Magic: The Gathering/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** Countering. This is a big reason the scrubs mentioned below say "no blue". Countering is something you must expect against a blue deck, but the counter to counterspells is, paradoxically, to play as many spells as possible and hope one sticks.

* [[Scrub]]: As always, in contrast to the [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]: any card that the Scrub's deck can't deal with is "cheap", and anyone using it is trying to ruin the game for everyone who wants to play ''real'' Magic. It's common for people seeking casual games in ''Magic Online'' to put something similar to the following in the description:

* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: New players may be mystified as to why certain famous/infamous cards have such a reputation. Sometimes this is because of their still immature grasp of the game, but other times it's because those cards were simply good in their particular metagame, making their dominance a matter of context. Or even that the rules of Magic have changed so that whatever made them good in the first place doesn't work anymore.

* [[So Bad It's Good]]: A handful of cards, particularly from early sets such as ''Legends'', are so thoroughly useless that they're regarded with a degree of affection by players. <ref>[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=45985 Chimney Imp] is a particularly iconic example, attaining a status of [[Memetic Badass]] on the official forums, but is by no means the worst creature; that dubious honour goes to [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1555 Wood Elemental].</ref>