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I want pack rat tokens with pictures of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Steve Carell.
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I just use Plague Rats for my pack rats.
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Mar 6, 2014 01:47
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The best Pack Rat tokens are more copies of Pack Rat in different sleeves.
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Mar 6, 2014 01:48
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Jabor posted:The best Pack Rat tokens are more copies of Pack Rat in different sleeves. Yeah I wish I'd got on that before it became a five dollar card.
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Mar 6, 2014 01:50
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Jabor posted:The best Pack Rat tokens are more copies of Pack Rat in different sleeves. Is that actually legal? I thought tokens weren't allowed to look like Magic cards.
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Mar 6, 2014 02:00
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50 pounds of bread posted:This deck is not consistent at all, I was just VERY lucky, and got Pstorm almost every opening hand. I built this on MTGO, but didnt have the full four Jace. I tried out Aetherize instead. I'm guessing Jace is better, but at the very least I think Aetherize is probably better than the Anger of the Gods you have in the sideboard since it works well against agro and doesnt ruin your combo. Deck is definitely fun to play. I havent figured out a way to win if you dont have 2 untapped land after you enter the infinite for the omen speaker.
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Mar 6, 2014 02:07
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Please don't use pack-rats as tokens. I give out way too many deck check losses already.
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Mar 6, 2014 02:07
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aWall posted:Deck is definitely fun to play. I havent figured out a way to win if you dont have 2 untapped land after you enter the infinite for the omen speaker. Run a singular Judge's Familiar.
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Mar 6, 2014 02:42
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Stinky pit are you playing or judging at GP Richmond ?
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Mar 6, 2014 02:43
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I'm playing, I wasn't sure I was going until after the application due date.
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Mar 6, 2014 03:04
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Stinky Pit posted:I'm playing, I wasn't sure I was going until after the application due date. You probably could have asked anyway, they're parachuting in some higher level judges from Europe to try and bulk up numbers. A domestic L2 might be appreciated.
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Mar 6, 2014 03:34
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I mean its possible they have to beg for Judges to pass on playing like the T.O. had to for GP Las Vegas but I doubt it, they have 100+ Judges. Its far more likely that running 3 flights means they have a demand for experienced Head Judges and Scorekeepers to run the other flights. You can make do being down a couple of bodies on the floor, but a good Scorekeeper and HJ is not something you can skimp out on, and there are very few Judges who could handle those tasks for such a sizable event Worldwide let alone here in North America.
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Mar 6, 2014 03:47
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AlternateNu posted:Run a singular Judge's Familiar. I think this is right, and I think it belongs in the rakdos cluestone slot.
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Mar 6, 2014 03:54
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So with SCG buying Tarns and Mistys at $70, it looks like they're pretty successfully moving the new baseline price on those up to $100 each and CFB has followed suit. I wouldn't be surprised if TCGPlayer is cleared out of everything below that before the weekend.
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Mar 6, 2014 04:10
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Snacksmaniac posted:http://mtg.dawnglare.com/ Thanks for this, I was pretty sad when ark42 went down. Any idea why the drop-down selector for set doesn't actually work?
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Mar 6, 2014 04:16
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Veyrall posted:There's a guy who wears an old red beret from some military thing at my LGS. I can't decide if it's just different enough to be kinda cool, or just different enough to be hipster. The other day I had a customer who looked like a British professor from like 1957. Vest, Jacket with elbow pads, pocket watch, flatcap, calf length boots with the pants tucked into them, mutton chops, the works. I have never hated a human being so much in my life.
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Mar 6, 2014 04:23
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Stinky Pit posted:I mean its possible they have to beg for Judges to pass on playing like the T.O. had to for GP Las Vegas but I doubt it, they have 100+ Judges. So maybe you can explain this to someone who is still fairly confused by swiss. If they have 3 flights, how do tiebreakers work when we have 3 hypothetical 9-0 players in each flight? I guess it doesn't matter they all go to day 2 and 2 would play each other and 1 gets ranked down?
