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So this (mildly NSFW) got posted on my feed. Is this a normal occurence for a GP?
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Mar 11, 2014 01:24
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Are overweight people wearing ill-fitting clothing a regular occurrence at a magic: the gathering event? Is that the question you're asking on Something Awful dot com?
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Mar 11, 2014 01:27
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That's pretty funny but the guy posing in all of the pictures doesn't look like he should be casting stones.
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Mar 11, 2014 01:30
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Death Bot posted:I wonder how many people actually sold Didgeridoo for more than 50c The card market is definitely in a big bubble right now. The player base has expanded by very roughly 25% every year for the past couple of years, probably in part due to really well liked blocks and DotP. I think a lot of these new players have seen other people make money or useful trades based on speculating and want to try their hand at it too. Now that SCG/TCG/CFB/etc have made it easier to sell cards to one another, this has naturally increased the amount of people that have money to burn on speculations. I think the really interesting scenario is what does a bubble bursting in magic look like? Is there a way to make money off of it? 
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Mar 11, 2014 01:32
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The guy in the picture is the gooniest neckbeard ever, but that is still pretty funny.
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Mar 11, 2014 01:34
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JerryLee posted:That's pretty funny but the guy posing in all of the pictures doesn't look like he should be casting stones. But his pants are up? YOU SIR ARE A WEIGHTIST
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Mar 11, 2014 01:35
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JerryLee posted:That's pretty funny but the guy posing in all of the pictures doesn't look like he should be casting stones. Speaking from the perspective of a large person, you can be a large person and conduct yourself with dignity in social situations. By "conduct yourself..." here I mean "wear pants that fit and wear a belt and don't let your buttcrack hang out all over the place."
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Mar 11, 2014 01:36
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Probably the best part of this is that sweatshirt dude who posted these has his own rear end hanging out in the pic with the dude wearing the Anchorman shirt.
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Mar 11, 2014 01:40
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It's like staring upon a church's baptism.
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Mar 11, 2014 01:42
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Ok someone needs to go use Kiora in a SCG tourney and top 8 with it so people will stop laughing at me offering her for trade. Funny because SCG has her listed at $25 but nobody wants her 
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Mar 11, 2014 01:49
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morning wood posted:Ok someone needs to go use Kiora in a SCG tourney and top 8 with it so people will stop laughing at me offering her for trade. Funny because SCG has her listed at $25 but nobody wants her I traded mine sunday at that value for some shocklands/scrylands so there are people that will trade for her, but yeah I've rarely seen anyone actually running her. R/G basically stole the spotlight from anything cool in standard right now. Regarding scrylands, will those really be very desirable after rotation? I've taken up a policy of accepting any shocklands or scrylands in trades if people dont have anything else I want and I know shocks are a value-holder, not sure about scrys. Don't remember seeing too many in modern since they arent fetchable like shocklands.
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Mar 11, 2014 01:56
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I'd imagine people would much rather be running fastlands or buddy lands depending on deck than something guaranteed to come in tapped if they needed more than fetches/shocks.
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Mar 11, 2014 01:59
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Fingers McLongDong posted:I traded mine sunday at that value for some shocklands/scrylands so there are people that will trade for her, but yeah I've rarely seen anyone actually running her. R/G basically stole the spotlight from anything cool in standard right now. Why are shocklands fetchable and scrylands not?
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Mar 11, 2014 02:06
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morning wood posted:Why are shocklands fetchable and scrylands not? Scrylands don't have basic land types.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:07
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Because shocklands have both the basic land types. Fake edit: not sure if that was rhetorical or not but w/e, here we go Real edit: Just as in the Trading and Selling thread, What a Judas beats me to the punch
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Mar 11, 2014 02:07
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What a Judas posted:Scrylands don't have basic land types. Got it thanks! Wasn't being a smartass, just fairly new to MTG.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:08
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:The best is Helix Pinnacle, not even used in edh much as far as I know: A smart Omnath list loving shatters that card.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:16
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Do we know why the Shocklands randomly got typed and not any other duals (besides the originals)? Was it something mechanical in Original Ravnica block? I was basically paying a minimum of attention to the game at that point. EDIT: Also what's that Ark42 replacement? The price visualizer broken down by set.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:16
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Boxman posted:Do we know why the Shocklands randomly got typed and not any other duals (besides the originals)? Was it something mechanical in Original Ravnica block? I was basically paying a minimum of attention to the game at that point. I believe it was a deliberate attempt to balance the Revised duals for modern (small m) play.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:21
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Literally The Worst posted:A smart Omnath list loving shatters that card. Think bigger.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:22
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Boxman posted:Do we know why the Shocklands randomly got typed and not any other duals (besides the originals)? Was it something mechanical in Original Ravnica block? I was basically paying a minimum of attention to the game at that point. Farseek was a thing in original Ravnica.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:25
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ScarletBrother posted:Farseek was a thing in original Ravnica. And then they reprinted it in M13. And y'all got to relive those glory days.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:27
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So what you're saying is fetches will be reprinted after Landfall appears in the core set?
