2x Young Pyromancer
4x Negate
?x Mizzium Mortars?
other stuff I'm bad at boards.
Really do want to keep Ral in, he's the only planeswalker I like and pulling him from a pack is what made me decide to build this deck. Figure I'll put the pyromancers and some mortars in the board to side in if I go up against a weenie deck.
So are we good to post Kitchen Table decks? Because that's all I play with my friends, (and normally in 3-4 player multi-player games). Usually just building decks with what we have available, so how many of a thing I run tends to be all over the place.
17x Forest
1x Breeding Pool
1x Temple of Mystery
5x Island
Might pull out the Recluses for something else (but I just love that card too much), and I may put a Vorel or two in to double my Hydra counters. But man, with Kruphix and his Prophet out, it's really nice being able to bank my mana pool 3 more times before the turn order gets back to me.
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That deck looks like it could make good use of Nykthos + Kiora's Follower
Yeah I have zero Nykthos , and I always feel silly dropping $10+ a piece on a single card.
The Followers though...hmmmmmmmmmm
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Well, Karametra's Acolyte is almost as good. The Followers are nice to pull the Nykthos/Voyaging Satyr trick, but they'll work just as well with the Acolytes and for regular ramp.
If you have one handy you could think about dropping in a Nylea; turning on her devotion would be super easy, and the trample helps out a lot with your giant Hydras.
I want to build a Battlefield Thaumaturge deck. Blue and white seem like the obvious color choices, but what do you guys think about a red splash for, among a few other things, Young Pyromancer and Boros Charm? That other America aggro-type deck carries a lot of pretty "meh" spells, and I like the idea of getting some extra mileage out of my casts from Pyromancer. But maybe that's spreading myself a bit too thin?
Hello MTG thread.... I have a few questions for you guys...
Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, I decided to buy all the Magic cards.
That's exactly what I did too. But things are never simple for me. I made my purchase(s) when I had lots of disposable income. I went into the card shop, and bought whole boxes. (I think it was around $300 a case, or whatever you call them.) The actual price I paid is a little foggy as it was 20 years ago, and for reasons I'll explain below.
So every weekend, I went in and bought a box, took it home, and started organizing them by color (first lands, and then in alphabetical order.) I also bought a book that listed all the cards so I would know when my collection was done. All in all I think I bought 4 or 5 boxes and I organized my whole set into a card binder, and used a couple extras to make the pages all align. I also had about two boxes of leftovers that I tucked away along with the set...
There are two little caveats to my collection which might make it special...
Having been almost two decades now, I decided that it might be fun to actually learn to play the game. When I bought the cards long ago, I had no interest in learning, I liked the art and color, and thought it would be a cool thing to collect. "Look, I have all of them!" I would say. So when I visited my collection, I queued up some MTG tutorials and tried to get my nerd on....
It seems that Magic has grown somewhat in 20 years. The rundowns I was able to get from the tutorials is that I'm missing entire types of cards. The big stumbling block, however, is that I bought my Magic collection when I was living in Ayasae City, Japan.
My entire collection is in Japanese.
So it turns out some of the rules of the game are on the cards. That means I have look up the 400-some-odd cards and get their translation from WoTC's website (I can translate them myself, but it's easier and probably for the best to get the official English verbage).
So now I have a little project to learn to play my cards for funsies. I was wondering..... Is there a way I can upload my inventory of cards and play online to learn. I remember something about using a webcam that looked at the cards, but I don't know how that would work with Japanese cards, or I might be thinking of another card game altogether....
Also, for giggles how much to you think a collection like this would cost? (I'm not going to sell it. It's too wacky for me to get rid of )
Huh, looking it up, it turns out that my edition was the first edition to be printed in Japanese. Neat. Also it was before expansion packs so mine are "pre-Ice Age"
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Wow, looking deeper, "Strip Mine" is a pretty rare card, because it can destroy lands.
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Some people pay a premium for Japanese versions of anything.
So, there is no way to just turn your collection into a digital collection, halkun. In addition, playing it in person may be difficult due to the fact that there are several different constructed deck Magic formats, some of which your cards will simply not be legal for just from being so old.
