The hard part is filling out the "non-winning" part of the deck. The question isn't whether a card is good, like Serra Avenger, it is will it work in a deck, which Serra Avenger never did in Standard yet.
Lots of counters, Cancel etc.., Wall of Air. For fun add red to your blue mix and get some sort of "Fire and Ice" deck with Incernate. Anything that you don't counter you would burn.
Obviously the new Incernate will kill Troll Ascetic, since it prevents regeneration. You could try to trick your opponent with a combat trick, or just to a straight out bluff. Troll Ascetis has staying power since it can regenerate, but I don't think he can win games by himself.
I wrote a program that lets you play Magic against the computer using all of the rules of a real game. My program was written just for fun and does not compete in any way against Magic Online. Magic Online has more cards and people.
My program has 401 cards and including the best cards from Magic’s history like Juzam Djinn, Wrath of God, Flametongue Kavu, and all the Moxes. You can also play sealed and draft, which I think is really cool. http://mtgrares.blogspot.com (updated)
Trample is now working, miscellaneous creatures with trampling were added. Wildsize and Tromp the Domains have trample also. 40+ cards were added to MTG Forge: Akroma, Angel of Wrath (no protection though), Essence Warden, Soul Warden, Nightmare, Magus of the Disk, Magus of the Library, Library of Alexandria, Tendrils of Corruption, Minions' Murmurs, Ichor Slick, Lucent Liminid, Boil, Baru, Fist of Krosa, Korlash, Heir to Blackblade, Tortuga. Ok you got me, Tortuga isn’t a real Wizards of the Coast card, but it is a cool card I made and you just can’t beat Johnny Depp. Maybe it is just me, but I think Johnny Depp deserves his own Magic card. I was told by a nephew of a guy that worked as Johnny Depp’s assistant that he heard that Johnny Depp loves Magic. It has to be true, right? If you download the card pictures check out Tortuga featuring Johnny Depp and a foil Wonder. (If you are using the card pictures from the previous version, you will have to delete the file Wonder.jpg in order to get the new version to download the foil Wonder.)
I added the two Future Sight cards Korlash, Heir to Blackblade and Baru, Fist of Krosa. The grandeur for those two cards and Tarox Bladewing all work, so have fun playing with those nice rares. In MTG Forge I put together a deck with 4x copies of all 3 of the grandeur creatures and it plays pretty good. It has 12 Ravnica duel lands in order to support all of the crazy mana requirements and for convenience it is only 40 cards. The deck is aptly named “grandeur.” “U-permission” is filled with Counterspells and Library of Alexandria. “Green-elvish-piper” now works better with Akroma, Angel of Wrath because it doesn’t tap and it also has haste, a rare combination.
Essence Warden and Soul Warden sounded cool, but gaining 1 life when another creature comes into play is only so so useful, probably for about 3-5 life I would guess. Magus of the Disk is a great 2/4 Wrath of a God. Magus of the Library is almost impossible to use. Compare that to Library of Alexandria which is totally worth the $200 dollars if you had to buy it in real life. I think it is cool when modern Magic players get to play with old school cards and see how they work and why they are so good. (I used two “ands” in one sentence, cool.) I would love to program Time Vault, but I haven’t tried yet.
The Ravnica duel lands now work correctly, you have to pay 2 life for them to come into play untapped. The computer also plays them correctly. The computer sometimes had a glitch when using the mana from Birds of Paradise and Vine Trellis. I think I solved the problem but I couldn’t test it for sure.
For those few people who actually are still reading, I spent about 4 hours programming these cards. Grandeur turned out to be a little harder than I initially thought, but it works great and I think they are fun cards. Soul Warden (and Essence Warden) work correctly most of the time except when another Soul Warden comes into play, you won’t gain life. My first iteration had the player gaining two life when the 2nd Soul Warden was played.
Thanks for the comments, even the negative ones, lol. No complaints yet from Wizards or DMCA
The program doesn't include any card pictures, but they can be downloaded. From the first screen there is a menu option called "Menu" and you can download the card pictures from there.
