Feb 10th: The giveaway is official closed! Winners will be announced in the next few days!
To celebrate the new MTGSalvation site going well and truly live, we're hosting a Theros giveaway! To participate, just post here in the comment section telling us about your favorite Magic card!
The Rules of the Giveaway
- Each winner will get 6 Theros booster packs.
- We will randomly draw 15 winners from those who participate.
- For legal reasons, we are only able to ship to the following countries: US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany and the UK. If you do not have a delivery address in one of these countries, you will not be able to win the giveaway.
- Each user may only enter once. Multiple posts on the same account will count as one entry. Those caught entering more than once using multiple accounts will be disqualified.
- If you don't name your favorite Magic card, we won't know if you're explicitly entering the giveaway or not, so we won't be able to take your comment as an entry into the giveaway.
- Staff members (moderators, global moderators & administrators) are welcome to post their favourite Magic card, but they won't be entered into the giveaway.
The giveaway will end on the 10th February at 5PM CST, just 7 days from now!
It provokes rage and feeling of helplessness, and is the foundation of an entire style of playing Magic.
"True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me."
—Kamahl, Pit Fighter
in terms of actually stupid fun incidents would be 'Enter the Dungeon' played the 3rd time in the same sealed match resulted in them playing under the chairs under the table which they stacked another table on top of.
in terms of actually stupid fun incidents would be 'Enter the Dungeon' played the 3rd time in the same sealed match resulted in them playing under the chairs under the table which they stacked another table on top of.
This isn't just because I love control, and this isn't just because I love putting my opponents "on tilt" - though both of those things are true. It's much simpler than that: In early 1994 (before Mana Drain was printed), when I started playing, there was no other card that could serve as a universal "answer" to anything your opponent tried to do. If you wanted to play a reactive type deck, you either had to stuff it with situational answers to all sorts of different problems, OR, play Counterspell. The decision to run blue for control - and therefore the origin of blue's historical position as the "reactive color" - came from the ubiquity of this one card and how it formed deck-building decisions.
Countermagic has had many detractors over the years, who over the long run have swayed WotC to their cause, such that the last decent new counterspell printed was Rune Snag eight years ago, and today many game-winning threats are cheaper to cast than the counters that could stop them, giving proactive decks an edge and forcing control players to "pick their battles" rather than rely on massive permission, and therefore also forcing control players to run cards to handle resolved permanent threats. A case could be made that this is healthier for the game overall, but something in me will always long for the days when two untapped islands could make your opponent writhe in agonized indecision, and then finally sigh and pass the turn... To me, Magic was always meant to be a mind game of bluffs and misdirection, and cheap and powerful countermagic filled this role in a very powerful way.
There have been a lot of other counters printed over the years. Some, like Mana Drain (at least now that mana burn is gone) and, most would say, Force of Will, are strictly better. Some, like Cancel, are strictly worse. (boo!) But none of them were *first*. None of them showed my 14-year-old, budding planeswalker self the utter simplicity of a card that (at least at the time) could handle any problem - provided that you were prepared. To this day, nothing else in Magic captures for me that feeling of playing a second blue source on turn two and passing with Counterspell in hand, ready to handle anything that's thrown at me.
"He boasted that he would eat my soul - but all he ate were his words."
-Ob Nixilis
:-P Ob is my favorite card in the game. His story. His abilities. I really hope we see him again!
Note: That's a bit from a story I'm writing. :-P
My favorite card is Deftblade Elite. Although I'm not generally a White player, this card is just so sweet; he has won me games. Whether he's killing a provoked creature every turn with lots of pump like Honor the Pure or Catapult Squad, or he's getting a dangerous blocker out of the way so my other creatures can get through (and lives to do it again!),he gets the job done! Just an all-round good card. and a common 1-drop, too!