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FreelanceSocialist
Nov 19, 2002
Have Snappy guy lookup Snappy buylist and contribute that in cash to the pool. That way, he gets the card for less than he could get it for otherwise and the pool still gets dollars.

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Angry Grimace
Jul 29, 2010

ACTUALLY IT IS VERY GOOD THAT THE SHOW IS BAD AND ANYONE WHO DOESN'T REALIZE WHY THAT'S GOOD IS AN IDIOT. JUST ENJOY THE BAD SHOW INSTEAD OF THINKING.
I one time asked a guy at the LGS if he had any Surrak Dragonclaw and he said no, so I asked for a pack and it had Surrak in it. Of course, Surrak costs less than the pack, so...

A big flaming stink
Apr 26, 2010

Angry Grimace posted:

If I was informed about rare redrafting after the fact and opened a Scalding Tarn or something, there'd be fisticuffs. Fisticuffs I tell ya

The redrafts run by a local university at my store specifically made it so you keep any Expedition lands you open. Also they only cost 9 bucks

bhsman
Feb 10, 2008

by exmarx
Beaten, but yeah I'd let the distribution of Innistrad cards stay as-is, but bring it up for future drafts.

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:
Just build an Innistrad draft sim cube.

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy

Sigma-X posted:

Got a question for folks -

At work we got gifted a sealed box of Innistrad from a departing co-worker, which we promptly drafted. We opened a Snapcaster, a Geist, and a Lilly.

There is some discussion about selling the cards and pooling the money to keep more free drafts flowing into the office. Has anyone done this before and is there anything we should be aware of as far as drama / issues that this might cause?

I'm not sure if everyone is interested in turning in their cards, to be honest - I know Lilly guy was, but Snappy didn't seem as thrilled. I'm the geist guy and IDGAF either way because I've got a playset already.

my goal is to keep the amount of hassle this causes me and the amount of inter-work drama to a minimum - so if anyone has done anything liek this before or even just has stories about splitting poo poo I'd be interested to hear it.

We had previously talked about doing backdrafts but since this draft involved lapsed and new players we didn't think that would be reasonable.

Redrafts only lead to acrimony. Just have someone bring additional product to draft. If that person wants to fund that from selling opened cards from previous drafts they can. At $10 per draft you can usually source boxes cheap enough to offer a few packs in prizes and break even. Charge enough to make it worth your time if you want. Additionally this lets people have free entry by bringing in 3+X packs of their own where X is the prize support level.

This works better for standard sets than innistrad, of course.

logis
Dec 30, 2004
Slippery Tilde
I like my local store's method. Keep what you draft, but open all the prize boosters and draft the prizes based on standing. No feel bads during the draft, yet still very competitive for first and second place. Also, everyone gets prizes!

Jen X
Sep 29, 2014

To bring light to the darkness, whether that darkness be ignorance, injustice, apathy, or stagnation.
Oh hey, the forums are back.

Someone sell me on a deck for FNM.

suicidesteve
Jan 4, 2006

"Life is a maze. This is one of its dead ends.


GeneX posted:

Oh hey, the forums are back.

Someone sell me on a deck for FNM.

59 Island, 1 Tasigur. That'll be $60.

Jen X
Sep 29, 2014

To bring light to the darkness, whether that darkness be ignorance, injustice, apathy, or stagnation.

suicidesteve posted:

59 Island, 1 Tasigur. That'll be $60.

Sell me on a deck.

Pontius Pilate
Jul 25, 2006

Crucify, Whale, Crucify

GeneX posted:

Sell me on a deck.

56 island, 4 tasigur. I expect it to be 4x as powerful.

Anil Dikshit
Apr 11, 2007

GeneX posted:

Oh hey, the forums are back.

Someone sell me on a deck for FNM.

5 color bring to light.

Sigma-X
Jun 17, 2005

kizudarake posted:

5 color bring to light.

With a 5 color BTL you can find a second BTL off your first one and then you can find a spell with a CMC of zero for ultimate graveyard filling.

Bugsy
Jul 15, 2004

I'm thumpin'. That's
why they call me
'Thumper'.


Slippery Tilde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-h5gGSUtQ

Not mine.

Ramos
Jul 3, 2012


GeneX posted:

Oh hey, the forums are back.

Someone sell me on a deck for FNM.

Green/white Aggro. You're now the beefiest thing for miles around and can still out grind the slow decks with your choice of:

-Mastery of the Unseen
-Den Protector and Deathmist Raptor
-Evolutionary Leap

bhsman
Feb 10, 2008

by exmarx

GeneX posted:

Sell me on a deck.

Mardu Aristocrats, give or take a green splash. You get to play lots of creatures, you have the best instant-speed removal in the format with Crackling Doom, and it's Aristocrats!

Dehtraen
Jul 30, 2004

Keep the faith alive
Gonna run Atarka Red Friday just because I have zero bfz cards and no jaces, any sweet lists anyone have handy outside of the open winning list I should check out?

KidDynamite
Feb 11, 2005

bhsman posted:

Mardu Aristocrats, give or take a green splash. You get to play lots of creatures, you have the best instant-speed removal in the format with Crackling Doom, and it's Aristocrats!

Do you have a list? I was going to try to work on a mardu tokens strategy but life got in the way.

St0rmD
Sep 25, 2002

We shoulda just dropped this guy over the Middle East"

Angry Grimace posted:

The best way to get an in-demand card on Pucatrade is to make sure your screenname is "John READ MY PROFILE" even though every single dude who puts his name as "____ SEE MY PROFILE" has the same dumb spiel about "NM ONLY, NO EXCEPTIONS" which is completely redundant of Pucatrade's policy which only allows you to trade NM cards to begin with.

