Magic : The Gathering
 

So who plays, wants to play, or used to play.


I'm an avid player, and am a bit better than the average. Not that great though. I play every friday at my local store.

Been using "Apprentice" and "Magic Workstation" to play a friend of mine online. It's cheaper and easier than buying cards anymore, and it makes the game about deck-building and strategy rather than who has the deepest pockets.

used to play, now more recently i'm getting into Yu-Gi-Oh..
no summoning sickness for beasties is a good thing.

My cards are currently sitting in a drawer somewhere collecting dust. Kadath, how much are the programs you're using?

I'll answer, because I had to go check them out. :)

They are both free, I think. But it seems like Apprentice hasn't been updated in a few years. I could be wrong though. So I don't know if anyone updated all the cards and sets.

I don't play (in real life) anymore, because I'm really cheap and got bored with it. I stopped as soon as Weatherlight came out.

Ugh, that game ripped off more than half of it's cards from Magic!!! My friiends play Yu-Gi-Oh, but recently I brought a box of Magic Pre-cons (Pre-constructed decks) over to thier places and tought them how to play. I can safely say I converted them.

used to. Was WAYYY into it, spent alot of money and even spent some time in the turny scene. Had most of my collection ripped off though, and just last week I collected all of my commons and such that were left and gave them to cheerios younger sister.

I have a milk crate packed full of cards(in albums of course) sitting in the closet. I taught the wife to play about a year ago, but that only lasted a few weeks. I always sink too much time into organizing the cards and building new decks. I love the game, I just spend way too much time on it when I am playing.

Same here. I still have all of the cards in a large box and a binder just sitting around.

Never got into...probably never will...would be willing to try it though.

I play Magic online waaaay to much.

I quit playing MTGO cuz i was wasting waaaaay to much money. I feel like I really bettered myself by doing that.

I used to play a lot, but no-one else knew how, so I played less and less, then stopeed.

I just played for old times sake yesterday with a friend. We have really bad cards cause it seems as thoug I lost some.

So I made a rainbow deck and just had some fun.

Sorry, was away for the weekend. They are indeed both free. There are card libraries that people update, allowing you to have both pictures and card functionalities; the last update I grabbed was Scourge. The programs are frameworks and little else; I like Workstation for its deck building and overall look and feel. It's still somewhat manual, but if you're playing against friends you shouldn't have to worry about cheating. I'm loathe to post links because it could technically be viewed as stealing from WotC (although the jury is still out on that, so to speak) and I don't want to get TFP in trouble. If you're really interested PM me.

I used to play a lot with a good friend of mine... my cards are in a drawer in my basement... My son pulled them out the other day.

He was in shock that I was so cool. Apparently they are all the rage at his school.

I didn't have the heart to tell him that the cards actually made me a geek.

I played way back in the day, I started around when Legends came out. For someone without the money to buy Mox gems and a Black Lotus, I did pretty well for myself. Towards the end of my MTG career I got pretty bored and started making decks built around useless cards. My Kudzu deck was feared by anyone who used land. Eventually most of my collection got stolen, so I gave away/sold the rest of it.

wow, i havent played magic in years... I used to have a pretty good deck, but this was when the game first came out.. in like 6th grade. Back then there wern't so many expansion packs, and i think the game was a little simplier... or... or.. i just played it wrong :P but it was still fun.

Used to play, but as it seems was way to common, I spent too much money

I play fairly regularly IRL and MTGO. Too much money being spent so I've seriously cut back (as in stopped) buying new stuff. I am participating in the 8th edition release this weekend, only because I want the Royal Assasin avatar you get online for going to the real life 8th edition events. Very sneaky those guys at WotC making me interact with people away from the safety of my keyboard. It would have to be a really cool avatar, too.

I used to play Magic, mostly in middle school and 9th grade. I stopped because my friends did. I still have all my cards, but I've been thinking about selling them... I could use the money.

I've stopped buying cards, but I still play using Apprentice. And very rarely I'll play in a draft tournament, but that hasn't happened in a while.

I rarely play, but I do like it. I only play with friends just fuckin around. Wouldn't even think about entering a Tourney though, to be honest, I suck at Magic, lol.

I havent played since high school... Really miss it. Had, er have, a kick ass Black/Blue deck, and a friggin' unstoppable Green Deck

I used to play, stopped playing sometime after Mercadian Masques. Got tired of playing it any I always played it at a camp because my friends only played it for a year or so. After I no longer went to the camp, I didn't feel like playing anymore and quit.

