Looking to get my first 500 losses done with fast
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 11:47 pm
Hey guys I played the video game Starcraft broodwar competitively for a very long time. Anyway my boss plays mtg and I made a bet with him I could win more than I lose at the 2014 Chicago GrandPrix on the first day of swiss. I had played zero games of mtg and owned zero cards at that point, and had 2 months to practice. I asked some people who were in the know in the starcraft scene and they told me to play r/w burn because it is notorious for winning games that it shouldn't.
So now after that I'm still playing because I'm not satisfied, and won't be until I consistently ALMOST make the top8 at big events. And I will keep going in this game until I do that... but if I do make top 8s at big events I'm for sure going to keep going. I plan on this taking a few years so I don't think I'm that arrogant in that regard.
Anyway right now my local area is very small (and
poor) so there aren't a lot of people running optimized tier1 decks. I think I need to start playing online to face good opponents and grind out my 500 losses out of the way to become a good player. Since I'm pretty damn poor, I think it would be best if I start the MTGO post-standard-rotation here in October so I don't have to buy RTRblock cards.
Is it true that MTGO has the better players? It seems weird to me that tournament-going players want to do the bullshit randomizedpacks and secondarymarket collecting cards when they can just 'have' them on other online clients like cockatrice. I am not a fan of Wizard's business model and I'd like it if they just gave me 4 of every card for 150 USD or something.
So now after that I'm still playing because I'm not satisfied, and won't be until I consistently ALMOST make the top8 at big events. And I will keep going in this game until I do that... but if I do make top 8s at big events I'm for sure going to keep going. I plan on this taking a few years so I don't think I'm that arrogant in that regard.
Anyway right now my local area is very small (and
poor) so there aren't a lot of people running optimized tier1 decks. I think I need to start playing online to face good opponents and grind out my 500 losses out of the way to become a good player. Since I'm pretty damn poor, I think it would be best if I start the MTGO post-standard-rotation here in October so I don't have to buy RTRblock cards.
Is it true that MTGO has the better players? It seems weird to me that tournament-going players want to do the bullshit randomizedpacks and secondarymarket collecting cards when they can just 'have' them on other online clients like cockatrice. I am not a fan of Wizard's business model and I'd like it if they just gave me 4 of every card for 150 USD or something.
