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Sickening posted:Shocks are free falling. I am still waiting for retro tombs, gravse, and vents to drop below 10 but I pulled the trigger on the others for 8-10 bucks. Time to reload on shocks I guess. Are the older arts falling as well? I guess modern is a lot about triomes now anyway
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So on a whim I bought a pair of collector boosters and got a foil retro shock. They're gorgeous. Dangerous for my "save money" plan.
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kalel posted:seems like promos for magic online happen every week at this point and it makes me extremely worried about the product's future. play rates must be rock bottom Except for those already deeply invested, I can't imagine anyone playing MTGO over Arena.
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Gynovore posted:Except for those already deeply invested, I can't imagine anyone playing MTGO over Arena. it has the good formats
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Gynovore posted:Except for those already deeply invested, I can't imagine anyone playing MTGO over Arena. What if I want to play any of the competitive paper formats?
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I'll save everyone the trouble of having to retype their opinions on the subject, feel free to requote yourselves.Captain Invictus posted:I watch almost every daily jim davis video at work, but MTGO videos are ones I cannot bear. it's just so...so bland, so barren. arena might try to gussy things up a bit too much at times, but the sound design, music, visuals, are all perfect for what it does. the sounds everything makes basically always fit perfectly, and adds a lot to the game imo. mtgo is just so loving basic, a relic of a bygone time. I'm sure they would have shuttered it ages ago if people didn't have so much tied up in it already. ilmucche posted:Weirdly I feel pretty much the exact opposite for the same reasons. Mtgo is simple and clean presentation, while arena packs in animations and sounds that are fun once or twice but quickly lose their appeal. Plus mtgo has the better formats on it. CharlieFoxtrot posted:MTGO videos are perfect for going to sleep to, especially when it's someone who doesn't use a facecam like BoshNRoll, minimal movement on screen and no flashes. HootTheOwl posted:Nah, arena is way worse. Weird Pumpkin posted:No rental programs either on Arena, that's probably the biggest negative overall even if that system is sorta dumb and expensive and self-inflicted by wotc. Though the real worst part of the wildcard system is that an actual good rare costs the same as extremely trashy junk rares, so there's not much fun in brewing unless you already have everything which is a shame because it would be pretty fun to brew up dumb ideas and play some ranked ladder with them Eight-Six posted:I basically don't disagree with any of the points made against arena, but I'm still gonna play it over MtG:O until something in me snaps and I decide to be a grinder. I love all the audio cues arena has, it provides a rhythm to the game and individual cards. edit: ok i guess i disagreed with the audio stuff. sidenote: i pity whoever makes the arena music, i have that permanently off Silhouette posted:re:arena sound effects - I miss when playing a gilded goose made a red-tailed hawk screech instead of a goose honk Judgy Fucker posted:Arena makes the crunch noise when my big boys slam into my opponent. Bigger boys, bigger crunches. That is a good thing about Arena  x2Time posted:Both programs are really good but offer different things. Arena has made my win% and elo on mtgo jump significantly so that was a great byproduct of learning to think more structurally about the game by drafting a lot. Legacy and modern challenges are too good to leave behind though. Rando Leagues on mtgo offer me nothing anymore unless it’s just a new deck to me kalel posted:
Captain Invictus posted:almost nothing has significant if any animations anymore. I'm kind of surprised they haven't quietly removed some of the shittier old animations like those you mentioned, honestly. Procrastinator posted:as a brawl player, the giant uro face still haunts me distortion park posted:I don't think I've heard any of the arena sound effects or music since the beta . I wish you could turn off animations too LifeLynx posted:It's criminal you can't adjust graphics settings on the phone. I have an S22 Ultra, and even on there Arena froze so often I'd lose out on guaranteed wins. It'd freeze, and the only fix was to force quit and restart, and by then I'd have roped and skipped a turn. big scary monsters posted:Good news, it regularly does that on desktop too.
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with these particularly. it looks like a game for babies. anyone who was around for throne of eldraine standard knows the agony of brazen borrowers and bonecrusher giants and questing beasts flying around and crashing the game
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I take it you want a dedicated MTGO thread Hoot?
