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Zemyla posted:And they're all dead now. I'm holding out hope history repeats.
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Soul Glo posted:What do you think this dude does for a living. Like, how does he live. Honestly? Disability check.
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Mikujin posted:Mono-Red was also a strong deck in that standard, though they, too, contained Mutavaults. Most everything else was bulk, though (unless you were on the Mono-R Devotion deck which wasn't as good). I got my friend into magic around this time and I have fond memories of this standard. We played a ton of kitchen table magic with him working on esper control and r/g aggro and I went all in on g/b poo poo since I love predator ooze. Also played fnm and I loved my r/b aggro deck. Mogis marauder is my dude
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So I went onto Reddit because I am an idiot and wanted to see if any of the pauper players there have figured out anything fancy to beat the Peregrine Drake decks. No, all the Drake decks are totally busted, even if some people are in denial and think the meta can combat a deck that doesn't care about discard, gets more card advantage than any deck in the format, and can just kill when it hits five mana. However, I did get to see the most pathetic poo poo - someone wrote a script to wait nine seconds before passing priority, just to waste a Drake opponent's time. The kicker? This idiot isn't even doing this to try to win something - this script was created because the author was angry at losing to the Drake decks in the tournament practice room. Good lord Reddit is a hive of scum and villainy and gently caress Wizards for using it as MTG's official forum.
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Ciprian Maricon posted:5C control with spells like Cruel Ultimatum and Cryptic were powerful and interesting to play, but they were just raw power. The kind of stuff I miss a lot is stuff like Astral Slide, which was insanely fun and cool and unique, Or decks where individually none of the pieces were spectacular but together were just great like U/B Madness where suddenly Aquomeba was a real threat and Circular Logic was strong permission. Just because a deck finishes with a combo isn't necessarily broken and un-fun either. Playing with Buried Alive, Stitch Together and Entomb was powerful and fun, but you were bringing back Phantom Nishoba, it was relatively tame compared to the kind of value creatures you can throw down these days. You had stuff like Upheaval Tog, for sure, but that deck was still a blast to play with and against, and just as often you'd have a deck that hinges on Fires of Yavimaya. I think you're looking for deck synergy more so than powerful spells. Like other posters have pointed out, entombing and reanimating creatures isn't that far removed from building a deck around Collected Company picking two creatures off the top. I don't play competitive anymore, but just from the outside looking in, you do have the avenues to make synergistic decks of you don't care about them being bad. Nothing is stopping you from jamming a Madness or Delirium deck. You even have build around enchantments like that one red enchantment that does damage based on casting a card with the same name as a card in the graveyard. Pyromancer googles were used in a few decks if I recall. Back when I could play, there was access to Burning Vengeance and Pyromancer Ascension, and maybe even Blood chief Ascension plus mind crank? There was even that cool Sun Titan Phantasmal Image deck in an Esper shell. The decks are probably still there if you want to build them. I think you just want them to be the best again. That probably won't happen because Wizards wants to push mythics to sell packs. It's hard to have pure synergistic build around me cards that is desirable to everyone.
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Jul 2, 2016 12:11
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The Gitrog Monster is muscular enough to still squeeze some standard play in even with GWx around. They haven't made a mythic this synergistic build-around-me in a long time.
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Jul 2, 2016 13:30
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How many cards is 1 pound of cards?
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Jul 2, 2016 13:47
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Fingers McLongDong posted:How many cards is 1 pound of cards? 260, give or take a few: http://www.quietspeculation.com/2010/09/dream-cache-magic-card-measurements/
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Jul 2, 2016 14:03
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mandatory lesbian posted:she had a creepy grin!!! thats apparently all it takes I mean she also interacted with emrakul, which can have that effect.
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Jul 2, 2016 15:56
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Schwarzwald posted:I'm holding out hope history repeats. No, we're talking about the cool planeswalkers, not the Jacetice League.
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Jul 2, 2016 16:04
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LED is now 250$ enjoy
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Jul 2, 2016 16:13
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Skyl3lazer posted:LED is now 250$ enjoy Sweet.
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Jul 2, 2016 16:18
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Skyl3lazer posted:LED is now 250$ enjoy Got my playset for 10 bucks.
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Jul 2, 2016 16:23
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Skyl3lazer posted:LED is now 250$ enjoy mtgfinance really is a good time.
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Jul 2, 2016 16:31
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And it's time to sell dredge
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Jul 2, 2016 16:34
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Count Bleck posted:mtgfinance really is a good time. Mtgfinance# Spec on cards to buy more magic cards. This then makes cards more expensive which requires me to spec more cards which.....
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Jul 2, 2016 16:36
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Hm, I said I would sell one of the big time legacy cards for something if it jumped up loads due to EMA/mtgfinance, but now I forgot what it was I was gonna buy. I could buy like 3 really good compressors I guess?
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Jul 2, 2016 16:37
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Sickening posted:Got my playset for 10 bucks. I traded in a bunch of cards to buy mine for 70 each 2 years after I started on the basis that it was ok because they would never get reprinted again. Felt bad-ish then, less so now.
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Jul 2, 2016 16:38
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Preemptive "You see, the secondary market is good because you guys are rejoicing about your cardboard's worth" >doesn't notice the people leaving legacy because their decks are worth a bunch. >legacy's the best format guys! Wanna play? Guys??
