Magic the Gathering!

[ghstofperdition]

Mother of God...

[ittoa666]

Wow. Tamiyo is ridiculous. Oh the shenanigans.

[ittoa666]

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[Xaios]

I'm not a fan of new the new Planeswalker "Tibalt." Awesome art, not a great card though.

[ittoa666]

Originally Posted by Xaios

I'm not a fan of new the new Planeswalker "Tibalt." Awesome art, not a great card though.

But he's stupid cheap, he doesn't force into a certain color, AND he has insurrection as his ultimate. I think it's cool.

Also, I got the Vense vs. Koth deck today. Very cool stuff in it, but I wish it had more standard alternate arts. I would have liked to see a Venser'd O ring.

[ittoa666]

Also, just pulled a copperline gorge holo from a pack. $12 right there.

[caskettheclown]

I sucked up and bought a deckbuilding toolkit!

First thing I did was make a blackwhite deck because for some reason I wanted a deck with angels. I then realized that I didn't much like the idea of the deck revolving around 2-3 cards sooo i'm most likely going to make a blackblue deck. The cards just seem to fit well together

Got a bunch of decent stuff in there to really keep me occupied!

EDIT- Holy shit i'm looking forward to Avacyn Restored! Tamiyo looks badass!

DOUBLE EDIT- Blue and Black deck made!

[ittoa666]

Always remember how your cards work together. Also, unless you're playing standard now, try not to combine enemy colors (black white, red white, blue red, green blue, or and other combo), unless you really know what you're doing. Here's some more info on that.

Enemy color - MTG Salvation Wiki

My opinion on Avacyn is that it's broken as all hell, and it's going to get very fun and interesting soon. So many new combos and effects. I already know I'm putting the 2 cost plainswalker in my red green deck.

[ghstofperdition]

Just pulled the trigger on a Venser vs. Koth deck and two booster packs. Plus I cannibalized some cards from a half complete goblin deck for my Koth deck. Added cards like Spitting Earth, Siege Gang Commander, Ib Halfheart, Clickslither and Skirk Fire Marshal along with some artifacts from those boosters. Since the Koth deck is all mountain, I won't have to worry too much about being mana screwed. I'll still add more mountain cards just in case. But dear lord is that deck primed for killing someone off in a hurry now.
Plus those goblins I added are set to add a bunch of 1/1 goblins to the field. I need a couple cards to boost them up greatly and my Koth deck will really mow people down then.
I dig the hell out of Koth's ability to turn your lands into 4/4 creatures while still being land too. Add Vulshoks Battlegear and morningstar and be raped by my own land.

[ittoa666]

The duel deck is pretty cool. I just picked one up, too, mainly for the planeswalkers, but I figured the price is gonna skyrocket on them. Plus, those emblems are expensive, too.

I do wish it had some more standard stuff in it though.

[Xaios]

The problem I see with the recent Duel decks is that Wizards seems to design them more for casual players while simultaneously marketing them towards hardcore players. The Venser vs. Koth deck was an especially egregious example of this, as its central conflict is something only Vorthos players like myself (MTG lore hounds) care about, and alternate art cards are something competitive players go nuts for. Alas, the decks themselves were too underpowered to garner the interest of competitive players. Honestly, for me, it basically came down to the alternate art on Path to Exile. If it had been nicer, I probably would have picked up a copy. Unfortunately, once it was finally revealed, I hated it.

It's a problem that's gotten worse over time as well. The first 3 planeswalker duel decks were actually quite good (Jace vs. Chandra, Liliana vs. Garruk, Elspeth vs. Tezzeret), but then Knights vs. Dragons and Ajani vs. Bolas were markedly worse than the ones before them, and now Venser vs. Koth is even more de-powered.

[Slayer89]

Venser VS Koth was pretty cool. My buddy picked it up and we played the decks a couple times. Maybe it was just draws, but each game I played with the Venser deck and it never really felt close at all. I won each game pretty handily.

On Avacyn Restored, so far I'm excited about this



Other than that, Miracle stuff looks cool, but I'm putting all my focus on Standard/Modern/Limited right now. So I doubt they'll have much of a serious impact on what I'm doing. Also, Phantasmal Image better see a reprint with all these legendary cards, haha.

