Introduce Yourself Here

hey, i'm Simon... 22, and living in Vancouver, BC (i.e. the furthest place from all the gawdamn tournaments). Played from 4th till just before 6th and was the proud owner of the entire fallen empires set (which still has the best damn flavour text ever... and saprolings ownzor all newbz).
I have too much free time at work so I goldfish ellaborate combo decks all day, amazed at how easy it is too win games with out opponents (go food chain, matron/embermage/fierce empath). Can't help but notice everyone and their mother is from Oregon here so... you know... if anyone gets about arranging a large tournie down there I'll come and scoop to force of will or something rouge (red, not rogue).

Hi guys, my name's Steve, live in Fairfax, VA. I'm going into my senior year of high school. Sorta just started in Legacy, before then I sorta just screwed around in tournaments, but I'd actually like to care about my DCI rating :p

Favorite deck is green beats, but since that doesn't work out so hot for Legacy, I dunno what deck I'll build and play, but I'll figure something out :-P

hey, i'm hat. i'm 19 and currently going to school in philly.

i'm trying to get into legacy because most of the other formats bore me right now. extended is fun, i s'pose, and post-rav t2 is just bewildering, but really i just wanted to play with fows and duals and daze. plus i was totally disillusioned from cokblock.

anyways, um, i mostly joined just to talk about gro but i'm sure i'll be talking about other stuff too. i have gobs built and i like playing it in extended but i was hoping there'd be an answer to it here. there isn't one yet but dammit i'll try!

oh, does anyone know any place to play in philly? let me know if you do.

Sup.. My name is Angelo..

Played since: 4th Ed
Age: 21
Location: Rhode Island (USA)
Decks: Anything that is good. Love playing black.
Judge: Yes, I'm a level 1. Soon to be level 2 hopefully.
Formats: I play every format in Magic competitivly.

Just recently got into Legacy. Hopefully the transition won't be to harsh. Considering I played Vintage for a while. :cool:

Hey, my name is Gabe.

I have played Magic since revised but only competitively since like Judgement.
Age: 19
Location: Mass, I play at Thats Entertainment and TJ's.
I avoid Net decks at all costs. Playing a deck you did not create removes a whole element of Magic, the one I feel is most important.
Formats: I mainly play 1.5, but I also play type 2 and have played some type 1. I obviously draft and do sealed.

Hi I'm Willem
I've been terrorizing Holland for 16 years (and counting)
I love all sorts of games requiering some form of intelligence, thus I play some Warhammer.
I'm a drummer in some bands.
I work as a dishwasher in a castle (no, it's not one of our legal coffeeshops)

EDIT: Playin' goblins at the moment, t1.5 and t1 are my thing (I hate the whole oops-I-can't-use-my-cards-no-more-which-went-from-20-to-5-euros-because of-the-rotation-shit)

Id just like to say that slo-mo is a chode smoker. And he hearts the cock almost as much as bryant.

Yeah, a few of you prolly know me.
Names Nick Canino, used to play 1.5 and what not in CNY, was part of team evolution, then i quit and now im back. I only play extended and type 2. But feel free to drop me a line.

This is Tom Smart, I live in Middletown, MD.
I was supposed to be fredneck101, but it hasn't worked for a month.
Most ya'all know my name from the GP
if you don't already know me then you soon will

wow i cant believe i've never done this.

to start out for those that dont already know me my name is ross rinaldo, im 20yo and live in syracuse.

how long have i played: started in ice age then quit. restarted when amrod started at amrods.
how did i learn the game: joe weber and sped retaught me and my best bud geno.
fav. deck: sped red , sped made it for me and it was the first time i won a tourney.
fourum name : no im not cocky (bestest) the name was given to me by alex artese when i won the first altd sts mana drain tourny with two piledriver seething goblins and still managed to turn two john lacasse in the finals.
fav. deck : forever and always... sligh
fav. player : jon finkle
player(s) i hate the most: rory walker and jeremy the anoying from altered

i dont consider myself a great player i consider myself an ok player with a very small card pool to work with.

