>>28940
Also yeah, you want to have a win con, but your want to have things that supplement it. You have a token deck, your main token engine is taken out? have something to pump them up your remaining tokens.

Got baited into a Settle The Wreckage? Clap back with that strong creature youve been holding.

Always have a contingency plan.

>>28943
The deck was based on a lifegain deck. It's hard not to gain life and then you have cards which damage the enemy or gain +1/+1 every time you gain life, so it's about volume rather than value. There's a couple of harder to trip effects (like the angel which spawns an angel token when you gain 5 life in a turn). Tokens are mostly just a means to life gain but I'm looking at ways to use those tokens beyond flooding my enemy. My main wincon seems to be getting that vampire which does 1 damage every time you gain life but because I'm constantly gaining life I can afford to play aggressively for board control and damage on my enemy. Life gain itself is pretty weak but it does let me try and get Ajani's pridemade to ridiculous levels or get more than a couple of layers of combo going.

I'm working on a variant of the deck, it's got a lot of one of this or that and I guess I'll see what's effective and what doesn't make a difference and whittle it down. I don't think it'll be top tier viable but I actually think my biggest issue will be having several cards that fill similar roles slightly differently and working out which is better. I guess I want more than 1 way to gain life, more than 1 way to spawn tokens, more than 1 to abuse them etc. With it being very hard to get more than 2 different cards onto the field and say "oh, no synergy here at all". I think the deck as it stands beats most premades but it's still a bit janky and unrefined. I got the premade with settle the wreckage and honestly it might be a really good card for this deck. I wonder if graves/welcome will make the reanimating skeleton/harpy combo into something a bit good.

I'll probably grab a meta deck or two as well, blue tempo looks like a nice mix of control and aggro, I think I get most of the cards I need from mermaid NPE and pteramancer which is apparently the best card of the meta is an uncommon so I can just burn some wildcards if I don't pull one in a pack before then. RDW looks good, but also a bit autopilot and needs a shitload of rares.

You get rewards for rank every season and a season is a month so it seems like playing a bit of ranked to …

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>>28946
Maybe I can help you out, whenever you can, export that deck (it'll copy it) then paste it here.

Magic Arena's my fix right now.

>Divest
>Duress
>Vicious Rumors
>Pilfering Imp
>Burglar Rat

And those are just the CHEAP mono-black discard spells! It's way too much fun to watch my opponent be handless and helpless.

>TFW you slap your opponent's hand into their graveyard, insta-gib whatever actually ends on board and play whatever ended up in their graveyard with cards like Boneyard Parley

I've been getting into Buddyfight, and when I say getting into, I mean excited, alone in my room, looking at cards nobody is going to play with me so I play against myself and watch the anime.

>>28950

You mean animated gif thumbnails. Aww yiss.

Still got LARP on the brain. I must be masochistic as fuck.

Kinda late, but heres how I got into MTG 2 years ago:

I watched this on Vice and my curiousity was piqued: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plr81gaUIr0

Next, I was able to convince a buddy to get into MTG with me. We then proceeded to go to our local walmart and bought a Duel Deck and a few random packs. We used the internet to learn the rules and subtleties of the game. We each chose "colors" and started building decks around those colors. Every week we would meet up on sunday mornings, get high af and play magic for a few hours. Everytime he would destroy my decks I would go back to the drawing board and retool my decks to counter his decks. Eventually we started building more decks and expanded into different formats (standard, modern, commander). We still get together once every week or two and play MTG but we stick to commander mostly (standard got too expensive and we weren't going to FNM so we didnt care).

My advice to you if your going to play paper magic, find a friend and do your thing for a little bit and then go to a LGS. The LGS that i first went to was super supportive giving us free starter decks, sleeves and they even assessed my deck and taught me about the mana curve. Avoid spending money on expensive cards when you're a beginner because you want to LEARN before you start investing in expensive products.

Good luck dude!

>>28928
This guy is right.

I started at a FNM with some jank ass deck that I went 1 win with and lost all the rest because I didn't know how to really play.

Then I started getting into commander which is really fucking fun because you can pull some shit out your ass and really play.

Seriously, if you get into paper magic, Commander is the way to go. Modern/Vintage is about who spends the most money or who started playing back when to collect those cards, and Standard is usually a meta game that is also expensive. Commander is just bring your 100 card deck and hope it works out in the end while having a grand ole time.

