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I feel like the inference that one out of every X cases is a “dud” implies that WotC is purposely sandbagging mythics from shipments to distributors and seems like an obvious case of confirmation bias, but hey, I’m just a simple dog walker
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Aug 28, 2020 14:21
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Paul Zuvella posted:Jesus christ just go to a casino If the casino is too far away, put on your Oakleys, walk to your local convenience store and buy some scratchers and a Monster energy.
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Aug 28, 2020 14:21
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don't mind the negative posters man, they're just jealous they don't have those cards, or $4000 at their disposal. the stuff you opened is pretty cool. i too am a thousandeer, and i bought one vip booster and got a foil mana crypt (not the alt art unfortunately). i had the inclination to order another one, but i am pretty reserved and level-headed, so i didn't indulge any further
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Aug 28, 2020 15:04
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Mox Hombre posted:i too am a thousandeer *readies my guillotine*
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Aug 28, 2020 15:07
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Captain Invictus posted:I've made most of what I dropped on my initial reentry into magic back($1500 out of $2000) thank you for explaining the concept of scratch-offs to us
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Aug 28, 2020 15:14
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Captain Invictus posted:I've made most of what I dropped on my initial reentry into magic back($1500 out of $2000), and I still have quite a bit left to sell, plus a significant pile for my own collection now so that I have some variety, so decided to take a chance on these and sell any big ticket stuff. I've watched a fair number of VIP opening videos and there's a fairly reliable pattern, in 12-16 packs, there'll be a case of duds and then the rest generally make up for it. Turns out that's pretty much it, each of the factory boxes of cases would have one subpar case and a few subpar packs, and then some ridiculously good packs balance it out, so I decided to go in on bulk and see if it held true, and it did. Initially, I was going to hold onto a couple cases of them sealed to sell later, but with the reveal of how simple it is to open the packs by heating up the glue, check if the card pack has anything good(because the pouch they're in is loose so you can easily see everything in there), and then reseal it without visible damage, I decided to just open them now since there's a pervading stigma already that you can't trust individual sealed packs. Congrats at helping the problem more
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Aug 28, 2020 15:14
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You betcha!
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Aug 28, 2020 15:17
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maro standing in the control room at the magic factory and laughing maniacally as he pulls the ACTIVATE DUD lever over and over
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Aug 28, 2020 15:17
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like zero hard feelings against you personally invictus but as someone who hasn't had an income since, uh, last october this is the sort of topic that makes me wish there was a separate thread for mtg finance and thousand-dollar purchases
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Aug 28, 2020 15:19
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https://twitter.com/yoman_5/status/1299102505268375552?s=21 This thread is kind of eye opening, but at the very least cements my opinion that HotC is loving trash. $25 for an article? Why not just offer them Catfood? Jesus Christ what a racket. Also kind of funny in the very first post we see a guy making $100 for a 1,200 word min. article and a woman making $70 for 1,400 min. article from the same publisher (who is also the biggest magic retailer probably on Earth and can certainly afford to pay her the extra $30 an article)
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Aug 28, 2020 15:21
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flatluigi posted:like zero hard feelings against you personally invictus but as someone who hasn't had an income since, uh, last october this is the sort of topic that makes me wish there was a separate thread for mtg finance and thousand-dollar purchases I can't even play until I get a covid vaccine anyways, so I'm just collecting, flipping, and rebuilding my collection in the meantime. Coworker of mine wants to get me up to speed on the game as it is now with some practice matches, but again, I'm not doing any of that poo poo until there's a reliable vaccine available. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Aug 28, 2020 |
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Aug 28, 2020 15:25
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Captain Invictus posted:I'm new to the current trading scene, so someone more familiar probably should make it. I didn't mean to gloat or rub it in your face FL, was just posting what I got from what I bought, and my thoughts on the vip boxes. Have you considered playing around with a simulator like Cockatrice?
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Aug 28, 2020 15:27
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Just play Arena, it’s good. If you’ve got the cash to burn on all this paper product consider just dumping $100 into Arena and bam you can be playing limited, Standard, Historic, and Brawl by the end of the day. If you’re waiting for a Vaccine that means you won’t be playing paper games until X-Mas 2021 at the absolute earliest
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TheKingofSprings posted:Have you considered playing around with a simulator like Cockatrice?
