Ravnica Resurgence: Magic the Gathering

Uriel

I have a fatpack of newer cards too.

Managed to get two decks out of it.

They suck but are good for playing against eachother.

drp527

I still don't quite understand how they got stuff like Treachery through development

Melding

they wanted free spells but that required you be able to pay for them.

And they forgot they made lands that produce more then one mana when tapped.

Bucketman

Because I know you guys care, I'm going to post my current deck build. White/Green humans:

4x Doomed Traveler
3x Elite Vanguard
2x Champion of the Parish
3x Elite Inquisitor
1x Grand Abolisher
3x Fiend Hunter
2x Hero of Bladehold
2x Leonin Relic-Warder
3x Avacyn's Pilgrim
4x Mayor of Avabruck
4x OBLIVION Ring
2x Midnight Haunting
2x Gavony Township
and besides lands/dual lands
2x Elspeth Tirel

The best thing is, I haven't ever bought any singles. Its all stuff I've pulled or traded for. Though I did trade some good mythics that I regret getting talked into trading now. Like my Koth of the Hammer

Bucketman

drp527 wrote:

Uriel wrote:

Highly competitive magic talk confuses me.

I have a bunch of old cards.

Enough to make like five decent decks.

I sort of understand what's going on when people talk about competitive stuff, but for the most part I just find cards I like at random and find ways to build around them

the results are fun for casual play but godawful for anything else, usually

This is how I run. I choose a color scheme with cards I like and build around it. People always try to give me tips on what I can take out or add or what the world champion who plays that color did but eff em. I get an idea in my head and its how I like to play. Sometimes it has been....not good. But lately I guess I'm just getting smarter at magic

drp527

yeah my deckbuilding ability has gotten considerably better than it used to be even though I stick to whatever theme convinced me to start

however sometimes this still means a deck that is as good as it can get while remaining focused on what my vision was, but is still really terrible (see: morph creature cost reduction deck)

SLyM

My General.

My win condition if I can't general damage them to death.

40+ mana and one more creature than you? I win.

Just for good measure.

Bucketman

I should build an EDH deck. How big are they usually? I feel like 80+ cards would seem reasonable

SLyM

99 cards and one general

Antimatter

100 cards counting the general

drp527

you know what I'd love to play with Omnath? this

BugBoy

you guys are making me want to play this

next time I'm home I'm going to go through my cards

maybe something with wurmcoil engine

I liked that one

HellaJeff

They also have special rules that make them so fun like you can only have one of any card

drp527

I still say people should get one of the online options because dammit I want more people to play against than the two I know back home

and also to be able to try out more gimmick decks without having to find the cards I need to make them that are scattered between 3-5 sets

I really like gimmick decks

Shock G

me and my friends are waist deep in a magic flurry

simic is fun

also my five color myr deck

SLyM

There is one really funny dimir card from ravnaca that makes it so people can't search libraries this turn.

It's almost always useless but when it occasionally does something it is soooo goddamned funny.

E: found it

Irtehmongoose

SLyM wrote:

There is one really funny dimir card from ravnaca that makes it so people can't search libraries this turn.

It's almost always useless but when it occasionally does something it is soooo goddamned funny.

E: found it

Why limit yourself to one turn?

SLyM

Because if you're playing blue black you probably only want that happening to your opponent.

Irtehmongoose

Fair enough, I was going to link this one but it's red.

drp527

this guy, while not as good, makes me laugh more when he works

Irtehmongoose

drp527 wrote:

this guy, while not as good, makes me laugh more when he works

That card is hilarious.

Bucketman

I'm pretty pissed that I just realisized that I traded a ton of good cards to my more knowladgeable friend who took advantage of my lack of knowladge at the time and thus, shafted me in trades

drp527

I have done that so much

traded away Parallel Thoughts (among my favorite cards ever) for Mistform Ultimus and other such awful trades because I thought the card looked cool and I wasn't using what I traded at the time

then later on I realize "oh shit that would have been perfect to use in this deck" and realize how much I got screwed over

SLyM

Parallel thoughts is pretty fun.

Particularly when you exile 7 counterspells.

drp527

best when you exile the last pieces of your set up and nothing else except low-cost draw spells

guarantee you get what you want that next turn

edit: also it allows you to avoid drawing out even if there are no cards left on it and I will always love it for that

drp527

if anyone would like to see it but didn't know about it Wizards just spoiled the entirety of the set coming out this coming weekend here

Antimatter

ohhhhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Melding

I really like this card.

Antimatter

i was going to say the whole set looks like business as usual for Innistrad but it looks like Green has gotten darker, more bestial

drp527

liking this so much even if it's really hard to work with

Melding

drp527 wrote:

liking so much even if it's really hard to work with

yeah, that looks boss as hell.

Big Red Tie

they reprinted exclude but made it more expensive

dungeon geists is hot hot hot

Melding

i am really digging white this block.

this is a rare thing, but then when every other colour is focused on undead and werewolves, i know where my allegiance lies.

Antimatter

white is definitely cool this time around

drp527

I like a lot of the curses they've come up with between the two sets, but practically all of the ones I view as worth using are 5-cost

not exactly a stellar mana curve

Big Red Tie

sanctuary cat new meta

drp527

I need a copy of Flayer of the Hatebound like right now

my Sek'Kuar EDH deck would just kill so much with him

Big Red Tie

my friend used to run sekkuar general in edh

then i beat him so much he changed his deck colors and general

drp527

I fully recognize mine is pretty bad

it has no way to deal with any kind of threats and entirely focuses on building its own board position until it can get into some crazy sacrifice/reanimation shenanigans, produce an enormous number of tokens, pump them all with a few different things I've got, and hit in one massive swarm

but I don't care it's so much fun when it works

Big Red Tie

i am all "mind control"
wooo