Hive Mind combo doesn't work; the first copy that resolves exiles the others.
Actually, I think it does work. Although you play the first copy, the other copies go on the stack, and the first one to resolve will be your opponents, thus exiling the "You lose the game" trigger that you control. So your opponent will lose the game since his will resolve first. In multiplayer though, it only kills one opponent though, so it's only mediocre there.
Well, at least this does combo with Hive Mind. Not that it needed more enablers.
How does it combo with Hive Mind? If you play it, everyone gets a copy, true. But for you not to die, you need to Stifle or Disallow it...and everyone else will get a copy of that too, so nothing will happen.
Edit: it does work. Your opponent's copy resolves first so he/she dies.
Heyya folks...I wanted to let you all know about our large playgroup, deep in the heart of San Francisco. Come join us! We usually get 15-30 people every session.
The Richmond Republic Draught House
642 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 702-6069
5pm-Midnight
We have reserved the upstairs area. Just go inside and go to the back left and go upstairs. Maybe grab a beer too.
This place has 24 beers on tap. The beer selection is insane.
This place serves food. You should buy some food or drinks to play with us if you possibly can. If you only want a coke, ok, but please please buy some food from the bar. They have great bar food, and most of it is reasonably priced.
*****
We play many different variants of multiplayer magic. Please, no proxies, or very few if at all possible.
We usually play
Duels
Star (sometimes called Pentagonal)
Commander
Tiny Leaders
Emperor
2-Headed Giant (or more!)
Left-right Attack
Assassin
Team variants of each of the above! Crazy fun.
And More!
Hear what others have to say about the Magic meetup!
"It sucks. These guys bring these crazy-ass decks that always beat my tournament-caliber builds."
--Bill
"Don't go. These morons think they know how to play magic, but my legacy goblin deck can kill em all. I just have to remember to bring it next time."
--Bob
"I brought a vintage deck filled with proxy moxes. I won even before my opponents got to take their first turn! How cool is that! Of course, the next game I waited around while everyone destroyed everything i had in quick succession. But that's ok, I had fun!"
--Amy
With each passing card I get more and more annoyed with this set - H.P. Lovecraft Innistrad sounded so cool but this is the biggest whiff in Magic history
I entirely disagree. I am actually super stoked about this set right now. They are doing some really interesting things, and I love Eldrazi, so there's that. So far I am blown away.
I'm not rich. I can only afford a few cards per paycheck. A $700 deck is an entire month of work for me. By your standards, I shouldn't even be playing. A modern deck is a year or more of investment. A legacy deck is longer still. None of my standard cards already owned further either goal. Guess I won't get to play Magic until 2018.
Magic is choking its lifeblood out on two fronts; expensive standard with a quickening expiration date, and slow decay of eternal via difficult or expensive to get cards. The attitude of "pay to win or don't bother" is accelerating the process.
This may come as a shock, but Magic is not only about playing with expensive cards. if you NEED expensive cards to play and have fun, you aren't doing it right. I run a casual group that regularly has 30 people showing up to play casual magic. The people aren't there to win, they are there to have fun. So if you need 700$ worth of cards to have fun, then yes, you shouldn't be playing.
So our play group came up with a house rule that seems to work well. We have a lot of 60 card people and a lot of commander people. The house rule is, "You may play your commander deck with other casual players who are playing 60-card decks. Your starting life is 20, and you may only play your commander once from the command zone; when it dies, it goes to the graveyard."
Seems to work well for us. We have lots of mix and match games this way. I highly recommend it. It seems to be quite balanced.
For people in the Bay Area: Please Join us at the Sunday Night San Francisco Casual MTG Players group.
We were at Pizza Orgasmica in the Richmond District for the past few years until they shut down last week.
WE HAVE A NEW LOCATION AND TIME:
The Richmond Republic Draught House
642 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 702-6069
5pm-Midnight
This location is a mere 2 blocks from Pizza O. We have reserved the upstairs area going forward. Just go inside and go to the back left and go upstairs.
However, our starting time is now 5PM, NOT 4PM.
This is because it's usually crowded there still with folks watching football or other sports. The benefit is that it's open later. It is actually open till midnight. Really.