In regards to the value, you really are sitting on a ton of money due to being in Japanese and their age. In the event that you did wind up selling you're gonna want to do a ton of research regarding that.
No, I have the 4th Edition. My Unholy Strength is also missing it's pentagram. But all the cards have a black border.
Oo I want Japan's 4th edition if only for Black Border! so lucky! Did your 4th edition still have duals ?
Land with this type of text box basically ( if they kept it that way for japanese version I guess)
I'm curious if and what differences there are for the japanese sets now, because I swear I remember Ice Age already being around in the english version once 4th edition had come around. I wonder if Japan maybe only went alpha-beta-unlimited-4th edition and never bothered with Revised.
The Japanese cards on ebay seem to average between $3.00 for a simple land to $45.00, I don't know what my entire inventory is, so I may have to break out the box of "commons" and actually count how many cards I have of every type.
Oo I want Japan's 4th edition if only for Black Border! so lucky! Did your 4th edition still have duals ?
Land with this type of text box basically ( if they kept it that way for japanese version I guess)
I'm curious if and what differences there are for the japanese sets now, because I swear I remember Ice Age already being around in the english version once 4th edition had come around. I wonder if Japan maybe only went alpha-beta-unlimited-4th edition and never bothered with Revised.
I don't have any Dual lands. There were no Japanese Alphas either. It seems the 4th edition was the first edition to be printed in Japanese. So it's more like "Japanese 1st edition".
Trying to get a friend into the game. Thinking about buying him a reasonable deck to get started, came up with a budget monogreen devotion:
4x Elvish Mystic
4x Kalonian Tusker
4x Reverent Hunter
4x Karametra's Acolyte
3x Nylea, God of the Hunt
3x Polukranos, World Eater
4x Hydra Broodmaster
3x Aspect of Hydra
3x Colossal Heroics
4x Warriors' Lesson
2x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
22x Forest
Like $50 via ChannelFireball, seems like it'd be relatively fun for a new player to pilot while still being relatively simple. Thoughts?
Edit: I'm not sold on Karametra's Acolyte in particular - the deck doesn't have that much to do with the mana - but I'm not sure what I'd rather have in that slot.
arbor colossus is just better than broodmaster and theres no god not named thassa I would play more than 2 of. also x4 burning tree
also voyaging satyr > acolyte if you're playing nykthos, or in general. you want a 2nd mana dork but preferably one you can play turns 1-2 and or burning tree into that also untaps nykthos because thats the whole point. I would also cut down spells to just aspect. you need dudes on the board
Trying to get a friend into the game. Thinking about buying him a reasonable deck to get started, came up with a budget monogreen devotion:
4x Elvish Mystic
4x Kalonian Tusker
4x Reverent Hunter
4x Karametra's Acolyte
3x Nylea, God of the Hunt
3x Polukranos, World Eater
4x Hydra Broodmaster
3x Aspect of Hydra
3x Colossal Heroics
4x Warriors' Lesson
2x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
22x Forest
Like $50 via ChannelFireball, seems like it'd be relatively fun for a new player to pilot while still being relatively simple. Thoughts?
Edit: I'm not sold on Karametra's Acolyte in particular - the deck doesn't have that much to do with the mana - but I'm not sure what I'd rather have in that slot.
I think I'd just buy him/her an intro deck. Let them figure out what sort of deck to build after they learn the game. I think a mono-color deck is less than ideal, in general. A two-color deck gives a new player some contrast so they can see a bit more of the color pie.
The GF keeps asking me to explain how Magic is played (she wants to understand what I'm into so much), which is obviously hard to do without an actual physical deck since I play MTGO
I'm actually thinking of ordering a Jace vs Vraska duel deck to teach her as we can play each other.
He talked about Nissa. Got excited and basically said more Nissa is coming. He then shut himself up saying he shouldn't say anymore. He'd already mentioned the toy, so it's not that.
