A poor man's blog for Magic the Gathering (MtG), Wizards of the Coast (WoTC), deck construction, cards, combos, game play, MtG podcasts, etc.
What is "Magic: the Gathering"? Magic is a collectible fantasy-themed playing card game kinda combining Uno, War, Chess, and art dealing: match colors, draw 4, high card beat low card, different cards attack in different ways while you ogle hot chicks and dragons drawn by your favorite artists on cards you can sometimes sell for big money.
It's Pokimon for grown ups. Srsly, get your Pokimon player a Magic deck and they'll instantly sprout pubes and consider a career as a mathmatician.
They summon creatures of every color, they do it with colorless mana, they do it at Instant speed:
Bring a <4 Mana Rebel into play for 4 Colorless Mana.
Changeling Instants are Rebels and Mana Color is irrelevant, so you can play mono-black and have your Blightspeaker fetch any Changeling of less than 4 Mana and bring it into play with an Instant-speed Mana Ability as if the card had Flash.
Rebels:
Children of Korlis Creature - Human Rebel Cleric 1 1 Ramosian Sergeant Creature - Human Rebel 1 1 Samite Censer-Bearer Creature - Human Rebel Cleric 1 1 Brutal Suppression Enchantment Amrou Scout Creature - Kithkin Rebel Scout 2 1 Blade of the Sixth Pride Creature - Cat Rebel 3 1 Defiant Falcon Creature - Rebel Bird 1 1 Errant Doomsayers Creature - Human Rebel 1 1 Fresh Volunteers Creature - Human Rebel 2 2 Ramosian Lieutenant Creature - Human Rebel 1 2 Sword Dancer Creature - Human Rebel 1 2 Blightspeaker Creature - Human Rebel Cleric 1 1 Rathi Trapper Creature - Human Rebel Rogue 1 2 Knight of the Holy Nimbus Creature - Human Rebel Knight 2 2 Steadfast Guard Creature - Human Rebel 2 2 Whipcorder Creature - Human Soldier Rebel 2 2 Dunerider Outlaw Creature - Human Rebel Rogue 1 1 Amrou Seekers Creature - Kithkin Rebel 2 2 Aven Riftwatcher Creature - Bird Rebel Soldier 2 3 Bound in Silence Tribal Enchantment - Rebel Aura Defiant Vanguard Creature - Human Rebel 2 2 Lawbringer Creature - Kor Rebel 2 2 Lightbringer Creature - Kor Rebel 2 2 Mercenary Informer Creature - Human Rebel Mercenary 2 1 Nightwind Glider Creature - Human Rebel 2 1 Outrider en-Kor Creature - Kor Rebel Knight 2 2 Saltfield Recluse Creature - Human Rebel Cleric 1 2 Shield Dancer Creature - Human Rebel 1 3 Soul Charmer Creature - Human Rebel 2 2 Task Force Creature - Human Rebel 1 3 Thermal Glider Creature - Human Rebel 2 1 Zealot il-Vec Creature - Human Rebel 1 1 Deepcavern Imp Creature - Imp Rebel 2 2 Rebel Informer Creature - Human Mercenary Rebel 1 2 Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero Legendary Creature - Human Rebel 1 3 Ramosian Captain Creature - Human Rebel 2 2 Riftmarked Knight Creature - Human Rebel Knight 2 2 Big Game Hunter Creature - Human Rebel Assassin 1 1 Ballista Squad Creature - Human Rebel 2 2 Pious Warrior Creature - Human Rebel Warrior 2 3 Ramosian Revivalist Creature - Human Rebel Cleric 2 2 Trenching Steed Creature - Horse Rebel 2 3 Rebellion of the Flamekin Tribal Enchantment - Elemental Cho-Manno, Revolutionary Legendary Creature - Human Rebel 2 2 Ramosian Commander Creature - Human Rebel 2 4 Rappelling Scouts Creature - Human Rebel Scout 1 4 Reveille Squad Creature - Human Rebel 3 3 Skyshroud Poacher Creature - Human Rebel 2 2 Jhovall Rider Creature - Human Rebel 3 3 Ramosian Sky Marshal Creature - Human Rebel 3 3
Whenever people say a card sucks, I tend to get an impulse to break it.
Today we explore...
Alot of people call it a crap rare, but everyone seems to overlook the fact that you might end up getting a look at half your opponent's deck. ...and counter a spell. ...and your opponent loses any good cards on the top of their library. ...and they may be tempted to waste a good spell at a bad time. ...OR... ...you can counter a 1 mana instant of your own and fetch a ten mana instant/sorcery like Eternal Dominion, Soulscour, Decree of Annihilation, Time Stretch, Sway the Stars, Storm Herd, or Curse of the Cabal and cast it FOR FREE.
...but who would want to do anything like that? I mean, it's only a crap rare.
Thanks to the folks at mtgsalvation.com for making this thread easy: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=64605&page=2
Results: 1) Gerry Thompson 2) Lee Steht 3) Nathan Elkins 4) Kenneth Castor 5) A.J. Sacher 6) Kyle Bundgaard 7) Antonino de Rosa 8) Hunter Burton
My Timmy was delighted to hear Lee Steht (of mananation.com)won 2nd (w/ Fairies of course). Yea for MtG media! :D
My Johnny was delighted to hear alot of pros yet again had their noggles handed to them by rogue decks. ^_^ ...not Tribe-Rogue decks, just unexpected decks. :)
My Spike scowled at me because I'm too perpetually broke to draft FNM, much less attend a Grand Prix. :? ...but I did start using proxies, he's very pleased with that. ;)
The last deck I built was a mono-blue Wizard/Changeling deck; Aethermage could fetch nearly any nonland card in my deck and I could play it for one blue mana (Stoneybrook Bannerett), but I could only find 2 Vedalken Aethermages at the flea market and I haven't gotten into the habit of using proxies, so I just canibalized the deck to start making my next one.