This place has 24 beers on tap. The beer selection is insane.
This place DOES serve food. You MUST buy some food or drinks to play with us if you possibly can. If you only want a coke, ok, but please please buy some food from the bar. They have great bar food, and most of it is reasonably priced. I think their kitchen is open till 10, but I'll have to check.
I counted 8 tables upstairs. We can move these around as we need to.
There's a pool table there. Please do not sit or put drinks on this table. If you really want to play cards on the pool table, there's no reason not to other than there's actual real tables nearby. They've offered to cover it up for us in the future.
This place DOES allow people under the age of 21. However, NO UNDERAGE DRINKING ALLOWED. If you are caught offering your beer to an underage player, three things will happen:
You WILL be ejected from the group and asked not to return.
We MAY be ejected from the bar/restaurant and asked not to return.
I personally will stack all of your cards on a table and play Landfill on them.
Please don't jeopardize our new great spot by doing something dumb. In short,BEHAVE. Horseplay, running (not that you folks do this), and similar crap won't be tolerated.
To order, go downstairs and order at the bar. They will bring the food to you. No need to wait for a waiter/waitress.
When buying food or a drink, you may start a tab.
See you folks this Sunday at the Richmond Republic Draught House! Pass this along!
*****
We play many different variants of multiplayer magic. Please, no proxies, or very few if at all possible.
We usually play
Duels
Star (sometimes called Pentagonal)
Anti-Star (New format!)
Commander
Tiny Leaders
Emperor
2-Headed Giant (or more!)
Left-right Attack
Assassin
Team variants of each of the above! Crazy fun.
And More!
Hear what others have to say about the Magic meetup!
"It sucks. These guys bring these crazy-ass decks that always beat my tournament-caliber builds."
--Bill
"Don't go. These morons think they know how to play magic, but my legacy goblin deck can kill em all. I just have to remember to bring it next time."
--Bob
"I brought a vintage deck filled with proxy moxes. I won even before my opponents got to take their first turn! How cool is that! Of course, the next game I waited around while everyone destroyed everything i had in quick succession. But that's ok, I had fun!"
--Amy
If you are looking for websites to help you with deck ideas for casual magic, here are a few that are highly recommended:
MTGSALVATION
Magic Deck Vortex
Essential Magic
Especially check out the combos page...highly useful for breaking things not meant to be broken.
TappedOut
MTG Salvation
Especially check out their rumors forum here. This is where you will find out about upcoming cards and sets and other interesting tidbits.
I don't know if that's true. It exiles the first Lose the Game trigger, but adds a second one.
Actually, I think it does work. Although you play the first copy, the other copies go on the stack, and the first one to resolve will be your opponents, thus exiling the "You lose the game" trigger that you control. So your opponent will lose the game since his will resolve first. In multiplayer though, it only kills one opponent though, so it's only mediocre there.
How does it combo with Hive Mind? If you play it, everyone gets a copy, true. But for you not to die, you need to Stifle or Disallow it...and everyone else will get a copy of that too, so nothing will happen.
Edit: it does work. Your opponent's copy resolves first so he/she dies.
We play every Sunday at 5PM.
Here's a link to our meetup group if you are in the SF Bay Area...come join us!!!!
Magic the Gathering Casual Players Meetup - Every Sunday!
San Francisco Casual Magic The Gathering Players.
https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Magic-The-Gathering-Casual-Players/
We play EVERY Sunday at
The Richmond Republic Draught House
642 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 702-6069
5pm-Midnight
We have reserved the upstairs area. Just go inside and go to the back left and go upstairs. Maybe grab a beer too.
This place has 24 beers on tap. The beer selection is insane.
This place serves food. You should buy some food or drinks to play with us if you possibly can. If you only want a coke, ok, but please please buy some food from the bar. They have great bar food, and most of it is reasonably priced.
*****
We play many different variants of multiplayer magic. Please, no proxies, or very few if at all possible.
We usually play
Duels
Star (sometimes called Pentagonal)
Commander
Tiny Leaders
Emperor
2-Headed Giant (or more!)
Left-right Attack
Assassin
Team variants of each of the above! Crazy fun.
And More!
Hear what others have to say about the Magic meetup!
