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First Bass posted:"Target opponent" Exactly. "Genesis Slave" not "Genesis Wave".
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Dec 10, 2014 11:46
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Reene posted:I almost made a grown man cry with Villainous Wealth which has catapulted it to my favorite card in this set forever. Please elaborate
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Dec 10, 2014 11:52
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Bleh I think someone in the postal system stole the cards out of this PWE package I received because it was empty  .
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Dec 10, 2014 13:28
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suicidesteve posted:After playing since Revised, the only valuable cards (ie over $10) I had when I started playing again for real (right around GTC) were a beat up Force and a Survival of the Fittest, plus an Emrakul I got out of an impulse fat pack. I have the best luck with packs. Ah old collection chat. I started playing right around unlimited in high school, quit sometime during Tempest block. I had a mox jet, a bazaar, a kabal ghoul (I liked stupid nether shadow ashen ghoul deck) many duals etc. I traded this fine collection for, a 3 disk dvd changer. To be fair the player was like $400 back then. Of course it makes me cry when I think about it now.
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Dec 10, 2014 14:31
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I know at one point I had like 3 Forces, but who knows where they went? 
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But think about it. You can have THREE DVDs in once. That's a whole season of some shows!
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Dec 10, 2014 14:37
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Snacksmaniac posted:But think about it. You can have THREE DVDs in once. That's a whole season of some shows! Or 5 episodes of Game of Thrones.
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Dec 10, 2014 14:40
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I traded away a 1999 Starter Set Grim Tutor because I wanted sweet dragons. 12 year old me was a dumbass
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Dec 10, 2014 14:46
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To end this downer on the opposite note, I bought 3 Gaea's Cradle back in 2001 for $8 a piece. I still have them, and one is signed by Mark Zug.
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Dec 10, 2014 14:50
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newtestleper posted:So here in New Zealand a guy stabbed his friend to death because of a powerful combination of schizophrenia and Magic: The Gathering. this is what happens when you rare redraft fyi
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Dec 10, 2014 15:29
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My mom has a story she tells whenever she remembers it, which is basically that before we moved in 2005 (and I don't know by how much earlier) a friend of hers gave her a box of cards in case I eventually liked the game because they didn't want them anymore. The box got lost in a move at some point I guess and I've never even seen it. Like, I know it's probably just draft leavings or poo poo from pack openings, but "giant free pile of old magic cards" is what I'm all about and it could be worth tons for all I know  Gyshall posted:this is what happens when you rare redraft fyi lmao
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Dec 10, 2014 16:59
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I do find that the amount of "I found a pile of old MTG cards and they turned out to be worthless" far outnumbers the "I found old MTG cards and found buried treasure"
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Dec 10, 2014 17:03
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I never got rid of my old collection, but I also didn't start collecting until Tempest, and I never got anything really good. Most of my lost value was in lovely trades. Of course, about the best thing I traded away was Sapphire Medallion. I did buy a poo poo-ton of cards from a friend when her game store closed, and of course the majority of it was garbage, but I did pull a (revised) Tundra from it. Also like 50 copies of Hymn to Tourach, and like 30 Brainstorms, and 14 Lim-Dul's Vault, and a bunch of other $1 cards. And of course 60+ Scryb Sprites, and Wood Elementals, and any other garbage common you can think of between Revised and Mirrodin. God I have so many garbage cards. I really should figure out what the gently caress to do with them. Maybe I should experiment with 3D alters or those life counter abacus card things.
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Dec 10, 2014 17:19
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How was GTCx3 in draft? CSI has boosters very cheap, I'm thinking about picking up a bunch for friendly drafts.
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Boxman posted:How was GTCx3 in draft? CSI has boosters very cheap, I'm thinking about picking up a bunch for friendly drafts. Kinda crap, it essentially boiled down to who had the best Boros/Orzhov aggro deck. Simic sucked, Dmir's best spell was better ciphered onto an evasive flier in orzhov than anything else. Gruul was decent but usually not fast enough to contend with the Boros splashing Orzhov decks. Occasionally a mill deck can be drafted but usually its poor. Silvestri did a decent primer on the format http://www.channelfireball.com/home/silvestri-says-gatecrash-draft-overview/ Josh Silvestri on 3x Gatecrash: Silvestri posted:The baseline for starting your curve is two mana, and if your aggro deck doesn't have 5 creatures at that slot, you have a pretty weak deck. If you play a control deck, or simply a slower, big creature Simic or Gruul deck, and get paired up against these aggressive plans without early creatures to block, you'll quickly get run over and that's the end of the road. Being able to trade early is so important against Boros—even against aggressive Gruul/Orzhov decks, bloodrush and extort mean low life totals get very precarious. As a casual thing, especially if no one is particularly proficient in the format, it should be fine though. 3xRTR>DGR>3xGTC in my opinion Madmarker fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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Boxman posted:How was GTCx3 in draft? CSI has boosters very cheap, I'm thinking about picking up a bunch for friendly drafts. fast and Borosy.
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Entropic posted:fast and Borosy. Yeah it's completely correct to first pick Syndic of Tithes or Daring Skyjek a good 90% of the time. You live and die off quality 2 drops.
