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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #45 on: September 22, 2012, 09:19:11 pm »

What is this cockatrice of which you speak?
Online tabletop, more or less. It loads the cards and allows deck-building/shuffling/etc using the free-use data Wizards has provided, but leaves governing the game rules to the players, because that's Wizards private IP.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #46 on: September 22, 2012, 09:20:24 pm »

What is this cockatrice of which you speak?
Online tabletop, more or less. It loads the cards and allows deck-building/shuffling/etc using the free-use data Wizards has provided, but leaves governing the game rules to the players, because that's Wizards private IP.

That.....is amazing. I will have to download it.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #47 on: September 24, 2012, 08:41:05 am »

If anyone wants to play, PM me on here (or on Steam- I think my name is [DFC] Edio).
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #48 on: September 26, 2012, 02:07:55 pm »

I think I have hit upon one of the classier decks, which a quick google tells me is far from original. I call it the "Don't Stop Me, Smee!" deck, since it involves putting out a Platinum Angel, making it indestructible and hexproof, and then dealing damage to myself and swapping life totals with other players. I only need to add some cards for retrieving things from a graveyard, in case of unforeseen catastrophes, and it will be ready.

Overly complicated? Yes. Don't care.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #49 on: September 26, 2012, 03:37:40 pm »

I think I have hit upon one of the classier decks, which a quick google tells me is far from original. I call it the "Don't Stop Me, Smee!" deck, since it involves putting out a Platinum Angel, making it indestructible and hexproof, and then dealing damage to myself and swapping life totals with other players. I only need to add some cards for retrieving things from a graveyard, in case of unforeseen catastrophes, and it will be ready.

Overly complicated? Yes. Don't care.

Should try it out on Cockatrice sometimes.
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« Reply #50 on: September 26, 2012, 03:48:41 pm »

Usually things that turn others into stone either have

"Tap and do not untap"
or
"Deathtouch"

Magic the gathering is interesting in that it USUALLY has a pattern.

Heck Demons used to have a theme until Illsmouth betrayed it.
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« Reply #51 on: September 26, 2012, 03:53:05 pm »

Usually things that turn others into stone either have

"Tap and do not untap"
or
"Deathtouch"

Magic the gathering is interesting in that it USUALLY has a pattern.

Heck Demons used to have a theme until Illsmouth betrayed it.

Where the heck did this come from?

Anyway Xathrid Gorgon shows the correct way of petrifying creatures.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #52 on: January 25, 2013, 06:54:18 am »

Having looked at the GateCrash cars revealed pre-release, which is to say, tomorrow, and gaped at some of the most deliciously broken cards i have ever seen, i suggest we get a cockatrice draft together as soon as possible.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #53 on: January 25, 2013, 09:45:55 am »

My game store is running a magic league where players buy packs and add them to a limited pool of cards at the end of every night and everyday has a different theme.

So yesterday when everyone had aorund 7 packs of cards we have to build two sixty card decks, one all creatures and the other none

To make a long story short I ran a deck with 30 land and 3 rangers paths literally just to take the forests in my deck and put them somewhere I couldn't draw them.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #54 on: January 25, 2013, 10:21:34 am »

Having looked at the GateCrash cars revealed pre-release, which is to say, tomorrow, and gaped at some of the most deliciously broken cards i have ever seen, i suggest we get a cockatrice draft together as soon as possible.

Broken cards such as...? The only semi-playable combo enabler I've seen is Duskmantle Guildmage, and that's for modern (and extended if that were a thing anymore). Pretty much every card is on or under curve. Frontline Medic pushes the curve just a little admittedly, and Aurelia's Fury is certainly pushed to be playable competitively, but beyond that... *shrug* I don't really see any of the new cards as being 'broken'.

Not to say I'm not excited about it though; I'm really looking forward to finally being able to have my Sedris EDH deck be 100% unproxied once I get my hands on a Watery Grave.  :P
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #55 on: January 25, 2013, 10:36:04 am »

So it's been super duper long since I played Magic but I still know how to play MOSTLY.
If anyone wants to game I'm 'AMoose' on Cockatrice and play Standard, Modern and EDH.
I'm really not too good and I'll probably be full of all sorts of dumb questions.
But I'd sure like to play with someone.
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« Reply #56 on: January 25, 2013, 11:18:47 am »

With ya there. We should put together a league.
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Re: Magic: The Gathering
« Reply #57 on: January 25, 2013, 12:12:25 pm »

If you don't mind newbies that suck hardcore, I could give it a go.
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« Reply #58 on: January 25, 2013, 12:16:40 pm »

If you don't mind newbies that suck hardcore, I could give it a go.

Hehe, I suck bigtime so we should totally make this thing happen.
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« Reply #59 on: January 25, 2013, 12:18:50 pm »

And in for the din! Terrible puns, too.  ;D. I'm a johnny for flavor :D.
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