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Star Man posted:And a Player Rewards promo. Remember those? forget standard show down packs, just bring back player reward promos. The more I play, the more WotC will send me stuff in the mail. Did they get rid of this because of cost? Then add masterpiece inserts and showdown packs, aren't those just sunk costs? edt. I don't know what it cost, but I played in Arena League in high school and still have my Arena Lands.
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kas posted:I was making some proxies for my cube and thought I'd try to go a little fancy instead of just using magic set editor this time, and tried remaking the m15 frames with the old border art assets. I think it turned out really good and wanted to share the test cards here. Those look great, what type of paper are you going to print on for the cube? I am working on some photoshop frames to change a bunch of older cards to all match but can't find a good paper to make them with.
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No Luck Needed posted:forget standard show down packs, just bring back player reward promos. The more I play, the more WotC will send me stuff in the mail. Did they get rid of this because of cost? Then add masterpiece inserts and showdown packs, aren't those just sunk costs? The cost of postage was too much is what I've heard.
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Angry Grimace posted:Whether it will actually matter largely revolves around WOTC's competence in not breaking a cost reduction ability. So for what minimum value of N is an sorcery draw-three with a mana cost of NU and Improvise not broken in modern or legacy? And did wizards figure out the answer correctly? Tune in next month to find out.
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Star Man posted:The cost of postage was too much is what I've heard. Are they shipping these cards inside bricks or something? Entropic posted:So for what minimum value of N is an sorcery draw-three with a mana cost of NU and Improvise not broken in modern or legacy? And did wizards figure out the answer correctly? Tune in next month to find out. Make it UU to start and it probably probably be fine.
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GoutPatrol posted:Are they shipping these cards inside bricks or something? even at bulk rate, when you're sending stuff out in quantities of tens or hundreds of thousands, it adds up. Postage was probably way way more than the cost of printing the cards.
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Entropic posted:even at bulk rate, when you're sending stuff out in quantities of tens or hundreds of thousands, it adds up. Postage was probably way way more than the cost of printing the cards. If only the internet could think of a solution? I dunno, what if players could pay for the shipping themselves? You know, like a virtual store you could use points to buy promos through but just pay the shipping. We could call these points "planeswalker points" and we could give them out at events to reward participation and make you feel like part of a community. Terrible idea.
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Sickening posted:If only the internet could think of a solution? I dunno, what if players could pay for the shipping themselves? You know, like a virtual store you could use points to buy promos through but just pay the shipping. We could call these points "planeswalker points" and we could give them out at events to reward participation and make you feel like part of a community. skip the middleman, they're already paying to ship packs, why not replace pack inserts with them or even better, front side phyrexian language elesh norn, back side magic duels advert 
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Molybdenum posted:ship your player reward cards alongside the boxes of the new set to your LGS, pick them up there. WOTC doesn't sell stuff to your LGS directly unless your LGS is SCG.
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TwistedNails posted:Those look great, what type of paper are you going to print on for the cube? I am working on some photoshop frames to change a bunch of older cards to all match but can't find a good paper to make them with. I usually use printer paper at a print shop with a colour laser printer, that usually makes them glossy enough and then I sleeve them over top lands. Regular cards can be sleeved with truefit sleeves before sleeving to get a similar thickness between both types. if you wanted to, you'd likely be fine inkjet printing them on an appropriate thickness demigloss cardstock, with the caveat that printing on gloss darkens the images considerably, so you'd want to lighten your images by probably 10-15% before printing so they look slightly washed out in your preview. For people asking for templates, they're not really complete yet, for example I don't have any land boxes made that aren't u/g, but I could toss up a few blank pngs of the frames after work, or take a couple requests if they're simple things.
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Every time Maro is asked about the dropping of control elements from the game he immediately rushes to equate it with all-counterspell Draw-go decks, regardless of what the person talking to him was actually talking about. It's kind of lovely. http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/154751683168/what-do-you-say-to-the-people-who-feel-that-their
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Oh my god. Opponent in cube just had a Glen Elendra Archmage out and let me resolve a tinker. I was dead next turn otherwise. Never scoop!
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odiv posted:Oh my god. Opponent in cube just had a Glen Elendra Archmage out and let me resolve a tinker. I was dead next turn otherwise. Well that's just normal play. You don't counter the tutor, you counter what they get, right?
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Hellsau posted:Well that's just normal play. You don't counter the tutor, you counter what they get, right? it gets put on the battlefield
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uggy posted:it gets put on the battlefield I suspect that Odiv's opponent didn't know that.