[ittoa666]

I'm not sure what will happen to phantasmal image. I hope they do something similar, but it need to cost a few more, or at least 1 and 2 U.

[Slayer89]

I hope not. They've finally made playable clones, so I'd just hate for them to go back to junk rares.

[Xaios]

To be honest, I can't see them reprinting Phantasmal Image in M13. M12 included a cycle of Illusions such as Phantasmal Image, Phantasmal Bear and Phantasmal Dragon, along with a lord type card in Lord of the Unreal. I imagine they'll want to move on to something else with M13, as they've learned their lesson about reprinting powerful cards in core sets too many times *cough*titans*cough*.

[Slayer89]

Anyone here play Pauper? It and Momir are my go to formats on MODO (investing in Paper standard is expensive enough on its own, haha).

[caskettheclown]

Won my first duel today! I'm really glad I made my blue/black deck!

I went in to a game shop where its mostly warhammer and magic the gathering and D&D. Its run by this really old and extremely nice guy who just gave me blue planeswalkers 30 Card starter Deck and my girlfriend the green one after I bought a booster pack. I found my friday night magic!


EDIT-Wow I feel like a noob feeling happy I won my first actual duel but oh well...

I lost the first two and won the third one before I had to go.

[Xaios]

MOTHER ....ERS!



Translation:

Cavern of Souls - Land
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells of the chosen creature type. If this mana is spent on a spell, that spell can't be countered by spells or abilities.

[Andromalia]

A friend tried to hook me up to Magic again, but it's hard to get excited about cards that are so less powerful than before, although I understand for the sake of gameplay turn two victories might not be best.

[ittoa666]

Originally Posted by Andromalia

A friend tried to hook me up to Magic again, but it's hard to get excited about cards that are so less powerful than before, although I understand for the sake of gameplay turn two victories might not be best.

The game is extremely balanced right now.

[Xaios]

Originally Posted by ittoa666

The game is extremely balanced right now.

I don't know if I'd say that, but I will say it took a lot longer to settle into dominant archetypes this time around. Let's be fair though, currently in Standard, W/U Delver is the deck to beat. It's starting to become the new Cawblade. Thankfully, my G/W Humans deck has a fairly good matchup against it. On the flipside though, I have a bad matchup against U/B Control.

Thankfully, the format will be refreshing soon with Avacyn Restored, and oh mama, does this set ever have some nutty good cards!

[ittoa666]

Originally Posted by Xaios

I don't know if I'd say that, but I will say it took a lot longer to settle into dominant archetypes this time around. Let's be fair though, currently in Standard, W/U Delver is the deck to beat. It's starting to become the new Cawblade. Thankfully, my G/W Humans deck has a fairly good matchup against it. On the flipside though, I have a bad matchup against U/B Control.

Thankfully, the format will be refreshing soon with Avacyn Restored, and oh mama, does this set ever have some nutty good cards!

I meant "balanced" as in no turn 2 deaths. I have a buddy that plays a human champion of the parish deck and he has a turn 4 kill if he plays right. It's stupid fast.

[caskettheclown]

Winning that quickly wouldn't be fun for me in any card game. Every now and then it would be neat but thats it.

I like the long drawn out ones that are neck and neck.

[Xaios]

Originally Posted by ittoa666

I meant "balanced" as in no turn 2 deaths. I have a buddy that plays a human champion of the parish deck and he has a turn 4 kill if he plays right. It's stupid fast.

I can also get T4 deaths in my Humans deck. Granted, with my terrible luck, I'm just happy not to be drawing tokens.

As far as balanced goes... when was the last time ANY turn 2 kill deck existed in Standard?

[Slayer89]

T1: Reveal Chancellor of the Forge getting a 1/1 haste, Swamp, Mutagenic Growth, growth, growth, growth, tainted strike. Turn 1 kill.

Oh, a legitimate Turn 2 kill? Not for a long time, haha.

Yeah, Delver is probably the "best" deck right now, but no where near Caw Blade. Look at tournament results. There's usually at least 3 or 4 different archetypes in most Top 8s. Back in CawBlade dominance there was usually 8 decks with roughly 72 of the same cards at least. Here's to hoping Avacyn Restored has something to introduce something new to the field.