I'm tired of having people steal my General and beat me down with it. Taking general damage from your own guy is just ......
So I've started playing Brooding Saurian instead of another fatty they can steal. So what happens? Someone Threatened it away and smacked me for 4 then sacced it to Predator Dragon. :/
I agree the goats are delicious.
Ugh! But you do have to admit, that is sort of funny, though. Dying to your own general is probably the sort of thing that is cute once, but then never again. Sort of like when someone casts Temporal Extortion in Izzet Steam Maze and everyone's life totals go to hell. I have no idea if the card actually works in that situation or not, but we decided to run it that way. Made me laugh, but never again.
The goats are awesome, everyone cheers when we get into Goldmeadow. Last night, Josh send a creature to the graveyard with Grave Pact out, and so my sister had to sac something. She wasn't sure what to do, so since I was already dead and out of the game, I just nudged her and said "just sacrifice one of your goats." She just looked at me and says:
"My friends at church were right, this game is Satanic!"
Heyyyyy Coffeehouse! I am finally, finally back from the Geek Media Expo held this week. Daidream and I went and we had a BLAST! I will go into more detail when I get pictures up, but I can safely say that it was well worth the wait. We came in with $400 in cash, and left with $54 in cash. Still, it was TOTALLY worth it!
The coolest thing for me was running the video game room, helping out the staff and meeting so many cool people. Like Doug Walker, AKA That Guy With the Glasses. He was awesome and we had a chance to talk quite a bit.
Glad you had fun with EDH, Photon, and it's good to see you back in here.
Since we're reporting on stuff, I managed to find some people to play Planechase EDH against last night. I put together 2 decks, both of which were probably not great- my card pool is pretty crappy by Legacy and Vintage standards. I have a lot of old crappy cards from the Fallen Empires/Legends era, a smattering of Urza's Block cards, a crapload of 6th-10th edition junk, nothing particularly exciting, and then box after box of random stuff from Mirrodin through Planar Chaos. I decided to build two decks, one with Teysa, Orzhov Scion, and the other with Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician. Played 3 games, 2 with Teysa, 1 with Ib.
Teysa was... eh. Maybe it is just that it has been a while since I have played, but it just didn't seem to get going, and I kept getting mana flooded. The planar effects were probably the only thing that kept my interest in the entire game. I didn't win with her, and I didn't like it, especially after eating it in Krosa when I was 3 damage away from a victory on my next turn.
Then I played Ib, and lost with him, but the game was perhaps the most fun game of Magic I had ever played. Granted, if I had been a bit more focused on playing aggressively instead of giving all my goblin tokens names and making Ib say vulgar things to my opponent, I probably would have done better. Also, letting myself get hit in the face for 9 damage from my own Lightning Storm, and then following it up with a Chain of Plasma targeting an opponent with 9 cards in his hand and nothing to lose probably didn't win me any Player of the Year awards, but the ensuing chaos gave me so much infantile enjoyment it didn't matter. So I think I'll stick with Ib, drum up some multiplayer nonsense cards like the ones listed above, and just go for a quirky goblin deck that can win, but can also just be used to make mischief in 4 player brawls. Any suggestions?
Also, a question- let's say I have Furnace of Rath in play (oooh, sorry, I mean, "on the BATTLEFIELD"), Akki Lavarunner is flipped, and we're in the Stronghold Furnace plane, and I Shock someone. How much damage do I actually do? When do I double, when do I double the double (if I double the double at all), and when do I add 1 to the damage? Does the 1 get doubled? Or is it added afterward? And would it be bad sportsmanship to exploit this sort of rules confusion to distract a player so I can cheat?
It was a pretty relaxed game, and I think you were right to think that silliness and fun were encouraged more by the planes shifting.
I played Experiment Kraj, and even though I didn't up having very many creatures that had activated abilities that would be beneficial to copy, at least the +1/+1 counters were nice and I always appreciate that big gooey mound of pink delight.
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All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the light that you see. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
But the rainbow is an image of hope for many reasons, as it is a brilliant sight coming out of oftimes dismal weather.
I basicly got tired of having different names across things online so I came up with a (at least I think so) original name, and I am changing all my names over to Zazirik :).
It's pronounced "Zaz-ear-ick" and I don't know it's meaning before anyone asks :sneakybread:.
Psionic Blast is my favorite magic card in the game, and as some of the older Coffeelings in the Coffeehouse know I used to be called Psionicblast88, which was shortened to Psiblast, and then shortened again to Psi.
Okay then...I just enjoy annoying people. Zazirik does sound pretty cool. But you thought you could get away with it in the how well are you known around here thread.
