transcription: im like “hey lets play magic the gathering” and then ten minutes later my tongue is in the mouth of someones daughter whos parents still call her son
transcription: im like “hey lets play magic the gathering” and then ten minutes later my tongue is in the mouth of someones daughter whos parents still call her son
When I came back to the game later in life–I initially played just before Ice Age came out–I was irritated by the changes and restrictions on format. I miss kitchen table shuffle and play situations with a far smaller pool of simpler cards.
Screw meta. I want to play a crazy theme deck that may or may not work how i intend. I want to play whatever I want, and, no, I didn’t want to play freakin’ Commander.
In other news, you kids need to get off my lawn.
Commander is what you want.
It’s all I play.
You can build janky hit or miss decks that fail spectacularly as often as they work. You can buy competitive precons. It’s a great social format.
I appreciate your input, but again, I hate having 100 different cards. I want the old 4 card max 40-80 card decks and no commander. I also don’t want to be going up against meta-saavy players who bring in broken card card combos that I’ll lose to by turn 2.
Of course, I also miss banding as a mechanic, so I know I’m in an extreme minority.
Have you considered just playing your way?
My group of friends all has self constructed decks, one player likes to net-deck and keep up with the meta but the rest of us just like opening the rule book and finding weird mechanics to play with.
One of my favorites is one I call my “undead army” deck. Its just a Grixis commander deck (99 card Singleton with a commander, one legendary creature* in a special zone meant to interact with the deck well) running Marchessa of the Black Rose. Its tuned to hand out +1/+1 counters like candy, and (in different phrasing) give all my Attackers regenerate 0.
My partner has a dimir deck built on Basim from the Assassins creed set. Basically every card she plays other than lands and some blue mage shenanigans will trigger Basim to be unblockable. We rule 0 that commander damage doesn’t apply because of this deck.
You guys sound welcoming, but how do you deal with the net deck mothef…er…person? When I tried playing Commander, every time somebody used tutors of some kind to pull something that either gave them unbeatable attack power or rendered them and/or their creatures impossible to damage or unblockable.
In short, tbh, just get good and learn to play politically. We play 4-5 person commander games so we have the opportunity to goad eachother with tabletalk.