|
doomhed
|
 |
« on: October 21, 2005, 02:17:32 am » |
|
I figured this would be a good question. I have about 30 built myself between fully proxied decks and my normal decks. Heck, my girlfriend has 2 or 3 built.
I was just wondering how many decks some other players with collections equal to/larger than mine might have.
Built-
Dragon (5C and U/B)
Oath (Endress, meandeck, salvagers)
Slaver (Goth, Shay)
Gifts (Meandeck, Reflection)
Fish (WTF, Wutang, U/r Null rod)
TPS (Gifts, French)
Deathlong (Meandeck, old Reflection)
Belcher (JDizzle's, Our's)
Madness (U/g, Feinstein)
Stax (Uba, 5C, 5CUB4, White/Red, March)
Landstill (U/r, U/w, U/g)
FCG (pretty much 1 build
Monoblue (Gifts, non-gifts, Smemmnen)
Tog (Reflection, Infestation)
Parfait (mono, W/r, W/r/b,)
R/G Beatz
Obviously I dont use some of these often. I cannibalized as many from other sources as possible to maximize playtesting experience. I dont use all of these at once, but it is nice to have them ready.
man does this take alotta sleeves......
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Team Batman- Molesting Buffets Since 1982 I've NEVER seen so many dumbasses gravitate to a single point in space more than this place...it's a scientific marvel Placed 2 Members Top 16 Waterbury IV- Fish/UG Madness (1 Me) Placed 1 Member Top 8 Waterbury V Day 2- U/G Madness (Me) Placed 1 Member Top 8 Waterbury VI-U/G Madness Placed 1 Member Top 8 Waterbury VII- Guano Placed 1 Member Top 16 Waterbury VIII- Guano (Me) Can you say Pattern? |
|
|
|
Dozer
|
|
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2005, 03:14:00 am » |
|
To show the opposite, I have the following decks built:
5c Stax (proxied)
CS (proxied)
Gifts
Oh yeah, and I never took apart my old Sui Black. I mostly rely on MWS and friends to have the other decks built to test against. Keeping proxy decks I only use for testing at the moment up to date sucks, so I am not actually maintaining more than three competitive decks. A real Gauntlet is not much use, I believe, when you can't reliably tell which decks you are going to face. I like to prepare against the top contenders and rely on experience for the rest. I also simply don't have the time to test thorougly against 8-10 different decks.
Dozer
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
a swashbuckling ninja Member of Team CAB, dozercat on MTGO MTG.com coverage reporter (Euro GPs) -- on hiatus, thanks to uni Associate Editor of www.planetmtg |
|
|
BigMac
Full Members
Basic User
Posts: 553
|
|
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2005, 03:36:27 am » |
|
I do not actually have many decks build at any one time. But i could make any number of decks with the cards i have. I actually try to get every card at least 4 times (except power 9 and library). This is taking me forever as old cards are hard to find and even harder to buy as they tend to be somewhat expensive. The only advantage i have is that i started in september 1993. To see what cards have been in decks of mine you just need to look at what cards are sleeved. With the exception of LG, AN, AQ, DA, unlimited and revised cards that werent reprinted only cards that have at one time been in decks have been sleeved. This is costing me a fortune in sleeves but it is worth it with that many cards.
Right now i have several decks more or less complete on my desk.
My TPoath build.
Vintage MWS-stasis build
legacy parfait
legacy gobbos
legacy affinity
I also have some kind of fishy/wtf deck somewhere lying around but most of the other cards on my desk right now are of old decks. Remnants of:
Alluren (old extended)
Thetinker(vintage)
monou(legacy)
black/red combo for legacy but is considered to fragile
Red deck wins for old extended
Some green spawn of my mind for legacy (didnt work)
A mono white vintage concoction
And then there is the pile of stuff i thought i was going to use in any of these decks.
