08-01-2003, 04:36 PM
Man what an excellent game. Reading this thread brought back so many memories of my time playing Magic, and how much fun I had then... but I was definitely one of the aforementioned addicts, and about the time Visions came out I realized I had to stop buying hundreds of dollars of cards every time the game came out. An *extremely* dispiriting loss at a local tourney (my deck was set up almost specificially to beat my opponent's, 2 games in a row I drew one mana and he got literally a perfect hand) made me realize that no matter how much you strategize or spend time building that perfect deck, Magic is still 99.9% sheer luck.
That killed the game for me, and I haven't been back or really even looked at it since. I still have all my old decks and I still have a sealed box of Alliances that maybe will be worth some money someday.
It's too bad WotC decided to bring out an expansion roughly every month; Ice Age/Alliances was the Golden Age of Magic IMO. Still my favorite magic moment was going to a tourney in Tallahassee right after Alliances came out. Literally everybody there was playing black/red land destruction and talking about how land D was the new dominant deck. I was playing my old reliable red/green Jokulhaups deck. I swept the tourney and had most games well in hand by the 6th turn. I got some truly amazed "I don't believe this" looks that night.
"Oh, you're going to pillage my forest? OK, I'll Jokulhaups and wipe out everything on the board."
>opponent stares<
"And now that that's done, I'll toss down this lodestone bauble and put 4 lands on top of my library. I have a Lhurgoyf and a timber wall in my hand and there are about 15 dead creatures in this game, so you better get some defense up real, real fast."
>opponent looks at his hand and concedes<
The best part was, every one of my opponent's sideboards was set up to deal with people playing white. So even after they'd found out my deck's deadly secret, there was still nothing they could do but strip mine, pillage, and then die. Ah, memories.
JS
Who knows the true color of magic is green
That killed the game for me, and I haven't been back or really even looked at it since. I still have all my old decks and I still have a sealed box of Alliances that maybe will be worth some money someday.
It's too bad WotC decided to bring out an expansion roughly every month; Ice Age/Alliances was the Golden Age of Magic IMO. Still my favorite magic moment was going to a tourney in Tallahassee right after Alliances came out. Literally everybody there was playing black/red land destruction and talking about how land D was the new dominant deck. I was playing my old reliable red/green Jokulhaups deck. I swept the tourney and had most games well in hand by the 6th turn. I got some truly amazed "I don't believe this" looks that night.
"Oh, you're going to pillage my forest? OK, I'll Jokulhaups and wipe out everything on the board."
>opponent stares<
"And now that that's done, I'll toss down this lodestone bauble and put 4 lands on top of my library. I have a Lhurgoyf and a timber wall in my hand and there are about 15 dead creatures in this game, so you better get some defense up real, real fast."
>opponent looks at his hand and concedes<
The best part was, every one of my opponent's sideboards was set up to deal with people playing white. So even after they'd found out my deck's deadly secret, there was still nothing they could do but strip mine, pillage, and then die. Ah, memories.
JS
Who knows the true color of magic is green