Author Topic: Magic:TG (Read 12177 times)

Lizard Dude · « **on:** March 07, 2001, 05:54:27 PM »

Anyone here play Magic:The Gathering?

"Thus Spake Lizard"

chucknorris · « **Reply #1 on:** October 03, 2008, 07:19:33 PM »

7 YEAR BUMP!!!

i don't mind it. its actually a pretty good game.

MaxVance · « **Reply #2 on:** October 03, 2008, 07:20:30 PM »

Get out.

chucknorris · « **Reply #3 on:** October 03, 2008, 07:24:23 PM »

sorry, i just couldn't help it. It was just staring at me, begging to be bumped. It deserved at least 1 reply...

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #4 on:** October 03, 2008, 07:49:35 PM »

Well, you've been begging to be bumped out of here.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2008, 12:12:49 AM »

After seven and a half years, my third post gets a reply.

So, uh, anyone here play Magic:The Gathering? Besides buying (quite) a few packs of Unhinged, I haven't played since Mirrodin.

BP · « **Reply #6 on:** October 04, 2008, 12:13:55 AM »

Thread-bumping is only as big a deal as the bump police decide to make it.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #7 on:** October 04, 2008, 09:19:36 AM »

I've been playing MtG for over five years now. Unfortunately, I don't get to play it much anymore, because my brother seems to think collecting the cards and not playing the game is a good idea, and the guy I played with at school doesn't care much for the game lately (despite having paid like $120 for a box of 10,000 cards). Also, I haven't gotten any cards newer than the Time Spiral block, except for the ones that came in the free packs they gave to everyone in the goodie bags at Wizard World.

LD, Mirrodin block or the Mirrodin set itself?

WarpRattler's story about recent events regarding MtG:

While at Wizard World this summer, I spent a lot of time at the Wizards of the Coast booth. Most of that time was spent helping out with the MapleStory TCG demo (I really wish I had taken them up on their offer regarding potentially getting into GenCon as a volunteer to help at the WotC booth, but oh well), but I also did the D&D4E and D&D Miniatures demos...and lots of MtG demoing, since they were giving out Time Spiral tournament packs and loads of boosters. On Saturday, I left my box of decks (containing, among other things, the sliver deck I've been building for over three years) at the booth...fortunately, I was able to get it back the next day, but not before having made another sliver deck using cards from the tournament packs and boosters. Also on Saturday, I won a raffle at the WotC booth, which got me a neat MtG bag containing a life spinner (not the die kind, unfortunately - or maybe fortunately since I probably would've gotten it mixed up with real d20s when I was running D&D sessions later in the summer), a card box (some assembly required), nine boosters, a playmat with Serra Angel and Black Lotus images on it (which I gave to my girlfriend, who was hoping to win the raffle prize right before that - a signed Serra Angel print - because she wouldn't be forced to throw it away by her semi-ultra-Christian mom*), a pack of D&D Miniatures...and books 4-6 of The Legend of Drizzt (aka the first three books written in the series), which has turned out to be my favorite part of the prize by far.

*Weirdness about that: Her mom lets her read stuff like the LotR books, but when it comes to Magic and D&D, no, sir, she won't allow it. I've told Kalee that she should explain the proper logic regarding this to her mother, but I don't know if she's done so yet.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #8 on:** October 04, 2008, 09:39:46 AM »

Quote from: WarpRattler on October 04, 2008, 09:19:36 AM

LD, Mirrodin block or the Mirrodin set itself?

Probably the set itself. I just looked down the list of set symbols and after

they turned from instantly recognizable to totally unfamiliar.

MaxVance · « **Reply #9 on:** October 04, 2008, 01:30:54 PM »

Quote from: Bird Person on October 04, 2008, 12:13:55 AM

Thread-bumping is only as big a deal as the bump police decide to make it.

Quote from: Deezer on November 15, 2005, 07:05:03 PM

No bumping for the sake of bumping. Bumping is posting in an inactive thread for the sole purpose of moving it to the top of the list.

Quote from: chucknorris on October 03, 2008, 07:19:33 PM

7 YEAR BUMP!!!

Glorb · « **Reply #10 on:** October 04, 2008, 01:46:05 PM »

I don't play M:TG because it's a game for small, weak nerd persons who wear glasses and don't get as many ladies as I do.

BP · « **Reply #11 on:** October 05, 2008, 02:01:36 AM »

If it's a repeated "offense" then the bumper should be told to stop, sure. But I mean, Lizard Dude makes loads of threads like these. So what difference does it make to me whether it's a thread about this older game I've never heard of or an XBLA game I've never heard of? If nobody posted anything about how "this bump was so bad and evil," it would go mostly unnoticed. You'd check it, leave it, it'd fall off your recently unread list. Simple as that.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #12 on:** October 05, 2008, 04:44:50 PM »

"this older game?" You've never heard of Magic?

BP · « **Reply #13 on:** October 05, 2008, 04:51:13 PM »

Oh wait, this is about the trading card game. I've heard of that.

TEM · « **Reply #14 on:** October 05, 2008, 06:11:43 PM »

I got like 500 Magic the Gathering cards I collected because I liked the art. I don't know how to play at all.

Uvaz · « **Reply #15 on:** October 05, 2008, 09:16:04 PM »

I play. I started in Kamigawa with a snake deck, and I played with my friends almost daily. But then my friends started to play less and less. Until we stopped. However I was still interested in the game and I went to a few prereleases. I went to the Shards of Alara one. Anyway it seems that I suck because I have never managed to win a single booster pack. Sadly I have no one to play with. And when my friends don't play videogames they play Yugioh...(I also play it but I sure want some variety.)

