| Author |
 Topic Search  Topic Options
|
PrognosticMind 
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 02 2014
Location: New Hampshire
Status: Offline
Points: 1195
|
 Posted: August 16 2014 at 10:39 |
 Meltdowner wrote:
I never liked much counter blue decks. I like building my battlefield and exiling creatures when needed and then attack when I have the advantage. That's why I prefer white 
|
I definitely like doing that with red-driven decks; that have an advantage in that area for sure. However, there's much fulfillment to be had when playing an aggro player who thinks they can just mow through you, and you're two turns ahead/stocked, and deliver an incredible combo  .
As an aquarius, I find it hilarious that I'm drawn to the theme/advantages of the blue cards. My gf is an aries, and is also drawn to the powers of red. Intelligent game designers, if you ask me, lol.
|
 |
Meltdowner
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: June 25 2013
Location: Portugal
Status: Offline
Points: 10278
|
Posted: August 16 2014 at 10:35 |
I never liked much counter blue decks. I like building my battlefield and exiling creatures when needed and then attack when I have the advantage. That's why I prefer white
|
|
PrognosticMind
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 02 2014
Location: New Hampshire
Status: Offline
Points: 1195
|
Posted: August 16 2014 at 10:24 |
Meltdowner wrote:
Blue is fun, unless the opponent plays blue 
One of the most boring games I've seen was blue/red vs blue/red: both of them were expecting for the other to play anything so they could counter it, but both only had counters and creature damage 
|
Lmao, exactly. I'm definitely a counter-driven player; I like knowing what the hell is coming instead of betting my precious mana costs. I love setting up traps for my opponent to walk into, then hitting them with a counter, an instant, a sorcery, and then another instant while they're starting their next turn .
Tons of mana is crucial to a good blue deck.
|
|
Meltdowner
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: June 25 2013
Location: Portugal
Status: Offline
Points: 10278
|
Posted: August 16 2014 at 10:22 |
Blue is fun, unless the opponent plays blue One of the most boring games I've seen was blue/red vs blue/red: both of them were expecting for the other to play anything so they could counter it, but both only had counters and creature damage
|
|
PrognosticMind
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 02 2014
Location: New Hampshire
Status: Offline
Points: 1195
|
Posted: August 16 2014 at 10:08 |
Meltdowner wrote:
PrognosticMind wrote:
Ironically, I built a monster green deck
last night with the 2015 fat pack we just got; it's super brutal, and
massive growth gets played like crazy lol. Yes, they do indeed have
amazing mana ramping, especially the elf creatures who can be tapped as
extra manna. My gf plays a red/black deck that has all sorts of destroy
target creature cards, and she used to kick my ass constantly, Now I've
got a plethora of huge trampling creatures that she can only keep at bay
for so long, lol.
^Super awesome come-back card 
We
also checked out Friday Night Magic in town last evening, and it looks
like a promising community. I want to really get my deck to where I want
it before I start playing with randoms. I don't quite have the
confidence in the rule set to not look like a noob  .
I
also got a bunch of Sliver cards in said fat pack, and I totally want
to make a five-color Sliver-driven deck in the future when I get the
other colors!
That 4 vs 4 game sounds intense; that's still WAY over my head at this point . |
Red/black decks are really powerful if played right. A
friend of mine has a very funny combo on his red/black deck: Master of
Cruelties equiped with Wispersilk Cloak and Goblin Fireslinger to deal 1
damage
Those
are great cards: I can't believe they are common and uncommon. On late
game you can probably play a 10/10 with 4 green mana 
I really like the Theros block, I added a lot of creatures and auras to my two decks. I specially like this one  :
|
^YES, that card is excellent! I've found that I seem to like Theros best out of all the spin-offs, as well. Im constructing a killer blue deck as we speak.
I can't wait to test it out tonight  .
|
|
Meltdowner
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: June 25 2013
Location: Portugal
Status: Offline
Points: 10278
|
Posted: August 16 2014 at 09:53 |
PrognosticMind wrote:
Ironically, I built a monster green deck
last night with the 2015 fat pack we just got; it's super brutal, and
massive growth gets played like crazy lol. Yes, they do indeed have
amazing mana ramping, especially the elf creatures who can be tapped as
extra manna. My gf plays a red/black deck that has all sorts of destroy
target creature cards, and she used to kick my ass constantly, Now I've
got a plethora of huge trampling creatures that she can only keep at bay
for so long, lol.
^Super awesome come-back card
We
also checked out Friday Night Magic in town last evening, and it looks
like a promising community. I want to really get my deck to where I want
it before I start playing with randoms. I don't quite have the
confidence in the rule set to not look like a noob .
I
also got a bunch of Sliver cards in said fat pack, and I totally want
to make a five-color Sliver-driven deck in the future when I get the
other colors!
