Any1 else familiar whit MTG?

[salamurhaaja]

Had lotsa sparetime in past few days due of internet connection problems so I started to rearrange things in drawers/shelfs and bumped into game were I was addicted be4 DaoC.

Was kinda year 1994-1996 when I played mtg a lot be4 leaving to army.
Old school magic: dual lands, manadrains, moxes, power9
Good old type1.

After army I took a break from it, but in year 2000-2001 I played a alot again, was time of urza's block and invasion...

Now I started wondering should I start playing again...

p.s found few my old t1 deck:
Control deck whit 2 x Serra angel for win
And combo deck: heureka, lich, mirror universe...

 

[jakobi]

if you have moxes, dual lands etc..I would suggest selling them.
At least they used to sell for quite a bit here in DK

 

[gloma]

I still have my uber The Deck.

With all the power cards
Like moxes, ancestral,timewalker,timetwister, lotus.

Mirror for thwin.

Dam long time since i played... tho its the best card game so far.


Gloma Timewalker
Dark Order

 

[salamurhaaja]

Originally posted by jakobi
if you have moxes, dual lands etc..I would suggest selling them.
At least they used to sell for quite a bit here in DK

Have 7 from power9 left, missing lotus + walk.
But I'm not planning to sell them I'm sure if I get kids someday they'll have lotsa fun whit game.

Afterall it's freaking nice to plan new decks when you have mixture from old cards from antiquties, AN, Legends and from new sets.

 

[salamurhaaja]

Originally posted by gloma
I still have my uber The Deck.

With all the power cards
Like moxes, ancestral,timewalker,timetwister, lotus.

Mirror for thwin.

Dam long time since i played... tho its the best card game so far.


Gloma Timewalker
Dark Order

Omg, I'm not only big nerd in here

EDIT: and you are damn straight, best game outside computer. Best when you have lotsa friends playing.
Omg I remember when we had like 8 dudes playing in big ring all had 4 x syphon souls, howling mines balances and stuff...
Those were the days

 

[Triskin]

I still play a lot with some friends of mine , we hardly buy new cards but we still got enough old ones to make tons of fun decks

 

[gloma]

hehe i remember those old Goblin decks, with alot of bolts and small annoying goblins. And dont talk about the Gorilla Shamans who ate up my mox all the time

Alson remember when a old friend of mine won SM (Lincon) with his Merfolk deck. He kicked all the of those "freaks" in type 1 (classic)



Gloma Timewalker
Dark Order

 

[phule_gubben]

IMO 4:th edition was the coolest, i remember the PC-game where u could start out at different levels choosing to play one color or 2,3 or even 4. I played the game on all different levels and killed the main boss (don't remember his name). I had something like 4-5 decks to choose from when i entered a cave so i could stand a fair chance to clear the whole cave without loosing a single fight.

Tried the cardgame a few times later on but then it was like 7:th edition cards to choose from but lucky me he had some 4:th edition too, i made me a deck of black/green mostly consisting of 4:th ed. and whooped his ass 5 times in a row then he didn't want to play against me anymore.

Would like to get my hands on a bunch of cards someday but there aren't many i could play with thou. Anyway an excellent cardgame indeed I only wish i had discovered it way earlier.

 

[old.Xanthian]

Oo

Wish I understood, sounds intresting :E

 

[Rhuric]

hmm, yes I was addicted once, just look at my ingame name you know: Sengir Vampire, I am a dedicated black deck player, I once sold all my cards, then earlier this year I started playing again, damn I regret that I sold the cards......oh well.....guess it is on the shelf again.....still have my cards lying around thou this time

 

[froler-mid]

wtf, never heard of oO

 

[--Eraser--]

omg long long time ago i started and got instantly addicted just about when 4th editition was released.

my favorite was the seafolk deck (blue weenie with lords and this land enchantment which gives blue creatures camo-unblockable-thingy...dont remember the name...) and of course my turbo-stasis deck with howling mines, a lot of counterspells, chronatogs and kismet etc.

stopped playing when 80% of my cards where dragged out of the standard II tournaments, i spend too much money in it anyway

 

[Sibanac]

hehe i still got my uber trull/breeding pit deck
And my blue stasis nastyness deck

 

[Flimgoblin]

Ahh the good old days of sinkholes, ghouls and plague rats...

back before they invented balanced rules

I'd recommend selling the ancient rare cards and buying your kids a fairer version of the game (rather than one that degenerates into a small number of cards - e.g. sinkholes+plague rats, that's all ye need, or lightningbolts + goblins + mountains)

My friends and I had been playing thinking you were only allowed 40 cards in a deck - i.e. not allowed any more (rather than minimum 40 as it should have been) but fortunately 40 cards was the optimum at least for a sick deck like the black death or the red death...

I remember visiting a card game shop and playing someone (this was where I realised you were actually allowed any number of cards according to the rules ). Was a three-way game just for fun, they both had 80+ cards in their deck, and died within 5 rounds.