"It sucks. These guys bring these crazy-ass decks that always beat my tournament-caliber builds."
--Bill
"Don't go. These morons think they know how to play magic, but my legacy goblin deck can kill em all. I just have to remember to bring it next time."
--Bob
"I brought a vintage deck filled with proxy moxes. I won even before my opponents got to take their first turn! How cool is that! Of course, the next game I waited around while everyone destroyed everything i had in quick succession. But that's ok, I had fun!"
--Amy
See ya there!
Woot woot!!
I entirely disagree. I am actually super stoked about this set right now. They are doing some really interesting things, and I love Eldrazi, so there's that. So far I am blown away.
Which would be a card of someone who is addicted to having sex with thirteen flaming tiny dead young animals while underwater.
This may come as a shock, but Magic is not only about playing with expensive cards. if you NEED expensive cards to play and have fun, you aren't doing it right. I run a casual group that regularly has 30 people showing up to play casual magic. The people aren't there to win, they are there to have fun. So if you need 700$ worth of cards to have fun, then yes, you shouldn't be playing.
Seems to work well for us. We have lots of mix and match games this way. I highly recommend it. It seems to be quite balanced.
We were at Pizza Orgasmica in the Richmond District for the past few years until they shut down last week.
WE HAVE A NEW LOCATION AND TIME:
The Richmond Republic Draught House
642 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 702-6069
5pm-Midnight
This location is a mere 2 blocks from Pizza O. We have reserved the upstairs area going forward. Just go inside and go to the back left and go upstairs.
However, our starting time is now 5PM, NOT 4PM.
This is because it's usually crowded there still with folks watching football or other sports. The benefit is that it's open later. It is actually open till midnight. Really.
This place has 24 beers on tap. The beer selection is insane.
This place DOES serve food. You MUST buy some food or drinks to play with us if you possibly can. If you only want a coke, ok, but please please buy some food from the bar. They have great bar food, and most of it is reasonably priced. I think their kitchen is open till 10, but I'll have to check.
I counted 8 tables upstairs. We can move these around as we need to.
There's a pool table there. Please do not sit or put drinks on this table. If you really want to play cards on the pool table, there's no reason not to other than there's actual real tables nearby. They've offered to cover it up for us in the future.
This place DOES allow people under the age of 21. However, NO UNDERAGE DRINKING ALLOWED. If you are caught offering your beer to an underage player, three things will happen:
You WILL be ejected from the group and asked not to return.
We MAY be ejected from the bar/restaurant and asked not to return.
I personally will stack all of your cards on a table and play Landfill on them.
Please don't jeopardize our new great spot by doing something dumb. In short,BEHAVE. Horseplay, running (not that you folks do this), and similar crap won't be tolerated.
To order, go downstairs and order at the bar. They will bring the food to you. No need to wait for a waiter/waitress.
When buying food or a drink, you may start a tab.
See you folks this Sunday at the Richmond Republic Draught House! Pass this along!
*****
We play many different variants of multiplayer magic. Please, no proxies, or very few if at all possible.
We usually play
Duels
Star (sometimes called Pentagonal)
Anti-Star (New format!)
Commander
Tiny Leaders
Emperor
2-Headed Giant (or more!)
Left-right Attack
Assassin
Team variants of each of the above! Crazy fun.
And More!
Hear what others have to say about the Magic meetup!
"It sucks. These guys bring these crazy-ass decks that always beat my tournament-caliber builds."
--Bill
"Don't go. These morons think they know how to play magic, but my legacy goblin deck can kill em all. I just have to remember to bring it next time."
--Bob
"I brought a vintage deck filled with proxy moxes. I won even before my opponents got to take their first turn! How cool is that! Of course, the next game I waited around while everyone destroyed everything i had in quick succession. But that's ok, I had fun!"
--Amy
If you are looking for websites to help you with deck ideas for casual magic, here are a few that are highly recommended:
MTGSALVATION
Magic Deck Vortex
Essential Magic
Especially check out the combos page...highly useful for breaking things not meant to be broken.
TappedOut
MTG Salvation
Especially check out their rumors forum here. This is where you will find out about upcoming cards and sets and other interesting tidbits.
See you at SF Casual Magic Sundays!