Board 8 > Friday Night Magic

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Like the huge loser I am, I am passing up drinking until 11 pm tonight to go play magic with a bunch of smelly nerds.

It's draft. I plan on running a 40 card land deck to confuse my opponents.

If I ever need a pick me up I can just look at your life, Rev. :P

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20 land 20 lava axe

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ExThaNemesis posted...
If I ever need a pick me up I can just look at your life, Rev. :P

Says the kid who lives in the middle of nowhere.


Have you transferred to main campus yet or are you still being a scrub.

The Mana Sword posted...
20 land 20 lava axe

it oculd work but somehow i doubt that i'll be able to draft htat many lava axes

From: Revenus | #005
The Mana Sword posted...
20 land 20 lava axe

it oculd work but somehow i doubt that i'll be able to draft htat many lava axes

You'd be surprised.

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yeah don't give up

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Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

oh boy never give up guys

Draft all the rares since you wont be making a deck with them, then if you get any good ones sell em to the nerds.

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Dauntless Hunter posted...
Draft all the rares since you wont be making a deck with them, then if you get any good ones sell em to the nerds.

i've been adding the rares i've been getting to my homebrew decks so i have decks to play with friends who don't go to FNM.

You got guts man.

Magic is a great game and all, but I could not sit through a FNM. I've never seen a bigger gathering of the "dregs of social society".

Our anime club was about half that and half normal people, it was weird

then again there were about five nerds total on our campus so

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UltimaterializerX posted...
pjbasis posted...
You got guts man.

Magic is a great game and all, but I could not sit through a FNM. I've never seen a bigger gathering of the "dregs of social society".

Anime club at any college in America.

It really depends. At the store at Pitt, the crowd isn't *bad*. The crowd at the place I'm going to tonight though is terrible terrible bottom tier people.


Although I've never been to an anime club, so I won't make any judgement calls.

my local game store FNM has super nice people, and a surprising amount of small children. Everybody there seems really cool. The tournament players know that FNM isn't the place to bring a snooty attitude.

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"In the game of chess you can never let your opponent see your pieces."

However, I have seen some of the creepiest and strangest behavior ever at FNM.

For example.

Someone shouting something. Then everyone in the room shouting it. Very odd and uncomfortable. One time someone was like "EVERYONE LOVES GIDEON" and then a bunch of people started yelling it.

My friend came 4 weeks ago and when he was playing this kid, the kids friend comes up behind him on 2 seperate occasions. The first time he rests his head on top of the other kids head and goes "just go with it". The second time he starts massasing the kids back.

For reference, the kid doing the wierd stuff looks like the wierd kid from road trip, except uglier AND with glasses.

Other wierd things included one of the girls there actually saying *trolololol* in conversation. Not laughing. Pronoucing out trololol. I wanted to call her out on it, but then I reconsidered because it would do nothing to improve an already terrible person.

That's all I can recall off the top of my head. I'll be sure to bring in more stories after tonight though.

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From: Revenus | #016
Other wierd things included one of the girls there actually saying *trolololol* in conversation. Not laughing. Pronoucing out trololol. I wanted to call her out on it, but then I reconsidered because it would do nothing to improve an already terrible person.

Perhaps she had just summoned a troll, and was announcing such in a weird way?

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Black Turtle spilled my diet soda!

pretty sure she was using it to signify that she was supposed to be laughing

you may think its *funny* but it's really rather sad that there are college aged students out there who are like this.


BUT THERE ARE HIGHLIGHTS


one of the more adjusted people was a dad who brought his 10 year old-ish son along. Both seemed normal and I thought it was *adorbs* that the dad was taking on his sons hobby.


highlights? i meant highlight.

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actually i mean twilight

From: Revenus | #021
one of the more adjusted people was a dad who brought his 10 year old-ish son along. Both seemed normal and I thought it was *adorbs* that the dad was taking on his sons hobby.

It wasn't adorbs. The father who spends so much money on gaming that his wife left him, due to monetary problems and the fact he cared more about rhe MtG metagame than about their family is now pushing his son into the game. The son who looks up to the father, feels compelled to play the game his father spends so much time talking about and playing as he feels it's the only way they'll be able to connect.

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The worst thing is how likely it is.

nintendogirl1 posted...
From: Revenus | #021
one of the more adjusted people was a dad who brought his 10 year old-ish son along. Both seemed normal and I thought it was *adorbs* that the dad was taking on his sons hobby.

It wasn't adorbs. The father who spends so much money on gaming that his wife left him, due to monetary problems and the fact he cared more about rhe MtG metagame than about their family is now pushing his son into the game. The son who looks up to the father, feels compelled to play the game his father spends so much time talking about and playing as he feels it's the only way they'll be able to connect.

you are sick and twisted comma, woman

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lol

go win bro

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ty "majinzidane"


and i'm off.

