Bands with Others

[jackofallgeeks]

Imagine a Grizzly Bears (2/2 without flying) and a Gaea’s Skyfolk (2/2 with flying) facing each other down. The Bears can decide to attack, but it cannot hang back to block. (Well it can, I suppose, but it’ll end up with a severe neck strain and a mild sense of disappointment.)
---------------------------------Politics in Magic is a lost cause. The only recourse, after you’ve rejected the forms it takes above, is deception and misdirection – to convince the rest of the board through talk and jive that you’re not the threat, some other guy is. (This is the equivalent of negative campaigning, in the political world.) How successful you’ll be depends on how easily fooled your friends are; but I’d submit that in Magic at least, this strategy has a short life-span. After all, how many times can you successfully fool a table, win, and then expect them to fall for the same trick twenty minutes later? (Based on the increasing success of negative political campaigns, I suppose I’m suggesting the average Magic play group is smarter than the average democratic voting block. So be it!)
---------------------------------Just in case you're not swinging with this beatstick (and what 2/2 for four colored mana wouldn't be in a beatdown deck?), you can hold it back and annoy those players who happen to have artifacts with activated abilities...assuming they can't pay W. ("Daaamn yoooouuuuu, Fellllwaaar Stoooonnne!!!")
---------------------------------Someday, if you work really really hard and write every week for three of the best hobby internet sites in creation, you too will be able to drag readers along on a paragraph about a mammal that spits, smells bad, and snorts pessimistically at every opportunity. (Come to think of it, this could be a paragraph on many guys I went to college with.)

-Anthony Alongi, MagicTheGathering.com, 'Serious Fun'


MtG.com makes me giggle.

I think, thanks to Anthony, I've decided that Emperor Magic (both as an Emporer and a Lieutenant) is my favorite format, even beyond the classic Duel. And that flavor! Just immagine a Triumverate of Wizards battling to control a world... If you play with me in Magic, I highly suggest you read those articles, as I think I may try to get more 3v3 games going... Or, beauty of beauties, a 3v3v3 game...