Introduce Yourself

[scribe888]

hi guys! i'm ozy from the philippines. i started playing around 4th edition (second grade haha), quit during urza's saga. then got back into the game at kamigawa (bad start i know), then my friend's cousin convinced us to try vintage and well, i love the format.

i'm now a sophomore in ateneo de manila university. still looking for cards. i'm a budget player, but then again, most of my meta is as well. saving up for tundras and drains

hope to contribute to this community!

[adrienger]

hi all

i just realized i couldn't post in most of this forum and i've just read it might be becouse i never posted here...so here I am

i play since mirodin, am a control player at heart and made a couple top 8 in small tourny...usually getting at the 9 th place for important tourny .

props for this forum that learnt me so much!

[Namingway]

Hi.

My name is Johan Sjöberg. I'm 18 years old and from Sweden.
I'm currently studying arts at a "gymnasium", and I'm at my last year there. After that, I plan on studying at some university. I don't know what I'll study just yet, but time will tell.
I first tried Magic at a friend's place when I was about 9 years old. I didn't start playing seriously until Apocalypse, though.
I quit for about a year (during Kamigawa), and started playing again just before Ravnica. Since then, I've been an active player, and I plan to continue playing for as long as possible.
I consider myself pretty well educated in the rules of the game, and some of the psychology around it. But there will always be more to learn. I think I will try to become a judge in the near future. It would be great to be able to make some money out of Magic besides tournaments.
My first real tournament deck was a blue/green classic Madness deck. Since then, I've played lots of decks, and right now I am building a PitchLong deck.

Well, that's me.

[Varl]

My name is Varl, and I found this site through a link in Jacob Orlove's sig file over on AD&D Campaigns.com. I seldom get a chance to play Magic any longer, but have always enjoyed the game and making decks. I'll probably primarily lurk around here, seeing how the last series of cards I got into was Ice Age/Mirage era, so I'm sure I'm way behind in life. Heh.

[el_simoon]

Hi !
I am French. I play since the year 2000. My favorite format is 1.5/legacy.
Have a good day 

[YTheAlien]

I'm Chris. I played on the MIE and watched MTGPlay get developed for the first time (did QA for them).

[stalker]

hi all my name is shane anastasi and im from adelaide,  australia. i started playing magic bout round mask came out and was only collecting sets. stopped for bout 3 yrs now back onto it. im ranked 6 in the state here for constructed and trying to get into vintage over here.

i also use stalker on mtgparadise

i play magic for the fun of it and if i win i win if i lose well there is always next week to improve

[Angel of Despair]

Hi all,

My name is Jessi. I live in Ware, MA( between Worcester and Springfield)  I play 1.5 mostly, but occasionally pick up a standard deck. I would get into Vintage, but I am in love with Legacy, and we don't have very many cards for it. I mostly play in weekly 1.5 tournaments in W. Springfield.  My first big tourney was at the duel for duals, in Syracuse NY. I went 3-2. It was fun,  but no T8. eh, oh well. I don't know what else to write, so I will leave it at that. Nice to meet you all, and maybe I can meet some of you in real life at the Mana clash, I will probably be the only girl there playing magic. Thats usually the way it is.

AoD

[justaguy]

To whom it may concern:

My name is Patrick and I'm from Longmont, CO.  I've played since Ice Age and lurked these boards for quite some time.  I'm excited about now having something to contribute!

[Sporkcore]

Hi everyone,

I'm Austin. I live on Long Island where, unfortunatly, there is little to no T1 activity. At my local store, we have a few people who play type 1, but not too many. I'm usually not able to drive out too far to go to tournies, but I do drive up to Ray's tournaments since they're at most a 2 hour drive from here. I got into Type 1 from hanging out with Aaron Rubenstein (occasional TMD open judge) and goin up to TMD Opens to play. If anyone knows of any places to play Type 1 or Legacy out here on LI either late fridays or saturdays, please let me know. Thanks, and I hope to get to know everyone better.

[Sludge]

Hey, I'm Palmer, and I play legacy almost exclusively, and am trying to encourage other people to play it here in the Durham/Raliegh/Hillsborough, NC area. 

[starfreakclone]

Hello My name is Cameron, I play mostly Legacy and some Type 2 I have won about 4 non-sanctioned tournaments W/O Goblins and have been a player since Urza's Saga. I live in Albuquerque NM.

[Nydaeli]

I'm Jack.  I'm 19 and I live in Chicago.  I play mostly on MWS with rogue decks.

[SpiritBreaker]

Good day everyone...