Having fun with crappy cards is the heart of the game, if you ask me. It's fine to play with good cards- good cards are good, after all, hence the term "good cards", but there is something very satisfying about dropping a completely mediocre piece of binder chaff to the table and doing fun things with it, you know? Beating someone down with a Darksteel Colossus you Tinkered into play? That's effective, and can be pretty cool, but beating someone down with a Combat Medic equipped with a Loxodon Warhammer and Tatsumasa the Dragon's Fang is something of beauty.
I've always loved the idea of building decks from crappy cards, like a reject rare draft or some such. Part of why I love playing Limited is just about any card can make the cut and you play with the whole set, not just the most powerful 25%.
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It was a pretty relaxed game, and I think you were right to think that silliness and fun were encouraged more by the planes shifting.
I played Experiment Kraj, and even though I didn't up having very many creatures that had activated abilities that would be beneficial to copy, at least the +1/+1 counters were nice and I always appreciate that big gooey mound of pink delight.
P.S.: Hi, everybody.
* Yukora runs, jumps, flies, and glomps Mamelon to death
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the light that you see. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
But the rainbow is an image of hope for many reasons, as it is a brilliant sight coming out of oftimes dismal weather.
Anywho, it's great to see some old faces around! I'm recovered from GMX, and I heard Zombieland was a good'un, actually--I'm usually averse to zombie movies, especially of the fast variety, but if it has a happy ending, then it might be worth seeing.
Thanks, Craig.... I was wondering if any of y'all who see me on Facebook would say something... kinda glad you did, Tanth.
*sigh* So commences the bad news.. Yesterday I found out that I lost my job.. Well, I'm being able to stay here for the next month... Friday, November 6th will be my last day. They're encouraging me to look for a new job within the University, and they would understand if I have to go out for interviews and the like.. To be honest, I kind of knew this was coming at some point.. I wasn't really happy in this job, and people could tell that my heart was not in it, really... and so I just... but still, it's a shock that it happened yesterday... I had some weird dreams last night... and I'm just kind of mulling over what this means exactly... how much I should tell people... I'm the kind of person who wants people to know, so that I can, and they can, enjoy our time while it lasts... i don't know, it's just....a surprise, and at the same time not so much of one, for me... I mean.. i don't know, I just feel kind of... I'm reeling still.
I've got this Dialectical Behavior Therapy class this afternoon.. i'm trying to decide if I should still go to it or not.. i dunno, I guess it'll depend on how I feel.. I'm not sure... blehhh...... I feel like crap, really...
I've always loved the idea of building decks from crappy cards, like a reject rare draft or some such. Part of why I love playing Limited is just about any card can make the cut and you play with the whole set, not just the most powerful 25%.
I've never had the opportunity to play Limited, but it's always appealed to me for that reason. Call me crazy, but if I am going to spend money on a pack with 15 cards in it, I should be able to use at LEAST 12 of them on a theoretical level, you know? The closest experience I have had to Limited was running some Sealed for Academy on MWS, and that was a lot of fun.
* Yukora runs, jumps, flies, and glomps Mamelon to death
Welcome back. We missed you.
Oh, I see how it is. I come back, I get a nod of the head, a tip of the hat. Maybe next time I disappear and then return, I'll come back with hooters and see how you respond, mister.
I demand chaotic Planechase EDH as a pre-wedding activity. Now, if only there's a way to turn it into a strip format....
Okay, you want to know the sad thing- one of the first things I thought was "hey, we could do Magic as a game at the pre-wedding party!" Then I was filled with deep shame. I'm still trying to figure out just what to do with the pre-party. A lot of it depends on when the out of town guests get into town, and how much time I can get off of work. Part of me wants to do something safe and inclusive for everyone, part of me wants to do something tacky like hit a strip club as a group, part of me wants to do something really nerdy like MTG and D&D and Smash Bros. Also, part of me is really just trying to figure out which option is the cheapest and which group of guests I don't mind excluding from the fun to satisfy that part of myself.
Strip EDH is easy enough. Whenever you take General damage, you take something off. Obviously, that shifts the metagame towards small, cheap evasive Generals and means some perv will spend most of the time trying to figure out how to give Isamaru, Hound of Konda shadow.
My husband and I made up a 'sexual favors' version of Magic. He is bad at it for some reason, so each time we play that version of Magic he always loses, though I'm not sure he sees it that way.
That sounds like a horrible idea for me, as I am much more competitive at sex than I am at Magic.
Thanks, Craig.... I was wondering if any of y'all who see me on Facebook would say something... kinda glad you did, Tanth.
