Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
by gambiting on Friday October 02, 2015 @05:18AM
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Well. You can have as many cards as you like, but still just 4 copies of any card, apart from basic lands. So there's very little benefit to having 200 cards in your deck.
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Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
by thom on Friday October 02, 2015 @06:01AM
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No benefit except that it is awesome.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=bat...
Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
by endgame on Friday October 02, 2015 @06:52AM
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And anything involving Shadowborn Apostle:
444 Shadowborn Apostle
1 Reaper from the Abyss
1 Sire of Insanity
2 Griselbrand
4 Cavern of Souls
214 Swamp
There are probably better lists but I like the simplicity of this one and the 666-card deck.
Source: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/frank-analysis-is-pl...
Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
by joshguthrie on Friday October 02, 2015 @07:08AM
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Is this from Unhinged?
Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
by fredoliveira on Friday October 02, 2015 @08:07AM
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Unsure if you are serious, but no, it's from an actual core set. Some battle of wits players did "okay" in a couple of tournaments too.
Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
by deathcalibur on Friday October 02, 2015 @08:50AM
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There was a modern legal deck which used this card and birthing pod (now banned) and actually won a decent number of mtgo events:
http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg...
Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
by rol on Friday October 02, 2015 @04:31PM
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> but still just 4 copies of any card
If you are playing Limited (i.e. Draft or Sealed decks) then you can have as many copies as you have in your card pool.
Although you may have some trouble finding 200 cards to use in a Limited event :)