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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MtGtheRPGDM" data-source="post: 5565401" data-attributes="member: 6676550"><p>How much MtG have I played?  Up until 3 years ago I was a high level tournament player.  Played in 2 world championship tournaments (type 1 hosted at GenCon Indy every year ) playing a modified version of the Long ProsBloom deck  Went 8-4 in '03 and 9-3 in '04.  In the Odyssy/Onslaught and Onslaught/Mirridon type 2 blocks won over 40 tournaments using Gabe Wall's RW Slide (Gabe and I are form the same home town of Kokomo Indiana) and up until Apocalype rotated out of Extended I had won over 25 tournaments black Black/Green Rock Control of my own design, in which I gave the Spiritmonger its new nickname at a PTQ of "The People's Champ" after living wishing for him off an amazing topdeck that won me the match and almost got me in the top 8.  So I have played my fair share of MtG.  Now with that out of the way lets clear up a misconception I do believe a great many people are having.  In Magic if you have the money you have the card which you can place in your deck.  In Mtg the RPG that isnt the case.  You dont just get to pick and choose any of the THOUSANDS of cards that there is to build your spell book.  There is a starting list of spells (which are from a core set precon of your chosen color) in which you get your starting spells.  And after that you have to buy them.  Now black lotus is indeed a powerful powerful card in Magic.  But when it costs 130,000 gold to purchase one in MtG the RPG how many characters are going to get one?  Or how many are going to get ONE at the cost of hundreds of hundreds of other spells that they had to forsake to save up the money?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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