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I generally agree with this and it's one of the many reasons my favorite card is Stasis. But playing an actual tier1 type deck against the new people/precons seems like a real strange use of time.
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normally the shuffler isn't too bad to me, but last night i had a game where i had 5 lands in my opening hand, and then proceeded to draw 9 more lands in my next 10 draws. then just now, i had a draft game where i didn't draw my 4th land until my 24th fucking draw of the game. and somehow still won, which is absurd, drafting 5 Legion Conquistadors in my 3CMC slot saved me i guess. getting my 4th land and being able to cast my Bishop of Binding the turn after they played their Zetalpa, Primal Hunger bomb probably pissed them right off, heh.
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Losing to more skilled players that have better cards is a core component of competitive drafting and the MTG learning experience.
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So, I’d never played Magic at all until a guy at work told me about this a few weeks ago. What great fun!
I’m a big fan of “not playing by the rules” and doing weird / silly stuff in games, I really appreciate the flexibility in this. I’ve got up to silver 2 so far just with a nonsensical control deck of my own design.
I also built a mono blue deck my friend told me about but it’s not nearly as fun though obviously a very popular deck at the moment.
Last night for regular games I took every blue, white, and black control / removal card I had into a 200 card deck along with some creatures and won some amusing games, such as being down to 6 hp against an opponent with 85, pulling mass manipulation out of my 200 card deck one round before I’d lose, and ended making the guy concede a few rounds later.
He was probably thinking what the fuck is this retard doing with 200 cards.
I’m a big fan of “not playing by the rules” and doing weird / silly stuff in games, I really appreciate the flexibility in this. I’ve got up to silver 2 so far just with a nonsensical control deck of my own design.
I also built a mono blue deck my friend told me about but it’s not nearly as fun though obviously a very popular deck at the moment.
Last night for regular games I took every blue, white, and black control / removal card I had into a 200 card deck along with some creatures and won some amusing games, such as being down to 6 hp against an opponent with 85, pulling mass manipulation out of my 200 card deck one round before I’d lose, and ended making the guy concede a few rounds later.
He was probably thinking what the fuck is this retard doing with 200 cards.
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ronne
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I totally traded a beta taiga for like 18 craw wurms in about 1994. I was the terror of my entire town with my mono green 20 craw wurm deck for like an entire year.
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I started the game as an adult and got right into the early competitive scene so I never really got to experience this kind of thing. My very first tournament experience was going black vise into a 2nd vise + strip mine, then a sinkhole and the dude never played another land and just died to the 2 vise. Was a proud moment and the original mulligan rules made for an awful lot of non games.
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I started playing Magic during Mirroden block so my little fifth Dawn precon was going against skullclamp elves, Affinity, KCI and Tooth and Nail. I never won a game.
I remember the shop keep who I knew previously teaching me how to play magic using dark rits hypnotic spectres and black lotus. I was introduced to magic at a high level immediately and never really had a "jank" phase. I have tons of fun piloting tier one decks and playing in competitive events but I play overall less magic than a casual tabletop player. I almost never play for "fun" as in random decks against each other but I'll test match ups for hours and hours if the decks are both competitive.
I don't do sealed or EDH or 2HG or brawl etc but I love to play magic.
I remember the shop keep who I knew previously teaching me how to play magic using dark rits hypnotic spectres and black lotus. I was introduced to magic at a high level immediately and never really had a "jank" phase. I have tons of fun piloting tier one decks and playing in competitive events but I play overall less magic than a casual tabletop player. I almost never play for "fun" as in random decks against each other but I'll test match ups for hours and hours if the decks are both competitive.
I don't do sealed or EDH or 2HG or brawl etc but I love to play magic.
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I played Magic very amateurly when I was a kid, didn't get back into it til Arena happened. In my memory I thought I was in high school when I played the first time, playing the Rath cycle / Tempest block, but I googled the release date and apparently I was 11.
Sold my entire collection 5 years ago after not touching it since the late 90s. Sold it for $100 because I was too lazy to sort it out piece by piece. Now that I'm back into it I looked up some of the cards I remember having, and I gave that kid a crazy deal at $100. I had multiple Lotus Petals and Wastelands, along with some other major Legacy staples from Mirage - Urza's Saga.
Oh well.
Sold my entire collection 5 years ago after not touching it since the late 90s. Sold it for $100 because I was too lazy to sort it out piece by piece. Now that I'm back into it I looked up some of the cards I remember having, and I gave that kid a crazy deal at $100. I had multiple Lotus Petals and Wastelands, along with some other major Legacy staples from Mirage - Urza's Saga.
Oh well.
I still remember buying a binder with a playset of revised Tropical Islands and Savannah's for like $50. Started at $20 but the guy was worried about being ripped off for his hypnotic spectres so I gave him an extra $30 and he took it.
Had like 10 duals in it alongside tons of other shit including his hypnotic spectres lol
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ronne
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It's not an "issue", it's by design. They essentially mana-weave your deck in best of 1 as of a few updates ago. They wanted to chop off the lower and higher end of variance and prevent people from getting buttmad about drawing 5+ lands or 5+ spells in a row, so if you run bare-minimum lands the shuffler has no choice but to give you woven draws of 2-4 spells > land > 2-4 spells over and over again due to their fucking with it.