I want to get back into standard and my preferred colors are Green and White. I had a Naya G/W/R Battalion themed deck before Theros block, most of which is still legal but I got kinda bored with it. I want something casual that I will be able to play after Return to Ravnica block cycles outs or that will stay mostly intact, if possible. It's gonna be mostly a budget deck so hopefully nothing that like requires 4x Voice of Resurgence. It doesn't have to be top tier, just effective.
I threw together a bunch of stuff I had to come up with a pretty mediocre aura heroic/hexproof deck. I like that it stands up pretty well to my friend's mono-B devotion but I don't want to commit to a deck like hexproof that a lot of people say is cheap, un-interactive and auto-play. I want something fun that gives my opponents a chance but maybe wouldn't be too weak to my friend's Black Devotion.
So, are you trying to make your deck a more solid Standard legal deck or a deck for multiplayer but using only standard legal cards?
It's for multiplayer but should be standard legal. Until the end of September. The format is home made, it's like extended from Innistrad. We wanted to play with a format that wouldn't cycle but wouldn't contain a bunch of over powered cards and decks with infinite loop combos. So basically we're playing standard without any cycling. The deck will be completely for multiplayer. So the short answer to your question is: the second one. Standard legal multiplayer deck.
So I play 4 player with a few of my friends but that's it. Generally my current green/white deck will go straight off, head to head with my friend's exalted deck because his is fastest and he knows my deck has dangerous stuff if I'm allowed to live. Then it ends with both of us dead while my other friend's extortion deck goes up against his brother's blue/white stall deck and that's a coin flip.
Technically we're playing standard format but we decided we don't want to keep up with the constant, expensive cycling, so for multiplayer we decided were going to just play anything in Innistrad block and after.
I wanted to see if I could spend a few bucks to make my deck a little better. I'd prefer to stick to green and white colors for this deck, just because. It looks like the best bet for those colors is the token creature/populate deck but I wonder if something like that would be very effective in multiplayer. So is it worth it or should I try something else instead?
Sealed is nice but kind of expensive and I feel like making a cube would be difficult and kind of boring to play with the exact same cards. I like that you can play with the packs when you buy them though.
I got my questions answered, everybody else is just posting their own opinions as facts to hear their own voice, so yeah, I am trolling at this point. Doesn't mean I don't believe it though. I've never heard a girl talk seriously about any game. There's no drive to win and no love for strategy. Girls play pokemon cause Mew is cute and the guy at school who plays pokemon is cute, but if a girl could tell me the most efficient way to train a pokemon for battle I'll eat my boot. Yeah
And does everyone even want to beat this girl? Or just date her? It's all about the attention in the end. I doubt she plays the game for the game. Girls just don't play games.
Actually I can drink to that. Seems like everyone who plays yugioh is just.... Ugly.... And rest are stuck up Jerks. And anyone else is just plain annoying. I almost prefer the ugly ones. If Magic is different, and I don't see why it would be, then maybe I could make a friend someday!
Hmm.... Well I think you're slightly misinterpreting what i meant. I'm sure girls can learn to play magic. And I wasn't talking about youngsters specifically either. Just females in general. And not just magic but games in general, I should specify that because my opinion is mostly based off of other games.
I'm not saying young girls can't learn how to play magic, but rather that males are on another level when it comes to games in general.
I really really like EDH personally and I really want to try it. My friends aren't big on the singleton thing but I didn't know there were some new EDH decks coming out so that really helps. Again though, the biggest issue with that is time. Four players with forty life is quite a time commitment.
I think someone suggested that whatever we decide on I should still play Standard as well. Playing multiple formats could be a lot of money but if I'm smart and keep it budget enough I think that's the best option. 30$ for an EDH deck, keep the standard deck I have for our own little modern group and then maybe 20-40$ every once in a while to keep up with standard and increase my general card pool isn't too bad. Thanks guys. Of course I still have to talk with my friends and see what college students and FNM looks like.
