Magic the Gathering

[Snapplewee]

We should. Buy like 36 or so booster packs so we can do drafts. I hate bringing pre-constructed. I have like 6 casual decks and..40? decks from drafts I have kept.


During the Zendikar pre-release, I drafted 3 Cancels, Archive Trap and some other shenanigans. I need to find my deck list on this computer somewhere...

[Général_Argos]

lol im not sure I want to spend 200$ bucks for 36 boosters >_<'

[Snapplewee]

we split the cost dude.

I spend about 30$ a month (not the last couple of months) on magic cards for booster drafts. I win about 100$ in cash a month though.

I think (my current streak) is 12 wins in a row. My last streak was 8. I hope I can keep this one up!

[Général_Argos]

You win cash by playing mtg? o__o

The only tournements I played were friday night magics type2 and beside foil cards there was nothing to win >_<

[Snapplewee]

i don't think MTG will ever have 700 dollars deck.....

I had to quote this.

I dropped 2k in a magic deck. Grew out of the Magic phase, and I now have a laptop and it paid for part of my 6-string bass. (I actually broke even selling the cards back, I was insanely lucky)



edit@krim:


Yes. But it is the shop's tourny. Not Wizards.
I play 4 or so tournaments (sometimes more, depends if I have time) a month. It all depends how many players play. Part of the money it costs for us to play goes into a pot that becomes the winnings.

[Ultima_Pi]

You win cash by playing mtg? o__o

Depends on who holds tourneys.

All the tourneys I've heard of all paid cash.

Though I never really played competitively, thank god.

[Rusted]

I used to play MTG for a few years, though my friends and I did things a little different. We generally played "No Rares" games, since we always had this unequal distribution in term of rare card colors and/or usefulness, and often, it wasn't really fun when only one or two of us could utilize rares and the rest couldn't. It actually made for some interesting games and decks when nobody was allowed to base their strategy upon powerful rares.

I personally used a Blue/Red deck that offered indirect attacks and flyers with draw power and a bit of other utility. Quicksilver Dagger was one of my favorite cards, allowing me to snipe my opponents and draw through my deck faster.

[Snapplewee]

still searching through my decklists...

when kamigawa came out, I won the t2 tournament at my store with a deck containing no rares.

[Rusted]

Never said a deck had to have rares to be good... though there are several ridiculous rares out there that could turn the tables on your opponents, like Mirrodin's Swords (Kaldra, Fire and Ice, Light and Shadow), and Darksteel Forge was pretty much a game-ender if the game dragged long enough and you had no way to keep it from entering play (As you can tell, I've had bad experiences against the Mirrodin decks

There are plenty of viable no-rare deck options out there, I know this from experience.??I used a burn/snipe deck for a while until my friends insisted it shouldn't be allowed, in which I modified it to a more hybridized deck.??My friend Mike used to run Clerics during the Onslaught cycle (again, no rares), that basically had several abilities that could prevent damage, prevent attacking, heal life, etc., often based on how many Clerics were in play.??If given enough turns to set up, he was pretty much unstoppable.

I eventually got wise to Mike's strategy and started countering with cards like Searing Pain.??Under other circumstances, using "situational" cards like that is generally a bad idea, but since this was just playing agaisnt friends, it was okay.??We just kept modifying our decks to counter each other's strategies until we ended up with such ridiculous mixes of cards that the original strategies were somewhat blurred.

[Aaronock]

Searing Pain is awesome :x
Um, I haven't played magic in ages, there isn't anyone for me to really play with other than my bf and he and I much rather play Yugioh against each other lately.