MTG casual

>>What I'm building
U/R izzet Burntrol + some random shenanigans (Ral Zarek, Fiery Gambit, etc) thrown in for fun. Luckily my group doesn't mind using proxies for expensive cards because fuck paying $70+ for snap caster mages (yes I know they're OP)
>>What I'm playing
Either switch around decks with mates or play my own Theros+Abzan Self-sacrifice Drain deck. Managed to break the game one session when Athreos' passive interacted with Flip Liliana's -8
>>What group(s) play
Two separate groups of friends to play with, group 1 plays pretty much anything, group 2 (main play group) plays W/B Innistrad zombie spam + westvale abbey, mono B control, W/R Angels, B/G elves (cancer), mono R burn as well as EDH (I don't play that)
>>House rules
Generally 1 free mulligan, depending on opponent.

Vampire deck guy, I would put 4x nighthawk in there, except I don't own a single copy and nor do my friends. I only have 4x anything was because of gifts or trading.

>What are you building?
I've been reworying my G/W Elephant deck with some more utility cards. Secon Harvest is bananas combined with Parallel lives.

I'm also building a deck based around tricking out Emrakul, as I got a foil one, and my old idea for Ally Mill which I'm looking at again.

>What are you playing?
Red Burn Tricks and Izzet spell trickers

>What is your current group's meta like?
My friend A has a wide variety of decks that are quite powerful and balanced. He's a good metric to go by for me, if I can hold my own sometimes, it's a good deck.
My friend D has a few decks, and they all fucking suck. But he's good fun.
My other friends don't meet with us much, but their decks are also usually pretty good. It's a fun group, apart from the A players his semi-affinity or mill decks.

>What are you building?
Thingken about building either a mono green Elf deck or a mono red Dragon deck.
Im not doing multicolored on those two because I don't think it fits thematically.
>What are you playing?
Myr/Artifact ramp deck. Lots of fun
>What is your current group's meta like?
Pretty "oldschool". We mostly play with cards from pre-Lorwyn.
We do occasionally play/draft with newer cards, but it isn't as often.

>What are you building?
Mardu something. Smallpox/land D, Aristocrats, or some combination. Perhaps its more of a Modern deck desu.

>What are you playing?
Bant Walls, U/B Zombies and a Pauper Faerie deck which I also use casually.
Occasionally I use one of my more competitive Modern/Legacy decks if I feel like being a dick.

>What is your current group's meta like?
Friend A - Mono-Black Vampires, R/G Werewolves, Mono-G Hydras
Friend A's mom - Mono-white Angels
Friend B - Simic +1/+1 shenanigans, Izzet artifacts
Friend C - A very mediocre Naya deck based on bolster/prowess and +1/+1 counters
Friend D - some Izzet starter deck which he's slowly modifying, I gave him sets of Delver + Kiln Fiend.

Myself or Friend A win most of the free-for-alls.
A lot of the time we end up doing 2-headed Giant (we usually call it Double Dragon) since friend D and the mom are only occasional players.

Order 4x doom blade since your group is casual. They should only cost 30¢~ each. Also "Go for the throat" is better, though if the $2.50 price tag scares you off I think another two copies of grasp of darkness would be good.

Just dropped off a big box of old cards my 12-14 year old self collected to a son of a buddy o' mine. Was just collecting dust 'round here, and I hadn't done anything or cared enough to sell 'em in ages. And now the new generation is here, heck he was even proudly telling me about the 30 year old try-hards he managed to beat. Proud af.

Still got a bit of a sour feeling about it though, 'cause searching through 'em with him I noticed it was over a few hundred quid. Nontheless, it was worth it to see his face light up.

Any other guys here gifted there old stuff to a newbie?

Oh hey. You got a foil unnatural endurance as well? I think mine is a misprint (or just damaged) since there's a bit of the foil missing in the name bar.

>Building
BUG ramp. Deciding how much money I want to put into the land, and figuring out how to get blue in there. I ramp want to ramp into Reaper of the Wilds, Terrastomper, Phyrexian Ingestor, and Sheoldred. Also using gorgon planeswalker, and debating adding more gorgon for fun.
Also RW angels. Play the artifacts from Beseiged and New Phyrexia that draw/fetch a land when they enter play or are destroyed, use Shrapnel Blast, Angelicwhatever (the SoI sac spell), and Emancipation Angel. Day of Judgement for control, and combo with Twilight Shepherd. Other big angel is the red SoI angel that hurts played whenever they hurt me. Blanking on names today.

>Playing
I have 24 decks, most of them technically modern, but definitely casual tier. My best are probably my RW midrange, my aggro elves that use Nissa and black for removal, and my BW lifedrain deck.
>Meta
Is it the guy playing Eldrazi? No? Then any of my decks probably win 50-90% of the time. Many of my decks have been refined for casual over a decade.

I haven't donated big chunks of my collection but I'm giving my girlfriend a couple of decks as a present.

Yeah, mine wasn't anything that big, just kid stuff. But saw some pretty sick old cards pass by, since I learned it from my older cousin, so had cards dating back to like 199*

I have a friend who has a full deck of near-mint condition cards that are so old there's not even a date on them. How old are they?

