Getting back into Magic the Gathering

[Stark]

Netrunner is so freaking expensive since the cards are long out of print.

That's why you get the new release by FF.

[Erik_Twice]

Yes, by Netrunner I mean "Android: Netrunner" which is the Fantasy Flight re-release. I'm not kidding or exaggerating when I say it's one of the best games ever made, so go try it at least XD

[Gamerforlife]

I used to play Magic a lot in my high school and early college days. That was like a decade ago. I have no idea what the game is like now. My favorite colors were blue and white. I had a white deck that would often outlast everyone in group games because it was heavy on defense and I had lots of ways to keep increasing my health on a turn by turn basis. When things weren't going my way, I'd Wrath of God everyone's creatures and bring mine back from the grave. Basically, the best way to beat that deck was to kill me off early, because the longer the game went the more things would go in my favor as I set up more and more defense and gained more and more health

With blue, I'd usually combo it with white for a two color deck. Those decks were just built completely around controlling everything, basically shutting down everything players tried to do. Counterspells, disenchants, cards that could steal or control other player's creatures, and lots of other stuff basically built around just saying, "NO" to everything a player could do.

My third favorite color was black. I had a lot of fun with Royal Assassin cards, and I also had cards built around forcing other players to discard cards from their hands. That deck pissed people off. In fact, most of my decks were built more around hassling people than actually killing them

I still have all my cards, but haven't played in so long. It's sad that very few of my cards are in mint condition anymore, because I know I have some rare stuff. I alwas played Magic with friends using house rules. One of the people I used to play with I've heard has recently been trying his luck in tournaments.

My friends and I also used to play a card game game called Rage based on the White Wolf, table top rpgs. Do people still play that?

[BoneSnapDeez]

I started playing MtG when I was 12.

I collected/played with the following sets:

4th Edition
Fallen Empires
Chronicles
Homelands
Ice Age
Alliances
Mirage
Visions

Then I started to lose interest. It seemed like cards/sets were being released so fast and furious that couldn't keep up as a gamer or collector. Ended up selling a large chunk of my collection.

I got back into it a bit in college, mainly playing online with some buddies of mine. I bought a couple Kamigawa decks and Core Set boxes but never did much with them.

Sometimes I think about selling some of the cards I have left. I have four Underground Seas, for example.

[Jmustang1968]

I started playing MtG when I was 12.

I collected/played with the following sets:

4th Edition
Fallen Empires
Chronicles
Homelands
Ice Age
Alliances
Mirage
Visions

Then I started to lose interest. It seemed like cards/sets were being released so fast and furious that couldn't keep up as a gamer or collector. Ended up selling a large chunk of my collection.

I got back into it a bit in college, mainly playing online with some buddies of mine. I bought a couple Kamigawa decks and Core Set boxes but never did much with them.

Sometimes I think about selling some of the cards I have left. I have four Underground Seas, for example.

I might be interested...

[Ack]

I started playing MtG when I was 12.

I collected/played with the following sets:

4th Edition
Fallen Empires
Chronicles
Homelands
Ice Age
Alliances
Mirage
Visions

Then I started to lose interest. It seemed like cards/sets were being released so fast and furious that couldn't keep up as a gamer or collector. Ended up selling a large chunk of my collection.

I got back into it a bit in college, mainly playing online with some buddies of mine. I bought a couple Kamigawa decks and Core Set boxes but never did much with them.

Sometimes I think about selling some of the cards I have left. I have four Underground Seas, for example.

Sounds about right. I learned to play in the Beta, officially started collecting around Fallen Empires, and quit when Weatherlight came out. I had a bunch of cards and got talked into playing a few games with friends in the early 2000s, but after someone stole a binder of rare cards I had stretching back to the Beta days, I decided I was done with the game for good. And looking at the number of sets that now exist, I'm glad I don't play.

[MrPopo]

With blue, I'd usually combo it with white for a two color deck. Those decks were just built completely around controlling everything, basically shutting down everything players tried to do. Counterspells, disenchants, cards that could steal or control other player's creatures, and lots of other stuff basically built around just saying, "NO" to everything a player could do.

My third favorite color was black. I had a lot of fun with Royal Assassin cards, and I also had cards built around forcing other players to discard cards from their hands. That deck pissed people off. In fact, most of my decks were built more around hassling people than actually killing them

Ahh, I remember these oldschool decks. Things have gotten a bit tighter these days. You still see play like that in EDH (100 card singleton format), but in regular constructed games are much faster (unless you're playing Eggs). For Modern (non-rotating format consisting of every set since they changed the card frame) the ban list is designed to prevent decks from consistently winning on turn 3, but consistent turn 4 is ok. I've got a cheap Legacy deck put together that can consistently kill by turn 3, and usually on turn 1.

28 0 casting cost creatures
9 mana sources
3 tutors
4 land tutors
4 free draw a card spell
3 mana filter creatures
4 Glimpse of Nature (whenever you play a creature draw a card)
3 Scapegoat (sac a creature as you cast this to bounce all creatures to your hand)
2 Storm kill spells

The deck is basically cast Glimpse, start playing creatures, cast either a Scapegoat or second Glimpse, continue to draw your entire deck, cast a storm spell for the win (you'll have more than 20 casts at that point).

[Sasha_Blue]

I have an annoying phasing deck. It's blue and red. I don't really buy any cards anymore or in a long long time. I rather keep my old cards. I love bringing this deck to some newbies or kids that started in the early to mid 2000s. I bring out a phasing ceature and everybody that hasn't seen my deck often says something like "wtf is phasing, I never seen that, is it new?" I laugh and explain what it does. For does that don't know what it does, every other upkeep any phasing card phases out, meaning it is removed from the game until my next upkeep it returns back into the game and so forth. Now what I do is I phase all my creatures when the time keeps and play the Apocalypse card. That card makes me discard my whole hand and removes everything on the field from the game. They don't go to the graveyard, no, they completely remove everything from the game. So when my turn comes up, I phase me creatures back in and kill everybody. If I don't have the Apocalypse card, then I just use any other global destruction card I have.

[BoneSnapDeez]

From what I recall the last two decks I used on a regular basis were:

Black/Blue - with four duel lands (Underground Seas and Rivers), 4 Hypnotic Specters, and some other beastly creatures.
White - a "weenie" deck with mostly small creatures (like Savannah Lions) and some Serra Angels.

When I was much younger I used to play with a Blue/White Stasis/Kismet deck with lots of counterspell type cards.

[Sasha_Blue]

I like weenie decks, my white deck had a lot of defense and white "plinkers".