You go to a tourney with your beloved constructed deck. You spent much time with it, ensuring it would present the strategy you had planned no matter what.. After entering, the event starts and you meet your opponent. You shake hands, then YOU SWITCH DECKS!
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In the Magic TCG world, everything is about building your deck, make it the best possible. People seem to put more weight on that than the playing itself: if you have a good deck, it will play itself, almost. Some even frown at you if you say you don't care for building decks, you only want to play.
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In this deck-swapping format, you would have to figure out how to play your opponent's deck, except if you already know it from former games. Your little advantage is: you know the twists and turns of the opposing deck, you know what your opponent might play. I have never tried playing this way, but I am sure it would be a nice experience, full of thinking....perhaps this makes the better player win more than the best deck?
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But you should go to the tourney with a real deck you would have played yourself, not one tailored for being defeated. That would be another format altogether, something like back draft, where you draft bad cards for another person. You provide a bad deck for your opponent, and she does the same to you.
Alara reborn prerelease
The Alara Reborn prerelease in the end of May was my first prerelease ever. I had to travel to Kristiansand, a journey of an hour.
At first I was disgusted, because in order to enter the event, I would have to pay more than if I had bought the same boosters one week later. I thought that playing in events you would get a discount. They said you payed extra for the experience. Yet, I don't care for buying new cards, I think it is stupid to buy new cards that cost the half two years later, because of the rotation scam. Why do people pay so much for a bunch of random cards...Only because they are new. And because they are bitten by the buy-rush.
But alas, I was a girl, the only girl in the tournament, therefore, they gave me a discount.
I liked opening the boosters, but after the third, there was too much to keep track of! After piling colours and creatures and instans, I settled for forests, mountains and plains, splashing a island/mountain mythic rare dragon card I never got to use. I noticed Mind funeral is so bad!! I thought...I got two of them! What an overpowered card, I thought, in limited, it could very well take down half a deck.
Before going to this event, I thought that this lovely vanilla Woolly thoctar was overpowered, but seriously, when you only have basic lands, its properly balanced, it is really hard to play. It seems everyone manascrewed at least once this tourney. On the other hand, the non-basic lands are what really is overpowered. They destroy: it is supposed to be hard to play many colours!
And I didnt include proper mana base in my deck...when I chose to play white, green and red, and most cards had white in their costs, still i had like 7 forests, 6 plains and 3 mountains. I remember counting all mana symbols, thinking I was smart, and concluding that there were most forests, so I needed most forests.
Furthermore, there are these overpowered mythic rares..in sealed they aren't that overpowered, because most have high mana costs, hard to hardcast, but in constructed people will break them. That's what's magic seems to be about: breaking the rules - as opposed to V:tes, where it is MORE about playing wellest.
In my third or first match, a guy played this lord of extinction, me gasped, but I managed to remove him with something. That card is overpowered. It seems to me like wizards is tring to go over the top, always growing, always trying to outdo themselves. Bad. I hate power creep. It's like the economy, mortgages and inflation blah blah blah.
Out of all cards, mostly I got only one copy. That inspired my to the idea of sealed singleton: You construct your deck from whatever pool you like, but you can only use one copy. Furthermore, there's another restrcition, on rarity, simply because boosters are made that way. If you get six boosters you would have 6 rares and 12 uncommons. But remember, you wont ever use all your uncommons or rares, so lets say: 3 rares, 6 uncommons. Seriously, it's so much more fun when you actually get to play those cards in your deck. The deck size helps too, 40 cards.
- > so the format is: deck of 40 cards, singleton, 3 rares, 6 uncommons.
After my second match, I just got all the "junk" cards from my opponent, because he's only after the BEST cards, the vintage playable..he's only after the power...the power...I like that, because it gets me cards, he gets rid of things he wont use, and I don't care about power. There's so much waste in this game...people should be baddrafting a lot more.
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Well, how did I fare? I was winning due to mana screw and losing due to mana screw, because of the block's implicated mana screw effect of the MULTICOLOURED. There was a guy that manascrewed both rounds we played, for like, unbelievable eight turns...
Eventually, I actually got fourth place of like thirteen or something, that's pretty good, I think, and would have gone to the finals, had it not been for a guy with walkover. I think I got so far due to the guy manascrewing, a good pool of cards of which I chose some good cards, and me not playing completely brainlessly. There were these times where my brain would boil and the nervous system was working at overload, trying to decide what to do. That's what I like about playing this game, heh.
AND:
Now I want to point nose of Viashino skeleton, that is ONE pointless card. WASUP WITH THAT HIGH MANA COST? USELESS CARD?
At first I was disgusted, because in order to enter the event, I would have to pay more than if I had bought the same boosters one week later. I thought that playing in events you would get a discount. They said you payed extra for the experience. Yet, I don't care for buying new cards, I think it is stupid to buy new cards that cost the half two years later, because of the rotation scam. Why do people pay so much for a bunch of random cards...Only because they are new. And because they are bitten by the buy-rush.