So quite a few cards or on my desk right now. I really need to put them away again.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Ignorance is curable
Stupidity is forever
Member of team ISP
|
|
|
|
Necrologia
|
|
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2005, 11:54:36 am » |
|
Right now I've got together Grim Long, Uba Stax (lotsa proxies), and MD Gifts/SSB/CS. It's SSB right now, but I have the extra gifts and Pentavus/Slaver/etc sleeved up so that I can switch between them in aproximately 5 seconds. I also have 10 land Stompy in the same penny sleeves it's been in since the dawn of time. The only reason I have it together, is that it's a good way to figure out who actually plays Type 1. You have no idea how many people around here say they play Type 1, only to have their MBC/11 card combo deck/Lightning Blast burn deck ripped apart by Stompy. If they beat it they're in the club and I start playing with real decks  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
This space for rent, reasonable rates
|
|
|
|
Sgt. Pepper
Guest
|
|
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2005, 01:44:05 pm » |
|
Just 1 deck: U/g/w Fish, thats it. I'll probably will be able to complete my T2 White Weenie and Gifts decks by the end of the month. Usually I just borrow any cards I need before a tournament and then put the deck together the night before the event. Not very well organized, but it's been working so far.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Bram
Adepts
Basic User
Posts: 3203
I've got mushroom clouds in my hands
|
|
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2005, 02:24:45 pm » |
|
I think my team currently has...
- 5c Stax
- ControlSlaver
- Gifts
- Hypermud
- Raffinity
- Belcher
- The Tinker Deck
...between us.
|
|
|
|
« Last Edit: October 21, 2005, 05:02:53 pm by Bram »
|
Logged
|
<j_orlove> I am semi-religious
<BR4M> I like that. which half of god do you believe in?
<j_orlove> the half that tells me how to live my life
<j_orlove> but not the half that tells me how others should live theirs
R.I.P. Rudy van Soest a.k.a. MoreFling
|
|
|
|
Revvik
|
|
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2005, 03:45:56 pm » |
|
I've personally sleeved up for playtesting purposes Chalice Oath, Control Slaver, Stax, Meandeck Gifts, Cerebral Assassin, and some others, while friends of mine have tried things like, well, OTHER Control Slaver and Stax, along with Bird Shit and (with a two-week-long winning streak) The Revenge of 1997. I blame the fact that I was taking a break from playing with Mana Drains at that time.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
http://www.thehardlessons.com/I will break into your house while you aren't home and disguise myself as a chair. Then I will leave before you get home, but there will be a place at your table where I was a chair and you will wonder why there isn't a chair there. Then later I will leave the chair disguise on your doorstep and you will realize what has happened and you will be afraid all the time. Helter Skelter mother fuckers!
|
|
|
Vegeta2711
Bouken Desho Desho?
Full Members
Basic User
Posts: 1734
Nyah!
|
|
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2005, 05:01:32 pm » |
|
To show the opposite, I have the following decks built:
5c Stax (proxied)
CS (proxied)
Gifts
Oh yeah, and I never took apart my old Sui Black. I mostly rely on MWS and friends to have the other decks built to test against. Keeping proxy decks I only use for testing at the moment up to date sucks, so I am not actually maintaining more than three competitive decks. A real Gauntlet is not much use, I believe, when you can't reliably tell which decks you are going to face. I like to prepare against the top contenders and rely on experience for the rest. I also simply don't have the time to test thorougly against 8-10 different decks.
Dozer
Quoted for copious amounts of truth. Gifts, CS and Stax are really the only decks I care if I can beat or not. If I can, odds are I beat the other garbage. The only exception is I like to test against Fish as well for one other extreme (And the fact that it always sees play). |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Moxlotus
Teh Absolut Ballz
Full Members
Basic User
Posts: 2199
Where the fuck are my pants?
|
|
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2005, 05:22:54 pm » |
|
Gifts/Control Slaver
random Stax Variant
Oath
Dragon
whatever deck we are trying to test.
