iatee's old school magic the gathering tournament (ile companion thread)

A quick thread to say that a group of are playing MAGIC on another board with a free program called Magic Workstation and it is great fun.

If you would like to play MAGIC (magic you guys!) but don't have access to that board you should post here and sealed deck high jinx will ensue.

oh yeah i got the email about this, i'd like to play.

Are you on a PC or a mac?

Here's a place that has some pictures that may interest you - http://mws.mtgbr.com/Full-01.htm

Let me know when you'd able to play!

We were experimenting on Monday with taking all boosters from the same set, which ended up working really well - it feels a lot 'magic-ier' when you know what's coming a bit more (possibly only saying this because I can't play 'real' sealed deck for toffee and iatee always beats me)

Wow, they've come out with a lot of new series/sets since I played Magic in 6th grade.

We played with Mercadian Masques on Monday - surprisingly dope!

I think our youngest dude is Rev, who played up to the Urza block? Cinderpress might be even younger but he's kind of a pro. Most of us stopped sometime around homelands?

yeah 6th grade was when i played the most too (tempest and urza blocks were the newest sets) but i had relapses in high school and again recently so i've played with most of the sets. they're still doing the 1 3-set block per year thing with a few strange exceptions.

also it's funny that you thought mercadian masques was dope, it's considered one of the worst blocks afaik. i kinda like it though.

I think we found it dope more just cause of the strangeness of playing w/ new cards

Anyone fancy a game?

i am intrigued by this - can you build your own deck using this software? or do you already have to have a real one?

The software has as many as you want of every card ever - and it even has the pictures!

yeah it gets around the copyright laws & stuff by being 'generic trading card game software' that just happens to be tooled specifically for a generic game with the exact same rule set as magic

We mainly play what's called 'sealed deck', where the program pretends you've just bought a certain number of booster packs, and then restricts you to just those, but that's 100% by choice.

It's really unclear how they get away with it - it has 'magic' in the name?

(Have you played much before btw?)

me? i played all the time from like...5th through 7th grades. a group of friends and i tried to bring it back sophomore year of college, lasted only a few months iirc. there's probably all sorts of new shit i don't understand but i'm sure the gameplay itself will come back to me. is this tournament on secret borad?

We are sort of ignoring all the new shit tbh

"tournament"

(it is more like people just playing each other when they get a moment, right now? i think a grand battle of wizards is totally planned on secret borad when we get more people but you would have to ask iatee)

well the original idea was a grand battle of wizards but then we quickly realized that our wizards all have very different work/play schedules and our castles are in very different parts of the world and it's better to just use the thread as 'anyone up for a game'?

not opposed to one happening, but the payoff probably isn't worth the effort, ya know? I'd rather just play lots of games w/ whoever's on

I seem to have messed up my sealed deck generator. :/ Maybe time for an uninstall/reinstall

Any americans up for playing when they get home from work? Could stay up a little.

guessing you went to bed :/

anyone else?

Me and two friends went to Friday Night Magic, played in an 8-person draft, and took the top 3 spots. (I got third.) I don't feel as bad about aquiring new cards as I would like to. :/

yeah booster drafts are the most fun magic format imo, i would do them all the time if they didn't cost $10 per

MTG booster packs have really always been one of the worst deals in gaming, if you don't care about having many rare cards you can buy huge bins of commons/uncommons from resellers on ebay for the price of a few boosters

I'm justifying it to myself as paying for an evening's entertainment, rather than the product. (About the same as a movie and maybe popcorn, right?)

Still lolling about the three of us walking in there after having barely played magic in years and just rocking the regulars btw.

The booster economy on [online service that should not be mentioned] is definitely way more insane than I remember - like, a standard pack ($3.99) contains 14 cards that might be worth $0.50 total if you're really lucky, then a rare that's likely about $0.60, but there's a one-in-eight chance you get a mythic rare (fuck wizards for this lame crap) that's worth $5 if it's a weak one and $40 if it's a strong one?

Still only averages about $2, and that's value, not sell price.

Movie and popcorn argument is strong I think, especially when you're unfamiliar with the set and every card you see is a surprise.

I play a lot of people online who use all-foil lands. Like, a lot. IT'S NOT EVEN REAL FOIL.

Yeah, we were thinking about going to a movie anyway, but nothing we all wanted to see.

What's the audience at that kind of event like these days- how does it break down into teens/comic book guys/other?

it was us, a hyperactive latino teenager, and a few 20-28ish white dudes, a couple of whom were overly serious, but only one of whom seemed completely unused to social interaction. none seemed to be power-magic players. a guy who came in to trade and play a couple pickup games around the time we finished (still in his pizza delivery uniform!) did seem a bit obsessive, though.

magic?

work

wish this was 4 mac :(

cockatrice.de

or, actually this seems ever better! http://www.lackeyccg.com/

gchat me thru this?

r!chardg!n0rg @ gml

IT BEGINS

ok that is an all-time awful interface but it works!

magic?

any other mac heads get the Lackey thing

magic?

I just got a mtg web advertisement

the internet knows

lol

lackey vers?

tonite?

??? rev???

too tired. recooping from 12-hr day.

