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How are UP Eclipse sleeves rated these days? I got a pack of 100 but a few are already showing wear after a few games, while the Dragonshields and Katanas are more or less spotless. Did I just have bad luck with mine?
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Star Man posted:I'm an UltraPro fanboy and their only good sleeves are the regular pro matte sleeves. rip, hope they get a followup from TCC then.
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Aug 29, 2019 00:44
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This is why you discard first.
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Aug 29, 2019 07:47
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Chulane is great if you can get a creature that lets you ramp crazy like district guide out. Gyre engineer is a tap for UG, and Incubation Druid can get really good if you can sneak enough mana by to adapt her. If they cannot get rid of him fast enough, you're basically a pseudo Feather but with ETB effects. Forbidden Spirit to force them to choose between playing spells and actually attack. Frilled Mystic to counter spells. Kraul Harpooner to remove flyers. Thorn Mammoth as targeted removal. Etc. Parhelion II works well enough if you can keep it alive. Once you pump out one angel token, it's basically self-reliant. Frilled Mystic is very useful for keeping it from getting hit by removal for that initial turn. The other main winning combo I've found is playing creatures using Thorn Mammoth's ability to remove creatures, then End-Raze Forerunners and attacking with your entire line. Victory lap is using biomancer's familiar to make Chulane's ability even cheaper. I had a game where I was playing and returning Forbidden Spirit to my hand every turn to keep my opponent from destroying me, delaying the game long enough to get twice as many lands out and most of my utility creatures, then followed up with the mammoth and hogs.
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Sep 5, 2019 13:55
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I imagine Adventure cards being exiled rather than using counters or poo poo to track it is to avoid the potential of someone thinking it's a permanent in play they can destroy, as opposed to a card in exile which is usually considered untouchable.
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Sep 6, 2019 00:11
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SalTheBard posted:I made a very janky Golgari deck that is all about getting Drakuseth, Maw of the Flames in the Graveyard, and then using Bond of Revival to pull it out and win the game. It wins pretty frequently but I mostly play unranked matches. Essentially the best starting hand is like 2 lands (1B, 1G), Erstwhile Trooper, Drak, Bond, Llanowar Elf, Leyline Prowler. I take a mulligan if I don't have a bond in my starting hand. Sounds hilarious. I kind of want to run it IRL.
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Sep 6, 2019 02:53
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SalTheBard posted:It's very hilarious because most of the time once I get Drak into play it's an auto concede. Too bad about rotation soon. And probably wouldn't hurt to have a sideboard. But I have been wanting to play a Golgari deck (I got my hands on some JP art Vraska sleeves so now I feel obligated to run something Golgari) so hopefully it can be retuned when Eldraine comes out.
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Sep 6, 2019 03:04
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Kurtofan posted:lol come on, it's a loving tower, does everything has to do about 9/11 Yes. Meanwhile, the forever war.
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Sep 11, 2019 20:12
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Turn Parhelion II into a pie. It's great. All those angels in one little bite.
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Sep 16, 2019 05:19
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TheKingofSprings posted:Take the draw, discard down to hand size with Phantasmagorian, pitch your entire hand to bring back Phantasmagorian, cycle Street Wraiths to dredge like a motherfucker. If I did want to get into legacy, I'd play the gently caress out of this just because it's a cheapo deck that can still work. Also, no lands is my kind of perverse.
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Sep 25, 2019 21:30
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Kurtofan posted:ayula was deposed in the bear revolution Is Ayula even a real bear? Who here has heard of a bear that is born from a tree and raised on sap? Sounds like some kind of infiltrator.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:12
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Managed to get a foiled Oko, Thief of Crowns as my promo card. My LGS has it listed for $120 but that seems waaaaay beyond the prices everywhere else but I guess I'll drop in tomorrow to see how much they'll give me for it. And probably play more pre-release.
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Sep 29, 2019 05:01
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Jabor posted:If you're a middle-aged man who watches and enjoys my little pony then you are absolutely deserving of mockery, unless it's a "my child enjoys it and I will support their interests" thing. Yawgmoth posted:People like to have fun and sometimes giving a thing you made a fun name is fun. So the answer to you question is "people who enjoy fun names" with the addendum of "if you don't, shut the gently caress up and let people enjoy things."
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Oct 3, 2019 19:58
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I'm stupid and got Vraska JP art sleeves and planning to get the JP art playmat. But haven't found a standard Golgari deck I'd like to play because none of them have a Vraska in them.
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Oct 4, 2019 04:15
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Double sleeved my commander decks and even flattened them under some textbooks but they keep, uh, reinflating?
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Oct 7, 2019 01:03
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GoutPatrol posted:new card smell degassing Just mash shuffling and only the odd foil here and there, so probably less than 15 in both decks combined? Using Katana outers, KMC Perfect Fit inners. They're clearly holding less air after I squish them flat (using a marble coaster, just gently pressing/letting gravity do the work before actually pushing down) than before but they're still getting some volume of air back afterwards. If I store them top-down in the flip and tray card holders, they are just a tad less reinflated over time than when I leave them top up.
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Oct 7, 2019 01:14
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Magnetic North posted:I wonder if you're using enough weight/time. When I do it with Dragon Shield Mattes and KMC Inners, I gently push the air out by hand and then put multiple heavy board games on top of them overnight. The weight is probably comparable to an unabridged dictionary. Sometimes I have to do it to the inners on their own first, but I forget which inner that was happening with. Might be time but weight shouldn't be an issue. I've been clamping down the marble coasters after gently compressing the stack by hand. Some of the Katana sleeves I used were tight during double sleeving that it's possible I slightly stretched them permanently in the process, but I've also had Katanas where the perfect fit slid in without issue, and I've been testing some other outer sleeves too and they've all had the same issue with puffing up slightly. At this moment I'd chalk it down to the KMC perfect fits but my LGS doesn't have any Dragon Shield inners in stock and I want to try their sealable inners too.