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Jul 2, 2016 16:42
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DoctorOozy posted:Magicmadhouse weekend of magic! So this ended up being a bit of a washout. I started the day feeling a bit sorry for Magicmadhouse for the attendenc being so low. I then found out because the attendance was so low at the 4k event they put a bunch of staff members in it so they didn't have to payout as much in prizes. It looked like the employees had been told weather to ID or not for top 8 based on what worked out best for the shop. Shadey stuff, but I at least came out a Bob and a Jitte better off from the prizewall after playing shite all day.
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DoctorOozy posted:So this ended up being a bit of a washout. I started the day feeling a bit sorry for Magicmadhouse for the attendenc being so low. We need to make this an illuminati-style meme about big-name SCG employees (writers like brad and todd) attending SCG events to avoid payouts.
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Chill la Chill posted:Hm, I said I would sell one of the big time legacy cards for something if it jumped up loads due to EMA/mtgfinance, but now I forgot what it was I was gonna buy. I could buy like 3 really good compressors I guess?
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Yawgmoth posted:Buy some blue chip stocks, use the dividends to buy more magic cards. So.....Games Workshop stocks? 
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Sickening posted:Got my playset for 10 bucks. Mine was 140... Still feel good about it.
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Skyl3lazer posted:LED is now 250$ enjoy The Internet is telling me this is the same guy that did the moat buyout. He apparently makes videos as he is going into the buyouts and posts them online after he has bought out a bunch to get everyone else in on it. Apparently he isn't hoarding, just buying price adjusts and then he sells again and makes a sizable margin on each card. gently caress mtgfinance.
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Dehtraen posted:The Internet is telling me this is the same guy that did the moat buyout. He apparently makes videos as he is going into the buyouts and posts them online after he has bought out a bunch to get everyone else in on it. Apparently he isn't hoarding, just buying price adjusts and then he sells again and makes a sizable margin on each card. gently caress mtgfinance. basically a pyramid scheme, lol the internet will never run out of rubes willing to throw money at a dubious "investment" that someone else tells them is a good idea
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Dehtraen posted:The Internet is telling me this is the same guy that did the moat buyout. He apparently makes videos as he is going into the buyouts and posts them online after he has bought out a bunch to get everyone else in on it. Apparently he isn't hoarding, just buying price adjusts and then he sells again and makes a sizable margin on each card. gently caress mtgfinance. I kinda figured it was him. He said something about doing another reserved list buyout on Facebook the other day. He's the kind of doughy idiot that makes me hope WotC suddenly gets rid of the reserved list and reprints every single card on it.
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Jul 2, 2016 17:32
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Please, no fat shaming
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Jul 2, 2016 21:20
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It made me laugh how quickly people will buy into whatever format exists just to make SCG money turning bulk into cash; Tiny Leaders, Paper Pauper tournaments, etc.
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Jul 2, 2016 21:39
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Angry Grimace posted:It made me laugh how quickly people will buy into whatever format exists just to make SCG money turning bulk into cash; Tiny Leaders, Paper Pauper tournaments, etc. Paper pauper is good because pauper is a fun format and playing with people is better than using mtgo.
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Angry Grimace posted:It made me laugh how quickly people will buy into whatever format exists just to make SCG money turning bulk into cash; Tiny Leaders, Paper Pauper tournaments, etc. Tiny Leaders was a legit cool format. Just because the guys who created it were dickweeds who were more in it for the prestige and subsequently screwed themselves...
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AlternateNu posted:Tiny Leaders was a legit cool format. Just because the guys who created it were dickweeds who were more in it for the prestige and subsequently screwed themselves... what happened? i was out of the game when tiny leaders was a thing.
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Angry Grimace posted:It made me laugh how quickly people will buy into whatever format exists just to make SCG money turning bulk into cash; Tiny Leaders, Paper Pauper tournaments, etc. i have not purchased a single card for my paper pauper decks, other than basic lands. it's also the best constructed format
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Elblanco posted:what happened? i was out of the game when tiny leaders was a thing. Tiny leaders is awesome. Ignore the haters, build a deck and play me.
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Jul 2, 2016 22:36
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Jul 2, 2016 22:36
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no, no, the messaging is all wrong green is supposed to be getting blue's old effects, not the other way around !!
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Jul 2, 2016 22:37
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Elblanco posted:what happened? i was out of the game when tiny leaders was a thing. I remember hearing that the Tiny Leaders guys put some kind of trademark on their format and that basically put a block on anyone using it because no one at SCG or WotC cared enough to deal with it legally. "Oh, you made it so we'd need to pay our lawyers to work with you to get it on Magic Online? No thanks, we'd rather just ignore it, sorry you all lined up and shot yourselves in the foot." It came around a time where people were getting fatigued by #mtgfinance, and seeing cards for Tiny Leaders immediately spike in price out of their reach just as they wanted to get them turned people off the format before they even got their foot in the door. The format was solved almost right away, and the creators were much too slow to put anything on the ban list to fix it. It looks like the site for it is still being updated, but Geist of St. Traft and True-Name Nemesis are still unbanned.
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We had tiny leaders for about a month at our store. I don't think I dropped a match with clique.
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I like how even the mtgfinance rank and file are against their newly crowned shitlord. The irony is lost in them.
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