MTG and the Joys of Nerdism
After not touching the game for over ten years, I put together two Magic decks tonight. My pool of cards — maybe 600 or so at present — limited the fancy factor, but I’ve managed to build a pair of ‘beat you senseless’ 60-carders, the first an elf-centric green/black jobby, the second a pure red goblins-n-elementals-n-giants-oh-my crusher. It will be fun to see how they play out.
Too Many Effing Elves (Green/Black; 60 cards)
LANDS (24)
- Forest (14)
- Swamp (6)
- Shimmering Grotto (4)
GREEN CREATURES (18)
- Elvish Warrior (4)
- Llanowar Elves (4)
- Elvish Harbinger (2)
- Imperious Perfect (2)
- Jagged Scar Archers (2)
- Leaf Gilder (2)
- Wood Elves (2)
BLACK CREATURES (4)
- Moonglove Winnower (2)
- Scarred Vinebreeder (2)
ARTIFACT CREATURES (2)
- Scuttlemutt (2)
OTHER GREEN SPELLS (4)
- Giant Growth (2)
- Wildsize (2)
OTHER BLACK SPELLS (8)
- Contaminated Bond (2)
- Dark Banishing (2)
- Eyeblight’s Ending (2)
- Terror (2)
June 13, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I’m sorry, I cannot endorse MTG playing.
June 13, 2008 at 3:26 pm
You’ll take it like a champ and ask for seconds, dammit.
Besides after my 10K or so cards get here (eBay is crack), I’ll probably be looking to give some away.
June 13, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Does anyone want this damned french video er what?
June 13, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Does it come in DVD?
June 14, 2008 at 12:04 am
No, it’s the coveted French Vid Chris and Eric did only in VHS.
June 14, 2008 at 12:17 am
It must be returned.
June 14, 2008 at 12:49 am
I would ditch at least half of the shimmering grottos, if not all of them. At 24 land you’re looking at almost 50% of your deck being a land card. At almost one out of every 2.5 cards you draw being land, that will slow you down. With 6 swamps you’ve got a 1 in 10 chance of drawing one, assuming that your black monsters/spells only require one swamp to cast, you should be ok as long as you don’t need to rely on them in the first 3 or 4 turns. Your artifact creatures can also provide you with the black mana you need should you be unlucky enough not to draw any, plus it doesn’t cost anything to activate. Your grottos need one colorless to activate, so you won’t be able to use them (as swamps) until at least turn 2, and so you’ll need spells/creatures that cost 1 swamp to even do anything by turn 2 – so you’re looking at laying down a card on turn 3 or later. Not so great – and by then you should have enough mana for your artifact creature, if you didn’t draw a swamp.
I don’t really know what most of these cards are, since I stopped around Ice Age, so I can’t really help you on that front. You should deal a few hands and find out if you can start laying creatures around turn 2, if it takes you to turn 4 or later to start laying things down, you’re too top heavy.
Things like this make me want to take up magic again, but that would mean finding players (besides Mike O.)
June 14, 2008 at 1:00 am
You should totally put a deck or two together, just for shits-n-giggles.
I might switch out the grottos for swamps. Not sure yet. I don’t have any very expensive spells in the deck. Maybe I should exchange em for more instants and things.
June 14, 2008 at 1:05 am
Greg,
If I can find my cards from the Time Spiral and Planar Chaos sets when I gave in and actually bought back into the game, you are welcome to them. I have alot of Green and White cards, but not much black….
June 14, 2008 at 1:11 am
Dennis — That would be really cool! I have nothing from those sets yet.
June 14, 2008 at 1:28 am
Yes, but to whom…is yours factory?
June 14, 2008 at 1:58 am
It’s either his or Korver’s copy.
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