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I just bought "The Adventurer's Deck" and "Unstable Terrain" decks. I plan on having a forest heavy Deck, perferably elves but I don't have those cards, I will try to trade for them. I was wondering what goes good with Green? I have fire and water from the decks but I consider blue horrible, red is good but I'd rather have forest stuff. Anyone got any good green combos they could share?

I feel sorry for your soul :(

Prognosis of MTG usage/addiction:

Step 1: You get your first starter deck/tourney deck and boosters. You think every Rare card you get is freaking awesome.

Step 2: You get more boosters/tourney decks because you start to slowly realize that when playing against regulars with your crappy rares that cost U6G4, you are losing by turn 4 at best.

Step 3: You find the internet Magic scene.

Step 4: You start buying singles

Step 5: You start winning

Step 6: You go to tournament. You lose, horribly

Step 7: New set series comes out, playing field seems leveled

Step 8: Your knowledge of new set is incredible, seeing as you have been with it since the beginning.

Step 9: You do OK at some tournaments.

Step 10: Next set comes out. You realize that all your old constructed decks are suddenly obsolete in current formats, and your slavish attention to the last set has left you without much of a clue in current set.

Step 11: You play for the first release of the new set. And then slowly start finding yourself doing other things

Step 12: You try selling obsolete set. It fails.

Step 13: You don't play....

Step 14: A few years later someone drags you back in, well past any set you have seen has been obsolete.

Step 15: Go back to Step 1.

God hates elves, true story.

It will pass. I traded my entire collection of MTG cards for a whole painted WFB chaos army over ten years ago. I don't have the army either, sold it to fund the build up of my chaos space marines army. Have not been tempted to go back. It's called emotional scarring.

Altered_Soul wrote:Prognosis of MTG usage/addiction:

Step 1: You get your first starter deck/tourney deck and boosters. You think every Rare card you get is freaking awesome.

Step 2: You get more boosters/tourney decks because you start to slowly realize that when playing against regulars with your crappy rares that cost U6G4, you are losing by turn 4 at best.

Step 3: You find the internet Magic scene.

Step 4: You start buying singles

Step 5: You start winning

Step 6: You go to tournament. You lose, horribly

Step 7: New set series comes out, playing field seems leveled

Step 8: Your knowledge of new set is incredible, seeing as you have been with it since the beginning.

Step 9: You do OK at some tournaments.

Step 10: Next set comes out. You realize that all your old constructed decks are suddenly obsolete in current formats, and your slavish attention to the last set has left you without much of a clue in current set.

Step 11: You play for the first release of the new set. And then slowly start finding yourself doing other things

Step 12: You try selling obsolete set. It fails.

Step 13: You don't play....

Step 14: A few years later someone drags you back in, well past any set you have seen has been obsolete.

Step 15: Go back to Step 1.

LOL, Exactly! I am currently at step 1 for the 5th time! I have been playing on and off and on and off for almost 10 years.

@OP: One of us! One of us! Gobble, gobble...

Altered_Soul wrote:Prognosis of MTG usage/addiction:

Step 1: You get your first starter deck/tourney deck and boosters. You think every Rare card you get is freaking awesome.

Step 2: You get more boosters/tourney decks because you start to slowly realize that when playing against regulars with your crappy rares that cost U6G4, you are losing by turn 4 at best.

Step 3: You find the internet Magic scene.

Step 4: You start buying singles

Step 5: You start winning

Step 6: You go to tournament. You lose, horribly

Step 7: New set series comes out, playing field seems leveled

Step 8: Your knowledge of new set is incredible, seeing as you have been with it since the beginning.

Step 9: You do OK at some tournaments.

Step 10: Next set comes out. You realize that all your old constructed decks are suddenly obsolete in current formats, and your slavish attention to the last set has left you without much of a clue in current set.

Step 11: You play for the first release of the new set. And then slowly start finding yourself doing other things

Step 12: You try selling obsolete set. It fails.

Step 13: You don't play....

Step 14: A few years later someone drags you back in, well past any set you have seen has been obsolete.

Step 15: Go back to Step 1.

Or you could play vintage....

To the op.
Vintage (type1)
Oath of druids + Forbidden orchard And some High mana cost fat creatures. Good creatures Akroma Angel of Wrath, Hellkite Overlord etc etc.

Standard (type 2)
Its not mono green... But its a trournament deck that is doing rather well atm.

