Magic the Gathering

Maybe the first few times, but it's just irritating if we're having a fun game, when suddenly some guy decides the game is over on the spot. I'm fine with someone going infinite if the game has been dragging on, though. We often play big games of at least five players, and it also sucks when the last two or three players are far from dead, so if someone infinites and kills everyone so that we can restart a new game, we're fine with that.

Perhaps those overly competitive players think it's fun.The other EDH group at the shop is pretty cutthroat. Winning matters so much to them that their decks are ridiculously broken. They win the same way every time, and quickly. I don't think EDH should be a quick format.

Never has it happened in my playgroup that a single player was capable of ending the game on spot when all players have more than 3/4 of their HPs. Table talk is really big in us. If someone not familiar to us joins our game, we just politely ask if they use infinite combos and say we are fine with it. If they have, we just kill that person immediately and it usually involves a Dwarven Miner...

I'm surprised not a lot of people hate Jhoira. I actually thought that most people don't like playing with her.

You guys would kill pretty much everyone in our group. Our infinites take a while to set up, on purpose. It's not our main wincon. If it was, I could win in six turns, at latest. Even sooner in the case of some of my friends. It's nothing but a last resort. If we have the infinite in our grasp, we will not use it under most circumstances.

I actually never played against her, so I wouldn't know what it'd be like. Crazy things could happen, but it's still Commander. Crazy things always happen, and that's what makes it so fun.
Like a Tempting Wurm on turn 2. Made the game so strange so quickly. So many triggers to keep track of we needed to ask a judge to help us figure out how stuff goes.

Hahahaha.
In my playgroup, there are only two guys, one of them plays tournaments and competitive legacy stuff. He said EDH is his relaxation and if he wants to do total locks or super OP combos, he'll play legacy not EDH. Actually, we only rush a person if we don't know that person. Otherwise, we don't really care because someone is always bound to use Time Stop or any combo stopper. We just play like Game of Thrones. Ally, betray, table talk and scare. Heck, my friend even has a deck specifically tailored to make the game longer while making everyone as safe as possible and annoying them (^â–¼^)

Apparently, Jhoira gets annoying when she suspends Obliterate/Apocalypse + any Eldrazi.
When I tried Jhoira before, I even had to say at the beginning of the game that I don't have any Eldrazis or stupidly big and powerful creature...

Hmm... We've never had any problems keeping track of anything. When me and my playgroup play EDH or multiplayer casual/standard, there's always a lot of spectators just watching and laughing. We even allow them to advice or talk to us provided there's no cheating like "Oh, she has a Plasm Capture at her hand" or something.
However, I can see how it is hard to keep track of things when you are playing with 6-8 people. We even have a table rule of minimum of 55mm 20 sided dice for life counter

I use karador. Junk elves. I <3 it. My riftsweeper in that deck handles Jhoira pretty well.

I have one karador deck that just spams sadistic sacrament over and over again. It's pretty satisfying to hit a combo guy with that :3.

I'm thinking about building a jund colored deck that spams scrambleverse, just for lulz.

I'm ready for Born of the Gods set. Standard needs to change a little and if what they said about the next set being centralized for Modern, I'm totally stoked to see what they have in stock for us.

Ooooh, focused on Modern? That's intriguing. That's a format I'd like to get more involved in. I'd still rather try to get into Legacy, but, geez, too much.

I'm actually pretty okay with today's Standard, though. No deck seems particularly dominant. The "top decks" are only considered good because they're popular, IMO. They seem like they can be fairly easily beaten (I still can't take the mono-blue deck seriously).
I just still don't like being forced into two colors. Three color or more builds can still work, but the mana sucks. Been rocking a RB control deck for a short while, switching away from BUG because it seemed underpowered.

Centralized for modern? How so, i wonder.