Though I would post and say hey ...uh hey....

Bob, 27, here from san Jose, Cali

I have been playing magic for far too long. I started at the end of beta/beginning of unlimited for those of you that know superstars I remember when john sold cards out of his binder.

I start and stop magic an awful lot......
Being wholly unproductive at work and reading the boards here started me up again recently. I used to go to Pleasanton for a bit, a while back and then stopped and am now back on the band wagon for a bit, as work etc now permits it. If any of the people from the area can give me a hey and let me know where people play legacy now etc, Pleasanton still around? it would be greatly appreciated since I haven’t been around in a while.

Well I never introduced myself so I will now.
My name is Nathan VonSchlegel. Started casual play in Urza Block, Competitive (fnm) Onslaught Block. I've yet to break into my professional magic career but then again I hope that never happens as this is a silly narcotic cardboard game. I'm in school right now in the medical field and work for a sweet company thats paying me to shuffle cards so I'm still playing magic. My main hobby is music so magic usually takes a back seat.

Fav format:Standard
High Rating: 1780ish?
Location: Worcster MA
Type of player: Spike/Johnny
Colour(s): Black, Red, Green, Blue, White in that order
Music: Black metal, death metal, other anal leakage of christ
Hobbies: Drums, MTG (duh), Mocking people that give a shit about politics, Selling cigarettes to kids

I refuse to play MTGO because I bought MTG Encyclopedia, you guys remember that beast? Wizards discontinued it and wouldn't refund me shit, F them. That leaves me stuck with Sunday tournaments playing Legacy. I like this format but it's beginning to bore me now. Too many of the same cards unlike a rotating format and too many pretencious players. Auf Wierdersehen. 88!

Hey, my name is Chuck, although most people just call me Gooch because that's my middle name. I'm pretty new to Legacy, but I played last year's Extended extensively so I have a -pretty- good idea of what's going on. I play a similar Gro deck to the one Ben Goodman played at the GP in Philadephia.

Hi, I never introduced myself either.
My name's Vincent, I started playing during 4th edition (you know, when the good cards rotated out). I only started to play cometitively during Onslaught block.
Fav. format is Legacy. I played it even before it was an actual format. Used to play survival (and I probably changed between 100 different builds of it). Then I played Gro and have played it since 3 yrs ago.
I mostly played 1.5 in local tourneys, except for GP Philly. There, I played GAT (with 4 colors - Hey, I think Summersburger did the same to use Mage) and ended up 49th overall, mostly because I didn't bring any Goblin Hate (I thought it was already hated out). There's a picture of me on Wizards' s site (GP Philly, Day 1, Feat. Match 4). I played against Billy Moreno; he had a deck designed by Mike Flores (who kept saying that my Dryads sucked) and I smashed it savagely.
I am the spike/johnny type of player. Favorite color(s): FOW and STP (U/W).
Music: STP (not the card; I still think STP is better than Velvet Revolver), Iron Maiden, Cypress Hill, Biggie Smalls, Snoop Dogg, Lacuna Coil
Hobbies: MTG, collecting swords, hittin' the pipe (often)
Location: I have 2 addresses: one in NJ and one in NY, where I go to college at CUNY.
Fav. Actress: Heather Graham (I think she really hot, although she's like 15 yrs older than me)
BTW, Gro and Gro varients are the best decks to play in 1.5, if you're a good player.

Say, does anyone here go to Neutral Ground? We desperately need more 1.5 players there; it's being overrun by Standard, Extended, Limited (which is ok), and ugh, Yugioh.

Oh hey, I just noticed this thread. My name is Brendan, almost 17, from Worcester, MA. I too started playing during Urza's block and made my first FNM appearance during OLS. I have a love/hate relationship with Standard, but Extended and Legacy are my passions. I also dabble in 10-proxy Vintage, and I play combo like it's going out of style.

