Cockatrice/Magic Workstation
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Posted on Aug. 11, 2013, 1:59 a.m. by Quick3nd
I'm new to Magic, and have been playing Pauper on MTGO for the past few weeks and really enjoyed it.
However, after looking at how much the standard/modern decks cost, I think i'll always stick with Pauper in MTGO, and maybe try out the other more expensive formats through cockatrice or mws (just can't bring myself to spend 200-400 dollars on a single standard/modern deck .. especially since i'm the type of player who loves to theorycraft and try new builds, which in turn, requires a lot of cards in order to do so)
Cockatrice and MWS seem to be the most popular platform when it comes to free magic online.
Does anyone know which one has a bigger player base? which one supports more tournaments, etc and has a bigger community?
I know magic-league is one of the community that uses MWS and has a decent size irc channel, but are there any other big free platform communities out there?
RussischerZar says... #4
What Cyber Locc said about Cockatrice is BS. There is a server hosted by woogerworks.com where there usually are about 600-700 people online. I'm pretty sure there are other servers but this is the main one. I don't know anything about tournaments but there usually are a lot of draft games up, where they use the site drafts.in or even tappedout to draft.
August 11, 2013 9:47 a.m.
BroadScholar says... #5
Zar pretty much summed it up. I've never had a problem finding an open game in any format no matter what time of day/night.
August 11, 2013 10:03 a.m.
Yeah...Cockatrice usually has hundreds of players and dozens of games going at the same time. You must have gotten on right after a server reset or something...maybe during a pro tour/magic world championships?
August 11, 2013 10:32 a.m.
Cyber Locc says... #7
Umm im on it right now 47 ppl on and alot of them are currently playong games already. 6-700 people in your dreams dude the most I have ever seen is 165. So what part is bs woogerworks is hosting it because the OA shut it down as wizards gave them a seice and desist order. Theres a new being made black lotus off of cockatrices code however. There can be 100+ people on at times but not often and defianlty not 700. Also its buggy and mpst the pwople dont know how to even plau magic and try to do crazzy shit or play with out of format cards and you say something and they leave the game. I mean you can def try for yourself and I hope you like it but imo the community sucks,the program sucks, in my experience youll spend more time finding new games cause johnny refuses to play the 2 life for the breeding pool he just played untapped.
August 11, 2013 1:13 p.m.
Cyber Locc says... #8
And @russ theres only the woogerworks and hpw much lomger that will last who knows read about it bro wizards issued a ceise and desist another words stop or go to court. The orignal creator shut down the project amd the server since then the DL is hard to find and not as many people as there use to be 1-2 years ago ya where was 6-700 people aon trice as of today not a chance.
August 11, 2013 1:18 p.m.
Cyber Locc says... #9
Cockatrice can be fun however if you find good players and friend them i use sometimes with rl friends to playtest. But again no one including woogerworks is sure how long before wizards sues them and it comes down again.
August 11, 2013 1:28 p.m.
cockatrice today at 1:28pm had 741 players online........ this is the woogerworks.com server.
August 11, 2013 1:28 p.m.
if wizards would figure out that most people use it to playtest cards before they buy them, they actually make money from it.... so why not let the players have their way?
August 11, 2013 2:16 p.m.
Cyber Locc says... #13
@ Nick, Casual Strategist i completely agree with that. It does make me mad I wouldnt mind buying mtgo or even paying monthly but i refuse to spend a ton of miney on a card I already own in paper and or want in paper. But I also cant go to my lgs everyday as work and children come first. Instead im stuck with inferior programs that sidestep being legal such as cockatrice to playtest or decent ones like that the playtester here but have to pilot both. I tried cockatrice again today as finding the other server has alot of people. I went through 6 games before actually playing someone people just straight leave and alot the app crashes. The program isnt very user friendly imo and everyome there that I have met is stuck up and rude if you have to ask how to do something they quit the game. If theyre unhappy with there hand they quit game. It took me 20 mins just to find an opponent that stayed in the game for more than 2 mins. When I finally had a good player I had a decent hand with 3 lands he won because out of 12 turns that we played I drew 10 lands and all of them swamps I drew 2 godless shrines and every swamp in my deck. And you can tell me all day thats a fully random shuffle but really every swamp there. I could have my cards sorted and barely shuffle and not get every swamp thats just not possible. Sorry for bad spelling and grammar on my phone atm
August 11, 2013 6:57 p.m.
Cyber Locc says... #14
Btw when i say ask them about do something im mean in the app which the app doesnt tell you how to do shit at all. So you then half to google how to use it and half thr time that dont even work. If you like im happy for you to have a means to play mtg and enjoy this great game but that app aint for me. Hopefully the guy that cockatrice devolop sold the code to does better the black lotus project its called.
Cyber Locc says... #2
Neither cockatrice was shut down there making a new version however. You can still get cockatrice atm but there's only maybe 15-20 people tops they don't have tournaments all it really should be used for is play testing I use it for that sometimes. MWS has been dead for many years it doesn't work right half the time and no one maintains or updates it practically no one uses it anymore. Your best bet is going to MTGO or Paper MTG magic can be expensive and either of those will be but that's just part of the deal with collectible games. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but its just the facts.
August 11, 2013 2:15 a.m.