Telim'Tor
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Posts: 18
Favorite Card: [font face="Luckiest Guy"]ARTIFACT JANK!!![/font]
Favorite Set: [font face="Luckiest Guy"]Chronicles, Homelands[/font]
Color Alignment: Red
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Post by Telim'Tor on Feb 13, 2020 18:10:56 GMT
CADET FROGGATT! STEP FORWARD!Oh, dear gods, what the hell do you wan-- DID I SAY YOU COULD SPEAK?! DID I GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO DO ANYTHING BUT TAKE A GODDAMN STEP FORWARD? NO, I BELIEVE I DID NOT! SO STEP YOUR ASS FORWARD BEFORE I BREAK IT OFF FOR YOU!Listen, asshole, I don’t have time for your petty, penny-ante tactics. In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s already a malignant narcissist we’ve gotta deal with, and-- NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR CANDY-ASS POLITICS, SWEETHEART! I’VE GOT A REAL PROBLEM YOU CAN DEAL WITH!Ok, I’ll bite. What’s your problem, besides being a pain in my ass? YOU BROKE THE MASQUERADE, YOU DROPPED THE FAÇADE! YOU ROBBED ME OF MY GLORY!Glory? Listen, you puffed-up little figmentous shit! You make me empathize with fascists! You make me feel dirty every time I have to write for you! You have the lowest numbers out of all my characters! I had grand plans for your storyline, even eventually introducing a Planar Chaos-style alternate history version of you, to do battle with, but all of that fell by the wayside when my dad had his open-heart surgery. That kinda scare can definitely lead to a reassessment of priorities, and the current dumpsterfire political climate matching the real fire of the actual climate only serves to magnify that. So, I realized that I don’t wanna deal with your wrong- and pigheadedness. “Begone, you have no power here” and all that, I’m taking over the column. YOU CAN’T DO THAT!You’re actually telling your creator that he can’t do something? I bet you don’t even realize how egotistical that is. CADET Daij_Djan, HELP ME OUT, HERE, AND I PROMISE YOU, THERE’LL BE A FIELD PROMOTION TO COLONEL!Do you really think he’d be willing to take over writing duties for you? Motherfucker, I made this facet of you, and I’ll do with it as I please. And I please to retire your tiring ass, so fuck off back to whatever mental corner I unfortunately dredged you up from, and don’t come back until I summon you again, which won’t be for a very. Long. Time! Ok, cadets contestants, there’s a new sheriff in town, and to ease us all back into the swing of things, this won’t be a contest. Instead, I just want us all to share the very first decklist you built yourself, and I mean an actual deck, with an actual plan to it, not just a pile of cards you had at hand. This was a topic that was suggested to me by my mom, way back on July 14th of last year, while we were dealing with dad’s hospitalization. I can start us off with my embarrassing deck, but I don’t have the exact numbers for it. I can give good estimates, but you be the judge of how successful it could’ve been: 3 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker3 or 4 Cephalid Looter2-4 Cephalid Broker4 Megrim4 Underworld DreamsEither 1 or 3 Honden of Infinite RageEither 1 or 2 Honden of Seeing Winds1 Honden of Night’s Reach1 Intruder AlarmSome additional, unremembered cards And a completely untenable mixture of the appropriate Basic lands ONLY! No duals, trilands weren’t even a thing yet--ok, USABLE trilands weren’t even a thing yet. I know, it’s pretty close to being “just a pile of cards I had at hand”, but there’s an actual strategy to the deck, and I actually went out and bought singles for it. My first time buying singles for a specific deck, too. So what’s all your first decks?
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Feb 14, 2020 9:06:24 GMT
I don't have the exact list but I once made a throwback deck to it to play against some friends using the cards that were only in it at the time. Here's what it looked like: // 60 Maindeck // 17 Creature 4 Dimir Guildmage3 Corpulent Corpse4 Knight of Stromgald2 Mindstab Thrull2 Necrite2 Phantom Monster// 4 Enchantment 4 Paralyze// 8 Instant 4 Terror4 Counterspell// 25 Land 12 Island12 Swamp1 Ebon Stronghold// 6 Sorcery 4 Demonic Tutor2 Touch of Death// 2 Sideboard // 2 Enchantment 2 WeaknessPretty simple deck really - spam removal, clear the way for creatures to get in damage (I'm not sure what I saw in Mindstab Thrull and Necrite back then, probably just cardpool limitations), get Corpulent Corpse off Suspend at some point, draw cards with Dimir Guildmage, Demonic Tutor, and Touch of Death. I get the feeling younger me would've really liked Fatal Push - I ran Paralyze back then for almost the exact same reasons I run Fatal Push now. |
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Post by arthurxiv on Feb 14, 2020 14:08:57 GMT
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Post by collex on Feb 14, 2020 18:21:45 GMT
So my very first deck was a precon. Namely, this one  It was black-red. I think I picked it just because it had the coolest art - I would have been 12 at the time. And was only starting to be able to fluent in English (it's my second language). So I did not build it myself, but I did modify it. I don't remember how exactly, but I do remember I added some Flametongue Kavu (probably one of my favorite card ever) and one Phage I got in a booster and thought she was da bomb. I dunno what happened to those cards. Lost somewhere. So a few years later I bought anther precon:  I loved this deck. Still love white weenie to this day. Had this deck for a long time, and modified it a lot. In time, it even became a sort of Cat Tribal deck. I don't remember everything I put in it, but from those I can remember, there was some Swords to Plowshare, a Raksha Golden Cub, a Magus of the Disk, some Lightning Greaves and other stuff I don't remember. As for what I pulled out, I am not 100% sure either, but the Myrs, the Replica, and the Longbow I'm sure of. But then, in my second year of college, I told myself "I clearly don't have the time and money to play anymore, and I clearly will never have it again," so I sold all of my cards, including my deck. Huge mistake. So when I started again a few years later, I had to start from scratch, again. This time though, I bought a deckbuilder's toolkit, not a pre-con, and made my first deck from scratch. A human tribal white-green weenie deck. I still have it, though it is now much improved. It's technically modern legal, but it is not optimized for anything but the kitchen table. I'm at work now, so I'll give you the decklist later. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Feb 15, 2020 19:58:02 GMT
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Feb 16, 2020 15:02:03 GMT
Well, yes. I don't exactly see what I'd gain from posting my 2nd deck, or even my -1st one. =P |
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Post by Lady Mapi on Feb 16, 2020 19:03:35 GMT
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Post by collex on Feb 16, 2020 23:21:38 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 19, 2020 20:46:40 GMT
Cadet Daij_Djan, Sir – reporting in as requested.00*takes a look at the situation*However Sir.. As much as I appreciate your faith in a humble being just as me.. I think the power of your creator is too much to overcome by sheer force. Just think of the power of a being able to create a mind so astute as yours.. I'm sorry Sir, but I'm afraid for now you'll have to follow his command – scheming in the shadows planning your great and glorious return. Rest assured, I'll always be ready and prepared, playing along with the creator's wishes for now, so that I can be at your side again when the right time comes.00*salutes while waiting for the general to leave*00...00...So you're interested in the very first deck I ever came up with..? This might be an even more devious task than ever given to us by the general  Burn to the GroundCreatures (8)Spells (30)Lands (22)
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mill deck - it was 70 cards big, had no real removal, and wasn't terribly good.
). The deck before was a monoblack Zombie tribal one which oddly enough contained 42 cards (Back then I had read there was a format called „Limited“ where 40 card decks were legal, so I decided that would be enough cards for our Casual Constructed group 
"When in doubt, do a common."