Magic: The Gathering?

Vallie

I used to play this (mediocrely) in high school/uni, and our company's having a little mini tournament between teams, one of the games being MtG - I agreed to play it for my team but I haven't played in a while! There's also a con coming up and I like collecting the playmats (because they're pretty and I use them as big mousepads).

The last time I played was U/R scissors, but I'm not very familiar with the current Kaladesh block. Tournaments are probably going to be limited, either draft or sealed. Anyone knowledgeable want to give me a quick rundown on the limited format ? Big draft bombs or colour strengths?

Elsam

Blue-black control mill OP

Ahmet

I miss maze's end. 5 color control w/ gatekeepers was fun as fuck (for me, at least. I can't say the same for my opponents), especially with the kiora infinite wombo combo.

Minifie

someone say wumbo combo?

Vadik

I could have swore I posted in this thread earlier today. U/G, R/G is stupid good in sealed right now, but it's super commonly drafted because of that. Even W/G works amazingly with a slightly different play style. I haven't played in a few months, I only really do sealed events nowadays because standard is expensive.

In terms of major picks, I can't really think of anything off-hand except for Chief of the Foundry, Snare Thopter, or Filigree Familiar, just way too much value for them being uncommons to not first-pick.

Also, if you see a Welding Sparks with good R support, G/R, do it. It's crazy good removal. Renegade Freighter's a good pickup too, for a 3 drop. Same with Nature's Way, same with Servant of the Conduit, they brought back mana elves, basically.

Accipiter

Smuggler's copter just got banned in Standard so pick up any of those in limited as you can if you want to play with them. 

Prythe

I still have my old decks - but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay long ago. I had a black deck I loved and a green meanie that picked you to bit with little things.

Kresslack

I don't even keep up with what's "Standard" these days. I don't play competitively or even enough to bother with all of that. I play recreational with friends when the stars align on a rare occasion that we can all be assembled in one place, usually once a year. That's good enough and enjoyable enough for me, and I find the cards pretty fascinating.

Leliel

I don't know...well, anything really about Magic, but my boyfriend is actually opening up a card shop for anyone that's interested in taking a look when it's up. From what I've heard the pricing is actually fantastic.

EDIT: Went and grabbed a screenshot from the in-progress site.

Kresslack

Let me know when it's fully up and running, I'll be glad to check it out.

Leliel

Absolutely will! ^^

Minifie

I like blisterpod, I can see it being a fun as heck card in overrun decks .

Vallie

Going to be playing tomorrow/next few days~ Borrowing a Maelstrom Wanderer EDH deck and my girlfriend has a Ezuri, Renegade leader deck, and we're going to join a few tables together. I think I'll try an AER/KAL draft, I practiced a few and seems like I do pretty decently.

Minifie

I'm going to go crack out my slide deck for a bit of fun on saturday in open. I have so much fun sliding things in and out and watching newer players go "the heck was that combo?".

Wish I had the cards to do green/white slide, but red/white slide is still good too.

Vallie

Didn't play as much as I hoped to over the weekend, buuuuut I picked up a copy of Planechase:Anthology for <90$! Excited to add more weird things to EDH~

Kenway

I miss playing so much. I still have about a thousand cards in some shoeboxes in my closet and my favorite red/blue deck in its own little box. Don't know anyone who plays anymore unfortunately.

Vallie

@Kenway try looking around for a local game store? They all tend to have at least one Magic night. It also turned out I had a lot more friends who played than I had thought, some of whom I'd never have guessed! Since I also had some cards laying around, I just put them together in semi-functional decks and we've sorta started up a game night together. You should query your particular chosen social media outlet or whatever!

Kresslack

Vallie said:

@Kenway try looking around for a local game store? They all tend to have at least one Magic night. It also turned out I had a lot more friends who played than I had thought, some of whom I'd never have guessed! Since I also had some cards laying around, I just put them together in semi-functional decks and we've sorta started up a game night together. You should query your particular chosen social media outlet or whatever!

I've thought about doing this, but my concern (aside from general introvertedness) is that I don't know the different core types, and most places seem to like to stick to Standard.

I have a lot of cards and need to go through them all, but I basically just play casually the instances myself and a few friends spread out manage to converge into one location.

Hell, we've played in a Whataburger at 2am on a Tuesday once when some of them were passing through during a move.

Vallie

Store-wise I've found most of them tend to devote different nights to different things. Most of the cities I've been to I've poked my head into a LGS just to see what they do (and because we have a thing about collecting pretty playmats and using them for mousepads >.>), and that seems to be the trend. Plus, while there's usually a competitive core, there's always a bunch of people who don't have the funds/time to get into that, and just want to play with what cards they've gotten over the years