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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by OneEye589 » Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:37 pm

I have tons of Ice Age, Homelands, and 4th Core. Most of my stuff is from Scourge and around that time though.

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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by Zupponn » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:22 pm

The time around Scourge (Odyssey block and Onslaught block to be exact) was one of the best times in the game's history.
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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by OneEye589 » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:44 pm

Thinking back and looking at lists of the different blocks, I have mostly:

8th Core
Ice Age
Planeshift (I think I have most of this set, aside from the rarest)
Onslaught
Scourge
Mirrodin

I stopped around Fifth Dawn. I got a few packs and that's it. I also got a few packs of the first Kamigawa set.

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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by Keldoclock » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:50 am

I've got some of the Berlin 2005 cards.
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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by Zupponn » Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:50 pm

I have too many cards. I'm working on my 4th shoebox of them.
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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by Tzan » Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:01 pm

I only have 1 shoebox of cards.

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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by tymon555 » Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:57 am

I play red blue CounterBurn deck and i rulez (unfortunately, only in home).
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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by BFenix » Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:30 pm

I started playing when everyone was hyped about Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon and Digimon TCGs. Still play it, has kept me some friendships alive.

Something like once a month me and a bud of mine visit our "local" hobby shop and check out the new expansions and play against other people. :protip: If you want to get better, stick to one single deck and challenge various people with different decks, from that, you just keep going and improving. It's really hard to keep up with MTG unless you're taking it seriously. By the time I get enough money to have a taste of something new, something newer shows up.

Anyways, I love this game and I can easily say it's right next to Brikwars as my favorite games.

You'll usually see me playing with a goblin deck, a red/black destroy or an experimental red/blue. I went to a tournament last year, won a FOIL Nightmare and a Ursa's Legacy deck, not bad eh? :P
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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by Scottsman » Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:47 pm

A friend of mine created a proliferate deck with the sole purpose of helping me kick ass in doubleheaded giant. So far we only lost against the 2 people in our group who we all recognize as pants shittingly good.
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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by Zupponn » Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:33 pm

Scottsman wrote:pants shittingly good.
That's me. Sadly that leads to trouble playing with my more casual friends. I have to build a deck bad on purpose in order to give them a chance.
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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by Timedude » Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:10 pm

I've played a little with my suitemate, he's not super serious about it or anything, plays strictly casual, but judging for his boxes he brings up.. Man. Anyway, played a half dozen to dozen games with some of his deck builds last semester over a month or so, haven't really played since. It wasn't that I disliked it.. I just saw the $$$ that would be involved to set up my own collection, and he would be basically the only person I would want to play with (except a brother who I'd have to bug to hell and back). So. There ya have it. :omnom:
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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by Scottsman » Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:03 pm

Just saw a friend of mine play his hydra deck today, hadn't seen it in action before. It was horrifying. At one point he had a 30/30 in play and all his creatures were hex proof. Than he played Phytohydra, still with the blanket hexproof. Needless to say, he won.
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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by BFenix » Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:11 pm

The latest Hydras are to be put out of the board ASAP. They can be a huge long term problem.
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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by Rev. Sylvanus » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:17 pm

Zupponn wrote:The time around Scourge (Odyssey block and Onslaught block to be exact) was one of the best times in the game's history.
That's about the time I left the game for the first time. Even though tournaments were broken as hell (Combo Winter anyone?), I have fond memories of Tempest/Urza blocks. But I think the greatest block of the game is/was Invasion-Planeshift-Apocalypse.

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Re: Magic: the gathering

Post by Zupponn » Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:59 pm

The reason I say that it was one of the best times is because of how high attendance rates were at tournaments at the time. There were some of the highest rates of tournament attendance around the Oddessy/Onslaught blocks.
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