What is your favorite memory of Magic: The Gathering?

RThomas · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 384

Anything from play moments, to experiences, or people met.

Well?

jdf121 · Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 151

The first time i ever went to a card shop in North Little Rock, AR and played people I didn't know I had my new Kamigawa block deck. I beat the 13th ranked constructed player in the US (Neil Reeves). 53 global. 8th composite in the world!! (At the time, I didn't know who he was. I thought he was just the owner of the shop.) In 3 three consecutive 3 game matches. Yeah I was elated.

aGuyWalking · Joined: 15 Nov 2005 Posts: 8

Winning with collition victory. I was playing my crap 5c deck, which i thought was incredible at the time, last stands, cromat, the volvers, anything multicolored. Those were the days..

Angel- · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 76

When I first came into MtG, Mirrodin was about to come out and the big deck back then was UW Control. Then I picked up Broodstar Affinity and all it's nice cheap counters and cheap beats. I loved back then because I used to consistently beat UW Control with that 8/8 beast while countering all their Wrath of Gods and Akroma's Vengeance.

Good times, gooood times...

Stucco · Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 535

Tempest and Urza blocks.

Wizards is so paranoid to make a very powerful card. Yet during those two blocks, there were many many very powerful cards. Not only that, they balanced the power cards over all 5 colors. Tempest-Urza Type 2 was the most fun standard I had ever played. Those two blocks put the "Magic" into Magic the Gathering.

snoopster · Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 692 Location: nj

Mulliganning to 5 in game 3 and still winning in the finals of a JSS. Cool

Strovil · Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 567

Any time a deck I created wins is a good Magic memory for me. My first ever such win was a highlander store tournament. My creations have also regularly placed in the top 20 of online tournaments.

But of recent memories, I like one from the prerelease tournament for Ravnica, excerpted from my report:

He was at 2. Even without doublestrike, he was going to die to the Cat. But he was smart. He had a 3/2 white flier who tapped, sacced, and dealt 3 damage to an attacker or blocker. I attacked. He sacced. I cast Bathe in Light (target creature, and all creatures that share its color(s), gain protection from the color of your choice), naming White, on my Cat. He cast his own Bathe in Light on my Cat, naming White, and proclaimed "Ha! Now your guy is pro-white, so your Light is countered ... (wait for it) ... (wait for it) ... oh, I'm so stupid!"

Derek · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 36

Winning my 8 man FNM. Rolling Eyes

COOLBOY · Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 399

What I remember most... The, what seemed like, 2 year spread between Ice age and Alliances, it was so painful.

WildCard · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 735 Location: Japan

trading magic common cards for 1st edition rare pokemon cards when it first came out. my trade of about a thousand commons i got about 4 boxes of boosters... this was when pokemon first came out

Craze · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 5325 Location: Indiana, U

Before I came to ML, I was on AOL, being I was really bored, in some magic chat. Besides talking to some weird guys, I had the plesure of meeting A guy that wne tby the name Barrinwzrd. He later brought me to this league as a teammate on it...
Anyway, I used to think he was the best player ever.

I guess my most favorite part of it was my first ever netdeck: Big Red, and going on a winning streak with it....

Hmm...too bad that AOL chat is dead now...

VacancyMan · Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 308

There was a guy who used to play at our local shop when we had Vintage tournaments. There were no proxies - I don't think the owner of the shop knew what a proxy tournament was. The guy had all of the Power 9, all the old broken competitive Type 1 stuff, and, as you can imagine, he owned everybody. With everyone else playing their pet decks like, and I am NOT making this up, U/R Cognivore, False Cure Combo, and Phage.dec, the guy was unstoppable.
Mirrodin was fresh off the press and, having a rare Johnny streak, I concocted a U/W No-Stick, complete with Abeyance and Lat-Nam's Legacy. Can you say ahead of it's time? Laughing

Anyway, the first time a Type 1 tourney rolls around, I get paired Round 1 with the behemoth. He smashes me in Game 1, but mulligans to 5 in Game 2 and loses to the Exalted Angels I'm borrowing from a friend(who happens to have been known as sex_monkey on this league) just to make my deck 60 cards. In Game 3, I do it for the first time - Isochron Scepter, imprinting Orim's Chant. Because we're the last match, people start to gather around us. They laugh, and joke, and watch in amazement, as the Dragon is slayed by his own Mana Crypt.

