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Nissir posted:15 dollar draft, everyone gets 1 pack no matter what for a prize, and they split a box for top 4. Average number of players is 10. Does this sound much better then normal? It's fine. The store is getting a reasonable rate on the boosters but everyone should be happy with this arrangement.
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Nissir posted:15 dollar draft, everyone gets 1 pack no matter what for a prize, and they split a box for top 4. Average number of players is 10. Does this sound much better then normal? One 10-player draft pod or...? How many rounds? Seems good if you can reliably make top 4, but pretty meh if you don't. You're effectively just paying the price for 4 boosters.
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Mar 17, 2014 18:41
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My LGS runs drafts with varying numbers, lately it's struggled to get enough to fire (I guess no one likes BNG or Theros?), charges $16, and payouts depend on attendance. More people means more people get paid out. From a monetary sense it seems great for the store, not great for us. Your $15 draft sounds like the promised land.
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Mar 17, 2014 18:52
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Olothreutes posted:My LGS runs drafts with varying numbers, lately it's struggled to get enough to fire (I guess no one likes BNG or Theros?), charges $16, and payouts depend on attendance. More people means more people get paid out. From a monetary sense it seems great for the store, not great for us. Your $15 draft sounds like the promised land. Count Bleck posted:Quick question: That's pretty much the going rate I think (from bots). What all are you looking to sell?
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Mar 17, 2014 18:59
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I'm doing Odyssey block draft tonight at my LGS, anyone have any tips at all beyond being aware of the # of cards in your yard? I know generally from looking at the sets that 4 toughness seems to be ideal for blockers and that blue is almost certainly one of the strongest colors given that looting is like value++++++++++++ in this block, and there are some seriously good looters.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:03
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The March Hare posted:I'm doing Odyssey block draft tonight at my LGS, anyone have any tips at all beyond being aware of the # of cards in your yard? I know generally from looking at the sets that 4 toughness seems to be ideal for blockers and that blue is almost certainly one of the strongest colors given that looting is like value++++++++++++ in this block, and there are some seriously good looters. Psychatog is the best card in the whole block.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:04
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ScarletBrother posted:Psychatog is the best card in the whole block. For Limited?
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Mar 17, 2014 19:05
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Suddenly my LGS' $12 drafts that I never win aren't so depressing. Mox Diamond, Pearl Medallion, Reanimate and a... Salt Flats, I guess?
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Mar 17, 2014 19:06
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It gives Threshold pretty much on demand, and they can almost never profitably block it. IDK. I last drafted that block when it was Standard legal, so I don't really remember that much. Edit: Wild Mongrel is also pretty busted.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:06
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The March Hare posted:I'm doing Odyssey block draft tonight at my LGS, anyone have any tips at all beyond being aware of the # of cards in your yard? I know generally from looking at the sets that 4 toughness seems to be ideal for blockers and that blue is almost certainly one of the strongest colors given that looting is like value++++++++++++ in this block, and there are some seriously good looters. Torment is a very heavily black set, and Judgment has more W/G cards, so keep that in mind when reading signals. Also, Phantom cards are absurd. As is Elephant Guide. As is Elephant Guide on a Phantom. e:  Just look at this rear end in a top hat.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:07
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Wild Mongrel and Arrogant Wurm, IIRC, are really good. Also drafting black is weird because it's dense pack 2 and weak pack 3, as opposed to White/Green which are weak pack 2 but strong pack 3. This means that you'll want to cut black really strongly pack 1 if you want a solid B/X deck. I'm pretty sure it's possible to draft U/G Madness and laugh all the way to the bank.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:09
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Count Bleck posted:Mox Diamond, Pearl Medallion, Reanimate and a... Salt Flats, I guess? You could try the MtG thread in SA Mart. Those would net you 6-8 tix maybe, unless you troll the classifieds and are a little more patient, I guess.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:13
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Thinking about it more, you should really just try to go green, because it rewards knowing what you're doing signal-wise and has some of the most powerful cards in all of the packs. Blue and/or Black might technically be more powerful, but U/G is quite good and Black will be screwed up by people that don't know how Torment works. vvv That is correct. Niton fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Mar 17, 2014 |
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Mar 17, 2014 19:13
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Niton posted:Just look at this rear end in a top hat. Wait, so when all the counters are gone, it just doesn't take damage if it's got a +x/+x on it?
