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I know this is from a few pages ago:jassi007 posted:Estimates are 1200-1500 judges from 2005 and up that will be eligable for it. If its 1 copy each, well consider that players wanting a full playset its going to be insanely expensive and make no impact on regular FoW price at all. That is my opinion anyway. Most of the finance people are talking $500-1000+ per card. I wonder if most judges will hold them given its all l2's and up, and we assume 1 per judge. https://twitter.com/HeleneBergeot/status/464420907243429888 I imagine WotC realizes just how much demand there will be for this card. I'm looking forward to getting mine, but I might unload it if the price is right. I also know some judges weren't thrilled with the "certify a new judge" requirement. EDIT: Yeah, 'dat Elesh Norn. Also, they revealed seven new judge promos. This is strange for a number of reasons, but mainly because they only rotate six new ones in each year. I wonder if they're also sending a promo to all judges this year. BXCX posted:Not that I'm playing in all that many Competitive and Pro level events, but I've been using one of these to keep track of life totals lately: Most of my fellow L2+ judges have said they would allow it. Always check with your Head Judge, but I don't see it being an issue. There just isn't the same room for abuse that tablets and cellphones have. Also, there are currently no plans to extend the ban on electronic devices to Regular REL. Brownhat fucked around with this message at 18:20 on May 9, 2014 |
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beergod posted:Getting back into MTGO after a few year hiatus. What are some standard staples for now and any upcoming rotation? Dual lands? Thanks Mutavault. Almost every competitive standard deck has Mutavault, often as a 4-of. Its therefore expensive. It's likely to rotate because its a Core Set rare that's played way too often. The other card I'd probably call a "staple" is Thoughtseize. This was reprinted in Theros, and does not rotate until Fall 2015.
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May 9, 2014 18:27
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Angry Grimace posted:Mutavault. Almost every competitive standard deck has Mutavault, often as a 4-of. Its therefore expensive. It's likely to rotate because its a Core Set rare that's played way too often. Are people really running 4 of Mutavault? I can't see that helping your mana in the majority of decks...
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May 9, 2014 18:31
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OssiansFolly posted:Are people really running 4 of Mutavault? I can't see that helping your mana in the majority of decks... Not necessarily, but a lot of decks actually do, simply because a lot of decks are either MBD or a variant of MBD. The top three decks at the SCG thing last week were MBD, U/W control and a Junk midrange deck. The first ran 4, the second ran 3 and the third ran 0. If 3 color decks become a thing, then you'll see a lot less of Mutavault. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 18:40 on May 9, 2014 |
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May 9, 2014 18:33
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OssiansFolly posted:Are people really running 4 of Mutavault? I can't see that helping your mana in the majority of decks... 3 Mutavault 66.05% 76.28% 3.5 http://www.mtggoldfish.com/format-staples/standard
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May 9, 2014 18:49
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Anyone know whats going on with the art on JOU cards in the regular MTGO client? It's all missing except Ajani, lol.
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May 9, 2014 18:52
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The chipmunk IS the +1/+1 counter. Ajani is covering ghor-clan Rampagers in chipmunks. This let's them do more damage because
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May 9, 2014 18:55
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So I had some jank foil (and a couple non-foils) cards just sitting out in the open for at least a year. A layer of dust settled over them, and now I finally picked them up and cleaned it off. However, I noticed for some of the cards, the dust is leaving this gritty feel all over the front, as if some of the dust is refusing to come off easily. Any idea what's a good way to... clean cards?
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May 9, 2014 19:00
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demons. posted:Anyone know whats going on with the art on JOU cards in the regular MTGO client? It's all missing except Ajani, lol. Weird, I pulled Ajani, Mentor of Heroes in a draft last night and that was the only card that didn't have any art.
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May 9, 2014 19:02
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Angry Grimace posted:Weird, I pulled Ajani, Mentor of Heroes in a draft last night and that was the only card that didn't have any art. There were people in the release room talking about it as well so it's not just me.
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May 9, 2014 19:05
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demons. posted:There were people in the release room talking about it as well so it's not just me.  It is not just you.
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May 9, 2014 19:10
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Ajani isn't the only one with art. There's also, uh, this:
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May 9, 2014 19:11
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Gods, MODO is such a terrible piece of poo poo.
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May 9, 2014 19:24
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so, V3 going dark in July? and we have to play the beta? could MTGO be any more of a trainwreck??
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May 9, 2014 19:25
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JerryLee posted:If it helps, I liked the pun
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May 9, 2014 19:36
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JAMOOOL posted:so, V3 going dark in July? and we have to play the beta? could MTGO be any more of a trainwreck?? Presumably they're going to spend the next two months working on stability issues. At least, I hope they realize that's what they need to focus all of their resources on.
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May 9, 2014 19:39
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Ableist Kinkshamer posted:Ajani isn't the only one with art. There's also, uh, this: Archers gone wild! See what MODO doesn't want you to see! Only $9.95 on pay-per-view.
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May 9, 2014 19:41
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Yeah stability and lag time is #1, but the dozens of ways the new client is inexplicably unintuitive and user-unfriendly may not get addressed for a long time.
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May 9, 2014 19:45
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Can someone elaborate on what the deal is with free drafts on MODO? I don't have an account, and was messing around with the Free Trial on the beta client where you can play one of the preconstructed decks against other people. I thought the free drafts thing immediately filled up?
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May 9, 2014 19:47
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JAMOOOL posted:Yeah stability and lag time is #1, but the dozens of ways the new client is inexplicably unintuitive and user-unfriendly may not get addressed for a long time. They're aware that the collection view needs work, but you'd have a hard time convincing me the queues page, play area, and drafting/sealed are any worse than v3.
