I do all these things and have found we are never to old to learn.
I spend a lot of free time doing DOTZ, Playing a game called Pennies when others will join me and have some time to waste on laughing. I like tubing on slow rivers, working with and training my dog Precious. For now, I caught the bug again and am investing a quite a bit of time (and money) on Magic The Gathering. There is a local group play night where I often spend Friday evening. The deck I want for the Commander format needs work.
#1 Learning to play magic the gathering.
Some time in my early 40’s I was introduced to the card game named magic the gathering.
This how it went. My oldest daughter and her husband at that time were the ones that were responsible for this introduction. I soon found the game was like potato chips you can’t just eat one potato chip before long the whole bag is gone. I played one game and I was hooked. I invested in a premade deck and that was the beginning of my rollercoaster ride with this game. I got hooked on a specific creature type of which there are many; goblins, angles, artifacts, beasts of every imaginable type, unicorns, dragons, and my favorite elf’s just to mention a few. Elf’s were fast action easy to play. I guess that was my beginning attraction to them. Now where to go from here?
I guess telling a bit about the game should come first. Three or more players is best in my opinion. Each player is a wizard or other magic using character that can cast many different kinds of spells. You start with a deck of 60 magic cards (some premade) that’s the way to begin. Each player or wizard has a life count of 20. Each of the 60 card decks have spells and mana in them. Mana is the game’s source of money. The Rest of the cards are spells. I will explain game play in another segment. Back to my original thoughts. I became an elf guru of sorts. I built a deck so strong that I won most games played with it. No one wanted to play me if I was using my elf deck so I had to move on. I tried centurions and may other types of creature types until I found a sliver creature deck and again after working my deck found an almost unbeatable deck that nobody wanted to play against. So now my goal is to build a combo deck with sliver’s and elf’s. I am now in my 60’s and I play a different format type of same said game I play with a larger deck of 100 unique cards with no card duplication, and start with a larger life count of 40 it is what is known as a commander deck.
Here are a few cards I want to make my Commander deck strong.
A game winners for any deck in which played:
A?.?? Door to Nothingness (Pay and sack it, target player loses)
A13.00 Platinum Angel (you can’t loose, your opponent can’t win)
Good to tutors (search your library) for any card:
OOS Planar Portal (search your library for any card. If it’s in your library, this put’s it in your hand)
A9.99 Planar Bridge (search your library for a permanent, play it on battlefield)
Can be used as a good Commander:
TCG 17.69 The First Sliver (gives all slivers cascade, for a fast, free, battlefield of creatures)
TCG 15.34 Sliver Hivelord (slivers are indestructible)
TCG 39.00 Sliver Overlord (search library for a sliver, into your hand)
A15.00 Morophon the Boundless (Makes slivers much cheaper, gives other slivers +1+1)
Less good for Commanders but still good for a sliver deck:
A5.99 Rukarumel Biodiversity (changes slivers into elves, or everything else into slivers)
(Rukarumel Biodiversity works well with The World Tree)
TCG 59.00 Sliver Legion (all slivers get +1/+1
TCG 53.00 Sliver Queen (add 1-1 sliver to battlefield)
TCG 1.99 Sliver Gravemother (play sliverss from your graveyard)
Makes every creature into a sliver and sometimes also into an elf:
A3.99 Leyline of Transformation (all creatures current and future become a type chosen by you)
TCG 1.69 Maskwood Nexus (all creatures you control are every creature type)
A3.99 Mirror Entity (pay X, all existing creatures become every creature type)
A4.99 Arcane Adaptation (creatures current and future become chosen type)
TCG .38 Xenograft (each creature is chosen type)
Makes multi colored deck mana more manageable:
TCG .30 Gemhide Sliver (all slivers can tap for one mana any color)
A5.99 Manaweft Sliver (all slivers can tap for many of any color)
A12.49 Birds of Paradise (can tap for one mana of any color)
A1.89 Command Tower (can tap for one mana of any of your commander’s colors)
TCG 14.99 Mycosynth Lattice (makes all mana and permanents, every color and type)
A4.99 The World Tree (if you have 6 lands, all lands can tap for any color)
TCG .50 Reap and Sow (destroy target land, search your library for a land)
Shuffle graveyard back into library:
A4.12 Elixir of Immortality (gain 5 life, shuffle graveyard into library)
Well that’s it until a later date when I might try to explain game play of the first style of play.