What's everyone's favorite cards, the ones you couldn't build a killer deck without having? I was a big fan of 'Balance' a White sorcery that made you and your opponent even out the # of lands and creatures you had on the table. I don't know if this card is still in circulation, if it's restriced or banned or not, but I put at least 2 in any minimal-land or low-creature deck I built. It was so easy to cripple most players for a casting cost of 1W.

Re: Magic : The Gathering
 

I'm a bit of an avid player myself but found it hard to find too many people to play with.
I don't consider myself an expert just love playing.

Anybody in Sydney, Australia looking for a few beers and a game of Magic, or Vampire, or another CCG I'd be willing to learn get in touch with me!

Mostly play online now, seem to fulfill my desires. :)

I actually considered surrendering my spot at the 8th edition pre-release this weekend. I am so glad I didn't. I opened my 4th pack (out of 5) and nearly swallowed my tongue as a beautiful FOIL Birds of Paradise slid out from the back of the pack.

That is exquisitely tight!

Wish I were there to mug you for it :-p

i used to play with several friends, but stopped buying any cards once Tempest came out (i thought they were going a bit overkill on a few of the cards... part of Weatherlight was the same way)..

I never really got into playing online, because I found most of my friends whom I played online would almost always had 4 mox's in their decks and a few black lotuses.. I personally liked having to collect them and if you had a rare card it made it that much cooler.. Most of my friends didn't drop too much cash on decks, so I had never seen a mox or a black lotus played in any games I was in.

since there also werent any gamestores around me who held magic tournaments (until after I decided to quit buying cards... bah Tempest) I never did anything other than friendly matches.

Now, sevferal years down the line, a friend of mine's little brother started to play so I basically gave him everything I had that wasn't currently in a deck so my collection was easily cut down to a 1/5 of its original size, but I rarely ever miss them (only miss them when trying to help a new player play)..

I am planning on starting to play agani with some of my older decks against some people in town here (different town, different folks, different playing strategies maybe?) and see how my decks hold up since most of them are only revised with a few cards splattering up to Weatherlight (although few weatherlight cards)..

as far as my favorite card to build a deck around.. hmm tough call... I would say functionally I like the Vesuvan doppelganger, but since I absolutely love the picture on Clone I will go with Clone :)

(disclaimer: please forgive any grammatical errors in above text... tis late, and I did notice a few, but I am too tired to reread the entirety of this text)

I play everynow and and again, collected since Arabian Nights all the way up to Mercadian Masks, I think that was the last one I bought. I still have around 90% of my original cards stored up somewhere. Every now and again I'll meander to the local trade shop and chat with the owner who's been playing as long as I have. I'll sit down with a few kids that play their new decks slapem around silly with a few of my older type 1 decks and leave.

Well, my fiancee just won some magic cards out in Cali, so when she comes home, she wants me to teach her how to play. So I suppose I should. Just think of the anti on this one...you win, I'll do this...
oh god, I can't wait till Sunday =p

I used to play quite a bit about 8 years ago. Started playing when 3rd Edition came out and stopped just after ice ages or homelands (can't remember which was later). Still have all my cards packed away.

BTW, Dual lands rocked.

Indeed and when Slivers came out I was a god amongst men

mmmmmm Sliver Overlord is my best friend. (they aren't too good in Constructed and Draft, but I play a lot of Slivers in casual games)

i miss playing... its just so hard to find other people in real life who play as well.

I just couldn't keep up anymore. I was even buying the cards wholesale. (It's nice to have a sales tax license.) Now I play WizKids stuff, Mageknight, Mechwarrior, etc... But it is going the same way as Magic. To much to keep up with (even wholesale). I sell enough on e-bay and my website to support my gaming habit.

I play, but haven't pick up one of my decks in months.

I've been playing consistently for about a year, I practically never have money for this game, so I'm kinda shocked at how far I've come from spending only $40 bucks on about a premade deck back in the final set of Odyssey Block and now into Kamigawa (so far my favorite block next to Invasion)
I don't play online cuz I'm only 17 and I think its pointless to buy fake cards (unless they gave me real copies in return)
I've tried the free ones but since there are no server like abilities, I never found it to be fun or interesting.
I guess I could say I'm "okay" at the game since I've been playing on and off for quite a while.
The main reason I play so little actually is because of my father who has attempted to ban me from this game since he thinks its a evil form of gambling or something, I don't get to play much since I have been banned by my father from the major store that hosts MTG games.
Oddly even though he tries to ban me from the game, I still seem to keep playing it, now all I have to do is be 18 to be even more of a player :p

Nice knowing you, rookie.

i have quite a few cards and play very rarely, i would play a lot more but there are some things that i would rather do...its entertaining though.