Jund
4 Bloodbraid Elf
3 Broodmate Dragon
4 Putrid Leech
4 Sprouting Thrinax
3 Bituminous Blast
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Terminate
4 Blightning
3 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Dragonskull Summit
2 Forest
2 Mountain
2 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Savage Lands
4 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Chandra Nalaar
2 Garruk Wildspeaker

Sideboard:
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
3 Malakir Bloodwitch
2 Jund Charm
2 Terminate
4 Mind Rot

For elfcombo decks look here

Lord Demon wrote:Or you could play vintage....

That is my solution. The guys I play with have a house rule: If it is actually a real, printed WOTC Magic the Gathering card, you can play it.
This rule was modified to include the "actually a real, printed" clause because some of us had decks that were almost all proxies. 60 card Battle of Wits deck FTW! MUHUHUHAHAHA!!!

Well with my friends i play type 2 since they are type 2 junkies. But i'll gladly play a vintage tournament .

White goes really well with green. i have adeck made of white creatures and green spells.

You could also try black, the green lets you regenerate while the black constantly deals damage.

If you want to play vintage with any success you are going to have to drop at least 1k on singles....


I would say go for Legacy (1.5) at least that will only set you back a couple hundred for dual lands...

My sympathies.

Even though I am not religious, I will spare a thought for your 'soul' as you begin the walk down the path of eternal damnation.

It isn't too late to stop. Put down the cards, turn your back and walk away (DO NOT LOOK BACK).

Still, it could be worse. You could've chosen something like Yu-gi-ohmyfethin'Grudjustkillmenow.

I had a friend who succumbed to Magic addiction.
It cost him his car, his girlfriend, his job and his self-respect.

not another one.....

I wish I had the money Ive wasted on that POS game (sorry my opinion) Great proffit making plan tho.... "Hey, we'll release a new "expansion" every year or so and all their parents money becomes ours!!"

I started playing during third, antiq, weatherlight, japcardz.... quit after each one......

dont become the loser who works at Walmart and chases me down, to tell me with a heavy lisp; about the "super kewl" new combo youre running.

- MTG will be evenly traded for:
BOOT TO THE HEAD!!!!

Clthomps wrote:If you want to play vintage with any success you are going to have to drop at least 1k on singles....


I would say go for Legacy (1.5) at least that will only set you back a couple hundred for dual lands...

If you aim on playing in a tournament then yes it is a huge investment. But if you treat the cards well they will hold their value. So when you quit you can sell them for 1k. And besides that in the mtg valhalla that is the states there are proxy tournaments beeing held everywhere. With the 10 proxy rule the price tag of vintage becomes equal to legacy.

Besides that there is a difference between tournament play and casual play. Running a mono black zombie list with a demonic tutor in it is still vintage. While in legacy you would not be able to run that tutor.

Clthomps wrote:If you want to play vintage with any success you are going to have to drop at least 1k on singles....


I would say go for Legacy (1.5) at least that will only set you back a couple hundred for dual lands...

Bingo. Unless you use proxies, which won't get you anywhere at a store.

But hey, anyone looking for an Onslaught through Kamigawa collection of cards. I have a metric brick-ton, plus a binder full of what I think was good rares. Not that I have looked at them in like... 3 years.

If you want the best MTG experience, without really having to worry about $$$ built decks, play Draft, or Closed Deck. Those are the best events, and only cost you the cards to do it. And everyone is on the same level. You still need to know something about the set for damn sure, but its a blast to face other thrown together decks, the strategy is just incredible.

Awesome game. Possibilities are endless. There really are entire universes inside these cards. Fare thee well, Planeswalker!

I like monster cards. But everytime I get a monster card I wish it was a miniature.

We play the "Most Dangerous Game" around the apartment fairly often. I have a blue black mill deck, a kill everything then cast terravore deck, a patron wizard deck, and three other pieces of crap that lose.

My favorite constructed deck got banned by all my dorm mates back in college. A pure blue counter/flying deck. It was a tad slow, but hilarious as hell. Added Equipment to it with Mirrodin's release, and then no one would let me play it :(.

Friend: "I play Elvish Van.."

Me: "No you don't"

Friend: "WTF"

Me: "My turn, I play Bribery"

Friend: "WTF!"

Good times. Until no one let me use it any more. Wasn't an sure-winner deck, but godamn I pissed off enough people. I loved it when people started trying to bluff, so I would counter something. Only for me to have enough mana to use another counter for the thing they wanted to really play lol.

It's similiar to Wow and smoking cigs.... If you don't start you won't have to worry about the pain of quiting... Friends don't let friends play wow, magic, or smoke!

White is awesome with green.