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you can still be competitive without being cutthroat, and trying to let everyone in the play session have fun is a good thing to be considerate about imo you're still playing magic even if you're playing with pet cards, and everyone ganging up on the player who missed their first land drops so they get to sit around and wait an hour for everyone else to finish sucks
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precision posted:I didn't say I have a bad time, I literally don't understand the format. I don't understand the "winning doesn't matter, let's just have fun" aspect. What I mean is, if you're wanting to have fun, why do it with rules? I felt this way then I started playing Pauper EDH and it's easily my favorite format
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The three magic artists I would buy prints of: Rutibex posted:I would only buy an art from Phil Foglio. Does he still do magic cards? Richard Kane Ferguson and Ian Miller, probably the 2 best ever (obviously this is subjective), have both recently been enticed (somehow) into illustrating a few Magic cards again after a good 20 year or so break.
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TheLawinator posted:Well I'm extremely down for one. Let us know in the thread when/if you do whatever. AlternateNu posted:I’ll take one. PM’d. Zalmun posted:Heya Cap, I sent you a PM and would be really happy if I could buy one from you. As I said in the PM I totally missed out on the sale. I’m in Canada but will pay any extra shipping it would cost. Rutibex posted:I would only buy an art from Phil Foglio. Does he still do magic cards?
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I play competitive commander every Saturday for five hours with a big group of guys who all take it seriously and it’s the most fun I’ve had playing Magic in forever.precision posted:I didn't say I have a bad time, I literally don't understand the format. I don't understand the "winning doesn't matter, let's just have fun" aspect. What I mean is, if you're wanting to have fun, why do it with rules? The answer to this question is: because not everyone is you.
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singleton alone makes commander shoot up high in my format rankings. boo to the oppression of including 4x of the same most-efficient thing, that's three different things I could've had instead. if consistency is soooo dang important why not just make 15 card decks and marry them
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Rutibex posted:I would only buy an art from Phil Foglio. Does he still do magic cards? They also do prints and playmats through OMA and recently did a print and playmat Kickstarter. There's also a rumor we may be getting a Foglio secret lair. Lieutenant Centaur posted:I felt this way then I started playing Pauper EDH and it's easily my favorite format Oh my, yes. Pauper EDH makes me care about the board state and play in the moment and plan contingencies in a way Type 2 did a long time ago. Doctor Dogballs posted:Richard Kane Ferguson and Ian Miller, probably the 2 best ever (obviously this is subjective), have both recently been enticed (somehow) into illustrating a few Magic cards again after a good 20 year or so break. RKF did a Disenchant for Dominaria United and I hope we'll be seeing more from him.
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Khanstant posted:singleton alone makes commander shoot up high in my format rankings. boo to the oppression of including 4x of the same most-efficient thing, that's three different things I could've had instead. if consistency is soooo dang important why not just make 15 card decks and marry them 15 card decks would be an interesting format. You would need to agressivly ban certain cards, but if you tune it right you could end up with Wizard Chess. Just take all of the randomness out of the game and rely on 100% side boarding skill.
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Rutibex posted:15 card decks would be an interesting format. You would need to agressivly ban certain cards, but if you tune it right you could end up with Wizard Chess. Just take all of the randomness out of the game and rely on 100% side boarding skill.
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I opened a countdown secret lair and goddamn, they're basically the mtg equivalent of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxmP8IcoKtE cardboard box, with another cardboard box inside of it, with 30 individually-booster-pack-wrapped single cards inside that cardboard box, and a bunch of useless wall-hanger stickers if you want to hang your individually-wrapped cards like stockings or something
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I brought my Drake posted:
And it's the best Disenchant art in the entire 30 year history of the game, I only wish it came in the retro frame
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https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7159365864691813678 Me in denial. 
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teppichporsche posted:People like it because they don't know any actually good 4-player games. This is actually the answer that makes the most sense to me!
