- Basic lands must all have different arts - and they must all be art I like.
This. Completely this. I cannot stand to have the same art on two basic lands.
If I pick a theme, no matter how silly, I will stick with it no matter how bad the deck gets once I run out of cards that will make the deck tick. EG: All the cards must have a flavor text of at least 6 words or more.
1. only one of a legend
2. no promos or special cards
3. sleeves must match the color or theme of the deck...example: Sarkhan the Mad sleeves on my B/R Sarkhan the Mad/Dragonstorm Deck
4. i order my hand by type...ie: instants/sorceries, enchantments, artifacts, creatures, lands
5. i stack my lands by type when they are in play
6. Auras/Enchantments must go under the creature they are enchanting with only the card name showing..
7. Playmat is a must...
I don't know what it was, but it just didn't feel right if a card was just a 1-of or a 3-of. It had to either be an even 2-of or 4-of and if I didn't have more and couldn't make it even, I wouldn't play it.
Yeah, this still bugs me sometimes. I found a nice 'workaround' in running 3x of 2 different cards.
But if it's a complete bomb, even if only 1x, it's going in no matter what.
I too hate the white boarder. Also, if I have four of the same card I try to make sure all four copies are from the same set.
One of my biggest issues though is with odd numbers. I can have two of a card or four of a card. Running three cards is a pain, because then I feel compelled to run three of another card to even it out. I guess I just hate the idea of running ONE card of any given kind in a deck of 60. I mean, what are the chances of ever seeing that card in play, hmmm?
About the only exception I make for this is when I play Spine of Ish Sah. But only because it seems silly to have more than one in a deck. And of course restricted cards like Demonic Tutor or Balance.
My OCDness doesn't impair my deck building ability. I'll still run odd numbers if I have to, but I just prefer it not be that way.
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1. After building my aggro deck, I feel like everything in the deck has to be 1-2 mana.
2. Make sure there aren't any mythics or really expensive cards that are hard to get.
3. It's hard not to automatically try and include certain cards in certain builds, like O-Ring and Dark Ritual.
4. I want to play 4-of most things.
5. If not, I like having that fun "one-of" card in my decks, like Head Games
6. Not too many CIPT lands
7. Not too many lands that only produce colorless in multi-colored decks. So Kessig Wolf Run won't be in my aggro.
Power and Toughness of creatures MUST be equal. (2/1 3/4 etc annoy me).
Cards with * as their power or toughness cannot be in my deck.
Basic lands must have the same art.
Basic lands throughout the deck must be from the same set.
All cards must be from the latest released set.
2 or 4 of's only.
Cards are either all foil or all normal.
No white bordered cards allowed in my decks.
No future-shifted/planeshifted cards in my decks. Basically, they all have to have the same border. Forementioned cards are too few to make a deck out of.
Another which annoys me is when their creature type has been updated, but it doesn't say on the card. I'd hate having to translate Elvish Champion and the like.
i agree with wingkon...that freakin annoys the hell outta me...like Lotus Guardian...wanted to use them in my dragon deck....they dont say Dragon....but according to the grand creature update..they are....WTF?
Oh yeah, just remember one more thing, i used to avoid the use of infinite comboes in my decks, but recently i just found myslef using some in a few decks, sometimes without intending to...
So now i'm okay with it as long as it involves at least 3 cards and that i can't combo out before turn 4.
Another which annoys me is when their creature type has been updated, but it doesn't say on the card. I'd hate having to translate Elvish Champion and the like.
I totally agree with this. It doesn't keep me from running the cards, but sometimes it can start weird arguments in a playgroup:
There was a guy in a playgroup of mine who insisted that Oracle text was bunk, and that all cards needed to be played as written. I was new into the group (first night there, just myself, my wife and 3 other people), and I brought a Zombie and Extended UW control deck. I laid out an 8th Edition Lord of the Undead, and the guy immediately started going on about how he didn't get the bonuses from Undead Warchief or Death Baron because what was printed on the card didn't say Zombie. I tapped three more mana and plopped out a 10th Edition Lord of the Undead and said, "Now what?"
