I just want to see a planeswalker trying to use dredge. Lets see, I'm going to lobotomize myself and then murder you using zombies made out of my brain.
I would laugh so hard.
Also with the Spirit Storm deck strategy from Innistrad...
"I'm going to summon geists to haunt me and curse myself with this blood stained book as I open the door to a cellar to let zombies munch on my mind so I can kill you with every spell I forgot while all of this happened"
It's become far more absurd (and frankly just stupid) now that the game is a creature slugfest. Walkers are just glorified beastmasters summoning endless dudes to punch each other, which is exactly what Walker's aren't (Garruk aside).
Seriously...?
That's kinda how I imagine flash battles... soe guy just summons Ball Lighting, it strikes the guy floating in fron of him to then explode, then the other guy focuses on launching an spell when another ball lightning comes and knocks him off... No interaction between the wizards other than the creatures being used as cannonballs.
I mean, it's like... two wariors on floating platforms in the middle of nowhere; one of them suddenly summons a Pelakka Wurm to munch the oponent, and then the oponent calls the Saprolings floating on his side to climb and bite the Pelakka Wurm, hurting him and forcing the beast to stop, so the wizard can use an aditional spell to make a lightning fry the wurm for good... Then the other wizard laughs and summons a Transcendent Master...
Is it really this way? Because I've imagined many riddiculous situations...
According to Brady, Inertia.
The guilds were gutted, but the structures remained and they gradually filled again just by weight of having existed for 10 thousand years.
It is a poor excuse, but it is what we have.
So, I don't get it.... Agents of Artifice happens after Return to Ravnica?
Well, if it's true, then it's another horrible ending... the guilds rise again and afer 10 thousand years Ravnica returns to be the place it was: controlled by maniacs...
I hope the danged guilds get blown up or something already...
However since New Phyrexia, my hopes of this story achieving a happy ending of freedom for the Gateless has been clouded by a horrible ending where Izzet makes it to domain every guild...
Well, yeah, I don't mind marrying a caucasian woman since what I want is actually to marry a foreign lander, however I have a preference over asians but... seems culturaly impossible, besides my ex, I've yet to meet aother asian woman that likes latin americans, I've never met an asian-black or asian-latino couple.
Ehhhh kinda dissapointing, but yeah, I'll get over it...
However USA really seems like a nice place to settle on, and I bet it's waaaay easier to find more MTG there
Wel, about asian women, it might have been that, besides I have a preference for them because they are the prettiest on earth (I wouldn't mind marrying a caucasian or black women tough, a woman is a woman nonethless and a fellow human and lifetime partner after all), but I've felt comfortable arround them, and the fact my first love was a south korean and my ex girlfriend was vietnamese kinda marked my life, since I loved their cultures, and well... Mexico and Asia haven't been on good terms lately, mostly because of the racism people in Mexico shows towards asian people, globalizing them as "chinese immigrats" regardless their procedence, and being "douches" overall. Part of the fact I think most asian women are not even itnerested in me is due to bad experiences here; I once tried to get out with a waitress from Odaiba, but it was trough an online dating service, and tough we kinda liked eachother, she seemed quite confused by the fact I was a mexican, and even tough we started getting along, we well... lived in different parts of the world, which sucked... since the only webcam session we had was while she was just getting up from bed and I was fighting against sleep... About cultural shock, there are not many things I would miss from mexican culture besides the food; in fact, I've never ever felt like I fit here, it's like I'm from another planet.
Now, about USA. My ex girlfriend and I are still very good friends, and tough we don't keep in touch that often, we have very nice chats, my family likes her, and we talk about visiting one eachother once in a while. I get along with her sister as well. However sometimes I doubt she would help me stablish there since when I asked her for tips to stablish myself on USA she just said "marry someone". I know she would be of great help if I go to Florida, but she practically said "you're not gonna get any help if you move to a place that is not Florida, since I'm not moving away from here".
