Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[Anatole Kuragin]

I was visiting some friends this weekend who are all into Magic and after playing a couple games with their spare decks I was hooked. I got the red/black core 2015 pre-made and a few boosters. Probably going to be a long time, if ever, before I will be interested in playing at local tourneys or anything but I'm pretty psyched about this hobby and trying to get my wife into it.

[Anatole Kuragin]

thanks, accepting any tips or input on learning, deck comp, etc.

I'm interested in sticking with red/black until I can afford a big collection, don't know how viable it is but seems really fun

[Anatole Kuragin]

I got DotP 2013 cause I have a lot of friends with it

[Anatole Kuragin]

How many percentage points of viability does a mono black or orzhov deck drop by not being willing to pay for mutavaults and thoughtsiezes? I realize that without knowing the local meta or having a decklist this is a largely useless conjecture.

[Anatole Kuragin]

Right - I fully understand how good those cards are and unfortunately they're the only ones on my hypothetical decklist I can't really justify paying for at $60-80 for a playset of TS or more for mutavaults right now.

[Anatole Kuragin]

I don't think buying into a deck that loses as much as Mono Black does with rotation (Pack Rat, Mutavault, D. Demon, Lifebane/Nightveil | Blood Baron/Ghost Council in the white version) in just two months is a sensible idea at all; if anything you should just be buying thoughtseizes for the next standard because it'd be a bizarre standard where thoughtseize isn't automatically in the best five or so cards in that standard.

Yeah I might just space out thoughtseize purchases and hope for the best with the new rotation - definitely the best monetary decision.

[Anatole Kuragin]

I got this http://940ee6dce6677fa01d25-0f55c912997 ... 112136.jpg for $2 at a local used bookstore. I didn't even realize that a bunch of the cards in it were just randos from Onslaught someone threw in there when they sold it to the store in addition to the 7th edition starter set. One of those cards is a Wooden Foothills. Pretty cool.

[Anatole Kuragin]

a leak indicated they would all be spoiled today I think

[Anatole Kuragin]

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/ktk-cig-en

[Anatole Kuragin]

If my wife has veridian longbow equipped on a typhoid rat and taps it to do the one damage and kill a creature of mine, can I use an instant to destroy the longbow and avoid the damage? Or is damage already on the stack (this is the explanation I found googling)?

Also, does her equipping the bow give me priority to then destroy it before it can be tapped?

[Anatole Kuragin]

Jeskai Ascendancy "Storm" looks pretty stupid/awesome

[Anatole Kuragin]

Wow, how is that card real?

[Anatole Kuragin]

it's probably the best you can do at $15-25 and still take a few wins, depending on the FNM

[Anatole Kuragin]

rabble red is probably the strongest at that price point

[Anatole Kuragin]

4 Foundry Street Denizen
4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Frenzied Goblin
4 Borderland Marauder
4 War-Name Aspirant
3 Valley Dasher
4 Goblin Rabblemaster

4 Magma Jet
4 Lightning Strike
4 Stoke the Flames

21 Mountain

source: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the- ... o-standard

there are a bunch of effective budget decks there

[Anatole Kuragin]

I'm pretty much not in standard right now because everything I had was basically RTR block

My deck was built around RTR too, I think I'm just going to start drafting a bunch.

[Anatole Kuragin]

that's a buylist price tsq

[Anatole Kuragin]

Every time I think about wasting money on MTGO another incident like this happens.

[Anatole Kuragin]

Godz hasn't posted in a few years. Guess I won't be able to harass him about his enchantress cosplay as a means of discrediting his scumread on me at some point.

[Anatole Kuragin]

So want to play magic. Falling in love with Card games at the moment. I just hate a lot of the people that play it. I played Friday Night Magic once and the people there were all the worst kind of nerd sterotypes. Not much space, and everyone was fat and smelly or 12 and obnoxious.

EDIT: NOT THAT I AM NOT FAT AND OBNOXIOUS BUT I TRY NOT TO BE.

I've only been to one FNM and I had two cool opponents and one fat, ponytail'd virgin type who, before I played his netdecked devotion to black (which was the most played deck at the time) he said something like, "huh huh I feel bad for you for having to play against this deck bro huhuhuhuh" or some variation of it three times during the match. I'll go back one day when I can afford a few decent cards and exact my revenge.

[Anatole Kuragin]

It depends on what format you're getting into. You can spend less than $100 on a deck that can consistently beat people at most FNMs in a standard tourney.

If you don't want to do that or dont know how much time you'll have to devote to it, you can just do drafts for $10-15 a pop and try to build a deck if you get good draws from those then fill in the spaces.

[Anatole Kuragin]

Phyrexian Revoker as a mainboard is kind of exciting.

[Anatole Kuragin]

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/15-10-14 ... -standard/

Can you guys provide some advice on this deck I'm building?

[Anatole Kuragin]

Alright, I'll try that out.

[Anatole Kuragin]

Alright, I'll try that out.

[Anatole Kuragin]

I did that last week but with wooded foothills, bloodstained mire, and wingmate roc

[Anatole Kuragin]

damn a big bang theory dig, what a maverick

[Anatole Kuragin]

he looks down, sees if its a land or nonland, then puts 5 or 6 or 7 of those at the top of the deck while "shuffling" so you either get 5-7 lands or 5-7 nonlands

[Anatole Kuragin]

This is why you're supposed to overhand shuffle, so you cant look down and see the bottom card, mark it or manipulate it.

[Anatole Kuragin]

My b. Got this video and the humphries one floating around mixed up.

Seems like a lot of cheating being caught lately.

[Anatole Kuragin]

There was a big uproar on r/magictcg because the cheaters had been getting more lenient punishments than the buttcrack guy. I wonder if that's causing them to give out 3-4 year bans

[Anatole Kuragin]

Does it seem pretty legit, PV?

[Anatole Kuragin]

I'm still a noob at Magic but it seems like Mono-red should be pretty strong against the typical Abzan midrange decks. It can consistently win before a Sorin or Rhino is in the picture with enough burn based on some testing I've done.

[Anatole Kuragin]

Layer 6 is what they're hiding in Area 51

[Anatole Kuragin]

UW Heroic? There a good decklist/primer somewhere?

http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdat ... ckID=75984

this is the one that recently got a lot of press

[Anatole Kuragin]

I wish they could show more matches than they do in worlds