What is your favorite memory of Magic: The Gathering?

iKe · Joined: 14 Dec 2005 Posts: 524 Location: New York

My favorite memory was about a week after I learned to play I played in a JSS about 2 years ago a little bit before darksteel came out. I went 1-5 while my friend topped 8 but since I didn't drop after I was like 1-4 i got the sportsmanship prize a foil jss two-headed dragon and the foil jss giant growth that I got for entering the tourney I sold them both together on Ebay for about $30 and my friend who topped 8 got a couple of packs with complete shit in them I was pretty happy Razz

. And in my two years of playing magic I think I'm up like $50 since I got lucky in like every sealed tourney I ever played in and got a nice rare which I sold Very Happy

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Pollo · Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 88

I won a GPT, made top 4 at a PTQ and beat Rogier Maaten at Grand Prix: México City Laughing

Circa · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 189

Lesse... I top 8'd my 1st GPT ever. About 3 months into the game I had a 1769 rating, which hasn't faultered, or risen, since. I always place in the top 13 in PTQ's.

But my favorite memories are playing Magic all night, then going to someone's house and getting really shit drunk. really really shit drunk.

kendiggy · Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 366 Location: not here

Beating the biggest snob of a player with rdw while he was playing alluren after mulliganing to four game one at a ptq. He would call me "such a bad player" behind my back and smile and act like my friend while I was listening. BTW, I won game three due to a mistake on his part, he could have gone off and didn't see it. Then, in the next block season, he walked up to me and made small talk and mentioned he did not want to play against me.

Circa · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 189

I beat some n00b who thinks he is a good at an FNM once playing MuC. He was playing Tooth, and when I sat down in front of him, he told me how he can't losr the match, and that he'd prove he was better than me. I fucked with the guy the whole game, and beat the shit out of him. I like how the smile from his face after playing Boseiju disspeared after I played the bouncing Wizard.

kikimikejiki · Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 649

not sucking at magic and coming 2nd in the quebec player of the year race and top youngster! wooot

elbalma87 · Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 2

playing fires when it was standard... it really kicks ass.. 1 turn birds, 2 fires, 3 blastoderm, 4 saproling burst... gg.. lol... i beat very good players with it and i still miss my fires...

then with the rotation i played domain, another good deck too...

i guess invasion block was the best times for me.. or urza's saga was pretty good too.

then i get bored of constant rotation and i left with apocalypse...

TheInferno · Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 13

Once upon a time i was at a ptq in Sacramento....
To make a long story short i told the judge that i would pay "the kicker" on his junk. He didnt like that.

NahHolmes · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 588

RThomas · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 384

For me, two experiences stick out clearly in my mind:

The first isn't really one experience, as a period of time, when I first got into Magic. Our group would pick someone's house and we'd play multiplayer games with a usual of 5 or 6 players. We thought that you could respond to tapping lands and that storm was all the spells in your turn and the turns before you. It was completely carefree, and we had an absolute blast every time.

The second was my first competitive tournament, SCG Chicago, July 2005. I had brought what was left of my playgroup to the tournament, and we had an incredible time. The highest point of the day was me beating Doug Linn (Hi-Val from SCG) in straight games, elevating me to 3-1 on the day.

DJ-LastYear · Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

Hmm... being a n00b and playing with Spined Wurm and Giant Warthog right when Judgement hit...

Actually, this brings up a story...

After learning how to play (pseudo-descently) I taught my first g/f of, at the time, a whole year how to play. She really connected with those goblins (she was a hyperactive, pixie-stick sucking, bi-polar, anime obsessed kinda kid) and I decided that I would drop some money on building her a deck. This was right when legions hit and Goblin decks had become pretty incredible so I spent a pretty penny and built her this:

Creatures:
4 Goblin Lackey
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Goblin Piledriver
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Goblin Matron
3 Raging Goblin
3 Sparksmith
3 Gempalm Incinerator

Other Spells:
4 Firebolt
3 Blazing Salvo
3 Browbeat
2 Goblin Grenade

Lands:
18 Mountains

SB:(I did this just cause I could)
3 Anarchy
3 Red Elemental Blast
3 Flashfires
3 Boil
3 Pyroblast

It was the most amazing deck I'd ever built when I playtested it and I almost regretted giving it to her when I thought of how terribly she would plow through my "$20 Wizards.dec". However, after we sat down to actually play eachother I felt as if something was off. Turn 6 rolled around and I wasn't dead yet; in fact, I had complete board control and had managed to lock down the game with Patron Wizard! How did this happen? It might have been that she opted to play Raging Goblin on turn one as opposed to Goblin Lackey, or it might have been that instead of dropping a succession of 1 mana hasting matrons to power up her piledriver to pants-creaming proportions, she decided to go diving into her deck for a Mogg Fanatic so she could sac it to ping my Tim, who knows?

All I know is that I'm hurt that she will no longer speak to me after a long on and off relationship of almost 3 years. I'll never forget the games she could have beat me with that firebolt sitting in her graveyard, or about the way she would right-hook me in the face every single time I pointed it out to her afterwards. I'll miss her and that off-beat personality she had, and I'll miss the days we spent together... but most of all... I really miss that deck...

PolarBearGod · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 36

Witnessing this guy opening a textless foil Lightening Bolt at GP Memphis. It turned out to be the only one of it's existence and the event, which was ran by New Wave (no loner in bussiness I believe), decided to not sell anymore of the boxes of Legacy from the case that the Bolt came from. Unsurprisingly, they began offering the boxes at a premium price afterwards, but not a single other textless foil Bolt has ever surfaced. Initially, one of the owners of New Wave saw the guy open his card and she offered him $100 for the card, but wisely the guy refused. Last I heard it got signed and was purchased by some major onlline card shop.

zero · Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 77

the tempest block and later urza saga block, and my deck stompy in all your evolution playing rogue elephants winter orb and spectral bears since gaea's cradle, cursed scroll and rancor

FiReBLT · Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 165

My first PTQ at which I used a Big Red Deck that was copied from a boy in school and we were both in the final (by the way, I later found out HIS deck was a netdeck)

Anyway this guy thought he was God's gift to Magic, and he ripped off new players whenever he could, and i despised him.

This was very much a Grudge Match...

Anyway, we were both at 1-1 in the final match, and I was at 6, my opponent was at 15.

He attacked with the slogger, and i had 3 talismans and 3 mountains, putting me to 2.
He taps out to...Beacon of destruction me for the win!!!!

WAAAAIIITT!! IN RESPONSE!!!!

TRIPLE SHRAPNEL BLAST!!!!

He then proceeded to insist that he wouldn't tap out, he would tap only 1 mountain and slog me, but it was too late =)

Evilpopcorn · Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 14 Location: S.Africa

Started playing mtg at the end of Mirrodin (Fith Dawn), and finally one my first big T2 event soon after Saviors was legal.

The coolest part was in my prizes i received one spanish booster, and beleive it or not my rare was an Exalted Angel.

Awsome ! Very Happy