Well, I'd really rather go to the United States since it's a multi-cultural country, and I've met many people I respect and that have a special place in my heart. I WAS thinking I should go to South Korea, since as I was seeing on FORBES and World Business International, design, publicity and cyber media have a broad acceptance and market over there, however I've heard South Koreans are way more xenophobic and rascist than japanese people. I've never really had any korean friends and I have to say I don't know much about their country and culture (besides the war stuff), and the fact I was in love with a south korean lady on Highschool was very influential since she seemed to be disgusted by me or something, which led me to think asian women just don't want anything to do with latin americans (yeah yeah yeah, I have this horrible tendency to judge masses :/ ).
The fact USA is closer and I have a couple friends an an ex-girlfriend over there makes me feel better, as they've stated before that they would be happy if I make it over there and well, that means I'm not alone on a 100% unknown land, plus I can speak english and write it, which is a plus. However, I don't know how's the market over there for media designers, as my goal is to be on a character and creature concept team for something like, say, WOTC. I'm pretty good with pubilicity as well but I don't know of many latin americans on the TV/Cyber media. Now, you've noticed I really really want to marry a woman from another country (I really like asian women), and well, USA has everything, which is a plus. What kinda drives me off is, as you said, my prejudices abour latin americans not finding good jobs over there.
Well, I started playing MTG when I was arround 8 years old I think, started with the Mirrodin Block, my first deck being Wicked Big.
I remember before the 2011 blocks, Wicked Big could still wipe the floor of some more contemporary core decks and custom decks. I then found a Spiritcraft deck from the BoK set, and I then go all the 4 Zendikar Intro Packs and a New Phyrexia Deck: Devouring Skies. Most of my card collection comes from Innistrad, Kamigawa and Zendikar, and I have many goodies I found on packs, such as Transcendent Master (RoE), Tree of Redemption (Ind), and That Which Was Taken (SoK).
Well, recently my friends got the only Gatecrash decks that were aviable on my local store (sadly, I'm not from the states) and I noticed my decks and custom decks were about useless against their strategies; I was about to defeat a friend with the Orzhov Deck using my custom Lightning Ball aggro, but he still defeated me when he had 1 life left.
I just feel my older cards are lackluster now, specially the Kamigawa ones, as the spirit counters and spiritcraft strategies are nowadays VERY slow, and I can't see them surviving; which it's a shame as I loved Kamigawa, but I can't find better ways to expand its power anymore. Same with Zendikar; Totem Power and Leveler's Glory were awesome, specially adding some Innistrad cards, but not now.
My best decks are my custom Lightning Ball and my Custom "Mental Depletion" Deck, which centers arround two Mindshriekers with indestructibbility cards, Decimator Web and 2 Jace's Erasure, plus, 4 Ghastly Prisons to avoid being outnumbered.
Well, so, what do you think the future of the mechanics will be? Are we gonna be able to still use them? Or is this becoming the new Yu Gi Oh? I find Gatecrash to be a huge dissapointment gameplay-wise...
Well, I actually live in Mexico, and I study Multimedia Design and Marketing. My goal is to make it out of the country and get a job as a designer elsewhere, marry a foreign woman, and make a living.
I can apply for a scholarship to either Japan or USA, which are great places to develop my skills as a media designer and publicist, and both places have cultures I love.
However, the fact of being alone on either place is kinda scary, considering that mexicans aren't really welcome in many countries nowadays. I've heard that it's hard to get a respectable job being latin americcan on USA, BUT I've met many, many people from there that are just really nice, and makes me doubt what they say; plus my english skills are actually not that bad, I even used to have a girlfriend from Florida.
I like Japanese culture since well, I'm a really sedentary and individualist person that respects traditions and values; however I've heard japanese people are really, really unwelcoming with any stranger, and since one of my goals is getting married to a foreginer, I think that could be a promlem, specialy since I heard many girls arround my age in Japan hold "S-Class relationships", which is a soft form of lesbianism, and that would make me quite uncomfortable, as I would like to be with a straight woman.
