Magic: The Gathering

[Phox]

Figured this would be a better place to continue this discussion than where it originally was.

I've had friends concede the game with in 10 turns of me just fucking with their game plan. I was a master of psychological dueling.
"I pacify your creature."
"I sac it and kill your creature and/or you lose life"

My deck was best utilized in games that featured more than two players, because it was creature heavy and generally required a few turns to get set up, but it was a life building/sapping deck, with lots of samurai thrown in for good measure. 

However, I was always pretty good at using the strengths of other people's decks to my advantage. Whether they were opponents or teammates, I could generally manipulate them into buying me enough time to get a basic set up going.

For one on one, I had a quicky black undead deck, and a quicky white angel deck that were generally useful against weak players, but required lucky hands from relatively early on in order to win against the better players.

[Elder Iptuous]

i still see the cards for sale at stores like wally world, is it still played a good bit?
i still fondly remember when the game came out and my buddy and i went and got our first starter decks and were figuring it out....
good times...

how much are the old heavy hitters selling for these days?  like a lotus,  moxys, timetwister, and the like...

[Cainad (dec.)]

i still see the cards for sale at stores like wally world, is it still played a good bit?
i still fondly remember when the game came out and my buddy and i went and got our first starter decks and were figuring it out....
good times...

how much are the old heavy hitters selling for these days?  like a lotus,  moxys, timetwister, and the like...

Quite a bit. There are tournaments and everything still going on.

[Elder Iptuous]

sweet. i'll have to break out my old cards and play again some time!
they're probably up to 20th standard edition by now, huh?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Turn 1:
Play and tap Black lotus, generate 1 black mana.
Use that to cast dark ritual, generate 3 black mana
Use one of those to cast another dark ritual, total 5 floating black mana.
Use those 5 to cast Demonic Hordes.

Congratulations, you've just lost the game on turn 1.

TGRR,
Genius at this shit.

[Phox]

Turn 1:
Play and tap Black lotus, generate 1 black mana.
Use that to cast dark ritual, generate 3 black mana
Use one of those to cast another dark ritual, total 5 floating black mana.
Use those 5 to cast Demonic Hordes.

Congratulations, you've just lost the game on turn 1.

TGRR,
Genius at this shit.

You suck, Roger. 

[Elder Iptuous]

if only you could have a seven card deck....

[navkat]

TGRR highlights why it's so important to have a quick-acting deck. I, unfortunately, can never seem to cull them down to 60 cards.

The crack about Blue/black deck in the "other" Magic thread was a jab at myself, BTW.

[Phox]

The crack about Blue/black deck in the "other" Magic thread was a jab at myself, BTW.

I figured. 

[Don Coyote]

TGRR highlights why it's so important to have a quick-acting deck. I, unfortunately, can never seem to cull them down to 60 cards.

The crack about Blue/black deck in the "other" Magic thread was a jab at myself, BTW.

I never understood that.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

TGRR highlights why it's so important to have a quick-acting deck. I, unfortunately, can never seem to cull them down to 60 cards.

The crack about Blue/black deck in the "other" Magic thread was a jab at myself, BTW.

If it isn't part of the engine, it isn't part of the deck.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Turn 1:
Play and tap Black lotus, generate 1 black mana.
Use that to cast dark ritual, generate 3 black mana
Use one of those to cast another dark ritual, total 5 floating black mana.
Use those 5 to cast Demonic Hordes.

Congratulations, you've just lost the game on turn 1.

TGRR,
Genius at this shit.

You suck, Roger. 

Anyone can WIN in one turn.  It takes a GENIUS to LOSE before the other player even gets to play.

[Phox]

Turn 1:
Play and tap Black lotus, generate 1 black mana.
Use that to cast dark ritual, generate 3 black mana
Use one of those to cast another dark ritual, total 5 floating black mana.
Use those 5 to cast Demonic Hordes.

Congratulations, you've just lost the game on turn 1.

TGRR,
Genius at this shit.

You suck, Roger. 

Anyone can WIN in one turn.  It takes a GENIUS to LOSE before the other player even gets to play.

Good point. 

[Don Coyote]

TGRR highlights why it's so important to have a quick-acting deck. I, unfortunately, can never seem to cull them down to 60 cards.

The crack about Blue/black deck in the "other" Magic thread was a jab at myself, BTW.

If it isn't part of the engine, it isn't part of the deck.

TROOF

[navkat]

Totally.

My problem is that I have all these cards that fit the strategy that I keep forgetting that it's a far better tool having the power of probability on your side than to dilute that by adding possibilities.