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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

Originally posted by PrognosticMind PrognosticMind wrote:

Also - do any of you fine folks play with a sideboard? I play modern exclusively, and I'm just now (after about a year's worth of playing) understanding the purpose of having that additional 15 cards off to the side.

What pisses me off is that most shops just play standard, and I despise not being able to choose the cards I want/having to draft. That's bullsh*t. I'm not paying $10+ to play MtG Roulette with strangers, lol. I need to find a place that just lets people play modern, because that's my jam! Wink
Don't have but I noticed it's useful when I had many cards to exile creatures and the opponent didn't have a single creature... blue/red can be annoying LOL

There are more people that play Modern than Standard here Tongue

I don't care, I'll say it - Standard sucks, lol. I despise having less cards to choose from, though I understand that's part of the challenge. 

What makes MTG so exciting for me is the synergy between cards. Standard greatly limits this synergy to an available pool of cards that are usually hit-or-miss. 

I'm pissed they're done with core sets. Now we have all these watered-down, diluted sub-blocks of uninspired dragon cards, lol.
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I don't even know what's on the new sets Tongue
Standard has predefined main strategies which are fine, but I like to upgrade with cards from older sets Wink
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Same!

Kahns of Tarkir was the start of a downward tend IMO; all of those cards are so boring. Dragons of Tarkir was slightly better, but still not that great.

Magic "Origins" is the latest set, and I don't even know what the hell that actually entails, lol.
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I bought a couple of boosters from Khans and even the rare cards were cr*ppy LOL
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Yeah, those boosters suck lol. I bought a few and was very unimpressed with them. The card synergy isn't something I care for.

Magic Origins is now out, and the packaging looks slick. I guess it's based around Planes Walkers...? I have no idea what the advantage of this next block of cards is. Every time I seem to catch up on what's going on, the next block is just coming out lmao.

That's why I stick with Modern :)
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Me neither. I'll probably go to the store next week and get informed... and play of course Tongue I think I'll buy a couple of these Wink

Doesn't the guy look like Harrison Ford? LOL


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Fateful Hour is an awesome gameplay mechanic; I've pissed off many people in what should have been the last turn with that one! :P

I'm all about buying the individual cards I need/want in order to complete decks. Much more cost effective that way, IMHO. Keep me posted on your findings and adventures!
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Haven't played in a few months but reviving this thread anyway.

New set looks good.
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I used to play a lot of Magic back in the 90's. The golden age of boardgames and card games is NOW. I'm an eurogamer (Puerto Rico, Caylus, Tzolk'in, Agricola, etc.) and when it comes to card games, I love deckbuilders like Dominion, Legendary, Rune Age...
If you guys like Magic, you should try Netrunner. It was made by Richard Garfield and the LCG format is ideal for spending less money on a really cool card game ;)
I wish Magic was a LCG....
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I've heard of Netrunner and I'm intrigued, the only thing keeping me from exploring it is the lack of players where I go to school 
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I'm too shy to play with physical humans and I refuse to pay for Magick Online butt this is a nice program for playing against the computer k
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I played and collected quite a bit from 93 to around 2000
Even though I got in fairly early, I missed out on most of the early sets. It was just too hot. Never saw a booster of Legends without a huge markup. The first set I was able to buy was The Dark and at about 2x retail price per pack.
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I tried to pick it up a few years back. Drafting was fun, but ultimately it all got too expensive. It cut into my vinyl budget and I can't have that.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

I'm too shy to play with physical humans and I refuse to pay for Magick Online butt this is a nice program for playing against the computer k

Just play cockatrice k (no homo)
Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

I played and collected quite a bit from 93 to around 2000
Even though I got in fairly early, I missed out on most of the early sets. It was just too hot. Never saw a booster of Legends without a huge markup. The first set I was able to buy was The Dark and at about 2x retail price per pack.
Yeah, that must have been a crazy time to be into the game, with the whole Urza's block catastrophe happening

Originally posted by doompaul doompaul wrote:

I tried to pick it up a few years back. Drafting was fun, but ultimately it all got too expensive. It cut into my vinyl budget and I can't have that.
I'm with you, I typically ebb and flow between being "invested" in getting new music and getting new cards, trying to juggle both just isn't feasible
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