Sorry if I show any sort of prejudice, I'm just sleepy and confused about all of this, been staring at the ceiling for a while and well... here I am...
I live in Latin America, in the country many of you know as Mexico.
I'm a catholic man, 21 years old, who studies Multimedia Design, Marketing and Communications in the humble city of Morelia; and I think I don't fit said society. Why you ask?. Part of it are my religious beliefs.
Of course, there's all sort of people on earth with different points of view, but I've been close to the north american society since I've been young. My mother traveled and lived in Louissiana for a while when she was a teenager, my unlce lives in Chicago a successful life, and my first (and only) girlfriend (before breakup...) was an asian american from Florida.
I've noticed, specialy on web gathering spots like this, that there's some kind of "harmony" between believers and non believers. What makes me say this is that I live in a country where the fact of being a man is nowadays (or seems to be) tied to atheism; in order to be a cool, succesful man that stands up as an outgoing macho, you must be an atheist.
I know the atheist and religious philosophies aren't really different here and there, but I've noticed that people here has more respect to some extent. The generation of the 90's is not very attached to religion, and people with religious beliefs of any kind is downgraded as social scum. This was more visible when I was studying philosophy; the fact I was catholic ended up as an excuse for stalking, physical agression and many more.
Tough I've fond north americans who really don't care and still insult and mock anything that doesn't fit their beliefs, I've met many more people who will understand my religious point of view; even non believers who'd rather stay on good terms instead of running into agression. Non believers in Mexico are really agressive, both physical and psychologicaly. As Katy Perry said, "Blasphemy for entertainment is as nice as a comedian making fart jokes during dinner". Here, it seems that everything related to blaesphemies is passed by the success sensor as " a big hit ". In USA, I've noticed individual philosophies are even more protected, even by the laws.I am glad arrive here to the Salvation forums and see I can still fit in this society; with nonbelievers and believers.
Well, a friend and I have been playing MTG for a while.
I like to build and tinker arround decks, and I usually come up with good ideas, however I'm not THAT good, and I lack the "strategist" part of my brain or something.
He just got an Orzhov deck from Gatecrash, the "Orzhov Opression". He was actually good using that deck, since it can win pretty quickly with its exhort and lifelink abilities; plus it has an insta-win combo. I noticed his deck was powerful, so I made a mistake... I adviced him to add Elesh Norn into the deck, and combo her with two "Bloodline Keepers", to transform the deck into a lifelink minion spam, and with Norn, the tokens become 7/7 in no time... He did, and I haven't been able to defeat him since then. Worse; he just got Sorin, Lord of Innistrad and a Trascendent Master from Zendikar block.
I need to think how to defeat him, since no matter what I try, I just can't. I'll list the prebuild decks I have:
-Leveler's Glory (Zendikar)
-Totem Power (Zendikar)
-Spiritcraft (Kamigawa)
-Devouring Skies (New Phyrexia)
-Wicked Big (Mirrodin)
-Ajani vs Blolas
-Sorin vs Tibalt
-The Coalition vs Phyrexians
I have those decks to use as a base; plus, I have a bunch of cards (mostly blue and white) from the Zendikar and Kamigawa blocks.
I don't have any means of getting new cards anytime soon, plus I don't live in the States, so getting cards is a little bit harder.
Any suggestions or strategies against Orzhov are welcome.
What happens is that people has a tendency to globalize christianity/catholicism as a whole, when there are more than a thousand churches with different toughts and ethics... We only share a God, but some times churches use different texts, and some of them are very small and could be considered as "sects".
Churches as well have different ways of understanding God; some see them as the ultimate punisher, the God of Anger that will whipe out the non belivers and take the "pure ones" to the Thousand Year Kingdom, others see YHVH as a being who doesn't cares abut humanity and is waiting for the day he will return to see how we're doing and judge us to our doom, we for example, see Him as a God of unending love and forgiveness.
