New thread as the other one reached 1000

Ah, the joy of playing with counterspells in a pbp format.

That's why a lot of times if you think your opponent might have a counter and it matters to the rest of the turn, you can stop and ask if there is any responses before continuing with your turn.

I just haven't really done that because I'm running a lot of BIG creatures, so if they get countered I'm still tapped out and there's nothing I can do about it.

I didn't see any counters last game, so I wasn't sure if Matt had any. There were a lot of points where having a counterspell would have been pretty handy for him.

Yeah - I tweaked the deck between games to add a few cards in, one of which was that Counterspell...  In fact, it was the first card I fetched!  :-)

So question regarding the legality of playing certain cards. If you wnted to use a card with draft functionality, in a non draft format, like for example... Paliano Vangaurd

http://mythicspoiler.com/cn2/c...palianovanguard.html

Is it OK, to just play him for 1W as a 2/2 Human Soldier if you wanted to, and ignore all his draft related powers? Or does the fact that he's explicitly for draft games mean he's not legal in other formats?

If it's like how they dealt with the previous Conspiracy set, All the non-Conspiracy type cards will be legal in Commander, though the ones mostly reliant on Draft are going to not be particularly useful. This means like things like Melee, Goad, Will of the Council, and being a Monarch will all be on the table for Commander games.

FYI, I'm probably going to be off-line for most of the next week...   I may get on, and I hope to have my laptop with me - but I can't guarantee to be able to post.   Sorry in advance in case I can't.

Met Fischer (an M:tG artist) yesterday at DragonCon. He was not the only one in attendance and everyone I met was super awesome, but he was the only one advertising that he'd sign his own cards. I'd purchased two packs in the vendor area earlier and asked him if he knew how lucky I was. He shrugged and I pulled the packs from my pocket, asking him if what cards he'd recently done work on. He mentioned Dark Confidant, which I think he's pretty proud of since he talked about it, but then went on to say that he'd recently, in the most recent Conspiracy set, done the work on "Burning Wish."

I opened the first pack and thumbed to the rare, a card that was definitely not Burning Wish. I scowled. "Hunh," I said as I grabbed the other pack. Mr. Fischer looked at my brother for a moment as I popped it open and went straight for the rare.

"Is this your card," I asked as I showed him "Burning Wish."

It was a pretty good moment. He signed it, which may or may not effect the value of the card, but I'll always have that memory.

Hi there!

I'm a player with ancient cards from Revised onwards mainly.

I'm not sure what rules sets my cards would come under to make playing them legal, (and am too lazy to look) so I am looking for brave souls willing to leap in against my decks as they are.

Most of my decks are untuned multiplayer style with no Revised era multilands (I sold all mine off) years ago. There are no Moxes, Black Lotus' or vice/land destruction/insane killer variations... But there are mixes of cards which come from all sorts of sets from Revised through to whatever was around 10-15 years ago :D

If anyone wants a game, let me know :)

legacy and vintage are probably solid formats for you. You might be able to pull off EDH/Commander if you bought up any Legends packs, but not buying more intermediary packs (Odyssey, Kamigawa block, Zendikar kinda stuff) might make that pretty hard.

On the other hand, not owning the cards physically is not necessarily an impediment to playing them here.

Frequently I do a bit of research, put together my virtual deck here, play a few rounds to see if that works, and then build the physical one.

I also buy stupid amounts of cards IRL.

What does 'an stragglers' mean? :)

In reply to Madman (msg # 12):

*any

Screw my old keyboard

Ah, I see. Sure! I'll delete my post (but save it).

In reply to Madman (msg # 14):

I didn't mean for you to delete your first turn, merely that I wouldn't start the second round, turn 1 for most players is just placing a land.

Most payers except you LOL :P

Okay I'll slip the turn back in.

If anyone is interested, here's one of my recent decks, taken out of storage after many years.
Needs multi-lands.



<Censored> LOL
This message was last edited by the player at 15:40, Mon 12 Sept 2016.

Looks interesting...  I ran it through my spreadsheet and it appears to be Legacy legal...  so you probably have scope to add a few other cards...  Death Baron is always another good zombie deck booster.

Thanks for the advice :)

I will look that Baron up... and see about adding imaginary not-multilands that are legal for that as well LOL

Here's another...

<Censored> LOL
This message was last edited by the player at 15:39, Mon 12 Sept 2016.

Of course, now I'll have to pull together an anti zombie deck just in case you send it against me!  :-)

18 more decks to go... :D

Don't post them all - playing against unknown cards is the most entertaining part of the game... If you know the makeup of the deck you are playing against, then it could alter your playing decisions (and certainly your deck building decisions if you know before you start the game!).

Ah, okay. I was only going to post them after playing them, but I guess I might want to play one twice :)

Absolutely.   I usually play the same deck multiple times, tuning it before archiving it ready to bring out later.   On the archive tab of my spreadsheet, I have about 120 decks that Ive developed over the years - some are duplicates with minor tweaks.  Some are useless and will never see the light of day again.  Some regularly get dusted off and pulled out - usually when new people join the board who won't have seen them before!

Then here's little 'ol me running only 8 different deck

I've been developing this spreadsheet for over 10 years now I think...

In reply to Matthew (msg # 26):

Cool

My Zombie deck doesn't deserve the name. It's like a low budget asylum or SyFy production.

I've been looking at random stuff on that online site. There are crazy cards out there now LMAO!

CRAZY!!! :D

I'll try to make sure some of them come out in the games we play!

Hopefully Ray will be ready to start up that Multiplayer game again soon...

In reply to Matthew (msg # 30):

I added some cards to my deck to make try to it more aggressive, I should be good to play

Excellent!  I think it was you to start!

I tinkered a little, but only with cards which I have in my leftovers box. :D

So, refresher...

How do we handle cards that let me look at an opponent's cards, but they aren't supposed to know what they are?

In reply to The MunchKING (msg # 34):

There are cards that do that?

Can you say which card you are referring to?  So I can better visualise what you are trying to achieve?

Well, Gonti Lord of Luxury was the one that got me thinking about it, but there's a bunch of them. Like Phyrexian Portal, Fortune's Favor, Grimoire Thief, Praetor's Grasp, etc.

http://magiccards.info/ai/en/168.html
http://magiccards.info/emn/en/61.html
http://magiccards.info/mt/en/35.html
http://magiccards.info/nph/en/71.html

The player who plays them forfeits the game, due to them being impossible to resolve in a PbP format :)

Phrexian Portal
http://magiccards.info/ai/en/168.html
{3}: If your library has ten or more cards in it, target opponent looks at the top ten cards of your library and separates them into two face-down piles. Exile one of those piles. Search the other pile for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle the rest of that pile into your library.

Well that one is easy  you show your library to your opponent and they tell you how many cards are in each pile.  You then choose one of the piles and your opponent tells you what cards were in it and you exile them.   The other pile you choose a card from it and then shuffle it back into your library and continue.

