Magic at IGC

#1 Cound me in Pat. Just let me know the cost and format.

Personally though if we are going to draft I would love for the games to be played with what we draw versus bringing in outside cards. I tend to find that it keeps the games fair and fun when we all have an equal chance versus someone bringing in a power deck they have constructed.

A quick question about the play style though is it going to be 1 on 1 or do you have any social style games planned like a Gathering Style (5 players) or Warlords style game (6 to 8 players) planned for people to participate in?

Edit:

Realized that some of you might not be familar with the two game types I mentioned since they are rather old and not commonly played as much anymore. So here is a brief description of how you play...

Gathering Style

Players arrange themselves around a table. The person to your left and right are your allies, the two people across from you are your enemies (so this means that your allies are one another's enemies). Each player plays their turn as normal, when they are done the person 2 spots to the left of you goes next, this results in an ally always having his enemy go before and after him which keeps things interesting. The goal of the game is to be the first player to have both of your enemies removed, this can make for some intersting game play as you try to control and adjust the game to best ensure that you win.

Note: This game type was originally played with each player playing a deck of a single color with each color being unique to each player. Players were seated to match the pattern outlined on the back of the playing cards, which suited the natural anti-color tendancies that you see in the sets.

Warlords Style

Players arrange themselves in two teams of 3 or 4 players. The players on the left and right side ar the generals and the player(s) in the middle are the warlords. Each team takes their turn at the same time, during their turn they can do their normal actions such as attack, cast, play cards, etc. but they can also move one of their creature 1 player left/right to an ally (this allows the creature to block for your ally if necessary). Creatures can only attack the general that they are facing and a general must be removed in order for another team to attack the warlord from a given direction. The first team to remove the opposing warlord wins.


Logan

#2 Never played Magic, but if someone wants to teach a n00b, then count me in

#3 I am floating in the same boat as Ice.....

#4 Sounds cool, count me in...

I have a ton of 1st, 2nd & 3rd generation cards in my closet that havent seen the light of day in years. :)

I agree that playing with decks created from boster drafts would be more fun/fair than playing against people using a prebuilt power decks.

#5 I haven't played since Ice Ages, so I'm really behind on the rules (not that my friends and I ever followed them too closely anyway :P ), but I'll give it a go - just pair me up with someone else who doesn't know what's going on.

#6 Is this like Poker? Is it a gambling game? I have a couple hundred dollars in my IGC budget that I didn't need, so, if someone wants to teach me. I am game.

#7

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if we are going to draft I would love for the games to be played with what we draw versus bringing in outside cards.

That is the way the drafts will be. Draft works like this:

8 people, each person has 3 unopened booster packs. Everyone opens one pack, takes ONE card out of it, then passes the remaining (14) cards to their left. This continues until everyone has 15 picked cards. Then you open the next pack, and you do the same thing (only pass to the right). Then 3rd pack, pass left. Then you make a 40 card deck out of the cards you picked (Usually 17-18 land, and 22-23 cards).

If you want to bring constructed decks to play casually, more power to you. If you are a Magic expert and have some good decks for teaching people that would be great (G/R beats...pretty much any creature-beat deck actually. Nothing says 'learning' like a Kird Ape, though). I will try to throw together some easy decks for teaching people, I know Davey has some good ones.

#8 @Anton: lol...I smell a hustler!

#9 I've played... not done much though.. Got a few pre-constructed decks in storage that I snagged at an E3 ages ago (including some Japanese MTG cards)

My last foray into MTG was with MTG Online, which I'm now a bit ticked at... how annoying is it to spend about $60, pick the game back up 2 years later... build an awesome black deck... then find out 1/3rd of the cards you used are banned in anything but casual play.

Oh and that means... Go ahead and count me in... but give me a rough idea of cost so I don't spend it all on drink beforehand.

#10 @Stephen Zepp

What?????? What DO you mean? :P

#11 Reeeaaaly Harold...I like Japanese cards. Wait, maybe that's women. Yes. I like Japanese women...and Magic cards. Bring both and I'll decide at IGC.

#12 Well my wife can't come to IGC (She's 1/2 Japanese) and no I think I'll keep the magic cards ;p

#13 I'll definately have to dig up my cards and bring em, A few sets of magic games is always a blast. Haven't gotten any since 8th edition though, have a foil Birds of Paradise from it though.

I think I have some good learning decks, if not I have plenty of leftover cards from an 8th edition box to put together some good learning ones :)

#14 I might as well bring a few decks, how much will the draft cost to participate?

#15 If there was a novice tourny (with starter decks or something) i might be interested. i played magic before, but so long ago (10 years?) so no way i'd stand against any of you guys.

#16 Drafts will be $5.00 and include an extra beer ticket. Yes, this is way cheaper than you could buy 3 packs for. The reasoning is that it isn't sanctioned and that is because my friends who are judges are all doing Ravnica release events, so it's not sanctioned, there's no prize...so it'll be cheap and include free beer. What more could you ask.

If there is enough interest in a sealed deck tourney, then I can run out and grab stuff.

#17 I'm in....what's magic? Gimme enough beer and anything is fun!

#18 Dave, Chris, and I are all in for whatever type of Magic that goes down.

#19 I'm in, I've tried to stay away from that accursed game... but you know how it is... it's like an MMO, except more expensive... damn I'm tired...

#20 I'd play a sealed deck tourny if it was not during presentations (i'm interested in) and if people didnt get pissed at me for taking too long to take my turn. (cuz i would need to read and re-read every card)