This is a program that I have always been waiting for. Yes the AI may not be as good yet, but you can't expect much especially since Magic is a very complicated game. I do wish there is an undo option though. And some of the lands (Terramorphic expanse and Library of Alexandria) don't have any text on them.
I know everyone wants more cards, me too. Programming all of standard would be great, but I would have to know the cards ahead of time. I would love to program the new Planeswalker card if anyone has any hints.
"Reanimate Dead" and "Soul Warden" thanks for pointing that out, there are bound to be a few errors.
>Could you put in all the cards in Xth?
Hopefully I can, at the very least I should be able to program most of the cards. I am currently working on 10th Edition.
Yeah trying to program cards that are current is very tough. Usually my program can't support the card mechanic like suspend, morph, etc... Currently I just have a bunch of power and fun card to use. I recently added Akroma, and it is fun to use.
Pithing Needle surprised me in 10th. What cards is it supposed to hose, or is it just a safety net like Flandor's Kane, that card that clears all graveyards.
To me Tarmogoyf seems like a card that is horrible on paper but in the right deck it is a killer. It is true what they say, "The deck makes the card." That is the reason Damnation and Serra Angel have not been too popular, there isn't a deck that really needs those cards.
Relentless Rats is a great casual card, too bad they are a little expensive. They are coming back in 10th edition. In my program MTG Forge, it has Relentless Rats, and a deck with all rats and a few other cards is pretty powerful.
I wrote a program that lets you play Magic against the computer using all of the rules of a real game. It has 401 cards and including the best cards from Magic’s history like Juzam Djinn, Wrath of God, Flametongue Kavu, and all the Moxes. You can also play sealed and draft, which I think is really cool. http://mtgrares.blogspot.com (updated link)
Trample is now working, miscellaneous creatures with trampling were added. Wildsize and Tromp the Domains have trample also. 40+ cards were added to MTG Forge: Akroma, Angel of Wrath (no protection though), Essence Warden, Soul Warden, Nightmare, Magus of the Disk, Magus of the Library, Library of Alexandria, Tendrils of Corruption, Minions' Murmurs, Ichor Slick, Lucent Liminid, Boil, Baru, Fist of Krosa, Korlash, Heir to Blackblade, Tortuga. Ok you got me, Tortuga isn’t a real Wizards of the Coast card, but it is a cool card I made and you just can’t beat Johnny Depp. Maybe it is just me, but I think Johnny Depp deserves his own Magic card. I was told by a nephew of a guy that worked as Johnny Depp’s assistant that he heard that Johnny Depp loves Magic. It has to be true, right? If you download the card pictures check out Tortuga featuring Johnny Depp and a foil Wonder. (If you are using the card pictures from the previous version, you will have to delete the file Wonder.jpg in order to get the new version to download the foil Wonder.)
I added the two Future Sight cards Korlash, Heir to Blackblade and Baru, Fist of Krosa. The grandeur for those two cards and Tarox Bladewing all work, so have fun playing with those nice rares. In MTG Forge I put together a deck with 4x copies of all 3 of the grandeur creatures and it plays pretty good. It has 12 Ravnica duel lands in order to support all of the crazy mana requirements and for convenience it is only 40 cards. The deck is aptly named “grandeur.” “U-permission” is filled with Counterspells and Library of Alexandria. “Green-elvish-piper” now works better with Akroma, Angel of Wrath because it doesn’t tap and it also has haste, a rare combination.
Essence Warden and Soul Warden sounded cool, but gaining 1 life when another creature comes into play is only so so useful, probably for about 3-5 life I would guess. Magus of the Disk is a great 2/4 Wrath of a God. Magus of the Library is almost impossible to use. Compare that to Library of Alexandria which is totally worth the $200 dollars if you had to buy it in real life. I think it is cool when modern Magic players get to play with old school cards and see how they work and why they are so good. (I used two “ands” in one sentence, cool.) I would love to program Time Vault, but I haven’t tried yet.
The Ravnica duel lands now work correctly, you have to pay 2 life for them to come into play untapped. The computer also plays them correctly. The computer sometimes had a glitch when using the mana from Birds of Paradise and Vine Trellis. I think I solved the problem but I couldn’t test it for sure.