Fun days. I've been winning games with giant Nemesis of Mortals, Jarads, and Nighthowlers. That B/G Dredge list that Connely Woods thought up is pretty sweet. Relatively cheap, too. My friend and I have picked it up, though we kept some things he took out (we have no idea why he'd cut Whp of Erebos... that card is OP, especially in this sorta deck).

Here's the list I'm using. My buddy and I are probably 73-74 cards alike:



Sideboard:



It's a fun deck to pilot, even though it's pretty simple. Just mill out your deck the first few turns, then get giant creatures like Nemesis, Jarad, or Demon into play, and bestow your Nighthowler on your mana guys so they can hit for good damage, as well.

It's surprisingly consistent. My Nemesis of Mortals is almost always three mana or less, my Jarads and Nighthowlers are always huge, the Whip stabilzes like crazy, and the Demon doesn't ever seem to have a drawback (even when it still forces me to sacrifice creatures, since it loads my graveyard to make most of my other cards better).

I spend so much of my life on this game

I played for about a year and a half and got super into it, but I dont play anymore. It was just to expensive to keep up with the new sets and the local magic players all graduated at the same time D: I still have my decks and I love to just challenge someone with my Blightsteel deck and beat them in 5 turns. :D

Have you guys seen Kiora yet?

It gets expensive, for sure. That's true of any card game. Especially one like Magic with a Standard format.



........."5"!?

Holy crap, how do you do that?
Tinker shenanigans?



Only in the video game. Is she actually getting a card, now?

Yup. I can't copy/paste on vita, so google [kiora, the crashing wave] and check it out. I like it.

Just saw it. Holy crap, I love it. She has Explore as her -1. :D
And dat emblem. I like fatties. I'm kind of a Timmy.
The +1 is not bad, either. Not sure if it's good enough to build up to her ult, but we'll see.

Maybe G/U variants will be more powerful. I wanna see more along with this. It's a color combination I've liked for a while, at least in draft. Also, Grixis. I couldn't figure out a Grixis deck I liked yet in this format, but I'd like to see if the next set changes that.
Though, I doubt that any of that will tear me away from that G/B Dredge list I posted earlier. I'm having too much fun with it right now.

Actually, the only three color deck i now see being used where i play is Naya, which is basically Selesnya with boros charm, lol.

Three color might be harder to use devotion in.

I've seen various forms of Grixis, Esper, BUG, Junk, and RWB. I actually haven't seen any Naya, to be honest, though it does look viable.

You don't need to use devotion in your deck. The control decks I tried out before the deck I'm using now never used any devotion mechanics, even in other lists I've seen online.
The only tricolor devotion I've seen is a mostly-green RUG deck, which basically is the Green-splash-Red devotion deck, splashing blue for some sideboard cards and Prophet of Kruphix in the main deck and forgoing some planeswalkers. I like it, though it seems a little too draw dependant.

Really, really good. :D

If you go look through all the stats for each and every MtG tournament recorded, Green or Blue are always in the top 8, and the combo with both are going to be real good IMO, especially in this set. Blue-Splash-Green Devotion anyone?

I'd rather go Green-splash-Blue.
Regardless I just want some sort of Green-Blue monstrous deck. Get stuff like Arbor Collossus or Polukranos, then land a Prime Speaker Zegana and draw roughly a billion cards. For value!
An acquaintance at the shop I play at already has a deck like that. RUG monsters. He's been doing well with it since Theros released.

EDIT: On this note, I started thinking up a UGx Monsters deck. It's no where near complete, but I already thought of a dream curve it could have:
Turn 2 Sylvan Caryatid --> Turn 3 Master Biomancer --> Turn 4 6/6 Kalonian Hydra --> Turn 5 Swing with Hydra, making it 12/12, second main Prime Speaker Zegana with 14 counters, draw 15 cards.

Then I could maybe use all those cards to pitch to something like a Lotleth Troll and make that gigantic, as well. Many possibilities with that many cards in hand.
It seems like a fun idea. I've always loved Master Biomancer into Zegana decks.