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Mar 11, 2014 02:30
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I feel stuff like Helix Pinnacle is inevitable, and over time, unless something else changes this pricing climb, we'll see just about every EDH/Modern/Legacy/high casual playable that hasn't been reprinted a bunch get run on until the speculators are out of things to chase.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:43
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Mr. Peepers posted:So what you're saying is fetches will be reprinted after Landfall appears in the core set? Lowball I'd buy two boxes of that set just because it seems like a better investment than 800 in fetches.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:44
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Korak posted:The hype still hasn't died down currently $6 or so. I'm sure lots of people have made money on them since there will be even more Minotaurs in JOU. Technically, all card prices have been in a bubble since 1993 because they have no intrinsic value (yes I know they technically do have intrinsic value because they can be used to win money from tournaments but that is so small as to be negligible for this argument). Why is today's market any different or likely to burst? 'Because it's larger' isn't really an answer. It's not like the game has been bringing in people that only play for a little while, MaRo has maintained that MtG players play the game for an average of 9 years, which is a huge number in the games industry. People love playing and they love collecting, and that makes this bubble an extremely stable one as far as bubbles go. I'd argue that TCGPlayer and similar sites actually act against artificial valuation by making the market faster to react to changes. Single card bubbles can naturally deflate because buyers and sellers are interacting with each other directly instead of classic intermediaries like SCG/CFB. And I'd say there's not really any way to make money off the bubble bursting unless you expect the bubble to re-inflate, then you would just buy all the cards people are dumping at low low prices and wait for the upswing. This actually happened on MTGO fairly recently when they shut all the tournaments down while they pretended to fix their poo poo. If you were in a buying mood while everyone was dumping their e-cards you made quite a bit of tickets a few weeks later when tournaments starting coming back and the market mostly recovered. Promoted Pawn fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Mar 11, 2014 |
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Mar 11, 2014 02:53
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Froghammer posted:So this (mildly NSFW) got posted on my feed. Is this a normal occurence for a GP? The guy got banned from future tournaments for this.
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Mar 11, 2014 03:27
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mcmagic posted:The guy got banned from future tournaments for this. Already? Or are you thinking of a similar situation from a while back?
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Mar 11, 2014 03:30
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Boxman posted:Do we know why the Shocklands randomly got typed and not any other duals (besides the originals)? Was it something mechanical in Original Ravnica block? I was basically paying a minimum of attention to the game at that point. http://mtg.dawnglare.com/ Scrylands are probably going to mean less in the long run to Modern than checklands or fastlands because they stop a consistent turn one play, but I wouldn't doubt they will see some play. I can't think of a cycle of rare lands that don't get some use in modern.
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Mar 11, 2014 03:30
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Has anyone else tried the standard UG Flash list that's been floating around? I've been playing a slightly altered version, and it's a fun, cheap (if you skip the Mutavaults) tier 1.5 deck. The only problems I've had with it is while its good matchups are really good, the bad matchups are really bad. Also, running into a Voice is almost excruciating enough to put the deck down forever, haha.
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Mar 11, 2014 03:35
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Promoted Pawn posted:And I'd say there's not really any way to make money off the bubble bursting unless you expect the bubble to re-inflate, then you would just buy all the cards people are dumping at low low prices and wait for the upswing. Unless someone sets up a derivatives market for cardboard, in which case you could sell short and profit that way. A futures market for cardboard would actually be kind of useful, you could do things like "get me these cards in time for the GP" while insulating both buyer and seller against price swings and the like.
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Mar 11, 2014 03:42
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And just like that, SCG cracks more MMA product at one event than any other except GP:Vegas and all MMA boxes under $400 are gone.
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Mar 11, 2014 03:45
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BJPaskoff posted:Already? Or are you thinking of a similar situation from a while back? Helene Bergeot knows about it so its probably coming soon. And that was Dr. 8sides or something like that wasn't it?
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Mar 11, 2014 03:46
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I'm a new magic player trying to build my first real deck and I have a question. Do abilities that add power stack? For example, if I have Spear of Heliod and crusade. Will the effects be cumulative? IE Will I get +2/+2 on all white creatures? What if I have two of the same card out? IE 2 Crusades. Do +1/+1 tokens stack as well? Do the tokens go away if whatever was creating them is destroyed?
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Mar 11, 2014 03:48
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Longshot007 posted:I'm a new magic player trying to build my first real deck and I have a question. Do abilities that add power stack? For example, if I have Spear of Heliod and crusade. Will the effects be cumulative? IE Will I get +2/+2 on all white creatures? What if I have two of the same card out? IE 2 Crusades. Do +1/+1 tokens stack as well? Do the tokens go away if whatever was creating them is destroyed? Don't think of Crusade style effects as generating +1/+1 counters, they just have a blanket ability that effects all creatures you control. Yes, multiples stack, and yes the ability goes away if the card generating it dies. If you have an instant like Giant Growth that give a temporary boost, that stays until end of turn and doesn't die with the card generating it
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Mar 11, 2014 03:51
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GoutPatrol posted:http://mtg.dawnglare.com/ I'd horde the UR Scryland, personally.
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Mar 11, 2014 03:52
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mcmagic posted:The guy got banned from future tournaments for this. Wait, what?
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Mar 11, 2014 04:03
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Promoted Pawn posted:Don't think of Crusade style effects as generating +1/+1 counters, they just have a blanket ability that effects all creatures you control. Yes, multiples stack, and yes the ability goes away if the card generating it dies. If a card does generate +1/+1 counters (For Example: Phalanx Leader), would those counters go away when the Phalanx Leader dies? Do Bestows count as an enchantment for the purposes of the phalanx leaders ability? Edit: I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this deck.
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Mar 11, 2014 04:03
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Longshot007 posted:If a card does generate +1/+1 counters (For Example: Phalanx Leader), would those counters go away when the Phalanx Leader dies? Do Bestows count as an enchantment for the purposes of the phalanx leaders ability? +1/+1 counters stick around no matter what adds them to a card, they'll remain on the card until a spell moves them (Bioshift) or if the card it's attached to leaves the battlefield for any reason (dying, exile, returning to the hand)
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Mar 11, 2014 04:05
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I'm not so sure that a tapland with minor upside is going to cut it in Modern. Scry 1 is certainly less of an upside than the manlands have.
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Mar 11, 2014 04:07
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