ya that was me. in retrospect I'm mostly just glad I didn't have that much money to spend to begin w/, that was sorta an advantage in some ways cause it required me to use what I had pretty efficiently, but otoh this was definitely my introduction to class consciousness. xp
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
tho when you do get to kill somebody w/ serra angels it's very majestic
― iatee, Wednesday, December 7, 2011 7:35 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
otmfm
― cad, Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
I liked playing sealed/draft games better because the 'spend $500 = win' advantage didn't exist anymore and it really requires another level of critical thinking.
tho having massively polished and powerful decks is fun too.
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
i mean it kinda sux now cuz lol game theory but it seems like everyone just finds optimal decks really quickly and essentially plays variations on them but then i have no desire to buy new cards so its probably for the best
yeah this is where the internet kinda ruins things. last time I played one of my pals had this really cool utility control deck that I was really intruiged by, and he said "yeah, it took top 8 at Worlds in France" or something
its definitely frustrating going to a tournament and just running into the same decks over and over again, especially when those decks are full of $40-$50 cards that are stupidly overpowered. the whole "mythic rare" thing made me stop playing right away
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
haha he sounds like a mtg hipster
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
i just think deckbuilding is a lost art. i used to love those late night mountain dew sessions where you'd tweak a deck for two hours then get massacred when you actually played someone good. i don't think i could stand going to a tournament and have my opponent know every card in my deck within the first 2 turns
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i mostly play draft these days since it's more fun than constructed almost all the time. you get to actually play with all the cards sooner or later whereas in constructed you're playing with just the best 10-20%. plus there's a whole extra level of strategy in drafting and constructing a good deck and also figuring out interactions on the fly since you're playing a deck you've never played before against a deck you've never seen before.
― smh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
i'm really bad at it tbqh
― smh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
what I like w/ draft or sealed is that a lot of times a card that would have been totally out of consideration for a scientifically-made deck can often be very, very strong
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it seems like 60-80% of the commons and uncommons these days are designed to interact with each other, which is neat
one of my favorite moves in sealed/draft, is to just straight out bluff. like to just attack with a 2/2 even though your opponent clearly has an untapped 3/3 out there, prompting the opponent to think, "well, i'm probably gonna get fucked if I block, so I'll just take it". it especially works well in pre-releases because most players don't know what the hell type of cards are in the set.
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
haha how often do you balance yr range w/some kind of followthrough on the attack tho?
― blah blah blah (є(٥_ ٥)э), Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
there is also a decent chance they will just think you are retarded
if there were a stronger culture of bluffing w/ magic it might work better
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
i never played nor even understood this game tbh!
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'd only do that when i know i have very few outs against the blocker in my deck and i won't be able to win without getting the extra bit of damage through
― smh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
in general it doesn't work on the same person twice if they actually "call your bluff". i don't do it often but it's a really fun move.
the point isn't just to deal them damage (though that helps), but to also them think you have some kind of "target creature gets +2/+2"-type card, which in turn makes them second-guess everything
if there was a culture of bluffing in magic it wouldn't work at all!
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
and even then it's always correct to block unless the blocker has a strong ability that you want to keep it around for, you're still trading 1 card for 1 if they have the combat trick
― smh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
if there were a culture of bluffing they might think 'hmm is this a bluff or does he have a good card' instead it's like 'hmm this guy probably doesn't know the rules, but maybe he has a good card'
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
not really - a card in play is already "paid for", so to speak. you do it when your opponent has a creature out that he'd rather not lose. like if it's just some generic 3/3 he might just trade, but if it's like some bomb-ass creature that you can't deal with otherwise, it's worth a shot
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
ehhh, I would never think that. even people who just learned how to play don't just blindly send their creatures to death
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I mean it depends on the situation and creatures, I guess. ime even when someone is doing this and I think they prob have a card in their hand, I'm still gonna block it - that card in hand would prob be used eventually anyway.
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
kinda surprised no one is repping for artifacts either, feel like theyre p cool
ive been trying to work on a card pick up deck w/ivory tower and library of alexandria
― blah blah blah (є(٥_ ٥)э), Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
what sets are you working w/?
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
cards from the first sets up to revised and then the early expansions like arabian nights, ice age, legends &c
― blah blah blah (є(٥_ ٥)э), Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
are you playing w/ cards irl or online? I would so love to play w/ those old school cards irl even though I know that's just bizarre object fetishism and the game's the same regardless.
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
you guys ever try magic workstation? lets you play online with any card ever released, very cool program
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
ya like a year ago me, rev, gravel and sometimes a few others were playing fairly regularly online. I think we all got busy at the same time tho and my internet connection became too unreliable.
