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Ate My Balls Redux posted:Here's the deal. People will try to say there are so many types of EDH players, it's impossible to play find a group all with the same goals, etc but that isn't true. There are two types. This is probably correct and I fall into category two so welp no commander for me.
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There are a whole bunch of people who enjoy playing Magic competitively, win or lose, but I guess they just avoid EDH. Also someone is buying and playing those precons as is and that's not reflected in those categories either.
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Jul 16, 2019 21:26
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odiv posted:There are a whole bunch of people who enjoy playing Magic competitively, win or lose, but I guess they just avoid EDH. Up until my last local store went belly up, I would buy all 5 each year, mainly for the exclusive cards. but they also put decent stuff in for the format. They have a balancing act between putting in desirable cards for the format and not packing them with other format staples so actual Commander players can get a hold of the decks
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Jul 16, 2019 21:31
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Framboise posted:Considering that there are plenty of playgroups that work just fine within themselves, this is clearly not true. Your playgroup is a group of people that agree with your style. If the above statement wasn't true, you wouldn't need a playgroup, because anyone could play with anyone.
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Jul 16, 2019 21:47
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Star Magic and Emperor are the only good multiplayer formats; don’t @ me
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Jul 16, 2019 21:52
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whydirt posted:Star Magic and Emperor are the only good multiplayer formats; don’t @ me What pray tell are these?
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Jul 16, 2019 22:04
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smertrioslol posted:What pray tell are these? Star: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Star Emporer: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Emperor Star is a fantastic format if you have five players and want to mess around with politics. Emporer games can be quite the slog in my experience.
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Jul 16, 2019 22:12
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Jul 16, 2019 22:13
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OfChristandMen posted:Star: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Star Star seems pretty cool actually. My play group has a bunch of people who identify with one color already so this might actually work. Emperor seems miserable and overly complicated.
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Jul 16, 2019 22:16
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Star actually sounds like quite a bit of fun, though the whole "even if you are eliminated, you can still win" clause is kinda strange to me.
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Jul 16, 2019 22:19
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Those cards with multiplayer voting seemed pretty cool. Sheldon Points are extremely dumb though
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Jul 16, 2019 22:26
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Those cards with multiplayer voting seemed pretty cool. It's funny because they are worthless in multiplayer but a couple became 1v1 all-stars.
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Jul 16, 2019 22:27
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It's especially amusing to watch someone cast Expropriate and watch the 3 other players choose to let the caster have 4 extra turns rather than 1 extra turn and 1 of their permanents each, and then get surprised that they run away with the game from there.
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expropriate looks like a classic prisoner's dilemma, can't really blame em.
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Jul 16, 2019 22:33
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I just saw two-pack boxes of Modern Horizons in Walgreens for $12. Anyone else seen these, and is that a decent price for those packs?
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Jul 16, 2019 22:38
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InterrupterJones posted:I just saw two-pack boxes of Modern Horizons in Walgreens for $12. Anyone else seen these, and is that a decent price for those packs? My LGS sells individual packs for $7 a piece, so $12 for 2 sounds like a decent deal. No Wave posted:expropriate looks like a classic prisoner's dilemma, can't really blame em. It's a neat card! But giving the caster all those turns almost guarantees they're going to win. I say money every time.
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Jul 16, 2019 22:40
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whydirt posted:Star Magic and Emperor are the only good multiplayer formats; don’t @ me Mental Magic was the poo poo back when that was a thing
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Jul 16, 2019 22:44
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My favorite obscure multiplayer format that I barely got to play was Type 4 aka Limited Infinity. It was basically drafting a curated set of cards before cube was a thing and a casual multiplayer format before EDH was a thing. There was a pool of pre-selected cards constructed just for the environment that players drafted from and built decks with as normal. The only difference from normal Magic is that players are assumed to have infinite mana available at all times and you can only cast one spell per turn (essentially a Rule of Law is always in effect). Since the cube was designed around the format, it'd obviously not have anything like Disintegrate or creatures with firebreathing or anything else that with infinite mana wins games. The Rule of Law effect made stuff like cycling cards (Decree of Silence especially) super valuable. Silly garbage like Tower of Fortunes became playable because sure, why not dump 16 mana into drawing a bunch of cards. It was probably my favorite Timmy-ish format. I'm sad nobody plays anymore, and I've yet to mention the format to anyone and have them recognize it or want to try it out. 
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Jul 16, 2019 22:53
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Framboise posted:My LGS sells individual packs for $7 a piece, so $12 for 2 sounds like a decent deal. That’s what I thought, but it rang up at 14.99 at the register so I guess the joke’s on me. I wish I could say I profited anyway, but I only came away with Future Sight, Nether Spirit, and a foil Viashino Sandsprinter.