Sounds like Nissa is in Huey? Or M15? But felt like a Huey hint
The GF keeps asking me to explain how Magic is played (she wants to understand what I'm into so much), which is obviously hard to do without an actual physical deck since I play MTGO
I'm actually thinking of ordering a Jace vs Vraska duel deck to teach her as we can play each other.
Duels of the Planeswalkers is probably the fastest way to learn. It skips over all the bits that can frustrate new players (the constant shuffling, having to keep track of every little trigger) and just lets you focus on the how the cards interact and how cool the art and flavor stuff is.
He talked about Nissa. Got excited and basically said more Nissa is coming. He then shut himself up saying he shouldn't say anymore. He'd already mentioned the toy, so it's not that.
Sounds like Nissa is in Huey? Or M15? But felt like a Huey hint
It is believed that garruk will be occupying the black planeswalker spot in m15 leaving nissa a chance at the green.
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4x Essence Scatter
2x Cyclonic Rift
4x Izzet Charm
3x Lightning Strike
4x Magma Jet
2x Goblin Electromancer
CMC 3
2x Turn // Burn
3x Divination
4x Spellheart Chimera
3x Dissolve
4x Guttersnipe
CMC 4
1x Ral Zarek
CMC 5
1x Keranos, God of Storms
Land
10x Island
10x Mountain
4x Izzet Guildgate
total cards = 60
SB
2x Young Pyromancer
4x Negate
?x Mizzium Mortars?
other stuff I'm bad at boards.
Really do want to keep Ral in, he's the only planeswalker I like and pulling him from a pack is what made me decide to build this deck. Figure I'll put the pyromancers and some mortars in the board to side in if I go up against a weenie deck.
HailHydra
4x Elvish Mystic
3x Deadly Recluse
4x Karametra's Acolyte
4x Nylea's Disciple
3x Hydra Broodmaster
2x Polukranos
2x Mistcutter Hydra
2x Heroes' Bane
2x Prophet of Kruphix
1x Predator Ooze
1x Reverent Hunter
2x Kruphix
2x Simic Charm
4x Aspect of Hydra
17x Forest
1x Breeding Pool
1x Temple of Mystery
5x Island
Might pull out the Recluses for something else (but I just love that card too much), and I may put a Vorel or two in to double my Hydra counters. But man, with Kruphix and his Prophet out, it's really nice being able to bank my mana pool 3 more times before the turn order gets back to me.
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The Followers though...hmmmmmmmmmm
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If you have one handy you could think about dropping in a Nylea; turning on her devotion would be super easy, and the trample helps out a lot with your giant Hydras.
....I like big dudes
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and a Vorel
Open another pack: Hydra Broodmaster and the X/X Hydra token.
Alright, alright I get the point I'll use you.
Steam
monoB devo is where hope goes to die
Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, I decided to buy all the Magic cards.
That's exactly what I did too. But things are never simple for me. I made my purchase(s) when I had lots of disposable income. I went into the card shop, and bought whole boxes. (I think it was around $300 a case, or whatever you call them.) The actual price I paid is a little foggy as it was 20 years ago, and for reasons I'll explain below.
So every weekend, I went in and bought a box, took it home, and started organizing them by color (first lands, and then in alphabetical order.) I also bought a book that listed all the cards so I would know when my collection was done. All in all I think I bought 4 or 5 boxes and I organized my whole set into a card binder, and used a couple extras to make the pages all align. I also had about two boxes of leftovers that I tucked away along with the set...
There are two little caveats to my collection which might make it special...
Having been almost two decades now, I decided that it might be fun to actually learn to play the game. When I bought the cards long ago, I had no interest in learning, I liked the art and color, and thought it would be a cool thing to collect. "Look, I have all of them!" I would say. So when I visited my collection, I queued up some MTG tutorials and tried to get my nerd on....
It seems that Magic has grown somewhat in 20 years. The rundowns I was able to get from the tutorials is that I'm missing entire types of cards. The big stumbling block, however, is that I bought my Magic collection when I was living in Ayasae City, Japan.
My entire collection is in Japanese.
So it turns out some of the rules of the game are on the cards. That means I have look up the 400-some-odd cards and get their translation from WoTC's website (I can translate them myself, but it's easier and probably for the best to get the official English verbage).
