Magic: The Gathering

[Cascading Dragon]

I stopped playing card games when I realised Konami hates poor people.

Also, I'm still confused as to why so many fucking updates are nescessary.

Why are you confused? You have the answer in your 1st sentence.

[Gracie]

Ouch.

[strike]

I would like to say that they love poor people, PROVIDED that they are poor because they spend all of their money on childrens card games.

[tSwitch]

I stopped playing card games when I realised Konami hates poor people.

Also, I'm still confused as to why so many fucking updates are nescessary.

what do you mean?
they introduce new cards with new strategies and mechanics with each pack, to keep the game dynamic.

[Cascading Dragon]

The game isn't dynamic after 3 months or so?

[Holkeye]

I used to play this in Highschool, but I come from an upper-lower-middle class family, so I really could only afford one or two hobbies at a time. I chose music and video games.

[pacdiggity]

That's basically what I'm doing, except music is more half my schooling than a hobby. Weird thing is that I can't compose music for games :O

[tSwitch]

The game isn't dynamic after 3 months or so?

Note I said 'keep' it dynamic.
Dynamic as in an ever-changing game that demands thought and adaptation.

They also tend to not release cards too quick unless it's a block release, and I will again mention that expansions stay in Type 2 for a cycle or two, so last year's cards aren't necessarily phased out yet.

[Arrow]

That, and they're made in such a way that if you're playing a bunch of your pals you can still use the oldies.

[Acolyte]

I got curb-stomped by an elf deck yesterday. .-.

She played genesis wave. Coupled with all the elves buffing each other, she had roughly 12 monsters with 32 attack each. .__.

[Arrow]

YIkes, ouch.

[SirJackRex]

bump because MT:G is awesome and this is still on the first page.

Arrow get this if you haven't already. It's a great way to get duplicates of good cards (like Lightning Bolt), and it also includes four boosters, making the price well worth it.

I'm struggling with building Standard decks. M12 will be released soon and bump my M11 cards out, which blows because I finally got enough good, standard goblins from boosters to make it worth buying singles to finish the Goblin deck.
This is a deck I'm just about to finish off, but I still haven't fully decided what I'll include (because I need to buy roughly 7 more cards which could cost me a lot).

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Artifact
4~ Bonehoard 4 - Living Weapon. Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards
2 Paradise Plume
2-4 Demon's Horn
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Creature
1~ Lord of Extinction 3GB */* - P/T are equal to number of cards in all graveyards :D
4~ Mortivore 2BB  */* - P/T are equal to number of creatures in all graveyards; B: Regenerate Mortivore
4~ Lhurgoyf 2GG */1+* - P is equal to number of creatures in all graveyards and toughness is equal to that number plus 1
3 Infectious Host
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Instant
2-4 Disembowel
2-4 Doom Blade
? Putrefy
? Geth's Verdict
? Fog
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Sorcery
2~ Damnation
2-4 Vigor Mortis
2-4 Morgue Theft
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Enchantment
2 Contaminated Blood

I'm stuck with figuring out how to fill in the gaps. This deck needs lots of dead creatures to work, but I have very few  non-*/* creatures in it. All of those creatures are useless unless I can defend myself with something until the graveyards amass. I need to strike the balance between inexpensive, graveyard-boosting filler cards and useful cards that keep me alive until I can pull out my */*s at high P/T.
Chlorophant perfectly fits the long-haul and inexpensive criteria. 4 Memnites would be great to boost my graveyard, too. I've also considered putting in cards with Deathtouch, like Acidic Slime and Stinkweed Imp. But then I tend to go over my 60-card goal.

Another problem is that I don't own Lord of Extinction, Damnation, Lhurgoyf, and only have one Mortivore and Bonehoard (but those are relatively inexpensive at my local card shop). Lord of Extinction could be insanely expensive, and I'm really not willing to spend more than $3 on a single card for a deck that might never get played if I can't find the other cards.

[Malson]

What I do is go on http://gatherer.wizards.com, build my deck, then buy all the cards separately rather than dumping my money on booster boxes. Plus there's free programs like OCTGN, Apprentice and such that allow you to build and play your decks virtually so you know if there's a mana problem, or if you need more or less of a certain spell.

I dunno, it saves me money and it makes deck building more fun when I have the entire catalog at my disposal :p

edit: on the topic, I used to play a lot but haven't done it lately just because of lack of participation amongst my friends. I still like building decks though.

[Arrow]

I use the same method. I recently built an ally deck, green and white. Simple, been done before I'm sure, but fun. And it hasn't lost but once.

[Malson]

My favorite deck is my changeling deck. If you dont know what changelings are, they're creatures that have all creature types at once. Meaning they gain any creature-type specific bonus on the field, including the opponent's if they have cards like "All Slivers gain etc." or "All Zombies gain etc." But basically my strategy was to take cheaper, creature-specific cards and combine them in the changeling deck to make highly powerful creatures.

Take for example this card:



and combine it with these inexpensive, but horrifically powerful enchantments:



and these handy spells:



and the game gets really fun for me, really quickly :p

The cards I tried to avoid were those that say "Choose a creature type" because changelings are all creature types anyway, and that takes away from the synergy of the deck. So yeah, I'm pretty proud of it

[SirJackRex]

I do the same. Gatherer and Apprentice are awesome.

Arrow, what Allies did you include? I'm building an Ally deck right now. I think I'm going White-Green-Blue-Black, but maybe just White-Blue-Black. I gotta buy a four Bala Ged Thief. That thing is hot shit. After that, I'm pretty much done with it.

So far my favorite card is Major Teroh:

I was playing against a friend's rat deck. He was absolutely destroying me, until I pulled out Major Teroh and exiled all of his rats. At that point he screamed "No!" and threw his hand on the table. It's not really a great card, but it was particularly great against his rat deck because he didn't have many spells. It was just a lot of fun.

I should try a Changeling deck. I just started collecting again, so I've missed a lot.

Yeah, I have nobody to play with at the moment, so I'm kind of just building decks to play with in tournaments. It's not very fun when you don't have any friends with which to play and test your decks. However, it's still a lot of fun to build decks. Now that I'm living in a more populated area, I'll find some people surely.

[tSwitch]

ahh legacy.

[Kokowam]

Ahaha I played MTG with my brother and my friend last night. We were limited to the few cards my brother and I collected long ago. It was fun even though we didn't know what we were doing for the most part with cards from 2000.