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Jibz schreef:

yeahlvlvlv schreef:I do have a green set with big beasts such as Terra Stomper and creatures which can generate mana power such as Llanowar Elves. The other one I have is a blue/white deck which contains lots of counter spells and creatures like Frost Titan.
I am Chinese and doing internship here recently but as I start to play mtg in the Netherlands, most of my cards are English ones.

Gotta sit in on this real quick.
While I'm not familiar with the whereabouts of plays in Amsterdam, I myself am currently conducting studies in China, and have more or less familiarized myself with most of the Chinese terms core to playing Magic, so perhaps after I'm back in the Netherlands we could find a day on which we can play some games, allow me to further practice my Chinese a bit. Will depend on how much time you'll be spending in the Netherlands, though, because as I said for the moment I'm still in China.

Jibz schreef:Yeah, it seems so, I'm in Beijing atm, and I know of 2 shops that sell Magic cards in my direct vicinity, and they are just across the street from each other. Only 1 of those holds tournaments though, I have also attended my first prerelease (or any tournament whatsoever) there. Of course, there's definitely more stores around Beijing, but these two are closest to me, so I don't need much more at the moment Even heard of this Chinese national event (not sure if Wizards had anything to do with it, it wasn't up on their website), it might have been called the 全國聯賽, but I might be mistaken. I think it was supposed to be somewhere around december... Not sure though. You ever heard of that? I would've joined it, but on that specific day the subways weren't running as usual, so I couldn't make it.

Yeah, sounds good, I hope we can get it together. My scholarship lasts for 10 months as well and I've had 6 now, and pretty determined to get back to the Netherlands after that, so we should have some time to go after that, dependent on how much more time I will spent traveling in Asia after this term ends (pretty long way back here once I'm back in Europe, so might as well make it count).

yeahlvlvlv schreef:

pi schreef:You're describing the kind of deck rather than the format, but that's ok, I get the impression. I think you need to look for a very casual group. I would recommend going to either cafe Uilenstede (in Amstelveen) on Sunday evening or spellencafe 2 Klaveren on Monday evening and asking around. Most people in either place will be competitively oriented, but likely there will be a few who aren't or who know others who aren't. Another good idea might be to visit the pre-release or release tournaments for the next set (Dragon's Maze) that take place in the 2 Klaveren as well. Those tournaments tend to attract an above average number of casual players and through asking around you might be able to find yourself a group. unfortunately it will be a few months before there's another one of those tournaments. At either location the more compatitively oriented players will likely be able to tell you where to find type 2 games too.

You'd also be welcome to join the casual group I regularly play with, but we play the EDH/Commander format exclusively so you would probably have to borrow a deck. I tend to bring the Commander Preconstructed decks to those games for exactly that purpose, but while they are pretty good for precons those decks will be weaker than our regular decks and it requires a lot of skill to win with them. We tend to speak English during these games too as one of our group members is Canadian and not very good at Dutch. You do need to be at least 18 as we play in a coffeeshop, but as you're here for an internship I am guessing you are likely old enough.

Somehow your phrasing in English reminds me of the English written by some Dutchies I know, I was wondering if you might be a native Dutch speaker who has gotten confused by the topic and is therefore writing in English . Most people in The Netherlands wouldn't mind if you play foreign cards as long as you know what they do, though they likely will prefer English over Chinese if given the choice.

Thanks for the advice! Due to some Internet problem I did not reply that soon. Anyway I think EDH is also a very good idea to play although I do not quite familiar with it except the huge card... I would very like to visit you in the coffee shop sometime to see how the commander is working. My internship is in a hotel so I do not have regular free days but if you tell me in advance when you are going to play I may come and meet you guys according to the free time~

EDIT 29-11-2012:
We no longer play EDH at the Picasso, however we do play at a different coffeeshop now that's about 50 meters away from it. If you'd be interested in joining us just respond to this topic.