Ravnica Resurgence: Magic the Gathering

drp527

I like playing Magic casually where I can just find stuff that works together and play it regardless of what came from which set

I am also terrible at any kind of competitive play

Skull Man wrote:

is there anywhere legal to play this game online

I've played lots of games against a few friends of mine with LackeyCCG but it takes a bit to get used to the interface

Coohla

I just decided to look at my almost forgotten decks (and loads of unused cards) and oh my god I've forgotten how much money/time went into it all. I mean, what remains is my main deck - a white/red fast thingy, complete with savannah lions, exalted angels, lightning helixes, sacred foundries. And apparently I was very close to finishing a blue/black Faerie deck with cryptic commands and all. But with my high school classmates we tried probably every imaginable type of deck there is. I used to have Mirrodin equip cats, friends had things like blue controls, goblins, elves (I hate them), madness, tooth and nail, decks that just counter everything for the fun of it...

I stopped playing probably sometime mid-2008. Missed anything good?

BugBoy

I liked the introduction of mythics

super rare cards are fun

especially if you get lucky and pull a foil

but it was only worth 15 dollars

I got so excited and thought I might have one of those 100 dollar cards

woe

drp527

I like mythics but there have been about as many really bad or boring ones as there have been fun to play or good ones

Gumpy

Double-rare cards?

What is this sorcery

Antimatter

I hate the phyrexians

goddamn body horror shit

don't like the eldrazi or the Rakdos guild in Ravnica either

my favorite guild is Selesnya

drp527

I started up around Ravnica and my very first deck was an absolutely terrible Golgari because plant zombies sounded like the coolest thing

over time though I think I've come to like Izzet (Niv Mizzet is fantastic), Simic, Boros, and Dimir the most out of the guilds

Antimatter

i

love

Saprolings

I will fuck your shit up

drp527

I love saprolings so much, but I made a far, far more effective deck around them than anything Selesnya had to offer (aside from I guess Doubling Season, you can't not have Doubling Season)

Doubling Season with Saproling Burst out of whatever old set it was in is pretty much my favorite thing to pull

an enormous army of large creatures you can create at will

Antimatter

during Time Spiral I used Selesnya saproling cards in combination with Thallids

that was fun, even if it was ineffective

drp527

thallids are the greatest and were also the main creature support that saproling deck had

watching the number of counters I had to keep track of skyrocket was always hilarious and intimidating at the same time

Antimatter

one of my favorite things to do was to use Stormfront Riders in combination with certain other cards to do things twice

also, Fallen Ideal was the best in a G/W/B Saproling deck

drp527

Pallid Mycoderm has been the source of many an unsuspected win

field of like 3 or 4 thallids is all I have, but then I make 6 or 7 saprolings, attack with everything, sacrifice whatever is blocked, and watch the damage rise

Antimatter

fuck yes Pallid Mycoderm

also, Sporesower Thallid

Fertile Imagination could be quite devastating in addition

SLyM

I have a pretty good casual black/red goblin deck and a pretty okay also casual but I think still legal green/black infect deck.

And an OMNATH LOTUS OF MANA edh deck which is pretty ballin' particularly when I play gelatinous genesis for 81 mana.

Munkus Beaver

BugBoy wrote:

I always liked mirrodin

This is a bugboy opinion alright.

drp527

Pallid Mycoterm, Sporoloth Ancient, and Sporesower Thallid are just so fantastic and work together with other thallids so well

SLyM

Heh.

mirrodin.

Skullclamp.

Arcbound ravager.

etc.

drp527

dammit now I want to play but I don't know anyone at school who does and all my cards are at home anyway

people should do that MtG Workstation or Lackey or something

Munkus Beaver

Mirrodin was probably the most bullshit set ever conceived, if memory serves.