Are they white-bordered or black-bordered? Cards from Revised edition and older than that don't have the year on them.

White bordered and completely shit compared to today's cards. Stuff like reef pirates.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Sometimes piles like that have treasures hidden in them, though.

Look for one called black lotus

Or Mox ______

I play some casual 93/94. Power is expensive, so this deck isn't getting finished anytime soon....

Whoops. Forgot pic.

I wish more than anything I could play this type of deck... White removal is horseshit now, and the only good eternal control deck is Miracles, which I don't like playing

In that case, I recommend 93/94. If you go by Eternal Central rules, you can use Revised -- and suddenly the format can get quite cheap, as long as you aren't trying to win tournaments.

I'd do that, but I don't know anyone who would be willing to. I guess EDH is close enough and I do have a good EDH control list, but I love 60 card decks. Oh well, let's hope Eldritch Moon prints some good white spot removal.

I started my playgroup by convincing someone to build Channel Fireball and White Weenies. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

I might try that...

Godspeed, user.

>What are you building?
W/R artifacts for edh. Sunforger shenanigans and that darrieti precon mixed with whatever angles I have lying around. Hopefully it'll be fun.

>What are you playing?
Mimeoplasm targeted self-mill and mana ramp with giant fatties. I don't know how well it'll work, but we'll see.

>What's your current group's meta like?
Friend A: A judge. He runs that blue teferi precon with one single card changed. I don't know which one, but he always manages to lorthos me at the worst fucking times.

Friend B: Runs a lot of high tempo stuff. Loves tokens almost as much as he loves removal. He has a mardu beatdown, a mono-white anafenza solider tribal, and a Trostani populate. His mono-white anafenza sets the bar, he generally loves a strong early game and a consistent strategy.

Me: I love fatties, artifacts, and evasion. I live and die by the mana-ramp. I generally prefer targeted hand destruction and creature-based removal, but I'm working on branching out. I run a Xenagos stomper that can easily swing with for 9 30/30s, a kruphix eldrazi colourless mana dump, and a retired Geth artifact deck. I'm probably the weakest player by virtue of drawing the most aggro and having the slowest early game, but when things get going I win pretty frequently.

No such luck. Though I did ring out the lands are worth like a $1 a piece.

I had the opposite happen.

>go to a draft, looking to trade for various things
>guy has two long boxes of cards from 4th to 7th organized by rarity, colour and set bound by rubber bands
>no one wants them
>tell him to look through my binder, pick out a couple dollar rares
>take the box home, go meticulously sort through it
>like 15 broken as shit cards for my commander deck
>enough to creatures to build a mercenary tribal
>neat as fuck under-costed discard cards
>motherfucking "Look at an opponent's hand, choose a card, put it on top of their library." for 1B
>see him at the FLGS two days ago
>make sure to thank him

>not thoughtsieze

Smhtbqhfam

Well it looks like you landed a couple dollars there.

Can someone recommend me a good deck using pic related? She's my fav card

reanimator

a reanimator deck cost a fucking lot

>casual players
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

not really animate dead is cheap so is exume plus its only really 2 colors so you dont even need a bunch of rare lands if you dont have it.

Dumb frogposter

Has anyone else built an UN-Block Block Constructed deck?

tappedout.net/mtg-decks/un-artifacts/

Yes, I built a G/W Unhinged deck that revolved around playing Wordmail on Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental.

That sounds awesome. What do you think of mine? I feel like the combos in my deck and yours (I assume you ran Cardboard Carapace) are the only quality decks in Un-Block.

My blue/green legacy deck, Mondo Glade:

tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mondo-glade/

Next un-set when?

Conspiracy 2, this year.

If you mean like unglued, probably never.

Is a 6 pack FRF sealed event a good idea?

My friend loves FRF, and I love limited... is this a good format for limited?

Wait, you mean we can have another Casual-only set?

>tfw I've probably been sitting for around 6 hours trying to figure out how I should build my Akroma deck
So far Ive come up with all kinds of decks like mono white human/angel, b/w angel demon, b/w angel warrior, b/w ramp etc
kill me

reanimator is the only real way to get any use out of it. It's not very good if played on curve so you might as well just cheat it out.

FRF is full of bombs. Probably won't be the most fun set to go with.

In our casual games my buddy plays 12post basically with the excuse that rather than ramping into Emrakul he ramps into Kozilek and Darksteel Colossus. Is there a casual fun deck I can make that beats 12post?

Mind giving me some suggestions/guidelines then? for said reanimator deck.

animate dead and exhume are cheap, good reanimator spells to start with. Other than that its up to you how you want to get stuff into the graveyard, blue has plenty of ways to let you draw and discard cards and there are black spells like buried alive that let you take stuff right out of your deck and put them in your graveyard.

I'm trying to build a mono white goat deck.
It has to be on theme so I'm running the whole kithkin package:
-4 Springjack Pasture
-4 Springjack Shepherd
-4 Kithkin Harbinger
-4 Knight of Meadowgrain for devotion and early game protection.

I'm also running Anthem effects to make the goats useful, 3 momentary blinks and 2 flickerwisps for value and 7 soul sisters.