Hmm, I never really thought about it this way, so I did this.

https://pucatrade.com/profiles/show/15487

bhsman
Feb 10, 2008

by exmarx

KidDynamite posted:

Do you have a list? I was going to try to work on a mardu tokens strategy but life got in the way.

4-Color and Golgari, respectively. Ignore the fact that I gave them the same name.

Anil Dikshit
Apr 11, 2007
Tomorrow's modern night at my store. I have to decide between :
Gw elves
Living End
Amulet Combo
RWG burn
Torpor Terror
Goblins
Boggles
Soul Sisters w/ Felidar Sovereign

Anil Dikshit
Apr 11, 2007

St0rmD posted:

Hmm, I never really thought about it this way, so I did this.

https://pucatrade.com/profiles/show/15487

I have an extra Serra ascendant, but I don't do pucatrade.

Ramos
Jul 3, 2012


kizudarake posted:

Tomorrow's modern night at my store. I have to decide between :
Gw elves
Living End
Amulet Combo
RWG burn
Torpor Terror
Goblins
Boggles
Soul Sisters w/ Felidar Sovereign

Amulet is actually functional and funny.

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

I kindof like the idea of Jund. Den Pro + KoCo + Abbot seems like a lot of grinding power.

Count Bleck
Apr 5, 2010

DISPEL MAGIC!

Irony Be My Shield posted:

I kindof like the idea of Jund. Den Pro + KoCo + Abbot seems like a lot of grinding power.

So all the deck does is grind them down with Value? Seems legit and good.

And I really want to play Jund. Badly. Lemme know if you stumble across an idea.

Angry Grimace
Jul 29, 2010

ACTUALLY IT IS VERY GOOD THAT THE SHOW IS BAD AND ANYONE WHO DOESN'T REALIZE WHY THAT'S GOOD IS AN IDIOT. JUST ENJOY THE BAD SHOW INSTEAD OF THINKING.
Getting Auriok Champions through Pucatrade has been a long grind. I've gotten 2 over the course of like 2 1/2 months of having the necessary points.

Anil Dikshit
Apr 11, 2007

Ramos posted:

Amulet is actually functional and funny.

I need to dig out my cards for other builds of it. The Dragonlord Dromoka version seems too grindy.

Pontius Pilate
Jul 25, 2006

Crucify, Whale, Crucify
It was being discussed earlier but pucatrade seems to be becoming overpopulated versus staples people want. I had around 5 of the pricier duals and mana crypt on my want list for months and never received one of them; I recently gave in and offered a bounty for duals--tropical island is in the pucapost. I got that trop, an og clique, judge crucible, and a bunch of other nice things (which is p dope for largely trading edh and standard cards) but I think I'll just be using the site for cheapish cube foils and random eternal cards I may be interested in rather than stockpile points.

Pontius Pilate fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Oct 9, 2015

rabidsquid
Oct 11, 2004

LOVES THE KOG


kizudarake posted:

Tomorrow's modern night at my store. I have to decide between :
Gw elves
Living End
Amulet Combo
RWG burn
Torpor Terror
Goblins
Boggles
Soul Sisters w/ Felidar Sovereign

Why don't you stop living your life in fear and bring Signal the Rats to FNM

Or I guess I could give you one of my many Hidetsugu's Second Rite brews. They're all undefeated.

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.
What's the best way to turn money cards into packs? See what I can get for store credit at my LGS or try and sell for cash online or what? Don't really have the time to play standard but I finally found a group of people down to get together & draft every week and I opened a foil Ulamog tonight and I'm wondering what the most efficient way is to put that towards the purchase of a box

edit: and that's probably not a card that I should expect to appreciate much in the future, especially after it's out of standard, right?

Bugsy
Jul 15, 2004

I'm thumpin'. That's
why they call me
'Thumper'.


Slippery Tilde
http://www.mtgstocks.com/cards/11727 :ughh:

Alris
Apr 20, 2007

Welcome to the Fantasy Zone!

Get ready!
Wait what.

what the gently caress.

Why

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




Alris posted:

Wait what.

what the gently caress.

Why

A card that does the same thing, only it's colourless, and not on the Reserve List, got unbanned recently.

Dr. Stab
Sep 12, 2010
👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

Serperoth posted:

A card that does the same thing, only it's colourless, and not on the Reserve List, got unbanned recently.

The rack and black vise are different cards.

Count Bleck
Apr 5, 2010

DISPEL MAGIC!

:ughh:

My loving god seriously?

Four hundred and fifty dollars for a loving Red Rack that hurts everyone?

Chill la Chill
Jul 2, 2007

Don't lose your gay


drat I backed the wrong horse and should've traded my tiny Jace for that thing. I could have had TWO PS4s!

Lobsterpillar
Feb 4, 2014
So.... somebody is using magic cards to launder money again?

Anil Dikshit
Apr 11, 2007

rabidsquid posted:

Why don't you stop living your life in fear and bring Signal the Rats to FNM

Or I guess I could give you one of my many Hidetsugu's Second Rite brews. They're all undefeated.

Link both, I might make them decks 9 and 10 that I can field without switching cards around.

q_k
Dec 31, 2007





The storm world thing is just because someone bought out the entire (probably extremely low) stock and there are only 2 listed, one at $95 and the other at $800 which is possibly a fat finger of $80?

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Sigma-X
Jun 17, 2005
There were like 2 of these on tcgplayer and they got bought and the guy relisted one of them at $800, it's not a real spike, the card is nearly strictly worse than the rack.

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