Gathering some Magics

Viani · 2012-01-27 01:57:44

millercross · 2012-01-27 02:29:25

I feel bad casting that on someone in an early game. With that said, it also felt good to get ten mana going on in turn 6-7-ish

Viani · 2012-01-27 02:39:18

How would you even play that

Haven · 2012-01-27 02:48:44

Cabal Coffers, appropriately enough.

Haven · 2012-01-27 02:52:21

Also, my new headcanon is that Aether Adept is Venser's little sister. They have a pet Man o' War, I guess.

Gelzo · 2012-01-27 02:52:30

@Swagshark: I can't even handle this right now.

millercross · 2012-01-27 16:03:54

Dark Ascension's up. I already made an oreo aggro token deck with fateful hour and Phyrexian Unlife + Melira to keep me alive and kicking ass while on low health.

And I'm loving every single second of it.

Haven · 2012-01-27 16:05:12

Can you still call it oreo if you're apparently splashing green? Well, I guess it can be one of those mint ones.

Justice4243 · 2012-01-27 16:14:14

The face of an Oreo kinda looks like a summoning circle.

I hope it summons a cookie demon...

millercross · 2012-01-27 16:15:46

Butbutbut it's only two cards! D:

that's like putting some little grains of something green to your oreo!

Haven · 2012-01-27 16:19:15

Aren't you usually supposed to use brownies for that?

millercross · 2012-01-27 16:24:41

only if you're thinking of drugs, you shameless hippie skank!

Justice4243 · 2012-01-27 16:25:04

I think I'd have to go to England and kidnap one...

Then again, I'm not in the habit of leaving out porridge and honey...maybe our pun brownie will start making delicious baked goods in the evening if I start...

It'd probably notice more if I gave two shits about banding.

millercross · 2012-01-27 16:29:05

Banding is still the most hilariously bizarre mechanic of all time

Justice4243 · 2012-01-27 16:30:43

On further inspecting, it's not even banding, it's a specific type of banding, E.G. "Bands with other Goblin" or "Band with other Legend"

That's just...that's just sad.

Haven · 2012-01-27 16:32:38

The best part is that until recently, if you have a creature with "bands with other Legends", they couldn't actually band with other legends.

you shameless hippie skank

Oh whatever, ponylover.

Justice4243 · 2012-01-27 16:38:14

I never really understood why "banding" never included abilities. At least, you'd imagine banding with a creature the flew would also grant flying.

At least we still have camels to protect us from deserts.

Idler · 2012-01-27 16:41:11

Aww, DKA is up and I can't play with it due to university restrictions. Bleh.

At least I can still deckbuild.

millercross · 2012-01-27 16:43:29

you should prepare for the incoming Haven storm, Idler

Hmm, going through every EDH deck and seeing what I should add and whatnot. So far, I think Teysa has become somewhat more dangerous. I really wish her second ability would allow me to sacrifice black creatures rather than just getting the token. Ah well.

Idler · 2012-01-27 18:38:27

Man, now I'm contemplating trying to make a Modern deck.

What's become of me

Viani · 2012-01-27 18:39:03

Place is bad for my brain

brain creatures

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millercross · 2012-01-27 18:48:34

Good things about playing Modern: You get to play Coldsnap.

Bad things about playing Modern: Every card you love and every card that might win the game in some form is banned out of existence.

Idler · 2012-01-27 18:56:01

What's so awesome about Coldsnap?

millercross · 2012-01-27 19:05:29

...I like it?

Haven · 2012-01-27 19:07:13

Hm...theoretically you could play 4ThrummingStone32RelentlessRats.dec in Modern.

No one would see it coming, that's for sure.

Idler · 2012-01-27 19:13:22

Enduring Ideal seems like a fun Modern deck.

millercross · 2012-01-27 19:15:17

But yeah, I don't think the set's good by itself, but I like how it mixes with other cards so well.

And it gave me Vanish Into Memory, Commandeer, Fury of the Horde, Adarkar Valkyrie, Kjeldoran War Cry, Arcum Dagsson, Counterbalance, etc

Idler · 2012-01-27 19:22:42

Zur was pretty cool.

Gelzo · 2012-01-27 19:23:10

The perception of Modern being a ban-heavy format isn't... entirely inaccurate just given the number of bans in the amount of time it's been around. But it is a new format, and I understand they have a policy of being more liberal with bans in the early stages just to be safe. I think Legacy was similar.

