Magic: The Gathering

[Weltall]

I would play Azbhan Control.

[Terrestrialrage]

Control's matchup against Rally feels atrocious since you dont interact with their combo in any meaningful way :/

[Tricen]

You just play hallowed moonlight or whatever and they lose immediately.

[Qalbert]

game called Magic Duels popped up on xbone, seems to be F2P, probably will sell packs like Hearthstone but I'm just speculating

[Olo401]

Pro Tour Origins is live: http://www.twitch.tv/magic. Hall of Fame announcements later today (after rd 3 i think)

[Xerlic]

Just play mono red.

[Weltall]

Magic today, such skill so intensive.

[GoggleHead]

Magic today, such skill so intensive.

You must be one of those people who puts Islands in their decks.

[Weltall]

You must be one of those people who puts Islands in their decks.

There is no other way to play!

[zoobernut]

There is no other way to play!

The real way to play is no basics all original duals. I play Volcanic Island, Tropical Island, and Underground Sea.

[Terrestrialrage]

Took 3rd at Baton Rouge SCG Regionals with Abzan Control. Matchup against Rally was horrendous, as expected, lost miserably to it round 1. Would've played it round 8, but we were able to draw into top8. Played mono-red 4 times, roflstomped it all 4 times. Won zero dice rolls over the 10 rounds, sucked pretty bad lol. Picked up a cool 425 check (split top8) and a nice trophy. Not a bad weekend.

[Tricen]

Put a couple hallowed moonlight in the board.

[Weltall]

The real way to play is no basics all original duals. I play Volcanic Island, Tropical Island, and Underground Sea.

You need at least 1 Island in the main or board for Strip/Waste/Nonbasic hate!!!

[Terrestrialrage]

Even the game that i was sitting there Drown, Languish, Abzan Charm and Hallowed, I ended up blowing it on a Lilianna -3 bringing back sac guy because Lilianna of the Veil in standard is kind of busted and just valued me out of the game... Its good but its not THE answer we need.

[Krandor]

There is no other way to play!

Whenever asked about this I always say "I don't do Blue"

During a draft w/e, but I think the last time I let Blue touch a constructed deck in about the last 10 years was via Phyrexian Mana (oh Metamorph, how I miss you)

[Weltall]

The most enjoyable decks I ever played (my DCI# is extremely low to show my age) in Standard:

1. Replenish
2. Red/White Sligh (It had a name, but I can't remember...SOMEONE HELP! It ran like Shadow creatures, bolts, Cursed scroll, swords, chain lightning, white knight, geddon)
3. Survival/Living Death
4. ProsBloom
5. 1 week of Academy/Jar

Edit: On second thought, deck #2 was an extended deck because it ran Plateau at the time. Maybe the name was just Jank, originally.

I really, really miss the days when Enchantments were powerful and important.

The absolute best era of standard was when Masticore/Rishadan Port were the top 2 money cards. Without Googling, I think the decks were:

*Replenish
*Mono U Morphling
*Stompy Green (Fuck Plow Under)
*Mono Red (always a thing)
*Tinker/Key
*Chimera?

[Krandor]

1 week of Academy/Jar

It wasn't even a week was it? Academy only lasted like 4 or 5 days until they banned it.

[Weltall]

Well, 1 week's worth of local tournaments at the time. I remember trading like 1 Mox Diamond for 4 Academy when it skyrocketed (and then plummeted orz)

[Tricen]

I thought they emergency banned it before the release? The RnD team got their asses chewed out for that block...

[Weltall]

Nope, I can remember playing it at least twice in a single week at tournaments.

That block had to have to most powerful cards ever printed outside of Alpha/Beta/Unl. Magic was a hell of a lot better back then.