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And completely for free, without buying packs/cards! You can play with decks that would cost $10,000 to put together with physical cards.

platz 6y ago
but imho it's more fun to play with either cards you own or with a reasonable limit, because mtg is better with some kind of a social contract in force.
- anonymoushn 6y ago
  I think this contract is usually just the set of rules for deck construction, which is usually just a format. It's not really a problem if one player's preferred modern deck costs $200 and another's costs $2000 when neither of them had to pay for the cards and both of them had the option to play whatever modern deck they liked.
  - platz 6y ago
    try your cedh deck in a casual game and let me know how it goes
    - anonymoushn 6y ago
      That's definitely a thing. I usually try to avoid games where trying to win is frowned upon in favor of games that are enjoyable when everyone tries to win.
      - vertex-four 6y ago
        Generally speaking, in Magic, people try to win, but you're not going to be sinking hundreds of dollars into cards when you're just getting into the game and playing against other newbies, making it a self-regulating thing - you spend more money as you need to spend more money.
        anonymoushn 6y ago
        You're replying to a thread that begins with "Even if you don't own the cards and you're playing with proxies or on cockatrice or whatever, you should still use an additional deck construction rule that places an upper bound on the physical version of the deck."
- strbean 6y ago
  I play very infrequently, so it is fun to say "let's play legacy, pick something random from a legacy top decks list". Gets boring pretty quickly, but I'm burnt out on MtG for awhile by that point anyway :)
gpderetta 6y ago
Sharpie on a basic land is a time honoured way to proxy expensive cards in paper magic and perfectly acceptable in many casual circles.
- strbean 6y ago
  Works for seasoned players. For myself and most people I play with, we're reading the cards most of the time. Try fitting Shahrazad's text on a card with sharpie :) Also, so much effort ><

platz 6y ago

but imho it's more fun to play with either cards you own or with a reasonable limit, because mtg is better with some kind of a social contract in force.

anonymoushn 6y ago
I think this contract is usually just the set of rules for deck construction, which is usually just a format. It's not really a problem if one player's preferred modern deck costs $200 and another's costs $2000 when neither of them had to pay for the cards and both of them had the option to play whatever modern deck they liked.
- platz 6y ago
  try your cedh deck in a casual game and let me know how it goes
  - anonymoushn 6y ago
    That's definitely a thing. I usually try to avoid games where trying to win is frowned upon in favor of games that are enjoyable when everyone tries to win.
    - vertex-four 6y ago
      Generally speaking, in Magic, people try to win, but you're not going to be sinking hundreds of dollars into cards when you're just getting into the game and playing against other newbies, making it a self-regulating thing - you spend more money as you need to spend more money.
      - anonymoushn 6y ago
        You're replying to a thread that begins with "Even if you don't own the cards and you're playing with proxies or on cockatrice or whatever, you should still use an additional deck construction rule that places an upper bound on the physical version of the deck."
strbean 6y ago
I play very infrequently, so it is fun to say "let's play legacy, pick something random from a legacy top decks list". Gets boring pretty quickly, but I'm burnt out on MtG for awhile by that point anyway :)

gpderetta 6y ago

Sharpie on a basic land is a time honoured way to proxy expensive cards in paper magic and perfectly acceptable in many casual circles.

strbean 6y ago
Works for seasoned players. For myself and most people I play with, we're reading the cards most of the time. Try fitting Shahrazad's text on a card with sharpie :) Also, so much effort ><