Magic The Gathering (Repost)

somechick_73 · 02-10-2007, 11:28 PM

Any fans of MTG out there? If so, post some of your favorite cards, or some of your favorite sets, ect.

Favorite cards:
Ninja's
Ornithopter
Goblin's
Cards with haunt

Favorite decks:
Goblin's
Ninja's
Elves

Favorite sets:
Kamigawa
Onslaught
9th edition
Planar chaos (have yet to get cards from this set, but I see many that are useful.)
Ravnica

everyone's favo · 02-14-2007, 01:42 PM

I'm a big fan of magic: the gathering. Recently, I got 2nd place in a PTQ Kobe (Coldsnap draft) and 5th place in September in a PTQ for Geneve (which was last weekend.) Me and a few buddies were sponsered to go to Atlanta for Nations last year as well. Anyway, here is my list.

Cards:
Gifts Ungiven
Loxodon Hierarch
Life from the Loam
Flametongue Kavu
Tendrils of Agony

Sets:
Invasion block
Ravnica block
Time Spiral (insane drafting set)

Decks:
Aggro Loam (the deck is sooo insane)
Ichorid
T1 Gifts Combo (wins by t2...yaaay)
Greater Gifts
Firemane Angel control

Do you play tournement or casual?

somechick_73 · 02-14-2007, 05:58 PM

I just game casually. I've never been to a tournament. What are tournaments like? I hear that in some tournaments you have to use a deck they give you. And other tournaments you can use your own deck. Which kind of tournament do you play in, and whats usually the prize?

everyone's favo · 02-14-2007, 08:39 PM

I usually play in PTQs, where the first place prize is a free trip to the pro tour you qualified for. PTQs range from all sorts of formats. This season is Extended, where you can only use cards from the sets Invasion to Time Spiral. Next season is 2hg, where you play in 2v2 games, and you build your decks out of a tournement pack and 4 boosters, having at least 40 cards per deck (unlimited basic land too.) 2nd-16th place usually get boosters.

I usually play a lot of limited, as its what i'm better at. I use to be 6th in my state (pa) for limited (they supply the deck), but I did horrible in the last two limited tournement I was in and dropped down to 22nd in the state. Constructed (where you bring your own deck) i'm a little less known for, as i'm only in the top 100 for the state.

The most I ever won was 2 booster boxes, and my opponet got the 1st place prize of a free trip to japan. Sad part is, he didn't even go. ::tear:: As I say, 2nd place offically sucks...and this was out of 300 something people.

somechick_73 · 02-14-2007, 10:51 PM

That sounds fun. Where you build your deck out of a tournament pack and 4 boosters. That sounds sick as crap. I wish I was good at magic, but I suck. I don't get to play that often anymore. It makes me sad. The only time I get to play is when I force my bro to play magic with me. >_<

everyone's favo · 02-15-2007, 05:03 AM

lol, you gotta build 2 decks in that tournement, as 2 people need to play in teams. Anyway, its not that hard to be good at this game. When I was sponsered, I would practice once a week so I can keep the sponsership. But then it just got too time entensive, so I cut it down to just going to tournements. All you really need is a group of people you know who understand the game on a competitive level and the rest just falls into place. You just learn it all faster.

But yea, I understand the time thing, it prevents me from play testing as much as I use to, but I still try to make the time for tournements mainly because card gaming has always been a big part of my life (part of my college scholarships is from playing pokemon tournements.) At worse, if I did terrible, I can always hang out with friends.

If you get the time, check out an FNM. I would link the FNM page here, but i'm not sure what the policies on linking is. FNM stands for Friday Night Magic, where players get together for free tournements in Standard (can only use cards from Ravnica Block, Time Spiral block, Coldsnap and 9th Edition) or Booster draft (3 packs of the latest block...open a pack, pass the pack to your left, then grab from your right, and repeat till all cards are distributed this way...then build a 40 card deck with unlimited basic land supply.) Its usually fun, especially for people with tight schedules (same time every week makes it easier to schedule)

somechick_73 · 02-15-2007, 08:31 PM

LoL that's fuggen random. Never tried anything like friday night magic. I only know one person who plays anymore. One of my buddies who played joined up with the army, another sold all his cards. Now all I have is my bro, and I don't always like playin with him. He doesn't always understand the rules. Plus, who wants to hang out with their bro all the time? Haha. Not me. I rather have real friends, but I take what I can get sometimes.

Wolfofshadow · 02-15-2007, 08:41 PM

Woo! 'nother chick magic player here!

I remember FNM nights. they were the best. no good spots down here to play. not many competent people either.

02-15-2007, 09:20 PM

Ornithopter or Orny has always been my favorite card, doesn't help that I'm in love with my Artifact deck, even if i did get my ass handed to me a couple times over, but without anyone around these days that want to play with me I guess I don't have to worry about it.

somechick_73 · 02-16-2007, 01:05 AM

Theres better artifacts than ornithopter though. Artifacts that cost 0. There was a 0/6 something with flying, and that was a pretty good one.