Hi, Im Joe from leicester MA, i have no life. Hence me posting on these boards.

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Hi, Im Joe from leicester MA, i have no life. Hence me posting on these boards.

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Welcome one and all!

And don't worry, none of us have lives to speak of.

Except P_R, he has kids. In lieu of a life :D

I don't think I've introduced myself either, I'm Chris Saunders, and live in upstate NY. My favorite format is legacy. I've been playing since '97, and still suck big time.

Mys social security number is: wait...that wasn't one of the questions!!!

It seems that if someone read this thread close enough, it would be sort of an amateur stalker kit. [glare]

Damn, I know 3 people on this page already. My names Ben Hatch and I'm from Worcester, MA. I started playing MTG pretty recently at like Apocalpyse but stopped for a year when the Kamigawa sets came out. Just recently I started playing local 1.5 tournamnets every week. I have the amazing power to play bad sub-par decks and do well with them, namely BBS for a while and UG Madness. I play mostly for fun, but I've won occasionally. Like eveyone else, I post here cuz I have no life.....

Many of you may have seen me lurking around here and other MTG sites - G'day to all who haven't.
I've been playing far too long. It's getting kinda embarrassing. I'm actually going grey! It's real bad when at FNM I often face opponents who weren't born when I won my first tournament. Fortunately I haven't started losing to them yet, but we'll see how long that lasts!
Anyways, the legacy format here is still a bit scrubby. My team also doesn't have much time for testing after T2 and 1.X is outta the way. When the 1.5 banned list was the T1 restricted list, however, the format was popular here, so I already have 5 odd years of experience to bring to the table. Legacy is really catching on here too; hopefully I'll soon have real data to post about. Untill then I'll just sit in the corner spouting old school tech ppl might not have been exposed to, or forgotten.
A hearty pat on the back to all the Mods and Administrators. Its so nice to find such a serious and focussed site devoted to my favourite format. And please people, DON'T TELL KIDS, FLAMERS AND ARROGANT SCRUBS ABOUT THIS PLACE!!!
P.S. - What's with having to log back in so often?

I'd like to introduce the love of my life..

She has the same IP address as me, she's real, home comp.

Hi, I am Jessi. I play 2 decks in Legacy, But I have only Played Threshold in Tourneys. I spend a lot of time playing magic with Nate. Here I am, I don't really know what to post on this site, because everything I have to say, has aleady been said. With that, I am Angel of Despair, try not to be too mean to me?

Hello, I'm Nick Wowelko (The Nick) from Syracuse, New York. I usually focus my attention on type 2 (constructed), but over the last year I've been getting more into Legacy. I do really enjoy the format, as my favorite deck of all time is Vial Affinity. I've also played Goblins, Threshold, and 3 Color Angel Stompy.

I'm trying to get a little respect in the Legacy community around here as I'm an OK player in constructed. I've been telling everyone that Affinity is good in Legacy and everyone just laughs at me. Maybe someday I can convince the community.

Hi, I havn't introduced myself yet so I will now.

Name: Noah
Nationality: Canadian, Vancouver
Magic Stuff: I've played Magic for 8 years, on and off. Since Urza's.
Age: 20
Gender: Male (no really)
I post mostly pointless shit to spam up threads - Cavius will vouch for me. I know shit about this game (interpret that as a lot or a little) so most of what I say is dumb as hell. I have made a few good points, though (hey, why are you laughing?)

Hmm, may as well hop on the bandwagon...