He persisted further (that one of the Lords of the Undead was a 2/2, and the other was a 6/5 or something) then called me a noob for mixing white and black card borders. I just asked everyone else if they would hold me to his ridiculous rule if he was no longer in the game and they said no, so I attacked him for 24 or something damage and knocked him out of the game, and that damage was before counting Zombie Master and Lord of the Undead as actual zombies.
The next game we played, I asked my wife to take out her Elf deck, which had 2 foil 8th edition Elvish Champions in it (so they were black bordered) and two 10th Edition ones. She got to six or so mana on her fourth turn, winked at me and played the foil 8th Edition Elvish Champion, said it was a 3/3 and he argued that it was a 2/2 because Imperious Perfect couldn't buff it since it didn't say Elf, then immediately cast her 10th Edition Elvish Champion. I remember her saying something like, "These are all black bordered. Are you going to call me a noob, now?" He picked up his cards, said he wasn't playing with jackasses like us anymore, and left. Apparently this guy started this playgroup, and he hasn't played with anyone from it in almost 2 years. My wife and I still meet with them on occasions, too, lol.
Then again, this was the same guy who played a Dragon's Tooth earlier in the night, then played a Mountain and would insist that he gained 1 life from playing that Mountain. Even after being read the comprehensive rules from my phone on how lands aren't spells and aren't colored, he still insisted he gained 1 life from casting a red spell by playing a Mountain. So, I Mana Leaked his next land.
Argh, maybe that's one of my OCDs. I have to go out of my way to make fun of people who forcibly misinterpret the rules and insist they're right even after being read the correct ruling.
- I take a sharpie to white bordered cards. Gah, that annoys me, the WB.
- Similar to Halted, I don't always use the same set of cards from deck to deck. Jund has some of my Blightnings, while my WIP Chandra deck has Volt Charges, since I doubt I would use them anywhere else.
- I usually have to be able to flavorfully justify a card. No Taurean Maulers in Jund, thank you.
- Not necessarily an OCD thing, but when I build a deck that I truly like and could probably keep for a year or so, I like to have it in sleeves if possible.
- I play with my library on the right, graveyard either above it or to the side. I order my lands in some form, usually with the earliest color in WUBRG closest to my library.
- My hand is ordered by the cheapest mana cost "first", aka what you would see first if I pile up the cards, then by increasing cost and then mana.
That works for now.
Remembered something else.
- Lands have to match the deck. I'm going with EDH examples here, but w/e it works. Jasmine Boreal has a lot of Bant-y plains and what Ravnica city forests I have. Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief has mostly gothic architecture kinda city swamps, and Kaalia of the Vast has mostly full art ZEN lands that I think are appropriate. Kaysa will eventually have a snow mana base, and so on.
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I'm the same way with my lands. It bugs me if there is a Mirroden land in a Bant-theme deck or a Lorwyn "pretty" Swamp in my dragon deck.
I actually run quite a few 3xs in my decks. There are so many cool cards I want to try out that I end up cutting down a few 4-ofs in order to run a 3-of or two. But... unless I have lots of tutors (and make a toolbox deck) I will almost never have 1-ofs (and that's is only until I can get a second one :))
I try to keep the land cards from the same set. With an exception in decks where I need to search a lot, than I put in a few white-bordered lands.
If I play Japanese cards, I try to have at least one english copy, to avoid discussions about the card text.
When actually building a deck, I try to avoid situations where I only have four enchantments or four artifacts, because that matches up perfectly with my opponents' 4 disenchants or 4 naturalizes. It is either no artifact/enchantments or more than four.
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01. Ankh Sligh to be exact.
