So how many decks do you guys have? I have two serious decks hat I am constantly tuning and then 6 or 7 others that are for casual. This is after I broke apart about 4 decks that I just wasn't happy with.
So, how many? What kind of variety? Or are they pretty similar?
I used to have about 5, but i took apart the casual ones and now i have 2 standard. I usually make aggro builds, but i just finished up a fog build too.
Quote from: izik99 on October 20, 2012, 09:36:42 AM
I used to have about 5, but i took apart the casual ones and now i have 2 standard. I usually make aggro builds, but i just finished up a fog build too.
I have 2 standard and 1 casual fog and 1 casual reanamator
Do you get bored with ideas for a deck or do you tinker until it runs like you want? My two standard I constantly adjust, but they are still true to my original designs. Maybe because of time and money I haven't made huge changes to them. Other decks have been created more on a whim.
I have 3 decks that I keep built at all times. My colorless Eldrazi, mono black vampires, and whatever my standard happens to be. Then, I am working on an angel deck of sorts on the side just for s and giggles.
I have a R/B vampire I was thinking about making mono with just a splash of red for the captain, but I haven't played it in a while. I think that means it is time to switch it up.
I have three standards and an EDH. My main deck is a mono black {blood artist} deck that is conpletely finished. Well, im satisfied with it FOR NOW. I get bored easily. Another is a UB zombie deck that isnt all that competitive. I just play it for fun because i love zombies. The third is an Izzet {guttersnipe} deck thats still in testing mode. Ill be able to focus on it more now that my main deck is finished. I also made a {shrieking affliction} discard deck that is major fun but needs a lot of tweaking.
Standard Reanimater
Couple other decks I toy with but mainly just one.
Up until recently I had more than 40 decks that I kept together to show newer people different play styles and sets (mainly modified precons). But my coworker made me realize that the more decks I keep the more it hinders what I have for trade. So rather than have them collect dust, between disbanding decks and making new ones I've got about 5 casual decks I still refuse to take apart, 3 commander decks which I want to take apart 1 but can't decide which, 1 standard deck, and about 10 other decks Ill probably keep taking apart lol..
I have 4 standerd deck ( g/w, mbc, a attempt at a new delver, and u/w shinanigans deck) all of which I keep changeling to run better and better. I also have 4 commander decks ( mbc, competitive Damia, vamps, and competitive omnath) all of which get played all the time I love commander
Actual decks 4+
Decks i "have" because almost all decks share some components: >9000
I have 30+ decks because I am a casual player. I play with different decks all the time because if I played with the same 5 decks over and over, I'd shoot myself of boredom. They range from deadly to silly. It depends on what mood I'm in. If I just wanna play to play, I will use a mix of silly and serious decks. If I want to rip someone's head off, then I use my deadly decks. Depends on what mood I'm in. But I can't take those decks apart because just like someone pointed out, those decks may be sitting there collecting dust, but at least they aren't just a collection of cards I don't use collecting dust in my closet.
Quote from: Quackmaster5 on October 20, 2012, 02:24:46 PM
I have 30+ decks because I am a casual player. I play with different decks all the time because if I played with the same 5 decks over and over, I'd shoot myself of boredom. They range from deadly to silly. It depends on what mood I'm in. If I just wanna play to play, I will use a mix of silly and serious decks. If I want to rip someone's head off, then I use my deadly decks. Depends on what mood I'm in. But I can't take those decks apart because just like someone pointed out, those decks may be sitting there collecting dust, but at least they aren't just a collection of cards I don't use collecting dust in my closet.
I thought I was alone on this!!
Quote from: Blaze2100 on October 20, 2012, 02:45:29 PM
Quote from: Quackmaster5 on October 20, 2012, 02:24:46 PM
I have 30+ decks because I am a casual player. I play with different decks all the time because if I played with the same 5 decks over and over, I'd shoot myself of boredom. They range from deadly to silly. It depends on what mood I'm in. If I just wanna play to play, I will use a mix of silly and serious decks. If I want to rip someone's head off, then I use my deadly decks. Depends on what mood I'm in. But I can't take those decks apart because just like someone pointed out, those decks may be sitting there collecting dust, but at least they aren't just a collection of cards I don't use collecting dust in my closet.
I thought I was alone on this!!
You are not alone sir. I can't take apart decks if I think they can still fall under one of two conditions.
1) they are still super fun to play
2) they can actually do what they are supposed to.
If they fall under one of those two categories, I can't take them apart. And since everyone in my playgroup has alot of different types of decks, I like to have options. Having only a handful of decks takes the fun outta deck building.
As of right now I have 1 standard deck and am thinking of a 2nd. I've never really had more then 2 decks and that was when I did play EDH.
Quote from: smokin terry on October 20, 2012, 03:19:44 PM
As of right now I have 1 standard deck and am thinking of a 2nd. I've never really had more then 2 decks and that was when I did play EDH.
Can someone explain to me how this doesn't get boring? Only 1 deck. I'm not criticizing. I'm asking for realz. Bc I would get bored seeing and testing the same combos and cards over and over and OVER! Once again. Not criticizing. Just curious. Bc I have a guy in my playgrouo like this and he has 3 decks. I know exactly what combos he's gunna pull everytime. And I almost always have an answer.
Quote from: Quackmaster5 on October 20, 2012, 03:35:42 PM
Quote from: smokin terry on October 20, 2012, 03:19:44 PM
As of right now I have 1 standard deck and am thinking of a 2nd. I've never really had more then 2 decks and that was when I did play EDH.
