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Is posting Archive.org links allowed? I found one of Inquest from the month Exodus was released because I thought I remembered LED being bulk for a long time. Edit: just thought it'd be best to ask first, it is still technically copyrighted material. Leperflesh posted:because it's a link to a scan of a copyrighted work Honestly not that important, just an interesting nostalgia trip. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Dec 16, 2022 |
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why would that ever not be allowed
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because it's a link to a scan of a copyrighted work Is this available from Wizards in any form? e. I have no idea what the legality is of the internet archive, honestly it feels like it should be fine because they seem to get away with making copies of everything... but I do not know, and my default position has to be not to link to stuff like that, because that's the mandate from upon high. If it's actually important I can ask for a ruling. e. I've done a little reading and it looks to me like if you link to a library listing on archive you're probably in the clear, but if you link to some random archived URL that happens to be someone's scan of a thing, they don't guarantee at all that that's kosher. So,  it seems to me like that magazine probably falls under our general don't-link-it policy, since the publisher (wizards) is still in business/it's not "abandonware" level of stuff. I am sorry. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Dec 16, 2022 |
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Dec 16, 2022 01:46
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LGD posted:LED spent a significant amount of its existence as a bulk rare with no meaningful constructed applications, it didn't really come into its own until the mid 2000's (which is now ancient history ofc but there was still like a full decade between Mirage and Dissension)
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Is posting Archive.org links allowed? I found one of Inquest from the month Exodus was released because I thought I remembered LED being bulk for a long time. We've been linking those in the thread without issue for at least a decade now.
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Leperflesh posted:because it's a link to a scan of a copyrighted work Wizard is defunct. They stop publishing media years ago and they shuttered their last convention last year. They were delisted from the financial markets, all their websites are down, and they have no assets.
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i'm actually shocked that wizards didn't try to sell NFTs. maybe that is coming though.
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Toshimo posted:LED and Necropotence we're both maligned in Scryfall/Inquest as garbage for years and that got parroted by dumbs for twice as long. Did people just never think to crack LED with a spell on the stack or something? If you never thought about that honestly I can totally imagine someone looking at it and thinking it's useless trash. You gotta discard your whole hand? For three mana? Pshhh
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Weird Pumpkin posted:Did people just never think to crack LED with a spell on the stack or something? The problem was that for a while there wasn't really anything powerful to do after that point. Sure you could set up something on the top of your deck with brainstorm and then cast a draw spell and crack LED with it on the stack but that didn't accomplish much. Even bomberman combo wasn't a useful enabler of anything. Infinite mana with 0 cards in your hand doesn't do much unless you had very specific cards on the board already, and fragile 3+ card combos have almost always sucked especially in formats where control is very prevalent like old Type 1.
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Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:The problem was that for a while there wasn't really anything powerful to do after that point. Sure you could set up something on the top of your deck with brainstorm and then cast a draw spell and crack LED with it on the stack but that didn't accomplish much. Oh that's true yeah, I guess without a draw engine like Ad Nauseum (or the more powerful ones I suppose) you just sort of end up with nothing to do with the mana
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mcmagic posted:i'm actually shocked that wizards didn't try to sell NFTs. maybe that is coming though. NFTs are trying to be what cards already were, so why would they?
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I mean even now LED is just a combo piece, it's not a generally strong card
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I remember that Inquest and they weren't wrong. It wasn't until many many many years later LED was anything other than a bulk rare
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Couch Life posted:Last Jace card was Mirror Mage in ZNR, right? Been a few years then. The last eternal legal Jace card is, sadly, SPACE BELEREN from the unset
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Couch Life posted:Last Jace card was Mirror Mage in ZNR, right? Been a few years then. The original Gatewatch planeswalkers were barely present after the WotS (none of them appear in ELD, THB, IKO, KHM, AFR, MID, NEO, SNC, and BRO). People didn't like them as much as they thought, so they took the focus away from them.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:NFTs are trying to be what cards already were, so why would they? 
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:NFTs are trying to be what cards already were, so why would they? Because one of these things is a gamepiece in a game and the other isn't.
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flatluigi posted:yeah there's a lot of cards like that that weren't really seen as entirely busted until more cards came later. i'm sure fuckin lion's eye diamond seemed reasonable once I definetly cracked at least one LED in middle school and was extremely pissed it wasn’t a Hammer of Bogardon
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Has anyone else been dinking around with Explorer post EA2? If you play a deck that at least goes even against Mono G it's a lot of fun. I find the Mono-W vs Rakdos/Mono-G/Greasefang matchups to be really rewarding and interesting which sort of makes up for the lack of diversity.
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fadam posted:Has anyone else been dinking around with Explorer post EA2? If you play a deck that at least goes even against Mono G it's a lot of fun. I find the Mono-W vs Rakdos/Mono-G/Greasefang matchups to be really rewarding and interesting which sort of makes up for the lack of diversity. What's your mono-W list? I've been sticking with Gruul Vehicles mostly but feel like I'm ready to change things up a little bit.
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fadam posted:Has anyone else been dinking around with Explorer post EA2? If you play a deck that at least goes even against Mono G it's a lot of fun. I find the Mono-W vs Rakdos/Mono-G/Greasefang matchups to be really rewarding and interesting which sort of makes up for the lack of diversity. I’ve been playing 4c pyre of heroes and it’s surprisingly good and fun Mezzanon fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Dec 17, 2022 |
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Mat Cauthon posted:What's your mono-W list? I've been sticking with Gruul Vehicles mostly but feel like I'm ready to change things up a little bit. RG Vehicles is a sick deck, I just hate it into Mono G and that’s like 75% of my games. I just popped out so I don’t have a list, but it’s basically whatever you can find on Goldfish with an extra 2/1 guy to sub for baby Gideon and my sideboard has four pieces of instant speed removal to hedge against Greasefang. Mezzanon posted:I’ve been playing 4c pure of heroes and it’s surprisingly good and fun Is that a autocorrect for fires, incarnation, or both lol? In either case I think that deck is so rad but it’s way too fiddly for me. That 3 CMC mass o-ring is an insane card.