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Aug 28, 2020 15:30
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Captain Invictus posted:I might, but I've almost never been able to get into virtual card games. The only version I could stand was Shandalar, which was bare-as-loving-bones basic and the draw for me was the mixture of multiple game styles with the magic battle system. There's a mod out there that puts cards up to... Kaladesh, I think? into Shandalar.
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Aug 28, 2020 15:35
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Framboise posted:There's a mod out there that puts cards up to... Kaladesh, I think? into Shandalar.
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Aug 28, 2020 15:37
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Bust Rodd posted:https://twitter.com/yoman_5/status/1299102505268375552?s=21 Freelance writing is a cesspool like this regardless of whatever topic is being written about, it is absolutely hosed up and companies will blackball you if you talk about it openly EVER because any sort of transparency would completely upend just about every aspect of publishing and/or content creation.
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Aug 28, 2020 15:40
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Hey Invictus if you opened any foil Ensnaring Bridges in your bacchanal I'm in the market for two of those, get at me.
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Aug 28, 2020 15:50
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C-Euro posted:Hey Invictus if you opened any foil Ensnaring Bridges in your bacchanal I'm in the market for two of those, get at me. Similar to this, I've got a home for a couple of those box topper Crop Rotations if they're available.
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Aug 28, 2020 15:53
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C-Euro posted:Hey Invictus if you opened any foil Ensnaring Bridges in your bacchanal I'm in the market for two of those, get at me.
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Aug 28, 2020 15:55
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C-Euro posted:Hey Invictus if you opened any foil Ensnaring Bridges in your bacchanal I'm in the market for two of those, get at me. This guy gets it! The rest of you clearly never bought keys/TF2 goods from your boy back in the day. Dude just came pre loaded with Flip.exe at birth. I have never seen them do anything but shoot a goon 100% straight 100% of the time
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Aug 28, 2020 16:01
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How can you be upset with anybody cracking sealed product? It's legitimately lowering singles prices on aggregate. C. Invictus is providing a straight up service. Getting upset with people trying to buy out some ancient reserve list edh and legacy staple, sure, get upset there.
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Aug 28, 2020 16:16
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AngryBooch posted:How can you be upset with anybody cracking sealed product? It's legitimately lowering singles prices on aggregate. C. Invictus is providing a straight up service. Getting upset with people trying to buy out some ancient reserve list edh and legacy staple, sure, get upset there. Whale products are very bad for the game
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Aug 28, 2020 16:23
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fatherboxx posted:Whale products are very bad for the game Are they? I don’t see how. I have no interest in buying any sealed product ever but I think it’s cool that there are new alt-arts of existing cards.
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Aug 28, 2020 16:29
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fatherboxx posted:Whale products are very bad for the game This is only true if the function of the whale cards are exclusive to those products. How would selling an Arena pet for $500 or a special full art super foil Uro for $500 negatively affect the game?
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Aug 28, 2020 16:32
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Remember Nexus of Fate? That just happened last year. Also Kenrith. Or hell, even Korvold! These are all tournament level cards that you could only get by whaling. They keep doing it. What are you gonna do when the Uro of Zendikar is a box topper only?
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Aug 28, 2020 16:35
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LeafHouse posted:This is only true if the function of the whale cards are exclusive to those products. How would selling an Arena pet for $500 or a special full art super foil Uro for $500 negatively affect the game? Because I want it but I blew all my money on scratchers  Bust Rodd posted:Remember Nexus of Fate? That just happened last year. Those are incredibly different situations, but even so I thought the math worked out such that those cards technically more available than the average Mythic. I’m not a mtg finance expert but the most I saw Nexus go for was like 40 bucks, which in a vacuum is nuts, but seems par for the course for that kind of card looking through the lens of this card game none of us are forced to play or interact with 🤔 fadam fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Aug 28, 2020 |
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Aug 28, 2020 16:36
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Mat Cauthon posted:Freelance writing is a cesspool like this regardless of whatever topic is being written about, it is absolutely hosed up and companies will blackball you if you talk about it openly EVER because any sort of transparency would completely upend just about every aspect of publishing and/or content creation. Yoman makes pretty reasonable money for the amount of work that goes into his articles
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Aug 28, 2020 16:37
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fadam posted:Are they? I don’t see how. I have no interest in buying any sealed product ever but I think it’s cool that there are new alt-arts of existing cards. VIP whale products are fine. The VIP edition of Double Masters is fine. The price is restrictively high to the point that anyone buying it (I hope) will have done enough research to know what they're getting into. The problem is when Double Masters, the base edition, is a whale product in and of itself and is made to be overpriced for no real good reason, limiting its ability drive down prices. Bust Rodd posted:Remember Nexus of Fate? That just happened last year. I'd agree except at one part-- Kenriths are so plentiful that even now grabbing one is pretty inexpensive. I think I snagged a foil one for like $3.