(black lotus + 3 mountains + gauntlet of might + shivan dragon + two headed giant in the starting hand... gotta hurt)

Jyhad was a far better game overall though far more evil - what you did and how you played had a lot more involvement than simple deck-creation (although that was important too of course)

 

[Sibanac]

oooh Jyhad

I have a Malkavian (who'd a guessed) homoncolus/madness network/vote deck
its uterly useless in one on one but beats everything in multiplayer and its so anoying nobody wants to play against it

 

[rure_]

I have a black deck with a few Nightmares and stuff in a drawer somewhere

 

[iskander_dymas]

these days people just play the online version

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/magiconline

but I enjoyed the card version more though

 

[nerve]

Yup Yup

Was also a hardcore player from 4th edition until Mercadian Masques, where I lost interest big time and was tired of spending all teh cash... until recently where I discovered the online game and started playing (and paying, this time for virtual cards, how dumb am I ? again. Wizards did an UBER fuckup upgrading to version 2.0 recently (server non-availability/crashes for more then THREE weeks), but they seem to be on top again, and will surely review their testprocedures before they pull off another stunt like that

Anyway, more info on www.wizards.com/mtgonline

A good FAQ about the online game available on:

www.waldmeister.net

I can advice it to anyone who loves a tactical game involving the RPG 'magic' elements most of us adore, albeit a bit of an expensive one :/ To keep the spending on a normal level I only compete in leagues (limited deck construction) and boosterdrafts, which i always preferred anyway...

You can try it for free with a few easy preconstructed decks btw.

Nerve.

Feel free to contact me ingame over there, screenname is also 'Nerve'.

 

[misloffke]

The old days were still the best and Arabian Nights rocked all the way. I would like to buy the BIG 9 for 20P if anyone has them, lol
This was and maybe is still one of the best cardgames in the World.
Loved my blue stasis control deck!

 

[enkor]

played tempest - invasion then all my friends quit and so did I

get out my cards sometimes tho, have about 4 good decks built and also v. v. fun to play with special 5-color 250 card deck (engineered to be as crap as possible )

 

[Sibanac]

Originally posted by misloffke
The old days were still the best and Arabian Nights rocked all the way. I would like to buy the BIG 9 for 20P if anyone has them, lol
This was and maybe is still one of the best cardgames in the World.
Loved my blue stasis control deck!

Some guy gave me a beta starter with mox and lotus in em, cuase he taught the game sucked, i only started playing around arabian nights,
If that guy ever figured out what a big wad of cash he actualy gave me i thing he will have hit himself silly

 

[Sortbane]

Eeeep..

Was addicted to MTG for several years, but quit the game when the madness off it all struck me, figured out that the 2 cardboxes full of cards I had cost me an insane amount of cash (one or two boosted packs each day, hooked on the getting rare's feeling )

still regret selling my cards to this day, really want to teach some of the punks on the local coffee shop a lesson in old style!

Played SW:CCG after MTG and still have the complete lim.etd. black border launch series somewhere

 

[Flimgoblin]

Originally posted by Sibanac
oooh Jyhad

I have a Malkavian (who'd a guessed) homoncolus/madness network/vote deck
its uterly useless in one on one but beats everything in multiplayer and its so anoying nobody wants to play against it

no point to Jyhad with less than 4 players

The whole predator/prey thing made it so much more amusing - begging the person sitting opposite to attack more so that you can survive a round (but they don't want you to quite kill your prey because then you're stronger and all of a sudden _their_ prey)

Ahh great game

(Usually played a toreador machinegun-deck, annoying when someone plays a gangrel destroy-the-guns deck though )

I liked my ventrue "vote everyone to death" deck, but it wasn't very good with less than 6 players.

 

[gloma]

You guys remember the time when CHAOS ORB wasnt banned.

Heheh rule card nr 1. Not like u need skill or well maybe skill to flip the card.


Gloma Timewalker
Dark Order

 

[thorwyntf]

You guys remember the time when CHAOS ORB wasnt banned.

Heheh rule card nr 1. Not like u need skill or well maybe skill to flip the card.

lol I remember that everybody used to arrange his cards like 10 centimeters away from the next one in order to minimize Chaos Orb casualties.

I used to play MTG on local tournaments for quite some time. Still got all my cards dusting away in a couple of boxes somewhere.
I quit playing after the 5th Edition rules changes (Mana-Elves paying for their own Giant Growth during attack and still dealing damage.. yay!) and after they kicked my all time favourite card out of the cycle.. Stasis.

Some pretty interesting decks in the Mirage cycle, Cad Bloom, 5 Colour Blue etc. but best environment for T2 imo was definitely Urza´s Legacy with Living Death, Counterphoenix and NeoNecro.

Btw.. funny to see a company like WotC releasing cards like Tolarian Academy or Time Spiral after so many years of game experience. And you think DaoC is unbalanced?

 

[Arnor]

waht was that card? : give x life to target player, or do x dmg to target player


we banned that card, we were such noobs


but had great fun though

 

[hrun]

yea Mtg was lots of fun.. still have my cards somewhere I think
think I started to play it just after Ice-age expansion though.. so wasnt there from the beginning

 

[old.Kerosene]

Blue Control Deck all the way here. Was known to pull out a mean all artifact deck if no-one was expecting it.

 

[old.Merbos]

Black/red land destroying deck, sinkhole/stripmine/stonerain, etc

Well, sold all my cards, and got back a minor fortune.

 

[Sibanac]

Originally posted by old.Merbos
Black/red land destroying deck, sinkhole/stripmine/stonerain, etc

Well, sold all my cards, and got back a minor fortune.

tell me about it, i made a small fortune just selling land from my old deck (beta land and duel lands )