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Post by Butcher Orgg(s) on Aug 26, 2004 13:28:14 GMT -6
After much deliberation, I chose Casual, because I can't use Unglued in 1.5.  |
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Post by Maraxus of Keld on Aug 26, 2004 13:32:35 GMT -6
I picked Casual also, because that's almost all I've played. Draft would come in second.
Type 1 costs too much to be competitive (I can't afford P9 cards), and Type 2 isn't diverse enough for my liking. I don't like to see the same three decks all the time.
I've never tried 1.5 or Extended, although they sound to me like the healthiest formats. I have also never done sealed deck, but it seems to me like an inferior draft.
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Post by Baron Sengir on Aug 26, 2004 20:15:55 GMT -6
I chose casual as well, b/c I don't like tournaments period, regardless of what type they are.
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Post by Arcades Sabboth on Aug 27, 2004 0:40:50 GMT -6
After much deliberation, I chose Casual, because I can't use Unglued in 1.5. wow, someone else who likes unglued too. i plan on making a silly deck when unhinged comes out. its going to be nothing but unglued and unhinged cards. |
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Post by Arcades Sabboth on Aug 27, 2004 0:48:01 GMT -6
i choose casual because i dont like being told what cards i can and cannot use, or for that matter, how many of a certain card i can use.
although my friends often dont like some of the cards and i have had to cut them from decks at times. its funny, platnium angel is ok. weird huh?
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Post by Maraxus of Keld on Aug 27, 2004 1:04:23 GMT -6
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Post by Arcades Sabboth on Aug 27, 2004 1:14:45 GMT -6
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Post by Maraxus of Keld on Aug 27, 2004 9:07:16 GMT -6
Not really, considering that half the stuff I listed is artifact destruction. There are only two colors that can reasonably do anything about Traumatize: red and blue. Blue has counters, red has Red Elemental Blast, Pyroblast, and Shunt. The only one of those that any remotely sane person would use anywhere other than a sideboard is Shunt. And since we play casual games (and therefore don't use sideboards), that means that the only thing any color other than blue can reasonably be expected to do is Shunt. Which is, first of all, an extremely situational card that isn't worth putting into decks most of the time, and second, how many people in our regular playgroup even have, let alone use, it? As far as I know, I'm the only one, and I have it in a deck where you will likely be dead before you have the mana to cast Traumatize. Contrast that with Platinum Angel. How many colors can do something about that? White has Disenchant and Swords to Plowshares. Both cards that are safe to run in almost any deck of the appropriate color. Yes, they're situational, but they work on a situation that you are much more likely to run into than Shunt or Pyroblast. Therefore they are worth maindecking. Blue, as mentioned more than once before, not only has an impressive list of counterspells, but also can bounce with Boomerang, Unsummon, and the like. Not to mention it can also steal the Angel with spells like Control Magic, Dominating Licid, Steal Artifact, or Confiscate. Once again, all these are cards that a blue deck is likely to run, especially a blue control deck (and you know that more than 75% of blue decks are control). Black has a near-monopoly on creature destruction. Sure, Terror won't take out Platinum Angel, but Dark Banishing, Devour in Shadow, Hand of Death, Royal Assassin, Diabolic Edict, and plenty of other cards will. And if worse comes to worse, there's always Drain Life. Red, of course, in addition to having plenty of artifact removal like Shatter and Detonate, has uncountable number of burn spells that can deal with creature-based threats: Lightning Bolt, Incinerate, Shock, Hammer of Bogardan, Electrostatic Bolt, Fireball, Disintegrate, Starstorm, Lava Burst, Kaervek's Torch, Spitting Earth, and at least twenty or thirty more. And what self-respecting red deck runs no burn? That leaves us with green. The anti-artifact color. Oxidize, Naturalize, Deconstruct, all the other stuff I mentioned in my last post. Many of it, especially Naturalize, is extremely playable in your average green deck. Hell, Molder Slug still gives you a big creature, even if your opponent doesnt' have any artifacts. The point is, if you build your deck smart, Platinum Angel is not a problem to deal with. It can be countered, and by being a permanent it is also naturally vulnerable to removal spells. That means that there are literally hundreds of cards that can solve that problem for you, and more importantly, there are answers in all five colors. There are probably ways that artifacts can deal with it too, but I'm just not coming up with it at the moment. |
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Post by Volrath, the Fallen on Aug 27, 2004 10:37:46 GMT -6
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Post by Butcher Orgg(s) on Aug 27, 2004 11:31:31 GMT -6
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Post by Maraxus of Keld on Aug 27, 2004 12:13:05 GMT -6
Alright then. We've kinda hijacked this thread, haen't we?
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Post by Butcher Orgg(s) on Aug 27, 2004 12:14:30 GMT -6
BWA HA HA HA HA!
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Post by Volrath, the Fallen on Aug 27, 2004 12:38:25 GMT -6
hehehe, we would make a good team of lawyers.
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Post by Butcher Orgg(s) on Aug 27, 2004 12:44:03 GMT -6
I was a lawyer once in a mock trial. We won the case. It was the Boston Massacre, I was the state.
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Post by Maraxus of Keld on Aug 27, 2004 13:22:44 GMT -6
There's going to be a mock trial coming up in my Mass Media Law class. I'm debating whether I should sign up as a lawyer or try to be one of the judges...
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