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Disciple of the Cards

My personal thoughts on anything Magic: The Gathering related, mostly from the perspective of casual play. I enjoy many different types of Magic, but particularly multiplayer, suhc as 60/4 Free-for-All, Commander, Chaos Magic and Planechase, Archenemy, Horde Magic, and Emperor, but I also like one-on-one, particularly if it's after a Sealed or Cube draft. I most frequently play 3-6 player Commander, Chaos Magic, and Duels of the Planeswalkers. The closest to tournament play I ever get is a Release or Prerelease event.

I also like to design my own cards using the Magic Set Editor. I take my designs very seriously, as I find the fun of designing is to try and make the card feel as much like a card that could see print as possible (as opposed to just throwing every ability I like into a card). I'm very interested in feedback on these designs, so long as that feedback is constructive.

Check out my decks, including my Chaos Magic and Horde Magic stacks, at http://tappedout.net/users/sarroth/.

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  • Showtime Shultz: I would like to amend my statement I made earlier about the deck builders tool kit, apparently I was not clear enough:

    showtimeshultz:

    If you get your jollies by making awful decks that are in no way competitive and don’t mind paying money for commons and uncommons that players like myself either give away for nothing, leave lying on a table at the store when opening packs or are sold to stores in bulk of 1000 cards for 20 bucks…

    FNM isn’t really casual, dude. It’s a tournament, even if it’s not as competitive as Pro Tours. Once again, the toolkits are for kitchen tables, which Wizards specifically said so in their announcement of the product.

    You’re right: Not everyone needs competitive decks. I don’t see how you can’t understand that. If you’re not in a tournament your deck doesn’t need to be the best that it can be. It only needs to be good enough to beat your opponents, so if their decks aren’t optimized, yours doesn’t need to be either.

    Your kind of thinking has no place at the kitchen table. I see it all the time; the “I must optimize my deck, so must everyone else!” mentality is plentiful in casual Commander environments, and often comes from the trihards that make the game less fun for everyone else. That attitude is great for the tournaments, but not for the games most Magic players play.

    Your new post has shown that not only do you not understand what the toolkits were made for, but you don’t even understand that there are different types of Magic players than you. Unfortunately you are certainly not the only Magic player who has that issue.

    Tagged: MtG Magic: The Gathering Gaming Magic the Gathering Magic magic the gathering blog

    Posted on May 28, 2012 via Showtime Shultz with 12 notes ()

    1. themagicformula reblogged this from sarroth and added:
      I like this Sarroth guy
    2. ahoboandhisbox likes this
    3. sarroth reblogged this from showtimeshultz and added:
      FNM isn’t really casual, dude. It’s a tournament, even if it’s not as competitive as Pro Tours. Once again, the toolkits...
    4. swingforlethal reblogged this from showtimeshultz and added:
      Those wanting to learn MtG: Don’t be this guy. This is the darker side of Magic. Whereas he is not wrong (I’ll give him...
    5. intellectual-orgasm likes this
    6. traumatrae reblogged this from showtimeshultz and added:
      Jesus Christ dude, you are one angry, and rather angsty, player. Let people spend their own money. When I started...
    7. sledgehammertoe reblogged this from showtimeshultz and added:
      This is you.
    8. untapupkeep reblogged this from showtimeshultz and added:
      And this is the kind of guy that makes the game unfun. Truth be told, not everyone cares for points, competitive decks,...
    9. misery-loves-comedy likes this
    10. showtimeshultz posted this
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