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Mar 17, 2014 19:14
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Wait, so when all the counters are gone, it just doesn't take damage if it's got a +x/+x on it? Yup! I love Phantom Centaur. 
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Mar 17, 2014 19:15
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Wait, so when all the counters are gone, it just doesn't take damage if it's got a +x/+x on it? Yup.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:15
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That sounds like a good way to not have friends anymore!
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Mar 17, 2014 19:16
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Wait, so when all the counters are gone, it just doesn't take damage if it's got a +x/+x on it? Yep. And there's creatures at lower rarities with that ability too!
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Mar 17, 2014 19:17
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Yeah, from looking at stuff I was tending toward either blue white skies with all the really sick walls and tappers and looters, green white phantom stuff because phantom is just obviously broken if you know how it works but a lot of people misread it as remove that many counters, and blue green also seems fairly strong in the same white white blue does. I'm planning on avoiding black and it seems like red it just sort of bad which makes sense because the set is old as heck.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:18
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Niton posted:Torment is a very heavily black set, and Judgment has more W/G cards, so keep that in mind when reading signals. Phantom Centaur was constructed playable at the time, I'd imagine it being the best overall phantom for limited isn't too much of a stretch.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:18
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My Phantom deck was the bomb when I played in Odyssey standard. Armadillo Cloaks for everyone!
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Mar 17, 2014 19:20
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You might even say that Elephant Guide is the bomb on Phantoms, yo!
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Mar 17, 2014 19:23
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Well, I just woke up from hanging out with the SCG Seattle Legacy top 8- 6 of the 8 all play at the same LGS and we got a huge chunk of our players (15!) in the top 32. I completely tanked the standard open, starting 4-1-1 before having the wheels fall off and ending 4-4-2 for 203rd. I was lucky enough, however, to be Andrew Shrout's test rat for his first deck tech with SCG, piloting skinwalkers, as you can See in the deck tech here- we were both quite nervous, but it went okay. As for the legacy open, I told myself I wasn't going to go with P-Jund this time around, and was pretty set on showing up with RUG Delver, but I had been practicing Deathblade for the past couple weeks. In the end, I sleeved up Deathblade, and ended up playing some of the best magic I've ever played and finished at 7-2, good for 15th. I was primed for top 8 until I ran into one of the 2 manaless dredge players at the top tables (  ), but ended up dreamcrushing Ledbetter (The featured Alluren player) in the last round during my first feature match. It was pretty rough for him, though- he mulled to 5 game one, and I drew the near nuts game 2In all, it was a pretty good weekend of magic for me  Also, for the record regarding Henry Romero- I've never had a good experience with him, whether it be me playing him or watching friends play him- He is quite the arrogant prick. I believe the DCI forced him to re-register as his initial registration him listed as H TO THE E TO THE N-R-Y ROMERO. No lie.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:29
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Count Bleck posted:Quick question: http://mtgowikiprice.com/card/st/138/mox-diamond Looks like your best sell price is 9-10 tickets right now.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:36
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Crackatastic posted:Well, I just woke up from hanging out with the SCG Seattle Legacy top 8- 6 of the 8 all play at the same LGS and we got a huge chunk of our players (15!) in the top 32. I'm assuming the LGS is CK? I should get back into CK's MNL things.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:38
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Mulletstation posted:I'm assuming the LGS is CK? I should get back into CK's MNL things. yuuuuuup- The TVG Blade player and the Elves player were the two out looking in.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:42
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Crackatastic posted:yuuuuuup- The TVG Blade player and the Elves player were the two out looking in. I forgot CK does a lot of Legacy. GJ Cracky!