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
i'm just playing around with it now...so cool that you get to view the old world champion decks with cards like Llurgoyf and Man o' War
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
it's pretty dope, esp when you download the card art
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
are you playing w/ cards irl or online?
we play with my friends old cards. i think he stopped collecting in like 97 but he was p into it before that so has binders and binders of cards. i put my deck together online before we play tho
― blah blah blah (є(٥_ ٥)э), Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
that's pretty cool, even his crappy cards are super rare at this point
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.cockatrice.de
Most folks I know have migrated from Magic Workstation to this very similar freeware program, since MWS hasn't been updated since 2005 and yet is still shareware w/ locked features etc.
― smh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
that's good to know actually, since mws got fucked up on my computer and was always buggy as hell. does it do card art / sealed games?
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
are there a bunch of people online to play? usually no problem finding a game on mws
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
it does card art. does not do sealed pools yet to my knowledge, you'd have to find another tool to generate those and then import them into cockatrice
there's usually plenty of people on the server, though it's pretty much unmoderated so i dunno what type of people you'll run into on there. i only use it with people i know.
― smh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
welp, MWS just crashed for the 3rd time in a row, guess i'm in
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm well if anyone itt is up for some games this weekend my gf is head over heels in schoolwork and I will be amazingly free
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
rip mws long live cockatrice
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
gah i hated blue decks. my first deck was a white one with serra angels, so really liked whoever said upthread that killing with them was very majestic ^^ second was a red/black one. i think i've had decks of every color but blue (that's how much i hate this fucking color... hate playing againsst it, hated playing with it too)
― jibé, Thursday, 8 December 2011 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
been trying it out - had no idea MWS was 'dead' so to speak but it would randomly crash like all the time so I hated it (plus the deckbuilding interface is really goofy)
so far, so good. I wish there was (and maybe there is?) a better way to filter cards when deckbuilding (like, show me all the type 2 legal cards that deal with the graveyard) but otherwise it's been great and doesn't crash, so that's awesome
programs like that are really good for me since it allows you to get bad decks out of your system and realize if something will or won't work before you actually go out and buy or trade for the cards
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Thursday, 8 December 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the deckbuilder is the part that they haven't caught up to MWS on yet. i use http://www.magiccards.info advanced search for extreme card filtering options
― smh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
FORK
― SandboxGarda (HI IT'S RONAN), Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
dual lands
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
fork was so sick; was def in the statis/burn deck
― j crunchwrap supreme, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
if any of you have the original dual lands sitting around those are worth like $40-100 each now depending on which ones
― smh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
I have exactly zero mtg cards left irl, but my cards were in such bad shape regardless. I just had piles of cards around my room, I was like scrooge mcduck w/ crappy fallen empires commons instead of gold pieces. but I mean, I was 9.
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
sold everything including a blue mox & lotsa duel lands for $400 iirc in 1999
i did briefly start buying some new stuff just to futz around w/ in 2008 or so..those are all...somewhere...
― j crunchwrap supreme, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
i had a deck with a bunch of banding creatures because no one really knew how banding worked so they couldn't play against it properly
― smh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
most of the early sets were amazingly well designed in retrospect and I think that's why this game is still so playable 20 years later
but I think banding was the first-wave of shitty card abilities
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
banding was in alpha
some of the early sets are pretty suspect though. Legends only exists because some guys at WotC wanted to make magic cards for their D&D characters. Fallen Empires was so weak that it almost sunk the game commercially before it really got started.
― smh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah I mean alpha cards were super balanced, the first expansions were a real mixed bag in comparison, shit like this
http://images.magicmadhouse.co.uk/images/products/medium/1298911919-36779600.jpg
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah I'm still around pm me
― iatee, Friday, 16 December 2011 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
^^ had a fun time despite getting my ass handed to me :D
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Saturday, 17 December 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah it was def fun
I'm prob gonna be out of the game for a while cause my gf's on vacation and I have to spend time w/ her instead of playing a card game online w/ strangers. but luckily - her vacation isn't that long.
― iatee, Saturday, 17 December 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
haha 'have to'... cant wait till im off for winter break tho ugh
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Saturday, 17 December 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
(cough)
anyone want to play tonight
― iatee, Sunday, 1 January 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
i have recently tried playing more mtg, after finding a stash of old cards in my game cabinet. they are all from 1997 or before; i played with a bunch of dudes who had all these new cards and i couldn't quite understand what any of them did.
that being said i remember being able to really fuck people up really quickly with black decks.
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
it and red seemed to be the ones most primarily decidated to damaging opponents.
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 23 December 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 24 December 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link