Introduce Yourself Here

[GnuHouse]

Hi, my name is Trevor. I'm 34, live in Oakville, Ontario (just west of Toronto). I started playing Magic in 1994, played until 2000 or so, then started playing again during Rise of the Eldrazi. Started playing during Revised, my first rare I opened was Tropical Island.

I was never a great player, my DCI rating was sub-1600 before I stopped in 2000. I was primarily a control player back in the day, playing decks such as Prison (Winter Orb-Icy Manipulator), Humility, Big Blue/CMU Blue, and Counter-Oath (the Spike Feeder/Triskileon version). I picked the game back up when one of my buddies I used to play with found some friends who started to play. Since then, I've played a ton of standard (playing mostly decks that run Primeval Titan), abandoning my control roots and playing more aggressive or combo-ish decks.

My old collection got pillaged so getting into Legacy was a little tough. I can't find a lot of Legacy tournaments nearby, but I try to play when I can. I've been playing Affinity for the better part of a year now, the Tezz-Affinity version. I just picked up the cards for Dredge so I'll be trying that out at the next tournament.

What else......
Work - Selling high end industrial routers and switches to public utilities
Education - BA in Economics, MBA with a specialization in accounting
Marital Status - Happily married for 2.5 years. Still not sure what she sees in me tho :)
Car - 2007 Mazda 3
Music - EDM, Jazz, classic rock
Movie - Empire Strikes Back. Outside of The Trilogy, Apocalypse Now
Ethnic background - Irish and English
Colour - Purple
Favourite MtG card - Humility

[-WaRl0rD-]

Hey, I'm Jack from Texas. I've been playing Legacy since '05 and have lurked these boards for quite awhile. Finally decided to make and account. Look forward to meeting y'all.

~Warlord

[Cue The Gravitas]

Hello friends. I am a long-time (very long-time) lurker. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I feel as though... I somehow already know all of you. ;)

[Angelteg]

I have been lurking around here quite a bit, then I figured I should post, it seems like the community here is filled with some good people.

I'm Mike, 26 years old, started playing Magic in 1995 when I went to the comic book store and bought my first starter deck of 4th edition. Quit playing in 2000 or 2001. Now I am getting back into it, and Legacy seems awesome because it lets me play some cool awesome cards I used to always want to play, without having to shell out crazy money to play vintage and without having to learn all the new sets.

I'm from NY, about an hour north of the city.

Judging from the introductions and what I'm seeing around the internet, its no surprise legacy and vintage are growing, a lot of people like me out there.

Most of what I'll post are questions, but hopefully one of these days I'll be enlightened enough to answer some too!

[Tormod]

Hello everyone.

My name is Sam. I'm in the GTA. I started playing magic back in revised played some tournaments then, I slowed down significantly after homelands and finally quit during Urza Saga.

I started again during Rise of the Eldrazi. I played a rotation of standard, then ported over to Legacy prior to the banning of Jace and stoneforge mystic in standard. I kept a playset of Force of Wills and Wastelands before I quit many years ago but i sold off my power and duals. I traded a candelabra of tawnos for the duals I needed to build Blade Control.

I've been playing Legacy steadily for about a year and a half now and a long time lurker on these boards.

[feline]

I don't know why I never posted in here before lol, so now that I've been coming here for the past year, here's a super late "hello" to all >^,^<

Back when it was onslaught/mirrodin/8th edition, I got into my first rated tourney, FNM of course, my first deck was R/W Astral Slide, even though the worlds deck that got first was G/W astral slide, I liked lightning rift in a heavy tribal/creature environment that was the type 2 at that time, Goblin bidding was the nuts! Elf and nail! etc etc etc, and of course one of the most hated decks of all time, affinity.

Anyhow, I did my first regionals after the rotation, 2005 Mirrodin/Kamigawa, pushing Tooth & Nail at a regionals with almost 400 people, was awesome, though I went 4/4 dropped before the last 2 rounds, I would have continued, but everyone else in our "group" had already dropped and they were all waiting on me to "go early" and I knew I wasn't top 8'ing with 4 losses, so I took my "broke even" record and said "ok"

Next year's regionals, 2006, Kamigawa/Ravnica was more promising, pushing boros, I almost pushed zoo BUT I really liked umezawa's jitte on a paladin en-vec and that enough to beat other zoo decks, so I just kept it at boros. Ended a 9 round regionals with a 6-3 record, definitely better than the previous year.

The 3rd, & final regionals for me, Ravnica/Time spiral, I pushed dragonstorm, having incredible success with it at fnm's, I think I won more fnm's with dragonstorm than I did with the previous 2 decks that I pushed for that time, but at the end of the day, I walked home after 9 rounds with again, a 6-3 record as the previous year.