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Toshimo posted:You "don't understand it" because you are making up bad-faith straw men to bait people like a shithead. Easy as. I'm not posting in bad faith, you weirdo. I literally never do that, even when I post stupid jokes I still mean them
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Leperflesh posted:your just-asking-questions about why Commander even exists comes off as a backhanded swipe at Commander players, a thing that is unfortunately common in the wide world of Magic: The Gathering, and which mods have worked at trying to suppress here on SA. You may have been unaware but you're trespassing on forbidden ground, and I advise you to reverse course. Holy poo poo okay, I really didn't know ANY OF THAT lol. Despite having read this thread for a decade. Man. I'm sorry! Christ how weird Edit: why would anyone care how other people play magic
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Zalmun posted:My personality is mass land destruction. Why don’t I have any friends?? Mass land destruction in Commander is cool and good and people should play more of it I can cast Armageddon, or I can lose to the green decks 9 times out of 10. With those choices, I know which grail I'm drinking from, personally
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"Why would anyone care about how people play magic" they say, after asking about how and why people play magic a certain way
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big cummers ONLY posted:"Why would anyone care about how people play magic" they say, after asking about how and why people play magic a certain way That's clever, but doesn't work. What I meant is, why would anyone put down or judge other people's way of playing? As for commander, I completely understand the appeal, as I tried to clarify, the only part I don't understand is the seemingly contradictory nature of wanting rules, but wanting freedom. If I were to play Commander I would absolutely want to just make up my own cards, at least most of them. I guess my only real question was why people don't make their own cards more
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HootTheOwl posted:Now, cEDH players. It's the gameplay mechanics of commander with the mindset of pretty much every other format in MTG, that's really all there is to it
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sit on my Facebook posted:Mass land destruction in Commander is cool and good and people should play more of it Yeah I'm building a "I want lands in my graveyard so you should too!" deck atm and I'm so pumped for it to be finished
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Okay so without venom or sarcasm: "rules" and "freedom" are sliding scales that you adjust until you find a balance you like. Commander sets the sliders in a place that people think is fun. Because making up 12/12 double strikers or whatever ignores the rules to a point where you are essentially the kid who has a force field that protects from everyone's improv guns.
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He did say it has to tap to do it so that could theoretically be balanced.
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sit on my Facebook posted:Mass land destruction in Commander is cool and good and people should play more of it playing commander means you've already chose poorly
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Custom cards ARE fun in tcgs but somehow I don't think the poster is being genuine in their bafflement.
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big cummers ONLY posted:Okay so without venom or sarcasm: "rules" and "freedom" are sliding scales that you adjust until you find a balance you like. Commander sets the sliders in a place that people think is fun. Because making up 12/12 double strikers or whatever ignores the rules to a point where you are essentially the kid who has a force field that protects from everyone's improv guns.
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Constraints are what make games fun (no not those kinds of constraints you sickos). When you're a kid you can have fun for hours with no rules and a cardboard box, but then you get older and lose that. Turns out a little bit of structure goes a long way. Also I'm not super competitive so I don't really play Magic just "to win". I have fun either way unless the experience itself is lovely. I mean I don't like EDH either, but that's a different story and not because it's "less competitive" or whatever.
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precision posted:If I were to play Commander I would absolutely want to just make up my own cards, at least most of them. I guess my only real question was why people don't make their own cards more Jesse, what the gently caress are you talking about?
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The three magic artists I would buy prints of: As long as we're posting about favorite artists, I think Dominik Mayer is amazing, and I'm so glad they're keeping him around after the art deco set he was probably brought on for. Reynold posted:"I'm just showing off my personality!" I declare, slamming my fifth board wipe of the game down to the tune of the entire table groaning https://twitter.com/dril/status/575121631846227968?lang=en
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Finding the right group for commander seems like it'd be the most important part, because I don't think I could bring myself to play against the dude that plays "all effects are targeted randomly: the deck," and I think literally every store I've been to has one regular who talks that up as their favorite commander deck and how it's so funny Just sounds completely miserable
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Weird Pumpkin posted:Finding the right group for commander seems like it'd be the most important part, because I don't think I could bring myself to play against the dude that plays "all effects are targeted randomly: the deck," and I think literally every store I've been to has one regular who talks that up as their favorite commander deck and how it's so funny It seems like one of those decks that’s just goofy fun once and everyone has a good laugh, then on subsequent plays it’s just met with groans.