Fortune's Favor
http://magiccards.info/emn/en/61.html
Target opponent looks at the top four cards of your library and separates them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Very similar process to above

Grimoir Thief
http://magiccards.info/mt/en/35.html
Whenever Grimoire Thief becomes tapped, exile the top three cards of target opponent's library face down.

You may look at cards exiled with Grimoire Thief.

{U}, Sacrifice Grimoire Thief: Turn all cards exiled with Grimoire Thief face up. Counter all spells with those names.

This one is pretty tricky since your opponent shouldn't get to see which three cards you've exiled.  I would say that this one is definitely unplayable in this format... unless you enlist the help of a third party to "hold" your deck for you and deal you cards.

Praetor's Grasp
http://magiccards.info/nph/en/71.html
Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles his or her library. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Same for this one, the opponent shouldn't see which card you are choosing from his deck...  and similar for Gonti, Lord of Luxury I see.

Hey guys, I've just joined, mainly looking to play EDH, Tiny leaders, and to bounce some decklists around. My favorite EDH is a Melek spellslinger deck, but it would probably be a nightmare to play on here, and it's also not much fun to play against, because I usually reserve it for douchey opponents... So I doubt you'll see much of it. I'm also working on a loosely Garruk themed EDH, which I'd appreciate suggestions for once I get the decklist up.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 16:24, Sat 24 Sept 2016.

I'm up for a game, however I play mainly untuned multiplayer style decks with mostly old cards. They are generally slow and you'll probably win. :)

How do you know which would have been the top 10 though? And more importantly how do you know without letting ME know what the top ten were?

It doesn't matter.  You get to search the not exiled pile, so therefore you know (by deduction) what cards were in the other pile.  The only bit you don't know is which cards are in which pile when you make the choice to exile them.   You rely on your opponent being honest and picking the pile you chose.

In reply to Fireinthahole (msg # 40):

Welcome Fire!   (Hope you don't mind me abbreviating your cool name! (or should that be hot?)

I'm a big fan of EDH as well...  sounds like we can probably fire up another table and get another EDH game running...  I'll open a table and we'll see who else joins us :-)

The point is you aren't supposed to know what either pile has before you choose.

It can make a bit of difference if You know that the top 10 cards are all Swamps or something, or if part of your killer combo is in there versus not knowing anything about which cards were in the top 10 as choices.

Interesting infinite combo you have there, Mr roboto. Is that the deck's primary gameplan?

In reply to The MunchKING (msg # 45):

At the point that you choose which pile, you haven't done the search, so you won't know.

But if you don't know what the top 10 cards were, how does your opponent to put them in piles?

Misread spell, I thought it was the whole library that was being divided into two...

In reply to Matthew (msg # 49):

Hey Matt is there an easy way to have the spreadsheet use my post colours? Cos doing it manually is tedious as hell

This message was deleted by the player at 06:05, Wed 28 Sept 2016.

I was just going back through the archive, and realised that I am one of the longest running players here. Only Jeff, Matt and LAGO have been here longer, that revelation is awesome

Just curious, how do we handle the randomness card draw in virtual? It occurs to me that a physical deck is unlikely to be truly random, due to how people shuffle. I'd expect cards to be less likely to clump than if they were truly random, resulting in physical decks typically being more reliable...

In reply to Fireinthahole (msg # 53):

Matt Made a spread sheet that's full of macros

Link is somewhere around here, I don't remember where exactly

Apologies for my absence folks - hope to catch up with games tomorrow...  Not properly made it on line today :-(  And off to bed now.  Tomorrow will be a better day!

Looking forward to the slaughter :)

Link to my spreadsheet can, of course, be found in the Game Links link at the top of the page.  :-)

Any particular reader you recommend for the spreadsheets?

Is there any way to use it if you don't have Word installed?

In reply to Madman (msg # 59):

*Excel

Is there any way to use it if you don't have Excel installed?  :D

'Fraid not... Uses Excel specific macros...   Personally, I would invest in a cheap copy of Excel 2007 off eBay :-)  <£10

Lackey CCG is free.

Thanks... I guess I will stick with physical decks and some proxys :D

Leovold vs niv mizz? Now that's just mean.

Heh. Any price to secure the crown, I guess.

Sorry guys my PC has broken down, I'll not be able to post till I can fix it

Eeek!  What's gone wrong with it Raymond?

Sorry to hear that. :(

In reply to Matthew (msg # 68):

Power f'ups 1st and now network issues, I should be good come morning

Munch do you know how hard it is to find network driver, when you you cant use the net cos said driver F'd up? cut me some slack.

Side note, I'm back b!tches friends

LOL!

I've been there...  In fact was dealing with my Mum's broken internet connection, and of course they responded via email - despite me reporting that she didn't have access to any emails and should be called!

Welcome back.

Well I missed where you said you'd be gone for a week. But that's what Best Buy is for.

All gone very slow recently!

In reply to Matthew (msg # 75):

I'm always slow, this isn't a recent thing

Computer issues mean that I can't access during the weekend.

Damn it's quiet!  Where is everyone?  I know I've been off-line for a few weeks (My father died and work's been a bitch too)... but surely there are others of you who can progress games?

It's like that across RPOL for me... :(

At some point I need to update my spreadsheet with the latest cards - but since there are so few people playing games, I'm thinking I'd almost be doing it just for me rather than everyone else!

I'm busy scouting Alola myself. Those islands aren't going to explore themselves. :D

In reply to The MunchKING (msg # 81):

Sorry guys my social life suddenly picked up.

Um I think I'm back now that it's hotter than hell outside, god bless Australian Summers.

I'm still checking in, though I mostly play Standard and haven't seen anyone really interested in a Standard game in a while.

<--- Except when your air con is broken. -__-

Just off to work now, but looking forward to doing my post on Table 12 later today!!

Well, fuck, you need to get that fixed pronto, it's only gon get hotter from here

OK folks - a new year is upon us.  We have a new member joined us today as well - so lets gets some new games on the go...

I will also make a commitment to update my spreadsheet with the latest cards as soon as I can...\

Quick roll-call... who is around and still interested in playing MTG on RPOL?

In reply to Matthew (msg # 87):

I'm still around, I think.

The King of Munch remains undaunted!!

OK folks  very quiet here at the moment!

We need to get some games going!

Of course, i am guilty of having NOT updated my spreadsheet with the latest cards for a little while - but I am working on that!  In fact, i've found a way to pull full card details from the Gatherer website.   Just doing some text manipulation in Excel to get the data into a format I can use.

Decided to start on a new project. A 5 colour superfriends EDH for use against my local playgroup (and to make people drool at it's shinyness). Anybody here played one(or against one) before? Got any good ideas for outside the box includes?

Superfriends?

A deck that focuses on planeswalkers.