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Aug 28, 2020 16:39
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fadam posted:Are they? I don’t see how. I have no interest in buying any sealed product ever but I think it’s cool that there are new alt-arts of existing cards. if this was the only way to get it, that would be a problem, but it's also readily available in the normal double masters(which is admittedly terribly overpriced itself) and the normal version is significantly cheaper than the fancy VIP foil version. I think having the collector/special boxes is a neat idea but I also think they're far too expensive for what you get, especially considering at least up until the core 2021 collector boxes there was still the issue with cards getting roller marks on them from the pack being sealed up. that poo poo should not happen with a premium product. AngryBooch posted:Getting upset with people trying to buy out some ancient reserve list edh and legacy staple, sure, get upset there. Apparently it's also happening to Amonkhet, I had the booster box listing on amazon wishlisted at 140 and it just loving vanished alongside every other amonkhet listing basically overnight, and now the boxes are pushing 200 on ebay. Would there be any reason for the sudden spike in interest in Amonkhet?
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Framboise posted:VIP whale products are fine. The VIP edition of Double Masters is fine. The price is restrictively high to the point that anyone buying it (I hope) will have done enough research to know what they're getting into. It’s not making prices go up though, right? So isn’t it just neutral? If you don’t want to play it or open sealed product, just ignore it and pretend like it doesn’t exist.
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Aug 28, 2020 16:42
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Bust Rodd posted:Remember Nexus of Fate? That just happened last year. I’m very much against unique cards as box toppers but also I wouldn’t really consider buying a regular booster box or brawl deck ‘whaling.’ A collectors one, sure.
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Aug 28, 2020 16:45
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Sampatrick posted:Yoman makes pretty reasonable money for the amount of work that goes into his articles $100 for 1200 words sounds like complete garbage wtf
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Aug 28, 2020 16:48
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If I had $4,000 to spend on magic the gathering cards I would end up putting a lot more singles in to the market by buying double masters booster boxes than I would by buying VIP booster boxes, and the singles I would be putting in to the market would mostly be the least expensive form of the single available, making the game overall more affordable. I don't have a problem with someone buying these VIP booster boxes because buying and opening any sealed product is better than mtgfinance garbage, but it's objectively worse for the average player than cracking regular boosters.
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Aug 28, 2020 16:59
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I've done freelance writing for actual professional journals, and the standard is $1/word for an 800-1200 word article. Granted that involved several reference interviews and a lengthy edit process, which is considerably more work than mtg commentary writing. But $50 for 1k words is shameful.
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Aug 28, 2020 17:02
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Sampatrick posted:Yoman makes pretty reasonable money for the amount of work that goes into his articles Yeah it's possible to make decent money freelancing but the vast majority people are getting scammed for sure. Eej posted:$100 for 1200 words sounds like complete garbage wtf That is actually an above average rate. Most places will pay you $50 for 1200 words. Or less!
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:maro standing in the control room at the magic factory and laughing maniacally as he pulls the ACTIVATE DUD lever over and over 
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Eej posted:$100 for 1200 words sounds like complete garbage wtf Yeah I mean I'm not sure what else I can compare it to but generally for sports and entertainment writers, anything less than $250 an article is genuine slap in the face. Writing out a researched meta-game article or budget analysis of a deck is time consuming, and the actual labor of writing and editing it takes time. The people at Kotaku or Polygon are probably making $300 an article, and the bigger names can pull $500. $600 would be impossible unless it was like Jason Schrier, who could ask anyone for anything and they would give it to them.
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