Magic: the Gathering – The Longest Cycle
A 3-card cycle which started in 1998 and is now finally complete.
Article – http://mtg-realm.blogspot.ca/2017/11/the-longest-cycle.html
Click on over to Gathering Magic for today’s Unstable preview of the third and final Magic: the Gathering player psychograph.
Timmy wants to experience something. Timmy plays Magic because he enjoys the feeling he gets when he plays. What that feeling is will vary from Timmy to Timmy, but what all Timmies have in common is that they enjoy the visceral experience of playing.
Johnny is the creative gamer to whom Magic is a form of self-expression. Johnny likes to win, but he wants to win with style. It’s very important to Johnny that he win on his own terms. As such, it’s important to Johnny that he’s using his own deck. Playing Magic is an opportunity for Johnny to show off his creativity.
Spike is the competitive player. Spike plays to win. Spike enjoys winning. To accomplish this, Spike will play whatever the best deck is. Spike will copy decks off the Internet. Spike will borrow other players’ decks. To Spike, the thrill of Magic is the adrenaline rush of competition. Spike enjoys the stimulation of outplaying the opponent and the glory of victory.
Those of you out there that play UnCommander will soon have a new Legendary Gamer to play with. Spike is quite strong, I expect she’ll be seeing play in silver-border games very quickly.
Needs Red Vorthos and White Melvin.
Ditto @askkrenko
I mean technically Vorthos and Mel are part of a different player spectrum (not really part of the psychographics) but I still agree with @askkrenko that I’d love to see cards for them in the future.
And that’s just one of the reasons we need to make sure that Unstable is a success so we get to enjoy Un-4 and Un-5 someday!!
Mel and Vorthos need to be a Partnered pair. And their cards must be as much a distillation of what they are. Flavorful Vorthos with flourishes, some flavor text, exquisite art. And Mel needs to be all crunch, simple art. Clean, straight forward. But they also need to work well together I think.
(partner on both cards, specifically for commander reasons XD )
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