Honestly depends on set and how much I paid for them. Ive bought a decent assortment of older packs just to say I opened some of that set. I really enjoyed the few Tempest boosters I got to open around when I started playing in Mirrodin-Darksteel.
I guess I'd go back and get myself interested in Magic a little earlier so's I could have "been there" for certain sets. And be a better player at this point.
This is close to what my answer would be as long as change reserve list is already covered. I would stop myself from the pokemon card era, realize that magic is the better game and start sooner. Could have easily spent all that wasted money on MTG cards back then.
I got my only playmat from a GP. The art is kinda neat, and its great when you are playing somewhere with less than perfect tables. Especially the GP i was at had those terrible table covers that catch the corners of sleeves really easy. They are meant for food or something, not cards. I was very happy to have the playmat as trying to tap on the bare table cover was always a fight with the plastic cover.
Heres an idea, someone grab some sleeves, double sleeve a land or 2 and see if you can super glue the one open end on the outer sleeve without it melting its way through. For science! (its 330 am here and I dont have super glue, which is why I didnt try it myself)
Also, I cant disagree with the Urzas Hot Tub Draft. Live dangerously, life on the edge.
To be fair, Legacy is way worse than Standard in competitive settings. When you go that far back, you break into the realm of strictly-better, turn-one-win, absolutely-unfun-control, and otherwise completely broken decks. Standard has to exist as the format that lets new cards shine, and both standard and limited cater to people that like to solve the puzzle of what works best within a specific pool.
I mostly stick to more casual formats, though, because I value fun above all else. To me, social is fun and that means decks that don't kill friendships in a format that isn't overly competitive.
Spoken like someone that doesnt play a lot of legacy. Almost all the turn 1 wins are glass cannon combos that crumble to the right answers, and they dont always go off turn 1 either.
First, I'd like to point out that A lot of Edh players don't think the format is "casual" where you get to play solitaire with your big creatures until it's time to bounce them off other big creatures. A lot of players like tuned decks and complicated games.
Second, it's not really reasonable to say Edh is ruining magic just because you don't like it being supported by wizards.
Theres no sanctioned commander tournaments, therefore its a casual format. Get over yourself, you play casual magic.
How is commander getting a special release each year effecting you personally and ruining magic?
you're totally aloud to hate commander, but making baseless statements that it's ruining magic for silly reasons isn't helping your cause.
Its divided the casual player base, and has the magic devs using the yearly multiplayer magic slot for commander. I dont see them making non commander multiplayer magic products anytime soon, thanks to a format that I dont want to play coming up and taking over and wizards focusing on it like its the only way outside of tournaments to play magic.
Yes, but the trains to there aren't very regular, and it's absolute luck to find someone at a "random pop-in" to have a game.
Also, it's the only chance I get to purchase cards, and the store never has any of the heavily played cards. Back when Caw-Blade was around they had no Sword of F/F for a whole 6 months.
I was more thinking call the shop figure out when they do say Friday Night Magic or something like Game Day, smaller events than the top tier PTQs and such.
Eek, i thought it was hard for me to find magic in my area. Have you tried searching for a closer store, theres the store finder on the wizards website that might help. If theres no where to play at all any closer, try starting a group through craigslist. Have you tried going to that shop when they are not running major events?
Sure you can. Most commander decks can just shuffle their commander in and simply play a game of casual multiplayer. Sometimes in my group a player will just grab a creature from their casual deck and stick it in the command zone and go from there. Most games of multiplayer are soft-banlist casual anyway.
Hell, in my area Legacy is by far the most popular format - you just cant find anyone in the local shops who would want to play anything but 1v1 legacy, and that is FAR more dividing in my opinion. You simply can't play a game of 1v1 legacy without a deck meant for it.
There are a lot of legendaries into sets because the sets are very story based and legends are part of that. Should the gods, their weapons, the guild leaders, the guild champions not have been legendary?
You know what having so much legendary stuff does? Makes none of it seem as legendary. There is no reason to jam as many legends into each new set as they have been.
Ill put it like this, Kamigawa left such a bad taste in my mouth from everything being legendary that Theros + RTR feels just like playing Kamigawa 2. Bad.
Clicky that link.
Find the print button there. Its not hard just look.
Cut it out and put it with a card in a sleeve.
This is close to what my answer would be as long as change reserve list is already covered. I would stop myself from the pokemon card era, realize that magic is the better game and start sooner. Could have easily spent all that wasted money on MTG cards back then.
Speak for yourself, some of us think commander is a plague.
Also, I cant disagree with the Urzas Hot Tub Draft. Live dangerously, life on the edge.
Spoken like someone that doesnt play a lot of legacy. Almost all the turn 1 wins are glass cannon combos that crumble to the right answers, and they dont always go off turn 1 either.
Theres no sanctioned commander tournaments, therefore its a casual format. Get over yourself, you play casual magic.
Its divided the casual player base, and has the magic devs using the yearly multiplayer magic slot for commander. I dont see them making non commander multiplayer magic products anytime soon, thanks to a format that I dont want to play coming up and taking over and wizards focusing on it like its the only way outside of tournaments to play magic.
I was more thinking call the shop figure out when they do say Friday Night Magic or something like Game Day, smaller events than the top tier PTQs and such.
Where are you located?
They cant compete. At least not at my table.
You know what having so much legendary stuff does? Makes none of it seem as legendary. There is no reason to jam as many legends into each new set as they have been.
Ill put it like this, Kamigawa left such a bad taste in my mouth from everything being legendary that Theros + RTR feels just like playing Kamigawa 2. Bad.