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Mar 17, 2014 19:44
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whydirt posted:You might even say that Elephant Guide is the bomb on Phantoms, yo! Oh my God.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:45
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Man, downloading the price thing for Forge actually makes Shandalar worth it! Cards from its sets sell for a bunch; Divine Transformation got about 200+ credits and a Mishra's Factory sold for 1000.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:50
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kizudarake posted:I know it's a page back, but I'd go -4 Foundry Street Denizens, +4 Firefist Strikers, -2 Satyr Firedancers, main deck 2 skullcrack, and +1 Hammer of Purphoros, +2 Sideboard Hammer of purphoros, -2 Searing Blood, +3 Anger of the Gods. Thanks for the advice I may have to give this a shot. Edit: and I'm too poor for Mutavaults. morning wood fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Mar 17, 2014 |
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Well, I think this error message might end my dealings with TCGPlayer: "There are items in your cart that are not available for shipment to your location." It won't say which items or which sellers, "Please check the product detail page for any item-specific shipping restrictions." I'm just supposed to guess and hope I can go through with the purchase? Especially when these sellers were chosen using their cart optimizer....
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Mar 17, 2014 20:03
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Well, I think this error message might end my dealings with TCGPlayer: "There are items in your cart that are not available for shipment to your location." You live in Florida, right? That seems really bizarre.
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Mar 17, 2014 20:04
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Well, I think this error message might end my dealings with TCGPlayer: "There are items in your cart that are not available for shipment to your location." Are you ordering any sealed product from overseas?
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Mar 17, 2014 20:17
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Promoted Pawn posted:Are you ordering any sealed product from overseas? Nope, all domestic singles.
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Mar 17, 2014 20:23
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The mass card adder/cart optimizer is just useless at this point. They never taught it not to give you a bunch of < $1 carts that you aren't allowed to buy, for instance. Personally, I try to pick out some of the "long poles" in the order to establish what shops I'll be piling most of the stuff on, then fill in the order around them. "Filter by 4 or more" is handy for that.
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LordSaturn posted:The mass card adder/cart optimizer is just useless at this point. They never taught it not to give you a bunch of < $1 carts that you aren't allowed to buy, for instance. Are you optimizing AFTER adding cards? I use this all the time and it always adjusts my cart to a minimum of $1 per seller.
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I just replied to someone on reddit regarding females playing magic, said person was concerned they'd be judged as a trans person. I replied that as long as they had good hygiene and grooming they'd probably be head and shoulders above most of the fedora wearing e-cig smoking magic players. Boy did that ruffle feathers. Surprisingly more about the e-cigs. What is it with those things?
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jassi007 posted:I just replied to someone on reddit regarding females playing magic, said person was concerned they'd be judged as a trans person. I replied that as long as they had good hygiene and grooming they'd probably be head and shoulders above most of the fedora wearing e-cig smoking magic players. Boy did that ruffle feathers. Surprisingly more about the e-cigs. What is it with those things? I wish the people at one of my LGS' possessed the decorum to at least use real e-cigs. They all puff away on these really elaborate looking vaporizers that almost look like pocket bongs.
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jassi007 posted:I just replied to someone on reddit regarding females playing magic, said person was concerned they'd be judged as a trans person. I replied that as long as they had good hygiene and grooming they'd probably be head and shoulders above most of the fedora wearing e-cig smoking magic players. Boy did that ruffle feathers. Surprisingly more about the e-cigs. What is it with those things? People that smoke them feel entitled to smoke anywhere and that pisses me off.
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ScarletBrother posted:People that smoke them feel entitled to smoke anywhere and that pisses me off. Agreed. It's not "just vapor", there's ample evidence otherwise (besides common sense...you're inhaling something other than "just vapor" and your lungs aren't perfect 100% efficiency filters), and they gently caress up my lungs whenever someone uses them around me. I just complained about it to the store owner, as did some other people, and he was happy to ban them from the shop; he actually uses one himself, so it was really cool of him.
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