Magic: The Gathering

**Chrius** · 2014-04-15 10:24

Having a group of friends to lend / borrow cards with is excellent. Currently I don't need to worry about zendikar fetches because they drafted like daily back then and kept them all.
Right now I have dredge and TES so I have a lot of combo centric cards, but I want to diversify out in case everyone decides to hate on combo.

**Ghost_Wheel22** · 2014-04-15 18:51

Originally Posted by Myrrh_Quetz

What would be a nice affordable deck I could use for minni gp? I'm really torn here. I want to win but I also want to go the fun route. I enjoy affinity a lot but that's expensive. This is why I hate modern. Everything is fucking expensive.

RDW is probably your cheapest option. Otherwise I would recommend sticking to standard while playing the trading game to build card stock in modern. Or do what I did and travel back to 1999-2000 and buy dual lands for a buck each.

**xworndownx** · 2014-04-15 19:34

Never did try this and didn't catch onto why it got popular. I guess I am missing something.

**Xerlic** · 2014-04-16 07:56

Originally Posted by Moridam

incidentally some friends and i were out to dinner over the weekend and the subject of this game came up. none of us have played in like 15 years so we all decided to go out and buy the prefab decks so we can get drunk and mess around with a few games soon. i am pretty excited to try it out again, but apprehensive about getting sucked back in

My best friend is the same way. Growing up we played what is now vintage, so we had power, duals etc and we both sold out in college. He didn't want to get back in cos he knew he'd want to rebuild that type of deck which is $$$$$ nowadays.

As long as you play casually, it's a lot of fun. I mainly draft, but I also have 3 decks: 1 modern, 1 legacy and 1 EDH. The guys at my store are always trying to get me to go to GPs and SCG Opens, but I'm happy just being an FNM warrior.

Originally Posted by Chrius

Having a group of friends to lend / borrow cards with is excellent. Currently I don't need to worry about zendikar fetches because they drafted like daily back then and kept them all.
Right now I have dredge and TES so I have a lot of combo centric cards, but I want to diversify out in case everyone decides to hate on combo.

A lot of people also pool collections. I'm really apprehensive about lending/borrowing cards though. Theft is an issue in the community. It's not that I don't trust the people that I play with, but if they were to borrow say fetches or goyfs from me and it ends up getting stolen at an event, I'd rather not deal with trying to get replacements back from them.

**Chrius** · 2014-04-16 10:27

Ya, just have to be super careful at all times. Not even a second. I play with my foot in my backpack strap and between my legs. I cringe when I see people sling it over a chair back. So many people walking up and down the aisle, sometimes squeezing through because of spectators, it could up and leave so easy.

**GoggleHead** · 2014-04-16 16:58

Is Sligh remotely viable in Standard right now?

**Ghost_Wheel22** · 2014-04-16 20:32

If by that you mean Sligh as in RDW then...yes if you're very very experienced in meta as the current decklist plays much like Legacy Burn which is quite unforgiving of play errors. If you mean as Sligh the archetype then...very much yes since it isn't limited to mono red. Or red at all.

Last month or so RDW has placed top 16 in several events so it still has some muscle.
Good example of RW Burn:

Spoiler: show

Example of a top 8'd Mono Red Devotion:

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**Weltall** · 2014-05-21 17:47

Have they announced the price for Vintage Masters online yet?

**Correction** · 2014-05-21 17:52

Originally Posted by Weltall

Have they announced the price for Vintage Masters online yet?

7 bucks per pack

**Myrrh_Quetz** · 2014-05-21 20:14

So, they'll probably cost like 30 bucks or more in your Local card stores.

**Chrius** · 2014-05-21 23:35

Not sure if being facetious or not - it's an online only set.

Carpooling to GP Atlanta tomorrow morning - hoping I get a sweet sealed pool so that I can embarrass myself with poor draft skills on Sunday

**Xerlic** · 2014-05-22 17:09

Nice. Good luck at the GP. I'm trying to decide if I want to go to the SCG Open/Invitational or be lazy and just go to Game Day at my LGS.

**Weltall** · 2014-05-22 18:33

Originally Posted by Myrrh_Quetz

So, they'll probably cost like 30 bucks or more in your Local card stores.

Online only thing, but I would easily pay $30 per pack for a chance of foil Ancestral Recall o.O

**Myrrh_Quetz** · 2014-05-22 21:42

I know, I was trying to be funny D:

**Chrius** · 2014-05-26 20:58

Went 2-3 drop with a really awkward pool at the GP. Buddy started 6-1 with a real strong pool but the draws quit on him and went 6-3 missing day 2
We won a few standard win a boxes in side events, I got my Deathrite Shamans signed by the artist. Same artist did Liliana of the Veil and a different buddy got them altered with 4 different Leia outfits
Great trip all in all

**Kyo** · 2014-05-26 22:49

I am looking into getting back into magic, I usually played green, burn or some sort of assholeish black deck, is any of that viable in the current block? I have been reading some of the new cards from nyx and they all seem lame as fuck.

**Kononeko** · 2014-05-26 23:34

Burn and Mono Black Devotion are both very viable in standard. Also Burn is rather cheap I believe that you can get all the cards for about $50 minus side board 2x Chandra, Pyromasters.

**Kyo** · 2014-05-26 23:59

Thank you for the response, how much longer is this block lasting and im trying to decide how to get back in, maybe buy a box or two, unsure which set to focus on.

**Ghost_Wheel22** · 2014-05-27 02:53

Next rotation comes in October.

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2014-05-27 03:58

Gary is a pretty big asshole.

Spoiler: show

I kinda want to splice black into my Venser bounce/blink deck, but alas, Gary works with Devotion, so it wouldn't work that well unless I spliced a LOT.

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