Then the "hiatus" comes into play, I stopped playing/moved to another state all just after Lorwyn rotated in, then I didn't "come back" to magic until summer of 2011, so for me, I knew about Lorwyn, and since I came back when type 2 was Zendikar/Mirrodin blocks, I learned of them and I know enough from the sets, however the entire Alara block is a "blackout" period for me for magic, the only reason I know anything from that block is because of Knight of the Reliquary & Wild Nacatl and that's only because of Zoo & Maverick lol

When I decided to come back, I looked at type 2, but I leaned more towards pushing type 1.5 since I had older stuff anyway. So I started looking at stuff and I decided, since I had an old, illegal version of belcher with 4 tinker 4 wheel of fortune 4 mana crypt 4 lion's eye diamond 4 sol ring 4 mana vault 4 memory jar etc etc etc, I just revamped it to the legal version of the deck that is known as belcher in type 1.5, and I was really glad to see the Lion's eye diamonds were unbanned & at 50 bucks when I got them back then at 10, though it's because they were banned at the time. The other decks I decided upon were Zoo since it was consistent enough and was considered one of the top decks at the time, and I remember zoo from old type 2 ravnica and it seemed just fun to play, while the 3rd deck I decided upon was Dredge, and I remembered the old version of dredge that was Time Spiral type 2, & since testing it on magic work station was addicting, & it was cheap as heck to get.

Basically that's how I started out type 1.5, back at the end of summer/beginning of fall 2011, & since I found out there were no more regionals for type 2, I really just plunged into type 1.5 full throttle. Since then over the course of the past year, I traded lots of my old stuff for new stuff, and basically traded for more decks, completing Spiral Tide as my 4th deck, then Goblins as my 5th, then Pox & Stax as my 6th and 7th, followed by maverick being my 8th, what I will do for my 9th I am still not sure, but at this point I have little trade left, so I'll have to buy or trade other stuff.

Most of the decks I enjoy on the level as any other, though I don't play dredge all that often because of the hate, and I don't play zoo all that often because as much as I love the sligh style of the deck, since I had an old sligh deck back in the day when Jackal Pup, Ball lightning, Cursed Scroll & friends were all awesome, zoo right now is just not good enough, and every time I try to morph it with some hate bears, it just basically becomes Maverick. Belcher is fun but a glass cannon in an environment with lots of blue players makes the job hard, but I still bust it out every once in a while just to show that I'm that crazy. Pox is ok, I like the land destruction/resource denial part of the strat, but the fun'er version of trying to do that to me is in Prison stax. As far as turning guys sideways goes, I stick with goblins for that, since the goblins just keep coming, the deck is so resilient it's awesome. But the deck I love the most is a deck I enjoy on a whole other level that no other deck even comes close to, and maybe it's because im flippin nuts, but to me that is high tide.

I got so into the deck that I tested it out against literally everything from tier 1 RUG/Maverick/Stoneblade stuff, through the tier 1.5 all the way to things like tier 2 Death & Taxes, Affinity, Deadguy Ale, Team Italia, Painters stone variants, Enchantress, Lands, Cephalid Breakfast, etc etc etc. When the open series came to the area I just had to push high tide, even though i know it's not the most optimal deck, I am a believer in playing the best deck, if a best deck is, the best deck in the format, it is the best deck for a reason and I can't ignore that, nor fault anyone for doing that themselves, it's the smart thing to do. Anyhow, at the Starcitygames visit to Seattle on July-1st-2012, and just like the "old days of magic" that was my old regionals attempts, I wasn't alone, and there were about a dozen of us all from the local shops I played at, and we all had fun seeing how eachother were doing through out the day. At the end of the day, 2 of us walked out with top 64 placings out of almost 200 participants, & at the risk of coming off as "flashy" I pulled off 10th with this: http://sales.starcitygames.com//deck...p?DeckID=47510

Then on September-9th-2012 the open series returned to the area hitting up Portland Oregon, and while not nearly as many of us went as last time, myself & 3 others still decided to go, and again we that went had another fun day of magic seeing how eachother were doing, playing our matches, talking about the "crazy stories" that was some of our games, all that fun stuff. I didn't do as well as I did in Seattle, but I still got 32nd somehow with a 4 win 3 loss record, while someone else from our group pulled off a top 8, placing 4th after it was all said and done with this: http://sales.starcitygames.com//deck...p?DeckID=49262

