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I really want to turn my Grixis Death's Shadow into Jeskai control, but hot drat are Colonnades way too much. That card has got to be due for a reprint soon. Does anyone have experience with the deck? I miss Spell Queller.
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Nov 18, 2017 17:29
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How much is The Wal Mart charging for it?
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Nov 18, 2017 17:32
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lol at using up two display hooks
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Nov 18, 2017 17:33
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Katana Gomai posted:I'm glad my LGS drafts with rare/foil repicks (and we do it in private drafts as well) but it feels like people on reddit consider it highway robbery not to be able to greedpick. What do you think? They're bad because it skews prizing to heavily reward good players and heavily punish bad ones. Drafts are the best entry point to LGS play and it's a huge feelbad for inexperienced players to pick a sweet rare then have it taken away and replaced with worthless junk (on top of losing all their matches). And god forbid you forget to mention that it's a redraft (or you do tell them but they forget or don't know what "redraft" means). All the stores near me do it and while it's nice to have cheap drafts (one store only charges 20$ for masters drafts), i'd rather just have more people to play with, redrafts have a noticeable effect of people showing up once, losing out and never coming back. One store even does it with the winner getting the first two picks, coincidentally nobody goes there any more. It's totally fine in private drafts though where everyone is on the same page, but the "sanctity of the draft" poo poo is highly overrated. Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:I've done one rare redraft, it was in rtr and I pulled a foil deathrite. My last opponent was beating me and smugly said "I can't wait to get that card" so I said "suck my dick" and took my cards and left while the lgs owned yelled at me. i too deal with rude people by being an even bigger rude baby
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Nov 18, 2017 17:42
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Eh the rules are very clear that the pile of cards you're holding at any given time are your cards and you can't expect to be a total rear end in a top hat and still maintain a ~gentleman's agreement~ to the contrary.
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Nov 18, 2017 17:45
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C-Euro posted:$15 Vials would rule hardcore and might be low enough for me to finally get over my weird hangup about buying Vials.
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On the one hand, there's an argument that redrafting the rares will prevent people from raredrafting and you'll have a more "pure" draft, because the players will pick the best card over the $20 land. On the other hand, that argument is bullshit and if you open a pack with a $20 card in it, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to keep it.
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Nov 18, 2017 18:00
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“My deck should’ve had a foil tarmogoyf in it but the person to my right took it” is the same type of whining in blackjack
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Some Numbers posted:On the one hand, there's an argument that redrafting the rares will prevent people from raredrafting and you'll have a more "pure" draft, because the players will pick the best card over the $20 land. The argument is also bullshit because for the few cards that are worth that much and AREN'T already bombs in limited outside of masters sets for obvious reasons, thinking that any random draft at an LGS is a decent representation of a "competitive" draft is a delusion. There are always at least two or more people in any random pod whose "drafting skill" isn't conducive to a "competitive" draft.
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Nov 18, 2017 18:08
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When I started playing around the tail end of Onslaught, my LGS only did RareDrafts, so I didn't know there was any other way. We also never had a problem with it. I don't know any store that does that anymore.
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Nov 18, 2017 18:08
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If you have that much of a boner for ~the sanctity of the draft~ do magic the gathering online phantom drafts. Or free drafts in the offbrand clinet of your choice.
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Nov 18, 2017 18:12
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:I've done one rare redraft, it was in rtr and I pulled a foil deathrite. My last opponent was beating me and smugly said "I can't wait to get that card" so I said "suck my dick" and took my cards and left while the lgs owned yelled at me. You're not the good guy in this story, just so you know.
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suicidesteve posted:You're not the good guy in this story, just so you know. Yes he is. Of course, I'm a spiteful dick in the face of glaring assholery, too, so 
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suicidesteve posted:You're not the good guy in this story, just so you know. Don't listen to the haters mbt
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suicidesteve posted:You're not the good guy in this story, just so you know. There are no heroes left in Magic Man
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rare drafting is fun when you're drafting with friends but it kinda sucks if you're new and then just get all the sweet cards you drafted taken by the guy who's been playing forever
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Nov 18, 2017 18:22
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AlternateNu posted:Yes he is. Have you tried unsleeving and riffle shuffling your deck into oblivion?
