Magic the gathering.

Who plays?

it could be fun to set up a small online game....

with my fucked up predator dragon deck... or my fucked up auriok blade warden deck....

or my fucked up evil eye of orms by gore deck....

 

I don't, but I would love to play if you don't mind a beginner.

 

i played in high school...during and afterschool
was the alternative to playing chess, though i played chess quite a bit too haha

i've never played online...and i haven't kept up with changes, if any, over hte years to the game

 

i've never played. to my knowledge i've never met anyone who has ever played. thus, i don't really even know what the concept of the game is.

but based on my very limited knowledge of it and some uneducated guessing, it seems like something i could really get into.

 

i do have about 2000-2500 MTG cards though
haha

 

I once traded ALL of my magic cards
for ONE 1st Edition Charizard Pokemon Card

I sold that thing on eBay and bought a Go Ped

and those fucking cards were sitting under my bed for months....years...

yay yayee!

 

I've got 5000+ cards, ranging from beta, to shards of alara.

in the midst of that I have some REALLY fucked up, overpowered, banned as fuck cards.

 

see, this is what i never understood...TBH, i never really looked into the reasons why...

why have cards that are banned? why even make them?

 

in the original mode of the game, they thought it was super cool to make REALLY powerful cards (power nine, molten hydra, etc.) but, then they realized, that without access to these old cards, new players couldn't compete

and would become discouraged.

so, they banned certain cards, for certain types of tournaments

there are tournaments with no banned cards, and only 20 banned cards, some of the cards I use fit in that 20 banned category, some of them are widely banned, but their loss does not break my strategy, so I still like them, they speed shit up.

not to mention it's cool when someone is like "zomg you have that?!?!"

 

so its really just for tournament play?

 

yep, bans just apply to formal play

you can use banned cards as much as you want out of tournament. (I usually take mine out unless the person I am playing against has banned cards too)

 

ah i see, thats cool

 

my boyfriend used to play it, i`m not a fan

 

I have a friend that used to play it, but we ridicule him so much for it that I don't think he'd ever dare flip his magic cards out in front of us.

He did have his revenge though, when he changed our laptop desktops to a picture of his jacking off.

 

I have nothing against fantasy card games, just the ones where you have to buy more and more. Not sure if that's the case with this game, seeing people buy more and more sets put me off and so I never tried it.

 

I second that, I have time not money.

 

I always wanted the two nerds at my grade to show me how to play it. I dont call them nerds in a derogatory way, they were my friends, it's just that's what they were.

They would say "it's too complicated". Which would piss me off, because I was smarter than both of them.

 

My memnarch/artifact deck will desimate all.

Be thankful my elf deck grew legs and walked off....

I"m down for a game once my internet gets turned back on.

 

so how does one play online? do you get to select any cards you want? or what?