Magic: The Gathering

How have you found the learning curve? Some players, even after playing for a few years still don't understand half of the mechanics to a good enough level. I can tell you that one from experience!

Is anyone here playing standard? What's your local meta like?

Let's see if we can get some conversation going in this thread again..

the learning curve has been good, still getting used to the intricacies of all the rules

local meta? whats that?

Hey all. Haven't posted here before but I started playing MTG a couple of years ago when my mate introduced me to it. I've got quite a few decks made up. My favourite is an all green elf deck.

Need more people to play with though.

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It's one of the best parts of the game if you ask me. Finding some of the more subtle interactions between the cards that you may not have seen or known. Pretty interesting stuff

A "local meta" is essentially the meta game - What other people are playing around you, what you do to counter their strategies. It's the best way I can explain it.

so the meta is a bit like how you modify your deck to counter a regular opponents strategies?

Hey, I am a complete newbie to magic only been playing a couple of weeks I have 3 decks. Still getting to grips with it

I borrow decks off friends... (can't afford to start another expensive habit...) he has an epic angel deck and a pretty good white human deck and a solid vampire deck as well as a few others that he won't let me borrow...

If you want to just have some fun playing the game, and don't want to spend out on it, I'd say it might be worth buying just some sleeves, and using proxy cards (print out copies of the card, and stick them in the sleeves), so you can have the fun of putting together your own deck. I know a few people who take that route with the game, either to see how much they like it before investing in it, or to use cards they otherwise wouldn't have the chance to use.

Hmmm I might do that sounds like a good idea +1

Just make sure you agree with whoever you're playing with on the format first. Having access to all the 'current' cards is cool, but not overpowered, but access to every card in magic history is very different. And if they don't care about what cards you choose, Erratic Explosion + Gleemax. You're welcome .

True true - though after playing with an angel deck I may try to build one, even though you kinda have to get a lucky landfall before you can play any creatures...

I'm not even remotely familiar with angel decks, but did a bit of googling and found http://www.squidoo.com/magic-the-gathering-angel-deck#module156135602 which seems to give a lot of information on the options for such a deck. Generally though if a deck requires too much on luck to get the right cards, it's not a great deck relatively speaking (though Quicksilver Amulet is suggested as a solution to, and seems to work well with, high cost or 'difficult' multi-coloured cost creatures).

hi what decks do you run? what colours/combos?

so for I have Izzet, gorgari and Issmic and I general stick to green and black what about you??

sounds good is golgari your favourite then?

Selesnya and about to start developing an Izzet deck

it is I also like working with the vampires and zombies because I do enjoy using there effects. it is a silly question but I really don't understand where tokens are concerned, I was playing the other day and a card said bring the goblin token to the field? :/