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Silhouette posted:Where do you think the majority of singles come from People buying cases of boxes for less than retail, cracking them, and selling them. And from people buying booster boxes and selling the singles they don't want to keep, but those people are losing money compared to just buying singles... but some people enjoy the rush of gambling. Or from people drafting and then reselling their picks to do more drafts. My friend is an online MtG seller, he got collector booster boxes for $200/each and is cracking and selling singles. Someone walking into a store and paying $275 has a significantly higher cost per card and will lose money Thom Yorke raps fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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TotalHell posted:Brought home my box. Tempted to document what I get (for better and for worse) from it in pics here, but I know that’s also something that everyone and their mother does with box opening vids on YT. I'd like to see it! Box opening videos take too long to watch, just pictures of the good stuff is more fun
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Jul 8, 2022 20:53
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OK, sorry, next faux-Italian set will be themed from the Years of Lead.
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Jul 8, 2022 21:06
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Salvor_Hardin posted:OK, sorry, next faux-Italian set will be themed from the Years of Lead. Salò, or the 120 Days of New Capenna
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Jul 8, 2022 21:30
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Fable of the Mountains GWR Enchantment - Saga I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI - Starting with your opponent, each player sacrifices a creature until only one player has creatures left on the battlefield. XII - You lose the game
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Jul 8, 2022 21:34
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my one gripe with new Capenna (besides the gross color imbalance in draft and the complete failure of the three-color theme on which the set was designed) is that there was no color/pizza pie joke card. easiest layup in the world! mama mía madonn'
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Jul 8, 2022 21:43
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That would have probably been a Cabretti card due to appropriate color palette.
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Thom Yorke raps posted:I find these videos a bit silly, cause... no duh buying packs at retail and opening them loses you money? If it didn't, the sellers would just open the packs themselves! I don't think most people actually understand this, because they are gambling. They believe that This Time it's the big score. They don't think of what they're doing with their money in raw economic terms, and maybe if they thought about it, they'd change their habits and not spend $350 on a booster box. I like to pay for magic to gamble but I spend that money assuming I will get none of it back. I'm buying the entertainment of gambling. But people are stupid, or are addicts, or children, and they don't really understand what's going on.
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big cummers ONLY posted:But people are stupid, or are addicts, or children, and they don't really understand what's going on. honestly same
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Picked up a couple collector boxes today and they were not great but not the worst I guess. One particularly disappointing pack had a foil and non-foil borderless Gifts Ungiven. I’ve got 2 more boxes on the way so let’s see if I learn a lesson this time. Borderless Foil: Kozilek, Butcher of Truth Assassin’s Trophy Phyrexian Altar Panharmonicon Grim Flayer Pithing Needle Kolagahn’s Command Gifts Ungiven Borderless: Bloom Tender Smothering Tithe Force of Negation Teferi’s Protection Gifts Ungiven Bloodforged Battleaxe Grim Flayer Surgical Extraction Etched Foil: Phyrexian Altar Allosaurus Shepherd Skullbriar Anima Atla Palani Dack’s Duplicate Tariel Leonin Arbiter
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Captain Invictus posted:God drat is rhystic studies good at what he does Thought this was gonna be more about the failure of the set to sufficiently draw on the various perspectives of modernism on some Marshall Berman angle but calling out the surface level over utilization of Mafia stereotypes is cool too. Agree that angels being in charge of the Capenna families would've been cooler.
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I'm leaning toward buying a collector booster box, but I bought a couple draft boosters today just to kind of hold me over. Pulled a GAAIV, Green Sun's Zenith, Twinflame, and some lovely Dragon's Maze chaff. Definitely didn't get a big hit but I did want a GAAIV and GSZ is a good card to have multiples of.
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Framboise posted:I'm leaning toward buying a collector booster box, but I bought a couple draft boosters today just to kind of hold me over. Pulled a GAAIV, Green Sun's Zenith, Twinflame, and some lovely Dragon's Maze chaff. I feel like being a commander player makes buying packs feel like a much better value. I have something like 30 decks so anything decent I pull can generally find a home. The dangerous part being that feeling like a better value doesn’t translate into actually being a better value.
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LeafHouse posted:I feel like being a commander player makes buying packs feel like a much better value. I have something like 30 decks so anything decent I pull can generally find a home. It does help that a large number of the chase cards are really really good in commander. A lot of the precon reprints are duds imo, but a lot of the top pulls are high demand cards for high power/cEDH-tier commander. (it also helps that you technically only need one copy of anything, rather than playsets) What cards in this set are actually in high demand for Modern/Legacy/Pioneer? I haven't played Modern in around 5 years now so I haven't been keeping track.
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A card like Allosaurus Shepherd is a huge chase card for EDH and slots in to any Elf Tribal anything deck. Same with Mana Drain, Wrenn and Six, your Mana Vaults, Top, Dockside, Teferi's Protection, etc etc. It's a shame they still haven't reprinted the allied color fetches like ever. Would have slotted right in here nicely.
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Framboise posted:What cards in this set are actually in high demand for Modern/Legacy/Pioneer? I haven't played Modern in around 5 years now so I haven't been keeping track. Wrenn & 6, Cavern of Souls, Force of Negation
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Jiro posted:It's a shame they still haven't reprinted the allied color fetches like ever. Would have slotted right in here nicely. Throwing fetches on top of this set would be nuts
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Wrenn & 6, Cavern of Souls, Force of Negation That's all? This set is the actual commander legends, not the weird underpowered stuff we just got before this.