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hopefully at least 50% of the players have showered

spent 40 bucks tonight/20 for the bar
tried doing a mill deck;failed, but at least i can try to attempt one at home now.

i won exactly one game out of my 3 matches, meaning i went 1-6

not exactly a succesful night; i even milled myself once


there was an attractive girl there, but sup sluts, she was clearly an attention whore.

the decent looking chicks at FNM are always attention whores or girlfriends.

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What FNM did you go to Rev? I used to do one but I just couldnt keep pace with the antisocial nerds who lived and breathed the game (go figure)

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I went to a prerelease once. Never again. TBQH I prefer to meet someone and then learn their hobbies and hope they line up because 90% of people that go to organized events for the hobbies I like are either up their own asses or they don't know deodorant is a good thing.

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I usually go to draft events at either Legions games in the North Hills of Pittsburgh, or Phanton of the Attic in Oakland on the condition my friend is going as well.

The girl flirted with goddamn everyone, including 2 very ugly dudes and a 14 year old. It was ridiculous.

The dad was not there, but his son was. The son was a LOT more annoying without his dad there IMO.


A lot of talk again about a ton of cards I didn't know, but instead of caring what they were this time, I just nodded my head and smiled whenever they mentioned random cards I had no idea about.

Got crushed hard though.

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Also 3 blue moons for 14.25 what the hell. Was used to geting them for 2 dollars a draft at various bars, and at this one...gues not. NEVER AGAIN.

Mill deck in draft requires a lot of specific cards to work effectively.

Like a Jace.

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i'm dumb as hell holy crap -ExThaNemesis

The Mana Sword posted...
Mill deck in draft requires a lot of specific cards to work effectively.

Like a Jace.

The guy running it last time I was there didn't have a jace, but he did happen to have a Frost TItan and a Gideon (which I only saw once of, and by that time it was too late).

I just didn't have enough control to run it properly. I also drafted about 15 red cards that I ended up not using because I am still sorta bad at drafting.

From: nintendogirl1 | #022
From: Revenus | #021
one of the more adjusted people was a dad who brought his 10 year old-ish son along. Both seemed normal and I thought it was *adorbs* that the dad was taking on his sons hobby.

It wasn't adorbs. The father who spends so much money on gaming that his wife left him, due to monetary problems and the fact he cared more about rhe MtG metagame than about their family is now pushing his son into the game. The son who looks up to the father, feels compelled to play the game his father spends so much time talking about and playing as he feels it's the only way they'll be able to connect.

Is it impossible for people to have hobbies without being completely self-destructive about them?

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Black Turtle spilled my diet soda!

Revenus posted...
I usually go to draft events at either Legions games in the North Hills of Pittsburgh, or Phanton of the Attic in Oakland on the condition my friend is going as well.

The girl flirted with goddamn everyone, including 2 very ugly dudes and a 14 year old. It was ridiculous.

The dad was not there, but his son was. The son was a LOT more annoying without his dad there IMO.


A lot of talk again about a ton of cards I didn't know, but instead of caring what they were this time, I just nodded my head and smiled whenever they mentioned random cards I had no idea about.

Got crushed hard though.

Ah, I usually play at this place called the Gaming Dungeon South of the city. The people there are more or less as you describe with like maybe 4 exceptions. Of course the exceptions are really cool dudes, but still lots of crappy people to wade through.

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edwardsdv posted...
Revenus posted...
I usually go to draft events at either Legions games in the North Hills of Pittsburgh, or Phanton of the Attic in Oakland on the condition my friend is going as well.

The girl flirted with goddamn everyone, including 2 very ugly dudes and a 14 year old. It was ridiculous.

The dad was not there, but his son was. The son was a LOT more annoying without his dad there IMO.


A lot of talk again about a ton of cards I didn't know, but instead of caring what they were this time, I just nodded my head and smiled whenever they mentioned random cards I had no idea about.

Got crushed hard though.

Ah, I usually play at this place called the Gaming Dungeon South of the city. The people there are more or less as you describe with like maybe 4 exceptions. Of course the exceptions are really cool dudes, but still lots of crappy people to wade through.

ah yeah, ur from pittsburgh too right?


There are some OK people there, but no one I would call *really cool*

Yeah Im from Pittsburgh, I live in the McKeesport area most of the time.

The guys I'm talking about, I dunno they probably just SEEM really cool because of who I usually see them with.

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ho ho ho

protip: buy up birthing pods now

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i'm dumb as hell holy crap -ExThaNemesis

why?

There's a new keyword Morbid in Innistrad that triggers whenever a creature has died during the turn, which means even more good Pod targets than there already are.

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i'm dumb as hell holy crap -ExThaNemesis