But alas, I was a girl, the only girl in the tournament, therefore, they gave me a discount.
I liked opening the boosters, but after the third, there was too much to keep track of! After piling colours and creatures and instans, I settled for forests, mountains and plains, splashing a island/mountain mythic rare dragon card I never got to use. I noticed Mind funeral is so bad!! I thought...I got two of them! What an overpowered card, I thought, in limited, it could very well take down half a deck.
Before going to this event, I thought that this lovely vanilla Woolly thoctar was overpowered, but seriously, when you only have basic lands, its properly balanced, it is really hard to play. It seems everyone manascrewed at least once this tourney. On the other hand, the non-basic lands are what really is overpowered. They destroy: it is supposed to be hard to play many colours!
And I didnt include proper mana base in my deck...when I chose to play white, green and red, and most cards had white in their costs, still i had like 7 forests, 6 plains and 3 mountains. I remember counting all mana symbols, thinking I was smart, and concluding that there were most forests, so I needed most forests.
Furthermore, there are these overpowered mythic rares..in sealed they aren't that overpowered, because most have high mana costs, hard to hardcast, but in constructed people will break them. That's what's magic seems to be about: breaking the rules - as opposed to V:tes, where it is MORE about playing wellest.
In my third or first match, a guy played this lord of extinction, me gasped, but I managed to remove him with something. That card is overpowered. It seems to me like wizards is tring to go over the top, always growing, always trying to outdo themselves. Bad. I hate power creep. It's like the economy, mortgages and inflation blah blah blah.
Out of all cards, mostly I got only one copy. That inspired my to the idea of sealed singleton: You construct your deck from whatever pool you like, but you can only use one copy. Furthermore, there's another restrcition, on rarity, simply because boosters are made that way. If you get six boosters you would have 6 rares and 12 uncommons. But remember, you wont ever use all your uncommons or rares, so lets say: 3 rares, 6 uncommons. Seriously, it's so much more fun when you actually get to play those cards in your deck. The deck size helps too, 40 cards.
- > so the format is: deck of 40 cards, singleton, 3 rares, 6 uncommons.
After my second match, I just got all the "junk" cards from my opponent, because he's only after the BEST cards, the vintage playable..he's only after the power...the power...I like that, because it gets me cards, he gets rid of things he wont use, and I don't care about power. There's so much waste in this game...people should be baddrafting a lot more.
_
Well, how did I fare? I was winning due to mana screw and losing due to mana screw, because of the block's implicated mana screw effect of the MULTICOLOURED. There was a guy that manascrewed both rounds we played, for like, unbelievable eight turns...
Eventually, I actually got fourth place of like thirteen or something, that's pretty good, I think, and would have gone to the finals, had it not been for a guy with walkover. I think I got so far due to the guy manascrewing, a good pool of cards of which I chose some good cards, and me not playing completely brainlessly. There were these times where my brain would boil and the nervous system was working at overload, trying to decide what to do. That's what I like about playing this game, heh.
AND:
Now I want to point nose of Viashino skeleton, that is ONE pointless card. WASUP WITH THAT HIGH MANA COST? USELESS CARD?
Foiled? FOILS?
I used to collect pokemon cards, and tried to play the game, too. Everyonce in a while, there were foils. With stars in them. But they were real foils cards, holographic foils, they were resistant to ANYTHING. Once my Ditto foil went through the washing machine. I was devastated..or...just a little, only to finf that: The blue back of the card was a bit damaged, and the front and the back parted, but the front went unscathed! That's quality printing!
And if you scratched the surface of the front of a foil card, you would see the metal shining through from under.
On my first Magic draft, a timespiral draft, I found this weird card, it was kinda darker and shone...and I asked...what the..Is that a foli? How funny..it isn't like the pokemon ones, it's not real..And at the end, we got our promo cards, all foil, them too...And I played with them...
But...they rip in the ends! You can peel of the foil tissue! OH NOES!!!
Foils sucks, they are more easily destroyed. Especially when one doesn't care for sleeving and unsleeving all the time. And especially when one doesn't care for collecting rare cards...foils are only a money making scheme.
And if you scratched the surface of the front of a foil card, you would see the metal shining through from under.
On my first Magic draft, a timespiral draft, I found this weird card, it was kinda darker and shone...and I asked...what the..Is that a foli? How funny..it isn't like the pokemon ones, it's not real..And at the end, we got our promo cards, all foil, them too...And I played with them...
But...they rip in the ends! You can peel of the foil tissue! OH NOES!!!
Foils sucks, they are more easily destroyed. Especially when one doesn't care for sleeving and unsleeving all the time. And especially when one doesn't care for collecting rare cards...foils are only a money making scheme.
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