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Magic the Gathering: My Basic Land's Better Than Your Basic Land
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Mar 22, 2017 16:58
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Here's that truly spectacularly awful box btw. Minus one Past in Flames a friend bought off me for 2 whole bucks
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Mar 22, 2017 17:00
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ShaneB posted:Here's that truly spectacularly awful box btw. Minus one Past in Flames a friend bought off me for 2 whole bucks That's a loving spectacle.
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Mar 22, 2017 17:03
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I just got a MODO account because I want to draft while sitting around unshowered on a Sunday morning. But sometimes maybe I want to play a bit of constructed. Can someone post that UR zombies list that gets referenced around here as a fun budget deck? Also, a quick recommendation for a good bot chain? Cardhoarders fine?
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Mar 22, 2017 17:07
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Thanks guys, now I want to go out and buy dozens of different basic lands.
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Mar 22, 2017 17:11
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You're a scrub if you're not already using Unmastered's 3D lands
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Mar 22, 2017 17:33
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Jace:VP is still over 25 dollars despite Frontier crashing and burning. Wut.
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Mar 22, 2017 17:36
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anglachel posted:Jace:VP is still over 25 dollars despite Frontier crashing and burning. Wut. Its a mythic that one day could be good. Its another good card without a deck atm so people will want to hold off on moving him for cheap.
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Mar 22, 2017 17:38
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anglachel posted:Jace:VP is still over 25 dollars despite Frontier crashing and burning. Wut. No guys Frontier is the new Modern!!!!
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Mar 22, 2017 17:47
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Frontier appears to be dominated by pumped-up standard decks from BFZ onward which leads me to believe that it sucks rear end.
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Mar 22, 2017 17:50
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Joel Larsson has a Frontier article at the top of CFB about his recent experience and now love of the format. Guess it's something that's going to be pushed since Standard is so bad
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Mar 22, 2017 17:54
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Boxman posted:I just got a MODO account because I want to draft while sitting around unshowered on a Sunday morning. But sometimes maybe I want to play a bit of constructed. Here you go: R/U Zombies Decklist: 4 Advanced Stitchwing 4 Elder Deep-Fiend 4 Prized Amalgam 4 Stitchwing Skaab 4 Cathartic Reunion 4 Fevered Visions 3 Fiery Temper 4 Kozilek's Return 3 Lightning Axe 3 Tormenting Voice 6 Island 7 Mountain 2 Sanctum of Ugin 4 Spirebluff Canal 4 Wandering Fumarole SB: 3 Dispel SB: 1 Fiery Temper SB: 2 Nahiri's Wrath SB: 2 Negate SB: 2 Release the Gremlins SB: 2 Wretched Gryff SB: 1 Lightning Axe SB: 1 Key to the City SB: 1 Shock
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Mar 22, 2017 17:57
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Frontier should have never included fetch lands with no controller card like blood moon.
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Mar 22, 2017 18:04
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TheAsterite posted:Frontier should have never Fixed for you.
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Mar 22, 2017 18:05
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anglachel posted:Jace:VP is still over 25 dollars despite Frontier crashing and burning. Wut. I mean, some Grixis Control builds in Modern used him for a while, so there's that.
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Mar 22, 2017 18:05
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https://twitter.com/MagicOnline/status/844585729309081600 I guess they found someone who was willing to copy and paste card names into a list.
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Mar 22, 2017 18:09
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Hellsau posted:https://twitter.com/MagicOnline/status/844585729309081600 "The system works!" I feel bad for that dev team because they probably have solutions for a lot of the more glaring issues on MTGO that they could implement if only they had more resources.
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Mar 22, 2017 18:18
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ThePeavstenator posted:"The system works!" Beat quote ever ITT: "It's too bad that this multimillion dollar brand owned by a billion dollar corporation can't solve the gargantuan task of allocating an appropriate amount of resources to a real product that they charge money for."
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Mar 22, 2017 18:20
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Hellsau posted:https://twitter.com/MagicOnline/status/844585729309081600 this is actually worse then if they had taken the month, cause it means that when they made that tweet they could have always done it this easily
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Mar 22, 2017 18:25
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mandatory lesbian posted:this is actually worse then if they had taken the month, cause it means that when they made that tweet they could have always done it this easily welcome to software dev, where simple fixes take weeks or months due to the standard release process
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Mar 22, 2017 18:35
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TheChirurgeon posted:welcome to software dev, where simple fixes take weeks or months due to the standard release process That's not just software. Change management in all industries varies from difficult (commodities) to onerous (automotive) to impossible (life science).
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Mar 22, 2017 18:42
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TheChirurgeon posted:software dev TheChirurgeon posted:simple fixes TheChirurgeon posted:process What do these have to do with MTGO though? 
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Mar 22, 2017 18:42
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TheChirurgeon posted:welcome to software dev, where simple fixes take weeks or months due to the standard release process the simple fix didn't actually take weeks, and it clearly never needed weeks
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Mar 22, 2017 18:46
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You're literally asking for them to not publish any estimates on when they might fix an issue.
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Mar 22, 2017 18:49
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mandatory lesbian posted:the simple fix didn't actually take weeks, and it clearly never needed weeks that's my whole point
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Mar 22, 2017 18:59
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mandatory lesbian posted:the simple fix didn't actually take weeks, and it clearly never needed weeks It potentially could have needed weeks. It definitely shouldn't have needed weeks, but the MTGO's management is allegedly horrendous and the devs might not have been allowed to implement the easy fix of "add cards to list" and somehow, WotC decided that it was a better PR move to tell their customers that it takes four weeks to add cards to a list than to hire more devs to not be so short handed that they have to leave such an embarassing situation be for four weeks.