Anyway I have a green/white cat deck, and some other sucky decks that I am to lazy to talk about. well thats about it.

TEM · « **Reply #16 on:** June 17, 2010, 10:15:48 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM67q6j4G8s&feature=player_embedded

WarpRattler · « **Reply #17 on:** June 17, 2010, 10:34:45 AM »

I wish playing Magic: the Gathering was actually that surreal.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #18 on:** June 17, 2010, 11:04:57 PM »

I have that video in RL. It came on a CD-ROM in some starter pack thing. Got serious déjà vu when I clicked and saw that labcoat dude.

Glorb · « **Reply #19 on:** June 19, 2010, 05:59:19 AM »

Almost two years now, and I still think MTG is nerdy as hell. Go do something cool like skateboard or eat Doritos or bang the womens.

The Chef · « **Reply #20 on:** June 19, 2010, 11:29:28 AM »

I find it deliciously ironic that you're saying that whilst posting on a forum for a website about Mario.

Glorb · « **Reply #21 on:** June 19, 2010, 05:26:55 PM »

Tell me Chef, how many Doritoes have you eaten? How many womens have you banged?

The Chef · « **Reply #22 on:** June 19, 2010, 08:41:20 PM »

>Asking me to give out personal information on an internet forum.

Glorb · « **Reply #23 on:** June 20, 2010, 07:45:50 AM »

How many boards have you skated, Chef???

Weegee · « **Reply #24 on:** June 20, 2010, 11:50:10 AM »

Quote from: The Chef on June 19, 2010, 08:41:20 PM

>Asking me to give out personal information on an internet forum.

Were you... pretending to greentext?

The Chef · « **Reply #25 on:** June 20, 2010, 12:55:34 PM »

Yes...no....I have no idea what you're talking about.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #26 on:** June 24, 2011, 12:42:19 PM »

I had 46 life. My opponent had 1 life. He casts Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and goes on to win. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

WarpRattler · « **Reply #27 on:** June 24, 2011, 01:36:34 PM »

Indestructible creatures are total butts.

Incidentally, I like how that's ten times more powerful than Darksteel Colossus (which my Magic-playing friend in high school insisted on using in every deck he made) but has the same mana cost. Power creep once again rears its ugly head and successfully defeats the part of me that wants to get back into this game.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #28 on:** June 24, 2011, 05:27:58 PM »

Nah, they're about the same. Note that Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre doesn't have trample, so its power doesn't mean much (until you run out of permanents). Darksteel Colossus is also not legendary, so you could conceivably have four running at once!

With either one, if it gets out and you don't have a way to exile it or keep it from attacking, you're f'd.

Weegee · « **Reply #29 on:** June 24, 2011, 05:50:38 PM »

Those were the most neckbearded posts I've ever read on a forum.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #30 on:** June 24, 2011, 07:02:09 PM »

Says the only man on Earth to 100% The 4 Heroes of Light.

Weegee · « **Reply #31 on:** June 24, 2011, 08:25:29 PM »

You're just jealous of my accomplishments and my post-facial hair.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #32 on:** June 24, 2011, 08:52:09 PM »

(He only had one Colossus, incidentally, and it wasn't hard to take him out before he could get enough mana to play it. Slivers, baby!)

WarpRattler · « **Reply #33 on:** August 20, 2011, 06:37:32 PM »

I found out my local dollar store carries prepackaged variety packs of Magic cards. Ten cards a pack, so for three bucks I get the same number of cards I'd get for eight dollars if I bought regular packs, and they run across pretty much every set and rarity.

My brother and I each bought some and did a draft match. He got stomped pretty bad.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #34 on:** October 04, 2011, 12:29:33 PM »

Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 (360) is half-price this week for Gold subscribers.

I like how that means it currently costs about a dollar more than a pack of actual Magic cards.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #35 on:** December 27, 2011, 12:34:58 AM »

So now that I have a job and know people offline who play Magic, I've started buying cards again.

I haven't even gotten to play with the new stuff yet because my gaming group didn't meet last Saturday, but I already really like some of the neat stuff going on in Innistrad. I'm a fan of counterintuitive gameplay, so I like the whole "fill your graveyard with stuff" a lot of cards in the set are built around. (Especially considering what the Mythic Rare I pulled earlier does to counteract it.)

I haven't decided yet if the transforming cards are dumb or cool. What I do know is that until we start seeing some rulings on this stuff, I'm going to have a lot of fun abusing them with cards like Vesuvan Shapeshifter. Looks like they already have rules for it and I missed them. Regardless of that, based on a few of the ones I've pulled from boosters in the last couple of days, I'm going to tentatively say "they're cool."

WarpRattler · « **Reply #36 on:** January 11, 2012, 05:32:40 PM »

Continuing the trend of me spending far too much money on things I'm interested in (see: the rows of Xbox 360 games on my shelves):

I spent a hundred dollars on an Innistrad booster box (thirty-six packs, so $144 worth) when I got paid this past weekend. The cost is somewhat justifiable, since once the box arrives, I'm going to run a booster draft with my friends and make some of that money back.

And for more money-spending, the newest set, Dark Ascension, comes out at the beginning of February, and I plan on attending one of the prerelease events. It'll be my first time attending one of these events, and I'm pretty stoked for it, both because from what I've seen already of it, Dark Ascension is shaping up to be a pretty awesome set (just like Innistrad), and because the last time I went to a large gathering of like-minded people in real life was the Chicago Comic-Con, which I last attended a few years back, and it'll be nice to be back in my domain.