i have played a lot of games for a long time, and when competition is involved and there is a prize, people will cheat to win if they can, call it a competative advantage, gamesmanship, etc (i have seen it happen over and over at Gen Con)

I think it comes from competition, as well as immaturity (many gamers are younger and/or have less refined social skills), accountability (you generally do not have to see the people you play in a tournament again or will only see them once or twice a year) so who does it really hurt

I like the idea of the people not playing watching the players i.e. your friend is watching the other player to ensure fairplay and speaks up if something is out of wack, generally we have policed our own games - a judge at every table would be nice but probably not feasible

I like chess clocks on each table to ensure equal time...that ensures a winner as well, run out of time you lose, 30 min for each player on the clock or whatever time you want to use per round -  no tie breakers and eliminates stalling type of gamesmanship - realativly cheap investment

I also like harsh penaties, i.e. insta disqualification for "error" if the opponent wants to take it or they can let them off the hook, but put that in the hands of the opponent to decide what they want to accept, then if the opponent believes it is an honest mistake they can let it go, however if they do not, or just want the win they can take the dq

I am looking at it more from the competition side, so that slants all my views on the topic FYI

Ok thx that is how I thought it would work

ok thanks that is very helpful

So Jinx with the Wizard mana ring can "pin" your opponent by making them not be able to cast their first spell every turn for the first 6 turns and you can reveal for free while building mana advantage off the siphon mana card - if played correctly that works, right?

To upset their casting tempo...although after that is over they are going to have a stash of spells to use so you better have board advantage by then...

What is the best way (or cheapest) way to get 6 of each card to make each deck x2

Seems like i have 6 of some cards and not of others, however i bought a core set and tome pack and seems like i only have 4 jink...seems like everyone would run 6 of those in each deck...so what is the best way to get there

With such powerful equipment out there, how come there is not 6 copies of anti equipment stuff in each deck

Is it becaue there are not enough cards per core set and mage tome to run 6 of everything there?

Kind of like 3rd edt Magic - everyone ran 4 copies of Disenchant because there were so many enchantments or artifcacts, you pretty much had to

What is the general mana curve per game, i.e. you need to balance out your casting cost requirements through the game, so how many 1, 2, 3 cost spells should you have etc

has anyone done a mathmatical analysis of this yet?  (i am no engineer so it is not my area of expertise) just looking to know if there is a general curve for building an initial deck

or is there a % of attack spells, enchantments, incantations etc to start off with then modify from there

Would prefer to free form my first few decks and not use the starting decks, and would looking to play Tournament style (competative)

Thanks
Dapuma

If I am a Wizard, is there any reason not to summon my familiar first turn to get him generating mana?  Is it better to get the Voltari out first, I reasoned the position of the spawn point would not be that important because you can teleport with a mage wand, mainly want to protect it to get extra actions and and extra mana

Is the necklace for 1 channeling worth it or does equipment get nuked too fast the first few rounds of battle to really matter?