transcription: im like “hey lets play magic the gathering” and then ten minutes later my tongue is in the mouth of someones daughter whos parents still call her son
transcription: im like “hey lets play magic the gathering” and then ten minutes later my tongue is in the mouth of someones daughter whos parents still call her son
“Commander would be perfect for this person”
“Oh”
Well that’s too bad that you don’t want to play crazy theme deck, the format.
I hate the depth of a card pool where everybody has some obscure game breaking card combo from some darned set I’ve never heard of that ensures I lose almost immediately. Also, I hate the idea of 100 different cards.
I just want the Magic experience I had when I was young, so, you know, it’s not something I’ll ever get and probably not something anyone else wants.
Some kind of limited draft is probably what I want, when I think about it–a limited draft of janky dreck that nobody has any clue how to play so we can all fumble around until someone figures out a way to win with whatever’s to hand.
I know it probably doesn’t make much sense to most players these days, so I know I’m being ridiculous, but I want what I want.
No no that’s legit. Maybe the lowest-power bracket in Commander would be ok? Still has the 100-card singleton rule though.
Alternatively just 60-card casual among friends with a low-power house rule.
Or what about Pauper? Depending on your region you might have a Pauper community.
Pauper sounds pretty cool. It feels like it would keep the power of the net deckers to a minimum and allow me to play the jank I love. I know no one who plays it, though.
To be clear, I liked Standard when I came back, but the constantly rotating card allowability (WOTC’S Quest for More Money™) killed it for me–i refuse to pay as much for freaking cardboard as it would require for me to be marginally competitive.
I even liked Arena for a while, but keeping up just became exhausting.
More than anything, I guess I miss a point in time where the game was young and not discussed to death. It wasn’t very deep back then, and there were so few cards that I had a chance to have at least heard about just about everything I played against. I miss my Circles of Protection, Drudge Skeletons, Plague Rats, Serra Angels, Shivan Dragons, and Craw Wurms. I miss my white deck being a menace because I could band my weenies into a threat on defense and offense.
The closest to what I want that I’ve gotten was a draft I played, because everyone had the same starting point and had to deal with what they had. Even I, an uncultured casual, had a chance to enjoy it and not be bulldozed.
I’m sorry to be a dick and rant incoherently, y’all. I think I just hate that the game passed me by and that I’m pushing 50.