, seems we have a decent little cult of Magic players that have crawled out from under the woodwork. Maybe we can get a discussion thread going?

How long have you been playing? Got a favorite deck? I've been putting together some theme decks over the last few days. I've got some pretty funny ones:

The Lion King

Beauty and the Beast

A Caribbean Adventure!

Folklore of rabbits and tar...

And then into a more serious deck: My current Legacy toy.

Death at the Disco

Anyway, what do you guys got to show? I've been playing since right around Arabian Nights and have been to a handful of medium profile tournaments in my day. My only claim to nerdy Magic fame is that I've actually played a hand or two with the game's creator, Richard Garfield.

Menarker · 04-13-2011, 03:45 PM

Was introduced to it long ago by my older brother who gave me his leftover junk cards (over hundreds of them, but still...). Have played Apprentice making 20+ decks for kicks including a few that made my friend want to kick me in the teeth.

However, I don't have anyone who is interested in playing nearby to actually buy cards to play with, especially since it is an expensive hobby (like many others) that you can't play by yourself with (without making fun of yourself or playing solitaire version or something).

Stopped playing mainly because my firewall decided to go hating on Apprentice and I haven't gotten it to work since. Hoping it won't be the case now.

Tev · 04-13-2011, 04:03 PM

Well I want to give Apprentice a shot but putting some of my decks into it seems to be an exercise in futility. I almost got my Dark Clerics deck loaded except they don't have Recurring Nightmare in their card list. And most of my other decks seem to have cards that are too new to be supported.

rpgdemon · 04-13-2011, 05:19 PM

There are patches, apparantly, which give you the later sets. I think it also has a card creation thing, so you can add in new cards that aren't patched in?

DarkDrgon · 04-13-2011, 05:58 PM

I was able to find up to Scars in apprentice, I'll go in and put a link to where i got the patches when Im home. My current favorite deck (read: Only deck :P), I have it on paper and in MODO

Quote:

Creatures:
1 Aether Membrane
1 Wall of Frost
1 The Unspeakable
4 Izzet Guildmage
2 Niv Mizzet, the Firemind
2 Stuffy Dolls

Artifacts/Enchantments
2 frozen Aether

Instant/Sorcery
4 Desperate Ritual
3 Glacial Ray
2 Peer Through Depths
4 Reach Through Mists
2 Sift Through Sands
2 Invoke the Firemind
1 Sleep
2 Eerie Procession
4 lava spike

Land:
2 Steam Vents
2 izzet Boilerworks
2 Shivan Reef
10 Island
6 Mountain

The deck plays pretty consistently. I usually win... with under 5 life left. If I get to turn 8, and have my combo pieces (usually the only one I don't have is the mage, since I have to dig instead of search), I win. if you see me with 6 mana open and a guildmage on the board... I win.

Tev · 04-13-2011, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkDrgon

The deck plays pretty consistently. I usually win... with under 5 life left. If I get to turn 8, and have my combo pieces (usually the only one I don't have is the mage, since I have to dig instead of search), I win. if you see me with 6 mana open and a guildmage on the board... I win.

Point of order: have you ever considered going white for the infinite combo loop that is Stuffy Doll/Guilty Conscience? There's plenty of artifact/enchantment fetch cards in white so you can tutor up your combo rather fast. Plus you can pair it with blue for counter magic as well as even more effective artifact search spells like Fabricate. And if you go the blue/white route, you can also use insta-transmuters like Polymorph or Shape Anew off of the back of an artifact or creature token generating spell like Master's Call or one of the Elspeth Planeswalker cards.

Locke cole · 04-13-2011, 06:53 PM

I've been picking up packs of the newest sets recently. I especially like Decimator Web because it actually uses the word "decimate" correctly.

DarkDrgon · 04-13-2011, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Tev

Point of order: have you ever considered going white for the infinite combo loop that is Stuffy Doll/Guilty Conscience? There's plenty of artifact/enchantment fetch cards in white so you can tutor up your combo rather fast. Plus you can pair it with blue for counter magic as well as even more effective artifact search spells like Fabricate. And if you go the blue/white route, you can also use insta-transmuters like Polymorph or Shape Anew off of the back of an artifact or creature token generating spell like Master's Call or one of the Elspeth Planeswalker cards.

i could... but I like the arcane subtheme too much. Getting out the Unspeakable with the tripple search cards happens one in 20 games, but when it does... no one sees it coming. I can also do an Ok job using rituals to power out a huge invoke the firemind

Tev · 04-13-2011, 07:23 PM

I understand. I used to run a pretty neat blue/green spirit/arcane deck that used the Unspeakable search combo as well.

lazy man · 04-13-2011, 08:07 PM

Hm, I'd post my decklists here but I don't actually have my decks in front of me right now. How annoying. Oh well, I'll go off of memory. Keep in mind I'm probably definitely forgetting some things if the numbers don't look right.

Another thing to keep in mind is my friends and I play Legacy, so we kinda try and make all of our decks efficient as possible, goofy concept or not.

GOBLINS!

Sadly I can't remember every card from the deck, but there's the meat of it. Skirk Prospector + Siege Gang + Sharpshooter = DEATH. And, ya know, everything means death too, but what can ya do? Can't believe I forgot my longest running deck, though... Anyway, moving on!

B/R Discard

Again forgetting some cards, but that's that. This one's fun if only because it's just so generically dicky. Discard? Control? Oh the humanity! Now, moving on!

Mono-white Soldiers

More forgetting I think! But this one's pretty self explanatory. Soldiers and all. So simple!

Life Gain!

Still forgetting some for this one as well, I think, but just note that Proclamation + Martyr is ridiculous. I've actually legitimately gotten over 1000 life with this just because my friend was stubborn. I don't think it'll ever happen again.

Anyway, that's all from me for now. But just know that I also have a Blue/Black/Green mill deck that uses Lord of Extinction for laughs and the almighty BEAST DECK. FEAR THE BEASTIES.

04-13-2011, 03:45 PM	#2
Menarker OMG! WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW? Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3,802	Was introduced to it long ago by my older brother who gave me his leftover junk cards (over hundreds of them, but still...). Have played Apprentice making 20+ decks for kicks including a few that made my friend want to kick me in the teeth. However, I don't have anyone who is interested in playing nearby to actually buy cards to play with, especially since it is an expensive hobby (like many others) that you can't play by yourself with (without making fun of yourself or playing solitaire version or something). Stopped playing mainly because my firewall decided to go hating on Apprentice and I haven't gotten it to work since. Hoping it won't be the case now. __________________ THE BIO OF RENNY TRESSERHORN THE BIOs OF POKEMON UMBRAL!

04-13-2011, 05:19 PM	#4
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	There are patches, apparantly, which give you the later sets. I think it also has a card creation thing, so you can add in new cards that aren't patched in? __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.