*sigh* So commences the bad news.. Yesterday I found out that I lost my job.. Well, I'm being able to stay here for the next month... Friday, November 6th will be my last day. They're encouraging me to look for a new job within the University, and they would understand if I have to go out for interviews and the like.. To be honest, I kind of knew this was coming at some point.. I wasn't really happy in this job, and people could tell that my heart was not in it, really... and so I just... but still, it's a shock that it happened yesterday... I had some weird dreams last night... and I'm just kind of mulling over what this means exactly... how much I should tell people... I'm the kind of person who wants people to know, so that I can, and they can, enjoy our time while it lasts... i don't know, it's just....a surprise, and at the same time not so much of one, for me... I mean.. i don't know, I just feel kind of... I'm reeling still.
I've got this Dialectical Behavior Therapy class this afternoon.. i'm trying to decide if I should still go to it or not.. i dunno, I guess it'll depend on how I feel.. I'm not sure... blehhh...... I feel like crap, really...
I haven't really been on Facebook a whole lot the past few days due to work, so I must have missed the update. I'm really sorry, I know that the job was a big deal for you, and obviously having a job in our current economy is very important. Plus, everything else that sucks about the situation. I hope everything works out okay. I'm sure you'll land on your feet, you seem to do that more often than not. Still, I am sorry to hear about this, and I hope you feel better about it soon.
Anyway, just killing time over lunch at work here. Looking forward to coming home, we're running D&D this weekend and hopefully playing EDH with some people on Friday. I've been trying to get other players I know turned onto the format, especially those that I know have sort of abandoned the game due to how ugly and competitive the local meta got right around the time I quit. I think I have at least 2 interested. I'm also trying to plan a party of some sort for an Operation Christmas Child event and being frustrated by a lack of available weekends. I hate planning crap with people I know. They always have something going on- someone always has work, or is going out of town, or has previous obligations, or has the swine flu, or some crap excuse. It really messes with my whole solipsist view of reality in which people do not exist unless I am giving them some sort of attention.
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[16:23] Alacar Leoricar: maybe if you do it'll make the porn more meaningful
*blinks in* Just came back from the Exiled zone. Crappy place to be but I'm back now. Well, whatever really counts as back.
I'd apologize for not really posting anything here for months at a time but lately, I've been reading what you guys have been saying but I feel like what I want to post isn't really WORTH the post so I just don't post anything.
I know the boat you're kinda goin' through right now Danica. I had a job over the summer myself at the local school and even though I knew it was just a temp job it still blew knowing I wouldn't be able to continue into the fall. Best of luck finding a new job and looking on the bright side this state has one of the lower unemployment rates in the country (try living in Clark County, Nevada where the unemployment rate is near 20%).
Mamelon: I know it may not mean much from me but welcome back. And here's hopin ya stick around.
Sexual Magic: I'm not sure I can really say much on this other than it's REALLY interesting...
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Okay, you want to know the sad thing- one of the first things I thought was "hey, we could do Magic as a game at the pre-wedding party!" Then I was filled with deep shame. I'm still trying to figure out just what to do with the pre-party. A lot of it depends on when the out of town guests get into town, and how much time I can get off of work. Part of me wants to do something safe and inclusive for everyone, part of me wants to do something tacky like hit a strip club as a group, part of me wants to do something really nerdy like MTG and D&D and Smash Bros. Also, part of me is really just trying to figure out which option is the cheapest and which group of guests I don't mind excluding from the fun to satisfy that part of myself.
Since I don't really know how it's being planned I think the safest thing for me to say is try to make it so that it speaks to who you most are (or at the very least who you want to be). Course... those choices would be hard to choose from anyway...
*blinks in* Just came back from the Exiled zone. Crappy place to be but I'm back now. Well, whatever really counts as back.
What is this, Time Spiral?
Since I don't really know how it's being planned I think the safest thing for me to say is try to make it so that it speaks to who you most are (or at the very least who you want to be). Course... those choices would be hard to choose from anyway...
That's my problem: who I am is equal parts strip club and Saproling tokens.
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Feels like it! Hello to Hunter44, Itinerant Soldier, and everyone else. Seems you all have a purple rarity now.
Danica: I'm sorry to hear about that.. but you can find another job. You've got an impressive work history and you know how to hunt for a good job. Stay positive!
Photon Eater: I'm sorry about not being more sure about coming yet. I want to. If I do, I'll bring my Wii and my party games. I know we'll have fun.
Strip Magic: I always had a problem with this.. what about lifegain? Aggro decks would beat out control decks. EDH General damage makes more sense.