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Mar 6, 2014 04:27
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Literally The Worst posted:The other day I had a customer who looked like a British professor from like 1957. Vest, Jacket with elbow pads, pocket watch, flatcap, calf length boots with the pants tucked into them, mutton chops, the works. Please tell me they were something like 25 years old. "Yes, this pocket watch brings everything together. SO loving DAPPER. Time to go play Wizard Poker with my chums."
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Mar 6, 2014 04:28
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Promoted Pawn posted:Please tell me they were something like 25 years old. He wasn't that much older than me, and I'm about to be 24. He also wasn't there for Magic, he just came in while I was running Game Day and I was taken aback by how terrible it was.
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Promoted Pawn posted:Please tell me they were something like 25 years old.
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Mar 6, 2014 04:35
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Well that was certainly interesting. Went 3-0 on Standard playing against a Golgari deck, GR Monsters, and a somewhat silly mono blue deck. The blue deck ran a bunch of card draw, elixir, psychic spiral, and a ton of bounce effects (whelming wave, aetherize, cyclonic rift) along with other defensive spells (downsize). Game one of the match against him went to turns with me getting two Elspeth emblems, ultimating Jace to cast his spiral, and having Aetherling on the board since about turn 8 along with Assemble the Legion popping on and off of the board. Won on the last turn by syncopating his bounce for 20.
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Literally The Worst posted:The other day I had a customer who looked like a British professor from like 1957. Vest, Jacket with elbow pads, pocket watch, flatcap, calf length boots with the pants tucked into them, mutton chops, the works. Was there literally anything that actually made him an unpleasant person to be around or do you just hate awesome 1957 british professors?
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Mar 6, 2014 04:37
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C-Euro posted:Thanks for this, I was pretty sad when ark42 went down. Any idea why the drop-down selector for set doesn't actually work? Worked the other day I swear!!
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Mar 6, 2014 04:38
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jassi007 posted:So maybe you can explain this to someone who is still fairly confused by swiss. If they have 3 flights, how do tiebreakers work when we have 3 hypothetical 9-0 players in each flight? I guess it doesn't matter they all go to day 2 and 2 would play each other and 1 gets ranked down? Every X-2 or better Player from each flight is going to Day 2. Day 2 is 1 Flight 6 Rounds. Top 8 plus every X-2 player gets a Pro Tour invite. I think. This poo poo is way above my paygrade.
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Mar 6, 2014 04:40
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JerryLee posted:Was there literally anything that actually made him an unpleasant person to be around or do you just hate awesome 1957 british professors?
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Mar 6, 2014 04:48
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A teenage kid came into my store in a full Link costume a while back, like a professional-looking one with chainmail and a latex sword and shield and everything. No conventions in town at the time and nowhere near Halloween. It was kind of cute if inexplicable. My fave thing about having a Magic related job is the young players. A lot of them start out really awkward or shy, and you can see their social skills noticeably improve as they come out week by week to play tournaments and end up talking to people 
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Mar 6, 2014 04:51
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There is a kid that plays in my local shop, the son of one of the regulars. And by kid, I mean, he is 5 years old, maybe 6. He knows how to draft, he can read the cards, and he has just played enough Magic with his dad that he can play pretty well on his own. Usually you have to help him shuffle. But he doesn't even go 0-3 most of the time. On Game Day his dad built him a Phenax deck that managed to crush the Paul Dunn Agent Nighthowler deck I was running. What I'm saying is get ready for a Pro Tour 10 Year Old.
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Mar 6, 2014 04:55
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Stinky Pit posted:Every X-2 or better Player from each flight is going to Day 2. Further, Top 8 get a paid invite, all other X-2s get an unpaid invite.
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Mar 6, 2014 05:14
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Really? I thought all invites were paid.
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Mar 6, 2014 05:14
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Stinky Pit posted:Really? I thought all invites were paid. Wouldn't that get expensive pretty quick? edit: also for GP Richmond should I actually print out that QR code or can I just have it on my phone and have them scan it? I have no printer 
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Mar 6, 2014 05:18
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Pro Tour invites traditionally include lodging and airfare. Pro Tours are like 300 players, its expensive but when its pretty crucial to the Organized Play structure that keeps you making crazy piles of money I don't think Wizards cares.
