I am skeptical about the judging for this contest. With as many entries as they are sure to get how will they decide between a decklist that has 23 lands or another with 24. Will they even choose the "right" one?
What are the odds that this movie is actually going to present Magic in a positive light?
Here's what I'm envisioning:
Voiceover: I used to be a loser. See, here's me back then, playing Magic: the Gathering with some friends.
[Cut to a scene featuring stereotypical geeks playing D&D while also holding Magic cards. One of them might say something embarrassing like, "I wrap my level 25 Unicorn of the Fairy Realm in a Cloak of Rainbow's Blessing." To which a second character might respond, "Ach, I am vanquished by your fearsome horned steed!"
The hero, meanwhile, will be staring off into space, clearly not enjoying himself. Perhaps he is looking at a poster with anime girls on it. He turns to his friends and says, "Did you ever feel like there might be something more to life?" His friends stare at him a while, before one of them rolls a fistful of irregular dice and examines them before replying to his question in a straightforward, matter-of-fact way.
Why do I expect this? Because this is how we are always portrayed in pop culture. Magic and D&D are used as a symbol of unlikable geekiness or as a quick way of establishing the "zero-to-hero" trope. The two are interchangeable in most people's minds, and Hollywood (which doesn't care about accuracy) likes to portray Magic as being a lot more like D&D since that game has the potential for more embarrassing interactions.
"We will all be purified in Wurm. What is good will be used to heal Wurm, or grow Wurm, or to fuel Wurm's path. What is vile will be extruded, and we will be free of it forever." --Prophet of the Cult of Wurm
What are the odds that this movie is actually going to present Magic in a positive light?
Here's what I'm envisioning:
Voiceover: I used to be a loser. See, here's me back then, playing Magic: the Gathering with some friends.
[Cut to a scene featuring stereotypical geeks playing D&D while also holding Magic cards. One of them might say something embarrassing like, "I wrap my level 25 Unicorn of the Fairy Realm in a Cloak of Rainbow's Blessing." To which a second character might respond, "Ach, I am vanquished by your fearsome horned steed!"
The hero, meanwhile, will be staring off into space, clearly not enjoying himself. Perhaps he is looking at a poster with anime girls on it. He turns to his friends and says, "Did you ever feel like there might be something more to life?" His friends stare at him a while, before one of them rolls a fistful of irregular dice and examines them before replying to his question in a straightforward, matter-of-fact way.
Why do I expect this? Because this is how we are always portrayed in pop culture. Magic and D&D are used as a symbol of unlikable geekiness or as a quick way of establishing the "zero-to-hero" trope. The two are interchangeable in most people's minds, and Hollywood (which doesn't care about accuracy) likes to portray Magic as being a lot more like D&D since that game has the potential for more embarrassing interactions.
^THAT.
And I thnik it would be way cooler if a movie, involving Magic, would be based on one of the books. Animated Ajani/Jace/Liliana/Chandra/Garruk? Yes please! I'd LOVE to see a Wrath of God in action. Or have people walk through the streets of Ravnica, and then see Razia fly above. ANYTHING.
One more contest for US only. So frustrating. Hey guys, do you know you have customers outside US?
Yes, that's true. As a non-american person, I feel the same. But then I ask you: when you get a contest in your country, do customers from other countries have a chance to participate?
For linking a card to Gatherer without writting the name of said card for readers, use the autocard brackets together with and equal sign and right the name of the real card. Then put the message you want inside the tags, like you would do with autocarding. Like this:
I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
So, you can basically submit any T2 deck using blue and say it's based around jace.0, right?
The rules say you can ONLY use cards from M11. It doesn't say you have to use the Planeswalker in the deck, though the text seems to heavily suggest using them and their unique cards.
What are the odds that this movie is actually going to present Magic in a positive light?
Here's what I'm envisioning:
Voiceover: I used to be a loser. See, here's me back then, playing Magic: the Gathering with some friends.
[Cut to a scene featuring stereotypical geeks playing D&D while also holding Magic cards. One of them might say something embarrassing like, "I wrap my level 25 Unicorn of the Fairy Realm in a Cloak of Rainbow's Blessing." To which a second character might respond, "Ach, I am vanquished by your fearsome horned steed!"
The hero, meanwhile, will be staring off into space, clearly not enjoying himself. Perhaps he is looking at a poster with anime girls on it. He turns to his friends and says, "Did you ever feel like there might be something more to life?" His friends stare at him a while, before one of them rolls a fistful of irregular dice and examines them before replying to his question in a straightforward, matter-of-fact way.
Why do I expect this? Because this is how we are always portrayed in pop culture. Magic and D&D are used as a symbol of unlikable geekiness or as a quick way of establishing the "zero-to-hero" trope. The two are interchangeable in most people's minds, and Hollywood (which doesn't care about accuracy) likes to portray Magic as being a lot more like D&D since that game has the potential for more embarrassing interactions.
I'm a bit more optimistic than that. Since this appears to be some sort of minor cross-promotion with Wizards, it's unlikely to be wildly inaccurate, and probably won't be excessively negative either. What I'm really expecting is something that wouldn't even be noticeable if we weren't all looking for it now (though less so than in the Spider-Man movie, and I could be wrong).
As for the contest, my best guess is that it's supposed to be mechanically and creatively themed around the planeswalker. This probably means using the three cards that contain the planeswalker's name and other cards that support that general strategy (i.e., milling for Jace, burn for Chandra). How on earth we're supposed to build a creative and original deck around such a theme using just the core set is beyond me.