Limited play: I'd love to run another sealed deck thing with the new Academy, if anyone is interested.
edit: How about we put together a Coffeehouse Cube and use it to play on MWS?
Also, how about making a Cube, Photon Eater? That way you can play with your junk cards in a limited format.
You guys should just ALL come over to my house we can make it a Fear Factor party, i can get the Duck Embryo really cheap... and for Hunter44 we have Sloppy Joe's just as disgusting to this side of the world as the Embryo is to your side of the world
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That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange eons even death may die.
Geez, when it rains it pours. Hunter, Photon, Crimson (sorry, you'll always be the Avatar to me ), Mamsies. It's like a flashback sequence!
Danica, sorry to hear about your job. While I've never been in your situation exactly, I have gone through challenges with being unhappy at work and then working crummy jobs to make ends meet. It's so easy to get stuck in a rut at work, trading happiness for a steady paycheck; sometimes taking the plunge into uncertain waters is what you need to find new and better opportunities.
Ugh! But you do have to admit, that is sort of funny, though. Dying to your own general is probably the sort of thing that is cute once, but then never again. Sort of like when someone casts Temporal Extortion in Izzet Steam Maze and everyone's life totals go to hell. I have no idea if the card actually works in that situation or not, but we decided to run it that way. Made me laugh, but never again.
The goats are awesome, everyone cheers when we get into Goldmeadow. Last night, Josh send a creature to the graveyard with Grave Pact out, and so my sister had to sac something. She wasn't sure what to do, so since I was already dead and out of the game, I just nudged her and said "just sacrifice one of your goats." She just looked at me and says:
"My friends at church were right, this game is Satanic!"
The coolest thing for me was running the video game room, helping out the staff and meeting so many cool people. Like Doug Walker, AKA That Guy With the Glasses. He was awesome and we had a chance to talk quite a bit.
Glad you had fun with EDH, Photon, and it's good to see you back in here.
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It was a pretty relaxed game, and I think you were right to think that silliness and fun were encouraged more by the planes shifting.
I played Experiment Kraj, and even though I didn't up having very many creatures that had activated abilities that would be beneficial to copy, at least the +1/+1 counters were nice and I always appreciate that big gooey mound of pink delight.
P.S.: Hi, everybody.
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel.
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
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Also, HIIIII MAMELON!
* Alacar Leoricar glomps Mamelon with huggles
It's been forevers. Good to know you guys are having fun with EDH.
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Hi Mamelon ^_^.
Oh, and I got a name change everyone :sneakybread:.
* Zazirik waves to the Coffeehouse.
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*Drinks green tea
So whats new?
Psi why did you change your name exactly?
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It's pronounced "Zaz-ear-ick" and I don't know it's meaning before anyone asks :sneakybread:.
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Wha?....
I just explained that like four posts above :p. It's because it's an original name I made up and liked.
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I've always loved the idea of building decks from crappy cards, like a reject rare draft or some such. Part of why I love playing Limited is just about any card can make the cut and you play with the whole set, not just the most powerful 25%.
Current New Favorite Person™: Mallory Archer
She knows why.
* Yukora runs, jumps, flies, and glomps Mamelon to death
Welcome back. We missed you.
Zazirik, I recognized the text, but was wondering if it was indeed you.
Well, I just got glomp-ambushed. *dusts* Hi to you too, Yukora.
I was wondering who all still posted here. I see Craigalicious a few pages back.
*waves at Craigers*
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel.
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
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Anywho, it's great to see some old faces around! I'm recovered from GMX, and I heard Zombieland was a good'un, actually--I'm usually averse to zombie movies, especially of the fast variety, but if it has a happy ending, then it might be worth seeing.
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*sigh* So commences the bad news.. Yesterday I found out that I lost my job.. Well, I'm being able to stay here for the next month... Friday, November 6th will be my last day. They're encouraging me to look for a new job within the University, and they would understand if I have to go out for interviews and the like.. To be honest, I kind of knew this was coming at some point.. I wasn't really happy in this job, and people could tell that my heart was not in it, really... and so I just... but still, it's a shock that it happened yesterday... I had some weird dreams last night... and I'm just kind of mulling over what this means exactly... how much I should tell people... I'm the kind of person who wants people to know, so that I can, and they can, enjoy our time while it lasts... i don't know, it's just....a surprise, and at the same time not so much of one, for me... I mean.. i don't know, I just feel kind of... I'm reeling still.
I've got this Dialectical Behavior Therapy class this afternoon.. i'm trying to decide if I should still go to it or not.. i dunno, I guess it'll depend on how I feel.. I'm not sure... blehhh...... I feel like crap, really...