The problem with the "globalization" of the churches as a whole philosophy is that some times, those of different churches are attacked by stuff others said or did. As a catholic, for example, I had a hard time with people laughing at my beliefs since "God was going to destoy the world on March 10th 2011", thing that a christian sect VERY different to catholicism said and of course, never happened.
Of course, I've met EVERY kind of christian... my ex girlfriend and now loved friend, an asian american of Christian Baptist denomination, has some slightly different beliefs from mines, and well, we get along VERY GOOD, but I have noticed (even a Baptist friend of hers told me) that as you said, some times people thinks they're "closer to the Lord" and that is enough for them to feel like they can judge, satanize and condemn everyone.
Catholicism means "universal", we like to learn from many religions, and we actually hold some congresses with people from other churches and beliefs (last one, a very heartwarming encounter between budhists and many christian churches), but some other churches belive that poeple who actually are not worshiping God will not be saved.
AND you have to take in consideration: God is lived differently, worhip and philosophy changes deppending on the individual... IN and OUTSIDE every church, you will find a self-righteous a-hole who will speak highly and undeniably idiotic of himself, pointing everyone else he considers "unworthy".
Oh... and congratulations for having such a GOOD religious debate forum... of course, there are flames/trolls/religious and atheist fanatics from time to time... but GOSH it's better than the religious debate forums of my favorite website O_O This is a debate, not Sparta n_n;
Also with the Spirit Storm deck strategy from Innistrad...
"I'm going to summon geists to haunt me and curse myself with this blood stained book as I open the door to a cellar to let zombies munch on my mind so I can kill you with every spell I forgot while all of this happened"
Seriously...?
That's kinda how I imagine flash battles... soe guy just summons Ball Lighting, it strikes the guy floating in fron of him to then explode, then the other guy focuses on launching an spell when another ball lightning comes and knocks him off... No interaction between the wizards other than the creatures being used as cannonballs.
I mean, it's like... two wariors on floating platforms in the middle of nowhere; one of them suddenly summons a Pelakka Wurm to munch the oponent, and then the oponent calls the Saprolings floating on his side to climb and bite the Pelakka Wurm, hurting him and forcing the beast to stop, so the wizard can use an aditional spell to make a lightning fry the wurm for good... Then the other wizard laughs and summons a Transcendent Master...
Is it really this way? Because I've imagined many riddiculous situations...
So, I don't get it.... Agents of Artifice happens after Return to Ravnica?
Well, if it's true, then it's another horrible ending... the guilds rise again and afer 10 thousand years Ravnica returns to be the place it was: controlled by maniacs...
Only Kamigawa got a happy ending or what?
However since New Phyrexia, my hopes of this story achieving a happy ending of freedom for the Gateless has been clouded by a horrible ending where Izzet makes it to domain every guild...
Thanks! Now to keep this Ball Lightning rollin'....
The situation is that as I undesrtand it, I can menace a player to either lose 5 llife, or lose no life at all and let me draw three cards...
How EXACTLY do I lose this aganist my opponent?
Ehhhh kinda dissapointing, but yeah, I'll get over it...
However USA really seems like a nice place to settle on, and I bet it's waaaay easier to find more MTG there
Now, about USA. My ex girlfriend and I are still very good friends, and tough we don't keep in touch that often, we have very nice chats, my family likes her, and we talk about visiting one eachother once in a while. I get along with her sister as well. However sometimes I doubt she would help me stablish there since when I asked her for tips to stablish myself on USA she just said "marry someone". I know she would be of great help if I go to Florida, but she practically said "you're not gonna get any help if you move to a place that is not Florida, since I'm not moving away from here".
The fact USA is closer and I have a couple friends an an ex-girlfriend over there makes me feel better, as they've stated before that they would be happy if I make it over there and well, that means I'm not alone on a 100% unknown land, plus I can speak english and write it, which is a plus. However, I don't know how's the market over there for media designers, as my goal is to be on a character and creature concept team for something like, say, WOTC. I'm pretty good with pubilicity as well but I don't know of many latin americans on the TV/Cyber media. Now, you've noticed I really really want to marry a woman from another country (I really like asian women), and well, USA has everything, which is a plus. What kinda drives me off is, as you said, my prejudices abour latin americans not finding good jobs over there.
