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They started splashing blue even before Reflector Mage. There's not really a cost do doing so since the way the fetches line up means they will be incidentally finding blue sources in order to get black, and a Disdainful Stroke is a great way to stop an enemy from dropping their haymaker/wrath to stabilize. The big swing in tempo and board presence from Reflector Mage was a natural addition from there. Voyager I fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Mar 1, 2016 01:00
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Bugsy posted:Reprinted in Ice Age. And Mirrodin. And ninth and tenth edition.
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Mar 1, 2016 01:01
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Pussy Snorkel posted:That was you! Yup! I remembered that it was a goon link after it arrived, and I wanted to let you know that it came through. Unless you're the same person who I've been Facebooking with, in which case... thanks again!
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GeneX posted:I love reflector mage It might be the best creature in standard.
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Mar 1, 2016 01:26
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Entropic posted:I wish I still had my old copies of Inquest magazine. The card price lists from 1994/1995 would be interesting reading now. I have the second issue of The Duelist Magazine, and in the back is a list of the term most expensive Magic cards and their prices. It's weird seeing how cheap a Black Lotus was, but even weirder when you consider it's probably the last time Wizards admitted that their cards have a specific monetary value on the secondary market.
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Mar 1, 2016 01:33
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Someone I know has an Unlimited Mox Pearl and still has the sleeve with the $10 sticker on it.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Yup! I remembered that it was a goon link after it arrived, and I wanted to let you know that it came through. Unless you're the same person who I've been Facebooking with, in which case... thanks again! That's me. That's my secret identity, don't tell.
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Star Man posted:Someone I know has an Unlimited Mox Pearl and still has the sleeve with the $10 sticker on it. That's sending a message.
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Count Bleck posted:And Mirrodin. Those sets didn't exist in 1997.
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So what are the money cards in FTV: Vorthos gonna be? Seems like as good a place as any to reprint Liliana of the Veil.
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Entropic posted:So what are the money cards in FTV: Vorthos gonna be? Seems like as good a place as any to reprint Liliana of the Veil. FTV: Good cards and then Momir Vig sounds like a good thing.
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I totally get the whole "the game is supposed to be expansive and you'll encounter new and exciting cards for the first time" thing because I still remember how totally loving awesome it was seeing cosmic horror in a card shop on vacation. I also remember cracking a Taiga in a starter deck, feeling totally bummed out and ignoring all advice about how they were actually good cards. Other embarrassing things I did: Opening a Polar Kraken, being unable to comprehend how I got so lucky to open such an amazing creature and then calling a friend who didn't believe that it was an 11/11. Convincing my cousin to "merge collections" with me so that I could have his Sengir Vampire. Feeling totally smug that I had $1000 in magic cards in my locker, despite them actually being the chronicle reprints priced as the original printings.
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Entropic posted:So what are the money cards in FTV: Vorthos gonna be? Seems like as good a place as any to reprint Liliana of the Veil. If Jace the Mind Sculptor taught WOTC anything, its don't put anything that valuable in it.
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Voyager I posted:They started splashing blue even before Reflector Mage. There's not really a cost do doing so since the way the fetches line up means they will be incidentally finding blue sources in order to get black, and a Disdainful Stroke is a great way to stop an enemy from dropping their haymaker/wrath to stabilize. This is the weird thing about this standard, its actually more consistent to run four colours because of the intereaction between fetches and tangos. If you try to run say Abzan, you have access to 12 or more fetches, but many of them end up only hitting one colour. Run Prairie Streams and Sunken Hallows rather than just Canopy Vistas and suddenly your Flooded Strands can get you White, Green, Black or Blue. Deltas can get you White, Black and Blue, and your Heaths can get you Green White and Blue. Which is way better than trying to run Deltas and Strands that can only get you Black and White respectively.
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Waxmane Baku is bugged online. It doesn't need Ki counters, so it's a 2/2 for 2W with the ability "1, tap any number of creatures". LSV's opponent just abused that bug to tap four creatures for one mana. Repeatable. Waxmane is a card that was printed less than a year ago in MM2015. It is also broken with that printing. Hellsau fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Mar 1, 2016 07:11
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Hellsau posted:Waxmane Baku is bugged online. It doesn't need Ki counters, so it's a 2/2 for 2W with the ability "1, tap any number of creatures". Then LSV shamed him into stopping. Dude's still getting super banned though. Especially considering the guy he played in the last round is in chat saying he lost the last round to the same guy abusing the bug.
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suicidesteve posted:Then LSV shamed him into stopping. If the dude didn't abuse that bug, or abused it to the maximum, the result would have still been the same. LSV ended up using double Frostling to finish it off. If the opponent stopped trying to scum matches and focused on their play, they wouldn't have Ninjitsued their Okiba-Gang Shinobi after combat damage and walked away from the computer in shame, making LSV wait ten minutes AND get reported for the end of battle AFK.
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So, the website for GP Manchester (UK) is up and the price confuses me a lot. It's £50 ($70) for the lowest registration, what the hell? I did a sealed GP around a year ago that was less than this and that include 6 boosters and some nice freebies, this has gently caress all apart from the mat and promo. The two additional tiers (The highest costing over $130!) just include a sleep-in thing for byes and some vouchers and poo poo. Are GPs going to be this price across the board or is this just an anomaly? That being said, we rarely get GPs and you get a promo stoneforge mystic. I'm still kind of tempted, but much less motivated now.
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PleasantDirge posted:Nobody ever wanted to trade their chromium at dream wizards and nobody ever sold one to the store so I was lucky enough to randomly find one in North Carolina while visiting my grandparents and bought it as soon as I saw it in the binder, like I pulled the card out and closed the binder because I couldn't believe how lucky I was. Spicy Manipulator is still one of my favorite cards ever. I have my original one I packed in an unlimited booster sitting in my " don't trade these" binders. As generic as it is I always loved the art too. The ice age art was trash. I have a bunch of ice age spicy's sitting in the "trade this poo poo" binder.
