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I played a shitload of 3x RAV when it was up last year along with several times in the different 2/1 1/1/1 combos and I still loved triple Rav the best. Ravnica, Lorwyn, and Innistrad were probably the best draft formats they ever made.
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sometimes prices on mtgo are loving crazy for example, chameleon colossus is, for some reason, $20 and bots will pay you $18.5 for it but you can the foil from the vault version, which is $3.50. from the same bot offering $18.50 for the morningtide version so now instead of my morningtide chameleon colosus i have a foil from the vault verson, and 15 extra tickets
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Aug 24, 2017 04:05
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TheKingofSprings posted:My LGS/bar combo apparently had to get rid of the liquor there if they wanted to keep things cool with WotC Doesn't WotC constantly point to Mox as a game store to emulate? they have a full bar and restaurant attached.
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Aug 24, 2017 04:18
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Retromancer posted:Doesn't WotC constantly point to Mox as a game store to emulate? they have a full bar and restaurant attached. Not a full bar, beer and wine only.
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Aug 24, 2017 04:21
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Cactrot posted:Not a full bar, beer and wine only. More importantly, they have a clearly delineated line between the restaurant/bar area and the actual game store.
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Aug 24, 2017 04:32
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ShaneB posted:My definition of that is reallllly skewed by living in sketchier areas of Chicago for a number of years. I thought that area seemed entirely fine no matter when I was visiting. The amount of players who have had their cars broken into says otherwise. I like the store but it's definitely got an issue of location. It's weird, I spent a lot of time in some of the lousier parts of Los Angeles but never felt as unsafe parking my car as I do around here. It's a shame.
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Aug 24, 2017 04:53
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evilweasel posted:sometimes prices on mtgo are loving crazy The only more expensive Morningtide card is Scapeshift on MTGO what the gently caress
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Aug 24, 2017 04:57
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Marketing New Brain posted:How many three set blocks were actually seen as good the whole way through? While 3x TSP and TSP-TSP-PC are some of my favorite ever, fuuuck Future Sight. Khans had an incredible first block that didn't hold up. Scars felt good all the way to New Phyrexia, despite the format changing quite drastically. I liked Alara, Conflux, Reborn but never drafted just Shards or double Shards and Conflux. scars block was incredibly interesting in that triple scars was a very good and fun draft format, then adding a pack of mirrodin besieged changed up the archetypes a lot while still remaining a good and fun format, followed by new phyrexia completely killing every single archetype in the first two formats and simultaneously being incredibly unfun. shoutouts to blightwidow being one of my favorite limited cards of all-time PJOmega posted:The amount of players who have had their cars broken into says otherwise. I like the store but it's definitely got an issue of location. having grown up in flint i dont think there's another place in the united states or canada i've ever felt truly unsafe, which also sort of skews my opinion of sketchy areas 
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Aug 24, 2017 05:30
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Scars block is weird in that the full block format kind of blows but triple New Phyrexia is actually good.
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Aug 24, 2017 05:51
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Phyrexian mana is one of my favorite mechanics because underpriced overpowered cards are my jam
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Aug 24, 2017 05:54
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cheetah7071 posted:Phyrexian mana is one of my favorite mechanics because underpriced overpowered cards are my jam Same, if you're not casting multiple things in a turn what's the point of Magic?
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Aug 24, 2017 06:04
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I do not like Scars block limited because it is one of the most bomb heavy formats I've ever played I also didn't really like the infect/regular damage split
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Aug 24, 2017 06:11
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All my snark aside, I would play the hell out of Zendikar draft again. Just Zendikar, the Eldrazi can go gently caress themselves.
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Aug 24, 2017 06:37
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PMush Perfect posted:All my snark aside, I would play the hell out of Zendikar draft again. Just Zendikar, the Eldrazi can go gently caress themselves. Wow, wrong.
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Aug 24, 2017 07:12
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PMush Perfect posted:All my snark aside, I would play the hell out of Zendikar draft again. Just Zendikar, the Eldrazi can go gently caress themselves. Nope. Noooope. A turn 6 limited environment is really bad. So bad.
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Aug 24, 2017 07:32
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Elyv posted:I do not like Scars block limited because it is one of the most bomb heavy formats I've ever played And not just bomb-heavy, but colorless bomb heavy.
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Aug 24, 2017 07:56
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ShaneB posted:Hey Chicagoans, apparently MTG Card Market is closing after this FNM? loving hell, like there weren't too few magic stores as it was in this city. Went to the final Wednesday modern and 4-0ed with grixis death's shadow. Beat affinity, burn, b/w eldrazi, and grixis death's shadow splashing white. Used up my store credit for some nice stuff but it's disappointing they're closing. It was a clean store with mostly good and mostly normal players and reasonable payouts. Apparently there's a newer store supporting magic in Lincoln Park. Good games I believe and they run modern on Mondays. No idea about payout or credit though.
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Aug 24, 2017 08:20
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At least tell me you guys like Innistrad draft. 
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Aug 24, 2017 08:59
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PMush Perfect posted:At least tell me you guys like Innistrad draft. Wow, right.
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Aug 24, 2017 10:04
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Invasion block was tons of fun to draft. A little on the durdley side but there were a lot of different good archetypes to try.
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Aug 24, 2017 13:51
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Pontius Pilate posted:Apparently there's a newer store supporting magic in Lincoln Park. Good games I believe and they run modern on Mondays. No idea about payout or credit though. Mondays would be very choice.
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Aug 24, 2017 13:54
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Picked up a friend's old collection for a few bucks recently - looks like I'm about a dozen cards away from building a Triple Innistrad cube. Could be fun.