For those few people who actually are still reading, I spent about 4 hours programming these cards. Grandeur turned out to be a little harder than I initially thought, but it works great and I think they are fun cards. Soul Warden (and Essence Warden) work correctly most of the time except when another Soul Warden comes into play, you won’t gain life. My first iteration had the player gaining two life when the 2nd Soul Warden was played.
I think it is interesting that he mentions White Weenie as well as land destruction decks. The trading aspect of the game seems a little diminished since you can buy singles from dealers. He also mentions the "rich kid syndrome", that a player can just buy all the good cards, unfortunately any time a card becomes popular since it get win a tournament it would become expensive, so there is no real way to combat the syndrome, all well, Magic still seems like a good game, lol.
I really enjoyed that old Magic game. Not being able to mulligan hurts, but it has alot of cards to use. It is fun playing with Black Lotus, the moxes, Ancestral Recall, etc... I got the game to work fine on Windows XP but I got it from the underdogs site, which is now dead.
Because I loved that old version of Magic so much, I wrote a program that lets you play Magic against the computer using all of the rules of a real game. It has 365 cards and including the best cards from Magic’s history (and many from the game) like Juzam Djinn, Ancestral Recall, and all the Moxes. You can also play sealed and draft, which I think is really cool. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtgforge
My program has 401 cards and including the best cards from Magic’s history like Juzam Djinn, Wrath of God, Flametongue Kavu, and all the Moxes. You can also play sealed and draft, which I think is really cool. http://mtgrares.blogspot.com (updated)
Trample is now working, miscellaneous creatures with trampling were added. Wildsize and Tromp the Domains have trample also. 40+ cards were added to MTG Forge: Akroma, Angel of Wrath (no protection though), Essence Warden, Soul Warden, Nightmare, Magus of the Disk, Magus of the Library, Library of Alexandria, Tendrils of Corruption, Minions' Murmurs, Ichor Slick, Lucent Liminid, Boil, Baru, Fist of Krosa, Korlash, Heir to Blackblade, Tortuga. Ok you got me, Tortuga isn’t a real Wizards of the Coast card, but it is a cool card I made and you just can’t beat Johnny Depp. Maybe it is just me, but I think Johnny Depp deserves his own Magic card. I was told by a nephew of a guy that worked as Johnny Depp’s assistant that he heard that Johnny Depp loves Magic. It has to be true, right? If you download the card pictures check out Tortuga featuring Johnny Depp and a foil Wonder. (If you are using the card pictures from the previous version, you will have to delete the file Wonder.jpg in order to get the new version to download the foil Wonder.)
I added the two Future Sight cards Korlash, Heir to Blackblade and Baru, Fist of Krosa. The grandeur for those two cards and Tarox Bladewing all work, so have fun playing with those nice rares. In MTG Forge I put together a deck with 4x copies of all 3 of the grandeur creatures and it plays pretty good. It has 12 Ravnica duel lands in order to support all of the crazy mana requirements and for convenience it is only 40 cards. The deck is aptly named “grandeur.” “U-permission” is filled with Counterspells and Library of Alexandria. “Green-elvish-piper” now works better with Akroma, Angel of Wrath because it doesn’t tap and it also has haste, a rare combination.
Essence Warden and Soul Warden sounded cool, but gaining 1 life when another creature comes into play is only so so useful, probably for about 3-5 life I would guess. Magus of the Disk is a great 2/4 Wrath of a God. Magus of the Library is almost impossible to use. Compare that to Library of Alexandria which is totally worth the $200 dollars if you had to buy it in real life. I think it is cool when modern Magic players get to play with old school cards and see how they work and why they are so good. (I used two “ands” in one sentence, cool.) I would love to program Time Vault, but I haven’t tried yet.
The Ravnica duel lands now work correctly, you have to pay 2 life for them to come into play untapped. The computer also plays them correctly. The computer sometimes had a glitch when using the mana from Birds of Paradise and Vine Trellis. I think I solved the problem but I couldn’t test it for sure.