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Dec 10, 2014 17:32
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Hopping Ghost posted:My Magic career's had a similar timeline. I stopped in Saga block, then cracked an Innistrad pack just because Oh Hey Magic's Still A Thing, Let's Check It Out. The rare was double-sided Garruk. That was a pretty big surprise. Garruk didn't use the rare slot. Your story is full of holes. What are you hiding?
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Dec 10, 2014 17:34
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Dr. Stab posted:Garruk didn't use the rare slot. Your story is full of holes. What are you hiding? He probably had something dumb like Nevermore in his rare slot and completely forgot about it.
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Dec 10, 2014 17:36
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gently caress I hate Wednesdays. Even their website is down so I have no idea when this massive down-time is supposed to be over.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:gently caress I hate Wednesdays. Even their website is down so I have no idea when this massive down-time is supposed to be over. Their twitter account is pretty good for that stuff. It would be nice if they told people about it!
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Madmarker posted:Yeah it's completely correct to first pick Syndic of Tithes or Daring Skyjek a good 90% of the time. You live and die off quality 2 drops. Syndic of Tithes would be a monster in virtually any format though.
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I Love You! posted:Syndic of Tithes would be a monster in virtually any format though. Agreed. Just play all the two drops. 
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Agreed. Just play all the two drops. I did this once. I 6-0'd that pre-release.
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I Love You! posted:Syndic of Tithes would be a monster in virtually any format though. Not a goblin or elf, not playable in ONS ONS ONS.
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Dec 10, 2014 23:59
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Zoness posted:Not a goblin or elf, not playable in ONS ONS ONS. It's a cleric for your Battlefield Medics that can drain life around other Battlefield Medics and board combat in general. 
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Dec 11, 2014 00:02
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All of these stories make me glad I never sold my 12 FoW I got from Alliances boxes or my $5 playsets of revised duals when I quit. I only got rid of my Mana Drains.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:It's a cleric for your Battlefield Medics that can drain life around other Battlefield Medics and board combat in general. It's also a human for your Daru Stingers. In full block draft Syndic of Tithes would be a bomb common.
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Dec 11, 2014 00:28
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Also scratch elves because I forgot that Timberwatch Elf was in legions and not onslaught  .Still though sparksmith is a hell of a card.
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Hellsau posted:It's also a human for your Daru Stingers. Of course, this wasn't relevant at the time ONS block was current... though neither was Syndic of Tithes, so. 
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Syndic was just a silly mistake of a card for a bunch of different reasons. 1. Monocolored 2drop with huge upside that can be played either in control or aggro. What should have been the core of Orzhov decks was even more in-demand for Boros and created a rush on white 2. Lifegain to offset opponent aggro in a set where you were playing tons of 2drops and thus had plenty of mana to extort 3. Common 4. Obscene in multiples 5. Opponent had to remove/trade with them to keep up putting you in the driver's seat Basically Syndic was nearly unpassable which made for a dumb tug-of-war between Boros and Orzhov and heavily, heavily skewed towards one of those two guilds. It further compounded the problem of almost all the great commons being mono-colored. And if other people didn't force Syndics and you got too many it was possible to set up scenarios where you couldn't really conceivably lose the life race of both players turning guys sideways especially with cheap removal being fairly tough to come by. I had a very small handful of drafts where I just forced Syndics and extort walls and ended up with 5-6 of the guys, and there wasn't really anything to be done about it.
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Found it. Anyone experiencing awful crashes with the new MTGO build? Snacksmaniac fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Dec 11, 2014 |
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Zoness posted:Also scratch elves because I forgot that Timberwatch Elf was in legions and not onslaught It was good but it's not like its presence made goblins the only good deck to draft or anything. Remember, back then the sets were bigger and you were less likely to see any given common than today.
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Dec 11, 2014 01:36
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Since Modern Masters 2015 releases in May, they should kick off spoiler season on the first of April by showing off Noble Hierarch with a mythic symbol and see how much people freak out.
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If I play Snapcaster Mage targeting Treasure Cruise, can I still use Delve? Because if so, I know what Modern deck I'm building.
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Dec 11, 2014 01:44
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qbert posted:If I play Snapcaster Mage targeting Treasure Cruise, can I still use Delve? You can delve, but I don't think you can exile it.
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qbert posted:If I play Snapcaster Mage targeting Treasure Cruise, can I still use Delve? This was a Cranial Insertion question a few weeks ago -- you can, but can't exile the Cruise to help pay for itself.
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qbert posted:If I play Snapcaster Mage targeting Treasure Cruise, can I still use Delve? Delve is not an alternative cost.
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Dec 11, 2014 01:51
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I'm started playing in Champions. Me and my three friends all shared buying cards because we were young and that was the easiest way. For Christmas that year we had gotten 6 boxes between us (my friend's families are loaded). That's not even counting the number of tournament packs, fat packs, or random packs we wasted our money on. Eventually we all kinds took a break from buying Magic cards (two quit, one of whom just started playing again with Khans). We sold a whole bunch of our cards for money for other things in that period, and looking as prices of those cards just go up and up and up for various reasons (EDH, modern, etc.) makes me every time. So no, you don't have to have gotten rid of Moxen and Duals and FoWs to feel bad about selling your collection. All it takes is a few dozen Sensei's Divining Tops (we had to have had at least 30) or Glimpse of Natures. Also holy gently caress Champions came out 10 years ago?! Jesus Christ. GonSmithe fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Dec 11, 2014 |
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