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En Fuego posted:Cube~ I second picked a Fireball and later the guy next to me showed me a Channel he rare-drafted because he needed it for his cube. Cube can go mana-screw itself for denying me the chance to do that for the first time in 23 years. (Channel + Lich's Mirror is still the most fun Vintage deck.)
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I was raredrafting like a motherfucker this weekend, but why raredraft a 50 cent card?
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Nov 19, 2017 06:59
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I didn't get as good of a haul as I did yesterday in both drafts, but one of them did net me my second Ancestral Visions. I went 3-0 with RWu and then 2-1 with UR. Guttersnipe is loving nuts yo.
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:I was raredrafting like a motherfucker this weekend, but why raredraft a 50 cent card? It was more him going "my deck sucks, but this card I need for my cube is right in front of me, so whatever"
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Nov 19, 2017 08:24
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BJPaskoff posted:It was more him going "my deck sucks, but this card I need for my cube is right in front of me, so whatever" Magic players are bad.
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Nov 19, 2017 08:39
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No Iconic Masters drafts at GP Portland was a major letdown.
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PJOmega posted:No Iconic Masters drafts at GP Portland was a major letdown. Agreed 100% - I had asked if there was any way possible we could do a draft as we had a full group of 8 people and we would pay whatever they wanted and they said they only had enough product for the sealed events. Sad times. Also some of the vendors have boxes that they aren’t allowed to sell due to some agreement they have signed with the TO and/or Wizards Dehtraen fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Nov 19, 2017 |
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One thing I noticed researching for an EDH deck: is every single (identifiably human-ish) angel in MTG depicted as female? Any lore reason for this? Don't get me wrong I'm not a caremad CHUD about it just surprised me. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Nov 19, 2017 |
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Nov 19, 2017 09:22
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:One thing I noticed researching for an EDH deck: is every single (identifiably human-ish) angel in MTG depicted as female?   I'm guessing the actual real reason is that its just a fantasy trope that angels are female or it might be part of WOTC's art direction.
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Nov 19, 2017 09:34
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Angels is Magic lore are female, I forget why. The exceptions are the one from Planar Chaos(because it portrays an alternate timeline), and the ones from AKH block because Bolas or something
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Amonkhet angels are male also. I don't know if there's a particular reason angels are usually female in MTG... I just imagine people started drawing them that way and then others kept doing it. Traditionally/mythologically angels are all male. 
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Nov 19, 2017 09:37
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Generally in MTG, all angels are female and all demons are male. It's just a thing they do and they've been doing it for a long while now. I think Amonkhet angels are male to represent that they're not 'proper' angels or something, they're all mindless puppets put in place by Bolas or some poo poo. It's a sign that something is seriously wrong.
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Nov 19, 2017 09:40
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Interesting stuff, that was a great question
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I played against a kid at Modern FNM who had brought his Dinosaur deck obviously assembled out of cracking boosters. Happily told me about how one of his creatures was a 9/9. Am... am I a bad person for countering every one of his spells? I think I might be.
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Nov 19, 2017 09:58
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mossyfisk posted:I played against a kid at Modern FNM who had brought his Dinosaur deck obviously assembled out of cracking boosters. Happily told me about how one of his creatures was a 9/9. I've Dissolved a Bronze Sable in standard. You're not a bad person for doing it, they're the bad ones for making us.
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Steve Argyle originally drew a male angel on Emerge Unscathed and had to change it because all Magic angels are female. I can't find the article he wrote on that right now.
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Retromancer posted:Man opening a channel in ICM is a real kick in the dick. A mythic that’s not legal in any format. I pulled two foil Balance drafting Eternal Masters. 
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Nov 19, 2017 13:44
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mossyfisk posted:I played against a kid at Modern FNM who had brought his Dinosaur deck obviously assembled out of cracking boosters. Happily told me about how one of his creatures was a 9/9. I hate playing those matches. Back in mono-black devotion days I played against a kid at his very first FNM who made his deck from the common and uncommon bulk. I turn 1 thoughtseize him and see a bunch of random cards and Urborg Panther. I try explaining to him how standard works as nice as possible, because he is like 10, with no success. I go get the judge to help him fix his deck and explain the rules. The kid started bawling his eyes out because all he heard was "judge" and thought he was in trouble. I felt like an absolute monster. He got his deck fixed and played the rest of the rounds but has never been up there since.
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Obsoletely Fabulous posted:I hate playing those matches. Back in mono-black devotion days I played against a kid at his very first FNM who made his deck from the common and uncommon bulk. I turn 1 thoughtseize him and see a bunch of random cards and Urborg Panther. I try explaining to him how standard works as nice as possible, because he is like 10, with no success. I go get the judge to help him fix his deck and explain the rules. The kid started bawling his eyes out because all he heard was "judge" and thought he was in trouble. I felt like an absolute monster. He got his deck fixed and played the rest of the rounds but has never been up there since. You were already a monster when you T1 thoughtseized him. You should have just gone full heel after that.