For those few people who actually are still reading, I spent about 4 hours programming these cards. Grandeur turned out to be a little harder than I initially thought, but it works great and I think they are fun cards. Soul Warden (and Essence Warden) work correctly most of the time except when another Soul Warden comes into play, you won’t gain life. My first iteration had the player gaining two life when the 2nd Soul Warden was played.
The program doesn't include any card pictures, but they can be downloaded. From the first screen there is a menu option called "Menu" and you can download the card pictures from there.
Yes the computer plays Wrath of God and Damnation like a newbie, but otherwise it does pretty good. I'm glad you enjoy it though.
"Reanimate Dead" and "Soul Warden" thanks for pointing that out, there are bound to be a few errors.
>Could you put in all the cards in Xth?
Hopefully I can, at the very least I should be able to program most of the cards. I am currently working on 10th Edition.
I wrote a program that lets you play Magic against the computer using all of the rules of a real game. It has 401 cards and including the best cards from Magic’s history like Juzam Djinn, Wrath of God, Flametongue Kavu, and all the Moxes. You can also play sealed and draft, which I think is really cool. http://mtgrares.blogspot.com (updated link)
Trample is now working, miscellaneous creatures with trampling were added. Wildsize and Tromp the Domains have trample also. 40+ cards were added to MTG Forge: Akroma, Angel of Wrath (no protection though), Essence Warden, Soul Warden, Nightmare, Magus of the Disk, Magus of the Library, Library of Alexandria, Tendrils of Corruption, Minions' Murmurs, Ichor Slick, Lucent Liminid, Boil, Baru, Fist of Krosa, Korlash, Heir to Blackblade, Tortuga. Ok you got me, Tortuga isn’t a real Wizards of the Coast card, but it is a cool card I made and you just can’t beat Johnny Depp. Maybe it is just me, but I think Johnny Depp deserves his own Magic card. I was told by a nephew of a guy that worked as Johnny Depp’s assistant that he heard that Johnny Depp loves Magic. It has to be true, right? If you download the card pictures check out Tortuga featuring Johnny Depp and a foil Wonder. (If you are using the card pictures from the previous version, you will have to delete the file Wonder.jpg in order to get the new version to download the foil Wonder.)
I added the two Future Sight cards Korlash, Heir to Blackblade and Baru, Fist of Krosa. The grandeur for those two cards and Tarox Bladewing all work, so have fun playing with those nice rares. In MTG Forge I put together a deck with 4x copies of all 3 of the grandeur creatures and it plays pretty good. It has 12 Ravnica duel lands in order to support all of the crazy mana requirements and for convenience it is only 40 cards. The deck is aptly named “grandeur.” “U-permission” is filled with Counterspells and Library of Alexandria. “Green-elvish-piper” now works better with Akroma, Angel of Wrath because it doesn’t tap and it also has haste, a rare combination.
Essence Warden and Soul Warden sounded cool, but gaining 1 life when another creature comes into play is only so so useful, probably for about 3-5 life I would guess. Magus of the Disk is a great 2/4 Wrath of a God. Magus of the Library is almost impossible to use. Compare that to Library of Alexandria which is totally worth the $200 dollars if you had to buy it in real life. I think it is cool when modern Magic players get to play with old school cards and see how they work and why they are so good. (I used two “ands” in one sentence, cool.) I would love to program Time Vault, but I haven’t tried yet.
The Ravnica duel lands now work correctly, you have to pay 2 life for them to come into play untapped. The computer also plays them correctly. The computer sometimes had a glitch when using the mana from Birds of Paradise and Vine Trellis. I think I solved the problem but I couldn’t test it for sure.
For those few people who actually are still reading, I spent about 4 hours programming these cards. Grandeur turned out to be a little harder than I initially thought, but it works great and I think they are fun cards. Soul Warden (and Essence Warden) work correctly most of the time except when another Soul Warden comes into play, you won’t gain life. My first iteration had the player gaining two life when the 2nd Soul Warden was played.
Because I loved that old version of Magic so much, I wrote a program that lets you play Magic against the computer using all of the rules of a real game. It has 365 cards and including the best cards from Magic’s history (and many from the game) like Juzam Djinn, Ancestral Recall, and all the Moxes. You can also play sealed and draft, which I think is really cool. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtgforge