Originally posted by Spiderman
Well, apparently Oversoul is using the phrase "Casual Format" as one with no banned/restricted list - anything goes; an actual format, whereas "casual playing" to me means adhering to the lists, just not playing in a tourney setting - playing wacky decks usually, that wouldn't make it in a tourney.
I see...
Like my multiplayer-fun deck with its near-constant reset buttons or the time my playgroup did highlander for a while...
Well, my discard deck has 3 too many jars for a Type I legal deck, a guy I know has 4 Time Spirals powering his Mind's Desire deck, another whose artifact deck benefits from mutiple Sol Rings, Mana Vaults, Grim Monoliths and Voltaic Keys and whose ProsBloom deck is accelerated greatly by means of 4 Fastbonds. My multiplayer High Tide deck uses too many Braingeysers, I suppose. Yes, a decklist with 20 moxes would be difficult to play against, but almost everyone I play against has zero total...
The idea isn't chaos, but that we don't want to always be bound to not use cards simply because they're on some list, which is not intended to be for universal play, but for Type I tournaments. Most of my decks would get mutilated in Type I tournaments (with a few exceptions, possibly) anyway. A good example was the "Communist Manifesto" decklist I posted in the deck forum, which uses 3 copies of Balance. Balance is restricted, as was pointed out to me, but it's also a very useful card in a deck that could never hope to compete in a serious Type I tournament anyway. So why would I remove the Balances?
Even when I play against strangers they don't have any qualms about my use of banned cards and may or may not use them in their own decks. Of course, playing Type I in a casual manner might be an interesting change and would be more practical preparation for tournament play, obviously, but I simply don't have the cards for it. If I did, that would be a different story...
Okay, to be honest, at my school I have had some people complain about my decks, mostly in jest though. But those were as much about my Forbidian deck as my Academy deck, and none of them were for the aforementioned Communist Manifesto with its Balances. Really, they were not about decks that use banned cards, or even decks that win consistently, but about decks that win consistently and take a lot of time to do it (via combos or lockdowns).
If casual playing to you means adhering to the lists, then you hold your opponents to the same? Which list do you adhere to? Type I, Type 1.5, Type 1.x, Type II? I suppose it could definitely be a good thing to use one: it would stop people from being able to use 20 mox decks if they could have to begin with. It seems to me that it would have two disadvantages. It would limit some of the "wacky" decks you could build. And if you play against someone outside your playgroup, and they're using a different list, what do you do? It just seems a little (no pun intended) restrictive, but maybe that's the idea...
Anyway, why is my name bold?