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The Rumored Unnatural Phenomenon

Mokou.

Ah~

I block with Madotsuki.

Nyann~

Kyou, who suddenly transforms into a Bane of the Living where X=6.

I block with my +15 grass crest shield

>>8809753
>bane of the living
my nigga I love that card, no one ever sees that shit coming

>>8809765
Depends on who's playing against who and how often you play against each other. Our group has a guy of which we know that when he plays a morph, it's either Bane or Exalted Angel. From context it's often possible to deduce which of the two it is.

(Naturally, it still goes off before anybody manages to do anything about it.)

I block with the report button.

>Implying I didn't Exile that Weak Mess last turn

>>8809778

>mana cost

What a worthless card

>>8809778
Broken as fuck.

:)

>>8809793
I want to make a deck around her, but black green isn't really a common color combination at all.

>>8809798

Yeah, you can make it work though. Use Undying creatures, espsecially Strangeroot Geist. Put a Hex Parasite in there, you can use it to remove +1/+1 counters from any creature that came back with undying; effectively giving it undying again.

>>8809792
>>8809781
>>8809778

When All the boards are bad at Magic... No one will be!

>>8809808

Implying giving all creatures flying and first strike does anything at all.

>>8809798
you mind slaver lock.
done deal.

>>8809778
I think there was a card that could easily deal with any planeswalker by destroying all their counters, but I can't remember what it was.

Or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass. I dunno, it's been a while since I played.

>>8809826
Vampire Hexmage

>>8809829
YES. That's the one, thank you. Someone I played with had those in his deck and I fucking hated them.

>>8809819
...That's the joke.

Have you seen the Incredibles?

>>8809798
black/green glissa can work somewhat

you can build around a lot of little interactions like piston sledge, perilous myr, ichor/mycosynth wellsprings, molder beast, and so on.

note that this hasnt really gained anything from innistrad block, and when i say "can work somewhat" i don't mean it could beat "good" decks consistently. still a lot of fun though

Sir Bearington, Legendary Bear Knight

I block it with one of Yuyuko's butterfly tokens, which have deathtouch. Too bad Grave Titan doesn't have trample.

>>8809798
Right now I'm running her in a Modern BGW Zombies deck, but all she recurs is Engineered Explosives and Tidehollow Scullers. I feel retarded whenever I PtE something, though.

I wanted to use the Mirrodin spellbombs but I can't really mainboard any and although the white and black ones would be nice in certain matchups, between my Glittering Wishboard and Kataki, the sideboard is full.

>>8809819
It effectively removes flying and first strike from all creatures, and makes double strike less powerful. It doesn't do what it seems to do at first, but it's still a very useful ability if you don't run any flyers and play low-toughness creatures.

>>8809997
It also interacts with cards that specifically require flying, such as Hurricane, Island Sanctuary and Form of the Dragon.

>>8809798
Uh, ever heard of Dredge? Put a whole bunch of cards in the graveyard and use reanimation/graveyard effects/graveyard triggers/graveyard as resource? Yesterday I was playing slow multiplayer casual and there was a prick who was trying his new Dredge deck. Long story short, by turn 5 he had over 30 cards in his graveyard, 8 2/2 zombie tokens and four creatures that returned from the graveyard to play with haste at the beginning of each turn. And that with only two lands.

Black-green is not only a commonly used combination, it's even a very tournament-viable combination.

Ugh

Okay

SO

Syndromes line was "Once Everyone is Super... No One Will Be"

The card reflects that- because giving EVERYTHING 1st Strike and flying makes those abilities pointless- hence by giving everything those special abilities, it makes those abilities pointless.

It's just a joke card.

Bumping a quality thread.

I block with a shitty 1/1 token, because fuck you.

anything past 6th edition is pure crap.

I block with my Cirno.

I stopped playing around timespiral because I didn't have friends anymore. does anyone else think the new wordings like "exile" and "battlefield" are really lame?

>>8810893
This. As the game progressed, they added too many gimmicks. Now you *need* the latest set, because the 5/5 with Flying and Haste you previously thought was cool doesn't have protection against the latest mechanic, Money Sink.

>>8810995
because legacy tournaments are just filled with all the new cards.

if they didnt do 'gimmicks' then no one would buy cards because they would get bored of the game.

>>8810995
>>8811133
Actually, the most overpowered cards are que ones legal for legacy pre-Mirrodin

>>8811434
But you've also got recent cards that for the same mana cost have +1 or an ability over a traditional one.

I like when they introduce interesting mechanics, not blanket ones.

>>8810995
Every TCG has power creep. Magic has it very slowly compared to other TCGs, though. That, combined with the fact that they sometimes take a step back power-wise (Mercadian Masques, Kamigawa, Innistrad) makes MTG very balanced for a TCG. With the introduction of the Mythic rarity it's been going faster, though. I'm not sure if Innistrad is enough of a step back.

As for Legacy and Vintage, they're not valid points of comparison. They're littered with mistakes design made over a span of 19 years. Every set has a couple cards or a mechanic that proves too strong, and the eternal formats combine all of the mistakes made in 19 years * 3+ expansions per year. It's a miracle the formats are even playable.

