Although it's a good idea and I've added all of you, none of you have been online yet :\

Heres my selections of identitys:
AIM: XRoaderUK
ICQ: 242965206
MSN: shadowrunner_uk@hotmail.com
Jabber: TomX
Yahoo: XRoaderUK
Integrity Messenger: TomX

heh, I signed up for them all once I got Integrity Messenger, it lets you log into them all through one program and IRC!!!

I am able to play:
T1 (Fave)
Peasant (Come on...)
T2 (Boring but...)
Extended (sure whatever, a games a game...)

Firewalled, but it's not a problem. I only use Apprentice sorry.

If you've been playing Sealed Games for 1 year you should have some good techniques/skills, so I think you will have the playing ability to compete with some players, so T1 is not out of your reach in that aspect.

But I do not think Pox is a viable deck is T1, I think it's too slow is most cards are dead against some decks. For budget theres nothing better than Suicide Black (Chalice or not) or Gay Fish. Although I think the Elf deck in the Budget forum is excellent it scoops to many cards in common decks.

Good Luck

Hi,

I live in England and MTG over here is dreadful, well at least where I played (I quit for 8 months) and the reason I quit was because I was bored of it because I used to win all the games where I went. They didn't play competively, which is great for them but made my games boring.

Now I have got back into MTG only to find out that the magic group where I played (~15 Casual players) have split up so I have to play online only, this helps in many ways but also lowers the interest level.

Pros:

• Unlimited Card Pool
• Automatic Match Details (Apprentice Chat Buffer)
• Ability to record anything down at will on Notepad/MS Word for more complicated strategies.
• Seemingly infinate number of players to play against, competitive.
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Cons:

• Sitting at a computer for every game?
• Doesn't have the same atmosphere.
• There are a lot of people who will waste your time.
• A win isn't as thrilling as it is in RL.
• Prized Tournaments are hard to find online.
• Wishes are annoying to use.
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But playing online is my only option and I'm not willing to play MTGO because it's too expensive for something you don't physically own and I like to play with T1 decks which MTGO doesn't allow.

So now that I can only play online I am able to analyse every match I have using the Chat Buffer and then see where I went wrong and made a bad choice, this will be great for improving skills.

Does anyone have the same situation as me?

Thanks in Advance
Tom

Good report although I never knew what position you finished in the end? Did you win anything?

I am thinking of playing Gay/R but I don't have any:

Mana Drains
Moxs'
Black Lotus'
Library of Alexandrias
Ancestral Recall
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So I'm not sure if I could do well, hope you do well in future tournaments