I play with a group of 9-10 people every other week or so. I started in 93-94 back when it was getting started then didn't play for a few years. I'm liking the Kamigawa set.

Oh, god. I played this all through middle school. Quit after 8th grade, and then rediscovered it with some friends during my senior year.

I play casually.

Played from 3rd edition through Ice Ages. Worked at a card and comic book store in our area and basically signed over half my paycheck every payday. Looking at some of the guys at my work playing the new stuff, I long for the simplicity of trample, first strike, and flying.

Loved making decks. Everyone goes through the same phases of deck making though. "Let's make a flying deck. Now a weenie deck. How about a land destruction deck. Or a control deck, etc, etc."

My favorite deck was an unorthodox three-color deck made up of walls. Playing Wall of Caltrops always got a look from my opponents. :D

walls were the only way to play.

i always used a fairly fierce combo of walls, lots of tramples (i tried to use nothing but trample) and flying creatures. I had a few flying/tramples as well that were just deadly.

Hated Juggernaut. Unblockable by walls. Friends would always put one or two of those in a deck to mess with me.

God bless Disenchant. And I had COP:Artifacts just in case. :D

I used to WAY BACK in the day..

I used to be a great player then they started adding a lot new cards and a lot of different stuff and i lost interest. Every once in a while i bring out my green power deck to play my friends

I played for about 3 years in high school. Spent tons of money on those frickin cards, and couldn't get a good booster pack or starter deck to save my life.

Still have all my cards in a box under my bed, actually pulled them out and looked at them 2 or so weeks ago.

Is there any market for them? Ebay and such?

Pickup a copy of Inquest magazine to research the card's value, then go down the the comic shop or bookstore (or whatever groups of people gather to play magic) and sell them off.

As for the commons, ebay them =P

You'll probably get half-price if you try to sell to a store, maybe 3/4 price if you want store credit. At least, that's the rate we used to price at at the store I was at. I'd probably e-bay all of it.

mine are sitting around as well along my friends who gave his to me when he left for basic training.

I haven't played in about a year, but I used to play a lot. It's easy to get burned out if you play with people that spend over $100 a month in cards, even though I was really good at sealed deck. I can't see how they justify it. Apprentice is great, though.

I used to be big into buying cards and making decks, but now I just find it too much of a chore.

I still love to play, though, and that's why I've taken up drafting. I get the joy of cracking open packs, picking cards, building my deck, and competing against other players on an even footing, all in less than three hours of my time.

I used to play quite a bit - I just recently sold my cards a couple of years ago.

Around here, I had quite a few decks that were feared by many (wow.... what a geek I was)

But, then again - I did have the best cards available. 4 Black lotus', 3 sets of Mox's, ect.

My favorite decks to play? I had a Ball lightning deck that went undefeated for all the years that I had it, a goblin deck that did extraordinarily well, a land destruction deck that made it nearly impossible for my opponent to keep any land on the table, a counterspell deck that was just fun, and a black powerhouse deck that was slow to start, but once everything got rolling, was unstoppable.

I loved the older sets, the newer ones are just cheesy knockoffs of the old cards. I think I stopped playing around Visions...

I used to play back in Jr. High and the beginning of High school. That was from about Ice Age to like weatherlight, tempest or whatever. I picked it up again in university right when Torment came out, and started started selling cards as a summer job. It was fun for a while, I had the card pool to play a little more competitively, and it made me money instead of costing me (since I was selling). I ended up quitting again right before the artifact block came around.
My T1.5 sligh was pretty deadly. My favorite deck to play was my future sight deck. Very competitive, but my friends didn't enjoy playing against me with my half hour turns...

Sorry didn't read previous posts :

MTG is a waste of money

why? they keep banning old editions in tourneys, allowing only new ones, requiring you to renew your decks every now and then.

and I had a few fkin good cards go down the washing machine, I got so pissed I stopped because I was losing so much money to the game at the same time.

:(

What stuff you got Camelbackcinema?

Itch, MTG updates T2 to keep the environment fresh (last 2 sets), block is the most recent... however extended is like the last 10 sets (back to tempest right now), Legacy allows for all the sets and vintage allows you to even play every card ever printed bar 6 (the ante cards + dexterity cards).