One awesome combo I ran into in a blue Planeswalker deck is Teferi, Temporal Archmage + Jace, The Mind Sculptor + The Chain veil + 4-Mana generating permanents.

If you want it to go semi-infinite, you need some way of generating more than one mana from those permanents, for the full infinite some kind of proliferate, but the basic idea is... You use Jace's +0 power to mill someone 20 cards, Teferi's +1 if you like, then tap the mana generators, to generate 4, use it to power the Chain veil, Use Jace's 0 again, then use Teferi's -1 to untap the Veil and as many Mana generators as you can. repeat until Teferi runs out of counters or you mill everyone to death.

If you already hit Teferi's Ultimate before you get the full set up going, you can even do this on opponents' turns!!

EDIT: Another fun combo I never got to pull off myself, Ajani's "take only one Damage" Ultimate, combined with Urza's Armor. Laugh as "Taking Damage" is a thing only other people do.

EDIT 2.0: That was supposed to be Jace, Memory Adept not the Mind Sculptor, and it only mills 10 a shot.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:38, Wed 22 Feb 2017.

I'd be interested in creating an EDH deck that focused on Planeswalkers... sounds like it could be fun!

Ah is that going to be the next challenge game? An Planeswalker based Commander game?

*plots ominously*

Funny you should mention chainveil+tefrei

Ral zarek + xenagaros + chain veil = ~infinite turns

I might be in for a walker deck game. I'll probably throw up my shortlist on here soon. Plenty of silly powerful stuff in there. Makes it hard to know what to cut.

Seems like I started an arms race too... Found out today that one of my buddies is working on gaddock teeg just to counter my walker deck. -_-

OK, I'm not seeing it. How does Xenagos help that combo? and how does it ensure you will get enough heads, or keep Ral's counters high enough he can keep -7 ing?

His +1 makes a mana for every creature in play, so he subsidises the cost of activating the chain veil. With 4 creatures, you can use it as many times as you like. He can also make the cteatures he needs to do it, at a pinch.

Oh. Well, that makes sense I guess. :D

Hello , is anyone here ?
Would like to play a deck from the newest modern masters 2017.

Its bill!

Hi Bill and welcome back.

I've been pretty quiet recently, partially due to a heavy work load, and partially due to me currently testing the latest version of my spreadsheet... a big rewrite in many places.   Mainly due to the need to figure out a way in which I can import card data from an official source on a regular basis WITHOUT introducing human error - which is something that had happened frequently in the past.

It is NEARLY ready for publication  so watch this space for a little longer and i'll release a new version of the spreadsheet.  i'm hoping that I can then rekindle enthusiasm here  since, as you'll have noticed, it is pretty damn quiet here at the moment...

Matthew

Nice matt!
Im here back,
to play, there is modern masters, and the two amonkhet sets,

Just post an ad,
and the people will come!

OK folks - those of you who are still here at least - you will be pleased to know that I have finally updated my spreadsheet!!!

http://www.nj-pbem.com/Downloads/index.htm

It has been updated with a new mechanism to import cards from mtg.json - effectively a dataset provided by WoTC for companies who have online data bases of cards.  It required a fairly extensive rewrite of code and I *think* I have ironed out he bugs that naturally formed as part of the process...   Having said that  I am sure more will come out of the woodwork... hopefully not fatal ones!

I can now start to think about actually using the spreadsheet to have a game...

Right.. lets see if we can't bring this board back to life...  I know from the cast list that various people do still log in here - even if they don't post...  so presumably they do still have an interest in playing MTG here...

Lets see if we can't convert that interest into activity!

So - who wants a game?

The MunchKING still has his EDH decks, even if I was planning on adding a bunch of new cards when Amonkhet comes out. :D

OK.  That's two of us.  Enough for a game.

Munch, I challenge you to a game of EDH!  Pick your General!

BTW everyone - I'm going to clear up all these old tables - since I don't think any of the games that are still technically "in progress' are actually likely to continue.

Hey matt, wanna play some legacy?
Have in mind to play elfs.

If you are in , we open a table
and begin!

Hi Bill.

Definitely.  Go for Table 2!  If you go for elves, I guess I'd better go for goblins then  :-)

Your troops will fall before the MunchKING!

Zur will show you the power of my spells!

Matt can you tell me your colors of the styled text? There are so many !

Anyone up for a draft weekend?
They released all the amonkhet
display. If in, we open a table and start!

Draft weekend?  Don't think Draft is possible on RPOL over a weekend...


Here is a place where we can simulate opening booster packs

http://draft.bestiaire.org/index.php

Hmmm... thinks to self - interesting project to program in a draft capability to my spreadsheet :-)

Apologies for the delay in posting Munch - have a few days away from computer - and currently in Scotland visiting friends - so not easy to post...  Hope to catch up on Monday.

Matthew

Hello, people! I'm interested in this online play of MtG, I've heard of a spreadsheet that is very useful for online decks but sadly I'm limited to a phone, any recommendations on what I could use that's mobile friendly for the game? I could use a normal physical deck, always, but online would be quicker and I wouldn't have to wait until I have access to my deck to continue the game

That bestiarie link was perfect matt!
For opening boosters pack,

Not so sure it IS perfect...   it seems to have a timer of 40 seconds to pick cards?   I need something that can output a list of card names in the booster pack so I can put them into my spreadsheet - spend time looking at them and figuring out what they do, then pick the ones I want to put into a deck.

Haha, for me works perfect,
I delete the lists, and go with the boosters, what the luck says,
you open 4 packs , and there it is your library, choose a card and then go to magiccards.

Hey Munch - remind me what you use to manage your decks when playing a game?

Lackey CCG.

Sorry Munch - I'm off on holiday early tomorrow morning...  so might not get a chance to post much... Am intending to take my computer - so if I get internet, should be able to post :-)

Lots of names still supposedly members of this game - but only Munch and I seem to be still actually active... anyone else out there still reading this and want to join Munch and I for a multi-player game?

I search to play with the boosters
that you open them online!
Various sets!
If anyone interested, drop a line!

Huh... Guess not. :p

Yeah - not a lot of movement here these days...  makes me wonder if all the names in this list simply don't check RPOL any more!

Hey matt, wanna play a legacy?
Ill choose a deck.

Sure.  I'll dig out a deck tomorrow...

Ok me too

Let me know if you wanna open a new table for edh commander!

Hey matt, how about opening another one edh,commander table,
1v1? Too, many,? I can handle them.
Let me know.

Munch,

Want to play some one-on-one games as nobody else seems to be interested??

Matthew

been making some new Ixilan decks.

Sounds intriguing...

Yeah so if you want to play a Commander game against some nasty pirates or terrible dinosaurs, then I've got you covered.

>_>

<_<

>_>

**Looks around shiftily before sneaking back into the shadows**

Starts awake from his snooze, sitting up suddenly.  "Wha?! ?" he splutters confused.