Or for my b/r Vampires deck, the swamps are all this one because the sleeves are purple, and the black/red/purple of the deck goes pretty well together
Also, my cards either have to all have the same picture, or have to all have a different picture. Like for Hymn to Tourach they have to either all be the same pic, or I have to have one of each pic
And I like to have all of my cards with black borders, but with prices of alpha/beta cards compared to revised that just isn't always possible
A couple years ago I started making "casual Legacy" decks. They consisted of only Modern faced cards, but using the Legacy banned/restricted list. I ended up making a few exceptions, like running two Gaea's Blessing in my RUG Gifts deck. I also don't like foils, but I really wanted to make a UWr control deck (I'm going through the process of attempting to make a control deck of each color and color combination). I figured that No-Stick would be the best candidate for it, but Silence just doesn't measure up to Orim's Chant. The Chant didn't have a modern border, though, unless I used the foiled promo card. Thus, I ended up making the entire deck foiled, as I would rather have an all-foiled deck with modern bordered than mixed bordered cards non-foiled.
I also try to come up with a new manabase method for each deck. This particular obsession is my most restricting one, as it is absurdly difficult to do this after the first 6 or so multicolored decks. I'm really hoping that a good number of new cards are printed to better facilitate this attempt.
As my collection grows to increasingly absurd numbers I've started going through my decks and changing the basic lands to all the same picture - I only do this when I'm actually updating the deck, I don't have the spare time to go through 20+ decks just to change the lands haha.
when i build a deck i use only black sleeves:i'll always have left over sleeves that mismatch unless they are all black!
i never dismantle a deck anymore. if i plan to build it, i'm keeping it.
i try not to build a deck until i have all of the cards: running proxies can be annoying.
i refuse to bounce a card from one deck to another, so i just buy multiples in order to keep my decks as their own entity
i REFUSE to build with an eldrazi, as they break the flavor of mtg TERRIBLY. no one can control them! no one does! not in the story. they are beaten by planeswalkers, but no one can control them, so why should i? they are cheap cards that do too much for how easy it is to get them onto the battlefield. emrakul could never be spoken of again, and i'd be happy. in his place is always a blightsteel/darksteel colossus for me. eat it eldrazi.. eat it hard.
I don't think I'm too eccentric when it comes to deck building, but when it comes to playing I have a few things that must be right:
My library is always on my left side whereas it is far more common for a player to keep it on his or her right.
I absolutely refuse to determine initial player's choice by anything else but a traditional die roll (no splitting our decks and comparing CMCs of the reveled card or coin flips for me). And it has to be a true random die (a d20 will work but not a lifespinner).
Whenever I play lands I make sure to stack them with others with the same name (ex: I might have one stack with two Plains, another with three Godless Shrines, and a third with three Swamps. I've often observed that the more competitive players don't sort their lands but instead simply lay them down in the order in which they play them thus creating what seems like an intentionally confusing accordion of cards. That really grinds my gears :mad:.
And I also can't stand it whenever certain opponents reshuffle my whole deck whenever I offer a cut. I simply double cut my opponent's deck and reassemble it in a somewhat random order. My method takes about 3 seconds while a reshuffle can take closer to 30-45 seconds. Sure, it's their prerogative to make sure my deck is radomized to their liking but they should do their best to make it a quick and painless process.
Anyway, those are my Magic idiosyncrasies :D.
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This. Completely this. I cannot stand to have the same art on two basic lands.
If I pick a theme, no matter how silly, I will stick with it no matter how bad the deck gets once I run out of cards that will make the deck tick. EG: All the cards must have a flavor text of at least 6 words or more.
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2. no promos or special cards
3. sleeves must match the color or theme of the deck...example: Sarkhan the Mad sleeves on my B/R Sarkhan the Mad/Dragonstorm Deck
4. i order my hand by type...ie: instants/sorceries, enchantments, artifacts, creatures, lands
5. i stack my lands by type when they are in play
6. Auras/Enchantments must go under the creature they are enchanting with only the card name showing..
7. Playmat is a must...
Yeah, this still bugs me sometimes. I found a nice 'workaround' in running 3x of 2 different cards.