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Chaos IS fun in commander, but cards like thieves auction and scrambleverse are irritating to resolve and slow down already long games dramatically, so you should probably leave them out depending on the group.   Fast equals fun 9 times out of 10.
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Weird Pumpkin posted:Finding the right group for commander seems like it'd be the most important part, because I don't think I could bring myself to play against the dude that plays "all effects are targeted randomly: the deck," and I think literally every store I've been to has one regular who talks that up as their favorite commander deck and how it's so funny IMO Magic, like any other game, is at its best when everyone is trying their best to win. I have a blast when everyone at my table is also doing sicko degenerate poo poo but I can’t stand politics and Rule 0 discussions. When I was first getting into Commander I would play at my LGS and the games were all fun and everyone was nice but people would do pretty questionable poo poo like roll a dice to figure out attacks instead of attacking the guy on Ad Naus or putting all five of my FoF cards into one pile and telling me “remember this for later  .” I’m glad there’s a hugely popular format for people who like to play like that, but it’s not for me.Syenite posted:Chaos IS fun in commander, but cards like thieves auction and scrambleverse are irritating to resolve and slow down already long games dramatically, so you should probably leave them out depending on the group. Yea I’d rather watch someone stare at Naus pile for five minutes before going for it than play a game where one of these resolves lol. fadam fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Nov 26, 2022 |
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Captain Invictus posted:cardboard box, with another cardboard box inside of it, with 30 individually-booster-pack-wrapped single cards inside that cardboard box, and a bunch of useless wall-hanger stickers if you want to hang your individually-wrapped cards like stockings or something I'm guessing if you wanted to do the advent calendar as an actual advent calendar and open one a day until Christmas, the hangers are for that. There needs to be an eight nights of Hanukkah secret lair with some utility commons and uncommons.
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precision posted:That's clever, but doesn't work. What I meant is, why would anyone put down or judge other people's way of playing? Sometimes even the professional card game designers have a hard time making balanced and fun cards/sets/decks. The average person is not going to be a good card designer, or a worldbuilder, or an artist, or have the crew with good game knowledge to playtest with. It can also be hard to exercise restraint to not just print cards that perfectly do what you want, with a "downside" that is also exactly what you want.
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If I wanted to buy a couple of packs as a gift for someone who primarily plays Modern and does a little EDH what would be a good/fun pack to get? Willing to spend about $30 bucks.
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Grevlek posted:If I wanted to buy a couple of packs as a gift for someone who primarily plays Modern and does a little EDH what would be a good/fun pack to get? Willing to spend about $30 bucks. 4x Modern Horizons 2 Set Booster
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Syenite posted:Chaos IS fun in commander, but cards like thieves auction and scrambleverse are irritating to resolve and slow down already long games dramatically, so you should probably leave them out depending on the group. I don't deliberately put wacky poo poo in my decks but one day I was losing pretty badly and someone hit my Commander (pre-rules change, when it actually tucked) with a Chaos Warp and I hit the CW with Radiate because gently caress you. We actually all decided to scoop and call it a draw because it would have taken like 20 minutes to properly resolve Charity Porno fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Nov 26, 2022 |
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Using custom cards in constructed feels like it would be an exercise in discovering who is most shameless about power creep. Still, try it in limited! I've a had a lot of fun a couple of times with a group of friends where we each design 45 cards, print them out, shuffle them to make boosters and draft with them.
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