I remember before the 2011 blocks, Wicked Big could still wipe the floor of some more contemporary core decks and custom decks. I then found a Spiritcraft deck from the BoK set, and I then go all the 4 Zendikar Intro Packs and a New Phyrexia Deck: Devouring Skies. Most of my card collection comes from Innistrad, Kamigawa and Zendikar, and I have many goodies I found on packs, such as Transcendent Master (RoE), Tree of Redemption (Ind), and That Which Was Taken (SoK).
Well, recently my friends got the only Gatecrash decks that were aviable on my local store (sadly, I'm not from the states) and I noticed my decks and custom decks were about useless against their strategies; I was about to defeat a friend with the Orzhov Deck using my custom Lightning Ball aggro, but he still defeated me when he had 1 life left.
I just feel my older cards are lackluster now, specially the Kamigawa ones, as the spirit counters and spiritcraft strategies are nowadays VERY slow, and I can't see them surviving; which it's a shame as I loved Kamigawa, but I can't find better ways to expand its power anymore. Same with Zendikar; Totem Power and Leveler's Glory were awesome, specially adding some Innistrad cards, but not now.
My best decks are my custom Lightning Ball and my Custom "Mental Depletion" Deck, which centers arround two Mindshriekers with indestructibbility cards, Decimator Web and 2 Jace's Erasure, plus, 4 Ghastly Prisons to avoid being outnumbered.
Well, so, what do you think the future of the mechanics will be? Are we gonna be able to still use them? Or is this becoming the new Yu Gi Oh? I find Gatecrash to be a huge dissapointment gameplay-wise...
I can apply for a scholarship to either Japan or USA, which are great places to develop my skills as a media designer and publicist, and both places have cultures I love.
However, the fact of being alone on either place is kinda scary, considering that mexicans aren't really welcome in many countries nowadays. I've heard that it's hard to get a respectable job being latin americcan on USA, BUT I've met many, many people from there that are just really nice, and makes me doubt what they say; plus my english skills are actually not that bad, I even used to have a girlfriend from Florida.
I like Japanese culture since well, I'm a really sedentary and individualist person that respects traditions and values; however I've heard japanese people are really, really unwelcoming with any stranger, and since one of my goals is getting married to a foreginer, I think that could be a promlem, specialy since I heard many girls arround my age in Japan hold "S-Class relationships", which is a soft form of lesbianism, and that would make me quite uncomfortable, as I would like to be with a straight woman.
Sorry if I show any sort of prejudice, I'm just sleepy and confused about all of this, been staring at the ceiling for a while and well... here I am...
I live in Latin America, in the country many of you know as Mexico.
I'm a catholic man, 21 years old, who studies Multimedia Design, Marketing and Communications in the humble city of Morelia; and I think I don't fit said society. Why you ask?. Part of it are my religious beliefs.
Of course, there's all sort of people on earth with different points of view, but I've been close to the north american society since I've been young. My mother traveled and lived in Louissiana for a while when she was a teenager, my unlce lives in Chicago a successful life, and my first (and only) girlfriend (before breakup...) was an asian american from Florida.
I've noticed, specialy on web gathering spots like this, that there's some kind of "harmony" between believers and non believers. What makes me say this is that I live in a country where the fact of being a man is nowadays (or seems to be) tied to atheism; in order to be a cool, succesful man that stands up as an outgoing macho, you must be an atheist.
I know the atheist and religious philosophies aren't really different here and there, but I've noticed that people here has more respect to some extent. The generation of the 90's is not very attached to religion, and people with religious beliefs of any kind is downgraded as social scum. This was more visible when I was studying philosophy; the fact I was catholic ended up as an excuse for stalking, physical agression and many more.