I'm surprised I haven't heard more about Changeling combos, especially with Slivers, but maybe I missed it because I just got back into MtG, and because the Time Spiral Slivers are rotating out of Standard in October.
[...and people had a hard time pronouncing Pththisis. ^_^
Muha... Muhaha... MUHAHAHAHA!!
Under construction:
4 Dark Depths 4 Vesuva 4 Yavimaya Coast 7 Forest 7 Island
4 Animate Land g 4 Life (Life/Death) g 4 Lifespark Spellbomb 1 (+g to activate) 4 Balduvian Conjuror 1u 4 Fate Transfer 1b/u 4 Balduvian Frostwalker 2u 3 Crucible of Worlds 3 3 Shapesharer 2u
SideBorat: Consecrate Land Skyshroud Ranger
Maybe Spike Tiller, Gaea's Liege, Jorael, Life // Death, , Rude Awakening, etc.
My Johnny wants a Genju of the Realm / Composite Golem combo to go with it. My Spike says don't be greedy. My Timmy says, yes, I'll have a Genju of the Realm / Composite Golem combo to go. :) ...and Pththisis. ^_^
I heard that song and knew I HAD to make a MtG compilation. :)
Rainbow Voice - by David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir (makes a nice chill intro) http://music.yahoo.com/track/19267948
Blackened - Metallica (the lyrics sound like a long list of black cards) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvwod7BBK0
Paint it Black - Rolling Stones (Mono-black) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MO0iGw-0sY
White and Nerdy - Weird Al Yankovich (Mono-white) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
Blue - Eiffel 65 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H25lz7gchaw
Blue - The Birthday Massacre (Blue/Black/White if you ask me) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knapkdtwV58 (Tool/Stuffy-Doll version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCcuw4YH3i8 (Final Fantasy version)
Burn - Nine Inch Nails http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhRyvWp-9g
Fire Woman - The Cult http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC2QUV3xJ0I
Fire - Paulina Rubio (Chandra's Theme) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts3CUq7QH7s
Go Into the Water - Dethklock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJZmMgcjaPI
A Forest - The Cure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY7wuV_C1oI
Soylent Green - Wumpscut http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS66F9sKGfk
Sliver - Nirvana (Maybe in an Un-set)
The Silver Circle - Faith and the Muse (it's a bit of a stretch, but the title fits)
Black or White - Michael Jackson (Not exactly Orzhov, but it might not be totally gay. ...maybe.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI9OYMRwN1Q
Into White - Cat Stevens (green pepper walls, water ice, tables of paper wood, blue eyed drummers, black spiders, red legged chickens poised to strike, and everything emptying into white) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRKKVIkWCMM
Drink Deep - Laura Veirs http://music.yahoo.com/Laura-Veirs/Drink-Deep/lyrics/40410419#lyricstop http://music.yahoo.com/track/40410419Sea
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf ("Won't you come with me, little girl, on a magic carpet ride") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdnSxVK0WzM&feature=related
Shards of Alara Soundtrack:
Shards - Deep Rising http://music.yahoo.com/track/13333329
Hellion - Angels on Acid Tribal Song: Hellion http://www.myspace.com/angelsonacid666 (It's on their myspace playlist last I checked)
Lion - Rebecca St. James Shard - Bant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOVvu6JyCUs
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How it started:
After being a beach bum for a while, I decided to get back into Magic: the Gathering, went to a card shop, spent my last $20 on some commons, buying whatever cards I liked for whatever reason, mostly for the art, so I didn't end up with much in the way of a playable deck, but I had fun Johnnying my cards, got a decent overview of the common cards in the present Extended game, and I found I was leaning heavily towards Black/Blue when I went to the local gaming store and bought a booster pack of Shadowmoor and the pack just happened to be heavy on Black/Blue Merfolk. A few days later I was at the Beaches Branch Public Library and downloaded Dethklok to my iPod, because I enjoyed Metalocalypse once or twice, and as I listened to the first two songs I felt like the synchronicities were mounting and I was inspired this start this project.
A few podcasts on my iPod (I intend to expand the reviews later):
* MtGCast (mtgcast.com) - a steady source of new high-quality podcasts. If you want a new podcast to listen to every day, this is the place for you. Shows on MtGCast: ** Monday Night Magic - Tom, Derek, and Gavin. The main spearhead podcast for MTGCast: Tom is the Johnny, Gavin is the Spike, and everyone else involved helped make it quality edutainment. ** Road Warrior Otwell - Christopher E. Otwell ** Planeswalk with the Professors ** The Magic Schoolbus ** The Magic Sock
* The Magic Sock - a long time veteran to magic, great content.
* Magic: the Gathering Podcast - Excellent coverage of Pro Tour, Grand Prix, and World tourneys. This is the podcast where pros get their 5 minutes of fame.
* Mana Nation (mananation.com)- Weekly hi-defintion video podcasts, very professional looking. New players should check out the videos of drafting and play.
* Deck Builders -
* DeckConstruct - Alex and Dan, bringing the magic of London to the world.
*Tap* Your creature is a Changeling.
*Flash* Reminder: Your Changeling is a Sliver.