So I mostly play just casual multiplayer with three other dude. It's great fun and we really get into it. We recently realized that there's rules to what one can put into a deck so we all invested in standard legal decks to play. This was great because then I couldn't use my sliver deck which is not only over powered but just not very fun to build or play.
Of course we're just now realizing that we have to spend money on completely new decks by the end of September... That can add up when you're just playing casual 4-player. So my question is what format should we play? It of course has to be good for casual 4-player and not too expensive. I liked the idea of EDH, I've seen some guys play it in high school, but my friends didn't really like the "one card each" rule and, more importantly, everyone starts with 40 life so the games would take forever!
I looked into modern format which doesn't cycle out, it seemed okay at first. But then I looked at the legal sets and there would be thousands of cards we'd have to get to know and love it's kinda hard to just jump into that. Also, looking into it a bit more, the power level is greatly increased and it looks like most decks are built around these infinite loop combos to either gain endless amounts of life or deck out opponents instantly. This completely changes the game and reverses the focus of our strategies. Just doesn't sound appealing.
I honestly like the cycle idea in formats, coming from playing lots of yugioh it's a great way to keep power levels in check, it's just so expensive. So I though extended format might be good. The bigger card pool means that we won't have to change our decks as much for each cycle and it's not so big that it would be overwhelming with all these must have power cards. Looking further though, it seems extended format will be officially retired come October or something.
I know that doesn't matter much if we play casually but one of the other things I'd like is to branch out and play more with other people. I'm starting college next year and my friends started last year and it sounds like a lot of people there play magic during breaks and stuff. But they probably all play standard or at least some sanctioned format so I'd like to build a deck I could use against them. Same with Friday Night Magic, I'd like to visit one of those once I quit work and see what that's all about but if they all play standard then I probably shouldn't switch to our own personal unsanctioned format.
Well that's annoying. I can understand some of it. Burn and mill are really just technical terms. I don't understand what Bob is supposed to be but I'm sure my friends will get a kick out of that. We shorten things too of course but not to the point that it sounds silly.
One of the things that's kind of annoying but that I can live with is calling every three mana 2/2 a bear and 4 mana 3/3 a troll or something. Hard to get the hang of that but I can understand why.
I recently started getting into this game. I've played a lot of Yugioh so I'm not completely helpless. Me and a couple friends put together some standard legal decks and we play 4-player every other night or so. It's good fun.
Anyway, i haven't really had much chance to talk to anyone who is competitive. At least not while I was playing Magic. One of my (and my friends) biggest pet peeves in Yugioh always was those dorks who over abbreviate everything. "I rota for BLS then heavy and GG" or something like that. Ugh, makes my skin crawl....
So are there those people in this game? Do people cast Searing Spear on Thragtusk or do they "Spear a Thrag?"
I'd like to try this. This is interesting because in regular Magic, you have to manage two resources: mana and card advantage. This essentially combines the two. Stronger cards literally cost more card advantage to play. Also, the strongest cards can be played on turn one. I can draw a lot of parallels to Yugioh. Hope your card game turns out well.
I threw together a bunch of stuff I had to come up with a pretty mediocre aura heroic/hexproof deck. I like that it stands up pretty well to my friend's mono-B devotion but I don't want to commit to a deck like hexproof that a lot of people say is cheap, un-interactive and auto-play. I want something fun that gives my opponents a chance but maybe wouldn't be too weak to my friend's Black Devotion.
It's for multiplayer but should be standard legal. Until the end of September. The format is home made, it's like extended from Innistrad. We wanted to play with a format that wouldn't cycle but wouldn't contain a bunch of over powered cards and decks with infinite loop combos. So basically we're playing standard without any cycling. The deck will be completely for multiplayer. So the short answer to your question is: the second one. Standard legal multiplayer deck.
Technically we're playing standard format but we decided we don't want to keep up with the constant, expensive cycling, so for multiplayer we decided were going to just play anything in Innistrad block and after.