I suppose at this point, I can only go on to talk about the future, as of this posting anyhow, which will be Starcitygames visiting the area again in Seattle in November, since that hasn't happened yet I can't post results of how I did lol. In either case, on a more local / weekly level, you can always find me in the tacoma area, if it's type 1.5 I will try my best to be there, usually it's comics cube in bonney lake on wednesdays & Exalted games of tacoma on sundays, hope you liked the super long introduction, and as always, have fun in the game. I myself enjoy it immensely, and I am a bit of a statistic's nutcase, I can't get enough of things like "too much information" articles that show every deck played, how it did, etc when they do that for the open series, I constantly keep myself up to date with the "metagame" and if you have seen me post before, it's either because you read a thread that is one of the 8 decks I push in legacy, so I post in those threads / keep up with them, etc, or you may have even come across the "Tier legacy decklists/prices/etc 50+ decks" that I have noted in my signature. Even though it's a ton of work to update it, I love seeing the trends and putting together the numbers myself, seeing the average this and that of a deck, so on and so on.

If you ever have any questions, you know where to find me ~Feline Longmore >^,^<

[angryshrub]

In the awkward process of leaving one's long-time lurker status behind, this is as good of a place to start as any.

I'm PhD student in Toronto studying intellectual history (particularly Cicero), and I've been playing legacy for about a year and a half now, and at least once a week for probably a little under a year. That is to say, I don't completely and utterly suck anymore, and thought I could improve more by actually taking part in some discussion here, as many of my fellow legacy friends aren't enthusiastic enough to keep working at this most wondrous and deep format.

I've been rotating decks at more casual tournaments, but focusing on high tide and more recently b/u snapcaster/strix/jace control (no delver). The latter deck is what has compelled me to cease to be a lurker: the deck has a ton of synergy, disruption, and resiliency, and is really a blast to play. I'm super keen on optimizing the list.

I've also been on the alpha train for about two years now, so if anyone has an alpha disrupting scepter, copy artifact, or nightmare, pm me ;)

[Hapless Researcher]

Hi, New to the Forum and Legacy.

Looking forward to learning.

I'm a Linguistics student at Ball State University.

[Bobmans]

Hello,

I am Bob, age 30, and i live in the Netherlands. I've been playing M:tG since around the Urza block and have been playing Extended into Legacy all along.

Decks i played over the years starting with standard:
Wildfire -> Tempest/Urza block
Yawgmoth’s Bargain/Skirge Familiar/Soul Feast -> Urza/MM Block
Tinker -> Urza/MM Block

Then i switched to Extended:
Surivival -> Deranged Hermit/Verdant Force/Tradewind Rider
Survival with intergrated Enduring Renewal/Goblin Bombardement/Shield Sphere combo support by Academy Rector
Donate -> Illusions of Grandeur
Oath of Druids (U/W/G) -> Morphling/Spike Weaver support by Abundance/Sylvan Library
Full English Breakfast -> Phage/Flowstone Hellion/IllusionaryNought later combined with StifleNought/Goyf
DreadStill Countertop -> Different combinations with Goyf/Trinket Mage/Lavamancer/Tombstalker
MUD -> Forgemaster/Goblin Welder (this really reminds me of the time playing wildfire and tinker).
OmniTell
And besides a lot of fun playing and expirimenting i am trying to construct a U/R(/w) control/tempoish list and hooking on to some tournaments.

Cheers

[lukasz]

Hello,
My name is Lukasz, 31, Poland, mtg newbie, legacy lover. I've been reading The Source for about a year I think and at last decided to register. At present, I play mainly Merfolk and mono Burn (planning to make it UR) and my wife plays Death&Taxes at local tournaments, but we test and learn many other archetypes just to understand them (play better against them) and for fun. My fav deck: Goblins (planning to get these little bastards in the future). Well, you people of the Source, you helped me a lot (you're not aware, are you? ) when I started playing and still the Source is the source for me. I hope I'll contribute somehow to The Source as well.

So, hello again from snow-covered Poland.

[HammafistRoob]

Never posted in here. I take pride in being a professional procrastinator. Anyways I learned how to play magic from my buddy when Kamigawa block first came out. My first deck was mono black zombies but after going 2-2 week after week in locals(25 player average) I decided to borrow some Force of Wills Trops and fetches to build UG madness. Did decent with that until my local scene dried up and the store went out of business. I kept playing in larger tournaments for a while until my almost fully pimped out mono black aggro control deck got stolen.

My boy Rodney and I created Dreadstill but we only had one copy so I never played it much in tournaments. My team of five had a bunch of decks built like Fetchland Tendrils, UGrb Survival, Ur Dreadstill, Ugr Thresh, Dragonstompy, Dredge and Goblins. When my friend Tom traded half the staples we needed for these decks just for a few FBB duals I decided to quit playing since we had two decks left as a team. I also had no cheaper staples(think StP LBolt Brainstorm) left since I left them in the team binder and never saw them again.... although I don't give a fuck because I said that I didn't care about them.