That 4 vs 4 game sounds intense; that's still WAY over my head at this point . |
Red/black decks are really powerful if played right. A
friend of mine has a very funny combo on his red/black deck: Master of
Cruelties equiped with Wispersilk Cloak and Goblin Fireslinger to deal 1
damage Those
are great cards: I can't believe they are common and uncommon. On late
game you can probably play a 10/10 with 4 green mana I really like the Theros block, I added a lot of creatures and auras to my two decks. I specially like this one :
Edited by Meltdowner - August 16 2014 at 09:55
|
|
PrognosticMind
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 02 2014
Location: New Hampshire
Status: Offline
Points: 1195
|
Posted: August 16 2014 at 09:13 |
Ironically, I built a monster green deck last night with the 2015 fat pack we just got; it's super brutal, and massive growth gets played like crazy lol. Yes, they do indeed have amazing mana ramping, especially the elf creatures who can be tapped as extra manna. My gf plays a red/black deck that has all sorts of destroy target creature cards, and she used to kick my ass constantly, Now I've got a plethora of huge trampling creatures that she can only keep at bay for so long, lol.
Some of my personal favorite cards in my green deck:
^This guy with an invisibility enchant attached to him is absolutely brutal
^Super awesome come-back card
We also checked out Friday Night Magic in town last evening, and it looks like a promising community. I want to really get my deck to where I want it before I start playing with randoms. I don't quite have the confidence in the rule set to not look like a noob .
I also got a bunch of Sliver cards in said fat pack, and I totally want to make a five-color Sliver-driven deck in the future when I get the other colors!
That 4 vs 4 game sounds intense; that's still WAY over my head at this point .
Edited by PrognosticMind - August 16 2014 at 09:22
|
|
Meltdowner
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: June 25 2013
Location: Portugal
Status: Offline
Points: 10278
|
Posted: August 15 2014 at 07:37 |
PrognosticMind wrote:
Awesome! Sounds like a great combination. I tweaked my five-color deck yesterday, and it's definitely improving. My biggest issue is keeping enough guys on the battlefield to block/counter while I ramp up mana to get my green monsters (Terra Stomper x 2 and several others I forget the names of) casted and out. It's a very well-rounded deck, and I have all sorts of spell counters and blocks to knock opponents off their guard when they try and exile my big guys . |
The only five-color deck I played was the slivers deck from MTG 2014 but I didn't like it much because I never had the colors I needed
I was thinking of starting a mono green monsters deck: they cost a lot of mana but a friend of mine had great mana ramp cards that when I played my first creature he would play a Pelakka Wurm on his next turn
One of the most interesting games I played was a 4 vs 4: we played for 6 hours and we didn't take longer because someone gave up to finish it. It also took some effort to see the cards from the team player that was on the other side of the table
|
|
PrognosticMind
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 02 2014
Location: New Hampshire
Status: Offline
Points: 1195
|
Posted: August 15 2014 at 06:01 |
Meltdowner wrote:
I started playing MTG two years ago on the Innistrad block. I have a white/green human and angels deck and a blue/white aura deck.
|
Awesome! Sounds like a great combination. I tweaked my five-color deck yesterday, and it's definitely improving. My biggest issue is keeping enough guys on the battlefield to block/counter while I ramp up mana to get my green monsters (Terra Stomper x 2 and several others I forget the names of) casted and out. It's a very well-rounded deck, and I have all sorts of spell counters and blocks to knock opponents off their guard when they try and exile my big guys .
Horizons wrote:
I play and im the best. |
What are you running for a deck?
Vompatti wrote:
I play it on steam because I'm too shy to play irl and refuse to play for magic online.
|
Totally understandable. I don't feel that I'm ready to play with strangers yet, as I still have several questions about the rules. We're going to a Friday Night Magic session tonight just to watch other people play. I feel like that's a really smart idea to understand the game more clearly!
|
|
Vompatti
Forum Senior Member
VIP Member
Joined: October 22 2005
Location: elsewhere
Status: Offline
Points: 67452
|
Posted: August 14 2014 at 11:54 |
|
I play it on steam because I'm too shy to play irl and refuse to play for magic online.
|
|
Horizons
Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: January 20 2011
Location: Somewhere Else
Status: Offline
Points: 16952
|
Posted: August 14 2014 at 10:36 |
|
I play and im the best.
|
|
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
|
|
Meltdowner
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: June 25 2013
Location: Portugal
Status: Offline
Points: 10278
|
Posted: August 14 2014 at 08:46 |
|
I started playing MTG two years ago on the Innistrad block. I have a white/green human and angels deck and a blue/white aura deck.
|
|
PrognosticMind
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 02 2014
Location: New Hampshire
Status: Offline
Points: 1195
|
Posted: August 14 2014 at 06:35 |
BUMP
Wow, there's really nobody else on PA that plays Magic The Gathering?!
I've been building and experimenting with the new M15 cards like crazy. I really enjoy making and playing with five-color decks, and I've almost got my latest one down pat. Lots of playing and experimenting with the lady (yes, she plays; I'm one lucky guy).
Nobody else here plays this game? I kind of find that hard to believe! |
|
PrognosticMind
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 02 2014
Location: New Hampshire
Status: Offline
Points: 1195
|
Posted: August 06 2014 at 06:11 |
I searched before I made this thread, and I couldn't find any indication of a Magic thread already existing; forgive me if I'm in error!
Does anyone else play or collect? I've only just recently gotten back into it (M15), and I've got to admit, it reminds me of why I love TCG's in the first place! So, before I go on typing a large post (and potentially have to delete a thread that already exists elsewhere), who else plays or collects?
I bet you can't tell what one of my favorite cards to play is . |
|
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage")
Magic The Gathering
