A question of casual play.....

Azryael · Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 2

Hi, I'm new to the site and just got situated with Magic workstation. I really, really like it and think its a well designed interface. Anyways, I found this community and had a question that involved casual play and I would like as much feedback from the community here as possible. I used to play with a local Magic club in my area, it was mostly my friends and we got together every Tuesday and had tournaments and 1 on 1 matches and whatever the flavor of the week was. It was alot of fun, except when it came to certain things.

I have played in sanctioned Wizards tournaments before where you can easily be crushed in 3 turns. Thats all well and good and usually fun to see, but they usually involved certain decks that had been published and had won world tournaments before. What happened is that many people at our Tuesday club started downloading lists of these same world tournament winning decks, would buy up the cards and then effortlessely crush the casual players we had who where honestly trying to build creative decks they had constructed themselves.

Now, I understand the knowledge and implementation of these winning decks, but when your goal was to look at the newest block and try to come up with something that was all your own and have fun testing it, it killed the atmosphere. So, my query was to know if other casual players existed here that where like minded on this, as in like to come up with their own stuff and have fun testing it. If any of this sounds naive in re to your community, I apologize, but I am new and just wanted to gauge the pool of players here. I know that many here will use said pre-published decks, and thats fine as it is fun in its element, but I also wanted to know if the other type of player existed here as well.

Thanks, if you actually read all of this and Double Thanks if you comment. Hope to see you guys at a table soon. Smile

Azryael

THE_PREDATOR · Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 93

Usually, unless there are prizes most people don't play tier 1 decks (the really good ones) at least in my playgroup. The same happened to my group and it ended the whole thing. So, mainly, if you don't offer prizes (or at least not huge ones), nobody will be willing to spend big bucks on a deck to win.

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ElvishGod · Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 2929

eh. I'm a hardcore Rogue decker forever...

I will NEVER use a published deck. NEVER NO NO NEVER!

originality and fun is all that matters...

just look at my rating Wink

kikimikejiki · Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 649

ya thats why u suck and lose

RichardDWade · Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 438

The beauty of this site is that there is a diverse group of players here. A little tip: when in the chatroom, just ask to play against "rogue" decks. Those are the kind of decks you were talking about. But also keep this in mind: A new/different deck is always rogue... Until it starts winning all its matchups.