Name: Matt
Region: Columbus/Athens, Ohio
Years playing magic: 10?
Favorite format(s): Legacy, Limited, Standard, Extended (that order)
Favorite Deck: Combo (T2), Agg Control (Legacy)
Music: everything from Company Flow to Cryptopsy
Hobbies: piano, 40s, my sig other

I was a huge fan Type 1 during my college years, but I found that eating was more important than having a bunch of power cards around. I can honestly say that my type one collection paid my way through college (and infinite drafts). I kept playing legacy as it has always been my favorite format, and I would win most of the needed standard cards in money drafts when the gettin' was good. I spend a significant amount of time learning the intricacies of each deck I decide to play, so I prefer to play decks that reward the player for making difficult decisions.

I am proud to be a member of The Source. Look for me on MWS and hit me up for a game!

As many others, I've also never really introduced myself.

My name is Niels Blokland and I live in this nice little country called the Netherlands (or Holland like I like to call it, only most americans seem to think they are two different countries) in a small town (only 23.000 people) called Dongen.

I have now arrived at this wonderfull age off 22 (nothing really special about that) and I have yesterday ended my practical. I only need to go to school for 6 weeks and I am a gratueded Sound, Light and Image Technician.

I've been married very early (at 19), to a wonderfull girl I am now privilegded to call my wife. No I don't have kids yet and I prever to wait for a few more years, I first want to enjoy normal life now I have a fulltime job.

I started playing at 15 during Urza's Legacy, but I've never really played competive. I never really liked formats like standard and extended cause I've always wanted to play with every card I own. This is the reason I started playing Vintage a couple of years back.

Being on a budget in Vintage really suckes and I never really enjoyed playing tournaments for this reason. Then wizards created Legacy and the moment I found out, I started to love Legacy. No need for very expencive card (except some staples) and really lots of inovation left. Legacy rules.

This was the (short) story of my life, hope you liked it. If you didn't, why the hell read untill here?

Hello all.

I'm Tim Hetzel from Durham NC. Some may know me from the Wizards Boards (although I don't post there very often), TheManaDrain, or my team's boards (Team ABS). However, since I've just recently gotten into posting on Legacy boards I'd figured I'd introduce myself.

I'm 20 years old and I've been playing Magic since '94, but only competitively since late 2002, early 2003 (I did go to tournaments before that, but I wasn't what I consider "competitive"). Although I don't own power I like playing Vintage, mostly because I like winning with "bad" cards.

I've recently gotten into Legacy and finding the format fascinating. I hope to learn more about this great format!!

If anybody from the Triangle area (heck, or even the Belmont/Gastonia NC area during the school year) wants to play, drop me a line.

Hello, my name is Kyle and I live in Columbus, OH. I am about to start my sophmore year at Columbus State. I enjoy playing various sports, my shiny Xbox 360, and Magic. I have recently come into Legacy, and hope to attend all tournaments within a 3 hour radius of Columbus.

I hope to become friends with all of you! :smile:

Yo ! The name's Stew, well, Michael Stewart, but I go by Stew. I've been playing MtG since Unlimited, though I quit when Homelands was released and came back in time for Mirrodin.

I play Vintage the most and travel up and down the west coast for Power Tourneys. I am excited about Legacy and plan to spend some time dedicated to the format.

I'm looking for people in the San Diego area to play against, in either of the Eternal Formats. I know only a few stores to play at, and honestly they don't excite me. I'd be much happier finding competent players for homegames (small in-home tourneys, multiplayer, casual),

About me...

Favorite Music - Metal, mostly Death Metal
Favorite Movies - Star Wars IV-VI (you know, the real trilogy)
Favorite Sports Teams - Washington Redskins, LA Dodgers
Hobbies - Games, Women
Personal Fact - I have a 5yr old daughter.
Favorite MtG Color - Black
Favorite Vintage Decks - NGNG, UB Dragon, TaxMadness
Favorite Legacy Decks - The Game (Salvagers), Neo Sui (Deadguy), UG Madness
Least Favorite Vintage Deck - Oath
Least Favorite Legacy Deck - Vial Goblins

Anyway, should you want to game it up, gimme a PM or hit me up at www.team-abs.net