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That should by pyre of heroes? Something like this: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/pioneer-4c-humans#paper
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Mezzanon, you crazy.
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Bugsy posted:That should by pyre of heroes? Close but mine has no green. Still 4c though. fadam posted:Mezzanon, you crazy. Deck is extremely fun to play. Just waiting for bloodsoaked champion to be printed on arena to replace these arch fiends vessels Mezzanon fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Dec 17, 2022 |
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I am trying UW humans right now because I want to cast Reflector Mage.
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its kinda weird, I've been watching a lot of streamers and there's MUCH less mono-g at high ranks than there is in like, gold. I guess find a deck that does well and climb past all the idiots who just pick it to get free wins sometimes
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A Moose posted:its kinda weird, I've been watching a lot of streamers and there's MUCH less mono-g at high ranks than there is in like, gold. I guess find a deck that does well and climb past all the idiots who just pick it to get free wins sometimes This hasn't been my experience trying to get out of Diamond yesterday and today. It's the sweatiest rank and everyone is on G devotion lol. I'm pretty sure it is the best deck by a sliver over Mono W and RB. EDIT: Speaking of, god bless the back half of Reidane. Absolute mirror buster  First mono W mirror I've played since the EA drop. The deck is insanely gas, and playing something that's relatively immune to Thoughtseize rocks. I think my on the draw winrate has to be awful tho lol. fadam fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Dec 17, 2022 |
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A Moose posted:its kinda weird, I've been watching a lot of streamers and there's MUCH less mono-g at high ranks than there is in like, gold. I guess find a deck that does well and climb past all the idiots who just pick it to get free wins sometimes Mono G isn't that great. I was pretty unimpressed with it especially in BO1 where it just loses to a ton of decks on the draw.
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mcmagic posted:Mono G isn't that great. I was pretty unimpressed with it especially in BO1 where it just loses to a ton of decks on the draw. Could not disagree more, but you couldn't pay me to play Bo1. IDK when the next Explorer* tournament is but I'm interested to see what gets played. The meta at the last one was all weird compared to Pioneer because the mono W and G decks were missing important pieces. fadam fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Dec 17, 2022 |
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fadam posted:Could not disagree more, but you couldn't pay me to play Bo1. IDK when the next Explorer* tournament is but I'm interested to see what gets played. The meta at the last one was all weird compared to Historic because the mono W and G decks were missing important pieces. Do you mean compared to Pioneer? Because Historic is NOTHING like Explorer.
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mcmagic posted:Do you mean compared to Pioneer? Because Historic is NOTHING like Explorer. I got my fake digital only formats confused.
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fadam posted:I got my fake digital only formats confused. TBH Mono G in Pioneer is also a tad overrated. It's usually the biggest or second biggest meta share at big tournaments and has a pretty terrible win rate against the field.
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mcmagic posted:TBH Mono G in Pioneer is also a tad overrated. It's usually the biggest or second biggest meta share at big tournaments and has a pretty terrible win rate against the field. It might be overrated (I don't think so) but I think it's match up spread is totally fine. Recent events have been kind of weird with Lotus combo coming back from out of nowhere, but Mono G still consistently makes it to top tables. If I was going to a Pioneer tournament tomorrow I'd play it I think.
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fadam posted:It might be overrated (I don't think so) but I think it's match up spread is totally fine. Recent events have been kind of weird with Lotus combo coming back from out of nowhere, but Mono G still consistently makes it to top tables. If I was going to a Pioneer tournament tomorrow I'd play it I think. It's a fine deck to play, it's just not Tier 0 like people thought it was a month or so ago.
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mcmagic posted:It's a fine deck to play, it's just not Tier 0 like people thought it was a month or so ago. Yeah, I think it's probably on balance better than Mono W or RB or Lotus, but I don't think it's miles better. I think until the rest of Phoenix comes to Arena or everyone jumps ship to Mono W it's the deck to be playing if you can stomach the mirror. fadam fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Dec 17, 2022 |
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it only took until urza's saga came out for people to start taking led seriously in (non-vintage) decks
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amazon is dumping again, some stuff is already sold out(crimson vow booster boxes were 60 bucks) but stuff like crimson vow collector boxes at 115 and dominaria united collector boxes at 154 are still active, as well as strixhaven and new capenna draft boxes for cheap. also some commander decks being truly dumped for 40-60% off https://smile.amazon.com/stores/page/34E30745-6BA8-4E8B-9B17-34078791329B
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big cummers ONLY posted:Cubamajigs are great. I have 25 packs of Jumpstart 2020 sleeved up and cubamajigged. Each one is juuuust barely big enough to hold twenty sleeved cards and the title card thingy. I made an order right after this post. The only shipping options were “2 day / expensive” or “1 day / stupidly expensive” so I figured I’d be getting stuff fairly soon. Is it normal for them to just sit on an order for a week with no updates?
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generatrix posted:I made an order right after this post. The only shipping options were “2 day / expensive” or “1 day / stupidly expensive” so I figured I’d be getting stuff fairly soon. I haven't ordered from them yet, but things are really rough with shipping at the moment. My MPC order never said it shipped and then just arrived out of the blue one day. My Card Kingdom order also never said it shipped and it just arrived yesterday.
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