He eyes the shadows suspiciously.

Sorry, I got distracted by RL stuff... and playing magic through UnTap.  But Hi!

Hi Nyoze,  I confess because things have been so quiet here, I've got out of the habit of checking RPOL as regularly as I used to...

I WOULD however quite like to get back to having a game or three on the go...

Are you interested in playing here again?

Welcome Golden Bug - really nice to have some new Blood here as things have definitely slowed down over recent months...   We will have to get some new games going.

My first question, will be - do you use Excel?   IF you do, then it makes creating decks and playing games here on RPOL a ton easier...  if you don't then, well several other players don't either, and they manage fine...

What is your preferred type of game?  one on one?  multiplayer?  Commander?  Standard? Legacy? etc

I wouldn't be against it actually...  I'll have to grab the excel doc, but if you want to grab a table?

Any format works, I don't mind :)

I generally play modern format and prefer multiplayer games. I can play single player games too, they just tend to end quickly for me IRL. Local players have decks that give them the win in 4 turns in single player. I tend to survive longer if they have other targets to worry about first. I have used excel before and will see if I still remember enough to be useful. Otherwise, I will muddle through with a list and some dice.

Excellent - I confess I prefer multiplayer too in general :-)

I am just ironing out a bug in my data import - but I hope to upload a new version of my spreadsheet later today with the latest cards in it...  I will post the link.

Nyoze - you up for a 3 way Modern game?  (or 4 way if we can persuade Munch to wake up!)

When there is no more Room in Hell, The MunchKING will walk... The other Hell. What the Hell?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwtqYO19x0w

:D

Modern eh? I'll have to see if any of my decks are legal in that format.

4-way Modern sounds good to me :)

Apologies for the delay - had hoped to get this out on Friday - but had some Excel problems.   My import macro really pushed Excel on my computer to its limits!

New version of spreadsheet is available for download from here:
http://www.nj-pbem.com/Downloads/index.htm

Still need to update the Card Images folder though!

Every time I try to go to http://www.nj-pbem.com/Downloads/index.htm it redirects to http://matthewfenn.ipage.com/nj-pbem/index.html, which doesn't have a download?

I had the same issue when I clicked the link. I ended up just typing it in and that worked for me.

Apologies folks - should have tested the link... forgotten that I'd changed domain name provider and my website just doesn't work as it used to anymore...

New link is here:
http://matthewfenn.ipage.com/n.../Downloads/index.htm

PS: Gotta rush to work - will post in games later today...

Found it, thanks.

Just as a heads up, the draft post wouldn't work for me, but not sure if that's my excel or not.

Welcome Lekol - what sort of game are you interested in?  I'm sure we can probably rustle up someone others for starting a second multiplayer - or failing that, I'd be happy to play one-on-one with you...

Howdy I did not think this threw very much :) holiday weekend downloading the spreadsheet at the moment been a hot moment since I played going to look the cards over before I commit to a battle.  A friend pointed me here I figured I would give it a try.

Lol, phone excel knock off won't run sheet going to have to blow the dust off the laptop be a bit longer before up and running.

Yeah, sorry, it needs a real copy of Excel.   Lots of macros that won't work in Open Office or the other so-called "Excel compatible" spreadsheet programs.

Oh hey, Lekol actually showed, I wasn't sure he would :D

It''s your turn on the MMH. :D

No it's not, don't lie. :P

It's not a lie it's just time-sensitive information. :p

If you'd read it earlier I would have been SO right.

Okay. I think I am getting better about tracking stuff now. I put descriptions in. I edited my deck and hand properly, I think. Rather sure I am out of my league as far as cards, but at least my post formatting is improving. Y'all have pulled out some really cool cards I hadn't seen. That is one of the things I love about this game. Seeing the decks and strategies people put together is great.

I use Sphinx's Tutelage in a lot of my blue decks because it's just so brutal. :D

It is, especially with the repeated milling. If they are running a deck with a lot of the same colors, or loads of multicolored cards, they're screwed.

I run it in EDH usually. For some reason, you tend to see more mono decks in EDH then Modern for some reason

According to Magic Judge, Silver Border is now LEGAL in Commander!! Well, at least for a while.

http://magicjudge.tumblr.com/p...er-ban-update-011217

I think we have enough trouble playing MTG here without trying to work with Unhinged cards and the like!

I finally was able to bust out the pc, unfortunately I have excel 2003 and your link to it does not work.

*throws a Lucha Praying Mantis at your team*
http://mythicspoiler.com/ust/cards/slayingmantis.html

But seriously if you leave out all the physical challenge cards, a lot of thee other cards are... Well if not "good" at least "usable" and that's what Commander is all about, right? :p

Ah well I think he's said they are explicitly going back to being illegal Jan 15, so unless people get an EDH game going before then, then worrying about it is pointless.

Well, we could experiment a bit perhaps - mighty be fun :-)

Not sure what has happened to Golden Bug... he hasn't signed on for the last 10 days. :-/

Ouch :(

Also - I'm still here, but works been crazy busy sorry :\

Ok - no worries - just post your next turn when you can.  I'm patient.  :-)

Well since it's only legal for another month or so, anyone up for some Silver Border Commander?

I'd be game for it...   might be a challenge to come up with a workable deck!  ;-)

All in the spirit of good silver border fun.

So, how's the Deck building going?

I have to confess, it's going slowly.  I've hardly ever looked at silver bordered cards before, and there are a lot to choose from.   Nearly there though.   Now I've stopped work for the holidays, I should be able to finish it off... hopefully even today!

You're going faster then I am at least :P

So much for my "even maybe today" - I crapped out and accidentally over-wrote my spreadsheet with an earlier one... and lost the partial deck I'd created... Not had the brain power to try again yet.  :-/   Sorry Munch.

Somehow I think I will live. Unless I don’t. :p

Multiplayer on table 6 has finally ended - (Congratulations Nyoze for a well fought campaign!).   Munch, you up for another round?

I'm just glad you took out Munch first, so he didn't mill us both out, and gave me a chance to get my pieces together. :)

I would like to, but I kind of broke my computer; and the weather here means the repair places are closed, so it would have to be a couple days before I could.

No hurry I guess....  How did you break your computer?

Some of the cords wrapped around my foot, so when I moved the whole thing came crashing down.

Oh, that was smart :D

Ouch!   I've done something similar with a laptop - though I'm glad to say it survived the fall.

Well the MunchKING is back! So if you want to take on the Mill Master for Round 2, I will be happy to oblige.

I'm down. Order Lunch Matt Nyoze?

Order Lunch? Footlong Meatball on Italian Herb and Cheese! :p

I'll go for Dominos Pizza please!

Hi all, we have a new player joining us - Welcome Kurin!

