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Pumpkin_Eater

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Generic Gamer said:
The only person I actually know with any allies is me, but you've got a fair point. My normal opponent is a green player predominantly so I like to bounce her big creatures and then transform as much of her land as possible into swamps or islands. I hardly ever play standard but when I really want a win in a formal setting I throw the whole lot out and go infect, it's cheap but it works.

I like both the cards and I think it's as much about how you play them in a deck but I do like the Frost Titan's infinite suppression of one creature. I tend to play a blue/something or pure blue deck (when I'm not being a dick with my Myr) so I like having plenty of tapping and bouncing and having a creature that automatically does it for me is a nice plus. Still, I'd hardly snort at either card.

I'm right in thinking these cards are actual cards right? As in playable? because I dread meeting too many of these in matches.
Infect is actually a pretty fair way to win in constructed, as are myr; decks built around Jayce the Mind Sculptor (also banned last week) were the cheap ones (cheap as in unfair, not inexpensive obviously). The reason Grave Titan is so good is that a counter or discard spell the only things that beat it. If you bounce, burn, lock down, or otherwise deal with it after it's in play your opponent still gets at least two tokens out of the deal. If Frost Titan gets dropped by a removal spell, or the deathtouch ability of WCE or GT all the player has gained is an expensive tap effect. Similarly, white and green's Titans leave you with something as long as they make it to the table.

Not sure I understand the last part, I've been talking about standard this whole time.
 

Zer_

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Magic: The Gathering, the only game that lets you tap an angel... 'nuff said.
 

Shirokurou

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Pumpkin_Eater said:
Shirokurou said:
I didn't get a single word of that except the part where some card were missing.
Anyway, I guess that's why the longest involvement with cardgames I ever had... is watching Yu-Gi-Oh abridged
Key words would be common abilities like first strike, deathtouch, or infect (to name a missing one). Mana curve is the distribution of your cards' mana costs (think bar graph here; the DotP decks' graphs would look strange). The part about shuffling basically means that a physical deck's cards won't be in a truly random order, especially if you systematically break up clumps of land with spells or just in between matches.
OK, this is getting too complex.
Thanks for the explanation, but really I have nothing to do with that info.
 

Rastien

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There's just something about tagging someone with a poison counter early on and proliferating that just doesn't sit right with me, it'd be better if they could remove poison counters I think. My favourite win condition is actually milling an opponent's deck.
The thing is with poisen you can't get rid of it once its on but the creatures power ratios are reflected in this. Prolferate is indeed nasty but decks built around getting that 1 poisen and proliferating tend to be slow and will tend to loose damage races.

Heres a variation of the BU infect control deck i currently run http://www.mtgdeckbuilder.net/Decks/ViewDeck/99959 has placed 1-3 for about a month of fnm and placed 2cnd out of 27 people on the last gameday we had. But yeah more often than not profliferate becomes abit irrelavant and it comes down to drawing the game out, poking with ink moths then swinging in for lethal with hastey skithy
 

Farcore

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thanks every one,

i have a very small budget. i have a lot of cards from past generations of card game fanatics in my family. im looking for new cards to get me interested in it again.

i am getting the 2012 magic core set when it comes out and a knights and dragons dual pack.
 

Rastien

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Depending on what you want to do the core set is a good idea, the knights and dragons dual pack is fun to play with other people as it is, you won't be able to play standard with it. Depending on what colours you like i might be able to recommend a budget deck for you :)