I'm Nelo from the Philippines... i'm a Chemist and a regular Vintage player....

I started playing Magic since 1994, stopped for a while then back again...
but there comes a time that i completely stopped playing due to financial problems, i have to sell my cards in order to sustain my studies. But now i have graduated and got a job,i went back to my First Love and became a regular player since... I really love this game.  As of now, i am working to buy myself the cards that i need and of course for my collection. By the way, i collect cards done by Richard Kane Ferguson (A.K.A RKF) it's almost complete, i just need around 6 cards to complete it...

Our Vintage community is not that big, but we throw really exciting and fun tournaments...
Hope to render help to this community...
Thanks...

[Khorshed]

Hello, all. I starting playing Magic just before 4th was released, and quit for a few years near the release of Visions. I picked the game up again a little over a year ago when I discovered there was a standard community nearby. For that reason, I primarily play T2, either limited or constructed, though I do enjoy Extended and Legacy, and want to be more involved in Legacy.

[Citanul]

I'm 20 years old. Been playing Magic for about 8 years now and have seen a lot of the game and how it came to it's current state.
I only play Legacy and Draft with Friends.

[imran]

Hi,

I am Imran. I am playing Magic since 95, started with Ice Age.
Currently I am playing Legacy (a Keeper port from Vintage).

[Frank]

Hi,

  I started buying cards in 1994 because they looked cool, like D&D stuff. I played D&D back then. Yep, I was a geek, still am. I've worn the same kinds of clothes for 20 years, I'm short, losing hair, tipping the scales on the oompah fat side. I've come to accept that girls either see me and shudder or don't even see me. Basically no life outside of role-playing, computer games and pizza. I live at my mom's house in the room over the garage. So basically I was a shorter carbon copy of Zvi circa 1997. Boy, he cleaned up good didn't he.

  So anyways, in early 1995 some of my D&D group started getting cards and in about two weeks everyone was playing. We played goofy random-swedish decks with not a bit of tech. So one day a poindexter walks into the comic shop, oh yeah, I collect comics too but I draw the line at collecting figurines, uh, unless they're Star Wars figurines, they're okay to collect, except Jar Jar Binks. Anyways this poindexter comes in and wants to play for ante. Well, I played him first because I was the best player of the group. I also had the best deck in the group, a kinda R/G deck but with about 120 cards and Craw Wurms and Giant Treefolk and the mandatory Shivan Dragon. Well I remember this game vividly. I played first and got what I thought was a good draw. I has some land and some creatures and I was going to pound him. I played a mountain and a Mon's Goblin Raiders. He plays Lotus, Jet, Sapphire, Swamp, Hippie Knight,  Sinkholes my Mountain, plays Ancestral, my turn. It was the fastest game I had ever played up until that point, about 8 turns. Boy, that sucked!

  So I went home and started to really learn how to play MTG. I learned how to play, kinda. I watched Brian Weissman playing Ole Rade at a PT and realized I sorta didn't know how to play. Anyways, I had a good DCI rating at one point when I was playing a tournament every week. I studied the stuff on the 'net a lot and even wrote an article that got posted on The Dojo! Of course, any scrub could get a crappy four sentence tourney report on the Dojo, but anyways, some people actually read it and it and liked it and I was pretty proud of that. That was back in 1997. I went to 5 or 6 PT's between 1995-98. It was like, get 3-4 people, one of them had to have a car, and drive to Dallas or Long Beach or Chicago. And then we all slept in the car because we were spending our money on cards and tourney fee's. But it wasn't that bad because at a PT you could play 24 hours around the clock and people were sleeping on the floors except at Rye where the hotel was run by the gestapo. They even called the police and we had to park the car about a half mile down the road.

  Going to those first PT's was really fun. All the guys that are gods now were pretty dorky then. Like, and this is totally true, I saw Finkel pick his nose and eat it. I watched Mark Justice (is he still alive?) playing some little kid in a side tourney and Mark was mana screwed, and then I saw him draw TWO cards on his draw phase. He was a cheater. The kid beat him anyway because Justice got mana screwed again in the second game. So this little kid who thinks it's great he's playing the famous Mark Justice put's his hand out to shake hands,... and Mark just looks at the kid's hand, turns around and walks away. Well, whatever.

