Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Ah, well -- Timmy, you know, likes big ole fatty creatures. Johnny
likes combinations (the weirder the better).
You know how they had a card in Unglued called Timmy, Power Gamer?
They have one in Unhinged called Johnny, Combo King or some such. :)
On Nov 20, 2004, at 8:03 PM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Ah, well -- Timmy, you know, likes big ole fatty creatures. Johnny
likes combinations (the weirder the better).
You know how they had a card in Unglued called Timmy, Power Gamer?
Yeah! Though I never actually saw one live and in person.
They have one
On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:42 PM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Spikey?
Yes, Spikelike. Even one of those things is a pain. Having more
than one would be a very Spike thing to do.
That wasn't my question. I haven't heard the expression Spike
before, and I'm not sure what it means.
Ah, well -- Timmy, you know,
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On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
much snippage
Sheesh. I used to play Magic and most of what you guys just wrote
was completely unintelligible to me. The game must have changed a
lot (or gained a lot more jargon) in the past few years. The last
On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Horn, John wrote:
Sheesh. I used to play Magic and most of what you guys just wrote
was completely unintelligible to me. The game must have changed a
lot (or gained a lot more jargon) in the past few years.
It's the jargon. The game hasn't changed radically. Of
--- Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Horn, John wrote:
Sheesh. I used to play Magic and most of what you guys just wrote
was completely unintelligible to me. The game must have changed a
lot (or gained a lot more jargon) in the past few years.
On Nov 16, 2004, at 12:33 PM, kerri miller wrote:
It's the jargon. The game hasn't changed radically. Of course
expansions have been adding to the card pool over the years...
Its like that in poker right now - many of the Old Timers don't get the
statistical concepts that are driving poker theory
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:50:41 -0600, Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sheesh. I used to play Magic and most of what you guys just wrote
was completely unintelligible to me. The game must have changed a
lot (or gained a lot more jargon) in the past few years. The last
expansion I played
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Legacy weapons? Weapons? Plural? Ooo, you're Spikey.
Spikey?
My curent favorite casual deck is a B/G/U remove all your cards
from the game deck.
Blarf. You'd be pariah'd in moments out here... ;)
Why? It's not *that* killer, though maybe the metagame
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Horn, John wrote:
The deck was designed around not allowing my opponent to every
block or have a creature on the board.
Mm. Around here we usually don't play direct player burn (hit the
creatures instead; direct player assault is considered
unsportsmanlike), but we make
kerri miller wrote:
...and dual color cards, and those silly cards that were /either/
red or black, and kicker costs, and phasing, and...
A couple of the split cards are pretty good, and kicker is actually
a nifty ability. It gives you some more options which is always
nice.
I still can't
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Or threshold: 7+ cards in your graveyard and the card you're
playing gets punched up somehow.
Kamigawa has a lot of graveyard tricks, but it seems they learned a
little something from Odyssey and Kamigawa has a bunch of anti-
graveyard cards.
There's also echo, where
On Nov 16, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Legacy weapons? Weapons? Plural? Ooo, you're Spikey.
Spikey?
Yes, Spikelike. Even one of those things is a pain. Having more than
one would be a very Spike thing to do.
My curent favorite casual deck is a B/G/U remove all your cards
from the game
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Spikey?
Yes, Spikelike. Even one of those things is a pain. Having more
than one would be a very Spike thing to do.
That wasn't my question. I haven't heard the expression Spike
before, and I'm not sure what it means. And since Legacy Weapon is
a
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Let's see -- gems -- snip Howbout you?
I actually meant in terms of the cards you have, but I liked reading
your decks. Some of them were pretty nifty. :)
My current decks include a silly five-color deck with all gold-
bordered cards and some sunburst cards, along with
On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Let's see -- gems -- snip Howbout you?
I actually meant in terms of the cards you have, but I liked reading
your decks. Some of them were pretty nifty. :)
Thanks. Cards I tend to keep in play constantly include things like
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