New Users/Introduction Thread

Hi all,

I'm Laura and I've been playing Magic only since the Shards of Alara set came out, I started playing with the Elves vs. Goblins duel deck. I could say i'm only a casual player as we don't have PTQs in Romania, but I participated in the Nationals last year.

Hai Everybody!

Everyone that isn't my family calls me Reno.

I have been actively playing MtG since the Nemesis Expansion, but have been aware of the game since Revised. Until Ravnica, I hadn't the funds to play in any competitive format. At that time, I found a couple of friends who played with me back in the day, we combined our collections into one massive compendium, and keep the cost of playing down by continuing to share our collection. One of my teammates is morinkenmar.

I'm pretty good on rules questions for MtG, and I'll be happy to entertain any you may have in the general discussion thread. What I can't answer, I'll defer to MorinKenmar, or my other teammate. Beyond that, I can refer to a couple of for real judges.

Big fan of EDH, and other forms of casual play.

Anyhow, ttyl.

When you are here, you are one of the family.
Connect with the family on Facebook comming soon!

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I'm lordmalinari and I've played quite a few card games over my twelve+ years of gaming. I started with Pokemon (old school) and gradually gravitated towards Warhammer 40k CCG (1st Ed) and Magic (got into Magic properly around the time of Time Spiral but I'd been playing it since Masques block), then VS System which I played from the release of Marvel Origins to its cancellation. When VS System was cancelled I spent a few years flitting between games (WoW, L5R etc.) but with the release of Warhammer Invasion I've found a new, affordable card gaming hobby, and that's the reason why I'm here

If you have any questions about Warhammer Invasion feel free to ask and I hope you'll enjoy having me here as much as I'll enjoy being here

P.S. Yes, I'm one of those people who overuse smilies, what're you gonna do about it?

Hi, this is an awesome site. I am Charlie and I play in Austin, TX. I started playing back in Unlimited and stopped shortly after Tempest. At the time I came from a smaller area in Upstate NY, so I had very few people to play with and I had very little understanding about the value of cards. Unfortunately, I chucked my collection years later without any knowledge of what was in it or how much any of it was worth (I know there wasn't power). I started back up after Alara Reborn launched and now I play with an awesome group of people. EDH and drafting are my favorite formats.

Hello folks. I hail from good ol' Blighty: yes I come from England. I happed upon this site completely by accident, so I thought I would join and upload details of what cards I have. I've got quite a few, and I've only added White, Blue and a few Artifacts to my list.

I came to Magic: The Gathering relatively recently. I've heard of it for a long time, and once even bought two second-hand books, but only read part of one. Once I ended up liking MTG I couldn't find the books I'd bought! They've gone into exile its seems . I started with the end of Worldwake. I'd read about MTG previously, though, and R/B Land Destruction/Lockdown types of decks appealed to me. However, I could find nothing in those colours in the Worldwake Intro Packs, so I bought the R/W Rapid Fire deck.

I then joined the Rise of the Eldrazi pre-release, bagging myself a foil Emrakul, the Aeons Torn in the process, lost every game (first time I'd actually played against a real opponent!) and fell in love with the game. I then went on to miss the advent of M11, and the various Scars of Mirrodin launches, but bought myself a fat pack (from which I pulled a Platinum Emperion), and a random booster (from which I pulled a Molten-Tail Masticore - nice!), and still need help creating viable decks.

What do people think of using U/B to Proliferate in order to level Eldrazi levellers up more quickly? Especially with Inexorable Tide and Contagion Engine, you could have fun with boosting characters like Lighthouse Chronologist or Zulaport Enforcer. Of course, throwing in some Venerated Teachers would cause you to add two level counters with each entry of them onto the battlefield, which you could enhance by proliferating.

Last edited by Kodanshi (2010-10-12 19:17:32)

Thanks for your words of advice. I keep forgetting about proxies! I recall playing against someone proxying lots of allies. Mill city!

I picked Engine over Clasp because you pay 2 mana more but can proliferate twice. Or does that get too mana intensive?

Hello everyone.  Found this site while looking for some kind of MTG inventory management system.

So far I really like the site.  Could use some additions as far as showing more information about the card in the inventory screen and being able to print more then just the name and quantity but outside of that, I really like the site.

Played MTG quite a bit in the past .... card and online.  Mostly casually, though.  Quit playing around the Mirrodin Block.  Just recently got restarted as I had the fortune to participate in a New Phyrexia Release Event and am hooked again.

Am a little overwhelmed by all the cards and what they do but I am sure I will get caught up soon enough but any help building some casual playable decks for Casual Mondays would be greatly appreciated!

Nice to meet you all.

Totally Jayyness

What's up everyone... My name is Josh, but my friends call my bongkey... I used to play MTG back in the day... Beta and Unlimited, and just now got back into it. I've been on a card buying frenzy and I decided to look for some sort of inventory system. That's how I found this place... Anyway, just thought I'd introduce myself

Hi my name is Yuw. I am from austria.

i was looking for easy-to-use inventory tool for my mtg collection. I tried other tools like excel, access or any other db. Always the problem to keep the lists up to date.

I was looking for an Online (Website) where i can track, update my collection. So that i can access it from any other Internetworking device and i dont need to install any sort of extra software. Updating is also very easy and very fast.

Also a big plus is the trading function. If you send the cards, there is an popup who is asking you to remove the cards from your tradelist. When you received the cards you get also an popup who is asking you to remove the cards from your wishlist. This function i have never seen on any other website or forum. Maybe nobody tryed to develop it on a forum yet.

Hey all, my name is Jess and I've been playing magic since the zendikar block, though I've read up on earlier sets and bought a few things for them. As of recently, I've been spending so much on cards its a wonder that I'm not broke yet.

I'm happy I found this site. Found it while on a quest to look up information on Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur.  Absolutely love the praetors ~

During zendikar, I only played on and off. At about the mirrodan set is when I've started to get back into it hard core. Got my boyfriend hooked and now have over 2000 cards... Tried to inventory them on my mtg app on my phone, but its hard to keep up and keep things organized. Thats why I love this site and told my boyfriend about it (he's under the name WhiteKnight7).

Stated off as more of a collector than player, but now I'm both. First pre-release I went to was for the recent innistrad block and I'm planning on going to the dark ascension pre-release as well.

Favorite tactic by choice would be anything besides ticking life points down. Mainly milling some one, this my user name here.

Hopefully I'll come out of my shell and start hopping into these forum boards and chatting.