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ZeroCount posted:Every time Maro is asked about the dropping of control elements from the game he immediately rushes to equate it with all-counterspell Draw-go decks, regardless of what the person talking to him was actually talking about. It's kind of lovely. Someone should take the old Randy Buehler Draw-Go deck that MaRo fears re-creating so much and run it against a bunch of current Standard decks. I'd be surprised if it's more than 50% against almost any of them to be honest ...
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mattah posted:Someone should take the old Randy Buehler Draw-Go deck that MaRo fears re-creating so much and run it against a bunch of current Standard decks. I'd be surprised if it's more than 50% against almost any of them to be honest ... I think there is a series on Youtube called Historial Standard where Randy takes old standard decks and clashes them with things that are or were recently legal. I just watched him play CAWBlade and smash the gently caress out of what I think was either Khans Abzan Control or the UB Faeries deck a few days back It's a cool idea for content
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Back during original Ravnica we had Remand / spell snare in a deck with the tron lands and Wildfire (land destruction), so good control. During this same time Zoo was a viable threat, some Kamigawa based combo deck with Maga Traitor of Mortals, Magnivore land destruction, and the format was amazing. I have no idea what Maro is talking about that control ruins the game.
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AlternateNu posted:How soon people forget U/W Elixir Control. You're right, that terrifying monstrosity that was an unreasonable and overwhelming 4% of the metagame. E: Abzan was 29% of KTK/THS and WU comprises 31% of recent KLD/SOI/BFZ tournaments, for comparison. Orange Fluffy Sheep fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Dec 23, 2016 |
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AlternateNu posted:How soon people forget U/W Elixir Control. why would i forget the best deck ever, excepting eggs of course
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AlternateNu posted:How soon people forget U/W Elixir Control. Is this post sarcastic? Hard to say because almost immediately after its pro tour victory people rushed to create the illusion it dominated the meta game.
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AlternateNu posted:How soon people forget U/W Elixir Control. This was probably the best deck ever and Ivan Floch owns. I've watched the top 8 of the M15 at least 5 times
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I love when control decks win the pro tour because they immediately get picked up by scrubs who don't know how to play them properly and get mad when you beat them at FNM.
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Even better when a rogue deck wins big because of a statistical fluke or an excellent meta call and a bunch of chumps take that same deck to the next tourney and splatter against Round 1 like flies against a windshield. Remember Sphinx's Tutelage?
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ZeroCount posted:Every time Maro is asked about the dropping of control elements from the game he immediately rushes to equate it with all-counterspell Draw-go decks, regardless of what the person talking to him was actually talking about. It's kind of lovely. Mark Rosewater, Expert Lead Designer of Magic posted:We just haven’t allowed Draw, Go decks that do nothing but counter spells to be good. This is like what someone who just learned the game says when their first pet card brew doesn't turn out well at FNM. e: Also lol @ the responses to this that basically just say "well [control deck or decks] exist/existed, people just like to complain" every control deck in modern and standard that has appeared over the last year or two became bad once people knew what they were and what to look for. Even Shota Yasooka said that his pro-tour winning control deck was terrible and that no one should play it. ThePeavstenator fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Dec 23, 2016 |
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ZeroCount posted:Even better when a rogue deck wins big because of a statistical fluke or an excellent meta call and a bunch of chumps take that same deck to the next tourney and splatter against Round 1 like flies against a windshield. Also didn't Majors only win w/this deck because he forgot his so someone lent it to him at the very last minute
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ZeroCount posted:Every time Maro is asked about the dropping of control elements from the game he immediately rushes to equate it with all-counterspell Draw-go decks, regardless of what the person talking to him was actually talking about. It's kind of lovely. Questions on Maro's blog tend to be in response to answers to previous questions, and this whole Control line of questions started with talking about Draw-go and a bunch of people confusing RTR standard as having a Draw-go deck and whatnot.
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Mighty Dicktron posted:Questions on Maro's blog tend to be in response to answers to previous questions, and this whole Control line of questions started with talking about Draw-go and a bunch of people confusing RTR standard as having a Draw-go deck and whatnot. That or his answers trail off into stories about Roseanne.
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What's everyone's favorite 5 mana creature? Mine is Thrashing Wumpus. Won three FNMs in a row with that bad boy back in the day.
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Smashing Link posted:What's everyone's favorite 5 mana creature? Mine is Thrashing Wumpus. Won three FNMs in a row with that bad boy back in the day. Spiritmonger is clearly the answer to this.
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Smashing Link posted:What's everyone's favorite 5 mana creature? Mine is Thrashing Wumpus. Won three FNMs in a row with that bad boy back in the day. Rune-Scarred Demon cast with Heartless Summoning in play.
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