Welcome to the Collectable Card Game Page of the Outsider!

I like to play games. Lots and lots of games. At present, my favorite game is a collectable card game called Magic: the Gathering. It's highly addictive! And very expensive, but I find that it's really a "kids" game, in that the entire population of players seems to be barely pubescent, not old enough to shave. And if they are old enough to shave, they seem to have given up on bathing. I personally prefer to play with my limited group of friends. They can still be jerks, but at least they have a modicum of personal hygiene habits...

Here's the address to the best site I've found for Magic: the Gathering resources.

For a long while, I spent waaaaay too much money on collectable card games in general. If somebody asks you to get into such games, Just Say NO! They don't call it cardboard crack for nothing...

Meanwhile, I've got a buttload of decks made up, and I'm willing to share them with you. So far, these are the decks that I've written into HTML format so that you can look at them. I play more for fun, hanging around with my friends, drinking beer, and playing games into the wee hours of the morning. That means that I don't give a rip about Wizards of the Coast and the Duelests Convocation telling me what cards are and are not acceptable in the latest mix of tournament decks. That's just their rationalization for getting / forcing you to buy a lot of new cards! In any case, here are the decks:

First Tier

Snowblind White Weenie deck with a well timed Armageddon and Zuran Orb to get an overpowering creature advatage
Your Worst Flargin Nightmare Black Weenie with a discard theme. Actively lamenting the loss of Hymn to Tourach from the acceptable mix of cards...
Fungus Among Us Everbody must have a Thallid deck. It's some kind of wierd rule...
Slighs and Whispers Red weenie with direct damage: Classic Sligh deck
Blue Pearls Everybody has to make a Merfolk deck...
Gobola! Everybody's got to have a Goblin deck too!
Red Hot Poker Another poke deck, with COP:R and Spirit Link to negate damage from the Orcish Artillery.
Marshmellos anyone? Dey blowed up reeel good... Lotsa critters that don't suffer from Summoning Sickness, plus Dragon Masks to return Ball Lightnings to your hand after striking.
Second Tier
Bigfoot
Duncan McCloud Highlander
Agriculture Another single color deck
If you Build it, they will come Artifact and direct damage.	A
Chilly Beating
Little Fluffy Clouds
Draggon the Line
Garrotte Stasis and non-tapping when attacking critters.
The Girl can't help it
Hell's Angels I take your critters and sacrifice them to my Fallen Angel.
Jr. Birdman
A Poke in the Eye with a Sharp Stick Standard kind of poke deck.
Serf & Terf I couldn't think of a better name for a green and blue deck!
Sky and Sea
Speeeeeeed Walker! Land walking deck, a little unfocused as of now...
The Thrull of it All Fallen Empires gives us the Thrull deck
Twelve shades of Grey Pestilence
Velvet Elvis Enchantment heavy Vurduran Enchantress
Can't touch this The ultimate in slow, reactive, stasis decks

I'd more than welcome suggestions as to how I can make my decks better with the deletion of cards AB&C and the inclusion of cards XY&Z. Feel free to make such recomendations, tempered (of course!) by the problematic possibility of my possession of said cards!

One day I figured that I needed a helping aid to determine which critters were best for the cost. I couldn't find a source that had all of the M:tG creatures pre-sorted, but I did find a tuneable data base, so I crafted a query, then I made HTML files out of the results. Here's the critters (no walls!) sorted by color and casting cost, including critters from the Visions release:

Artifact Creatures

Black Creatures

Blue Creatures

Green Creatures

Red Creatures

White Creatures

(Critters having more than one color, so called "gold" cards, are found in each of the color categories as they apply.)

On the non-M:tG front, I've got cards for Rage, Jyhad, now called Vampire: the Eternal Struggle (so what is it with Wizards of the Coast with the colon and additional verbiage?) The X-Files, Illuminati, Netrunner, XXXenophile, OverPower, Gridiron, Shadowfist, and maybe even some others. The money I've spent! But Magic is still my favorite. I'm still trying to stop spending so much money on cards, but it's hard. (Maybe I should form a twelve-step program or something?)

This page is authored and maintained by Rich Webb (aka the Outsider).
You can send E-mail to me at richwebb@gte.net

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