Comments on: Magic: the Puzzling

By: teisha

teisha — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:50:12 +0000

Maybe if I hadn’t already spent a bit of time and energy into getting to know and enjoy Magic, something like Blue Moon would interest me more… but I really enjoy the versatility of Magic, and the Magic decks I’ve built, that it would seem kind of silly for me to play a non-collectible magic clone when I could instead play a game of Magic with my favorite customized deck. Just my two cents…

On another Magic note, I’ve really enjoyed some of the Magic games I’ve played lately, in particular a 5-person game that actually worked out pretty well. Each person had two allies and two enemies — the two people immediately to their left and right were allies, while the two across were enemies. It lead to some interesting dynamics, and made it really tough when one of my allies got taken out first because then I was the only one fighting against one of my enemies. Anybody else played some fun multiplayer Magic games? Any tips for not letting it get too slow?

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:43:19 +0000

You can do custom decks in Blue Moon, it just ships with pre-built decks to start with. Our time at PaulCon is pretty limited this year, so probably not then, unfortunately. We’ll find some once you’re less busy.

By: Paradoxdruid

Paradoxdruid — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:48:16 +0000

Blue Moon does look interesting, but I think my favorite part of magic is making the custom decks, so I’m not sure how much it would appeal. Maybe we could try it out at PaulCon?

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:41:29 +0000

I picked up Reiner Knezia’s non-collectible magic clone _Blue Moon_ on Tanga a week or so ago. Anybody want to give it a try when it comes?

By: Paradoxdruid

Paradoxdruid — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:46:01 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Gilvoro- for that extra Sprout goodness, I ended up putting in 3 Thelonite Hermits. The best change was adding in 4 Putrefy, though– that card is so cheap for what it does.

In a sealed deck recently, I got an Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and a Nightmare, which were used to great effect. I’m tempted to throw them into the Thallid Deck, because why not?

By: Gilvoro

Gilvoro — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:33:49 +0000

I always find a home in my Thallid decks for a sprout swarm or two. Its a great end of turn trick to get a out a few more Saprolings. If you do bleed into white I would suggest the Utopia Mycon it might help with color fixing.

By: Paradoxdruid

Paradoxdruid — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:55:01 +0000

I found another great one:
Primal Forcemage

I may succumb to my weakness and grab a few of these from CoolStuffInc.com (thanks for alerting me to its existence, Nate!).

Also, I had pulled the Herd Gnarrs out of my deck, but now I’m thinking of putting them back, even if they aren’t Thallids. Oh, the decisions!

By: flakeytheleper

flakeytheleper — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:50:28 +0000

Yeah, what he said.

I was going to suggest brass herald or coat of arms. But I dont know if I want to help make that deck any better

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:47:48 +0000

You might find other useful cards among the Golgari and Selesnya Guilds in the Ravnica block. A few that come to mind are Selesnya Evangel, Selesnya Guildmage, Vitu-Ghazi the City tree and Glare of Subdual if you are looking to bleed white into it. They definitely go more with the Saproling theme than the Thallid theme, but then again Thallids can do fun things with Saprolings. A really good search engine for magic cards is gatherer.wizards.com . They can really help you out. Other generic cards that go well with tribal themed decks are Brass Herald, Alpha Status, and Door of Destinies, but note for Door of Destinies playing a spell and putting a creature into play are two different things. Anyhow, just a few thoughts for you to consider.

Nate