First Time Magic the Gathering

[Erik_Twice]

There will always be a little kid with more money than you and who will beat you because of it.

Erm, no? You beat yourself if you can't bring a good deck.

Also being more expensive doesn't mean the deck is better. At all.

Spending $100 to make one only to lose in the first round because you got a matchup with the one rare deck that can actually beat yours sucks.

Any Magic tournament worth going is going to be Swiss so losing one doesn't matter. Even then, you can't be unlucky all the time.

Also by the same logic, you lose Sealed and Draft because someone got all the Loxodon Warhammers and you couldn't even see them.

[PixelPixii]

It was my first time playing and maybe in the future I may pick up a booster pack here and there, but I really feel no motivation to perfect a deck now.

[fastbilly1]

I played Magic heavily in the early/mid 90s. I stopped before Ice Age and have only looked back a couple times. I love the concept, but games like Dominion have almost fully scratched the itch that Magic created.

My favorite part about Magic was that with the purchase of a booster pack you might get something that could completely change how you were thinking about the game. Back in the Beta days, when Arabian Nights came out and introduced cards like Sharazard and Alexandria a booster would be cause for a whole new deck. A red white with Sharazard and bolts of lighting, if you could pull it off, was just game over.

I would love to be able to take the deck building mechanic of Magic and merge it with a miniatures game. Limewater's cousin did something similar with his game Dog Fight Starship Edition:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5764 ... ip-edition
But I think it could work for a miniatures game inbetween Heroscape and Warhammer.

[PixelPixii]

Magic is really cool in the sense that it is always changing. You never know what people have in their decks or how your hands are going to play out.

I am not familiar with Dominion. Will look it up.

That game you linked looks very interesting. I will look at it some more when I have the time.

[fastbilly1]

If you want more of that ever changing part of Magic, and have several people who want to be sociable. You can play Cosmic Encounter:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15/cosmic-encounter
It is a game of intersteller diplomacy that is a different game everytime you play it. It is considered to be Magic's primary influence.

[PixelPixii]

If you want more of that ever changing part of Magic, and have several people who want to be sociable. You can play Cosmic Encounter:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15/cosmic-encounter
It is a game of intersteller diplomacy that is a different game everytime you play it. It is considered to be Magic's primary influence.

That looks like a lot of fun! I always wanted to be from an alien race!

[fastbilly1]

It, like other diplomacy games, can easily be ruined if people have out of game alliances or cant take backstabbing. The only time I played it with family, my cousins ganged up on eachother with their wives/husbands and/or immediate family. It was terrible. Dont do that.

[PixelPixii]

It, like other diplomacy games, can easily be ruined if people have out of game alliances or cant take backstabbing. The only time I played it with family, my cousins ganged up on eachother with their wives/husbands and/or immediate family. It was terrible. Dont do that.

Oh ok.

So pretend to be a politician without actually acting like one. Noted.

[Niode]

It, like other diplomacy games, can easily be ruined if people have out of game alliances or cant take backstabbing. The only time I played it with family, my cousins ganged up on eachother with their wives/husbands and/or immediate family. It was terrible. Dont do that.

I used to play Risk a lot (Monday evenings fortnightly) and it always pissed me off when people got annoyed because I formed truces. It's in the damn rules, it encourages that type of play. If your strategy is based on 'hope I roll higher than the other guy' then you're just going to fail. Don't get pissed because the superpowers ganged up on you. If you weren't smart enough to stop that happening or form your own truce then that's your own fault.

[fastbilly1]

Its less about that niode and more that it was painfully obvious that player x wasnt going to attack player y because they were married, or player z since they were brothers. Regardless of all other factors.