Poll: Magic.........The Gathering!

[Atmos Duality]

Eh, technically started in Alpha when my friend dragged me into it.
Didn't really care much until after The Dark and Chronicles when Ice Age started.

Played a few DCI events, did reasonably well, but never phenomenal. Then I moved and with that necessitated a selling of cards because there wasn't a card shop anywhere nearby or anyone who played at the time.

Then I finished school and started community college, saw Mirrordin and decided it was absolutely utterly broken.
...Then Ravnica Block happened, and it was fucking awesome. Both formats attached to Ravnica were varied and excellent and it's largely due to each color and deck archetype getting something worthwhile.

I've played on and off since then but most of the formats just bore me now. Standard is still the same ol' rare-arms race it's always been, and I wasn't about to go into debt trying to compete (I've managed to avoid the student loan debt quagmire through careful budgeting and scheduling, and I'm not about to start on account of printed cardboard).

Even EDH, which I was partly responsible for getting my (curiously large) MtG group at college to play, is pretty one-note now. Or maybe that's just everyone I know going online to look up the latest combo general decklists.

TLDC; Blue is the strongest color outside of specific combos (combo knows no one color). It's an obvious preference for someone who started when Blue was king. Today, I prefer playing a variety of decks, especially the goofy and bizarre.

I'm currently working on a RGU Monster Mash deck that uses the new [mtg_card=Yisan, the Wanderer Bard], Proliferate, Wild Pair, and some other silly nonsense. It's derived from a former "classic" of my group (Houseplant Arena, which was just a silly Commander support deck gone horribly wrong).

 

[evoxpisces]

I never got to play the game in actual card form but I have played it digitally. I'm still kind of new to it but from what I've seen I like the green deck best because I love nature-based magic in games and summoning cool creatures.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I almost always play multicolor.

My favorite is a Black/Red aggro/wither/whatever the fuck else I throw in. I also enjoy my White/Black Removal deck because it's just so gloriously obnoxious.

I play a Black/Blue/Red/ Grixis deck from time to time as well, but it isn't all that good. Still, throwing Telepathy first turn in a massive multiplayer game, then using lots of hand removal is always a good time.

Oh and since we're on the topic of MTG, can I just throw out that I despise limited formats? Because fuck Standard, Extended and anything else that makes entire blocks of cards utterly useless. It's just something I feel the need to say whenever Magic comes up.

I also have a Nicol Bolas centred deck which revolves around stealing everything from everywhere and that's a lot of fun when it starts rolling. I've had an entire table of opponents terrified of the two cards in my hand and not making moves lest they be the target of my wrath which feels pretty thematically on the nose. Especially when their indecision and hesitation means I build enough power that when they finally do try and stop me I crush them all and take everything from them.
It's a fun deck, awful in one on one though unless you get lucky with the ramp, too bulky and slow.

That's kind of surreal. That's almost exactly how [i/]my[/i] Grixis deck plays too.

 

[-Dragmire-]

No 'other'?

It's been a while but I enjoyed playing with an artifact deck.