  So like anyways, in the 90's I played mostly fast creature/burn decks or Necro. Man I was REALLY pissed off when they got rid of the Kird Ape. I mean, I almost quit playing, because now my deck sucked! I actually had a collection, if you can call it that, of almost 300 Kird Apes. That was PT Dallas I think, yeah, and I met George Baxter, he was like god then, and he told me just play a burn deck, he said "cook 'em". He had mad skilz for forecasting because just before I went to Dallas I read about this red deck down in Georgia, and then I found out some kid named Chapin had played the same one in Dallas and made top eight. Yeah, so I starting playing Sligh. I studied and studied. Once I even wrote David Price an email asking him about his deck and he sent me his deck list and explained why every card was in there. I bet he already had it typed up, you know, Ivy League, Cornell, but it was very nice of him.

  I played Magic all day and when I wasn't I thought about it or read about it. Like I read every single article on the Dojo, even the scrubby ones, even the humour ones which usually weren't funny. And I was still playing a lot but people were getting wise to my tricks so they would sideboard for Sligh. So I'd switch to Necro and then they would start sideboarding against that. I started playing permission for a while but jeez, I'd be sitting there until the end of almost every round just grinding it out and no time to relax before playing again. So like there was a PT in NYC and everyone was staying at the hotel Pennsylvania. That was the most screwed up situation ever. You could literally walk up to the top, 40 floors, and beat someone trying to get in an elevator and go to the top. You had to go to the top because that's where the side tourneys were for the night. Well, anyways, I'm so fat I couldn't walk up two floors without collapsing so I finally get in an elevator and huck if that elevator didn't stop on every frikking floor. But Chris Pikula was in the elevator and that guy is FUNNY! It almost made the trip bearable. He went on this rant about coin flipping cards and he just went on and on, ya know, I guess you had to be there.

  Now I just play casual stuff or with some T1 degenerate decks. It's still quite a game. My favorite decks are Sligh and Necro, and my favorite card is Ophidian.

[danp]

Hello all. New user, long time player (started during 3rd.) Vintage has always been my favorite format and I played somewhat competetively back in the day before some kind soul jacked my fully powered/alpha keeper deck a few years ago.

After that I quit playing for a few years and later got back in around Onslaught on MTGO and started rebuilding my Vintage collection.

I then quit again about 2 years ago due to other interests.

Now I've gotten the bug again and I'm back (This game is like paper crack and you can't really stay away.)

I still have about 95% of my physical collection which consists of 4x of most playable cards from Alpha through Onslaught minus the power cards that were stolen. Over the years I have managed to regain a few staples like drains and I do still have a beta jet and a library. My biggest gap right now is all the duals that were stolen, I only have a few left (but at least I still have one of my alpha Tundras!)

I read this daily for quite a while but it appears that things have changed up a bit while I was gone and I'm obviously completely out of date on the Vintage landscape these days so I'll be reading a lot on here and not posting much so as not to put my foot too far into my mouth.

What I hope to gain from this forum is:

1) Get back up to speed on the vintage landscape.
2) Find a place to play in Philadelphia

#2 is really my main goal right now as I know a grand total of 0 people that play Magic here and the only store I used to play at on Sundays (a comic shop on South St.) no longer hosts a game day. Even when it did the caliber of player was very casual, but at least it was something.

If anyone here is from Philadelphia and plays regularly (serious or not) please let me know, I'd be very interested in playing even if it means getting my butt kicked all day long.

[tlov]

My name is Chris.  I'm in my 30's, and have been playing Magic off and on since Revised.

[durrghh]

Hey guys.

My name is Darren and I am from the detroit area.  My good buddy is Spencerforhire, otherwise known as Spencer.  I play mostly legacy and i picked up magic back in elementary school, some 13 years ago.

[Seraphyn]

OK I just tried to reply to this post and timed out....I'll start from scratch.
I suppose this is a good thread to place my first post...
My name is Sera.  I learned to play MTG in High School but quickly lost interest during my first two years of college.  I picked it back up a few years ago and began playing friendly multiplayer games.  I piloted a Mono-White Weenie deck that got beat down repeatedly.  After a year or so of this, I "quit MTG forever".
    I was convinced last March by a good friend of mine to give it another try while at a gaming convention.  I grabbed a random deck and played. It was like riding a bicycle; easy and lots of fun.  I began playing friendly games ever since and learned not to get so frustrated.
     I would watch my friends prepare for and compete in Vintage Tournaments.  After several months of this, I decided it was time to give Vintage the old college try.  I competed (if you can call what I did competition *snicker*) in my very first Vintage Tournament this past weekend at TMD Open X in Stratford, CT.  I played terribly, made lots of very dumb mistakes, and didn't win a single match.  I had an insane amount of fun and got to eat a fantastically tasty brownie cookie.  It seems to me that Vintage attracts a lot of cool, mellow people and I like all these things.
     I have joined TMD to hopefully pick up some much needed pointers and advice to aid me in my Vintage voyages.  Being a clueless and utterly hopeless noob, I need all the help I can get.
I hope to see some of you around at tournaments here in the Northeast!

