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Title: A question of imagination
Date Posted: Thu Oct/15/09 at 8:59pm

DyingJester
Posts: 1771
Joined: 16-Dec-08

I know many people play MTG seriously or just to chill out, but some like to delve into the game in a dramatic sense, for example one of my friends actually quotes his favorite card, progenitus as it enters play. Not extraordinary really, but it adds a certain flare to the overall gameplay. What I mainly wish to ask is how do you imagine your creatures as they enter play? I for one enjoy picturing a quiet night, a full moon, and a forest behind me as I cast Howl of The Nightpack. The wolves merge from the trees and shadows as they form a line in front of me and bare their fangs at the opponent. Maybe a bit dramatic, but I'm just curious to know if anyone else out there has any visual descriptions for when their creatures enter the battlefield.
Date Posted: Mon Oct/19/09 at 4:16am

shakii23
Posts: 5711
Joined: 08-Sep-09

When i cast my favorite creature, Caller of the Claw... I get excited... Those are the times when i use elf deck and play against anti creatures... Especially after Wrath of God... Another funny story actually happened.. My other friend, we he cast hideous laughter, he would laugh so loud... Especially when playing against me because i'm using elf deck.. 1 hideous laughter and my elves are toast...
When he played hideous laughter that day, he laughed so hard that my other friends playing in another table looked at him.. Then after that i casted Caller of the Claw... After that he was silent... I imagine Caller of the claw, coming down a hill with bears behind him... Leading the attack the enemy to avenge his elf friends that was killed by my friend's hideous laughter...
Date Posted: Mon Oct/19/09 at 4:18am

shakii23
Posts: 5711
Joined: 08-Sep-09

The only card that i can't imagine while playing it is Biorhythm.. I cant imagine that card....
Date Posted: Thu Oct/22/09 at 4:29pm

Phagegroopie
Posts: 117
Joined: 08-Sep-09

The mechanics and numbers mostly ruin it for me to be honest. I just can't imagine how 6 little soldiers who are 1/1 can beat up a 6/6 monstrocity that would normally whipe them out in one swing. But I imagine my creatures either being summoned from the aether, or just walking up at me, or laying in camps at nights (after a turn has ended) etc etc.
Date Posted: Thu Oct/22/09 at 4:38pm

Phagegroopie
Posts: 117
Joined: 08-Sep-09

Although it was fun for me imagining the battle betwin me and a friend. I had a Serra Avatar and he had worship. My Serra Avatar had a loxodom warhammer and would double her power and toughness (since she was doubling my life) at every attack while he would stay at 1 life. He stoped the game when my avatar was at around 500/500 (as my life) but I imagined it if it continued and my creature had a 40 digit power and toughness... Galaxy sized avatars, smashing with their hands the area where the planet in which my oponent (and me) was and he would stay unharmed. How awesome. Remember I had made an entire story about it in my head. Fun times :)
How do you imagine unlimited/unlimited creatures by the way?
Date Posted: Thu Oct/22/09 at 5:18pm

DyingJester
Posts: 1771
Joined: 16-Dec-08

Usually something ridiculously huge. Like when one of my friends used The old Devoted quillspike combo. I could just picture the Little Devoted druid feeding it's energy into an endlessly growing monstrosity of a quillspike. Humourously enough, though next turn my friend who plays red/black, cast shock at the beast, which roused my friend playing black/green into pumping his quillspike to a 301/301. The red/black player cackled and cast Traitor's Roar, tapping the Quillspike and killing the chaos's biggest threat. Next turn he died due to someone casting Shunt on his next Traitor's Roar, kind of fitting actually.(His Crowd of Cinders was at 15/15.)
Date Posted: Thu Oct/22/09 at 5:21pm

DyingJester
Posts: 1771
Joined: 16-Dec-08

Hmm...Biorhythm not to hard, just picture the effects of it on you as a mage. If you have few creatures, imagine you clutching your chest as your life ebbs away, and if you have many creatures, picture your muscles and body rippling with natural energy as a green aura envelopes you.
Date Posted: Tue Oct/27/09 at 6:00pm

Lixo da MTG
Posts: 1
Joined: 08-Aug-08

Those are some funny stories. When I play, I've never imagined the battle in my mind actually taking place. I pay too much attention to the rules/mechanics. "Am I doing this right? Can I cast this after you summon that?". Actually picturing the battles in your mind as they are taking place would add some additional depth to the game.

I want a program that you track all of your moves from a game, and it spits out a movie based on your turns. That'd be awesome :)
Date Posted: Thu Nov/26/09 at 10:59pm

shakii23
Posts: 5711
Joined: 08-Sep-09

I forgot to tell you all about the one card that i always quote its Flavor text everytime i cast it... It's Spellbook. Its flavor text is "Knowledge knows no bound.". Kind of like a tongue twister don't you think?

Well remember one time, when me and my best friend played a trick on one of my other friend while playing MtG. My other friend is using Rat deck.. An old school Rat deck, not the Ninjitsu rat deck and my best friend is using my deck, an elf combo deck.. My combo that time was the Viridian Joiner, Ferocious Charge, Staff of Domination Combo.. He was so focused in his cards that he didn't realize that my best friend.. Did realize that my best friend was cheating the whole time... when he would draw a card, he would draw 3 cards or so instead... And Spellbook is always in his hand... The funny thing is, there is only 1 spellbook in my deck... For 4 to 5 games, spellbook is always in opening hand... How, you ask? Everytime the game ends, he pass me the Spellbook... Everytime he would draw his opening hand, i will give him the spellbook and draw 6 cards... We were laughing the whole time while me and my best friend would quote the flavor text of Spellbook... "Knowledge knows no bound."

Indeed, knowledge knows no bound. My other friend couldn't forget that quote. And now it sort of became a laughing matter for us... Such a serious quote became a laughing matter for us...
Date Posted: Tue Mar/02/10 at 11:32am

lin sivvi
Posts: 1608
Joined: 14-Jan-10

When ever I play Eron the Relentless, I picture a lone figure rushing across a battlefield full of dead.  He gets slayed by something the opponent has, bringing that creature down with him, then he stands up and keeps walking towards my opponent, with a cockey swagger


Also, i have been working on a setting for DnD of Magic the Gathering, which allows for some pretty cool vizulization



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