Y'know I'm not usually a Signs From The Universe guy, but today The Universe dropped a foil rare Magic the Gathering card in front of me during my walk.
*looks at prices* lol nevermind fuck the universe :P
Might be a fun arts and crafts project to try and rebuild some of my old decks as proxy decks, tho. Get some land cards, print out my old decklist and get to gluin'. Not like I'm planning on playing any official events.
I still remember most of my Stasis and Enchantress decklists, too! Oath of Druids is a bit of a blur, but I could probably figure out that ProsBloom deck I used...
@CactuarJoe Really wish my favorite games weren't also the favorite games of wealthy collectors.
@wizardponderingorb god damn it's true
@CactuarJoe @wizardponderingorb I started playing MtG back in the Beta/Dark era and I absolutely loved it, but the rich kids fucked everything up.
Main issue was that there were a bunch of us filthy casual poors that enjoyed playing the game for the tactical "what fucked up combos and synergies can I pull" but we kept getting challenged to battles by rich kids that had spent a fortune of their parent's money on cards that let them win in 1-2 turns.
So I made a second deck, explicitly for fighting them, a pretty standard Black/Red/Green build with the usual suspects - a ton of land, some easy to get 1/1 creatures, a couple of important Artifacts, and X cards like Howl From Beyond. BUT... I also filled the deck with Ante-based cards, like my beloved Demonic Attorney.
@CactuarJoe @wizardponderingorb
Ante cards had been mostly ignored up to that point, most people didn't use them, but I figured out that it was a perfect counter to the rich kids with their $200 stacked decks.
They had a double benefit - playing for Ante and having a bunch of cards based on Ante meant that if I could fire them off first, I could potentially sideline cards that were vital to their One-Hit-Kill strategies before they ever got to play them.
And that's ignoring the obvious benefit of stealing/winning whatever cards they had anted up to that point. It was such a different gameplay meta that it genuinely freaked them out and made them avoid me and my poor friends. No ez dubs here.
Of course, they complained, and ante is... technically.... gambling, so were ordered to stop and that was about the point I quit.
@DrakkenZero @wizardponderingorb Ha ha ha oh man, *ante cards* :D That was a hilarious concept to begin with, I love it :D
@CactuarJoe @wizardponderingorb
There was a fucked up synergy between their decks and my ante decks, too.
Their decks ran real lean, in order to make sure they could get their hands on the killer cards. And a lot of the time they would spend Turns 1 and 2 setting up their big one-hit-kill attacks, usually by moving the cards they'd need next round to their hand or to the top of their deck using their deck management cards.
BUT
Most of the ante cards target one of two locations - your hand and the top of your deck. Even if the ante didn't pull their expensive cards, it could still be used to essentially banish structural cards that they absolutely needed to pull off their strategy
@wizardponderingorb @CactuarJoe Same, but for cars. :-/