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Offline RockabillGR

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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #550 on: July 21, 2012, 10:15:43 AM »
I wanna try a new legacy deck. who's in??
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #551 on: July 21, 2012, 09:10:58 PM »
rockabill, you're always on at dodgy times!

What country are you from?
I don't care about the rules.

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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #552 on: July 21, 2012, 09:17:42 PM »
I little love letter from adventure time to magic the gathering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqnJ3TgZNdo
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« Reply #553 on: July 21, 2012, 09:28:56 PM »
I little love letter from adventure time to magic the gathering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqnJ3TgZNdo

That was awesome.  I particularly liked all the the corn jokes, since I always play with Plains.
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #554 on: July 21, 2012, 09:37:14 PM »
way beack when I used to play I always used white and blue.  Havnt played in forever and I have no idea what happened to my cards.


anyone know if Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 is any good?  May get my MtG fix this way but would like some opponents.
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #555 on: July 21, 2012, 10:48:12 PM »
Boo to humans!

They get me everytime... I don't think it helps that I like to build slow decks and there are too many things that eat creatures for breakfast...

I will have my vengeance though! :evil:
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #556 on: July 21, 2012, 11:01:06 PM »
Boo to humans!

They get me everytime... I don't think it helps that I like to build slow decks and there are too many things that eat creatures for breakfast...

I will have my vengeance though! :evil:

Engineered Plague, anyone?
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #557 on: July 21, 2012, 11:53:49 PM »
My vampire deck = stupid.

4 games, 4 wins!
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #558 on: July 22, 2012, 12:39:55 AM »
I had that with my werewolves too though...

I'll find something that can beat it...!

Maybe. I guess I could build an anti vampire deck but that would be totally sucky (no pun intended) against anything else!

But I like the idea of humans with stakes... it's an actual equipment now!
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #559 on: July 22, 2012, 12:51:05 AM »
riders of gavony vs werewolves!

amazing.


Didnt work vs the vamps because they fly.
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #560 on: July 22, 2012, 12:57:08 AM »
I think that would hurt me big time...

Trying to think if I have one of them that gets intimidate... plus I think I have a couple of burn spells...

Having said that, I have protection in my wall deck but I couldn't get it out!
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Offline rufus sparkfire

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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #561 on: July 22, 2012, 01:04:45 AM »
Using the riders against the poor cows was really mean!
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #562 on: July 22, 2012, 03:05:06 AM »
rockabill, you're always on at dodgy times!

What country are you from?

I live in Australia, so yeah there is a time issue :icon_rolleyes:
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #563 on: July 22, 2012, 09:34:48 AM »
I played you once! Not sure what time that was though.


I think I want a werewolf deck.


Does anyone know what the werewolf/transforming cards look like in real life? Do you just get two cards in the pack, before and after? I'm curious.
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #564 on: July 22, 2012, 03:41:19 PM »
Apparently they are 2 sided!
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #565 on: July 22, 2012, 03:46:07 PM »
But surely you can see them in your deck then!
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #566 on: July 22, 2012, 04:31:19 PM »
I believe they are doing tokens in the boosters that you can slip in it's place and then plonk down the real card as and when. Course if you use sleeves you'll be fine...
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« Reply #567 on: July 22, 2012, 05:00:18 PM »
That seems more complicated than making two cards and putting both in the pack!

The card sleeves I use are transparent so wouldn't help.
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #568 on: July 22, 2012, 11:57:14 PM »
Does anyone know what the werewolf/transforming cards look like in real life? Do you just get two cards in the pack, before and after? I'm curious.

They are, indeed, two-sided.  I've never had a problem, but amongst my friends and at the places I play, opaque sleeves are nearly universal.  The boosters do include proxy cards in case you don't have opaque sleeves.
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #569 on: July 23, 2012, 02:21:48 AM »
Think I know what my main problem is.

I like to build decks with some variety which means it often doesn't work out how I would hope.

I am gonna try and have more 4 repeat decks.

Playing Rufus 4 times in a row, it was like he got everything he needed each time, just when needed. Good deck building I would say!
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #570 on: July 23, 2012, 02:27:34 AM »
Think I know what my main problem is.

I like to build decks with some variety which means it often doesn't work out how I would hope.

I am gonna try and have more 4 repeat decks.

Playing Rufus 4 times in a row, it was like he got everything he needed each time, just when needed. Good deck building I would say!

I definitely would recommend doing so.  The general rule is:
If you want to see the card in your opening hand every time, take 4.
If you want to see the card at some point every game, take 3.
If you want to see the card late in the game or only in certain situations, include 2.
If you rarely want to see a card or only want to tutor for it, include 1.
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #571 on: July 23, 2012, 03:08:51 AM »
quick question:
I cannot have a legendary creature more than once in the battlefield (eg. two emarkul in the battlefield). Thhat doesnot prevent me from having them in my deck/hand etc right?
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #572 on: July 23, 2012, 03:33:14 AM »
Correct, and as I forgot the other day, you and your opponent can't have the same one on the field at the same time.

Though between you there could be 8 total in your decks.
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #573 on: July 23, 2012, 03:41:43 AM »
The more you play and build decks too, the more you realise how hard it is to find the balance between fun and competitive.

For eg, as soon as someone starts doing well most every game, they start thinking that maybe it is too good. But that happens a lot.

And then certain cards seem rediculous but, really they often don't do a whole lot. I am often pulling out odd cards that people go Whaaat? but then it doesn't end up being all that important in the game.

All these things are so hard to make hard and fast rulings on. Hence I think why we gave up trying to make our own ban list.



I do like the idea of some 'common only' decks though for a different slant... what do you guys reckon?
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Re: Magic the gathering...gathering thread
« Reply #574 on: July 23, 2012, 08:22:03 AM »
The more you play and build decks too, the more you realise how hard it is to find the balance between fun and competitive.

Definitely!

I do think both my vampire deck and my human deck are powergamey though. I've made a new ghost deck that I am sure will be less effective!


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I do like the idea of some 'common only' decks though for a different slant... what do you guys reckon?

I actually started to make one of those the other day. But I didn't finish it. I like the idea if other people make them too.
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