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I've never had the opportunity to play Limited, but it's always appealed to me for that reason. Call me crazy, but if I am going to spend money on a pack with 15 cards in it, I should be able to use at LEAST 12 of them on a theoretical level, you know? The closest experience I have had to Limited was running some Sealed for Academy on MWS, and that was a lot of fun.
Oh, I see how it is. I come back, I get a nod of the head, a tip of the hat. Maybe next time I disappear and then return, I'll come back with hooters and see how you respond, mister.
Okay, you want to know the sad thing- one of the first things I thought was "hey, we could do Magic as a game at the pre-wedding party!" Then I was filled with deep shame. I'm still trying to figure out just what to do with the pre-party. A lot of it depends on when the out of town guests get into town, and how much time I can get off of work. Part of me wants to do something safe and inclusive for everyone, part of me wants to do something tacky like hit a strip club as a group, part of me wants to do something really nerdy like MTG and D&D and Smash Bros. Also, part of me is really just trying to figure out which option is the cheapest and which group of guests I don't mind excluding from the fun to satisfy that part of myself.
Strip EDH is easy enough. Whenever you take General damage, you take something off. Obviously, that shifts the metagame towards small, cheap evasive Generals and means some perv will spend most of the time trying to figure out how to give Isamaru, Hound of Konda shadow.
That sounds like a horrible idea for me, as I am much more competitive at sex than I am at Magic.
I haven't really been on Facebook a whole lot the past few days due to work, so I must have missed the update. I'm really sorry, I know that the job was a big deal for you, and obviously having a job in our current economy is very important. Plus, everything else that sucks about the situation. I hope everything works out okay. I'm sure you'll land on your feet, you seem to do that more often than not. Still, I am sorry to hear about this, and I hope you feel better about it soon.
Anyway, just killing time over lunch at work here. Looking forward to coming home, we're running D&D this weekend and hopefully playing EDH with some people on Friday. I've been trying to get other players I know turned onto the format, especially those that I know have sort of abandoned the game due to how ugly and competitive the local meta got right around the time I quit. I think I have at least 2 interested. I'm also trying to plan a party of some sort for an Operation Christmas Child event and being frustrated by a lack of available weekends. I hate planning crap with people I know. They always have something going on- someone always has work, or is going out of town, or has previous obligations, or has the swine flu, or some crap excuse. It really messes with my whole solipsist view of reality in which people do not exist unless I am giving them some sort of attention.
I'd apologize for not really posting anything here for months at a time but lately, I've been reading what you guys have been saying but I feel like what I want to post isn't really WORTH the post so I just don't post anything.
I know the boat you're kinda goin' through right now Danica. I had a job over the summer myself at the local school and even though I knew it was just a temp job it still blew knowing I wouldn't be able to continue into the fall. Best of luck finding a new job and looking on the bright side this state has one of the lower unemployment rates in the country (try living in Clark County, Nevada where the unemployment rate is near 20%).
Mamelon: I know it may not mean much from me but welcome back. And here's hopin ya stick around.
Sexual Magic: I'm not sure I can really say much on this other than it's REALLY interesting...
Since I don't really know how it's being planned I think the safest thing for me to say is try to make it so that it speaks to who you most are (or at the very least who you want to be). Course... those choices would be hard to choose from anyway...
What is this, Time Spiral?
That's my problem: who I am is equal parts strip club and Saproling tokens.
Danica: I'm sorry to hear about that.. but you can find another job. You've got an impressive work history and you know how to hunt for a good job. Stay positive!
Photon Eater: I'm sorry about not being more sure about coming yet. I want to. If I do, I'll bring my Wii and my party games. I know we'll have fun.
Strip Magic: I always had a problem with this.. what about lifegain? Aggro decks would beat out control decks. EDH General damage makes more sense.
Limited play: I'd love to run another sealed deck thing with the new Academy, if anyone is interested.
edit: How about we put together a Coffeehouse Cube and use it to play on MWS?
Also, how about making a Cube, Photon Eater? That way you can play with your junk cards in a limited format.
Like freeform roleplaying? Try Darkness Befalls Us
Ryttare Kelasin Luna Orelinalei
Danica, sorry to hear about your job. While I've never been in your situation exactly, I have gone through challenges with being unhappy at work and then working crummy jobs to make ends meet. It's so easy to get stuck in a rut at work, trading happiness for a steady paycheck; sometimes taking the plunge into uncertain waters is what you need to find new and better opportunities.
This gave quite a lot of vivid imagery involving stopwatches, and celebratory exclamations of "Yeah! In your face!" being unusually literal.
Current New Favorite Person™: Mallory Archer
She knows why.