Magic the Gathering, any fans?

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I've grown up playing magic, is there anyone here who's also a longtime fan?
I'd like to discuss deck builds and strats with folks on here that play!

I run White life gain.
Red burn.
Black destroy.
A green red Eldrazi deck
A white green misfit deck (it does lots of stuff it works only about 50/50 but I like it)
A white green infect deck.
And I'm hoping to build a white green aura deck but have a huge abundance of cards I'd like to use but not real sure where to start, would love suggestions!
 
Yes.
Yes yes yes.

I have a White and Red Samurai/Turtle deck from "ye olden tymes" of the Kamigawa cycle.
The turtling is a result of the Soul Foundry (imprint a creature to summon more of it) + the Pristine Angel (protection from everything when untapped; surprisingly not legendary), the Red and White Myojins (Indestructible with devastating one-time use abilities) and Hondens (Heal 2 life per shrine every upkeep for White, deal one damage per shrine to any target for Red), the Kaldra equipment (too many effects to list), and Konda, Lord of Eiganjo (Indestructible, high bushido, vigilance...the list goes on).

I continually lose against my brother, who has a Black Blue Artifact deck from the Mirrodin cycle. Seriously, some of that stuff he uses is really annoying. Ever heard of the Mycosynth Lattice? The best card in the game for an Artifact user...
Mycosynth Lattice (makes everything artifact and makes it so you and the opponent can use any mana as though it were any color) + Darksteel Forge (makes all of your artifacts indestructible) = epic lose for me.

As well as Arcbound Ravager (lets you sacrifice artifacts for +1/+1 tokens on it) + Mycosynth Lattice + Summoning Station (Tap: Summon a 2/2 colorless pincher token, if an artifact leaves the battle, untap Summoning Station). If you get trample on it, it's just game over for the other guy. Unless they pull out an Awe Strike (:D), which lets you absorb the next damage target creature deals as health.

Fatespinner, which forces your opponents to name a step during their upkeep which they will skip, is also extremely annoying.

And the Magus of the Unseen, who lets you take control of an opponent's artifact for a turn if you pay 1 + a blue, is so annoying with the Mycosynth Lattice and the Arcbound Ravager. I mean, he can just build up his Urza lands (really good with the Mycosynth Lattice too, by the way), and take all of my lands, then sacrifice them.

Anyway, as for the composition of our decks: I'd say they're both somewhere between 20% and 33% mana, largely comprised of creatures, and with several (2-6) supporting spells of each type, with many artifacts thrown in. Our decks total around 60 cards each.


I also have a pre-built Zombie deck for some reason. Think it came with the special Planar Magic gamemode.
 
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I played for a short time with my brother but i never knew anyone who played besides my brother and his friends so i gave up on it. I still have my cards tho.
 
Silencer I'd love to take them off your hands! :P
And Ranthus against his arti deck I would recommend white control, things like pacifism, recumbent bliss, faith's fetters, kirtars desire, arrest and even spirit link (gives lifelink, which when given to say your enemies 7/7 worm the worm now cancels out the damage it would deal to you by giving you that much in return! :D), can all completely stop his field, Faith's Fetter and arrest on things such as the Arcbound Ravager would stall him greatly! Also if you build a very very fast burn deck it won't matter what he has in play if you keep slamming his life quickly enough, or a counter heavy blue black mill deck! I would recommend Ravnica for cards such as Glimpse --> http://www.cardkingdom.com/catalog/item/118464
Lobotomist
http://www.cardkingdom.com/catalog/item/118464?combo_id=118391
And Szadek
http://www.cardkingdom.com/catalog/item/118464?combo_id=118606

If you'd like I'll get my brother to rebuild that deck in a txt doc and I can send you it's build.
I prefer decks that run 75, 85, 90, or even a 100 cards, built correctly they function just fine and allow much more variety or much more of the same theme in the deck just more ways to do it as well as a lovely buffer versus decks that mill!
I also use vent to play magic against a good buddy of mine which may sound dorky or lame but is actually uddles of fun if your ever interested! xD
 