I wanted to see if I could spend a few bucks to make my deck a little better. I'd prefer to stick to green and white colors for this deck, just because. It looks like the best bet for those colors is the token creature/populate deck but I wonder if something like that would be very effective in multiplayer. So is it worth it or should I try something else instead?
I got my questions answered, everybody else is just posting their own opinions as facts to hear their own voice, so yeah, I am trolling at this point. Doesn't mean I don't believe it though. I've never heard a girl talk seriously about any game. There's no drive to win and no love for strategy. Girls play pokemon cause Mew is cute and the guy at school who plays pokemon is cute, but if a girl could tell me the most efficient way to train a pokemon for battle I'll eat my boot. Yeah
Trolling Infraction
Trolling/blatant bigotry infraction —Rax
I'm not saying young girls can't learn how to play magic, but rather that males are on another level when it comes to games in general.
A little boy could, but not a little girl. Not without some amount of luck.
Warning for Trolling/blatant sexism
I really really like EDH personally and I really want to try it. My friends aren't big on the singleton thing but I didn't know there were some new EDH decks coming out so that really helps. Again though, the biggest issue with that is time. Four players with forty life is quite a time commitment.
I think someone suggested that whatever we decide on I should still play Standard as well. Playing multiple formats could be a lot of money but if I'm smart and keep it budget enough I think that's the best option. 30$ for an EDH deck, keep the standard deck I have for our own little modern group and then maybe 20-40$ every once in a while to keep up with standard and increase my general card pool isn't too bad. Thanks guys. Of course I still have to talk with my friends and see what college students and FNM looks like.
Of course we're just now realizing that we have to spend money on completely new decks by the end of September... That can add up when you're just playing casual 4-player. So my question is what format should we play? It of course has to be good for casual 4-player and not too expensive. I liked the idea of EDH, I've seen some guys play it in high school, but my friends didn't really like the "one card each" rule and, more importantly, everyone starts with 40 life so the games would take forever!
I looked into modern format which doesn't cycle out, it seemed okay at first. But then I looked at the legal sets and there would be thousands of cards we'd have to get to know and love it's kinda hard to just jump into that. Also, looking into it a bit more, the power level is greatly increased and it looks like most decks are built around these infinite loop combos to either gain endless amounts of life or deck out opponents instantly. This completely changes the game and reverses the focus of our strategies. Just doesn't sound appealing.
I honestly like the cycle idea in formats, coming from playing lots of yugioh it's a great way to keep power levels in check, it's just so expensive. So I though extended format might be good. The bigger card pool means that we won't have to change our decks as much for each cycle and it's not so big that it would be overwhelming with all these must have power cards. Looking further though, it seems extended format will be officially retired come October or something.
I know that doesn't matter much if we play casually but one of the other things I'd like is to branch out and play more with other people. I'm starting college next year and my friends started last year and it sounds like a lot of people there play magic during breaks and stuff. But they probably all play standard or at least some sanctioned format so I'd like to build a deck I could use against them. Same with Friday Night Magic, I'd like to visit one of those once I quit work and see what that's all about but if they all play standard then I probably shouldn't switch to our own personal unsanctioned format.
Well that's annoying. I can understand some of it. Burn and mill are really just technical terms. I don't understand what Bob is supposed to be but I'm sure my friends will get a kick out of that. We shorten things too of course but not to the point that it sounds silly.
One of the things that's kind of annoying but that I can live with is calling every three mana 2/2 a bear and 4 mana 3/3 a troll or something. Hard to get the hang of that but I can understand why.
Anyway, i haven't really had much chance to talk to anyone who is competitive. At least not while I was playing Magic. One of my (and my friends) biggest pet peeves in Yugioh always was those dorks who over abbreviate everything. "I rota for BLS then heavy and GG" or something like that. Ugh, makes my skin crawl....
So are there those people in this game? Do people cast Searing Spear on Thragtusk or do they "Spear a Thrag?"