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Samael posted:So, the website for GP Manchester (UK) is up and the price confuses me a lot. It's £50 ($70) for the lowest registration, what the hell? I did a sealed GP around a year ago that was less than this and that include 6 boosters and some nice freebies, this has gently caress all apart from the mat and promo. The two additional tiers (The highest costing over $130!) just include a sleep-in thing for byes and some vouchers and poo poo. Are GPs going to be this price across the board or is this just an anomaly? They have no incentive to make them any cheaper. GP Detroit is $65 and it is being organized by a zero-effort organizer who is offering little incentive to sign up.
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dragon enthusiast posted:Time for viral marketing bs yay This isn't viral marketing
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 Brain in a Jar, Rare 2 Artifact 1,t: Put a charge counter on ~. You may cast an instant or sorcery card from your hand with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on ~. 3, t, Remove X charge counters from ~: scry X.
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Cool design for a junk rare.
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So it's vial for spells that costs mana and you can't just stop at a certain cost. You have to keep going. I suspect it preorder for like 15 because people don't understand what makes cards good besides looking like other cards that are good.
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Mar 1, 2016 14:55
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Another weird rare with incidental scrying
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You can take a turn off to reset it to whatever cost you want with the second ability, so it's not totally hopeless on that front. But it looks much too slow for Modern and back, and it being usable in Standard seems like it would be reliant on the format having multiple good one drop spells, which is about as likely as Wizards deciding to hand out Black Lotuses at the prerelease. Maybe some durdly all spells EDH deck wants it? Sleep of Bronze fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Attorney at Funk posted:
It feels like they tried to make an Aethervial for spells that wasn't broken.....hmm well they succeeded, I hope it ends up being playable, but that seems incredibly unlikely given how mana intensive this thing is. In fact, it doesn't even make the spell uncounterable like Vial does, so it seems even more unlikely to see play. It is really neat though.
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I found an album of scans of the November 1995 issue of Inquest Magazine! Holy poo poo this takes me back.  Alpha Lotus will run you $250 to $350. This seemed absurdly expensive for a piece of cardboard at the time.   Fork was a chase rare and over $20 for a Revised version. Revised duels were $10-$20. Gaea's Liege was a sought-after $10 rare. Serra Angel was $5-$8  Even in 1995 nothing in Fallen Empires was worth poo poo. And it was the most over-printed set they'd done. You can see the problem.  Chronicles actually had some cards still holding onto their artificially high value for a while even though that set was printed almost as much as Fallen Empires. It wouldn't last. This was when Inquest printed a list of prices for every single magic card that existed every month, since there were so few sets. It's fun to look at the rest of the magazine too, to see what was going on at the time, and for the glimpses at other long-defunct CCG that were trying to ride the MTG wave at the time.   full album here: http://imgur.com/a/srdRT
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Attorney at Funk posted:1,t: Put a charge counter on ~. You may cast an instant or sorcery card from your hand with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on ~.
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Mar 1, 2016 15:22
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Nice scans. I remember a friend showing me these magazines he had from back then. He also gave me a player's guide published some time in 1995 that had all sorts of sweet tips and tricks about making decks. Entropic posted:Alpha Lotus will run you $250 to $350. This seemed absurdly expensive for a piece of cardboard at the time.
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suicidesteve posted:Then LSV shamed him into stopping. Abusing a bug in MTGO's programming is a bannable offense?
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Mar 1, 2016 15:28
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The most interesting thing to me about that card is it's the first time we've seen charge counters in an expert expansion since Scars of Mirrodin. Possible artifact theme, or seeding for an artifact theme in the fall? Could just be a goofy one-off, though it's more fun to speculate than it is to imagine Izzet EDH decks.
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Attorney at Funk posted:The most interesting thing to me about that card is it's the first time we've seen charge counters in an expert expansion since Scars of Mirrodin. Possible artifact theme, or seeding for an artifact theme in the fall? Could just be a goofy one-off, though it's more fun to speculate than it is to imagine Izzet EDH decks. There has been Astral Cornucopia in Born of the Gods and Otherworld Atlas in Avacyn Restored, to name a couple.
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Attorney at Funk posted:The most interesting thing to me about that card is it's the first time we've seen charge counters in an expert expansion since Scars of Mirrodin. Possible artifact theme, or seeding for an artifact theme in the fall? Could just be a goofy one-off, though it's more fun to speculate than it is to imagine Izzet EDH decks. As someone who bought Mizzix yesterday, I'm hard for charge counters
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Attorney at Funk posted:The most interesting thing to me about that card is it's the first time we've seen charge counters in an expert expansion since Scars of Mirrodin. Possible artifact theme, or seeding for an artifact theme in the fall? Could just be a goofy one-off, though it's more fun to speculate than it is to imagine Izzet EDH decks.    
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MiddleEastBeast posted:There has been Astral Cornucopia in Born of the Gods and Otherworld Atlas in Avacyn Restored, to name a couple. Mana Bloom
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Attorney at Funk posted:The most interesting thing to me about that card is it's the first time we've seen charge counters in an expert expansion since Scars of Mirrodin. Possible artifact theme, or seeding for an artifact theme in the fall? Could just be a goofy one-off, though it's more fun to speculate than it is to imagine Izzet EDH decks. It's just the new Jar of Eyeballs
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Attorney at Funk posted:
That's a cool rare, but I don't know where that would go even in a kitchen table deck.
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Count Bleck posted:That's a cool rare, but I don't know where that would go even in a kitchen table deck. You would move the counters around the same way you always did: using power conduit.
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