magic: the gathering poll

http://static.starcitygames.com/sales/cardscans/MAGREV/nevinyrrals_disk.jpg

such a rad card

http://www.coolstuffinc.com/images/Products/mtg%20art/Antiquities/Mishra

cool card iirc

do you know about the title of that card lamp?

antiquties is basically an artifact set and its really really early ~~ i think any of the subsequent sets built around the urza/mishra mythos are artifact based?? idk tho

nah I meant one of the mid-period sets, let me look it up

which card? i have imgs off and the link for yours wont work. the other one is larry nevin spelt backwards - i guess the idea for the card came from one of his books

haha yeah that's what I meant

mine was mishra's factory

what's w/ these sites and the squirrels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrodin_(Magic:_The_Gathering)

this is the one I was thinking of

overall I think w/ the early sets there are a handful of great artifacts but they don't add up to anything killer on their own

later in the game you get stuff like this and suddenly artifacts can fuck people up

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=8883
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=194980
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=206332

haha academy and tinker are banned in every format pretty much

the urza block really fucked up the game, there were like 20 different cards that led to turn 1-2 kill combos

man i just got sucked into looking through the cards in the urza's saga set there are some p amazing cards geez

the thing abt early artifacts is that shit like the mox gems and sol ring and obv black lotus are sorta rad w/o needing to combo w/other shit, theyre just inherently rad

i mean i guess this is really obv but as the game progresses cards are so much more impt in context of other cards whereas early on cards are just facevalue powerful

basically every time they make an artifact themed block the game breaks and they have to ban stuff, its kind of funny at this point

iirc w/ early sets artifact creatures are all a tad overpriced mana-wise, just a bit too expensive to be competitive w/ colored creatures

except juggernaut...that dude made it into a lot of my decks

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/253

artifact porn

for some reason at one point I was really obsessed with maze of ith for one of my decks and I went and bought a pack from that expansion which was at that point like 3 years old and it cost me $8 which was obviously a lot of money to me and anyway it actually had a maze of ith in it even though maze of ith was pretty rare

that's my artifact story

huh looking it up maze of ith was pretty common. I was still psyched on it tho

my most expensive card was a revised shivan dragon

maze of ith was actually a land not an artifact for some reason. because of this it still gets played sometimes thanks to Knight of the Reliquary

the thing abt early artifacts is that shit like the mox gems and sol ring and obv black lotus are sorta rad w/o needing to combo w/other shit, theyre just inherently rad

the funny thing about these cards is that the designers knew they were overpowered but that there wouldn't be enough of these cards to go around because they were rare

in the long-term that proved to be true

still trying to figure out why i wanted maze of ith so bad

it's a dope card, you don't need any excuses

no but i had like a COMBO going on. this is going to kill me.

it's good...but it's not COMBO good

im not sure what this combo would be

the combo of finding maze of ith and putting it in your deck

if i had been into magic as a kid i wouldve spent so much money on worthless decks cuz i still only really like cards cuz of how they look

in some ways that's more justifiable, if you're spending $10 on a small piece of paper, it should at least be aesthetically appealing

http://www.mtgmintcard.com/images/products/150/MAGIC-THE-GATHERING-MERCADIAN-MASQUES-RISHADAN-PORT-MDMR082.jpg

nonbasic lands are like catnip to me

heh its very possible i just liked maze of ith for its art:

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/dk/114.jpg

xp innistrad has some fun ones

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/isd/239.jpg

god, every time i click a link on this thread i lose about two hours

and i never even played this beyond, like, starter deck level

i've always loved the land art in this game, both pre- and post- style-guide

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/shm/288.jpg

i gotta say drafting this new set is the most fun i've had drafting in a while

i feel like it handles the whole 'graveyard' thing much better than Odyssey did, instead of saying "as soon as you get 7 cards in the graveyard, this stuff happens", it's much more creative with a bunch of cards that have death effects or can be more valuable when they're dead

god, every time i click a link on this thread i lose about two hours

lol: http://mtg.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Nonbasic_Lands

an all land deck would be interesting

lol: http://mtg.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Nonbasic_Lands

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go to hell

there's a legacy deck called Lands that runs upwards of 40 lands, i've never played with or against it though so i don't know much about it

and yeah innistrad is very good in limited. it's def the best example yet of their new design strategy to make simple cards that interact in complex ways rather than just make the cards themselves complex

I think it's hilarious that they printed the card Mental Misstep pretty much just for Legacy and Vintage and it wound up getting banned in everything

lol that card is ridiculous

'Counter target spell with converted mana cost 1.'

wait I'm confused, what does 'converted mana cost 1' mean

converted mana cost (cmc) is just the number of mana the card costs, disregarding color etc

serra angel has cmc 5 for example, shivan dragon is 6, etc

that's what I figured but I don't see why it's amazing in that case

because the card costs either one blue or 2 life to play. so any deck can play it, regardless of color, and don't even need to have a land out to cast it.

in legacy/vintage, like a good 30-40% of the cards played cost 1 mana. I thought the card was printed to bring some balance to the format, but it just wound up making combo more powerful