Hi I am Simon, living in Belgium, probably the most boring country in the world. It is easy to figure out then I have no life at all.
I am not playing long and discovered about Legacy very recently, and it became my favourite format immediately, because the format is much healthier to my budget than Standard or Vintage. I am currently playing Gamekeeper - Salvagers.
Here are some stats nobody is interested in, but i will give them anyway
Favorite card: Yawgmoth's Will
Favorite colorcombinations: UG, BG
Current decks: Gamekeeper - Salvagers (Legacy), URW-Tron (T2)
Decks I wanna build: URW Fish (Legacy), a nice combo deck for future T2 (post-Kamigawa), but I haven't found out yet wich combo :wink:

I'm Nick, played since a little after Ice Age. I'm from Danville, IL, which is this crappy little town south of Chicago. I mostly play Legacy, but sometimes I branch out into Standard if the environment is exciting or if I can make crappy little 10 dollar decks and do ok with them. I'm trying to work on some new decks, but not getting to far. And I think this site is really great now that I've come out of my 'Sit on the sidelines and watch everyone else discuss stuff' mode that went on for about 2 years.

I am Brett, located in GA. Originally started playing back in April '94 and continued played through summer of '95. A comic book storeowner introduced me to the game. My gf and I bought a starter deck and some booster packs. We attempted to play with just glossing over the rulebook. Wasn't until the next day back at the comic store then I was enlightened. Ended up stop due to lack of interest in my area (Mostly due to Homelands and the fact that the next set, Alliances, did not come out until July '96) and the fact that I would only play 1 and only 1 deck (UWGR – power, counter magic, bolt, StP, Factories, Serendib Efreet, Erhnam). Afterwards, played Warhammer for a bit.

In Feb 1996 I decide to sell off my whole collection for $2,000. I needed the money; I was a pizza driver going to college. The sad (I was not sad until summer of 2004) thing is I sold a NM full set of power, play set of all the revised dual lands and a play set of Juzam Djinn. Not to mention tons of other cards from Arabian Nights through Fallen Empires.

Anyhow, I got back into the game in summer of 2004, when I saw some 5th Dawn at a Hobby store. I started playing standard, got 13th @ GA states playing Affinity in '04, before long I got into Extended which was very short lived since I wasn't fond of the format after the rotation. Now I just play Legacy, both casual and competitively.

My name is Tom. I live in southeastern Mass and work in Prov , RI. I have been playing magic since the Invasion block, on and off. I am really into this legacy thing. I want to start playing at my local store, but now I have kids and mostly play with some friends at work casually, but still stick to current errata, rulings. I had stopped buying paper cards altogether and was playing stricly online. I amassed 4 completed sets of 8th Ed, and the Entire Mirrodin block. I am about to redeem all the sets. It does seem cheaper to get cards digitally and then redeem them. But, it takes a long time. I stopped playing during the Kamigawa block, I really didn't like the set, however I do like the new legend rule, no dead cards in hand , like jitte , anymore. Imagine if the old legend rule still applied? That would suck. Rav block is fun, a bit slow, but reminds me of invasion alot. I am looking forward to see what actually gets reprinted in Time Spiral.
Currently, I have been playing a high/tide reset deck, and a b/w confidant without the confidant(phyrexian arena). ( I am waiting for them in the mail , I won a playset on ebay) It still plays out well without the critter that just dies to SwtoPL. I also put in SOFI to stick on hippie, he just gives the buisness once equipped. I have complete playsets of all the dual lands. I own two beta power cards and those nice proxies of the rest. This is the best forum site I have found in Regards to legacy, nice to meet ya!

hey, my name is steve, im from haarlem, holland. i have been playing magic since prophecy. i havent played any competetive games yet, that's because im working to pay my school. i have been playing online on magic-league for over a half year now.

i have discoverd legacy about 2 months ago. have been playing fish and ***** since then. i hope to learn alot from this forum, and in the future i also hope to contribute to this comunity.

