We need team imtg.

[DrainCleaner]

Team The Gathering Forum

Gives more exposure to community forum, many people just use this forum and not the app.

We are all forum nerds who met on the forum

We can create regional teams (NW, SW, NE, Midwest etc

Keeping up in EVENTs sub forum is huge
Weekly deck testing on untapped or cockatrice, trying out decks each person posts, noting strengths and weaknesses to help prepare for upcoming events.

Support of each other through social media that is accessible and succinct: basically Instagram and twitter. Facebook and tumblr are garbage for social media when it comes to promotional material to strangers. You want people who have never heard of us to pique their interest in the team.

Major events usually you will all have to try to get the same brew going to see if it can make it to day 2.

Cards: sharing your available pool to local members. If Johnny needs 2 temples of malady and a nissa but can't afford it. Johnny should have the support of his regional members to lend cards for a major tournament. If local members Don't have access at all, mail borrowing through each established regional leader would be another solution to save funds for hotels/travel arrangements.

Once established, dues from winnings should be distributed with intention. Make sure things are paid for, even if a member didnt make it to day 2, he shouldn't be penalized with a burden of a bill when another member wins several thousands and both members put in equal work.  A team won't survive if it doesn't operate like a team. Selfishness will only divide the potential groups.

Writing articles is nice and all...but no one gives a flying .love. until you win a major tournament. So instead of swagger and all that stuff, focus on building decks that destroy current metas and come from left field. Swagger will come later when you make money. If you spend $500 to print mats and shirts and only intend to sell them to the forum.....well you better make a sweet ass design of a playmat.

I have that sweet ass design fr a playmat, but it's big production shoot. Once finished: every geek will want it and I know how to perfectly promote it.  Of course not all business secrets can be shared in post one ;!

I can get behind this. However, i think instead of "Team The Gathering Forum" we just call ourselves "The Gathering Forum." Sounds much smoother.

[MuggyWuggy]

I'm all for something clean that involves The Gathering

[Anoobass]

How about post 2?

[MuggyWuggy]

Well my playmat idea is not going to be shared until I finish shooting it. My gf and I have planned this for a lil bit and want to find the right models and location for the shoot. Then after that probably find an amazing photoshop editor for touch ups, then finding the right place to print the mats. Ill probably retail my mats @ $30 each as they will be for sure in demand. Depends on my printing price also.

[MuggyWuggy]

As far as forum team goes:

Establish regions

Create a post in events:

"Gathering Team" California
"Gathering Team" Northwest
"Gathering Team" Chicago
Etc Etc

People interested in playing with the group join the respective groups that apply closest to your locale

No point in saying "I wanna play with team Cali, but I live in NY and can never make the events because my parents won't let me travel"

Be practical, I would propose established members of the forum should have priority on leadership for regions. Someone who is patient and strong with communicating. Someone who is willing to pick up a minor like truffle for an event and it won't be a big deal.

For people relying on fellow members like this for support for rides to events. You gotta give em gas money. No one should pay for anyone else's way, but compensation when due should be paid for. Otherwise people get salty.

Once each locale has 4-8 members, schedule a weekly playtest that works for everyone. I believed untapped.net still works as a client for testing, so everyone should be able to test. No drops, you ride your deck till you die in the game. Skype/vent to keep communication clear and to also help eachother remember triggers as if you were playing competitive  REL. record your misplay down so you can see after the game is over if that costed you the match.

Play the game as if your opponent knows as much about your deck as you do. If you get thoughtseized: just keep those revealed cards revealed.

If you thoughtseize: WRITE DOWN the cards revealed to assume you won't see them as mentioned above.

Improving your play habits as you test will make you a stronger player. I say this as I know my misplays at the GP costed me a loss by 1 life difference between me and opponent.

Once you establish a a playgroup, major events within 300 miles of where you live will become much more accessible and feasible.

I'm an adult; so I can Goto GPLA, Phoenix, SLC and Denver. I schedule it in advance too! So if you know there is a GP coming up, schedule it, minors, let your parents know about it, do your best to come up wih your fees for the tournament. If you can prove to your parents your hobby Won't be a burden on them, and they trust your guardian for the trip (hence patient good communicator who is an adult is needed) you will be able to do more events.

If you say you're getting Ina car with a guy named mike from 40 miles away and he's bringing you to a card show they heard about two days ago....they'll probably say no and ask police to investigate mike as he sounds like someone who needs to be running into Chris Matthews (to catch a predator)

Basically it's extending your playgroup past your LGS, and if you put true intention, it can thrive

[MuggyWuggy]

Why does ^^^^ this sounds a little fishy???

I don't see how not sharing my intellectual properties is fishy?

If I produce an image and make everything for it: why can't I protect its conceit? If I don't and I tell all of you my great photoshoot idea, some guy reads it and does it before me. .love. that.

Come to Hollywood llama and see how fast an idea you blab about will get stolen. Real talk.

$30 for a badass playmat is not unheard of. I'm talking badass on the level of Steve argyle or Clint cleary's playmats

[MuggyWuggy]

I've got a lot of experience at laying out the blueprints and then the unfortunate experience of getting shafted by others who take my ideas and run with them.

My brain thoughts are not always free

[Rass]

Good posts muggs. A team is only as strong as their weakest (greediest) member.

As much as I like the idea of sharing I would be careful. Also an idea might be a dues per meeting. Five bucks from 8 people adds up fast. But make sure you figure out and have everything on pape before you start doing stuff like this. I have seen a lot of bs happen over money.

[MuggyWuggy]

Yeah people borrow stuff and disappear.

That's why you have addresses and thugs

[MuggyWuggy]

Not bashing you Muggy, I'm sure it's a cutthroat place

Just sounded odd the way you put it since I'm not in your head thinking your thoughts.

No worries man, I'd love to see and potentially get one when you make them

We just have to protect ideas out here. My gf shared an photo shoot idea with another model she worked with for a project and that model blabbed it to her "photographer" friend who then all of the sudden was shooting the idea without my GFs approval. And the model was just interested in the photographer romantically. So we lost a model for that shoot, she lost a friend, and now someone is doing her concept all janked up. So we gotta start from scratch as far as models go again. Probably gonna shoot it in the spring. The magic playmat id like to do before Feb.

[MuggyWuggy]

There could be a dragon, but it's definitely not the focus:

The focus: magic the gathering
(Primarily EDH) --- real good hint

[InfinitiveDivinity]

I would like to do this honestly, but since having the little one my Magic funds have been drastically severed.

[MuggyWuggy]

No janky slots

[Thetrufflehunter]

*fangirls over being referenced in muggys post*

We kind of have a name, we kind of have a setup idea. Should I (or someone) create a post organizing region teams?

[DrainCleaner]

*fangirls over being referenced in muggys post*

We kind of have a name, we kind of have a setup idea. Should I (or someone) create a post organizing region teams?

Indeed