MTG is definitly the most strategic game out today, which makes it boring at times. I like it better than Yu-Gi-Oh which is basically the inverse of MTG because it's all luck... MTG is basically a VERY unique variation of Chess, I guess it's like DND + CHESS + Old Star Wars TCG. I don't like many aspects of the game, such as the fact that it's one gigantic wait-fest because you have to take EVERY THING in to account if you want to win, which'll winde up driving you insane if you miss something. I didn't play much casual play decks, I started off against Tier 2 winning decks when I first got in to it (which taught me a lot, about getting royally pounded), it was a very aggresive atmosphere. I remember my first clerics deck versus a blue deck, which was an automatic lose, then I remember going up against goblins which was an automatic win (clerics are lifegain, goblins take advantage of speed and being able to kill fast. Blue is decking and so my life gain was useless). My friend who got me and a friend in to the game had a couple of old decks than owned us and told us about a real MTG player, some one who won a lot of tournies, he had a Astral Slide deck that owned us 100% of the time. When I ran an Astral Slide deck (it was white w/ splashed red) the game got incredibly boring. It was always I destroy their armada, get my own, cycle my own out, destroy their army again, I then pound them. If I ever got in to MTG again, I'd probably use a casual Blue decking deck, so I wouldn't lose so bad to tournament winning decks but still had fun against a casual play deck. Or maybe goblins, goblins are always great...

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