Can someone explain to me how this doesn't get boring? Only 1 deck. I'm not criticizing. I'm asking for realz. Bc I would get bored seeing and testing the same combos and cards over and over and OVER! Once again. Not criticizing. Just curious. Bc I have a guy in my playgrouo like this and he has 3 decks. I know exactly what combos he's gunna pull everytime. And I almost always have an answer.
Limitations on cards, still testing decks.... There could be many many reasons why but only that person really knows.
I only have what I have because of card limitations and I'm not great at deck building so I takes me FOREVER to build a dec that runs right.
The reason people play with only a couple decks is so they know that they have something solid and can constantly tweak to play against any deck type
As it is I keep 7 together 3 standard(junk reanimator, grixis control, uw detain/mill) 2 commander (mono blue control, BW grave pact) and 2 jank casual that fluctuate every now and then.
Quote from: Quackmaster5 on October 20, 2012, 03:35:42 PM
Quote from: smokin terry on October 20, 2012, 03:19:44 PM
As of right now I have 1 standard deck and am thinking of a 2nd. I've never really had more then 2 decks and that was when I did play EDH.
Can someone explain to me how this doesn't get boring? Only 1 deck. I'm not criticizing. I'm asking for realz. Bc I would get bored seeing and testing the same combos and cards over and over and OVER! Once again. Not criticizing. Just curious. Bc I have a guy in my playgrouo like this and he has 3 decks. I know exactly what combos he's gunna pull everytime. And I almost always have an answer.
I like to play decks with a lot of field interaction. I can not play decks with less then 3 colors. And once I do get bored with a deck I start from scratch completely. But I will play and tweak a deck until I am satisfied with it.
I have three. One casual and two b/w standards
I have six. Two of them can become standard with the removal of just a few cards. Otherwise, they are just casual.
I have a Legacy UB Reanimator on a budget, a UB Affinity. And in standard I currently have BG Zombies and GW Midrange. I am working on taking apart Midrange and putting together Bant Control.
Quote from: Dmreiss on October 20, 2012, 09:32:15 AM
So how many decks do you guys have? I have two serious decks hat I am constantly tuning and then 6 or 7 others that are for casual. This is after I broke apart about 4 decks that I just wasn't happy with.
So, how many? What kind of variety? Or are they pretty similar?
Right now.... Mhmmm took me two months to gather cards from my old collection and buy new cards... But now I am on 3 standard decks, 2 modern decks and 3 legacy decks. Now working on "FuN" deck... Am curious if scarecrows could work...:D
Anyway 8 decks plus few are under construction...:D
Quote from: KangaRod on October 21, 2012, 03:59:46 PM
I usually only have one standard deck... But I may also have a modem one if there is modern events coming up. I usually just like to trade away or sell cards I'm not using.
If my wife would not play then possibly I would have only one max two standard decks as well...:D but she kind of like the game and I had to make a deck for her...:D
I just started playing magic again a few months ago. I have one standard deck a 2 or 3 that still need work. My only problem is I over think all my ideas.
I started around when m12 came out and have always had one deck. Though it hasn't always been the same. I was junk, then mono black control, then rakdos, now U/W jank.
7 complete, 2 in progress
W/u angels with r/g splash
R/b vamps
B/u zombies
R/g wolves
B/g graveyard
R/u ownage
Mono mills
And then my w/b rats and r/b humans in progres
I usually have about four decks maybe 5
2 for standard one for me and a friend
2 casual multiplayer/ turn 4 infinite mana memnarch control and mono black zombie wtf hate
And a commander deck, at the moment I'm doing kalia
I've got two commander deks
A {Bruna, Light of Alabaster}
And an {Omnath, Locus of Mana}
Two standard decks.
Izzett
And
Reanimator
Often I'll throw together some jank decks just for fun.
Quote from: Testset on October 22, 2012, 12:15:04 PM
Zur EDH
{B}{U} Standard Zombie
{B}{W} Standard Human
{B} Sac w/Infinite Combo
{U}{G} Arcane Landfall w/I.C.
{U}{G} Saproling w/I.C.
{U}{G} Threshold w/I.C.
{U}{W} Artifact w/I.C.
{R}{G} Groundbreaker Elf w/I.C.
{W} Swords
{B}{U}{R}{G}{W} Bringer
{B}{U}{R}{G}{W} Slivers
{R}{W} Defender
{U}{B} Mill
{R} Goblin
{G} Eldrazi
{U} Jace Human
{W} Angel
A couple paupers, some training decks (for new players), a few Ravnica-Expansion decks...
and several under construction.
Honors ur nickname obviously...:D
Quote from: Testset on October 22, 2012, 03:28:37 PM
Quote from: whitedrake on October 22, 2012, 02:57:58 PM
Quote from: Testset on October 22, 2012, 12:15:04 PM
Zur EDH
{B}{U} Standard Zombie
{B}{W} Standard Human
{B} Sac w/Infinite Combo
{U}{G} Arcane Landfall w/I.C.
{U}{G} Saproling w/I.C.
{U}{G} Threshold w/I.C.
{U}{W} Artifact w/I.C.
{R}{G} Groundbreaker Elf w/I.C.
{W} Swords
{B}{U}{R}{G}{W} Bringer
{B}{U}{R}{G}{W} Slivers
{R}{W} Defender
{U}{B} Mill
{R} Goblin
{G} Eldrazi
{U} Jace Human
{W} Angel
A couple paupers, some training decks (for new players), a few Ravnica-Expansion decks...
and several under construction.
Honors ur nickname obviously...:D
Just an aptly-picked palindrome, I suppose...
Anyway it suites u...:D