Artifact lands and fucking artifact creatures that cost less to play the more artifacts you have out and get stronger with the artifacts you ARRRRAGHGH

SLyM

I remember turn 3s that would just be like:

Artifact land free frogmite free frogmite ornithopter welding jar arcbound ravager sacrifice evertything to the arcbound ravager and sacrifice the arcbound ravager now I have a 20/21 ornithopter GG.

drp527

as ridiculous as a lot of Mirrodin was, that kind of synergy is what I like best

it's probably why I have made more tribal decks than anything else

Antimatter

i still have a couple of darksteel ingots

indestructable sources of all five mana colors suckers

i have a red/black goblin deck built right now, it's alright

Munkus Beaver

Short story time.

The bet magic game I played was with my sliver deck (duh) against an elf deck that had near infinite life, in that it would spawn elves like mad, untap elves, and had elves that gained life based on how many elves were in play. The guy was gaining about 100 life or more per turn at one point.

But I had a shifting sliver, brood sliver, quickdraw sliver, quick sliver, and (most importantly) seedborn muse. Seedborn muse untaps all your shit during opponent's upkeep phase.

So I have unblockable slivers that are doubling in number each turn as this guy is gaining a fuckbillion health each turn.

Then out comes the coat of arms.

And suddenly I have 199 200/200 slivers.

Antimatter

Munkus Beaver wrote:

And suddenly I have 199 200/200 slivers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfE1Ip2wot4

Munkus Beaver

Also, my sliver deck is designed to fight slivers with the windborn muse and seedborn muse.

Antimatter

i cannot wait to use this card in a match
http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220172

Munkus Beaver

Antimatter wrote:

i cannot wait to use this card in a match
http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220172

That's fucking retarded holy shit

Antimatter

Imagine it in concert with Aegis Angel, if I ever get it to work;
http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220086

BugBoy

Munkus Beaver wrote:

BugBoy wrote:

I always liked mirrodin

This is a bugboy opinion alright.

I didn't know it was overpowered! it was my first set and I was maybe ten years old

skettios

eeeee mtg!

I am not very good at playing but enjoy it anyway!
Currently have a handful of decks.
Werewolves, Vampires, Blue/White control, Red/Black bloodthirst, mono-white griffons (cause why not?) aaaand I haven't gotten a chance to try it out (still sleeving it..) a Green/Black morbid.
Also have a commander deck. Just a slightly tweaked version of the Angels/Demons/Dragons premade. Kinda brainstorming another commander deck.



Other stuffs...

* If you're in the Seattle area and either learning or into casual play, hit up LPS! I was going regularly for quite a while but then life happened. Trying to get back into going weekly again

* Duel of the Planeswalkers is pretty solid

Munkus Beaver

Fuck that, how about Thalids and other shit which let you put +1/+1 counters on creatures.

Antimatter

Munkus Beaver wrote:

Fuck that, how about Thalids and other shit which let you put +1/+1 counters on creatures.

muahahahahahahaha

it would work great in a Simic deck

Munkus Beaver

Hey, remember when Sierra Angel was the cream of the crop?

Oh those halcyon days.

Butler For Life #1

I got a card that doubles tokens the other day

it made me happy

skettios

Antimatter wrote:

i cannot wait to use this card in a match
http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220172

I have one of those. He's cute.

Also got this guy heheh

Antimatter

i still have my sierra angel

a thing of beauty


i won't lie, as soon as i opened the booster pack with primordial hydra in it, i pretty much cackled for a minute straight

Munkus Beaver

If you get the hydra out on turn three, by turn 8 you have a 32/32. Fuck.

Antimatter

skettios wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

i cannot wait to use this card in a match
http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220172

I have one of those. He's cute.

Also got this guy heheh

jeeeeeeeeeeeeesus that's rad

i remember my very first magic thing ever

9th edition Green, the main attraction was Emperor Crocodile

Irtehmongoose

Munkus Beaver wrote:

Mirrodin was probably the most bullshit set ever conceived, if memory serves.

Artifact lands and fucking artifact creatures that cost less to play the more artifacts you have out and get stronger with the artifacts you ARRRRAGHGH

Mirrordin had nothing on that Urza's block, the number of broken cards there was absurd.