For your info Kurin, at the moment, there are only two games currently active - a one-on-one between myself and Nyoze  and a multiplayer one between Munch, Nyoze and myself.   We have a lot of members, but the majority of them have been silent for a fair while now - so we really need some new blood like yourself to get some more games going!

Any questions on how we play here, please don't hesitate to ask.

Hi, thanks for the welcome, and sorry about the delayed response.  I had to go somewhere over the weekend.  When I was collecting and playing M:tG, I stopped after the Nemesis set came out.  So I've clearly been out of practice for awhile.  I would like to stick to cards from Weatherlight and earlier, as I am more familiar with those, and I think the earlier days of M:tG were more fun.  Would make decks from cards up to Nemesis though, if someone wanted, it would just take more time to deckbuild as I am not familiar with those cards nearly as much.  There is one deck finished up, and working on more.  Glad to be here :)

edit - I have a Linux computer, so I guess the best way to go is make a spreadsheet and number the cards 1-60 (or however many cards are in my deck).  Then label them as I draw them from the deck after rolling a d60, and just rerolling after I get a number I already drew?  Also, casting instants like counterspell that you would like to use during an opponents turn, I guess that is handled after the player that is playing the spell which is being countered is done with his/her turn?
This message was last edited by the player at 13:30, Mon 29 Jan 2018.

There are certain circumstances where the playing of instants can be problematic...  generally, if you realise someone is playing a blue deck with lots of counter spells, you might pause your turn at a critical point to ask "Any response?" - though most of the time, we just retcon whatever...

For example, say I cast a spell to destroy a potential blocker, then attacked...  if my opponent then casts an instant to save his creature, it would only be appropriate to review the decision to attack - since it might no longer be the best tactic!

We are fairly laid back here - and if we need to rewind a bit to take into account the effects of a counterspell (or similar instant ability etc) then we will.


As for playing with older builds - not sure how easy that would be for me - since I just build my decks based on a particular legality rather than date of block release - I might have some old decks archived that come from very old releases...  but I'd need to check...

I tend to connect remotely to my home PC and then surf the web from there.

New guy here, looking forward to play with you guys. Currently only have one deck built. I stopped playing for a while so I'm not familiar with the most recent sets, my last one was return to ravnika I think.

In reply to Kurin (msg # 193):

Just been thinking about your query about creating a spreadsheet... This is where I was - some 10 or more years ago when I first started developing my spreadsheet.


The way I started was as follows:

1 tab for the deck
1 tab for the hand/table.

The deck obviously has all the cards, numbered as you say from 1-60 (or more if you have more in your deck! :-)]  This tab has all of the card details...  If you want, I can give you a comma separated value version of my database with all the cards, you could then use that to create your decks - so you have the fields you want to use for the game itself...

On the table tab, you have different sections to reflect the top of the library, your hand, the table, the graveyard, exile and the bottom of the deck.

Various formulas lookup of the card details from the Deck tab and put them into formula so that they are ready to copy and paste into the game,

The tricky part is the "drawing" the card randomly.

The way I originally did it was to have a cell that had a formula to generate a random number between 1 and the maximum number of cards in the deck.
A second formula then checked to see if the random number generated is already on the Table deck.  If it isn't then it would simply return "OK".   When drawing a card, you would simply get the spreadsheet software to re-calculate a new random number...  If it didn't say "OK" then you try again.   My first macro was basically to simply keep recalculating till the formula said "OK".  Once it did, it would copy the randomly generated number into a different cell representing the drawn card.

That would likely be very helpful.  And who knows, maybe I can get LibreOffice Calc or some other Linux spreadsheet software to play nice with the formulas and what not.  Question though, why would you need different sections for the top and bottom of the library?

You mean not everyone is running 250 card Battle of Wits decks? :p

In reply to Kurin (msg # 198):

This is there in case you scry a card, and place it in a particular location.  It ensures that the card is drawn next (if on top) or not drawn(if on bottom)

So...

I've been having not a lot of time online lately, so I'll try and finish this modern game, but that will probably be the last one for a little bit.  Sorry for being so slow.

In reply to Kurin (msg # 198):

Wot Nyoze said :-)

OK folks - the multiplayer game that was going on Table 6 looks like it is just about over - just Munch to confirm he has actually died :-)  Which means I have spare bandwidth to take on another game...

Who wants a game?  Happy to do one-on-one and/or another multiplayer.

We have several new players on the board - it would be good to get some of them involved!

Psh. Yeah I was defeated, your math was correct, and my deck could not match the speed of yours.

I was more lucky than you know.  Getting the Primordial Hydra out and managing to keep him till he was big enough to walk over anything was lucky.  Plus having two Shrines as well...  Funnily enough my next draw would have been the third shrine in the deck!  :-)

I just drew two Sphinx's tutelage, Jace's one card version, and Mind's Dialation;  so with the number of cards I was drawing, that could have been quite nasty.

And within my next draw was Startled Awake, so that would have been fun.

Hi Kurin - apologies, I'd forgotten about sorting out a csv version of my spreadsheet database.  I'll upload one for you in the next day or so - I need to import the latest cards :-)

Jace, the Mind Sculptor is unbanned.

RIP Modern

OK latest version of my spreadsheet has been uploaded to http://matthewfenn.ipage.com/n.../Downloads/index.htm

Includes the csv version of the database for Kurin!

Anyone up for a match? I have a couple of decks I want to try out.

What format?

I am also happy to play!

I believe Modern.

Do you want to play Munch AND Me?  Together? Separately? Or just one of us? :-)

You guys can pick really. I'm good either way

Oh boy! I can keep the deck I was already using!

Or break out my... OTHER Modern deck.

*Dun dun DUN!!*

Your choice. :D

Holy Crap! I just happen to come across Roleplay Online again in one of my links and you guys are still playing this...it's been two years since I even logged on.

Glad to see this is still going!  I probably won't be joining you, but thought I would say HI!

Hello! We're about to start up some Modern if you like to join...

I have to try Jace out, so count me in for Modern if we're playing?

Superfriends, ho!

Oh NO! They DID just unban Jace. :(


;)

HEY Crmnlst!   The man who started it all!   How very good to see you!  Please do hang around for a while - even if you don't join in.  How is life going for you?
This message was last edited by the GM at 08:14, Fri 16 Feb 2018.

OK guys - sounds like we have a new Modern 4-way about to start!

I'd better dig out an old Modern deck (that sounds like an oxymoron!) and brush the cobwebs off it (i.e. update it).  :-)

Lets go for Table 1

MrBrown - can you cope with playing more than one game at a time?  If so - fancy a one-on-one as well?

Sure! Can you also give me the template for match posts? It feels like there is a template but I'm not completely sure.

Assuming you aren't using my spreadsheet (which has a button to create your initial turn for you!) you can go to any active game and simply quote someone else's turn...   Or check out link to a message in this game for the sample RPOL formatting code.

I've really missed playing a deck that I like, thanks for letting me join guys! I'm having a lot of fun, you guys are awesome, can't wait to play with you all and see your decks.

