I'm new to Magic the Gathering

[Jynthor]

I started playing just over a year ago, thanks to Loading Ready Run and some of the guys who work for me playing it. got into it, now I have some nice decks of varying lethality.

I play for fun, not just to win. I love the mind games and springing something on my opponent and watching them try to deal with it. I'm actually happy if they do. Don't get me wrong, I like winning, but I like a fair fight too....

One thing I've noticed of Magic players, they do tend to be bright and overall, nice people.



oh, and no-one likes land destruction decks.. which is bad for me, 'cos one of my decks is an everything destruction deck.. Liquimetal Coating + Smelt makes for a very nice 1 mana pop anything... and Mycosynth Lattice and Creeping Corrosion ruins everyone's day.. especially in multiplayer. It won't get you many Christmas cards though.

Ugh, land destruction, I was playing a Selesnya populate deck in the Return to Ravnica pre release and I played [mtg_card=Grove of the Guardian] my opponent then used [mtg_card=Survey the Wreckage] of course I had absolutely no counters to that in my deck, just my luck.

 

[Dragon Zero]

I'm really close to starting to play it, I especially like the Innistrad block flavor wise. As others have said, Loading Ready Run has been a big influence on me getting into it what with their Friday nights vids, MTGO Academy Draft vids and their live drafts on twitch tv. I've also gotten the first Duels on my PS3 thanks to Playstation Plus, though it's not as enjoyable as I thought it would be, mainly because of the enemy AI which seems both brainless and hyper intelligent at times. Also I have friends who've begged me for years to try it.

 

[masticina]

Played a while stopped in the end, why? Well every new expansion would add another layer of exceptions upon the groundrules, not only that also exceptions upon exceptions. The resolve que was getting ridiculous!

I don't mind some mental sparring but at times it came close to one of those "Oh no see the rule is that if you do this that you cannot do that" kind of games your friends think up.

I do like some things about it and I see how like chess it has a real competitive edge. Me well I just stopped playing. I still have the cards though.. Teeka's Dragon is one I own I belief. Eh I am sure it is forbidden to play that one in combination with modern cards.

 

[GrandmaFunk]

While the rules are complicated and new elements get added to them with every new set, they put a LOT of effort into keeping everything working with internal consistency.

as for Teeka's Dragon, it's legal in the Vintage and Legacy formats, but not in Standard or Modern

 

[themind]

I haven't played Magic since high school so I can't offer much real advice, but I used to play mono-green, with as many Thalids as i could get, and always 4 thicket basilicks, 2/4 and they killed every creature with every attack... I called it the prick deck.

 

[OrokuSaki]

I learned to play around the time I was 7, but I wasn't very serious until Planeshift came out in about 2001. Since then I've been off and on (skipping from Lorwynn all the way to New Phyrexia.

Mostly I play mono red burn, which is cheap cards that deal damage direct to players. My favorite trick is Hidetsugu's Second Rite which states that if an opponent has exactly ten life then they take 10 damage.

 

[Jdb]

What I do is pick a new/newer mechanic, build a core idea around it, and then make variations of it. For example, right now I have a white-blue control deck with a focus on Detain. The core idea is to Detain the opponent until I can build up a powerful creature force. Variations are: Enchanted Flying; Artifacts that can turn into creatures, where I activate them after playing destroy creature cards; and Azor's Elocutors behind a wall of hard to kill creatures.

Overall, I like to play control or combo decks. I wanted to play aggressive at first, but the first aggressive deck I ever saw scared me too much with its efficiency. I mean, this guy had things like four flying damage by turn two! Ha, what a jerk.

 

[shilkyo]

well i have been playin for about 3 years now and i use a 5 color sliver deck. the way i have it set up is to counter my opponet till i can get a few out the it turns in to a speed deck and if all else fails i have one finaly trump card called blaze, and a few tips for someone wanting to use a sliver deck in my oppinion it must have crystalline sliver, clot sliver, that way there protected til you can get the more offinsive ones out

 

[Tallim]

I usually build decks around overlooked cards or junk cards. I mainly do this because I probably have more fun deck building than actually playing. However I do like the WTF moment when an opponent realises that they are facing something that they have no clue about.

Sadly, recently, I haven't been able to think of anything and I'm not up to date with the latest set due to a lot of real life reasons. Most of my decks are Classic and the last time I had a rogue deck in Standard was before Ravnica hit. Deck was dependent on a couple of cards from last set that rotated out :/

Although now I've converted that deck for Classic and it works even better.


When I find time to play I play on Magic Online and my clan knows I'm the guy who will bring the "weird" deck to a clan multi.


For the record I *stopped* playing originally after Mirage and only came back to the game last year as a friend gave me the cash to get a MTGO account for a birthday gift.

I usually play Blue/Green or Blue/Black. I hate playing red as it rarely interests me. But weirdly despite my passion for blue I rarely play counters as they also annoy me.