Venesectrix
1st August 2003, 01:21 PM
So, does anyone here play Magic The Gathering? If so, feel free to post your decks (which I will try to critique if you want), your opinions on 8th, the new card face, or anything else MTG-related. I've been playing since Ice Age came out (I think that's 6-7 years ago), and I only play casual mostly because my parents won't let me go to tourneys :mad: My decks include: monored sligh, U/W control, WW, monoblack control, G/R beats, monoblack Braids+Cemetery, and U/G madness.
IMO, the new card face sux (it's starting to look like yugioh with the stupid boxes everywhere, and red looks horrible), but the 8th edition foils look really cool. For example, on telepathy the little glyph things are foil, as well as the border and textbox, and on BoP everything but the actual bird itself is foil. It'd be even better if they kept the old cardface but used the new foils though. As for the set in general, I'm probably gonna end up buying it, even though they got rid of llanower elves, disenchant, counterspell, and a bunch of other old favorites. The good thing is glorious anthem now comes in a pre-con, so I won't have to buy a whole bunch of pax just to find one, and savannah lions are being reprinted so WW might soon be a viable t2 deck. Other nice reprints are Merchant Scroll, Blinding Angel, Rukh Egg, Lightning Hounds, Karma, 2-headed dragon, furnace of rath, grave pact (my Braids Cemetary deck's gonna own with this in multiplayer), diabolic tutor, the invasion taplands, etc.
The new rules changes in 8th are mostly minor (nothing as monumentous as the 6th edition changes), and I don't really mind them. I just hate the way they keep changing the lands, from the sideways t to the tap symbol to the big mana symbol things in the text box, and from land-forest to land-basic forest and the likes.
What do you guys think? Do you play MTG? What decks do you have? What opinions do you have on the "Core Set" and all the changes it brings with it?
IMO, the new card face sux (it's starting to look like yugioh with the stupid boxes everywhere, and red looks horrible), but the 8th edition foils look really cool. For example, on telepathy the little glyph things are foil, as well as the border and textbox, and on BoP everything but the actual bird itself is foil. It'd be even better if they kept the old cardface but used the new foils though. As for the set in general, I'm probably gonna end up buying it, even though they got rid of llanower elves, disenchant, counterspell, and a bunch of other old favorites. The good thing is glorious anthem now comes in a pre-con, so I won't have to buy a whole bunch of pax just to find one, and savannah lions are being reprinted so WW might soon be a viable t2 deck. Other nice reprints are Merchant Scroll, Blinding Angel, Rukh Egg, Lightning Hounds, Karma, 2-headed dragon, furnace of rath, grave pact (my Braids Cemetary deck's gonna own with this in multiplayer), diabolic tutor, the invasion taplands, etc.
The new rules changes in 8th are mostly minor (nothing as monumentous as the 6th edition changes), and I don't really mind them. I just hate the way they keep changing the lands, from the sideways t to the tap symbol to the big mana symbol things in the text box, and from land-forest to land-basic forest and the likes.
What do you guys think? Do you play MTG? What decks do you have? What opinions do you have on the "Core Set" and all the changes it brings with it?