Figured I would provide an update; I've got 3 decks made, but need to test them.  There might be some fine tuning to do. I can't download the csv version, it looks like it just goes to a new webpage with lots of text.  I did download the 97-2003 version, and will try that.  LibreOffice gave me some errors when I opened it.  I'll let you know if it works.  Thank you for trying to make a csv version though.

What browser are you on?   Have you tried right clicking and "Download linked file"? (or equivalent command?)

EDIT:
BTW - I've also thought to edit the .csv version to delete the duplicates - so the file is now a more manageable 8Mb instead of 14!

:-)
This message was last edited by the GM at 08:12, Thu 22 Feb 2018.

FYI, I'm going to be away from my computer till Friday afternoon earliest...

I'm using Firefox 58.0.1.  There is no download option when I right click.  One would think that I could just left click and select Save File like the .xls version.  The webpage it opens is a card list, but it looks like a .txt file.

I'm using Firefox 58.0.2 - but I'm sure that shouldn't make a difference.  When I right click on the link - the option I would use is actually called "Save Link As..."

Not sure what else to suggest - maybe clear your cache?  Try a different browser?

Just had another thought.  It is basically just a text file,  The other possibility is that you click on it, so it opens up, then go to the file menu and click save there... just make sure it saves with the .csv ending.

I've seen the posts but I won't be able to answet them until friday at the end of the day. I'm completely busy. Sorry for the trouble.

If it passes friday bump the thread, I might forget.

Hello I'm new, I used to play a lot back in the old days of MtG, I played from Unlimited til Ice Age, and then returned around Odyssey and played for another year. I'm just looking at some nostalgia.

Obviously my real cards are old, and some are very valuable in today's market. I also sold some off years ago to pay for car repairs (like my Lotus and Moxes :), which I no longer have).

I'm working on a deck and hope to have something ready in a week or so depending on time :). It's just been a long time since I played but looking forward to it.

Hi Zarrick,

Looking forward to playing with you.   Are you looking to play a particular format? (Standard, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander?)

Most of the cards I'm familiar with I think would be Vintage :(. I'll have to check on the different rules for the sets. I probably will make a very simple deck first just to get into the swing of things.

Hmm seems Vintage allows the Power 9, so since that's banned here don't think can do it. I guess though this might be a modified Vintage here, as Legacy has a far greater banned list, though I assume we don't use the ante cards here either since there would be no point in doing so :).
This message was last edited by the player at 05:51, Fri 16 Mar 2018.

You know Commander format seems interesting.

I'm looking into that more :)

I"m also looking at Modern, some old friends there :). Problem is looking through the cards I see lots of new cards too that are interesting :).
This message was last edited by the player at 09:52, Fri 16 Mar 2018.

Hi Zarrick, I'm new here too. I played in the 90's and stopped playing around the year 2000.  So if you want to do some older stuff, I'm fine with that, just say what expansions you're interested in using.

There's a lot to choose from at the moment!

Commander is always great fun. I've been thinking of getting back into the swing of it myself.

Would you be interested in say Revised + Arabian Nights + Antiquities + Legends + The Dark + Fallen Empires

Obviously no ante cards.

Yes almost to much :)

I am working on a commander deck though might take me a few weeks as I look over some of the newer cards (obviously I'm not going to read all 20,000 cards again :) )

I tend to start with a search for a General (i.e. a legendary creature), filtering by multi-colour and ordering by CMC so that I look at the cheaper multi-colour generals first...  Once I spot a general that looks like it might be fun to play - or particularly useful to keep returning to the battlefield, I then think of what game mechanics/specific cards would complement it.  Having started down that path, I then  narrow my card search, looking for cards with complementary game mechanics, filtering by colours and legality to make sure I only select cards that are compatible with my Commander's colours.

I've already picked out a general :)

I'm just looking for cards to fill around him :). It's not like my old decks meant to defeat card ditching decks since I can only have 1 of each card other than land :), though there are enough similar creatures in some cases that I might still end up with 4 of some (different names, same stats/effects).

Sounds good to me.  I don't know how fast I can get a deck or three made, but I will update you when I have at least one.

Don't super rush I'll try to have one ready in a week :).

I have a question.

I notice for example that there are multispell cards, I don't remember them. However in Commander it says you can't have any cards in the deck that don't share characteristics with the Commander. Now I did a search on the site given and it says this is legal but sometimes engines aren't always correct.

For example Turn/Burn one side is red and one side is blue. Now searching for a black/red commander it says this is a legal choice but that seems to violate the deck construction rules that the card can have no mana symbols not shared with its Commander.

Thus I want to know if it would be legal to put such a card in a Black/Red Commander deck. I'm thinking not but want to see what you guys say.

No, that would violate the color identity rule, unless your commander has a blue mana icon somewhere in his/her text.

Thank you :)

I have a Commander Deck read :)

I don't necessarily expect to win :), but I do have one ready now if someone interested :) Please keep in mind I may make some errors as it's been a while :)

Prepared for Multiplayer Commander?  Or single player multi-player?

Uh I'm not sure it would work against multiple opponents, I'm willing to try but being my first time playing in a decade or so I doubt it would hold up well against such :).

Still if that's a way to get a game I'll give it a go :)

According to deckstats my deck would cost $47.85 :), which means an average of less than 50 cents a card :). It has 19 Rares and 1 Mythic Rare. The most expensive card is $3.67. Yes I found far more expensive cards that would work and I own a few but I decided to limit the cost of my deck :)
This message was last edited by the player at 19:33, Sun 18 Mar 2018.

I'll definitely play one-on-one Commander :-)

See you on Table 3

I never calced out the cost of one of my decks. That could be interesting. Let me check on what I think is my cheapest Commander deck... (Granted the site I used picks only from whichever version of the card you pick, so I didn't check all the reprints for the cheapest one)

Huh, I was frankly amazed at how cheap somethings I thought were really good cards are.

OK my deck weighed in at $365.06, and literally over 2/3rds of that was one card, Gaea's Cradle. I thought my creatures and stuff were crazy powerful, but even a junk card like Spidersilk Armor was more expensive than all my non-Legendary creatures except 2. Probably put together. Most of them weighed in at under 10c. I was really surprised.

If you want to play Multiple I can play. If you want to go one on one, I will leave you to Matt. :D

For this one 1 on 1 is good :), we'll see about you next go around :)

Fair enough.

Not sure I can do 2 at one time :). Since I'm just restarting :). We'll play soon enough though, we'll in RPOL terms :)

I already had to go and look at the rules because I didn't remember the first person that goes doesn't draw on Turn 1 :), I thought Mathew was skipping his draw phase to test me :).

Oh no! Munch played an island! You're all doomed!

Matthew seems to like blue a lot...

It's a phase i'm going through.

Sadly I need to drop off line for the rest of the afternoon...

