Born again magic player looking for suggestions

[Hikeeba]

My friends and I just started playing again, after 5 years, and I wanted some advice on what ideas/deck/strategies I should be looking given my current situation.

We play many one-on-one games and multiplayer games (free for all or can only attack/target adjacent players). No one I know has any of the power 9 so I figure looking at current Legacy strategies seems like the closest match up.

For one-on-one I was thinking of trying out "vial goblins" or "43 lands" or "alluren". Would these work out well in a casual format where I could be seeing anything from nightmares to stasis to kird apes?

Also, do you have any suggestions on multiplayer strategies in a game where decks could be off the wall?

Thanks!

[Harlequin]

Depending on how serious you 1 on 1's are, something like Aluren or goblins may be too competative.  Players like knowing that they had a chance.  But if you've got some good decks running around then go for it.  Its always difficult to have a casual circle with everyone's deck at roughly the same power level. 

For Multiplayer, esp FFA... I like cards that effect everyone equally.  That way you don't look like your bashing on one payer.  Rystic Studies is probably one of the most broken muliplayer cards I've ever seen.  Mystic Remora aint bad either.  But in general the more "sweeping" effects the better

[stonecold]

I play alot of multiplayer (mostly 3-4 person groups)
Two of us play in tourney's and two don't. So we have a VARIETY of decks running around.
The most successful strategies with a mix of decks from my experience have been:
Reanimator (Angel of Despair, Akroma, Simic Sky Swallower, Kokusho seem to work the best)
Global Enchantment Based Decks (Seismic Assualt, Astral Slide)
Mono Blue (Mostly with Melouku)
Welder/Artifact type decks (Affinity included)
Mass Creature Destruction (Like Mono Black Control)
Those seem to win the most in our group,
usual combo decks like Alluren never last again past the first game. Once the surprise is gone then they kill you quickly.
Decks like Golbins run out of steam to quick and you end up with no hand and no creatures after an untimely Mutilate.

[That0neguy]

If you are all starting again im not sure vial goblins is the right way to go.  If your freinds don't also dump a bunch of money into the game again you will crush them every time.  In legacy goblins is probably the best deck by a good margin.  Against CAsual decks I fail to see how it looses, unless you cut something like ringleader lackey or warcheif.

Goblins is also pretty bad in multiplayer in my experience.  Removal spells go to lakeys and piledrivers fast, not to mention the odds of playing a boared learing deck is a lot higher in multiplayer

[Matt]

Get four Survival of the Fittest and one Squee, Goblin Nabob. That card can enable tons of fun strategies, form board control to reanimator to welder-survival to recurring nightmare combo to RGSA to tradewind-survival to slivers to...