The win conditions are:
-2 Mirror Entity because they can be tutored
-2 Nobilis of War obviously
-2 Marshal's Anthem
-1 Felidar Sovereign because I want to win with him for once in my life.

Any advice? I'm sure I'm missing some obvious synergy with tons of useless tokens.

ur mom

thanks

>-1 Felidar Sovereign because I want to win with him for once in my life.
you disgust me
literally kill yourself

What about 4xfrf 2xktk?

The recommended mix is 3xKhans/3xFate or 2xFate/4xDragon.

If you want to win with sovereign go grab a few of those 1 mana white sorcwries that give you 5 life. And a few copies of "Lifelink" or "Armadillo cloak".

spells that just gain life are trash and so is "lifelink" because it doesn't really add anything to the creature its enchanting. Armadillo cloak is pretty decent as far as life gaining auras go Gift of Orzhova is also worth considering if you want to go down that route.

What other white and/or black cards will boost your life total to ridiculous levels early on in order to have a CHANCE of winning with felidar sovereign?

Have you considered cards like Soul Warden and Lingering Souls?

the problem with cards like that is that they dont affect the board in any way. If you want to win with cards like sovereign or test of endurance is to play the long game with board wipes and other control cards, or go pure soul sisters lifegain like recommends.

No, its 21 commander damage

Careful Study, Perilous Researchers, Animate Dead, Exhume? You don't need Entomb if you Dark Ritual into Buried Alive.

Is it worth it to buy a booster box of old conspiracy now or will the price go down soon or even after the release of the newer one later this summer? Massdrop is selling them for around $92.

My group wants to do a mix draft of the old and new conspiracy.

Burn aggro :^)

>tfw you hate playing white black but it's what you have the best cards for
I had to splash some u in there to make it at least kinda fun.

Speaking of splashes, whats the best thing to splash a red burn deck with?

White for Boros Charm, Lightning Helix;
Black for Rain of Gore, Bump in the Night;
Green for Destructive Revelry, Atarka's Command;
Blue for Treasure Cruise

>What are you building?
Mono black delve/discard - tombstalker, gurmag angler, pack rat, howltooth hollow, smallpox, delirium skeins, madness cards, raven's crime

>What are you playing?
B/R goblins, mono U ninja tempo, R/U instants and sorceries

>What is your current group's meta like?
Player A - Naya angels, Dimir mill, mono R aggro/burn
Player B - Mono G hydras, Mono B control
Player C - Seleysna tokens, five color sunburst
Player D - U/B zombies, golgari +1/+1 counters
Player E - B/G elves, mono W weenie aggro

Looks pretty cool

Your group sounds amazing.

Why Blood Cursed Knight? You have no enchantments. Find another kill spell!

Look at target opponents hand and put a card on his library third from the top, that's Lost Hours and in casual it's fun as fuck

Personally I think the need card tainted remedy is better than rain of gore even in a red deck where the two color cost doesn't matter

Tainted remedy costs 3 mana instead of 2 but crucially, tainted remedy applies to lifelink and rain of gore does not

Lifelink is one of the most powerful and common kinds of lifegain so I think it's important if you run that kind of effect to catch lifelink

Why does 93/94 Magic not include Fallen Empires?

tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mono-white-angelhuman-deck-1/

What do you guys think? Any suggestions for sideboard and/or mainboard?

If I want to assemble a casual cube... is m12 a good place to start?

I want to introduce friends to the format, and I have the entire m12 set x4

It was the golden age of magic for me (started in 9th)

>It was the golden age of magic for me (started in 9th)
>golden age
>m12
underage b&

M12 and following blocks were fun

9th came out 11 years ago

Good lord, its true

>tfw favorite block is and always will be Odyssey
>tfw it came out 15 years ago

Why did you remind me

Depends on how competitive you want your list to be. I personally won't run CMC 3 spells in a burn list if I can help it. I think you'll lose far more games to needing that third land than you will to lifelink.

Because the format was starter by rich, elitist Swedes. Their version of the format prohibits Revised and Fallen Empires basically because the print runs were too large and there is no pimp factor in playing those cards.

ChannelFireball and Eternal Central both have more inclusive format definitions that include Revised and FE, because... they existed in 1994. Fancy that.

I got Sorin but I'm at a loss as what to do with him.

>What are you building?
Abzani Sisters. Using Rhinos and Pridemates to beat face with a token/lifegain safety net. Not 100% on what kind of disruption to run. Currently using 3 IoK and 2 Vindetta but will probably drop the kill spells for Duress (i sold my Thoughtseizes) since the Rhinos and Pridemates run over defenders anyways.

>What are you playing?
Original Innistrad Werewolves and just started pauper Dredge.

>What is your current group's meta like?
Aggro, Aggro, more fucking Aggro. A lot of 2 headed giant.

>House Rules?
No Planeswalkers.

How to burn well?

True but the card is sideboard any way so if it's a lifegain strat you're playing against, you probably weren't winning super fast anyway

I agree that it doesn't go in the most competitive burn deck tho

What kind of Sorin you got?

I count 3 enchantments