It was a pretty janky deck when my friend was teaching me how to play. This was way back when The Dark was actually a new set - not the Timeshifted version!
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Rose tint my world, keep me safe from my trouble and pain.
Anyhow, the best I can come up with myself is a game in the top 8 of a PTQ back during Urza block in which we were starting game 3 with time already expired, so the tiebreaker rule was that whoever had more life after 3 turns would win. And I lost to... healing salve.
I borrowed a friend's Vampire deck back during 2010 Zendikar. Beautiful summer day, outside on the porch my first two cards were full-art Zendikar Swamp into Guul Draz Assassin. I remember just staring mesmerized at that swamp and it ignited my obsession over full-art lands.
I think I remember that in my first game, when I barely understood Magic, I played an Arbor Elf.
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BRGMy Deck(Modern): Bolts'n'Burns WMy other, WIP casual deck: Zero to Hero
Protection from Will-O'-the-Wisps, Ali-from-Cairos, and Uncle-Istvans
Legendary snow landwalk
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On the reserved list: Wizards won't remove it. Only we can. In other words: Play Modern, Pauper, or No-RL Eternal.
The first card I remeber playing was Devouring Strossus, which was followed up by Phage, the untouchable. Probably was a Swamp first, obviously, then I'm sure some sort of ramp, it was casual picnic-table poolside, summer of '02(I think). To this day, those are my 2 favorite cards that I always try to play the heck out of.
My first deck was a RBU that was quickly torn apart and reassembled by a more experienced player into a RB Shivan Dragon/Sengir Vampire deck. I was never given the opportunity to play the game wrong so my first card was likely a Mountain followed by a Bolt. Or a Mountains, Swamp, Dark Ritual and a Fireball I don't think I ever had a 1cmc black spell other than Dark Ritual for that deck.
Amazingly, I still have the essence of that deck, squirreled away in some corner of one my deck boxes.
Probably Pulse of the Forge or Raging Goblin, I had the ighth edition (2x) and mirrodin started decks and just combined them together for like a 85 card deck, it was dope.
The first i played in the first hand i ever won (in a custom Extended "kitchen table" multi-player game) was a basic Forest; the card that won me that game was the first spell i played, Telepathy, (obviously i played a island second turn) which i used in conjunction with my own Cabal Therapy to drain off the Counterspells so that Jokulhaups could resolve while i'd already built my hand for post-apocalyptic fallout. I did mention it was multi-player, right?
Veteran Bodyguard
I traded my Serra Angel for it. Reasoning: the Bodyguard sucks the Serra Angel's damage, and can't be bolted as well, so seems like a solid deal.
I later learned about evasion, Winter Orb, and all that fun stuff!
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The "Crazy One", playing casual magic and occasionally dipping his toes into regular play since 1994.
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
Look at my name, that's right Forestsguy.
That turned into a Viashino Firstblade
The first card I was really excited about was Gleam Of Battle!!! I loved my old boros deck
I hold the job of resurrecting dead threads.
Formerly presumed dead, but also formerly presumed alive.
It was a pretty janky deck when my friend was teaching me how to play. This was way back when The Dark was actually a new set - not the Timeshifted version!
WMy other, WIP casual deck: Zero to Hero
Protection from Will-O'-the-Wisps, Ali-from-Cairos, and Uncle-Istvans
Legendary snow landwalk
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On the reserved list: Wizards won't remove it. Only we can. In other words: Play Modern, Pauper, or No-RL Eternal.
Amazingly, I still have the essence of that deck, squirreled away in some corner of one my deck boxes.
EDH:
Maelstrom Wanderer
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
-Chandra Nalaar
(W/U)(B/R)GForm of Progenitus, Shape of a Scrubland
BRGJund Tokens with Prossh, the Magic Dragon Foil
URGAnimar, the RUG CleanerFoil
RRRFeldon of the Third Path 2.0 Foil
BG(B/G)Not Another Meren DeckFoil
UR(U/R)Mizzix, Y Control and X Burn Spells
(W/U)(B/R)GHarold Ramos - The 35 Foot Long Twinkie (In +1/+1 counters)
UB(U/B)Dragonlord Silumgar
T2: Prahv, Spires of Order into Storm Crow
UAzamiU
GEzuriG
WDarienW
RWBrionWR
GUKrajUG
GRXenagosRG
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It was a classic casual Dragons Deck.
The first i played in the first hand i ever won (in a custom Extended "kitchen table" multi-player game) was a basic Forest; the card that won me that game was the first spell i played, Telepathy, (obviously i played a island second turn) which i used in conjunction with my own Cabal Therapy to drain off the Counterspells so that Jokulhaups could resolve while i'd already built my hand for post-apocalyptic fallout. I did mention it was multi-player, right?
**Legacy**
Grixis Delver
16post
**Standard**
I'll let you know if/when i go back to Standard. I hate pulling cards i can't use.
I traded my Serra Angel for it. Reasoning: the Bodyguard sucks the Serra Angel's damage, and can't be bolted as well, so seems like a solid deal.
I later learned about evasion, Winter Orb, and all that fun stuff!
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
That was the first and last time we played Magic together…