Welcome to the weekly/biweekly/monthly (TBD) Magic The Gathering thread. Discuss a 30+ year old mega-commercialized hyperaddictive card game with us!
Thread Question 1: What formats are you playing? What are your favourite decks to play in these formats?
Thread Question 2: What is your favourite non-infinite, non-immediately-guaranteed-winning combo to play in magic?
Pauper is my favorite, so much room to brew and such a wide open metagame. Even though there's a huge card pool, new sets still often shift the meta enough to keep things fresh, without totally nuking the format like Modern.
It's a powerful format but without a lot of individually powerful cards, so you see a lot of unusual and kind of janky synergies you don't really see anywhere else.
A competitive deck costs as much as one shockland so you can put something together on a whim and experiment.
I mostly play dimir terror, but also have pestilence, elves, and orzhov blade decks I'm kind of iterating on.
Pioneer is also pretty good. And I play commander, like everyone, but I've been less interested in it lately.
1: I play a lot of Pioneer (because it encapsulates basically every set I played) and Commander because it's what everybody plays. However, I've recently been enjoying Pauper more. The People's Format.
2: Arcades, The Strategist + A Fuckload of Defenders + Tower Defense
Alternately, any Lotus Field Combo.
About to do a Winston draft this weekend with my BiL. 3pk Crimson Vow, 3pk Karlov Manner, which feels like a reasonable thematic match (and it's what I've got laying around). Plus a few promo packs thrown in for extra spice.
Very excited! Haven't been able to go draft for real for a few months since my latest child was born.
Hoping to pull a Sorin for the wifey while we're at it.
TQ1: My favourite format is cube
. A guy at my LGS has an (outdated) vintage cube that we've been playing sometimes, and I've begun work on my own. Planning to include silly un-cards and playtest cards for shits and giggles. Anyone here have experience designing a cube?also commander I guess
when we dont play cube I'll play commander and then usually a Gruul big stompy deck
.TQ2: My favourite combo is Hoarding Broodlord -> Fetch Saw in Half, Cast it on the Broodlord, tutor 2 more cards up, go wild!
I don't play much anymore. I used to love magic, but lately, the constant barrage of new product is too much for me.
But I still do play commander with my friends. Not too often but whenever we get together a game or two is inevitable.
My favorite deck is Tatyova, Benthic Druid, and my favorite non infinite, not guaranteed to win combo is (with Tatyova on the board):
Avenger of Zendikar into Scapeshift.
I get an army of huge plants, gain a bunch of life and draw a shitload of cards.
