transcription: im like “hey lets play magic the gathering” and then ten minutes later my tongue is in the mouth of someones daughter whos parents still call her son
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hey wanna play magic
Magic and chill?
I’ve never played but sure :3
This is very different from any experience I ever had playing magic the gathering.
When I came back to the game later in life–I initially played just before Ice Age came out–I was irritated by the changes and restrictions on format. I miss kitchen table shuffle and play situations with a far smaller pool of simpler cards.
Screw meta. I want to play a crazy theme deck that may or may not work how i intend. I want to play whatever I want, and, no, I didn’t want to play freakin’ Commander.
In other news, you kids need to get off my lawn.
Have you considered just playing your way?
My group of friends all has self constructed decks, one player likes to net-deck and keep up with the meta but the rest of us just like opening the rule book and finding weird mechanics to play with.
One of my favorites is one I call my “undead army” deck. Its just a Grixis commander deck (99 card Singleton with a commander, one legendary creature* in a special zone meant to interact with the deck well) running Marchessa of the Black Rose. Its tuned to hand out +1/+1 counters like candy, and (in different phrasing) give all my Attackers regenerate 0.
My partner has a dimir deck built on Basim from the Assassins creed set. Basically every card she plays other than lands and some blue mage shenanigans will trigger Basim to be unblockable. We rule 0 that commander damage doesn’t apply because of this deck.
You guys sound welcoming, but how do you deal with the net deck mothef…er…person? When I tried playing Commander, every time somebody used tutors of some kind to pull something that either gave them unbeatable attack power or rendered them and/or their creatures impossible to damage or unblockable.
Oh! Another thing!
Play blue. I know, everyone hates blue mages, but play blue. This will help you to learn how the stack functions, and allow you to learn to play on your opponents turn. Cards like Propaganda will discourage attacking you, and cards like Leyline of Anticipation gives all your stuff Flash, meaning you can use sorceries and enchantments to handle big combat stuff.
There is always a way out, you might just not have it in your deck. Playing blue will teach you to be cunning and tricksy, and teach you interactions that will help you turn the balance in your favor.
A fun one if you’re looking to learn weird interactions: This was a precon, you can probably still buy it as is. Swap the commander from “Mirko, Obsessive Theorist” over to “Lazav, the Multifarious” and you’ve got a super tricky card cloning deck capable of producing copies of legendaries legally. Play this a few times, cut the chaff, replace them with some mind-control cards in dimir and some Better mana rocks.