That's okay :)

We all have busy days :)

I have a deck ready for this when you are ready :)

I'll post tonight for those waiting for me. Sorry for the wait.

I have one made up and ready to go.

Okay soon as I'm done with the match with Mathew we can do it. I have the decks on the same website and if I leave to get the other deck I'll lose my hand I have in his game :).

At our pace we'll be done probably in a few days :)

What website are you using for it?

I don't remember it's name, I'm at work I'll let you know when I get home tomorrow.

deckstats.net :)

That's what I've been using I remember now

Anyone want to start another game? There's a modern deck I'd like to try.

Zarrick: OK

Matthew: Hi, I was trying to use the .xls version, and when trying to compile it gives an error on a line that has the following

Dim nTime

Looking at other lines, it looks like the structure of a line that has Dim on it is structured like "Dim (variable) as such_n_such". There were other errors when it first opened, but that was the one it gave me when I compiled it.  Its in Module 1, line 1168.

Right now it won't let me make a deck or anything when I click on the Click Here to Get Started button. It gives the error "BASIC syntax error. Expected: Sub."  I hope it is just referencing the line mentioned above.

Edit: Ok, it is giving me more errors when I try to close it.
"BASIC syntax error. If not allowed outside a procedure." It highlights the #If in the line "#If Mac Then" line 49 in Document Objects.

"BASIC syntax error. Expected: Sub." It highlights nTime like it did in the above compile.  Line 1168, Document Objects

"BASIC syntax error. Statement block still open: End If missing." Line 153 in Document Objects, it has "Next" on it, with and "End If" on the line above it.

I'm pretty sure all of those same errors appeared when I tried to open it.. the text boxes, anyway.  Hopefully this is helpful and not a big headache.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:05, Mon 26 Mar 2018.

I'll check out that line...

What version of Excel are you trying to run it on?

Try deleting or commenting out the following. I think it is redundant orphaned code that is no longer needed.



Not sure about the "If Mac Then" bit  since I'm pretty sure my code doesn't contain anything that I've written that refers to what OS the user is using...   I'm also unfamiliar with where the "Document Objects" is...  which leads me back to my previous question...  what version of Excel are you trying to run this on?

Found the "If Mac Then" - its in the JsonConverter module - which isn't needed as I only use that to import new cards periodically.  Delete the JsonConverter module.

FYI,  I'll be off line for most of the rest of the day...  :-(

Going Fishing :-)

I'm using LibreOffice Calc.

Commented out that nTime section, and it does not give an error anymore.

Looks like deleting the JsonConverter module requires me to provide a password when I try to save it, so I may have to comment out the whole section. o.o

The End If error should be an easy one to fix, but I can't figure out what is up with it.  Not that I know much about Basic anyway.

Thank you, and happy fishing!

password is "mtg"

Kurin I'm ready for our match with the older set :)

Hey Kurin - how did you get on with getting my spreadsheet to work in LibreOffice Calc?

OK, I'll post when I get home from work tomorrow morning.  The last two days have been kinda nuts.



Haven't had a chance to look at it yet, I'll try again soon.

FYI, I've downloaded LibraOffice myself and have started to see if I can figure out how to make some of my spreadsheet work...  even if it is just the basic draw a card...

Interested in a multiplayer Commander game if anyone else is...

Gotta be better than my Modern deck. :p
This message was last edited by the player at 13:32, Wed 04 Apr 2018.

Honestly my small decks are probably better than my Commander decks ;)

I hope Kurin posts this next day :), I still suspect he'll beat me in the end.

As a heads up I may not post much over the next two days, sorry.  Your deck is likely much faster than mine, so we'll see.

Okay thanks for the heads up :)

Greetings Folks! It's been a couple years, and I've had a career change, and a new child, but I'm back! how have things been? I've been out of the MTG world for a spell too.

Welcome back Bard!

Feel free to jump right back in.   Did you use my spreadsheet before?  If so, it's had a few updates since you last had it!

What sort of game might you be interested in playing?  Modern multiplayer?  Commander multiplayer?  Something one-on-one?

Hey Matthew!

Yeah, I've previously used your spreadsheet, though it's been about 1.5 years. I love all formats, but Commander has a special place in my heat, 1v1 or multiplayer. I have a Rafiq of the Many deck hiding somewhere. I also love Standard, and then lastly, I like playing around with some Modern decks, but they are dead last in my priority. :P

Huzzah! I found my EDH deck, and have re-downloaded the spreadsheet. I'm down for a commander game if there's interest.

W00t W00t!! In the boot!

Welcome :)

Excellent!  I'll set up a new table for a multiplayer Commander game...   Guess I'd better finish developing my new Commander deck :-)

I suppose I could try my new Commander deck

Hello. I used to play Magic regularly in high school, but I haven't played more than a few times since I graduated. Which was... wow, over ten years ago.

I was never the best player, but I have a couple of decks I'd love to play a few games with again. I guess they're pretty old, so I dunno how tournament-legal they are, but this is mostly pretty casual, right?


Since I have physical cards I guess I don't need it, but I am trying the spreadsheet. I keep getting an error message when I enter my first card. "Run-time error '1004': Unable to get the Vlookup property of the WorksheetFunction class"

I'm the furthest thing from an expert here, but something that seems strange to me is that while the error message pops up when I hit Enter or move to a new cell, the first card itself seems to be populating correctly--it's just every card after that that doesn't do anything. Any ideas?

Hi Zero and welcome.

I've discovered the source of the problem...  My latest change was to include a macro that triggers every time you change selection...  if you select a card name, it looks up the card and populates the card details into a pop-up comment next to the Oracle Rules Text cell...

I failed to put some error checking - so if you select a cell that has invalid card details in it - for example cell D4 in the template deck tab where it will read "Type or copy and paste"...- which is automatically selected when you click return after entering your first card - then it fails to look that up in the card database and throws an error.  I will make sure error checking to avoid that scenario is included in the next version - in the meantime, simply select all of the "Instructions" and delete them (if you get the error pop up whilst trying to select them, then just hit END on the pop up dialog box, finish deleting the Instructions, then click one of the SORT macros just to re-enable the "change" macro - and continue to enter your deck...

Of course, if you mis-type a card name, then you'll probably hit the same bug again...   I'll post when I've fixed and uploaded the next version.

That part doesn't seem to work, but "don't make any errors" was easy enough (I'm a pretty good typist).
I think I'm all set.

All you need now is an opponent (or opponents!)

I'll play you if you want...  I'll set up a new table. :-)

> RE: Table 5: Commander:  Matthew, Zarric, Munch, BBard

Wonder what has happened to BumptiousBard?  He last logged on in Sunday.  :-(

I thought about bumping it, but when I saw he hadn't been on, I figured there was no point.

I don't know I hope he's okay

Have you tried sending him a rmail or something?