The environment changes however you can play casual with any cards, and there are tournaments for any card set... and you can play sealed or draft for some fun without needing any cards.

Tragic: The Garnering

/sorta obscure reference

AngelicVampire, I know the ante cards, but what are the dexterity cards? Also, you cannot use Unglued and Unhinged I believe.

i actually planned to play in a tournament and had made a T2 deck, but then I stopped playing for a bit and I came back and the entire deck had been banned from T2 play due to WotC releasing several new sets. My decks now pretty much have nothing after Weatherlight, and my power decks generally don't go past Visions and are mostly Revised.

if anyone is looking to sell their collections, email or pm me, i am interested.

also if anyone is in the philadelphia/reading/allentown/west chester pa area and wants to play pm or email me also

jasonkoresko@yahoo.com :thumbsup:

used to play, mostly collect the cards. Its been many years though. wonder if they are worthy anything today

How far back do your cards go? From what I understand, many of the cards these days are severely nerfed for gameplay reasons, making the earlier editions ridiculously powerful.

Many years ago, there was a decision to try to slow the game down. That said, most older cards fall much more into the category of 'unplayable chaff' by todays standards, and it's really just a relative handful of 'classics' that make Vintage/Legacy broken.

The power level also tends to oscillate over the course of several blocks. The 2003-4 block (Mirrodin) turned out to push the envelope in terms of aggresion, and the game is still recovering (In fact, more bannings are coming out in a few days to try and stem the tide of pain brought about from this).

I used to play when it first got big in my area, but after about 3 months no one played it anymore. You see the fundies had a ball claiming it was promoting Satanism. I bought the starter set for Portal and that was it.

{begin nerdiness}
Then I go to college, where we have a comic and game store not too far from campus, and saw all these people playing it in the dorms. I got back into it, sadly, last year. I actually bought a box of Betrayers of Kamigawa at the release a few weeks ago and went to the Champions of Kamigawa pre-release in Atlanta.

I run three decks, all mono. I have my green fatty-to-your-grill/gain life/mana accel deck; a black Hate-O-Rade control deck with Mortivores (power and toughness equal to the number of creatures in all graveyards, regen for 1 black) plus an Avatar of Woe, Underworld Dreams, and stuff that people don't like; and a blue Unspeakable deck that actually works.

As for Yu-Gi-Oh, I hate it. Not as much skill involved in my opinion. And I don't wanna play any game where I need a calculator to figure out how much damage I'm dealing. Then again, I have played a Saproling deck in the past. 500 20/20s flying someone's way is quite fun.

{end nerdiness}

EDIT: If anyone is looking to sell any of their collections or a few cards, holla
css.hunley@gmail.com

This was a really fantastic game, I started about 3rd edition and quit around ice age.

At the time I quit I had a deck I was pretty sure was unbeatable that was completely defensive and was designed to run the other person out of cards. At the time, this was unheard of, do people do this now?

FngKestrel: I find it to be the other way around. Most of the newer cards are severely over powered. They make the older cards seem to be a waste of mana. It is just a new way of playing which makes playing older cards only against newer cards you are put at a disadvantage.

P-Naughty: How the heck did you get 20/20 flying saproling tokens? Was it a one turn only or were they permanently that big? I have a Thallid deck and I just get them to be 2/2s with Kaysa; granted, they are pretty powerful when you have 100 2/2s and camouflage is always fun.

Onions: When I played a while back (pre-tempest) that was a common deck strategy and it was just called a Mill-stone deck or a Mill-deck. Both named after Mill-stone which was a typical card to throw in there.

It's possible, seeing as how I don't know many of the current cards. However, the cards I have seen seem like weaker versions of older cards, requiring that the user tap initially, or use every other turn, or sacrifice life. I'll find some specific examples later.

FngKestrel, I know what you are talking about. If the card is a reprint (which I am still irritated about, since WotC originally said they wouldn't make reprints) then it has become weaker.

Like Diabolical Tutor. 2BB and it does the exact same thing as Demonic Tutor which only costs 1B.. Same thing with Elven Cache and Regrowth. When you find the reprints they make them weaker. However, cards like worship. As long as it is in play you can't be dropped below one life. I wonder how that works with Lich ;) Arrest is another newer nasty card. Completely eliminates a creature without killing it. No more tap affects, can't attack or block.