But if it's a complete bomb, even if only 1x, it's going in no matter what.
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I too hate the white boarder. Also, if I have four of the same card I try to make sure all four copies are from the same set.
One of my biggest issues though is with odd numbers. I can have two of a card or four of a card. Running three cards is a pain, because then I feel compelled to run three of another card to even it out. I guess I just hate the idea of running ONE card of any given kind in a deck of 60. I mean, what are the chances of ever seeing that card in play, hmmm?
About the only exception I make for this is when I play Spine of Ish Sah. But only because it seems silly to have more than one in a deck. And of course restricted cards like Demonic Tutor or Balance.
My OCDness doesn't impair my deck building ability. I'll still run odd numbers if I have to, but I just prefer it not be that way.
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Ha ha ha! Don't be embarassed, Morphling. I do the same thing.
2. Make sure there aren't any mythics or really expensive cards that are hard to get.
3. It's hard not to automatically try and include certain cards in certain builds, like O-Ring and Dark Ritual.
4. I want to play 4-of most things.
5. If not, I like having that fun "one-of" card in my decks, like Head Games
6. Not too many CIPT lands
7. Not too many lands that only produce colorless in multi-colored decks. So Kessig Wolf Run won't be in my aggro.
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Cards with * as their power or toughness cannot be in my deck.
Basic lands must have the same art.
Basic lands throughout the deck must be from the same set.
All cards must be from the latest released set.
2 or 4 of's only.
Cards are either all foil or all normal.
No white bordered cards allowed in my decks.
No future-shifted/planeshifted cards in my decks. Basically, they all have to have the same border. Forementioned cards are too few to make a deck out of.
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I had consistency drilled into my head by the people I used to play competitive YGO with. It's part of my daily life now.
My Decks:
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:symb::symb::symb: Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker :symb::symb::symb:
So now i'm okay with it as long as it involves at least 3 cards and that i can't combo out before turn 4.
And none of these swamps.
I totally agree with this. It doesn't keep me from running the cards, but sometimes it can start weird arguments in a playgroup:
There was a guy in a playgroup of mine who insisted that Oracle text was bunk, and that all cards needed to be played as written. I was new into the group (first night there, just myself, my wife and 3 other people), and I brought a Zombie and Extended UW control deck. I laid out an 8th Edition Lord of the Undead, and the guy immediately started going on about how he didn't get the bonuses from Undead Warchief or Death Baron because what was printed on the card didn't say Zombie. I tapped three more mana and plopped out a 10th Edition Lord of the Undead and said, "Now what?"
He persisted further (that one of the Lords of the Undead was a 2/2, and the other was a 6/5 or something) then called me a noob for mixing white and black card borders. I just asked everyone else if they would hold me to his ridiculous rule if he was no longer in the game and they said no, so I attacked him for 24 or something damage and knocked him out of the game, and that damage was before counting Zombie Master and Lord of the Undead as actual zombies.
The next game we played, I asked my wife to take out her Elf deck, which had 2 foil 8th edition Elvish Champions in it (so they were black bordered) and two 10th Edition ones. She got to six or so mana on her fourth turn, winked at me and played the foil 8th Edition Elvish Champion, said it was a 3/3 and he argued that it was a 2/2 because Imperious Perfect couldn't buff it since it didn't say Elf, then immediately cast her 10th Edition Elvish Champion. I remember her saying something like, "These are all black bordered. Are you going to call me a noob, now?" He picked up his cards, said he wasn't playing with jackasses like us anymore, and left. Apparently this guy started this playgroup, and he hasn't played with anyone from it in almost 2 years. My wife and I still meet with them on occasions, too, lol.
