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maybe we should start game through apprentice. I cant afford them any more but online its free.

My color was, is and always be white.

I have my deck sitting around here but now im lazy to post my deck. maybe later.
 
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i didnt know you could play online....
 
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i didnt know you could play online....

Yeap, and there bringing it to the 360 also, I think for free.

And hello Cory's girlfriend! Whats your name?
 
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Mariah lol hi!
I know they have it on the original xbox bc i saw it while i was working one day
 
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Mariah lol hi!
I know they have it on the original xbox bc i saw it while i was working one day

Hello Mariah! I used to live in Venus also.

Yeah, I played it a couple times and its really old. Like I think the latest was 8th Edition on there. But the new one is for Arcade on the 360.
 
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oh cool
hmm online play is something i need to try

my friend recently went to the tourment in Hawaii and Austin, TX
 
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That's cool. I would possibly compete, but I just don't want to spend all the money on to keep on trying to find great cards. Or spend the time to just create the perfect deck that all connects.
 
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4 of my friends combined their deck and collected them for thhe past 7 years
 
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Well a lot of places that I have been to to compete you have to have deck combination from like current series back to like 3 past series. But I have been really considering to start playing again.
 
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Well a lot of places that I have been to to compete you have to have deck combination from like current series back to like 3 past series. But I have been really considering to start playing again.

Yep, thats Type 2 play, which will be the most common local tournaments you will find. But what will suck aboutt them is you will notice the top players will all be playing netdecks. And if you go to the PTQ everyone there will be playing one of 3 or 4 decks, so it really ends up being luck of the draw. I hate it when people don't build decks with their own ideas. Felt so good to just crush one of the best decks out there right now with my Kithkin deck that has 0 rares that I was just playing for fun, guy wasnt too happy.

But anyways, type 2 is always the current 2 blocks + edition. Like it was 10th Edition, then Lorwyn Block, and Conflux Block. But now 11th Edition is coming out so it will be Lorwyn, Conflux, and 11th edition. And when the next non-edition set comes out it will be, Conflux, 11th, and New Block.
 
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Kurgan, can you explain that first combo you posted earlier with the clerics? I don't get it.
 

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Sure, that combo can actually go many ways. It's really Daru and Shaman, since Daru makes it so when any cleric gets targeted they get a +0/+2, and Shaman is 0 mana to target you can infinite target every single one of your clerics, making them to whatever number of toughness makes you happy. Then you can sack them to the land. You can fizzle that ability as many times as you want, even if there is no damage to redirect, kind of hacks.

Nice thing about the combo is, my cleric deck is already so damn hard to kill that, even without the land, it's not really a big deal. Because 1/23178398173189 clerics that can prevent damage to me are pretty hard to get through. The other way you could take this combo would be to use Doran in the deck, then all your clerics would be 9031830912380/9031830912380's.
 

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please. altough i havent played in a long time, i still love them.
 

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Sure, that combo can actually go many ways. It's really Daru and Shaman, since Daru makes it so when any cleric gets targeted they get a +0/+2, and Shaman is 0 mana to target you can infinite target every single one of your clerics, making them to whatever number of toughness makes you happy. Then you can sack them to the land. You can fizzle that ability as many times as you want, even if there is no damage to redirect, kind of hacks.

Naaahh that's not right. Where is the damage coming from that you are redirecting from Shaman?
 
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Could someone explain to me what plainswalkers do and how do you play with them?
 

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Naaahh that's not right. Where is the damage coming from that you are redirecting from Shaman?

It still ends up working, I'm not 100% sure on how it can be explained technically. But it's a known combo, I never looked it up online, just added it into my deck, then came across it later when people said it wouldn't work I had to look to make sure it did, and it does.

Here's another example of one of my fun combo's, this one I havent seen out and about, but a lot of people have worked with Altar of Dementia combo's.


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Then add any generic 1/1 1 mana generic black zombie (or cleric if you want). The deck is hit or miss though, its a low mana cost combo, I got dark rituals, counter spells, creature kill/bounce, and search cards. Sometimes it can set off turn 3 othertimes I just end up a card short, nice thing about it setting off is, doesn't matter how many people are in game, they will all be decked. The other nice thing about this combo is you could change out the altar for other cards.

Here's infinite colorless mana (could be used for burn, or many other things)


Theres more uses for it, but I don't think any are quiet as good as those 2. Also if someone is playing with



I have, these to deal with it, if they force me to I will recycle their library into their graveyard enough to gravestorm and remove everyones librarys from the game flat out, lol.





Could someone explain to me what plainswalkers do and how do you play with them?

No problem, here's an example of one.



You cast him whenever you have the 4 mana, just like a normal card. Now you see that "3" on the bottom is pretty much like his life (compared to a players life) or toughness (compared to a creatures toughness). And those abilities that say "+1" or "-1" or "-4" all add or subtract to his toughness, they can only be played as Sorcerys also. And he is treated as a Legendary permanant, so you can't have 2 of them.

Thats all the easy things, now it comes to, how to kill a planeswalker. They are pretty much considered a player. So lets say I have out Garruk and you want to kill him, when you declare you attackers step, you assign creatures towards him (like a player) and towards me. Now here comes the annoying part, you have to assume I am going to block if I have blockers.

So if you wanted to kill him and do damage to me, thats not always possible as you might have to send overkill at Garruk, otherwise I could block and he would live. But then if you send overkill at him assuming I am going to block, I then would not block as there is no point in having some of my creatures die when the end result of Garruk dieing would still be the same. So now you have over extended your forces, so sometimes it can be very hard to kill a damn planeswalker.
 
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Here's another example of one of my fun combo's, this one I havent seen out and about, but a lot of people have worked with Altar of Dementia combo's.

I see how that one works. What a bastard.

As for the Shaman Cleric one, I'd hate to be the sucker who pulled that on me in a game and couldn't explain it. As I see it, if you can't explain how a combo works under the rules when you play it, it doesn't hold water. If they insisted I would quit. I don't suffer that kind of thing.
 

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I see how that one works. What a bastard.

As for the Shaman Cleric one, I'd hate to be the sucker who pulled that on me in a game and couldn't explain it. As I see it, if you can't explain how a combo works under the rules when you play it, it doesn't hold water. If they insisted I would quit. I don't suffer that kind of thing.

Oh, I explained how it works, the target still goes through and the damage part just doesn't fire off. Because the 0 mana activation cost is first, that goes off then it checks for the rest, you already paid the cost so the ability goes into activation. I'm pretty sure thats how it works, but there are so many technicality checks and specific words, that I'm saying I don't know exactly how it would be worded, it would most likely be more specific than that.

Another example is there's this new artifact creature that can return an artifact to your (owners) hand and then allow you to play one back out. So you can block with one of your artifact creatures, lets say it's a 4/4 and you block a 4/4, the damage goes through, then you can bounce your artifact creature to your hand, then play it back out. While the other saps creature dies, really really lame to play against that, in my eyes that one should be dead before it can be bounced. I'm not sure why it goes through like that, I mean I understand it, but there will be some technical ruling about the damage step and bouncing that will apply that I wouldn't know the exact technicalities of it.

But yeah that black/blue combo is fun if it fires off early.
 
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