Tough I've fond north americans who really don't care and still insult and mock anything that doesn't fit their beliefs, I've met many more people who will understand my religious point of view; even non believers who'd rather stay on good terms instead of running into agression. Non believers in Mexico are really agressive, both physical and psychologicaly. As Katy Perry said, "Blasphemy for entertainment is as nice as a comedian making fart jokes during dinner". Here, it seems that everything related to blaesphemies is passed by the success sensor as " a big hit ". In USA, I've noticed individual philosophies are even more protected, even by the laws.I am glad arrive here to the Salvation forums and see I can still fit in this society; with nonbelievers and believers.
I don't really know how the situation is, b
I like to build and tinker arround decks, and I usually come up with good ideas, however I'm not THAT good, and I lack the "strategist" part of my brain or something.
He just got an Orzhov deck from Gatecrash, the "Orzhov Opression". He was actually good using that deck, since it can win pretty quickly with its exhort and lifelink abilities; plus it has an insta-win combo. I noticed his deck was powerful, so I made a mistake... I adviced him to add Elesh Norn into the deck, and combo her with two "Bloodline Keepers", to transform the deck into a lifelink minion spam, and with Norn, the tokens become 7/7 in no time... He did, and I haven't been able to defeat him since then. Worse; he just got Sorin, Lord of Innistrad and a Trascendent Master from Zendikar block.
I need to think how to defeat him, since no matter what I try, I just can't. I'll list the prebuild decks I have:
-Leveler's Glory (Zendikar)
-Totem Power (Zendikar)
-Spiritcraft (Kamigawa)
-Devouring Skies (New Phyrexia)
-Wicked Big (Mirrodin)
-Ajani vs Blolas
-Sorin vs Tibalt
-The Coalition vs Phyrexians
I have those decks to use as a base; plus, I have a bunch of cards (mostly blue and white) from the Zendikar and Kamigawa blocks.
I don't have any means of getting new cards anytime soon, plus I don't live in the States, so getting cards is a little bit harder.
Any suggestions or strategies against Orzhov are welcome.
What happens is that people has a tendency to globalize christianity/catholicism as a whole, when there are more than a thousand churches with different toughts and ethics... We only share a God, but some times churches use different texts, and some of them are very small and could be considered as "sects".
Churches as well have different ways of understanding God; some see them as the ultimate punisher, the God of Anger that will whipe out the non belivers and take the "pure ones" to the Thousand Year Kingdom, others see YHVH as a being who doesn't cares abut humanity and is waiting for the day he will return to see how we're doing and judge us to our doom, we for example, see Him as a God of unending love and forgiveness.
The problem with the "globalization" of the churches as a whole philosophy is that some times, those of different churches are attacked by stuff others said or did. As a catholic, for example, I had a hard time with people laughing at my beliefs since "God was going to destoy the world on March 10th 2011", thing that a christian sect VERY different to catholicism said and of course, never happened.
Of course, I've met EVERY kind of christian... my ex girlfriend and now loved friend, an asian american of Christian Baptist denomination, has some slightly different beliefs from mines, and well, we get along VERY GOOD, but I have noticed (even a Baptist friend of hers told me) that as you said, some times people thinks they're "closer to the Lord" and that is enough for them to feel like they can judge, satanize and condemn everyone.
Catholicism means "universal", we like to learn from many religions, and we actually hold some congresses with people from other churches and beliefs (last one, a very heartwarming encounter between budhists and many christian churches), but some other churches belive that poeple who actually are not worshiping God will not be saved.
AND you have to take in consideration: God is lived differently, worhip and philosophy changes deppending on the individual... IN and OUTSIDE every church, you will find a self-righteous a-hole who will speak highly and undeniably idiotic of himself, pointing everyone else he considers "unworthy".
Oh... and congratulations for having such a GOOD religious debate forum... of course, there are flames/trolls/religious and atheist fanatics from time to time... but GOSH it's better than the religious debate forums of my favorite website O_O This is a debate, not Sparta n_n;