Hello - I saw somewhere an introductory post was asked for, so here it is:

Michael Maddox, 22, Houston, Texas

I've played legacy on and off for five years. I play with a close group of four friends, and we occasionally attend local tournaments. There isn't a lot of competition in our area that we know of. We do play test against popular decks, and each of us has a least one rogue deck that does well against every DTB in the stickies, as well as other popular decks. We don't like cookie cutter :)

If there's anyone in the Houston area that would like to play, we sometimes go to Enigma's or Strike Zone. We used to play at Bam's before the owner died :frown:

I'm here mostly to get information on new cards (not a lot of time = not a lot of keeping up with new sets) to check the latest popular cookie cutter decks, and to lurk around and see what ideas people are tossing around.

Hi, I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I enjoy the Legacy format quite a lot, as it's just a bunch of evolutions of old decks, which in my opinion were evolved from past deck designs. Like, Turbo Xerox and Not Quite Gro, Necropotence and Bw Confidant, Trix and Goblins, and White Weenie and Angel Stompy.

I've been playing this format for 1.5 years so far, and enjoy it a lot. I've played T2 around the Onslaught/Mirroden era, which was fun, because it defined 1.5 a little; Play Affinity or Beat Affinity was a thing my friend always said. I guess in 1.5, it's like that with Goblins for awhile.

Yeah, I take my time about these things, apparently.

My name is Terry. I live in Southern Illinois, which aside from our very localized scene (Carbondale area) is pretty much a Magical wasteland these days. Think "April is the cruelest month", only, you know, bleaker. One of the side effects of playing in a college town.

At any rate, our tournament group is organized by us, basically, since the one local store isn't very Magic-friendly. We run our own weekly events, with 100% prize payout, rotating the format every week with a 5 week rotation. Back around the beginning of the year, I got everyone to add the 5th week as Legacy, and it has become my second favourite format; sorry, I just can't shake Extended.

The meta here is very odd, as Goblins has 0 presence; the most common decks played are Deadguy Ale, Threshold, and Angel Stompy. I like playing various things, although lately I have been playing Train Wreck and Wildfire much more than anything else.

So, yeah. That's all the news that fits.

Not much to be said; basically, I played iOWN on MWS, and now I'm here.

Nice to meet all of you :laugh:

Alright. This is my first post and I'll try not to alienate myself quite yet.

I'm 15 and I've been playing since.... erm.... a while. I'm from Stillwater, NY. (Basically, you take a hard left at the gates of hell, and you're there.)

I used to play at the Guild, but, ya know. :cry:

I generally build my own decks, or really cheap netdecks. I'm broke and lazy. No cash, no job. Bad combo there.

If anybody knows anyplace around Stillwater to find a Legacy tournament, drop me a PM, and I'll be eternally grateful.

I'm still getting the format figured out, so be patient with me.

Hey everybody... Yeah I know I've been around a little bit but I pretty much didn't play magic since my last post 8 months ago... So I figured I would re-introduce myself :)

My name is Zeke Umile, I'm 17, a senior, I live like 40 mins southwest of Philly, PA, born in west philly. I love magic, obv, been playing a while, my constructed rating is 1866, limited is only 1688 because it seems like there never is any limited events here and the store hardly EVER reports drafts, and my eternal rating is 1692, because i'm good at gaining 92 points at GP philly and never playing sanctioned legacy. I've been playing competitively since around Torment, but that was just the start of me JSS'ing...

I came accross the Source again from a link on SCG forums and I was just like wow I love sourcers so I came back... WHERE DID GRAH GO :'(

Hi everybody,
I'm Enrico from Parma, Italy and I am 33 years old.
I started playing Magic with Revised and left playing when Mirage came out (and my duals became useless for T2).
I started again with Apocalypse and I play only Legacy.
I don't have much time to play but I really love this game.