CCG Shop Talk

[jimkopelli]

Favorite decks, interesting combos, funny ways to win... all good topics for this hnya.

[Edmond Zedo]

I need $10,000. For sale: 10% shares of Magic tournament winnings for the next five years. Seven available now! Only $1500!

[Edmond Zedo]

Since they reworded the errata for Illusionary mask (Making it 10x as costly), you can play a Phyrexian Dreadnought without sacrificing creatures. That's a 12/12 trampler for (1). It's been done though. *yawn*

[CreativeChaos]

Okay, Zedo, your new Avatar is freaking me out. Could you go to the Avatar section and state what it is then change it?

This to let you know I am going to ask on that site.

[coffeezombie]

It's a Magic card. Ice Jester, I think?

[Helios]

EZ I was gonna say I freakin' love that subley evil/playful lookin clown,very cool

[jimkopelli]

I need $10,000. For sale: 10% shares of Magic tournament winnings for the next five years. Seven available now! Only $1500!
All I got is Monopoly money. You're welcome to it, though... I'll even throw in a Get Out Of Jail Free card...


It's a Magic card. Ice Jester, I think?

Kinda. Jester's Cap, from Ice Age.

Lemme see... how many ways can you think of to get infinite (yes I know you really can't say "infinite" but have to merely pick an inordinately large number) anything? Mana, life, cards, damage, counters, etc.
Try to keep combos under five cards.

[Bluehaze]

I can't believe I'm posting since I haven't played in such a long time...But here is a more recent one I can remember:

1xYawgmoth's Bargain
2xConfessor
1xLibrary of Leng
1xSkirge Familiar

[jimkopelli]

Infinite +1/+1 counters... and mana... and life... and damage... and infinitely big creatures... and basically anything that you can trigger with a sacrifice or creature coming into play effect...

Actual combo:
Aluren (creatures that cost 3 or less can be played as instants for free)
2+ Junk Divers (1/1 flier, costs 3, if it dies, return an artifact from graveyard to hand)

Ways to use it:
Extruder (sac creatures for +1/+1 counters)
Ashnod's Altar (sac a creature for 2 mana)
Scrapyard (artifact enters graveyard, you gain 1 life)
Furious Assault (creature comes into play, deal 1 damage to a player)
Atog (1/1 creature, sac an artifact, it gets +2/+2 till eot)

You know... I have all these cards, but no deck based on it... maybe I should remedy that. EZ, looks like I'm gonna play me some RG in a bit.

[jimkopelli]

The old time best turn 1 combo is: Mountain for red, Black Lotus for green, Channel 19 life, Fireball for 20.

And the newer version... that doesn't reqire a Lotus...


I have one deck that's designed for a first turn kill... good fun. Swamp, Rit, play Entomb. Search your library for a Worldgorger Dragon and trash it. Use the other two mana for Animate Dead. WGD comes into play, all your permanants leave the game. It dies from not having AD. When it dies, your AD comes back, as well as your swamp... which is now untapped. AD needs a target... guess what, it's the WGD. Repeat... you have effectively infinite mana. Put it into a Drain Life, and you win.

You know, folks... it might be a good idea to explain the combos that you post, for those that don't have encyclopedic memory (unlike me...) of cards and functions.

[null-tE]

Yay, wizards banned affinity.

Not only did they ban one or two key cards, they bent it over, raped it, killed it with a machete(sp), and then they put its mutilated corpse through a wood chopper.

[jimkopelli]

All of it? Wasnt it like a major block mechanic?

Agree that it was broken as hell, though... definitely lost to it more than I'd like to admit...