Obā-san · 2012-01-27 19:27:33

What are the Magic formats exactly? I mean, I know about the concept of different formats, just what are the ones in Magic?

millercross · 2012-01-27 19:32:47

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_formats#Legacy

Gelzo · 2012-01-27 19:32:53

The official ones are limited, which includes Draft and Sealed, and constructed, which includes rotating and non-rotating formats. The rotating formats are Standard and Extended, the non-rotating ones are Modern, Vintage, Legacy, and Block Constructed. There are also unofficial ones for casual play that are sometimes supported by Wizards, like Commander and Planeschase.

Two-Headed Giant is a two-player team variant that can be applied to any of the official formats, but in practice I think it's rare, and I don't think it exists at all in the more competitive end of things.

Hm, I think I got that right. I always say to myself that I shouldn't be doing this kind of thing from memory.

Viani · 2012-01-28 01:22:34

MTG allows proxies in tournies? God damn. That's extremely helpful in some cases.

Gelzo · 2012-01-28 01:28:48

Where did you hear that?

Viani · 2012-01-28 01:35:13

Vintage

The Vintage format, formerly known as Type 1, allows cards from all
sets that are legal for constructed play. Vintage maintains a small
banned list and a larger restricted list. Unlike in the other formats,
the DCI does not ban cards in Vintage for power level reasons. Rather,
banned cards in Vintage are those that involve ante, manual dexterity (e.g. – Chaos Orb), or subgames (e.g. – Shahrazad). Cards that raise power level concerns are instead restricted to one per deck.^[4]
Vintage is currently the only format in which cards are restricted.
Because of the expense in acquiring the old cards to play competitive
Vintage, many Vintage tournaments are unsanctioned and permit players to
use a certain number of proxy cards. These are treated as stand-ins of existing cards and are not normally permitted in tournaments sanctioned by the DCI.^[4]

^{Oh fuck nevermind I misread the last sentence.}

Haven · 2012-01-28 08:00:04

That wasn't nearly as dramatic as the Innistrad prerelease, but I did get a Vault of the Archangel. Maybe I should've gone white-black even though my pool wasn't as good; probably would've been more fun because cats and zombies.

I think I was kinda out of it the whole time; maybe I should've gone tomorrow. Which is to say in eight hours from now.

Soul Seizer is as amusing as advertised though. How did it possess a doll?

Gelzo · 2012-01-28 08:12:54

I'm skipping the prerelease this time around. It looks like an awesome set, but I've been cooling down on Magic lately so I can focus on school a little more. I can procrastinate fine enough already without walking in the cold, spending money, and dedicating several hours at a time.

Also this set doesn't have many cards I want to use for anything I've been working on for constructed.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-01-28 13:32:43

This deck I just made is not all that useful (barring me drawing one specific card) but fuck it, lizardmen ftw.

I love this card's flavortext, by the way.

millercross · 2012-01-28 16:12:06

So, I've just made three decks around Dark Ascension so far and I think they're my best decks so far. At least, non-EDH, anyway.

And really, there's not a better feel in the world than acasting a flashbacked Increasing Ambition.

Idler · 2012-01-28 16:13:49

Increasing Ambition is a great EDH card. Doesn't have much in the way of Constructed applications, though.

I like Increasing Vengeance, personally. Copying twice fuck yeah.

millercross · 2012-01-28 16:41:20

I really like the Increasing cycle.

And well, if you make a flashback-based deck with Altar of the Lost, you're pretty much bound to manage to flashback it at some point.

And Increasing Vengeance's my favourite, yeah.

Idler · 2012-01-28 16:43:09

Altar of the Lost is terrible, though. It's basically Worn Powerstone except even more limited.

millercross · 2012-01-28 16:46:09

I wouldn't say it's terrible. I mean, it's limited and it only works in one type of deck (With tons of subtypes, even)

But it does what that deck needs to do and it's that it lets you cast flashback costs without having to have, say, white lands.

Idler · 2012-01-28 16:47:29

But what deck do you desperately need to make off-colour flashback costs in? Maybe Burning Vengeance, I guess.

millercross · 2012-01-28 16:50:41

And you'd be correct.

Idler · 2012-01-28 16:52:21

Even there you probably have better things to do with your third turn. Like casting Vengeance itself.

millercross · 2012-01-28 16:57:28

i can't think of anything I'd like to copy in my third turn that would make me one to use a vengeance. In terms of standard, anyway

Idler · 2012-01-28 16:59:20

No no, Burning Vengeance. The enchantment from Innistrad that lets you shock a target whenever you cast something from your graveyard.

millercross · 2012-01-28 17:04:27

Point.

Idler · 2012-01-28 17:06:11

It seems to me that Dark Ascension hasn't really given birth to many new potential strategies so much as expanded on ones that already existed. But as a middle set, I guess that's its purpose.

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