>>28893
find 3 friends and grab yourselfs 4 of the commander premade decks.
those are the most complex but also most fun games in all formats.
4 player no teams matches

>>28736
Less eldar.
More daemons.
.........

>>28785
It's finally happening!

Is WH40k still going strong? I miss my Irish Banshees...

>>28935
Expect cliché fantasy for most running events, yes. There's a few modern LARPs that use nerf guns, ranging from post-apocalyptic to space/sci-fi. There's also modern-day vampires but that's more drama and plot.

Things I've learned from the LARP events I went to.

• Always carry at least one one-handed weapon. "But I want to play a pacifist/non-combat cha-" No. Regardless of what you want to play, the storytelling crew tends to be unoriginal and can't think of many challenges that aren't frustrating puzzles or combat. Unless you're a cripple/fogey and completely unfit to fight, you're going to end up in a fight at least once.
  
• If you play an alchemist/trader/scholar, always have a back-up plan and prepare to get screwed out of resources. Once again, always carry a weapon for emergencies. Swords are cheap, your fun isn't.
  
• Group up! Never go alone, always have at least one buddy with you. Distrust the game crew if you're a player. The game crew just wants to entertain themselves by fucking with the characters' comfort and safety. If your character isn't a hot shot focus of the main story, you're not safe.
  
• Preparation is key. Depending on the location and duration of the event, you might want to just pack as if you're going camping. I'm talking the 'outdoors shower in a bag with tent and pillow/blanket' kind. Hell, I'm going to be a kind soul next time and carry extra emergency gear for other people.
  
• Dress in-game like you're going camping as well. Waterproof, easy to clean, easy to get in and out of, good for all types of weather. You're going to hate yourself if you have to drag your ass through a rainy forest in plate armour. A good in-game backpack or an outfit with inside pockets will serve you well.
  
• A churchwarden pipe with cheap brown weed will make an inconspicuous way to get high at an event where you should really get high to have fun.

>>28939
Also a word of advice: Sites like Wish tend to sell all kinds of useful stuff for outfits and accessories. I've cobbled together a quick outfit, didn't cost me more than €80. I've got doubts about the sword though, I'm pretty sure it's not LARP-approved but if it IS it's only 10 for a proper weapon compared to those jackass LARP vendors trying to rip you off with 60 for a single sword.

I still need to buy things like a proper tent and a mobile power generator, but those are long-term investments.

>>27723

>Thumbnail looks like the big robot dude is taking a selfie on his iPhone

Can't unsee

Does anyone have PDFs of Angel Giraldez's A to Z masterclass books?

>>28103
Not stealthy enough

DONKEY!

>>28890
What chess variant? I like elf-chess.

I am in a numenera game and am enjoying it.

>>28917
It seems pretty nice. I pirated the source books not too long ago. I really like the idea of the cypher system.

>>28912
Starfire Superior

>>28913
YOU MOTHERFUCKER

>>28912

Cosplaying ladies could solve that 'never' roadblock. Everybody's got their price, as they say.

Yeah, I got a question.

Do you have any psychological disorders that make you prone to the masochistic task of DMing?

>>28906
I was going to ask a question that answers this

>how do you get your players to run a campaign so you can play a character too?

But also.

DMing is alright, you create a nice sandbox and take pleasure in watching your players find new and inventive ways to shit in it, abuse combat mechanics, and break your ideas. If you enjoy emergent story telling it's actually pretty fun. If you don't then you need to be a masochist.

The only bit that sucks is when you have to prep and have an idea what's up (or at least know what sort of encounters will challenge but not murder them) and one or more players are just starting to figure out what their class is good at when they hit level 10.

>>28885
Dimir is blue-black; the color of bruising...

This cute little guy and Impervious Greatworm are my favourites, along with their respective colours. So far I like to keep it to mono-colour decks to prevent mana screw (it's real, yo) and it's so much fun.

If you're running blue, you better have 4 Opts in your deck. Better if you're running Psychic Corrosion.

Forest Dwellers

>>28867
Carnivores & Herbivores working together?!?

>>28899
Probably a green Magic the Gathering card focused around buffing multiple creatures.

>>28581
Black Queen takes White Queen

White to play
L Dominguez vs Aronian

>>28645
rook h5
pawn takes
queen g8
king h6
queen h8++