At MtGSalvation, Lesurgo runs a holiday card exchange. The point is to take a card or how many ever, alter them and sign your name (just don’t make the alters offensive, you don’t know who’s getting what). This year I decided to participate. Here’s my entry:
After looking at what people did for the first year (this is the third time they’ve been doing this), I knew I wanted to do something fun. My big thing this year has been EDH and my EDH blog (which has more articles almost ready to go). Unfortunately I got into this action a little late and wasn’t able to do a full EDH deck (maybe next year). And with little artistic skills, I was at a loss about what to do. Then, as a see an extra From the Vault: Exiled box lying around, I knew what I had to do: Make a From the Vault: EDH version.
True, it’s not the end all, be all cards in EDH, but there’s enough variety and fun in the box of 15 cards to get someone started on the path of EDHness (this is a pic heavy post, so if you have a slow connection, don’t hate me). All the pics are click-able to their full size. Continue reading “MTGSalvation’s Holiday Card Exchange – My Gift”
I’ve got a confession to make: I don’t play in every Magic tournament.
I don’t go to every FNM. I don’t go to every PTQ. I don’t drive 2 hours to get to the latest Legacy tournament on Sunday morning. Midnight drafts on MTGO don’t work for me ’cause I got to be at work the next morning. Currently, I don’t have a playgroup where we meet every week to test our decks hoping to break a format in twain.
Most of you would then classify me as a “Casual” player. That’s perfectly fine and understandable; I know you would call me that. Here’s what my twitter followers said after I asked what’s a casual player (and links for what they write):
BottsThoughts: @mtgcolorpie They don’t pay high $ for “tourney pedigree” cards. They don’t bother w/ sideboard(s/ing). And they slack on technicalities.
Mechtroid @mtgcolorpie I’d say me. I don’t try to win, I try to play a game that both players enjoy. THEN I try to win.
CharmanderLynch: @mtgcolorpie Someone who doesn’t care about pricing or winning all the time, more Johnny/Timmy than Spike, doesn’t use sleeves either.
GonSmithe: @mtgcolorpie Someone who plays creatures that are horrifically bad, or decks that they know will not win, but they enjoy. Slivers, etc.
iNils: @mtgcolorpie very tough to define, someone who doesn’t sink a ton of $$ in the game and rather plays cube/EDH/STAR w/ friends than FNM imo (mtgdecksource.blogspot.com)
joelniddrie: @mtgcolorpie someone who loves the game plays a lot but, does not play in organized tournaments regularly, and does not chase single cards.
mtgmetagame @mtgcolorpie Someone purpose of playing is solely for fun and they have as much fun losing as they do winning. IMO (mtgmetagame.com)
the_stybs: @mtgcolorpie Casual: It’s the how everything around game was played rather than the goal of the way the game was played. Grins not wins. (Serious Fun‘s Adam Styborski)
wrongwaygoback: @mtgcolorpie my buddies: would rather play a weird rogue, cheap deck over a kitchen table than power in a competition. (wrongwaygoback.com)
Clearly I must be a casual player then. I love to play rogue decks, and I play EDH (as well as write about it) and I play with my Japanese playsets and can’t wait the next day’s Magic articles on dailymtg, and SCG, and Mananation, and ChannelFireball… Wait, what?
I do know that Jund is ruling the standard environment at the moment. I know that several people were disqualified from Worlds for cheating and heard their sides of the story. I keep an eye on the rumors about what’s happening with Worldwake. When a set comes out, I buy at least a box (always more). I make time to go to an event like States or a Pre-release and keep those as sacred dates.
Sounds like a paradox, right? Believe it or not, I believe I make up a good portion of the Magic playing population.
Sorry about missing last week. I was traveling a majority of the day. To make up for it, here’s this week’s comic (as always, credit goes to houseofsixten.com).
MTG Color Pie 