But now I'm getting back into magic again and I have no cards so it's incredibly hard especially since I'm more now broke than ever. I can't believe the prices of cardboard right now, god I wish I had all my foily therapies, wastelands, duresses, tops, and bobs. I hate thiefs, fucking pussies never try and steal from me when I'm there.

But I think I've quit for the last time and I'm back for good now, once I get my hands on a decent blue deck I'm gonna nerd it out for life.

[Thanos]

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to branch out to new sites, I've been a member of MOTL forever, and a newer member on Librarities (only took 2 years to get approved).

I collect signed cards and I'm one of Markus' (Markers) personal gophers.

[BOSCA]

Hi everyone,

good luck and have fun in the game like in this forum.
Me too i wish.

AB

[Ramanas]

Hey all. I'm Justin. I've been wanting to expand on my experience with Legacy (own a manaless dredge deck).

Otherwise I'm a generic starving college student. Hope to get more information about the format I love the most (to most of my friends bewilderment).

[Ennel_Pat]

Hey,

I'm Patrick, age 30 and from the Netherlands.
Picked up playing Magic about 1,5 years ago after quiting when 5th edition was the current coreset and I think Mirage block was released. I started right after 4th was released so missed all the Alpha to Revised goodies back then.

Reason of picking up the game was because of duel of the planeswalkers on the PS3. I first started to buy back all the cards I sold for nostalgia's sake. Picked up played WoG's, Serra Angels, Nightmares and the sorts and found out things got a bit better nowadays.

Looking at cards like Emrakul and figuring out Progenitus could not be cast made me realise I really needed to catch up what I've missed for 1,5 decade. I realized the best creatures weren't Ernham Djinn, Mahamoti Djinn or Shivan Dragon. Statis and Kismet aren't good anymore and Force of Will is the best countermagic. Back then I preferred Arcane denial for the card draw, why throw away a blue card? And hardcasting a FoW, we had counterspell:)

At first I tried to avoid Planeswalkers and other comprehensive mechanics. Back then we had banding and flanking :). Also avoided format rules and just played with all the cool new insanely good cards (Eldrazies, Titans) and go for Elves and Angels tribal decks.

After reading up on formats I build myself a deck with the awesome Emrakul and was preparing for my first tournament: GP Amsterdam Legacy. Not wanting to netdeck, because I thought it wasn't creative, and not knowing what metagame was I played something like: SneakShow/CounterTop deck. That day I've learned a lot and wanted to know more of Legacy.

Since the GP my favorite format is Legacy. I also play Standard, but due to the heavily fluctuations of staples seems to me like a waste of money when I can buy legacy cards.

Since starting again, I've build up a quite complete legacy collection were I can now build all tier one decks I like.
I joined up to read interesting discussions about decks and stuff and maybe can contribute something as well.

[RThomas-]

I'm RT and I extend you all a warm greeting. I'm 24 and I live in Arlington, VA. I've played Vintage and Legacy since 2003 or so and have been browsing this forum since around 2006. I thought I had a profile from that time but evidently I only registered in 2010.

I used to live in northern Illinois so I may have met a few of you some time ago. I played only Vintage starting out but got into Legacy when I built a Goblins deck and a Survival deck. I've won exactly one tournament, a 20-player Vintage tournament with Dredge in 2006. I've played Dredge ever since then, participating in one tournament or so a year up until recently. I just got finished working in the Pentagon for the Air Force in October, and I'm just hanging out until I start graduate school next fall, so I've had some time to catch up on what's going on in Legacy. It looks like a lot of stuff is good, which is exciting to me.

I'm around if there's anyone in the Washington DC area that enjoys playing Legacy, Type 4, chess, or other games. Perhaps I'll meet some of you at Xanadu Games in Baltimore or in Washington next month when SCG comes to host a tournament.

Greetz RT

[FlyingSkull13]

My name is Roger, I've been playing legacy for over 3 years, and i love the format :)

[goblinsplayer]

My name is Theo, im from Ithaca, ny and i am an avid legacy player. I am 13 and I own TES and Goblins.

[EradiKate]

Hi, I'm Kate. I play somewhat competitive Legacy, always looking to improve. Right now I have Junk, Merfolk, Goblins, and Affinity built; and I'm only missing a few cards for Zoo and Belcher. I also enjoy EDH (Grand Arbiter). Happy shuffling!

[mondragon]

Hi, I created an account on here once I found the site wasn't blocked at work. Heard about this site a while ago and decided to become a regular after reading a couple tournament reports. I ran aggro loam when I first started and currently have Sneak and show + 4-color loam control. I'm a big fan of foils. I like Life from the Loam and big beaters