I hope he's okay

I only know his rMail address - which he'll only see if he logs into RPOL...  :-(

Shall we start another commander game while we wait for BBard to return?

If he wasn't back by the end of the month, I was going to suggest skipping him.

Sounds fair :)

Perhaps we should make it a house rule... Miss your turn for over a week - your turn is skipped.  Miss your turn twice in a row (i.e. > 2 weeks) then you forfeit the game.  (Unless you give reasonable notice - like "I'm off on holiday for 2 weeks..."  :-)

Sounds like a good rule

I'm cool with it, but I'm on the Internet a lot.

I'm happy to start another Commander game anyway :-)  The more games on the go the better :-)

Hey Lago!

Long time no see....  if you can, do stay around for a chat or even a game!

Matthew

In reply to Matthew (msg # 311):

Matthew!  I was missing you guys!

I'm going to do my best to stick around.  Might even attempt a game (not commander) if people are ok with sporadic posting.

I'll certainly play you again!  :-)  Sporadic posting or not.   What's format game do you fancy?

Hi all, I've uploaded a new version of the spreadsheet -
http://matthewfenn.ipage.com/n.../Downloads/index.htm

Well, that seemed to fix it.  Set us up a table and we'll start a game!  The deck I have is legal in modern, legacy, vintage.  It has 12 rares - two of which are lands and 0 mythic rare.


22:07, Today: LAGO rolled 2 using 1d2.  1 Lago goes first.

Matthew you are up first!

I'll play you LAGO. I have an old deck I haven't tried yet. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage.



Oh hey, the new version imports the games in progress too? That's neat.

<GRIN>  It's comments like that that make the development of my spreadsheet all worth while!!  I have tried to make it fairly feature rich :-)

For example, Zarrick recently copied his deck into a post...  I have a macro that will assist with that.   Right-click on the deck tab and you'll see an option that says "Copy Unplayed Library to Clipboard".  Clear the table and you can paste your entire deck in one go... LOL - Though I just tried that, and I seem to have broken it in some way, since it doesn't work anymore... Something else for me to debug!

For those poor souls who don't have Excel, I am close to getting a cut-down version that will work on OpenOffice... Still need a computer of some sort I'm afraid, so if you only play on an iPad or similar, then you're still going to be stuffed I'm afraid, but at least you won't need to have a copy of Excel.

- Matthew

I've got a deck I want to try out.  Can someone setup a for me and Zero?

13:14, Today: LAGO rolled 1 using 1d2.  Lago Vs Zero.  1 Lago goes first.

I'll post after the table is setup.

I'm going to be offline most of today - so posting from me will be slow-to-non-existant till this evening... :-(
Unlike yesterday where I was able to work from home and post whenever I saw a new turn appear :-)

Matthew

Can I continue the game on Table 1 or does anyone else want to join in?

Hello all, I've been lurking here again as it seems I've been away for two years wow. I've got a new deck and working on an EDH deck too would love to join up with a game when one is free.

What format?

In reply to MrBrown (msg # 322):

Standard.

Welcome back Joat!  The more the merrier!

I'll create a few new tables!

FYI - I'm going to be away from my computer most of today... if I get a chance, I might be able to post from my phone, but not a proper post.  :-(

Unfortunately I don't have a Standard deck.

I just really got back into playing I don't have a standard deck either :(....I'll see if I can't assemble one in the near future.

What formats you got, maybe I can make a new deck.

Modern mostly and one Commander.

Hi so I've still got my standard deck, have two commander decks, sorry I keep calling them Edh old habit. I also will have a modern deck by tonight, working on one.

Okay I found a standard deck I can try to use :). Since Kurin is done at our table for now, I could take on another game :)

Hey Matthew your spreadsheet you can only post your first move directly right? Have that you have to edit it by hand?

Yeah - 'fraid so.

I suspect it would require a major rewrite to record the additional stuff like - tokens, tapped status, whether a creature was attacking or not, what equipment or enchantments were attached to a creature, emblems attached to a player, how other enchantments/artifacts affected all other creatures, the descriptive text about what you were spending mana on/doing during a turn, not to mention what impacts other players actions and permanents might have on the stuff on your battlefield...

Yeah, I concluded ages ago that it would be simpler to just stick to just setting up the basic layout of the post and the the user simply quotes it and edits it to reflect what has changed.
This message was last edited by the GM at 06:09, Fri 11 May 2018.

Yeah I thought that was how it worked, I just got to take better care so I dont make so many mistakes.

Anyone up for a Modern match? I've just finished a new deck.

Just to let everyone know - I'm away on an old college friends reunion weekend this weekend - and have a very busy out-of-the-office work day on Monday - so probably won't get much done in the way of progressing my games over the next few days...  sorry!

Matthew can you look at mine and Joat's game and help us on a ruling :)

Hi, I'm working on a modern deck, and wondering about Pearl Lake Ancient http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pa...e=Pearl+Lake+Ancient So does it work that you play this card, it attacks, then you have to return three lands to your hand and return it to your hand or is the land thing something you can choose to do?

This is an activated ability.  The COST is the part before the colon.  I.E. Returning 3 lands you control to your hand.
The ability it activates is returning the creature to your hand.  Seems like a hefty cost to return it to your hand...  Especially as it's quite an expensive creature to cast in the first place.

Yeah I wasn't really planning to use it but I was curious how it worked.

Sorry for those waiting for me, I might be able to post tomorrow.

No worries - we all have busy times - this evening is the first time I've been able to get on all day.

I'll try to post when I get off work in our game been busy last few nights (getting to be busier time of year for my work).

Matthew can you use an ability that removes a counter in the same turn it was cast, see my game with Joat.....I don't think that's allowed but like him I'm not up on all the new mtg rules :)

I guess you're referring to the Walking Ballista and whether you can do activate an ability when it has "summoning sickness"...



Well, the key to the answer is if, to activate the ability, you need to tap it, then summoning sickness will apply.   In this case, there is no tappin needed, so the ability can be activated straight away.

BTW Joat, if you right click on the cell and select "Copy to Clipboard" instead of CTRL-C then you'll paste the details into your post without the quote symbols.

Oh, thanks Matthew

Wow - nearly 24 hrs with no posts!  :(

*shrug* Waiting on Zarrick and Mr. Brown in our two games.

Yeah will I won't be posting much this week, going to my cousins wedding and its a days travel, so I'm gone rest of the week. Sorry Zarrick.

I don't think I'm in any active games right now.

I thought you and Mathew were still resolving your turns.....

Okay Joat, have fun at the wedding.

More a case of us being between games...

Hopefully we'll start another :-)

In reply to Zarrick (msg # 350):

Hi thanks for your patience, I'm back.

Welcome Back

I'll update on my games when I get off work

Matthew, how would I exile the top card of my deck without looking at it with your spreadsheet?
This message was last edited by the player at 15:11, Fri 08 June 2018.