I've always been interested in MTG, but never actually played it. Is there a way I can play it on my PC against the computer? Preferably for free

>>8811508
I think Wizards made an MtG: Online where you pay for cards, but you get the basic sets for free.

There are also programs like Apprentice I think it was called, but they were basically just aids to playing over IRC or IM.

>>8811473
Yeah, Tempest~Urza's Saga was probably the most power-creepy part of magic's history. It's mostly just creatures that have been getting better.

>>8811508
Yes. There's an old win95 game simply called 'Magic: the Gathering' by MicroProse that lets you do exactly that. The game around the card battles is pretty awesome too, you wander around a world traveling from city to city where you can buy cards, you can discover dungeons to search for banned cards, etc. Very much worth playing. The MTG fanbase generally refers to it as 'Shandalar', named after the plane it takes place on. It doesn't contain any of the newer cards, though; only all of 4th Edition and some Alpha/Beta/Unlimited, Arabian Nights and Legends stuff.

There's also the newer 'Duels of the Planeswalkers' games, but they're very limited and don't even allow you to construct your own deck. They're 20$ each on Steam, I think. One is currently 66% off if the offer hasn't expired yet (daily deal or something).

>>8811769
>There's also the newer 'Duels of the Planeswalkers' games, but they're very limited and don't even allow you to construct your own deck.
They allow to modify the existing decks to some extent though.
Nothing spectacular, but still perfectly playable and fun in multiplayer, especially after all the expansions. Was pretty boring initially when you knew what deck enemy is playing after the first land

>>8811793
Yes, but it still caters to a very limited range of players. For a large part of the userbase, deck construction is one of the main elements of the game, if not the biggest appeal to the game. If you're the kind of person who just orders the best-performing deck and tries to play it as well as possible, a game like that is fine, but I want to at least be able to say I won using my own deck.

i play mtgo nearly exclusively for the drafting/sealed aspect

No sir, you'll have to worry about which creatures I block you with.

>>8809719
Oh, just this 2/2 morph creature....

>>8809719
It's so obvious it hurts.

>>8818619
Alright, cool. Drop me your email and we'll get talking.

How the fuck do you play this game? people are just posting random shit that seemingly do other random stuff. I do not get this card game at all.

>>8819363
You play one land card per turn (if you have one). Land cards give you one mana per turn. This mana can be spent to play creature, artifact, enchantment, instant, sorcery and planeswalker cards. The mana cost for a card is printed in the top right side; icons mean a specific type of mana (for example a fireball means mana from Mountains), a number means any kind of mana will do. {2}{fireball}{fireball} means '2 of any color plus two red mana'.

Once you've played creatures, they can attack the other player. Both players start with 20 life, and creatures deal damage equal to the first number on the bottom right of the card ('2/4' means it will deal 2 damage). To prevent this damage, you can have one of your creatures 'block' the opponent's attacking creature. They deal damage to each other instead of damaging a player. If in one turn a creature is dealt as much or more damage as the second bottom-right number ('2/4' means '2 power, 4 toughness'), it dies.

Almost every creature and many lands also have special effects written in their text box. For example, >>8809793 deals damage before it's dealt damage (first strike), which avoids damage to herself if she kills the other creature first, and any creature she damages dies instantly (deathtouch). Furthermore, if an opponent's creature dies, she can return an already destroyed artifact from the discard pile (graveyard) to the player's hand.

(continued from >>8819689)

Artifact and enchantment cards are cards that remain in play until destroyed that can't attack like creatures, but do have effects just like creatures can have them. Instant and sorcery cards are cards that are played once, have an effect, and are then immediately discarded to the graveyard again (for example, 'Shock' for one red mana says simply 'Shock deals 2 damage to target creature.'). Then there's the relatively new type 'Planeswalker', which are played and remain in play like an artifact/enchantment, but have a 'loyalty' (starts at the bottom right number), can be dealt damage to reduce its loyalty, and can use one effect per turn which affects the loyalty by the amount displayed in front of the effect. (The fake >>8809778, for example, has as first effect 'add 3 loyalty counters: exile (remove completely from the game, not even to the graveyard) target permanent (any card that remains in play, so a creature, land, artifact, enchantment or planeswalker)'.

The game ends when all players except one or one team have lost. A loss occurs by having 0 or less life, trying to draw a card while your deck of cards (library) is empty, having 10 'poison counters' (given by specific poisonous creatures), losing the game through a card effect (Door to Nothingness is an artifact with an ability that causes a player to lose the game if used), or having an opponent win the game through a card effect (Epic Struggle is a card that makes you win the game if you have 20 or more creatures at the beginning of your turn).

Players play the game in turns using decks they constructed beforehand according to certain rules (4 copies per card maximum, 60 cards in deck minimum, etc). Players start the game with 7 random cards from the deck and draw an additional card per turn.

(continued from >>8819696)

That's pretty much the basics of Magic. As almost every card has different effects and the effects can range widely, even changing the actual game rules, it's incredibly complicated (The comprehensive rules are roughly 200 pages, and for many cards there's specific rulings to clear things up).

>>8819698
nice