I feel like this is a format that has kind of gotten swept under the rug with cubes of all kinds popping up everywhere and EDH being all over. I think it's probably one of the sweetest most challenging formats around though and it kind of is a cube of sorts. It really makes you have to dig deep and there's tons of possibilities. Anybody here play a lot or have a dedicated mental magic stack? Any strategies in particular you love? Would love to hear from you guys on this.
General Mental Magic
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I've played it once and really liked it, but as a relative newcomer to Magic it was super difficult. I read an article once on the format (I think it was SCG) that was really good. Anybody have the link?
This is one of those formats that make me feel like a scrub, in the Sirlin definition of the word. Like, when I played it, it was really fun because we all sucked and were just scratching our heads and throwing like, Scavenging Oozes onto the table and casting Ancestral Recall every chance we could (or Mental Misstep). But if one of us went all arms race with it and became awesome, it would cease to be fun unless the others do the same. I guess that's the EDH problem, but I really don't have the energy or desire to become great at Mental Magic.
Further, if I were awesome, I feel like it'd be even harder to get people to play. A good Mental Magic player will wipe the floor with a rookie 100% of the time.
These are kind of meta issues, but for anyone interested in actually playing Mental Magic it's probably a very real consideration.
Further, if I were awesome, I feel like it'd be even harder to get people to play. A good Mental Magic player will wipe the floor with a rookie 100% of the time.
These are kind of meta issues, but for anyone interested in actually playing Mental Magic it's probably a very real consideration.
This is my experience with the format. One local had a mental magic stack that was relatively popular until a couple people went super serious, and everyone else just lost interest.
Not at all. If you own a cube or play cube regularly you should already have a good grasp on the kinds of cards you want to be casting. I mean people who have been playing longer are gonna know cards that seem random like Seedtime but it's still a pretty level playing field.
Chris Taylor
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yeah I've only ever played mental magic as a Type 4 esque format (infinite mana) with a hand size of 1 (and the same card can't be cast twice in the same game), so it was all about knowing obscure cantrips and buyback cards of ages past.
FlowerSunRain
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Scrabble is an extremely abstract tile placement game with a thousand page rulebook on legal placement masquerading as a word game.
FlowerSunRain
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Can you imagine the forum banter on this?
"I was drafting last night and the kid next to me was a total noob. Who passes an X for a fucking vowel?"
Dom Harvey
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Just think how fun Scrabble Sealed would be!
'One E and no S? That's fine, I didn't want them anyway'
'One E and no S? That's fine, I didn't want them anyway'