Jamori · Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 1

Hehe, my favorite memory is from the very first time I played Magic. A friend introduced me to it, twas during the Ice Age block. There was a blue deck, and a black one. After several games we concluded that whoever got their Wall (of Bones/Water) out first couldn't get killed Laughing

Mostly black won, though, because it had Terror..

Ah, the time that magic was still magical, the time that opening a booster was really exciting, saving up that pocket money (I was 9) to get that 5th edition starter deck (with Armageddon and City of Brass), dreaming about someday having a daytime job and buying that Black Lotus from the first month of salary. Ah, the magic.. Crying or Very sad

DoItFaster · Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 1129 Location: California

At the 5Dawn tourney at the local shop, I was in the top 8, time expired in the round and I was tied 1-1, so we went to a first below 20. We went on for like 8 turns before he finally beat me. Even though I lost, it was the longest first below 20 game that many of them had ever saw (the only people that had seen longer games were the guys who frequently hit Regionals, and the longest they had ever seen was 9 turns) and people still remember it Cool

ElvishGod · Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 2924

Teaching friends to play...

Friend #1 (The "young and hyper" one): He was 2 years younger than me, but he was my most active magic friend. He played constantly. He caught on to the rules so fast. He made a few mistakes, but he fell in love with the game. He bought a snake deck, then bought full play sets of STE, Seshiro, Sasuke, Sachi, etc. etc. etc...

Friend #2 (The "weird" one): Well, he just couldn't learn the rules. He would tap his creatures when he blocked... He would block my fliers with his non-fliers... He would just do some plain stupid things... He'd throw in cards like Goblin Mountaineer in his deck and Fists of the Anvil... (he LOVED that one)...

Friend #3 (The "cool and crazy" one): Good times. He caught on fairly quick and got really into the game. It took him a few games to understand what was going on, but he learned fast, and read EVERY single card on the field when played... Whenever we finished a game, we fought and threw cards at each other and literally hurt each other. That was always our favorite part...

Friend #4 (The "nerdy" one): Well, guess what. Friend #2 taught this guy how to play originally. So I had to slap him around to not tap his blockers and learn to block and such. He bought a ninjitsu deck, and he had SUCH a hard time understanding that ability. (Not a good beginner's deck)...

Well, they were so much fun. How did they advance to today?

Friend #1: Well, he taught his mom to play and plays regularly with her. We play 3-player magic whenever I come over. I haven't seen him for a while, but I'm pretty sure he's still an active player. It is so funny when his mom beats him, which isn't very often.

Friend #2: Now he's a good magic player, but still makes mistakes fairly often. The main reason he wins is because of his kick-ass deck. He has an amazing goblin deck... Full sets of Recruiter, Ringleader, Prospector, and a few more... He has Sharpshooter and Charbelcher, too. Of course he beats my elf deck because of always getting Sharpshooter. (recruiter, ringleader) Now he plays a lot more rarely, but bought some ravnica cards, and I hope to convince him to play more soon.

Friend #3: Now he understands the rules almost perfectly, but he doesn't play... He plays rarely with me, but I think he's beyond the "nerdy" tcg. I think I can get him back into it. I reallllllly miss the post-magic fights.

Friend #4: He just got into it recently, so he still plays with me. Of course, his deck isn't that good and I have to fix it every time I see him. He keeps on throwing in Vizzerdrix, which I have a helluva time telling him it sucks. He puts in a bunch of bad cards, and I just keep on organizing his deck. Oh well, he needs a better deck. Ninjas suck.

And that's my story. Soo many good times, and I really need to get most of them back into it so they will play with me! Crying or Very sad

Maybe I could convince my girlfriend Very Happy

But she'd probably dump me in a heartbeat. Crying or Very sad

She's smart and really goofy usually, but she's still kinda punk and I know she'd hate it. Oh well, if only I had a time machine to test it. (I think I know, cuz when my last gf, along with friend #3's friend's gf, saw magic cards at friend #3's house, she was kinda skeptical, but she had NO idea what they really were, and I didn't bother telling here... If I did she would have dumped me... before I dumped her.)

Anywho, good times... good times.