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May 9, 2014 19:52
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I honestly and truly think the play area is worse than the old client. I've been in the actual beta for the new client for over a year and when I first tried it the very first comment I made was that there needed to be a way to pop out the graveyard. There still isn't (as of the last I tried out the client at least, so a month or so ago) an obvious way of doing this. e; I realize this is just one thing, but it is one of many things.
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May 9, 2014 20:03
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In my (limited) experience with the beta client, it just seemed like so many of the design decisions came from a desire to do something new or clever without actually thinking if it would improve the experience. A better-performing, more attractively skinned version of v3 with maybe a few incremental improvements would have been perfectly good but they decided the wheel needed reinventing.
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May 9, 2014 20:06
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I really want a disgruntled employee to leak some of the rules-handling code, because I am so morbidly curious. I bet it's positively lovecraftian at this point.
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May 9, 2014 20:12
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Ableist Kinkshamer posted:Ajani isn't the only one with art. There's also, uh, this: It must be a spoiler from the new set! 
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The March Hare posted:I honestly and truly think the play area is worse than the old client. I've been in the actual beta for the new client for over a year and when I first tried it the very first comment I made was that there needed to be a way to pop out the graveyard. There still isn't (as of the last I tried out the client at least, so a month or so ago) an obvious way of doing this. I agree. My own pet peeve is the lack of the clear targeting arrows v3 has. It is very annoying to have to mouseover spells and effects all the time to figure out what is being targeted. Kabanaw posted:They're aware that the collection view needs work, but you'd have a hard time convincing me the queues page, play area, and drafting/sealed are any worse than v3. If the best they can do is "not any worse" than v3 (and even that is arguable), they should probably wait on release until they have a product that is actually an improvement over it's predecessor.
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^^^ They're changing targetting "very soon," according to Worth. I would agree that they should probably release something that's an improvement - but at the very least, if they can get it to "as good as v3" then they can turn off the old client and then stop spending resources implementing new sets on two clients and instead focus on improving one.The March Hare posted:I honestly and truly think the play area is worse than the old client. I've been in the actual beta for the new client for over a year and when I first tried it the very first comment I made was that there needed to be a way to pop out the graveyard. There still isn't (as of the last I tried out the client at least, so a month or so ago) an obvious way of doing this. I also think there's a lot of things in the new client that work much better than in the old. Lands stacking greatly increase the space on the battlefield. Tokens stacking do the same thing. Counters are represented by a distinct symbol with a number (which I believe they mentioned they'll be shrinking somewhat and moving off the center of the card) instead of the same symbol with a bit of text near it. The macros like tap all lands in this stack or attack with all creatures can save a ton of time. I don't think there's many changes they made that don't reduce to "that could be implemented."
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Ableist Kinkshamer posted:Ajani isn't the only one with art. There's also, uh, this: That piece has been sitting in the set files since Theros was released, oddly enough. I dig through the image files and always find new weird things after updates. Steelform Sliver was in there months before the M14 sliver announcement, there's a weird sketchy version of one of the Face the Hydra cards, etc.  Did we ever figure out what this was from? Yesterday's download didn't seem to include any Journey into Nyx art which I found odd.
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Angry Grimace posted:Mutavault. Almost every competitive standard deck has Mutavault, often as a 4-of. Its therefore expensive. It's likely to rotate because its a Core Set rare that's played way too often. Aaron Forsythe said in an interview that reprinting Mutavault was a mistake, so yeah, we're not likely to ever see that in a core set again.
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Every time people say "They'll never reprint something that powerful in Standard again", something like Mutavault or Thoughtseize gets reprinted. Eagerly awaiting an M15 that features Brainstorm, Lightning Bolt, Dark Ritual, Worldly Tutor, and Swords to Plowshares.
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qbert posted:Every time people say "They'll never reprint something that powerful in Standard again", something like Mutavault or Thoughtseize gets reprinted. I imagine that out of all of these, Dark Ritual would completely obliterate the format the most.
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I think Mutavault could be fine in a format with better mana. Did it dominate Standard like this back when Lorwyn was in Standard? I guess Faeries ran it, but...
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Angry Grimace posted:I imagine that out of all of these, Dark Ritual would completely obliterate the format the most. Also the effect is in red now.
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Angry Grimace posted:I imagine that out of all of these, Dark Ritual would completely obliterate the format the most. T1 master of feast t2 desecration demon!
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May 9, 2014 21:40
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Brainstorm would probably destroy Modern
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Attorney at Funk posted:I think Mutavault could be fine in a format with better mana. Are you high? The only better mana is if we had allied and enemy fetches and revised duals.
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JAMOOOL posted:Brainstorm would probably destroy Modern We were unhappy with how the addition of Brainstorm to Modern has warped the format, so we have banned islands
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May 9, 2014 21:41
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And then Modern will truly be the best format... 
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Printing Brainstorm into a Standard format that didn't have shuffling (or at least forced you to work harder for it than getting it free with your manabase) would potentially be reasonable. They would have to ban it in Modern though, which would call down a bunch of snark from people who don't understand, or just have a weird principled objection to, the Modern banning philosophy.
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kizudarake posted:Are you high? The only better mana is if we had allied and enemy fetches and revised duals. The mana was leagues better last year. This format has great mana for really slow decks, and decks that are monocolor or monocolor with a splash. These are also the two kinds of decks that really want Mutavault.
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qbert posted:Every time people say "They'll never reprint something that powerful in Standard again", something like Mutavault or Thoughtseize gets reprinted. This, but unironically.
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