Some interesting duels tonight. I've seen the fruit of my loins work again tonight, only even more effectively. A dispute over whether a creature attacking with trample can still get past a creature protected by "reduce all damage this creature takes to 0". Slickskin called Wizards with the question and it was decided that trample, even when blocked, is still dealt damage as assigned to target by the attackers controller. 4th turn kill***.
My massive trample / haste green and red deck once again gives me... VICTORY!
Slickskin plays with some clever decks, and I do admire the strategy and effort he puts into his decks.
*** OK NOT 4th turn kill. After I think about it, four mana plus two mana giving elves it must have been sixth or seventh turn. Awesome nonetheless.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The Pride of Construction
OK so I've spent hours this week mulling over my lack of deck building abilities and I've really been working hard putting together decks, play testing, disassembling, then starting over again.
I began building an Angel deck but quickly realized I had about 5 angels and they're incredibly expensive and I don't have cards that would get me that card from the deck - ok well I have some black cards that will do that IE graveyard regeneration - but I didn't want to play with black - I wanted to play blue and white.
So I started seeing a pattern of cards here - preventing damage by disabling opponents creatures IE Arrest and Pacifism, Gaining life via lifelink abilities and instants, and building an army in the air. The creatures in my deck are all flyers, and for the few that are not, I utilize Air Bladder - and the big blow comes from Pride of the Clouds.
Guess what! This deck DELIVERS!
When I won last night, for the first time in about 2 weeks - I relished in this win, literally throwing up my arms in a V yelling "victory is mine!!"
I began building an Angel deck but quickly realized I had about 5 angels and they're incredibly expensive and I don't have cards that would get me that card from the deck - ok well I have some black cards that will do that IE graveyard regeneration - but I didn't want to play with black - I wanted to play blue and white.
So I started seeing a pattern of cards here - preventing damage by disabling opponents creatures IE Arrest and Pacifism, Gaining life via lifelink abilities and instants, and building an army in the air. The creatures in my deck are all flyers, and for the few that are not, I utilize Air Bladder - and the big blow comes from Pride of the Clouds.
Guess what! This deck DELIVERS!
When I won last night, for the first time in about 2 weeks - I relished in this win, literally throwing up my arms in a V yelling "victory is mine!!"
Friday, October 2, 2009
Regenerating the MTG Scene
It sure is funny how quickly you can get roped back in. about a month and a half ago as I was left without the daily convenience of Television entertainment, I dusted off the old box of cards. As I went through them, I noticed I did not have anything recent really - nothing past Invasion block (well maybe a few stragglers). So off to the local card store I go... stopping in at Guard Tower picking up a precon and some boosters from Alara and the 2010 core set. Before I knew it, I've got my friends back innit, as well as stirred the pot with the gaming club I'm a member of, now playing Magic everyday during lunch at work.
This week has been especially entertaining - after attending the Zendikar pre-release sealed deck tournament - Magic has been all I've thought about in my spare time. I've sorted my cards by set, color, type, casting cost; I've even started storing some away in albums.
I've got to experience the excitement that comes along with finding a new MTG player. For example, two times this week, both on Thursday - I've discovered a new player - A complete stranger - just from talking about it or playing in public. Tuesday I was playing at lunch and a random employee walked up in awe... OMG there are people here that play this! So we invited him to join us the following day. Later that evening, I was at dinner with a girl friend and her co-workers, and I mentioned Magic. Turns out the strange woman's husband (who is from Australia) plays Magic and has complained he never has anyone to play with. Perhaps she'll introduce us.
I've also experienced tremendous frustration. I am terrible at building decks. I learned the game by playing with preconstructed decks, or decks that fellow players have made - and I'm finding the deck building skill to be entirely frustrating. However, I see the decks progressively improving and I am sticking to it - however, I've yet to win a game of Magic in the past two weeks. I struggle with deck strategy and figuring out what cards to put in, really. I guess that will improve with time, that is, retaining the cards information and ability. Also - I struggle with not knowing what to take out of a deck once it's there. My immediate goal is to drill into my head a better understanding of deck logic.
This seems to be a good site http://www.magicdeckvortex.com/
UPDATE:
Last night I played with my revised decks - still lost all three duals, but my decks are working. The problem is, with the randomness of my card collection, I have great cards, but only one or two of each card. So I'm going to need at least three of each card in which the strategy of my deck is centered around (prefer 4 of each).
With Zendikar now on the market - I'll invest in a box adding to the Zendikar's I already have from the pre-release event. That way I'll have a nice base of cards to get started, and hopefully expand my existing decks and new decks to have enough of one card to actually execute the strategy effectively.
This week has been especially entertaining - after attending the Zendikar pre-release sealed deck tournament - Magic has been all I've thought about in my spare time. I've sorted my cards by set, color, type, casting cost; I've even started storing some away in albums.
I've got to experience the excitement that comes along with finding a new MTG player. For example, two times this week, both on Thursday - I've discovered a new player - A complete stranger - just from talking about it or playing in public. Tuesday I was playing at lunch and a random employee walked up in awe... OMG there are people here that play this! So we invited him to join us the following day. Later that evening, I was at dinner with a girl friend and her co-workers, and I mentioned Magic. Turns out the strange woman's husband (who is from Australia) plays Magic and has complained he never has anyone to play with. Perhaps she'll introduce us.
I've also experienced tremendous frustration. I am terrible at building decks. I learned the game by playing with preconstructed decks, or decks that fellow players have made - and I'm finding the deck building skill to be entirely frustrating. However, I see the decks progressively improving and I am sticking to it - however, I've yet to win a game of Magic in the past two weeks. I struggle with deck strategy and figuring out what cards to put in, really. I guess that will improve with time, that is, retaining the cards information and ability. Also - I struggle with not knowing what to take out of a deck once it's there. My immediate goal is to drill into my head a better understanding of deck logic.
This seems to be a good site http://www.magicdeckvortex.com/
UPDATE:
Last night I played with my revised decks - still lost all three duals, but my decks are working. The problem is, with the randomness of my card collection, I have great cards, but only one or two of each card. So I'm going to need at least three of each card in which the strategy of my deck is centered around (prefer 4 of each).
With Zendikar now on the market - I'll invest in a box adding to the Zendikar's I already have from the pre-release event. That way I'll have a nice base of cards to get started, and hopefully expand my existing decks and new decks to have enough of one card to actually execute the strategy effectively.
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