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twesterm on 26 February 2008

Ever wondered how to kill your opponent in M:tG before they even take a turn? Here's how:

 

 

Technically the video is a little off since you can't do anything until the upkeep and the opponent has priority but that's still pretty insane. Also I should add Disciples of the Vault are banned in EVERYTHING because of stupid stuff like this.

I'm half tempted to build this just for the sheer awesomeness of it (though I imagine I would never played it more than 2 or 3 times because people would hate me).



 

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fkusumot on 26 February 2008

Mark Rosewater am fail. I remember talking to him (about ten years ago) and he kind of implied that he liked these tricky combinations that he thought would be hard to set up because they were good for casual players. The problem always is, tournament players usually find a way to break them pretty quickly. That's a funny deck.


I Blame Wii Fit!

Zero Hero on 26 February 2008

I miss playing Magic. I still have all my cards though.



So what do you win if your prefered console sells more than another?

akuma587 on 26 February 2008

I definitely miss the days of Magic as well. College killed the game for me. I had already quit by late high school though.



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twesterm on 26 February 2008

I use to be huge into the game and had built 9 incredible decks that were all black bordered with the oldest edition of the card and foil where available (even things like foil lightning bolts). One night I was at my local gaming shop that I had been going to for years, set my deck box down that had seven of the decks in it and a few minutes later they were all gone.

I had well over a thousand dollars in that box (I collected as much as played) and that pretty much killed the game for me. I tried getting back into the game a few times over the college years but it never really worked out. Only recently when my work bought everyone that wanted one a preconstructed Lorwyn set so we could have a tournament did I get back in the game.

I'm still not as big into the game as I use to be (as in I don't collect anymore and I still won't stay completely current) but I'm having fun with it again after a six or seven year break.



 

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fkusumot on 26 February 2008
twesterm said:
I use to be huge into the game and had built 9 incredible decks that were all black bordered with the oldest edition of the card and foil where available (even things like foil lightning bolts). One night I was at my local gaming shop that I had been going to for years, set my deck box down that had seven of the decks in it and a few minutes later they were all gone.

I had well over a thousand dollars in that box (I collected as much as played) and that pretty much killed the game for me. I tried getting back into the game a few times over the college years but it never really worked out. Only recently when my work bought everyone that wanted one a preconstructed Lorwyn set so we could have a tournament did I get back in the game.

I'm still not as big into the game as I use to be (as in I don't collect anymore and I still won't stay completely current) but I'm having fun with it again after a six or seven year break.

 I love black-border decks!

I pretty much stopped playing because whenever I did (at a tournament site) there were always people around watching. I had too many stalkers. It kind of killed the playing aspect except at home.

The decks I still have left are all black-border. Most of the cards are signed by the artist or by World Champions and WotC staff. The only cards I never got signed were the beta P9. Happy memories.



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El Duderino on 26 February 2008

Man that is pretty impressive... sorry to hear of your tragic loss twesterm... I feel your pain man... still have all my cards but I only play once or twice a year... did play for a few weeks last year since I found a guy to play against but it stopped beeing fun since he was such a bad player... all his decks were pathetic and when I offered to make a good one out of his cards he got all pissed of and challaged me to a best out of three duel with our best decks (he never beat my best deck...in over 50 games)... first game I hit him with a 50 damage fireball in turn three.... next game went about the same... he never even played a good card before round six or so... I still have the elf deck I used to pulverise him... I felt kind of sorry for him but I did offer to teach him how real players play the game...

I used to be the king of magic in my highschool, I even got money for building decks... but those days are dead and gone... the game went downhill after Alliances or Mirage if you ask me... to many new rules... to many new übercards you had to buy to compete... give me back the day when a game was longer than five minutes and even ten to twenty bucks could make you a good deck if you knew how... I still remember beating my friends with common decks just to show that skill is better than money... I miss those days a lot...

On a side note: I used to hang out at a magic shop a lot and one time as blue counter decks where all the rage we played a game with 8 playes and they all had blue counter decks except me... every time a card was played two or three guys yelled "COUNTER" and then we had to sort out who was countering what and what counter was being counterd... the best part was when I tried to play a Wrath of God and half of the players wanted me to and the other half didn´t... there where ten counters on the table and it took some time to figure out that the Wrath did get played... game lasted about one and a half hours... happy days :)  



 

 

 

T013 on 26 February 2008

Haha, I was pretty damn angry when I was still playing Legacy Magic and that Hulk Flash deck showed up... It was exciting in terms of pure, raw power however.
Quit playing now though, it took to much money and too little time to actually play it (except on MWS, which you didn't have to buy any cards for anyway).
And Twesterm... that is just tragedy man, I'd rather have 2 thousand dollars in cash stolen from me than a thousand in cards... emotional value is a lot higher, and you often spent a lot of time collecting them.



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