Is any one else a competitive player, or even just a casual one?
ITT: List your deck, your play experience, why you love magic, favorite card

My current deck for Type 2 competitive play is Vampire Agro ( I know, I know, cliche but it is one of the top decks).
I have been playing on and off for 5 years now, since I was 13.
Why do I love magic? It's a fast game, I wont say I am one for patience. Its always evolving, and everyone can develop a unique play style.
My favorite card is Llanowar Elf! He's my trusty companion who is there for me in every core set!:heart:

I've tried to play it dozens of times.
But I could just never get into it.
I'm not much on card games outside of the casual.
I think the last time I was into a card game was pokemon. xD
When it first came out.

Haha, ya I still have some pokemon cards chilling some where. I'm not sure if I remember how to play though. Did you just play magic with your friends or did you go to tournaments and stuff?

I played between the ages of eight and ten.. I still have cards laying around. I enjoyed Magic, it was entertaining. I liked my Sliver deck.. It was hard to beat.. But my favourite card was ah, Sera's Angel.. or something like that. Another was umm.. Crozan Cloudscraper, I think.

Serra Angel used to be really good
she was a 4/4 flier with vigilance for 5 mana
and then they put out baneslayer angel. The 5/5 first striker flier with lifelink for the same cost. Now Serra isn't worth the card stock she is printed on.

I don't play MTG much anymore, but I have about 7 decks... >_>;


I think about 2 white, one black, one red, one blue, ect... xD; no favorite card... If it were yugioh I'd say the harpies, but it's not. xD

Heck, I even have DIGIMON cards!

I played in tournaments way back when but haven't seen the likes of one in years.

Here's the deck I've been playing with:

2 Feldon's Cane
2 Arcane Laboratory
3 Capsize
3 Forbid
2 Time Element
1 Chaos Moon
2 Fork
1 Soldier of Fortune
1 Divine Intervention
3 Enlightened Tutor
2 Flickering Ward
2 Humility
4 Mother of Runes
4 Peacekeeper
1 Replenish
1 Shahrazad
2 Worship
4 City of Brass
5 Island
3 Maze of Ith
3 Mountains
6 Plains
4 Tundra

(I found this deck build on a website a long time ago and it has proven as annoying as I had hoped it would be hehehe.)

Oh, good old times... good old times.

I was collecting (never really got into playing - I was more into those TCGs that made you build up your forces for dozens of rounds before the fighting started :D) between ages 14 and 20. I spent a fortune back then. :P

Building decks was a lot of fun (though of course thanks to never playing I don't know whether they were any good), I especially enjoyed building Red/Artifact ones. Or the occasional suicidal Black one. <3

I only know about breeding pit because I make a joke about it.
Anyway, I was a casual watcher.
My exboyfriend used to play.
He used to play with his deck for hours. (HA!)

I used to play Magic, but haven't in ages. I was an old school player, I used the Stasis, Necromancer and Burn decks :) They technically belonged to my brother, but he let me borrow them whenever I wanted so long as I didn't lose or destory any of the cards.

I got out of playing when the new school versions came in XP

Wow! If you aren't going to play anymore you might consider selling your cards. That is a deck of money! You could still play it in extended and type 1 tournaments if you are interested in playing, but those cards cycled out a long time ago for standard tournaments.

I love this game. I play it when I can, mostly with my sister. I run a squirrel token deck, evil little thing that is very fun in group games, while she plays the white deck from hell; angels, circles of protection, and life gain. I can only beat that when I hit her fast. Fortunately, my deck is the quicker of the two. I love flashback effects and have fun with high-powered instants. Favorite card? Might of Oaks with it's giant squirrel and instant pump-up action. Best moment? Playing a tag-team game, I attacked my opponent and declared that the squirrels were after his nuts. Keep in mind that when playing squirrel tokens, the maturity level of the game will drop. I made my little declaration, "They're after your nuts!" and the guy responded by pointing at his partner and shouting, "Go for his, they're bigger!" The thing that made it beautiful was the look on his partner's face. Ah, good times...

hahah I am a casual player, But I have alot of cards. One of my former teachers played for awhile and ended up giving away most of his cards. I was more than happy to take as much as I could. I love magic because it feels so adult oriented and it's so fun. Also, it has given me great joy and many laughs over the years. My favorite cards are from the Unhinged series. They make me roll so bad!!! As for my deck, I want to run a sliver deck so bad it hurts sometimes.

LOVE the pun! =D


@Myzrii: I don't think I could ever sell my cards. After all the time I spent acquiring the cards and making/playing with those decks over the years it would be like selling a piece of my soul. =p

Same here! :D

I have quite a lot first edition rares, but unless I was starving (and I'm not quite sure even then :D) I just couldn't sell them. It took 6 years to collect them! :P

Augh! Don't remind me of slivers! There's nothing in the world worse than going tag team against two sliver decks, I swear! I've never seen anyone take on two at once and not get massacred...

hahaha well duh luve, thats because slivers are too amazing for even 1 person to handle. Now TWO?? Thats just asking to be hurt. What kind of deck do you run? I can see you running Nightmare decks or any Red deck that puts an emphasis on pain and mana destruction lol

I actually used to run a burn deck, but as mentioned on the last page I main a squirrel token deck now. It's the psychological advantage. I get one little squirrel with a Traveler's Cloak out there, get it through, and then jump it up to a 8/8 monstrosity.
I should totally remake my burn deck, though. Man, I loved that thing. Red/black is one of the most evil combination ever. I only really stopped running it because it was useless against my sister's obscene life gain, thank you Life Burst Atalia the Sammite Master or whatever the name of that... that thing was...
Yes, my sister can gain life faster than a red/black deck can burn it...

ouch!!! thats gotta be painful to watch. Actually, the decks I hate most are usually blue decks that refuse to let me have any monsters on the field lol. God those are some annoying blighters!!

Blue decks can be one of the most annoying adversaries, to be certain, but when you're whipping out enough mana that you can afford to run them through their counters before you run out of options they're not that bad. That's why I like my green deck. I get a lot of mana pretty fast, which is good because of how often I abuse flashback costs. I love flashback...

lol i'm actually a big fan of the festering goblin, ornithopter and myrs lol. And haste lol. I would be so happy just to run a haste deck and just kill hard and fast.

Haste is fun. Sometimes I'm sorely tempted to mix some elves in with my squirrels just to be completely and totally evil. I think the meanest combo I've ever seen was when a little old man used Traumatize on himself... which sends half the deck to the graveyard... and then played a second card, I can NOT recall the name, that revived every monster in his graveyard for one turn.
One turn was enough.
One turn was mooooore than enough.
Because he WOULD have been running a few trample cards!

Oh. My. Lanta. hehe, I dont know if that's still funny, but wow. That is terrible. I wish I could have seen that in action lol. I do not recall EVER seeing something so mean as that to be honest lol. By the way, would you object if I added you as a friend? and back to Magic lol, whats your favorite expansion?