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Boco_T posted:There is a kid that plays in my local shop, the son of one of the regulars. And by kid, I mean, he is 5 years old, maybe 6. He knows how to draft, he can read the cards, and he has just played enough Magic with his dad that he can play pretty well on his own. Usually you have to help him shuffle. But he doesn't even go 0-3 most of the time. On Game Day his dad built him a Phenax deck that managed to crush the Paul Dunn Agent Nighthowler deck I was running. There an 8 year old girl my shop whose parents both play and she kept begging to come so they caved....and she actually out-drafts her mom. She is going to be the coolest person ever when she grows up if she stays weird and doesn't turn into a total bitch, she is ridiculously witty and amusing for her age an can talk some serious poo poo during a game. This other boy I haven't seen in a while, apparently his grades slipped a little so dad won't let him come back until that improves (good on him)...he's 11 and placed higher than I did at the last SCG Open we went to. I generally hate children but love being around these two. It gives me hope that not all parents are poo poo today. It's also amusing to watch the ways they've overcome the not-insignificant obstacle of handling these cards with such tiny hands The moral of this story: teach your kids Magic. (endorsing this statement as both a player and a former math teacher....seriously, this poo poo really helps math skills, I used it in lesson plans all the time)
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BaronVonVaderham posted:There an 8 year old girl my shop whose parents both play and she kept begging to come so they caved....and she actually out-drafts her mom. She is going to be the coolest person ever when she grows up if she stays weird and doesn't turn into a total bitch, she is ridiculously witty and amusing for her age an can talk some serious poo poo during a game. I hope my boys will be interested. They're young now 2.5 and 8mo but I already have the toddler hooked on "playing cards" Those stupid adverts are useful for something. We practice counting and he thinks a riffle shuffle is loving magic.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:There an 8 year old girl my shop whose parents both play and she kept begging to come so they caved....and she actually out-drafts her mom. She is going to be the coolest person ever when she grows up if she stays weird and doesn't turn into a total bitch, she is ridiculously witty and amusing for her age an can talk some serious poo poo during a game. There are some pretty non-poo poo kids that come into our LGS. Sometimes during FNM we'll get a group of kids and their father. Its always fun to brew with them, because they have no guile and want to make their mill deck work.
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At my last EDH grand melee there was a pretty young kid (< 10) running Anax & Cymede who was really making an effort to learn how to play the game well, so we were all coaching him mid-game and helping him remember triggers. I felt kind of bad because later on I kill-stole from him (KO-ing a player in this format wins you a pack), but in my defense he Erased my Ghostly Prison without any reason, and that was going to protect me from the elfball guy who had been steamrolling everyone else so what goes around comes around kid 
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BaronVonVaderham posted:There an 8 year old girl my shop whose parents both play and she kept begging to come so they caved....and she actually out-drafts her mom. She is going to be the coolest person ever when she grows up if she stays weird and doesn't turn into a total bitch, she is ridiculously witty and amusing for her age an can talk some serious poo poo during a game. This post makes it sound like you think girls can only be either weird or a bitch. You might be the grognard.
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Mar 6, 2014 05:50
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50 pounds of bread posted:This post makes it sound like you think girls can only be either weird or a bitch. You might be the grognard. That has more to do with dealing with her mom than a generalization. Thankfully she seems to take after her dad.
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Fox of Stone posted:Classy ladies and gentlemen also used to wear fedoras and look where that got us.
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Stinky Pit posted:Really? I thought all invites were paid. Nope. PTQ winners and GP Top 4 (or Top 8 for 1,200+ player GPs) are paid, and those that qualify with 39 match points are not. This was made very clear to all of us at GP Vegas, which I believe was the first time the rule was applied. Technically each GP could have a different rule on this for whatever reason, but usually the following is posted on each GP info page, emphasis mine: quote:If Grand Prix attendance is 1,200 or more, Top 8 finishers earn invitations and airfare, and all players with 39 or more match points who do not make Top 8 earn invitations.
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jassi007 posted:he thinks a riffle shuffle is loving magic.
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