It's Critter Time!

In 1993 Richard Garfield invented a small game called "Magic the Gathering" and we are still feeling the aftershocks of this wicked act even today.

30+ years later, Magic has changed a good deal but ultimately most of the gist remains the same. Build your 60 card deck with various sites of power, summoned creatures, magick spells, race cars, lasers, aeroplanes, and whatnots, with the aim of reducing your opponent's life total from 20 to 0, bringing them great shame and sorrow. I wasn't kidding about the race cars, lasers, or aeroplanes by the way, like I said things have gotten a little different while mostly staying the same.

[space reserved for more details on the game, like Standard, Modern, Legacy, Commander, Magic Arena, Spelltable, Secret Lairs, the Guilds of Ravnica, the Other Guilds of Other Places, the Importance of Storm Crow, the One Thousand Dollar Booster Pack, the Time Post Malone Spent Two Million American Dollars On A Magic Card, and of course Yargle the Most Important Character]

There has likely not been a better time to start playing or return to the game, with the Redwall-esque "Bloomburrow" set releasing last year and the Final Fantasy-esque "Final Fantasy" set releasing earlier this year. Yes you too can combine the power of adorable otter people and Vivi from FFIX and smash through piles of demons to achieve victory, in this the year of our Lord 2025. What a time to be alive.

Do you play this horrible money-eating game of millionaires? Do you play this artistic game of creative expression and wits? Do you know where my got dam lands are? I put 26 of them in this deck I know they're in there.

I think Ajani Goldmane is handsome

I play Commander almost every week with a group of friends via spelltable. I tried Arena, but without the social aspect, MTG gets toxic very quickly.

I have a lot of decks, so I'm gonna post like two at a time to not clog this thread.

Gyome's Bento Beatdown (link)


This is a Ninja Food deck. I use cheap deathtouch creatures to go in on the attack, and when players leave them unblocked, I throw in ninjas and then recast the cheap deathtouchers. This leads to a lot of food tokens via Gyome and that in turn has multiple payoffs in the deck to finish opponents.

Squall Hits the Road (link)


Final Fantasy VIII is my favorite FF and as soon as the card was revealed, I knew I had to make a Squall deck. I already have other voltron and mill/graveyard decks, so I made a landfall deck with Squall instead. It turned out to be very effective in my group and it's a lot of fun to play.

I actually got my start in MTG back in the original Kamigawa block and I still love that set, despite its flaws. Neon Dynasty was a banger through and through though. I also enjoy some sealed gameplay, but since I play whatever people play in person, which in this case is Commander, I just have EDH decks now.

Would love to get into pauper though.

magic was my Thing for a long time; at this point i've resolved not to spend any more money on it, though with some of my ff14 raid group looking into the game and having Forge on my phone as my preferred time-killer game away from home, i'm still lurking mythicspoiler and occasionally tinkering with updates to old decklists. my favorite format is draft (and i have opinions about it), i don't really care for commander (because i have opinions about it) but i do keep two decks around for it; jaya ballard, task mage, a mono-red control-ish deck that i've been fussing with since, what, 2009? and lonis, cryptozoologist "i'll just use your deck lmao". and i also keep an unchanged osgir the reconstructor precon around just in case i play against someone completely new. i played d&t in legacy up until it got stolen from work with the rest of my backpack; serves me right for not leaving it in my trunk i guess, though i live in the desert and i get nervous leaving sleeves in my car outside all day. every once in a great while i dust off MSE and fill out a bit of my custom xerex set, though i'd be pretty surprised if i ever actually got it into a draftable state. i keep an original innistrad cube around, though i don't think i've ever used it, which is a shame.
back in the day i was trying to get an in-person pauper scene going in my hometown and playing mono-blue mono-counterspells (decklist lost to time, but yknow, it was every good counterspell circa ~2014 [+faerie trickery], think twice, spire golems, deserts, you get the picture); i found a place nearby after i moved that was doing pauper and enjoyed running rakdos madness for some time.

oh HECK yeah I love brewing random commander decks, two of my faves are my Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm dragon copying deck and my Renata, Called to the Hunt devotion deck which just wants to throw out big beefy dorks and smash face

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anyway i have somewhat recently as of mid last year gotten way more in to magic in a big way, as opposed to kind of casually observing it and playing very little.

i especially love sealed formats!! i wish i could play prerelease 2 headed giant every week. i have so much sealed product in my house specifically for playing with and its all just sitting here. please come to my house.