Magic, What Color Do You Use?

Yeah, Slivers seem to either be an easy early win or painful, slow (or fast!) massacre as you get mana-starved and have nothing to block with except 1/1s you were planning on never using outside of the synergistic bonuses. Also, I haven't discussed Magic for years, this is awesome.

Part of the problem is you are spending 3 mana for a 1/1 when your openent is throwing out 2/2 or 3/3 for 1 mana lol. In competetive play decks assert control or can win thru combo/aggro by turn 4-5 even in type 2.... though I haven't played in like 2 years so not sure if it's still that fast.

Heck I once had a type 2 deck that once beat 4 people at once on turn 2

Slivers are actually illegal in tournaments lol.

Part of the problem is you are spending 3 mana for a 1/1 when your openent is throwing out 2/2 or 3/3 for 1 mana lol. In competetive play decks assert control or can win thru combo/aggro by turn 4-5 even in type 2.... though I haven't played in like 2 years so not sure if it's still that fast.

Slivers are actually illegal in tournaments lol.

Yeah, I'm with you there. Vast majority of my Magic experience is outside of a straight-competitive environment and mostly just for fun and trying to do the coolest combo or something.

Slivers get beaten by decks built to be quick-to-build and they get beat by things built to control, but I enjoyed playing them simply for the thrill of when it all worked perfectly.

I still probably prefer Blue Counter-Everything-That-Moves-and-even-if-it-doesn't, though. Wish I'd never lost those cards...

Provoke is useless if you can't attack

Those are the best for bluffing, too. Just always leave two blue mana untapped, and stare at them when they reach for a card, then place two fingers on your mana.

I don't understand anything... dang dasva 2 years ago you played? it was 14 years for me lol

I believe that means they cant attack you directly? not your creatures.

Why bluff when you can counter everything for no mana?



I got back into it a few years ago. Did alot of tournaments and stuff pretty much every pre-release for 3-4 years before they started making them super lame

I want to make a control/lockdown white/black deck. Haven't gotten in to magic enough to want to spend money on it, though.

I have a fun ninja black deck, and an absolutely lovely blue counter deck.

Oh, and the oh-so-common Atog deck that can kill you in 2-5 turns. After winning a few tournaments with Atog, I stopped playing with it. Just became boring.

Updated December 20, 2010

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Pfft! Why have creatures when you can just have MORE COUNTERS? I'll go on and put out again we played mostly for fun and left a lot of the GOOD ideas out in favor of "This is ridiculous, I have zero creatures in my deck! But I can counter everything in the game by turn two!"

counter decks without anything but counters seems kinda silly to me unless you have some mind controls or watever the *** they are

if you want to start off with decent cards there is a 200-250 card box sold at a lot of places that comes with a lot of semi-random cards

it's only 20 bucks too

and i've gotten better cards out of it as opposed to buying random packs

I misworded that. I haven't gotten back in to magic to spend money on it again. I have like, 3k cards in my bedroom still, lol.