Those decks make up 75%+ of the field, and most of the rest is stuff like Fish or bad decks that don't make it to the 2-0 table. With the limited amount of testing time I have, I only care about the top decks.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Lunar
|
|
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2005, 05:46:34 pm » |
|
I think my team has the following all built right now
Cerebral Assasin (yeh baby)
Stax
Gifts
CSx2
3cc
FCG
UR Fish (sweet I know..just never took it apart same with the next one)
Sligh
Rivers Affinity (cause it is really wicked in bad metas...heh)
Generally when doing a testing night we will just proxy up the like 2 or 3 major decks at the moment, and maybe one more that we think will be played at the next event (like when we knew that there would be 4 or 5 Salvager Oath decks at a Eudemonia event once...)
EDIT: one of my teammates just suprised me last night by pulling out JDizzles 2-Land Belcher build...so I guess we can add that to the list...
|
|
|
|
« Last Edit: October 22, 2005, 04:20:28 pm by Lunar »
|
Logged
|
Dozer - "TMD is not a place where everyone can just post what was revealed to them in their latest wet dream"
Webster - "most of the deck is pimped, like my insane shirt, which exudes a level of pimpness only to be expressed as sublime."
|
|
|
|
Whatever Works
|
|
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2005, 06:00:21 pm » |
|
I have:
Dragon
TPS
2 Land Belcher
Meandeck GIFTS
SSB
CS
5c Stax
UR Stax
Workshop Agro
UB Fish
I find that If I ever have more then 10 decks in a gauntlet testing just becomes soooo polluted with things that are strictly irrelevent... I tend to test the gifts/stax/CS matchups much more then the other matchups because those are what I expect to actually see.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Team Retribution
|
|
|
|
xrizzo
|
|
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2005, 06:55:03 pm » |
|
Quoted for copious amounts of truth. Gifts, CS and Stax are really the only decks I care if I can beat or not. If I can, odds are I beat the other garbage. The only exception is I like to test against Fish as well for one other extreme (And the fact that it always sees play).
Those 4 decks are the exact 4 I always run a good idea through as well. Oath, Dragon, and TPS are available if the deck 'sticks'. At that point, you have a pretty good idea of the types of hate to play and to expect in a reasonably powered, reasonably sized tourney. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
TWL - all top 8's, no talk.
"If the pilgrims landed in Los Angeles, the east coast would still be uninhabited."
|
|
|
|
knickers
|
|
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2005, 06:05:17 am » |
|
I have ... UbaStax (-1x Workshop, I need 1 more) Oath TFK Gifts I use to have a fairly large size collection, but then I sold all my cards to get power/chase rares ... Still no regrets for doing that ... Unfortunately, living in Newfoundland isn't the same as living in a bigger Province/State ... There are no tournaments on there island where you can actually win power!  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
If you don't write a book or go way off topic then its not a valid TMD post.
|
|
|
Ephraim
Adepts
Basic User
Posts: 2938
The Casual Adept
|
|
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2005, 06:14:40 am » |
|
I maintain about twelve decks at any given time. At least one of those decks will be designed for competitive Peasant play, one may be a complete or experimental deck for block play, and one may be a complete or experimental deck for Standard play. The other nine will be a mix of casual decks for a variety of formats.
If you want an impressive number of decks, though, you have to look at my father's collection. At any given time, he has 50-60 playable (although not necessarily good) decks built. I couldn't even begin to tell you how many of those are functionally constant and how many didn't exist three months ago, although I know that he comes up with something new at least every two weeks and he's constantly adding new cards to old decks.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Did you know that Red is the color or art and music and passion? Combine that with Green, the color of nature, spiritualism, and community and you get a hippie commune of drum circles, dreamcatchers, and recreational drug use. Let's see that win a Pro Tour.
|
|
|
|
God_Campbell
|
|
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2005, 01:40:28 pm » |
|
well between me and my testing group we have together
CS
Workshop Aggro
Oath
U/W Fish
WTF
FCG
UBA Stax
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"To me, T2 and extended are like a bicycle race, Legacy is like dirt-bike racing, and vintage is like high performance turbo-bike racing where everyone has samurai swords." - Harlequin
|
|
|
|
prosbloom225
|
|
« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2005, 06:35:24 pm » |
|
I've got:
U/W Fish
R/G Hate
Dragon
UbaStax
Belcher
Oath
Though most of them are proxies.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
