Magic Unhinged

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Spooner
Oh, I thought certain cards "battled" each other and could be won and lost on the spot

You're half right. When one of them loses, it generally just goes to the discard pile.

 

[cirthix]

i used to like magic (unglued has to be my favorite set lol), but with recent sets (anything after the face change), it has gotten really lame. I think it started going downhill after invasion

 

[The J]

The point of Magic is not to take the other person's cards, but to kill him by taking away his life points. You do this by attacking with your creatures you "summon" onto the table. The other player then selects creatures to defend with (each creature has a strength and defense rating). If you attack with more creatures than the other player defends with, then damage from the unblocked creatures are dealt to the other player. There are quite a few rules and tricks that can be done to either do a whole lot of damage to an opponent (you can theoretically do an infinite amount of damge with the right cards and tactics) or to protect yourself from a lot of damage. It was very fun and I have about one thousand cards at home (a friend of mine is a collector and has over 200,000 cards). I stopped playing just because I began to lose interest and because Wizards started introducing a slew (sp) of new rules and cards way too fast for me to keep up with.

 

[Spooner]

So all the different sets can be used in any specific game?

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: Spooner
So all the different sets can be used in any specific game?

For casual games, yes. Each set just releases new cards and sometimes new rules but they're all compatible with each other. For tournaments, generally not. Unglued and unhinged (since they're parody cards and probably have the potential to making unfair combinations) are illegal cards and usually they limit you to the last 5 or 6 sets released. I personally believe this serves two purposes. The first is that people need to buy the new sets to play in tournaments. The second is that preventing unfair card combinations is alot easier if you don't have to look through every card ever made.

 

[MetalMat]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Anubis
i used to play it but because they started releasing an expansion every 3 months i couldent afford to keep up, i sold my collection on FS/FT

i wonder what my magic card would net on fs/ft...?

how many cards you got

I selling mine right now on fs/ft , just organized all of them over the weekend (took me forever).