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Framboise posted:That's all? There’s other stuff that’s in demand for specific decks but those are probably the biggest ticket items. I guess some of the eldrazi cards too and there’s probably other stuff I’m missing but yeah there’s not a ton lol.
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Solitude and endurance are pretty close to cavern in price aren't they?
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fadam posted:Way too long to watch imo but thanks for posting, I like this guy's videos. a fatal mistake imo TotalHell posted:Brought home my box. Tempted to document what I get (for better and for worse) from it in pics here, but I know that’s also something that everyone and their mother does with box opening vids on YT. Thom Yorke raps posted:I'd like to see it! Box opening videos take too long to watch, just pictures of the good stuff is more fun Mat Cauthon posted:Thought this was gonna be more about the failure of the set to sufficiently draw on the various perspectives of modernism on some Marshall Berman angle but calling out the surface level over utilization of Mafia stereotypes is cool too.
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Box report. It will come as likely no surprise that from a pure value perspective, I took a bath on this box. Paid a little over $300, got maaaaaybe $150 back in borderless/mythics/rares/foils? At least at the current (low) price points. Borderless cards (23 total):  Mythics (9 total):  Rares that I'm excited for:  Now, I know what I'm going in for when I spring for packs or boxes. It's a gamble, and that's part of the fun for me. I'm not looking to sell these off and make money, I like to collect. And there are some cards in here that I'm psyched for, either from a perspective of really wanting them (Emiel, Smothering Tithe) or loving the borderless art (Dragonlord Dromoka, Panharmonicon). And finally, almost all of these cards come from periods where I wasn't buying, so like 98% of the set is cards I don't have. All of this is to say, I'm not at all bothered by the outcome of the box. But let this show you that if you're on the fence and don't have lots of good reasons to buy into this set, you should not get a box (certainly not at $400 or whatever). Just get the singles you want sometime in the next month or so. Edit: also I'm going to be an absolute dick in Commander with that Grand Arbiter Augustin IV. But how can I resist using him with sweet art like that??
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whydirt posted:New Capenna would have been much more interesting if angels were around and running some of the crime families. I agree the the art deco stuff was a great change visually, but otherwise the set felt very paint-by-numbers to me. Angels running a casino.
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whydirt posted:New Capenna would have been much more interesting if angels were around and running some of the crime families. I agree the the art deco stuff was a great change visually, but otherwise the set felt very paint-by-numbers to me. They're all over the place. There's as many angels in the set as there are demons and devils combined.
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Instead of slapping horns on the family heads they could have literal halos. Two of them even, arranged to look like a fedora.
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Algid posted:Instead of slapping horns on the family heads they could have literal halos. Two of them even, arranged to look like a fedora. m'planeswalker
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TotalHell posted:Box report. It will come as likely no surprise that from a pure value perspective, I took a bath on this box. Paid a little over $300, got maaaaaybe $150 back in borderless/mythics/rares/foils? At least at the current (low) price points. Those are some awesome pulls. I'm super jealous of the Panharmonicon and Kalia, and Smothering Tithe and Vedalken Orrey.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Salò, or the 120 Days of New Capenna  I was also thinking, like, Strategy of Tension Enchantment - Saga 1: Each player sacrifices a creature 2: remove a saga counter from [%this] also something about an Operation Gladio that makes tokens under opponent control that fight other creatures they control every turn. Salvor_Hardin fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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Rhystic Studies is great but I think this has become my favorite MTG channel
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boshnroll is the platonic ideal of MTG content creators imo. it helps that legacy is so powerful and has such a vast card pool that brews are much more likely to be viable than in other formats
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kalel posted:boshnroll is the platonic ideal of MTG content creators imo. it helps that legacy is so powerful and has such a vast card pool that brews are much more likely to be viable than in other formats I like that it seems like he's actually having fun playing the game. cackling away and having a good time
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:They're all over the place. There's as many angels in the set as there are demons and devils combined. They aren't in the story though, they just reappear after Elspeth leaves I guess which is also after a couple family heads die which should be an interesting story beat but it's not communicated in the cards at all. They just come off as a random addition, they don't fit into the setting
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Rhystic Studies is great but I think this has become my favorite MTG channel Lol is this 80 card mono-red, hell yeah
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Note, i did literal zero math so im making a guess its supposed to be parodying yorion decks No wait im a fool, i thought he had 24 cards in deck and 24 in graveyard but the deck size is actually like...8. Lol its been so long since ive seen an mtgo screen ive forgotton what icons mean what mandatory lesbian fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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Nah it was a 60 card burn deck
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neaden posted:They aren't in the story though, they just reappear after Elspeth leaves I guess which is also after a couple family heads die which should be an interesting story beat but it's not communicated in the cards at all. They just come off as a random addition, they don't fit into the setting  this is supposed to be all the statues getting destroyed and freeing the angels
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flatluigi posted:
Right, they apparently come back after the story. There was just a big civil war and the leaders of both sides are dead or left the plane, there are old phyrexians outside the city and a bunch of angels show up, what does that mean for the 5 families? What are the angels going to do? Where did the Devil's go? What's going to happen to all the people who were dependent on Halo now that the statues are alive again? Is Urabrask still waiting for Elspeth to come talk to him? New Capena as a setting just didn't make any sense and the most important thing happens off screen.
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i mean that to show that the story beat was actually on a card instead of not existing like you were saying idk, it just reads to me as 'here's some story beats that they'll return to eventually' instead of 'here's a bunch of stuff that's meaningless because we're not done with it in one set'
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That card is like a post credit stinger, trading what's going to happen the next time. The angels in the set are like scenes from the sequel shoved out of order into the first movie.
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