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Aug 24, 2017 14:14
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Smashing Link posted:Invasion block was tons of fun to draft. A little on the durdley side but there were a lot of different good archetypes to try. At the time yeah but the mana is terrible and it does not hold up.
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Aug 24, 2017 15:04
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It's like a bunch of old sets, like Tempest, that seemed really fun when looking back at them through rose-colored goggles but are actually not great at all by modern drafting standards.
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Invasion was a big step up from what came before it for draft but it's pretty antiquated now. I'd say Champions of Kamigawa is the oldest set that feels like a modern limited format in how mechanics and archetypes are distributed across the colors.
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Aug 24, 2017 15:22
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Triple Champions is a legitimately good draft format, in part because Champions is a legitimately good set too bad about the rest of the block
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Aug 24, 2017 15:25
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Lone Goat posted:At the time yeah but the mana is terrible and it does not hold up. Couple that with needing to draft for your mana base to make it work and hoboy sometimes IPA was quite the unfun. Plus every once and a while you'd meet the guy with the FTK + gating deck and just get all kinds of blown out. On the other hand it has a lot of cool durdling that is really rare in modern sets.
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Aug 24, 2017 15:41
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PMush Perfect posted:All my snark aside, I would play the hell out of Zendikar draft again. Just Zendikar, the Eldrazi can go gently caress themselves. Zendikar is one of the absolute worst modern draft environments.
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Aug 24, 2017 15:52
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Elyv posted:Triple Champions is a legitimately good draft format, in part because Champions is a legitimately good set Betrayers is a fine addition as long as no one opens a Jitte. It's just more of the same stuff though.
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Aug 24, 2017 15:53
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ShaneB posted:Hey Chicagoans, apparently MTG Card Market is closing after this FNM? loving hell, like there weren't too few magic stores as it was in this city. poo poo, I had totally forgotten about that place. I was planning on going to my first FNM at Dice Dojo tomorrow, and MTG Card Market would have been a way more convenient location for me. I mean, I guess I could still go there, but it wouldn't make much sense to start going to a place that's about to close, especially if they get an extra rush of people saying goodbye. Edit: Now that I look at Wizards' event map, I see that there are plenty of other way more convenient stores than Dice Dojo, including one that's in my childhood barber's old storefront. Well there you go. Flip Yr Wig fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Aug 24, 2017 |
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Aug 24, 2017 16:02
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Yeah, beating down against GW with my Bell tower sphnix deck is how Ravnica is supposed to play. Edit: post not intended as criticism, it was awesome
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Flip Yr Wig posted:poo poo, I had totally forgotten about that place. I was planning on going to my first FNM at Dice Dojo tomorrow, and MTG Card Market would have been a way more convenient location for me. I mean, I guess I could still go there, but it wouldn't make much sense to start going to a place that's about to close, especially if they get an extra rush of people saying goodbye. Where are you seeing stores? Chicago has surprisingly few shops IMO.
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Aug 24, 2017 16:40
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Flip Yr Wig posted:poo poo, I had totally forgotten about that place. I was planning on going to my first FNM at Dice Dojo tomorrow, and MTG Card Market would have been a way more convenient location for me. I mean, I guess I could still go there, but it wouldn't make much sense to start going to a place that's about to close, especially if they get an extra rush of people saying goodbye. Wizards event map is garbage. Never trust it. Call or join facebook groups. I would assume there is a chicago facebook group for magic players. Sickening fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Aug 24, 2017 |
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ShaneB posted:Where are you seeing stores? Chicago has surprisingly few shops IMO. I guess I don't have much of a point of comparison. I just saw enough shops off the L that would be easy to get to after work.
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Aug 24, 2017 16:47
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GonSmithe posted:Zendikar is one of the absolute worst modern draft environments. I remember some people not liking how aggressive it was, but it was a pretty good draft environment, both standalone and with Worldwake, the flashbacks hold up. Landfall is still a great mechanic, even if it was poorly used in BFZ for the most part. It had one of the worst sealed environments in history. You were black, red, or black and red if you wanted to go 3-1 or better.
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The Shortest Path posted:It's like a bunch of old sets, like Tempest, that seemed really fun when looking back at them through rose-colored goggles but are actually not great at all by modern drafting standards. Boy let me tell you about how much fun I had in a flashback draft with my insane reanimator deck when my opponent played a turn 4 Portcullis 2 games in a row and I had seen 0 artifact removal in my entire draft.
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PMush Perfect posted:At least tell me you guys like Innistrad draft. i actually don't like innistrad draft because i wasn't playing when it came out, its very complicated and dense and everyone who wants to draft it is already an expert with probably more drafts in it than i've done total
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Aug 24, 2017 19:05
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Can someone post the Marshal(?) to Efro pro tour coverage pic from best dressed to worst dressed? Thanks. I swore I saved it last time.
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UberJew posted:i actually don't like innistrad draft because i wasn't playing when it came out, its very complicated and dense and everyone who wants to draft it is already an expert with probably more drafts in it than i've done total This was the exact problem I had when I did the flashback drafts a few years ago. I just ended up playing RB aggro-mostly-vampires twice because I had no idea what I was doing, won my first round against people who I suspect were similarly unfamiliar with the format, then got absolutely destroyed by GW humans several times in a row. It's the main reason I never really played many flashback drafts.
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I think it's a bigger sin for a format to have an unplayable color than it is for the format to be too fast. Triple Zendikar and Triple Amonkhet weren't fantastic, but they weren't stinkers on the level of Battle for Zendikar and Avacyn Restored. God, Avacyn Restored was just the worst.
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