[sys41o]

Hello,

My name is Bruce.  I play almost all of my magic in Calgary, Canada.  I started about 1994 when 4th edition and Ice Age were just released when a couple of friends of mine introduced me to MTG.  We used to put all of our cards into one big deck and just play to see how much damage we could do to each other before we got tired or had to go to school.

I play mostly Type 2 and limited and I have recently started rebuilding my Type 1 card pool after foolishly selling all of my good cards years ago before the big price jump.  I have been checking in on TMD for the past couple of years but have just now decided that I want to pick up on type 1 again so I better get involved in the community.

I have started down the road to judging and I really like the indepth discussion going on here.  I hope that I can make some positive input into the forums as well.

[jeblucas]

Hello, I'm Jeb. I started playing while in Berkeley for grad school, circa 1997. I inherited some older cards, but never anything better than one of each revised dual. I was a DCI Judge for a spell, was -very- active on #mtgwacky back when we were all SRP's, and have a sad, sad attachment to green (I'm trying to get over it!) Here's some of my ancient articles: A snarky Judge Report. A creakingly old intro to card/tempo advantage. An embarrassing-in-hindsight report from the Dojo.

I have been playing 5-Color to the exclusion of all other constructed formats since about 2001, and have recently decided to roll some of my 5C decks into a nifty Vintage library, minus the Contracts and Jeweled Birds, of course. 5-Color where my largest contribution to the game as a whole occured. I developed the 5C-Draft format with Mark Gresbach, and I have to believe my conversations with Paul Barclay/Mike Fuelle on DCIJUDGE-L were the first inklings of MaskNaught.

I'm active on the MOTL and 5-Color boards (as "jeb").

Having been in the Bay Area and Chicagoland until 2003, I miss tremendously the store/tournament scene I had available to me in those locales. I am in Southern California now (greater LA area), and I can tell you it is a wasteland for organized play north of Orange County. Also, the two kids under age three cramp my playing time slightly. 

[ninjitstew]

Hi all, my name is Bryan, and I've been playing Magic since about the time revised was released.  I've played all sorts of different formats, but most of the tournaments I have played in were a long time ago.  A few years ago, I had my own shop in Toledo, Ohio.  I ran all of our Magic tournaments for over 2 years.  2 years ago, I started playtesting Legacy with my nephew(who was the 2005 Legacy CHampion at GenCon).  I have recently started to play Legacy again, as it is the format I enjoy most.

[Flospers]

Hi, my name is Henry and I'm from the Netherlands. I'm a Johnny who mostly plays in the smaller Eternal tournaments. I tend to stay away from the established decks (if I do play one, it's Staxx). I'd rather take a deck nobody expects, tweak it, add some power and score some style points, like I did when I piloted FEB to a 6th place finish in a Vintage tourney. I'm afraid I won't be able to immediately contribute to the discussions on these boards (due to my inexperience with many of the tier-1 decks) but that may change as lurking here has already taught me a lot of things.

[BTape]

I'm Ryan Cimera, known as BTape on MTGO, Starcitygames, MTGSalvation, and Misetings. I have waning interest in Vintage, but I'm quite active in Extended. I have a GP top 8 in Extended and a PT top 8 in Kamigawa block, though that doesn't mean much anymore.

[afig]

Hi All-
I'm a new member here. My name's Andrew and I live in Minnesota. I've enjoyed Magic off and on for about 12-13 years but only started playing competatively over the past 4-5. Casual/Group Magic is still enjoyable, but not nearly as fullfilling as playing against good decks. I look forward to discussing ideas, strategies and cards with some of you.
Andrew

[CranialX]

Hi,

I'm Ryan Payabyab from the Manila,Philippines. I been playing magic for the past 4-5 yrs. Playing competetive Vintage for 2 years now.
The article here and Idea are very informative and useful. I hope that i can contribute my ideas and Share opinion.

Thank you.
There is only Vintage in Magic and others. IMO

[Ryan_Royal]

Hello

My name is (also) Ryan, from Copenhagen Denmark.

I am a highly analytical deckbuilder and strategist although sometimes an absent-minded player.

Vintage is my favorite format and I have won a tourney or two with rogue builds in my time.

Unfortunately Vintage is dying in all of Denmark so my hand is forced into playing Legacy.