Meh I play occasionally with some friends, started playing back in 06 then kinda stopped playing until recently and let me tell you a lot has changed...again!
Anyways I play with:
Red burn deck (who doesn lol?)
I have a White Flanking deck
Red, White, Blue, Green Sliver deck yes i know slivers (u mad?)
Got a red elemental deck (sort of, not really complete)
and i have some incomplete decks from back when i first started, plan on getting some lots from e-bay some day for cheap $$$
 
I think they should make it so you can play online, like on a computer. But idk how they would go about registering cards. My deck is a white deck that was a starter deck but i kinda changed it up, started to make a deck from scratch but thats when i stopped playing. Other then that i have no idea what you guys are talking about. Haha
 
i believe there is a way to play online, most of your cards have a number near the bottom so you can register them, but the downfall is that you would need to do them all and some older cards dont have the numbers.

Also if you have a ps3 there is a MTG game and it is online, my friend has it, and it is pretty cool.
 
You play Magic Online. But, the decks there are entirely separate from your real decks. So you have to go about building and buying a new one.

Oh no, Glimpse the unthinkable, I forgot about that one. Q.Q
He uses it.

Anyway, those main strategies I listed are ones he does not get the chance to use very often. He hardly ever gets the Ravager out any more(he does get out the Crusher often, though. Every time an artifact comes into play it gets a +1/+1 counter) but he still gets the Mycosynth Lattice out every game, and he has so many cards that boost artifacts that just about any two cards in his deck will go well with the Mycosynth Lattice.

In general, he just pulls out cheap, but sometimes really good, black and blue creatures to stop damage from reaching him and waits for his great cards to appear in the match. You would be surprised how well that works, probably because of the above mentioned smoothness of his deck.
For example, the Skeleton Shard, which lets you bring back artifacts from the grave, and some other card that lets him pull out whatever card from his deck that he wants, as long as it is an artifact. Generally, that card is the Lattice.
And also in general, Memnarch. Grr.

But I have gotten better, I beat him the last two times we played...about a couple months ago. So I'm pretty fine with my current deck.

And larger decks, I do not like. Less chance of getting out what you want.

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I just realized we have hardly any recent cards...just all the ones from around when we started playing. And some from a year or two ago.
I think it's great that they made a new Mirrodin cycle, though. We're probably not going to buy any of it, but it's nice to know that the awesome of Mirrodin is coming back.

And now that I think about it, I've never actually played anyone but my brothers and my dad (who epic owns me with some mushroom pre-built deck). I need to find more people who play this game, and are good enough so I don't win every time so they don't rage quit (unlike my younger brother).

Oh right, and forgot to mention. Somehow, my older brother can counter every anti-artifact thing I pull out. I don't quite get it. Must be all the blue counter-spells and actual lack of effectiveness of anti-artifact stuff.
 
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I just wish I had kept my alpha Black Locust...sold it back in '95 for $125 bucks. Worth SO much more now.
 
You call Kamigawa the old days? Hah! I was around back during Invasion! You youngsters haven't seen true terror until you see a Wild Mongrel or a Psychatog! I've opened packets of Homelands and Legends! You ever opened a pack and seen a Wood Elemental? Bah!
 
LoL nice Carmine, I've been playing since I was about 7, so I've got older cards, even a good deal of beta and alpha, I have recent cards as well, I skipped a few sets and my cards kinda jump around but I have cards from most of the sets. And Ranthus if you can give me your brothers deck list, I wanna see what I could do about making a counter for it! :P
And also exactly right Ranthus the online play of the magic that's out there isn't very good if you want to use the cards you've already got, because I DO NOT want to spend more money / uddles more time reaquiring all of those cards online! lol
 
Almost forgot to reply to Soul of a Sinner.
I like that you have a flanking deck, don't see many of those anymore, even though they have great potential! Also I'd love to get all of you that play into a vent server for some sort of crazy free for all match! XD once more may sound lame but is actually lots of fun!
 
Slivers are no biggie, I've actually got a great white control deck that handles them no problem, that and a rather funny blue deck that'll turn all your mana into islands, coupled with a bunch of creatures with island walk! :D
 
yeah flanking deck is kinda cool, never did get a great build for it, but still works half-way decent lol.

Not sure how we would all play on vent, i would forget to much of what is going on i like to be able to see what is going on in the field XD.
 
Mass webcam server? xD lol, yeah keeping up with all that's on everyone's fields would be pain in the ass!
 
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