I played pretty hard core from visions through invasion. My collection is now all gone. All I have left is one cursed scroll and one morphling.
The game was great fun for several years until I amassed such a collection of cards that it became apparent that the game is pretty much dependent on the shuffle of the deck. Any two decks built moderately well have an equal chance to beat the other. Mana hose is mana hose and if you mulligan down to three or fewer cards, you've got little chance to win. I'm not saying the game is completely devoid of skill, far from it, it was just always such a drag to work hard building a deck only to lose a match because two out of three games you continue to draw a poor opening seven.
I can't say much for the current type 2 environment as I haven't glanced at anything MTG in at least a year and a half aside from reading something about new slivers and by now they're probably yesterday's news as well.
Nice thread Taco, kinda makes me wish I hadn't pawned off the collection this past winter, but they were taking up way too much space in the house to not be used.
fable, guess wizards or hasbro or tsr or whomever has the rights now finally listened to the masses complaining about the strength of blue. You weren't one of those guys playing an academy/stroke deck making the opponent draw 10 million cards on turn two, were you?
Crush enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women.