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InterrupterJones posted:That’s what I thought, but it rang up at 14.99 at the register so I guess the joke’s on me. I wish I could say I profited anyway, but I only came away with Future Sight, Nether Spirit, and a foil Viashino Sandsprinter. It rang up higher than the price on the shelf and you just paid it? 
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Jul 16, 2019 23:11
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JerryLee posted:It rang up higher than the price on the shelf and you just paid it? I’m the non-confrontational brand of nerd, so I didn’t make a fuss. Besides, I figured that wasn’t too much more for a chance to get Wrenn and Six or Force of Negation. 
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Speaking of multiplayer, I was looking up Doom Blade earlier and learned about Explorers of Ixalan, which looks like some fusion of MTG and Catan? Has anyone played it? CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jul 16, 2019 |
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Jul 16, 2019 23:38
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Aranan posted:My favorite obscure multiplayer format that I barely got to play was Type 4 aka Limited Infinity. It was basically drafting a curated set of cards before cube was a thing and a casual multiplayer format before EDH was a thing. There was a pool of pre-selected cards constructed just for the environment that players drafted from and built decks with as normal. The only difference from normal Magic is that players are assumed to have infinite mana available at all times and you can only cast one spell per turn (essentially a Rule of Law is always in effect). A guy I've been playing with for over a decade has a stack, we still pull it out every now and then.
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Jul 17, 2019 01:14
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Star was the first multiplayer format I played, way back in junior high, and it was just as good then as it is now. We didn't restrict decks though, we could play in the "white" slot with anything for example - targets to win are the same.
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Jul 17, 2019 02:17
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I've played Type 4 before, but it was just a few stacks of cards that we'd each draw from. No drafting it.
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Jul 17, 2019 02:47
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I've seen people play Mental Magic before and that looked really interesting. I was only a couple months into learning to play back then though so I wonder if I'd be any good at it now.
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Jul 17, 2019 03:02
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I played Emperor on Sunday. A general gave the opposing emperor a containment priest. I was playing Feather, a blink deck. I had path and swords in hand. I couldn't actually kill the containment priest. Emperor is not fun.
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Jul 17, 2019 03:08
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Rochester drafting Type 4 is my favorite just-for-fun Magic format, but just playing off the stack is still great if you don't have the time to draft.
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Jul 17, 2019 03:16
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Framboise posted:I've seen people play Mental Magic before and that looked really interesting. I was only a couple months into learning to play back then though so I wonder if I'd be any good at it now. It's a super fun format
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Framboise posted:I've seen people play Mental Magic before and that looked really interesting. I was only a couple months into learning to play back then though so I wonder if I'd be any good at it now. It's super fun if both players have a nigh encyclopedic knowledge of cards.
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Jul 17, 2019 03:42
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theres this 14 year old kid at my lgs that made his own mental magic stack and is always challenging other players to bet a pack and play a game with him.
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tinaun posted:theres this 14 year old kid at my lgs that made his own mental magic stack and is always challenging other players to bet a pack and play a game with him. That's rad as hell and I would take him up on that.
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Jul 17, 2019 04:11
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Count Bleck posted:I played Emperor on Sunday. If you couldn't kill it, doesn't that mean it doesn't affect you?
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Jul 17, 2019 06:22
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Lets Pickle posted:If you couldn't kill it, doesn't that mean it doesn't affect you? Emperor has weirdo assymetric range-of-influence. (The "emperor" has influence over the opposing "generals", but the reverse isn't true). It doesn't work very well.
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https://twitter.com/sickofit/status/1151353764252545024 https://twitter.com/WotC_Matt/status/1151355337095561217 https://twitter.com/WotC_Matt/status/1151356260110880769 That's some magic right there.
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Jul 17, 2019 07:38
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Framboise posted:Literally none of this is a problem if people actually communicate and connect with the people you play with and get rid of the mindset that everyone has to agree with your style. Lotta really bad takes and attitudes here that ignore that. Big this. The main group of people I play with all run 80% decks and we all kind of adhere to that rule and we have a ton of fun. Crack a few beers, lose to a janky combo, have a good time. I also have a more competitive group I play with. Less fun but sometimes it's nice to have games not go on forever. It's definitely all in who you play with. EDH is a social game, after all.
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Jul 17, 2019 07:52
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there are people in the arena thread who think it would be cool to play commander against randoms on arena
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Jul 17, 2019 08:02
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Your Go
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Jabor posted:there are people in the arena thread who think it would be cool to play commander against randoms on arena Playing commander against randoms on MtGO is fine . I’d play it on arena if it existed.
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Bring back Brawl you cowards
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