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Mar 22, 2017 18:59
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Hellsau posted:It potentially could have needed weeks. It definitely shouldn't have needed weeks, but the MTGO's management is allegedly horrendous and the devs might not have been allowed to implement the easy fix of "add cards to list" and somehow, WotC decided that it was a better PR move to tell their customers that it takes four weeks to add cards to a list than to hire more devs to not be so short handed that they have to leave such an embarassing situation be for four weeks. It's not about hiring more devs; it's about pushing out a fix outside of the standard development cycle. Even a quick/simple fix needs to be tested and QA'ed and pushed live*. *though FWIW, QA is probably where MTGO is the most understaffed
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Mar 22, 2017 19:23
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ShaneB posted:Here's that truly spectacularly awful box btw. Minus one Past in Flames a friend bought off me for 2 whole bucks I feel better about doing one draft and opening nothing more expensive than a Path to Exile in my 3packs + prize pack now. You just gotta go back in time to when Bonfire was a $40 Standard card. Did you seriously get no foil rares, and no Paths or Inquisitions or Serum Visions? There's even some commons in the set that are worth a bit in foil, like Spell Pierce.
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Mar 22, 2017 19:31
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Entropic posted:I feel better about doing one draft and opening nothing more expensive than a Path to Exile in my 3packs + prize pack now. Uncommons of any value are: Terminate, Path, Lingering Souls. Only foil rare was Cyclonic Rift. I guess that's $10.
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Mar 22, 2017 19:34
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TheChirurgeon posted:It's not about hiring more devs; it's about pushing out a fix outside of the standard development cycle. Even a quick/simple fix needs to be tested and QA'ed and pushed live*. Yeah it's likely that it got added to the end of whatever they were working on and then moved up when everyone complained
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Mar 22, 2017 19:54
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TheChirurgeon posted:It's not about hiring more devs; it's about pushing out a fix outside of the standard development cycle. Even a quick/simple fix needs to be tested and QA'ed and pushed live*. if you don't have api level automation (and this should eb handled by an api) written to cover stuff like this lol hell a unit test should be sufficient for "is bool there"
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Mar 22, 2017 20:51
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Holy crap MM3 drafts at GP Orlando this weekend are $50 each? I could have sworn when I checked last week they were $35. I was hoping to maybe get in a couple if I scrubbed out of the main event but gently caress that.
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Mar 22, 2017 20:53
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St0rmD posted:Holy crap MM3 drafts at GP Orlando this weekend are $50 each? I could have sworn when I checked last week they were $35. I was hoping to maybe get in a couple if I scrubbed out of the main event but gently caress that. I am sure that extra money goes toward prize support. 
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Mar 22, 2017 21:01
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:So Lsv moved out anyone know what's the deal? Moved out of what Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mar 22, 2017 21:02
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Angry Grimace posted:The problem with 10 dollar packs will continue to be the fact that the cards inside have a median value of 0 Entropic posted:Don't 👏 Crack 👏 Packs 👏 For 👏 Value
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Mar 22, 2017 21:17
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mm17 is 25 backs to draft online?
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Mar 22, 2017 21:34
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mandatory lesbian posted:the simple fix didn't actually take weeks, and it clearly never needed weeks Hellsau posted:It potentially could have needed weeks. It definitely shouldn't have needed weeks, but the MTGO's management is allegedly horrendous and the devs might not have been allowed to implement the easy fix of "add cards to list" and somehow, WotC decided that it was a better PR move to tell their customers that it takes four weeks to add cards to a list than to hire more devs to not be so short handed that they have to leave such an embarassing situation be for four weeks. The "simple fix" (which is usually working late and/or copy-pasting a bunch of stuff) was probably what the devs were avoiding because those are usually either tedious, a band-aid over a more serious issue of the system's design, or both. Also a "quick fix" for "just one thing" is a bad thing to start jamming in your releases because if you do that you set a precedent that it can be done and you basically defeat the whole purpose of having a development cycle.
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Mar 22, 2017 21:51
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ThePeavstenator posted:The "simple fix" (which is usually working late and/or copy-pasting a bunch of stuff) was probably what the devs were avoiding because those are usually either tedious, a band-aid over a more serious issue of the system's design, or both. Also a "quick fix" for "just one thing" is a bad thing to start jamming in your releases because if you do that you set a precedent that it can be done and you basically defeat the whole purpose of having a development cycle. But they've already set the precedent of having cards be legal in their respective formats when they're released. But I suppose they've also set the precedent of not fixing mistakes, so it's kind of a tossup.
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Mar 22, 2017 21:58
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Sickening posted:I am sure that extra money goes toward prize support. It is a much higher prize payout than a lot of the other side events, but still just an obnoxiously rapacious rake. $50 x 8 players = $400/pod 600 prize tix for pod (400/1st, 200/2nd) 10 tix = 1 standard pack ($2-3) 100 tix = $25 SCG gift cert If we're generous and call face-value of a prize wall ticket 25 cents (ignoring the fact that it's company scrip that they get to claim an additional margin on), we get roughtly $150 in prize support, making the cost of the draft - prizes $250/pod or $31.25/player or $10.42/pack. After all prizes are paid out they're still charging well over MSRP just for the privilege of drafting and playing.
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Mar 22, 2017 21:59
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Sickening posted:mm17 is 25 backs to draft online? Don't worry I'm sure they'll put up $12 phantom drafts at some point
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Mar 22, 2017 22:06
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