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AlternateNu posted:Yes he is. being a dick back just teaches the other person that they should continue to be a toxic shithead, because everyone else is too
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little munchkin posted:being a dick back just teaches the other person that they should continue to be a toxic shithead, because everyone else is too if someone leaving the store with all of their legal possessions completely wrecks your prize support system then maybe you should consider offering some packs or store credit see: Elyv posted:rare drafting is fun when you're drafting with friends but it kinda sucks if you're new and then just get all the sweet cards you drafted taken by the guy who's been playing forever
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Nov 18, 2017 18:43
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little munchkin posted:being a dick back just teaches the other person that they should continue to be a toxic shithead, because everyone else is too Toxic shitheads are toxic shitheads for a reason. It's their baseline mode. They don't require a recipricating dose of their own medicine to remain toxic shitheads. They won't react to feel bads. They need a material deterrent to prevent them from acting on their toxic shithead mentality.
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Sickening posted:I would have said 25 a few weeks ago due to all the demand, but I have a feeling this is going to be under 20 very soon. The prices are plummeting hard. Hell, vial is the most played card in the set and its going to be under 20 in a few days. It might settle at 15. Sweet, I'll hold out for a while and watch the price then.
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AlternateNu posted:They need a material deterrent to prevent them from acting on their toxic shithead mentality. lol at pretending that telling your opponent to "suck my dick" is some sort of moral high ground
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little munchkin posted:lol at pretending that telling your opponent to "suck my dick" is some sort of moral high ground ??? My whole point was the moral high ground doesn't mean anything. The toxic shithead doesn't care about the moral high ground. That's why he's a toxic shithead.
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AlternateNu posted:Toxic shitheads are toxic shitheads for a reason. It's their baseline mode. They don't require a recipricating dose of their own medicine to remain toxic shitheads. They won't react to feel bads. They need a material deterrent to prevent them from acting on their toxic shithead mentality. Bingo. You're not going to "correct" bad behavior by rewarding it with adherence to a social contract in a setting like this. If he had called a judge and the judge had penalized the other kid for poor sportsmanship then maybe that would have some impact. People aren't rational actors. Stop acting like Economists from the mid 70's.
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Anyway, stupid rare redrafting can of worms aside, how is GP Portland going? I hit up vendors yesterday and was really disappointed. TcgMid (or higher) prices on most everything. Some vendors had displays priced higher than their own online stores for things that were out of Standard. Was kinda shocked tbh. A few good deals to be found but it was a whole lot of panning.
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Nov 18, 2017 19:16
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God bless this mess. Pray for me goons.
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DangerDongs posted:When I started playing around the tail end of Onslaught, my LGS only did RareDrafts, so I didn't know there was any other way. We also never had a problem with it. We had a store start doing it, everybody stopped drafting and even playing there except 4-5 assholes, and they went out of business. A couple of months later, another store started doing it to accommodate those assholes, lost the players that weren't assholes, and also went out of business. Both stores got what they deserved.
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:
Dead image, try imgur
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:
Image is dead. The image upload hasn't been working for me lately on the app.
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how much do stores with prize support charge for drafts, and what is the prize structure like? I literally have no experience with non-redrafts outside of gps/scg events 
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The image actually is there but only if you go there directly
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little munchkin posted:how much do stores with prize support charge for drafts, and what is the prize structure like? In my experiences, drafts with prize support have always been $15. The handful of drafts I've been to that do rare redrafts around Denver were all $11.
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Drafts at CFB were 10 with pack per win and the store I go to now because it's closer is 12, also pack per win
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Nov 18, 2017 20:02
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$15, 9 packs for 1st 6 for 2nd.
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My LGS is $16.50 for 3 + guaranteed pity pack. Prize packs by record: 3-0: 6 2-0-1: 5 2-1: 3 Yeah, they're overpriced, and their singles are 50% - 300% above TCGlow. 
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12.50 with a pack or $3 store credit per win. If you go 3-0 you get the next draft for free.
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Paul Rietzl is commentating GP Portland. I think it's his first time.
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Star Man posted:In my experiences, drafts with prize support have always been $15. The handful of drafts I've been to that do rare redrafts around Denver were all $11. The two closest stores to me are... $15 Two prize schemes 4 round (FNM) 4-0: 6 packs 3-0-1: 4 packs 3-1: 2 packs Promos to the top 8 or so. 3 round 3-0: 5 packs 2-0-1: 3 packs 2-1: 1 pack The other store is $10, half a pack per drafter into the prize pool, prizes paid out to anyone with either a 3-1(4 rounds) or a 2-0-1 (3 rounds) or better record. I'd love for stores to do a $20, $10 store credits/player into the prize pool draft. The rake for low EV sets is atrocious. While on a business trip/vacay I found a store that does $12 drafts, pack or $4 store credit per win, pity pack (but no store credit) if you go 0-3. I imagine it was a loss leader but was a fun way to kill time.
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