So now I have a little project to learn to play my cards for funsies. I was wondering..... Is there a way I can upload my inventory of cards and play online to learn. I remember something about using a webcam that looked at the cards, but I don't know how that would work with Japanese cards, or I might be thinking of another card game altogether....
Also, for giggles how much to you think a collection like this would cost? (I'm not going to sell it. It's too wacky for me to get rid of
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=== EDIT ===
Wow, looking deeper, "Strip Mine" is a pretty rare card, because it can destroy lands.
In regards to the value, you really are sitting on a ton of money due to being in Japanese and their age. In the event that you did wind up selling you're gonna want to do a ton of research regarding that.
No, I have the 4th Edition. My Unholy Strength is also missing it's pentagram. But all the cards have a black border.
that's a pretty cool collection, halkun
Steam
Oo I want Japan's 4th edition if only for Black Border! so lucky! Did your 4th edition still have duals ?
Land with this type of text box basically ( if they kept it that way for japanese version I guess)
I'm curious if and what differences there are for the japanese sets now, because I swear I remember Ice Age already being around in the english version once 4th edition had come around. I wonder if Japan maybe only went alpha-beta-unlimited-4th edition and never bothered with Revised.
Really? I think I have a few copies
The Japanese cards on ebay seem to average between $3.00 for a simple land to $45.00, I don't know what my entire inventory is, so I may have to break out the box of "commons" and actually count how many cards I have of every type.
Almost everything that was worth something then, is worth nothing now.
Almost everything worthless from back then, is now big bucks, it's... weird
I don't have any Dual lands. There were no Japanese Alphas either. It seems the 4th edition was the first edition to be printed in Japanese. So it's more like "Japanese 1st edition".
Kruphix
Hail Simic!
I need to steal his luck in some sort of occult ritual
And it's a great savings on chicken blood.
BBD pilots UWR control featuring Keranos.
Kerry seems quite good. I feel like he might be quite the force in a post rotation world.
4x Kalonian Tusker
4x Reverent Hunter
4x Karametra's Acolyte
3x Nylea, God of the Hunt
3x Polukranos, World Eater
4x Hydra Broodmaster
3x Aspect of Hydra
3x Colossal Heroics
4x Warriors' Lesson
2x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
22x Forest
Like $50 via ChannelFireball, seems like it'd be relatively fun for a new player to pilot while still being relatively simple. Thoughts?
Edit: I'm not sold on Karametra's Acolyte in particular - the deck doesn't have that much to do with the mana - but I'm not sure what I'd rather have in that slot.
Plus it plays into a lot of other stuff you have going on.
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also voyaging satyr > acolyte if you're playing nykthos, or in general. you want a 2nd mana dork but preferably one you can play turns 1-2 and or burning tree into that also untaps nykthos because thats the whole point. I would also cut down spells to just aspect. you need dudes on the board
mistcutter is a sideboard card
I think I'd just buy him/her an intro deck. Let them figure out what sort of deck to build after they learn the game. I think a mono-color deck is less than ideal, in general. A two-color deck gives a new player some contrast so they can see a bit more of the color pie.
the event decks have also been very good as of late in terms of completeness/playability
I'm actually thinking of ordering a Jace vs Vraska duel deck to teach her as we can play each other.
He talked about Nissa. Got excited and basically said more Nissa is coming. He then shut himself up saying he shouldn't say anymore. He'd already mentioned the toy, so it's not that.
Sounds like Nissa is in Huey? Or M15? But felt like a Huey hint
Duels of the Planeswalkers is probably the fastest way to learn. It skips over all the bits that can frustrate new players (the constant shuffling, having to keep track of every little trigger) and just lets you focus on the how the cards interact and how cool the art and flavor stuff is.
twitch.tv/Taramoor
@TaramoorPlays
Taramoor on Youtube
In this case, however, the Duel Deck has the secondary benefit of being something the GF and I can play face to face.
It is believed that garruk will be occupying the black planeswalker spot in m15 leaving nissa a chance at the green.
double core set summer is my favorite standard time