I've played Magic for many years now. If you have a lot of trouble with people showing up with full suites of Thragtusk et al, you might want to see if they run draft events, where everyone builds their decks out of cards they get on the spot. It's the main way I play.
Quote:ECSNorway wrote:Late 90s and kill-before third-turn makes me think of Combo Winter, which was pretty much the most ridiculous time to play Magic. Were the most recent sets Urza's Saga/Urza's Legacy/Urza's (Something Else)?
That was the main reason I dropped out of Magic, back in the late 90's. It cost too much to keep up and the tournament scene was -insane-. (The standard meme was speed-kill. If your opponent gets a third turn, you're doing something VERY wrong.)