:( get some rest

maybe later this week?

prob not until at least after tuesday. crunch time until then.

i had like a 3-prong attack of the og 77 thread, old school homeboys wanting to break out the cards again and dating a magic player all at once :/

i wouldn't ever buy booster packs unless i'm at a draft or sealed tournament, they are a huge ripoff. theres tons of ebay resellers who open up boxes upon boxes to sell the money rares, and then sell off all the commons/uncommons for dirt cheap, its the best way to get cards imo. you can get 4x of every common/uncommon in a set for like $20ish on ebay, and then just buy any rares you want for your decks individually.

ps rev / anyone else interested

gravel and I decided next week's challenge is a deck w/ the invasion expansion, which neither of us has played w/ but which seems sorta fun

yeah invasion's pretty straightforward, its just lots of multicolor stuff and cards that reward you for playing 3+ colors instead of the usual 1 or 2

yeah those cards seem cool

the split cards are sorta retarded tho

ole dewey

warning i am well on my way to wasted

let's do tempest block

oh man I played a lot w/ gravel

okayyyy I will play

aim

if you guys are slowly creeping forward thru the blocks heres a quick synopsis of what they're based around:

invasion - multicolor
odyssey - graveyard
onslaught - creature type (goblins, merfolk, etc)
mirrodin - artifacts
kamigawa - lame japan/samurai theme
ravnica - 10 'guilds' one for each color pair
time spiral - weird-ass bizarro stuff i dont even know whats going on here hellp
lorwyn - creature type again but somehow different
shadowmoor - did this set even exist im not sure
shards of alara - 3-color combos
zendikar - lands
and the new one is another mirrodin block w/ artifacts

useful!

wtf 8/0

I'm willing to venture up to mirrodin I think. kamigawa no.

i stopped after onslaught and had a relapse last year with zendikar (which i liked a lot!) everything in between i only know because my friend gave me a bigass box of cards he didn't want which spans that whole period

my prob is the abilities that really fuck up the gameplay

grav where u at?

iatee is sleep

iatee is awake

is rev off partying?

he's having a little party at home by himself :/

but my laptop don't work no more and i'm not supposed to dl stuff on my parents computer. might anyway if i really get bored or you convince me i should

where my magic bros at?

I wanna play my 5-color invasion deck

was at ATP! can play whenevs.

http://www.coolstuffinc.com/images/Products/mtg%20art/Urzas%20Saga/Dragon%20Blood.jpg
rev?

mebbe later?

down with this

urzas

around 9 your time

cool

I'm ready for whateva

we should

I think I was watching a movee, tonight mebbe?

maybe prep ice age 5/3?

Tru confession - I've been playing Magarena and it's basically perfect for me - each game a new 40 card deck of all really powerful post-2002 cards I don't recognise, lose against an AI that's explicitly better at MtG than me, repeat.

last night i found a m:tg card lying in the middle of the street. i picked it up and saw another one, then another, and followed the trail down the block until i had like twelve of them.

i showed them to my gf at home but we didn't understand how half of them are supposed to work, they're either worded really vaguely or involve mechanics like "kicking" that are new to me.

hope you realize that a group of nerds is now horribly lost and will never find their way home

yeah i assume they froze to death, it was very cold

i had the same experience with magic cards recently

i mean, i don't understand the eight million new mechanics. not that i found a trail of them leading me to the monster lair.

i hope they belonged to the annoying kid who lives next door.

this was one of them: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=194007

unless there's some kind of new common mechanic that removes counters from cards, it seems kind of awesome?

yeah seems like a good combo card

it's a decent card -- you wouldn't fight a card like that by trying to remove its counters tho, you'd use a remove enchantment spell like http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=207336

I found some on the street too last week! Was just like Mirridon-era commons and uncommons but I still got that pang of excitement I used to get when you'd "stumble" upon cards like 10 years ago, back when you'd hear a lot of stories about guys going to garage sales and buying a binder full of Power 9 cards and Mana Drains for like $20 from Moms whose sons used to play but are now overseas after joining the military or something. I had like, wet dreams about that.

Just thinking about that makes me realize I've played a hell of a long time...I haven't really played "seriously" since Masques/Invasion block (2002?) but the Sealed Decks/drafts are always fun, especially the pre-releases. I loved the Time Spiral block though, it was just one huge gift to the guys who have been playing a long time, really one of the better things they've done. Constructed has really lost a lot of appeal to me since they started the "mythic" rare concept, which they promised would not include tournament level rares but the sort of huge powerful expensive spells/creatures that you'd "only want one or two of anyway". Lo and behold it only took them like one year to print the most ridiculous shit in mythic, cards you definitely want 4 of, some that don't even have any "special" abilities but just rank really high on the power curve. Look up "Baneslayer Angel"...my god. There's even a card in Standard that fetches $100!! I mean Standard was expensive "in my day" but if you had to spend $100 you'd at least get 4 of something!!

i played in '94/'95, and it's kind of amazing to me that it's still a thing.

hmmm the girl is gone hmmm

Oh, sorry I missed you. I haven't thought about magic in a while tbh. Team Fortress 2 has monopolized my free time.

spells > guns

tbh

otm