Then again, this was the same guy who played a Dragon's Tooth earlier in the night, then played a Mountain and would insist that he gained 1 life from playing that Mountain. Even after being read the comprehensive rules from my phone on how lands aren't spells and aren't colored, he still insisted he gained 1 life from casting a red spell by playing a Mountain. So, I Mana Leaked his next land.
Argh, maybe that's one of my OCDs. I have to go out of my way to make fun of people who forcibly misinterpret the rules and insist they're right even after being read the correct ruling.
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- Lands have to match the deck. I'm going with EDH examples here, but w/e it works. Jasmine Boreal has a lot of Bant-y plains and what Ravnica city forests I have. Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief has mostly gothic architecture kinda city swamps, and Kaalia of the Vast has mostly full art ZEN lands that I think are appropriate. Kaysa will eventually have a snow mana base, and so on.
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I actually run quite a few 3xs in my decks. There are so many cool cards I want to try out that I end up cutting down a few 4-ofs in order to run a 3-of or two. But... unless I have lots of tutors (and make a toolbox deck) I will almost never have 1-ofs (and that's is only until I can get a second one :))
If I play Japanese cards, I try to have at least one english copy, to avoid discussions about the card text.
When actually building a deck, I try to avoid situations where I only have four enchantments or four artifacts, because that matches up perfectly with my opponents' 4 disenchants or 4 naturalizes. It is either no artifact/enchantments or more than four.
These are the decks that I have constructed, and are ready to play:
01. Ankh Sligh to be exact.
Ex: For my shadow deck, the plains are all this one because I think it fits with Soltari Monk/Soltari Foot Soldier/Soltari Priest and Empyrial Armor
Or for my b/r Vampires deck, the swamps are all this one because the sleeves are purple, and the black/red/purple of the deck goes pretty well together
Also, my cards either have to all have the same picture, or have to all have a different picture. Like for Hymn to Tourach they have to either all be the same pic, or I have to have one of each pic
And I like to have all of my cards with black borders, but with prices of alpha/beta cards compared to revised that just isn't always possible
I also try to come up with a new manabase method for each deck. This particular obsession is my most restricting one, as it is absurdly difficult to do this after the first 6 or so multicolored decks. I'm really hoping that a good number of new cards are printed to better facilitate this attempt.
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i never dismantle a deck anymore. if i plan to build it, i'm keeping it.
i try not to build a deck until i have all of the cards: running proxies can be annoying.
i refuse to bounce a card from one deck to another, so i just buy multiples in order to keep my decks as their own entity
i REFUSE to build with an eldrazi, as they break the flavor of mtg TERRIBLY. no one can control them! no one does! not in the story. they are beaten by planeswalkers, but no one can control them, so why should i? they are cheap cards that do too much for how easy it is to get them onto the battlefield. emrakul could never be spoken of again, and i'd be happy. in his place is always a blightsteel/darksteel colossus for me. eat it eldrazi.. eat it hard.
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My library is always on my left side whereas it is far more common for a player to keep it on his or her right.
I absolutely refuse to determine initial player's choice by anything else but a traditional die roll (no splitting our decks and comparing CMCs of the reveled card or coin flips for me). And it has to be a true random die (a d20 will work but not a lifespinner).
Whenever I play lands I make sure to stack them with others with the same name (ex: I might have one stack with two Plains, another with three Godless Shrines, and a third with three Swamps. I've often observed that the more competitive players don't sort their lands but instead simply lay them down in the order in which they play them thus creating what seems like an intentionally confusing accordion of cards. That really grinds my gears :mad:.
And I also can't stand it whenever certain opponents reshuffle my whole deck whenever I offer a cut. I simply double cut my opponent's deck and reassemble it in a somewhat random order. My method takes about 3 seconds while a reshuffle can take closer to 30-45 seconds. Sure, it's their prerogative to make sure my deck is radomized to their liking but they should do their best to make it a quick and painless process.
Anyway, those are my Magic idiosyncrasies :D.