Let's Cast The Goggles! (Magic: The Gamingforce now playable)

So I finally got around to making a playable OCTGN set out of our own Magic: The Gamingforce collection.

Magic: The Gamingforce

I'm not sure how playable it is by itself, but I think it will work. There's tons of rares and uncommons and not that many commons, but this won't matter except in Sealed. And there's not many green cards, but who cares. Screw green, and by extension everyone whose card is green.

Some of the rules text is kinda weird, but it's mostly clear enough as to what it means. I did have some questions:

Pang - What is Troll Bell supposed to do with the creature you search for? Put it in your hand, into play? It doesn't specify.

Skexis - Are the paralyzation counters that Hotobu gives supposed to do anything?

Of course, you'll need the client, OCTGN, if you want to play:

Download OCTGN

Oh, and here's every official Magic card (scroll down for new Megaupload links):

Alpha through Tenth Edition Torrent
Lorwyn
Morningtide
Shadowmoor
Eventide
Shards of Alara

I'm not going to try to organize a tournament or anything, but I was hoping some would at least want to play a casual game every now and then.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ah. I was wondering if you were working on this way back when. In retrospect we probably should have just divided up the work.

Into play sounds like what it should have been. After we've found some more errors and stuff, I'll include that in an update.

Oh, since you lost yours, do you want the card archive with the original filenames, too?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Um, nope. Only cards I had were from the original project by Crash, Pang, Skexis, Talbain, and Wild Violence.

Besides, The Goggles may do nothing, but at least they work. This doesn't. Yeah, if I ever had a card made, it probably should have been StarmanDX, Anal Magic Rules Enforcer.

However, I could change it to something similar that makes sense and add it in an update. I was also thinking of making an expansion if there's interest in this, which it could be in.

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

So, does anyone want to play, Magic: the Gamingforce or otherwise? I love me a game of Invasion block Sealed. Weekends are usually pretty good for me, and in December most weekday evenings should be as well.

Spoiler:

Steam - StarmanDX, the Gamingforce group (current display name Colonel Gentleman)
AIM - StarmanDXX
MSN - ness170@hotmail.com

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Not quite. They do often make a good combo, I think, but if you look at the color wheel (on the back on any card):



Each color is next to its allies and opposite its enemies. So on the BVANNED cards, each color destroys its enemies.

I was speaking idiomatically.

New Megaupload links.

Lorwyn
Morningtide
Shadowmoor
Eventide
Shards of Alara

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

EDIT: Looking over the .jpgs of the Magic: the Gamingforce cards, I'm seeing a minor need for some updates and clarifications. I shall have to track down a copy of MtG Editor (if I don't have it currently) and amend some of these cards, perhaps bring them up to current appearances and Oracle standards. Maybe I'll tweak a few to make them more playable, i.e. casting cost or power adjustments. Magic grammar has always come easy to me, might as well make use of the knack.

I was thinking of this myself, but I didn't want to mess with an author's cards. I changed some Oracle text for OCTGN, but not as much as I wanted to. The intent on most cards is clear enough, at least.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

EDIT: So how the hell do I name a deck? Right now, it's "Untitled 2" and that is just not acceptable.

In the deck editor, click "Info" at the top left, then change the name next to "Deck Title" in the top right. Then click "Save" at the top left right away, or the name won't stick.

Zeph and I found a bug, as well. I was resetting a sealed deck, and accidentally clicked "Unload deck." I clicked cancel, but it unloaded anyways. So, in case someone accidentally does the same, make sure to select "Yes" to save the deck because cancel doesn't work.

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Originally Posted by House Hippo

My sister has had quite an enthusiasm for M:tG lately but was using Magic Workstation rather than OCTGN. Is Magic Workstation worse than OCTGN, or somethin'?

Well, for starters, MWS only supports 2 players, whearas OCTGN is up to 6. Then there's all the crap you have to put up with if you don't pay for MWS:

-Shareware reminder and banner ads.
-30 card limit in set creation, I wouldn't have been able to make Magic: the Gamingforce in MWS.
-Can't customize MWS's appearance, and even when you can it still looks ugly.

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Also, assuming my game with my sister goes okay, anyone up for a game with us at some point?

I've been busy recently, but I'll try to get some in.

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Also, does anyone have an alternate download site for the core editions? My brother just got tagged at home by our ISP for something in pirate bay so I'm trying not to use them for a while.

Best I can do is Megaupload.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

In OCTGN click Game -> Database -> Load Database Patch. The set should have come with a file called something like SoA Legality DB.octgn. Browse to that, select it, and patch the database.

Jam it back in, in the dark.