Feel free to join up. We play with digital tools which mean you don’t need to own any cards in real life to play. Link is open for next 7 days, if you see this post after then, send me a DM for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/7uwdVZCp
@Nakoichi@hexbear.net is there any chance I could get a pin on the games comm for a week while we try to grow this little scene :3
I love magic- I am a modern, pauper & legacy (sometimes) player, usually- but I have made an effort recently to not use Discord when I can help it. Let me know if there’s any want for a Matrix space or something and I’m in.
I feel the same way, I would like to know as well
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Even though I’m bad at the game
If you’d like to play over online sim and maybe make a (cute, cool, nice) new friend feel free to ping me @itsmiaomiao:matrix.org
yo where my pauper players at, i crave commons
I love me some pauper, I actually just redownloaded MTGO because the pauper itch struck me again.
Question, I’m just getting back into the format after a few years of not touching magic. What happened to Tron? It used to be one of the best decks but I don’t see it anywhere anymore.
I haven’t played in a minute but I used to do pauper 5c tron in mtgo leagues years ago, the meta is so much faster now and there have been a couple of bans that have hurt it. Prismatic Prism and Bonder’s Ornament are gone. Tolarian terror decks can have a 5/5 out very early and tron decks are just too slow to keep up. Lots of artifact hate going around. Red decks apparently main Cleansing Wildfire these days…many such cases. I am told some mono green variants can still do some stuff but tron is definitely falling off.
pffft. idk shit about metas. i enjoy building clueless jank instead
Please let there be other oldheads on there, so we can talk about Invasion block constructed, how terrible Masques constructed was, how good and rewarding Caw-Blade was for disciplined players, etc
I’m an old head but I took a break from magic during those years. Masquerade was my last set, but I did dip back in briefly a few times since then. I’ve been doing tons of commander this past year so I’m definitely back in now.
I keep to the honorable, ancient ways- drafting for $20s
Drafting is fun too. But I’m addicted to commander. I have a crew I play with every week and I sometimes play at my lgs. There’s really nothing else like brewing new commander decks and playing with 3 friends. It’s like the ultimate board game.
So I definitely agree with MaRo that Magic isn’t one game, but actually several distinct games with shared pieces and rules, because Commander is not for me personally, and I have been playing Magic for most of its existence. I get why people like it, but it doesn’t scratch the same itch as playing in a constructed event for cash. My only real complaint with Commander is that it is a terrible way to on-board new players, and maybe losing with some janky brews at FNM isn’t the atrocity some players have made it out to be.
Last Friday I won a couple of games at my lgs with a deck I brewed earlier that day. I think how fun commander is really depends on the meta of the group you play with. FWIW I do have more fun playing at my friend’s house every Saturday night, but the 4 of us all enjoy playing mid power range decks, 5-7, for the most part anyway. We’ve been going for over 6 months now and I’m sure eventually an arms race will break out or something but for right now it’s good.
Constructed events for cash is definitely on the complete opposite end of the mtg spectrum from commander, probably draft for cash would be the only thing further away from it, so it makes sense that someone into that would feel differently about commander.
I like the chill vibes and playing weird 5-7 range decks (that can also win games, btw, that is an important detail IMO). I’m still playing to win with my decks. We’re sort of creating our own distinct meta that is separate from mtg as a whole by playing in our own separate pod and it’s honestly fun af. If it somehow ended tomorrow I would immediately start looking for 3 people to start another new weekly commander pod.
With the way power creep tends to go in games like this I think draft is the only truly fair way to play. It flexes every muscle the game has and I love it dearly. I like commander very casually but I agree it is not usually for me. I live in a super competitive area that I don’t have the resources nor desire to keep up with anymore so even constructed formats in-person I find a waste of time often; I keep those to mtgo leagues or arena just because it’s cheaper. I always do limited events if I go to anything physically these days.
I can post the current list on the discord, but I have a custom Jump-Start box that I built that is a LOT of fun to play with. It has pre-sleeved 20 card theme packs (bagged in team bags) and each player picks two at random to shuffle together for an instant deck. The packs are also super fun to design, and I think the sleeves cost more than the cards themselves. Keeps a consistent power level between players and doesn’t rely on newer players having to figure out how to draft/build a deck correctly.
Which free tools?
Cockatrice for example! We’ve used that one so far but there’s other good ones too
Wow that looks really good.
Hell yeah this rules. I’m definitely going to try out these digital tools at some point. I don’t have a lot of free time these days though but I’ll make it work somehow.
