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I started playing around Mirage, but only casually for quite some time. It wasn't until around Odyssey that I started going to tournaments on a weekly basis, and did so up until Fifth Dawn. I haven't used my physical cards much recently, but I do a fair amount of playing on OCTGN. Speaking of, we should use it to all get together for a draft or at least play some sealed games against each other (Constructed can be kind of lame, though, when everyone has easy access to every card ever made).

I don't really have any personal favorite cards, but I must say that by far my favorite color is black. Jack of all trades, and master of none, I guess. Well, not all trades. And I guess it is the master of killing creatures and discard. I'm also partial to blue and red, but not particularly fond of white or green. My favorite block used to be Invasion, but Ravnica's shaping up to be even more fun (and obviously for the same multi-color awesomeness that Invasion was).

Anyone have any crazy good luck/bad luck stories? The first six boosters of Legions I bought contained three Phage the Untouchable, which, while admittedly isn't the greatest card, I had a lot of fun with.

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Originally Posted by Buffyholic

Lol Starman, I did a mono black T2 for a while, it has massive advantages but massive weaknesses too. Biggest weakness is lack of enchantment removal...the right deck can really screw you. It can't kill artifacts, but you can run jitte so it doesn't matter.

Although there are so many sick mono black cards these days, like wicked Akuba. 2 mana for a 2/2, and if it does damage you pay black to deal extra damage. If you have 5 swamps, it deals an extra 5 damage. I don't think there are a lot of 2 drops that can deal 5 damage on turn 3.

Aside from some in the Onslaught block, like Astral Slide or Mobilization, off the top of my head I can't think of too many killer enchantments that really screw you over in the past few years. Artifact destruction, yes, has been much more troublesome in recent years, but many of the best artifacts are creatures or creature dependent (in the case of equipment).

Anyways, I usually do at least splash for another color rather than play mono-black. However, back during Darksteel, I did run a mono-black that had more wins than losses against Ravager-Affinity. It was all about turn 3 Infest, turn 4 Barter in Blood, and a turn 5 or 6 Death Cloud, then eventually a Consume Spirit or Visara for the win. Even with Skullclamp they couldn't quite keep up.

Wicked Akuba's okay, but I'd much rather have a shade. Huzzah for Nantuko Shade + Cabal Coffers.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'm running a Gamingforce Magic Standard (Type 2) tournament, please sign up in the thread I'm linking to.

On another note, I simply cannot wait for the Black-Red guild in the third set of this block. Death and Destruction at their prime.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

So, is no one interested in a friendly little community tournament other than Admiral Amara? If it's the format, we could change that. Or even just a few games every now and then? Come on, it's Magic for free. Easy to set up, I've put all the cards ever made in yousendit links, free super happy fun fun time for everybody.

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1403

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Admiral Amara

Yeah, and I keep beating Starman all the time. 3-0. We need more challengers... Just kidding with you, Starman. That deck threw me for a loop. Seriously, though, it's lots of fun. I think it'd be a cool group thing.

Well, technically, the second of the two times we've played, we only played one game and didn't finish the round.

And for the record, I was using an insane Confusion in the Ranks/Endless Whispers/Genesis Chamber deck that I'm not even entirely sure how to use yet. But if you'd prefer, I have several far less experimental (and far more mean) decks I could use.

I was speaking idiomatically.