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Biweekly threads sound good to y'all? Should it be weekly?

Thread Question 1: What's the weirdest deck you play?
Thread Question 2: What's the weirdest deck you've played against?
Thread Question 3: What's the weirdest deck concept you've got in your head?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

@[email protected] hellooooo could you please pin this one and unpin the old one? penguin-love

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

1: All my decks are sorta vanilla. I guess the weirdest would be my Turbofog pauper deck

2: Friend of mine has a Commander deck built around voting and giving himself extra votes. He calls it "Democracy Manifest."

3: I want to make a Commander deck with an abstract theme, and then I found out the artist behind a lot of cards in Boros colors is named Zoltan Boros. It'd ultimately be a Brion Stoutarm Fling deck, which I also want to make, but if I make Boros by Boros, I can kill 2 birds with one stone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm considering attending a prerelease for the first time for foundations. I never buy packs typically, because they're poor value and because fuck WotC's treatment of their customers, I'm voting with my wallet. The prerelease event sounds really cool though! Still leaning towards not attending. mario-thumbs-up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Prereleases can be fun but they can also be awful. I had someone get up and "go to the bathroom" in the middle of a game in a pre-release only to go to the judge's table and write down that he won. I've also had someone threaten to stab me during a pre-release for playing an aggressive BR deck. I would still be playing magic if it weren't for its players who are, imo, the worst in the board gaming community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TQ1: I'm not big on playing weird decks just to be weird/a hipster, but I do play a skullbriar deck that focuses on greater good effects rather than being a straight up voltron list.
TQ2: I played against Dong Zhou just today and had it whoop my ass hard.
TQ3: My Pinkie Pie treasures deck. Probably will never assemble this because it's too much of a pain to gather all the specific art versions of cards and then also convince people to let me play an illegal commander.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's R3K and MLP stuff in MTG now? fidel-wut

spoilerI haven't played Magic in decades

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People are super mad at WotC lately for all the non magic-universe content coming out. 2025 is gonna have final fantasy cards, spider man cards,

and evenspongebob secret lair

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They print so much new stuff that I can't see why anyone would get too mad over this lol. It'll be unplayable in like 3 months or whatever

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Half of all sets in 2025 will be non Magic IP. So this will be an ongoing problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And what's more, standard legal. So you're gonna see a lot more of it no matter what format you play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Question 1: I've played a lot of weird stuff over the years. Probably Maze's End, Glittering Wish Midrange, or Sea Stompy for unconventional decks.

Question 2: One of the weirdest that comes to mind was this sick Modern 5-color Elemental deck revolving around Incandescent Soulstoke, Nova Chaser, Smoke Braider, and Soulbright Flamekin. This was before the Simian Spirit Guide ban, so it was possible to get domed by a turn 2 Thorn Elemental. The "champion" mechanic let him keep any large fatties around after cheating them into play. Was a really spicy deck.

Question 3: I really, really want to make the Turing Machine deck and see if I can get it up and running before I die.