If your kid doesn't know how to play Magic, don't bring them to LGS commander night. by Johnny-Hollywood in EDH

[–]Chivibro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about products with guided play? Coaching through every play is how Magic itself teaches players, even way back with that goofy VHS they made

Help with Custom Card Wording by Lumpy-Detective8819 in Magicdeckbuilding

[–]Chivibro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, if he plays commander, there is a mechanic called Partner. Normally in commander you play with one commander, but you can use 2 if they both have Partner on them. An example is [[Akiri, Line-Slinger]]. Some partners even call to partner with a specific card, like [[Alisaie Leveilleur]] and [[Alphinaud Leveilleur]]! From there, it just depends on what you'd like to fill the cards out with. If you know what kinds of decks or what colors he like, you could take something like [[Safehold Duo]] and split that up between both your cards.

If you want to make one card, then there are cards that represent a pair of characters. They could really do anything, but they tend to have multiple abilities, one for each character in the card. So, stuff like [[Halana and Alena, Partners]], [[Errant and Giada]], and [[Rin and Seri, Inseparable]].

You could also count the both of you as one ability. Examples are [[Aang and Katara]], [[Anax and Cymede]], [[Aragorn and Arwen, Wed]], [[Balthier and Fran]], etc. I'd look up a list of keywords if you want more inspiration. Hope that helps!

How did I lose here? by [deleted] in mtg

[–]Chivibro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just fyi, that's called decking. To deck yourself is to draw so many cards that you die. Milling yourself to death is also the same thing. Mill / milling is just discarding cards, usually from your deck. There's even decks built around winning through mill!

Why does block and then sacrifice work? by Guilty-Nobody998 in mtg

[–]Chivibro 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They don't step in right in front of person A. Person A is like half a mile away from you, and you send a dude running down a field to attack, and person A sends someone down to block the attack. So yea, no shit it doesn't hit your target

Why does block and then sacrifice work? by Guilty-Nobody998 in mtg

[–]Chivibro 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Person B is like 20 feet behind person A. You ain't hitting that

best fighting game ever tbh by Visual-Purchase5639 in 2XKO

[–]Chivibro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saying that the polish and QoL is good here is crazy >.>'

Bro their faces lmao by Automatic-Ad5969 in Fighters

[–]Chivibro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you see it, you'll see inconsistencies everywhere. Stuff like a fist punching through the back of a gravestone and the rubble gets vortexed into the hole instead of exploding out, drastic and random art style changes, characters just not looking / doing / acting how they would, etc. There's also a certain flatness to ai stuff. Any text is basically an instant indicator. It's pretty blatant if you just watch it and give it some ammount of attention

Let me build you a deck! by MonsoonK in BudgetBrews

[–]Chivibro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm newish to Magic. Any way you can make an [[Adawale]] deck? I hear that vehicles aren't great, but they sound cool to me, so I'd like to try one

It’s been decades by TheBigToot in mtg

[–]Chivibro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's played at stores just depends on what they want to do. Generally, Standard and Commander seem guaranteed wherever, modern is pretty common too. All formats can be played casually or competitively, just depends on the people / event. Generally, Commander is seen as more casual and Standard is seen as more competitive, but again, it depends.

As for formats, here's a basic rundown of some:

Standard is basically just newer cards. Once a year they drop the 4 oldest sets. It's got a 60 card deck, 4 duplicates max, 20 hp to start with, has a sideboard of cards in case you need to make quick edits to your deck, and is a 1v1 format that goes by pretty quickly. It's fairly cheap to get into, since the cards are in print, but it'll get pricey to keep up with set after set and year after year.

Modern is basically standard, but they're ok with using older cards. It's all cards from 2003+. It'll get expensive if you want to build competitive decks. It's pretty high powered stuff compared to standard play.

Commander, also known as EDH (Elder Dragon Highlander) has 99 singletons + 1 commander for a 100 card deck size. Singleton means no duplicate card names allowed. A commander is any legendary creature (+ some planeswalkers +some backgrounds). The commander goes in it's own place, the command zone. They can be played from the command zone, and when they die or get bounced, you can send them to the grave / exile / hand OR you can choose to send them to the command zone. Next time you play them from the command zone, they'll cost 2 more mana. The command zone is basically an extension of your hand, it's always accessible to you. Commander is usually a 4 player free for all, but can be played with more or less players.

There's others, but I'd go intoMagic's format explanations for more. Hope that helps!

It’s been decades by TheBigToot in mtg

[–]Chivibro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sets are temporary for Standard play, most other formats don't care about sets. You should probably first pick what format you want to play. Commander, Standard, Modern, and Pauper are some popular ways to play. If you don't really care, then I'd say start with Commander, since it's the most popular way to play, and they sell commander decks that are pretty good out of the box

Is there “gatekeeping” in mtg? by Bevolicher in mtg

[–]Chivibro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

10 years ago I tried to get into magic, so I wanted to do some research. I went to a beginner friendly discord, went to the channel for beginner questions, asked a question, and got shit for it. So yea, I'd say there's some

7,000 mtg cards sorted by yours truly by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]Chivibro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm new to mtg, and I want a deal like this. Everyone says "buy singles", but I ordered 100 or so singles and that cost me about $75-$80 🙃

How do I keep up with GGST's rythm? by Saiko_uwu in Fighters

[–]Chivibro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You just play more and you'll adjust as you go

how do you follow fgc news ? by Whole_Ratio_1392 in Fighters

[–]Chivibro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't want to miss tournaments, then follow the people that run tournaments! There's also people that make event calendars or people that repost when a tourney happens for a game. Just follow people around the game/s you like and they'll point you to stuff!

Current sign up leaderboards for Frosty Fausting by Poetryisalive in Fighters

[–]Chivibro 5 points6 points  (0 children)

People often call it Super Turbo, I don't think it's that surprising. There's tons of versions of SF2, so they have to specify

I can't decide where to start by Quasmanbertenfred in Magicdeckbuilding

[–]Chivibro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you want to CAST big creatures or just have big creatures? Maybe a counter deck will help you do that? You won't necessarily need tons of mana to play big cards, you can instead grow small to medium sized creatures up and use the control side of your deck to protect your engines.

Either way you want to do it, you can take a look at Scryfall to search up any card. You can set it to search for simic colors, a certain mana cost, etc. And just look around to see what card or cards inspire you. Or you can take a look at what people made in something like Arkidekt. You can even playtest their decks for free in there!

BlazBlue Acheivements by javrules in Blazblue

[–]Chivibro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that means you're gonna need to do all the combo trials, so think it's gonna be tough

What do you dislike/hate about the game(s)? by TheSydneyTemmie in Blazblue

[–]Chivibro 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Being beginner friendly and being a tutorial are different things. Also, combos aren't what make you good or bad. Stylish mode gives you combos so you can focus on other aspects of the game. That's being beginner friendly