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Got 2nd in my first Iconic Masters draft last night, went in blind and won the Mana Drain lottery. Mark of Mutiny was the only card not pictured that I ended up siding in. Lost in the finals to a gross deck piloted by a really nice dude with two Knight of the Reliquary, a Restoration Angel, Channel, Simic Sky-Swallower. (Not my playmat. The LGS just has a bunch that are always out on the tables to play on.) I had two fury charms, two more mana leaks, the instant make something a 1/1 until EoT, a darksteel axe in the sb, the draw three tuck one for 4, but never felt the need to side them in.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Steve Argyle originally drew a male angel on Emerge Unscathed and had to change it because all Magic angels are female. I can't find the article he wrote on that right now. https://steveargyle.deviantart.com/art/Scintillating-Surge-alternate-163001649
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Dehtraen posted:Agreed 100% - I had asked if there was any way possible we could do a draft as we had a full group of 8 people and we would pay whatever they wanted and they said they only had enough product for the sealed events. Sad times. Also some of the vendors have boxes that they aren’t allowed to sell due to some agreement they have signed with the TO and/or Wizards ah the classic problem of customers wanting to buy your products, one that no business has managed to find a good solution to
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Elyv posted:Angels is Magic lore are female, I forget why. The exceptions are the one from Planar Chaos(because it portrays an alternate timeline), and the ones from AKH block because Bolas or something I would imagine it goes back to Serra and her plane, I think that was the first time we saw a lot of angels all in one place and they were all women. Wizards please print a Serra planeswalker card next time you do a Commander set with PW commanders.
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little munchkin posted:ah the classic problem of customers wanting to buy your products, one that no business has managed to find a good solution to This to me is still the single most baffling thing that WotC does. "We can't put desirable cards in our pre-constructed products because lots of people would want to buy them" I mean I get reprint equity and all that but throwing a couple of fetch lands in the latest duel decks would make them a killing.
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AceClown posted:This to me is still the single most baffling thing that WotC does. We just got done laughing at somebody who dropped $3600 trying to crack a Mana Drain
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AceClown posted:This to me is still the single most baffling thing that WotC does. The issue is that they want these products in the hands of the target audience they make it for. I guess the "problem" is that their distributors crack a healthy chunk of them for singles and so do the 3rd parties distributors sell to. This target audience goes to their local LGS and then sees the 30 dollar starter deck they were wanting to buy now listed for 60 and gets discouraged. This is more a symptom of unhealthy distributor model WOTC has then anything. The wrong decision was to make these decks worthless but here we are.
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Sickening posted:The issue is that they want these products in the hands of the target audience they make it for. I guess the "problem" is that their distributors crack a healthy chunk of them for singles and so do the 3rd parties distributors sell to. This target audience goes to their local LGS and then sees the 30 dollar starter deck they were wanting to buy now listed for 60 and gets discouraged. This is more a symptom of unhealthy distributor model WOTC has then anything. The wrong decision was to make these decks worthless but here we are. I guess I never thought of it like that, if every $5 lotto scratcher was guaranteed to win you $20 then every retailer would be buying thousands and just sit in the back scratching all day long.
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mossyfisk posted:I played against a kid at Modern FNM who had brought his Dinosaur deck obviously assembled out of cracking boosters. Happily told me about how one of his creatures was a 9/9. Lean into it https://twitter.com/RainbowHeavy/status/924501125541195782
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mossyfisk posted:I played against a kid at Modern FNM who had brought his Dinosaur deck obviously assembled out of cracking boosters. Happily told me about how one of his creatures was a 9/9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RkapfBYIfc
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AceClown posted:This to me is still the single most baffling thing that WotC does. the duel decks kind of make sense, they're about new customer acquisition. they don't want invested players to gently caress it up and drive up prices. They already have your money, it's not worth another 20$ if there's a risk of driving away fresh blood the gp thing is indefensible. we rented out a covention hall for 3 days in order to promote our products. should we make sure the venue actually has our product there? the brand new one that just got released? nah.
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I made my buddy's kid cry at an FNM years ago cause I was playing TurboFog. Didn't even bat an eye.
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Which distributor do you think is cracking product for singles? I'm dying to hear the answer to this.
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En Fuego posted:I made my buddy's kid cry at an FNM years ago cause I was playing TurboFog. Didn't even bat an eye. It's not the "doing it" that makes you an rear end in a top hat, it's the  Internet post about it.
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En Fuego posted:I made my buddy's kid cry at an FNM years ago cause I was playing TurboFog. Didn't even bat an eye. My dude
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little munchkin posted:the gp thing is indefensible. we rented out a covention hall for 3 days in order to promote our products. should we make sure the venue actually has our product there? the brand new one that just got released? nah. I understand distribution issues suck, but they has no plan in place to even attempt scheduled IM drafts much less On Demand flights. Due to the holidays I'm probably not going to be hitting up alnext FNM, and who knows how long locals will draft a $40/draft set.
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THE BLACK NINJA posted:It's not the "doing it" that makes you an rear end in a top hat, it's the It's called building character.
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En Fuego posted:I whooped a kid at something I'm better at with more money to spend on it. Taught that little poo poo a lesson.
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much more sporting to beat lower income adults with something you have more money to spend on
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