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hoot just wants attention above anything else
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That post was cool and good and IMO anyone who didn't find it funny, or worse reports it should put me on ignore
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All posters know there's nothing more gauche than upvoting your own posts
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I stand by it
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HootTheOwl posted:I'll save everyone the trouble of having to retype their opinions on the subject, feel free to requote yourselves. Honestly, great idea. It's been argued as nauseum (lol) a billion times. There's nothing else for anyone to take away. MTGO isn't perfect but it's better than it has been for a long rear end time, and I would encourage anyone interested in playing eternal formats to look into it. fadam fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Jan 14, 2024 |
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Tezzeract posted:I ended up dropping 5$ into MTGO but I'm at a bit of of a loss at how to get games and take advantage of the all access. Any tips? Penny dreadful you can play with the manatraders free accounts. Just borrow your whole deck with their 5 dollar credit and get to leagues and tournaments
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HootTheOwl posted:I'll save everyone the trouble of having to retype their opinions on the subject, feel free to requote yourselves. Actually p useful as a post considering we discussed it pretty recently
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Are those GoatBots event calculators pretty realistic? https://www.goatbots.com/event-calculator I'm not good enough to go infinite in Arena draft and I need to re-up on gems, but I'm considering switching to MTGO. I've played MTGO before so I'm familiar with the client and I understand I'll be up against more skilled players. Even if my WR is absolute trash at 33%, looks like I should expect to lose only 6 tix per friendly sealed league? That's not bad at all for 6 BO3 limited matches. Looks like a big part of the secret is to buy packs from bots and use those to enter instead of paying with tickets directly
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One big caveat on that: it looks like it's valuing play points at 0.1 tix each, which is not accurate if you're only going to use them to enter more sealed events. If you use the advanced options to value them at 0.08 (so 240 is 19.2 tix, same as the tix+packs entry option), you might get a more accurate EV. Also a pretty substantial amount of that EV comes from the (low) odds of getting a really strong record and a huge payout - which often correlates with opening good (and thus expensive) cards in your packs. So things can be pretty spikey, it's not going to be a consistent loss per event.
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2024 US Republican Primary Prediction
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AlternateNu posted:2024 US Republican Primary Prediction You okay op?
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Sickening posted:You okay op? I'm am drunk watching AGDQ and life is good.
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AlternateNu posted:2024 US Republican Primary Prediction I didn't realize ixilan was so small.
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What's the best LOW EFFORT thing to do with boosters I win from stores that don't give store credit as prizes? Crack them and sell them back to the store for credit?
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feelix posted:What's the best LOW EFFORT thing to do with boosters I win from stores that don't give store credit as prizes? Crack them and sell them back to the store for credit?
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feelix posted:What's the best LOW EFFORT thing to do with boosters I win from stores that don't give store credit as prizes? Crack them and sell them back to the store for credit? Sell them back for store credit
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Yoked posted:Sheoldred isn’t just a Standard staple. It’s played in basically every paper format right now. Not defending WotC and prices but this is probably pretty rare for a standard set card. Yeah, I know, but still. A card that's still in Standard should not cost so drat much. Hell, I'll even say cards above $30 are absolutely absurd for being currently in print for Standard. I used to not really flinch at that but nowadays, drat.
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Framboise posted:Yeah, I know, but still. A card that's still in Standard should not cost so drat much. The five carda that are this much are Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Agatha's Soul Cauldron, Boseiju, who Endures, Cavern of Souls, and Mondrak, Glory Dominus. Sheoldred, Boseiju, and Cavern of Souls are multi-format all-stars, and Mondrak and Soul Cauldron have massive casual appeal for mythic rares. It's pretty explicable at least.
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AlternateNu posted:2024 US Republican Primary Prediction God I made that so drat long ago but was thinking of it just the other day. Jeb truly is eternal.
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I hung out last night with some guys I hadn’t seen in a while who are all prepping for a cedh tournament coming up and got some reps in, and folks, it’s kind of awesome? Played a storm deck, LD, naya 2023 OP cards you’ve never heard of (so many…), paradox engine, pod even. There was lots more variety too, powerful cards, singleton makes it interesting. Idk I’m kind of hooked.
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Nighthand posted:God I made that so drat long ago but was thinking of it just the other day. Jeb truly is eternal. I remember. I'm the one who asked for it. 
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:I hung out last night with some guys I hadn’t seen in a while who are all prepping for a cedh tournament coming up and got some reps in, and folks, it’s kind of awesome? Paradox Engine is banned though.
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Aphrodite posted:Paradox Engine is banned though. skill issue
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Sickening posted:The most low effort thing to do is just trade them for cards you want from other players. It rarely happens because I think its rare for people to not compulsively open them , but I have seen that it can be pretty easy to trade them for cards you desire at some % of their cost. I only play limited
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feelix posted:I only play limited The use them to draft with friends
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YggdrasilTM posted:The use them to draft with friends I don't have friends
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feelix posted:I don't have friends Ask the store if they let you use your boosters in the next limited events and scale their price down from the events admission fee. YggdrasilTM fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Learn how to throw them hard and start cosplaying Gambit.
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:I hung out last night with some guys I hadn’t seen in a while who are all prepping for a cedh tournament coming up and got some reps in, and folks, it’s kind of awesome? How often does the player going fourth win in cEDH?
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Aphrodite posted:Learn how to throw them hard and start cosplaying Gambit. Win a cosplay contest for cash and buy more limited entries. Congrats u just went infinite
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HootTheOwl posted:So on a whim I bought a pair of collector boosters and got a foil retro shock. This is going to be my problem. I really want as many old border shocks as I can get, and foil is just a bonus.
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