Timmy, Johnny and Spike

[ahmet476]

I'm kinda annoyed as a non MTG player that suddenly everyone started to tout their play style by mentioning MTG terms. If you don't know yet, those three guys represent a type of player in MTG.

http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazin...om/daily/mr11b

The link above will take you to original article.

Here is TL, DR version:

Timmy: Likes to play with awesome cards, big and powerful effects. Less competitive of the bunch. If he wins even one game with his awesome cards, he is happy.

Johnny: Likes to play with less popular cards. Loves combo decks. Usually tries to do weird and difficult things with cards. Likes to win on his own terms, with his difficult win condition(s). Likes deck-building more than playing. Creative dude.

Spike: Most competitive of the bunch. Will play whatever the winning deck is.

Spike cares more about the quantity of wins than the quality. For example, Spike plays ten games and wins nine of them. If Spike feels he should have won the tenth, he walks away unhappy.

LOL.

There are also combinations/mixed types.

[SET Colosal]

I'm a jhonny with a little of Spike

[nerull7]

I'm a jhonny with a little of Spike

Spiked Johnny? (Get it?)

[Raphael Majere]

For me, Johnny might as well be Blanketeffect's real name.

Fit to a T

[Warr Byrd]

The terms may have originated with the Magic developers, but they are applicable to any type of card game. I'm not a Magic player either, and I have the updated article in my signature (it lists subtypes of each player type, and I think goes into a little more detail).

[Bobbypim]

Here's Johnny....!!!!


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[Sisyphos]

Hm, i like winning stuffs, so i guess i'm like Spike. But then again, i don't really enjoy using the obvious winning deck à la 1.29 Logan or Eladwen 'cause it wasn't really me who won. So i guess Johnny. But then again, combo decks are lame, the fun comes from interacting with one another, not one guy watching the other build sandcastles. I also think in an online environment deckbuilding is basically the same activity as playing. And what type am i when what i like the most is collecting and admiring the cards?

Eh. MTG must be a stupid , or rather their costumers are if they allowed such hokum to become part of their conversational material. From a business standpoint it makes sense to classify your costumers in a certain way to try and better cater towards their needs as a whole, but when those costumers start to apply these categories to themselves individually like it had psychological indications i gotta scratch my head. It's just as phony as Hippocrates' 4 temperaments or zodiac signs influencing people's character. Sure you can find some truth in it if you try hard enough, but that's like drawing a line on a sheet of paper while saying "This is the line between the 2 sections of this page."

[ahmet476]

You sound like a Vorthos, Sisyphos

It's true not everyone can fit in any of the types even after considering mixed ones.

[Kriminal13]

I think I was incarcerated with these fellas. Spike, Johnny chains, and Timmy. Poor Timmy.

[graphlem]

You sounds like a Vorthos, Sisyphos

lol, great call!

BTW, I'm probably 50/50 Johnny and Timmy. I love combo decks and pounding face with massive cool creatures. Love my Alluren deck with Cavern Harpy and Brain Freeze, but not as much as my B/R Dragon or Enduring Renewal decks