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Oct 7, 2019 19:37
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Vancouver (almost 700k? +2 mil when you lump in the rest of Greater Vancouver) and FNM tends to be packed with 30-40 people throughout the night, but that's also because they run staggered starts for commander, standard, modern, and standard draft. Pre-release for Eldraine was pretty drat packed too, easily 40 or so people for each set of rounds and three sets per day. Regular events run on other days are around the 12-20 area.
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Oct 8, 2019 22:41
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fadam posted:More and more I wish I was living the blessed BC lifestyle Nothing blessed here. Better maybe.
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Oct 8, 2019 23:01
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I haven't had a chance to play Standard constructed in paper because I got sick from pre-release and I'm still recovering. But the price of poo poo like fabled passage, once upon a time, etc. just really makes me feel like it'll depend on how well off the regulars at your LGS are to determine the local meta. That's always sort of been the case but Eldraine definitely feels like an escalation.
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Oct 16, 2019 21:32
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Tubgoat posted:Being an almost-strictly aggro player, I can't tell you if it is or not. I'm sure Caw Blade et al were expensive in their heydays as well. I recommend Unlucky Fried Kitten for your budget competition needs. I imagine someone could track trends and Eldraine wouldn't be overly unusual but as a person who only started paper with M20 pre-release Eldraine just looks nuts. I imagine it'll balance out better next year as M21 comes out and we have multiple sets to draw from rather than us scrambling for/settling on the replacements/improvements Eldraine introduced as M19/Ixalan/Dom rotated out. My complaint about costs is mostly about stuff like fabled passage, which can literally go in any deck, and gilded goose which is very useful with food while also being the most direct replacement for llanowar elves. I got into paper with an Arcane Tempo deck that I've modded to keep it legal past rotation, but it was never great even before due to local meta. I made a more budget-friendly cavalcade deck that's been serving me better so far but, and I am definitely looking into going ovencat going forward.
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Oct 17, 2019 00:24
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Framboise posted:I've never understood why opinions are treated so objectively. I don't think it's wrong to assess a card before it's released-- just be pleasantly surprised when your assessment is right. I"m super afraid of being wrong. That is why I'm never wrong and always right.
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Oct 17, 2019 21:30
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whydirt posted:Are Dragon Shield and KMC still considered the best perfect fit sleeves? I've tried Dragon Shield's resealable inners and KMC perfect fits. The latter were fine though some of my UG Katana sleeves were really a pain to slip on, but that's just variance between batches. DS' resealable inners are a goddamn dream. It does increase the amount of work sleeving poo poo but that poo poo will never slip off and despite being slightly thicker overall than KMC perfect fits, they slid in with fewer issues even with the occasional problematic UG Katanas. To compare, I'd have to resleeve about a third of my KMCs because I didn't like them slipping off in the process of outer sleeving. I did not have a single problem with the DS resealable inners slipping off, though a few felt like they did because they had a bit more give than I'd like but upon closer examination they remained sealed. The best thing is that I haven't noticed the sleeves "puffing" up after squishing the air out of them. Every time with the KMC perfects, they'd be fine if I kept them tightly packed but if I left them out for a little while even the inners would get some air in them. The DS resealables don't seem to retain or regain much if any air at all. The resealables will definitely bulk up your deck a bit though. My Anje commander deck is too large to fit in my flip and tray's tray now with its tokens, and is still a tad too difficult to remove without them. Strangely, my Izzet wheel deck fits comfortably but it's borderline too tight a fit. Satin towers to the rescue, I guess. The trays of the flip and tray are slightly deeper than they are wide but they intend for you to store your cards with their sides facing out. I was able to store them that way comfortably with the tokens and commander facing out for easy identification. Now I have them stored the other way around and my Anje deck required a lot more force than I was comfortable using to pull it out. No idea how my Izzet deck manages to still work, guess it's just individual card variance. Rambling on and on but finding the right sleeves was a decent-ish investment for me so may as well ramble and save another goon some money.
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Oct 21, 2019 23:52
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Reusing horizon would just confuse people. Perhaps Pioneering Frontiers?
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Oct 22, 2019 21:23
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Where are my full art ravnica lands
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Oct 30, 2019 07:08
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Rahu posted:FNM status: there are eight people here for standard constructed instead of the usual 20ish. It's free booster packs.
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Nov 2, 2019 04:13
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Also, don't be afraid to spring for cards that aren't near mint or lightly played. While a budget standard deck shaves off less compared to, say, a commander deck does with less-than-perfect cards, money is money.
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Nov 6, 2019 19:53
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stump collector posted:The fourth installment - Unreserved What's next? Unreleased?
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Nov 7, 2019 07:19
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Mystery booster is actually Wizards introducing Historic to Paper and announcing that they actually intend for Arena to not be trashed by standard.
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Nov 7, 2019 18:57
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The Human Crouton posted:Why do people have to inject their activism into absolutely everything? It's a card game. Let it be a card game. What would you say are good places to inject activism?
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Nov 9, 2019 21:17
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I find certain features of UG's ammonite appealing even if very little beyond the internal organization will be useful. And camera bags can do most of those anyway.
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Nov 9, 2019 23:38
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On the other hand companies are stupid and don't always know how to make money, but they do think they do and think they can squeeze harder.
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Nov 10, 2019 18:43
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It's basically a "if you're disappointed, we're sorry and please look forward to what comes next"
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Nov 22, 2019 20:10
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:It's weird because the, "Hire professional external writers to do entire arcs," strategy was working so well. The M20, Dominaria, Wildered quest, and Guild stories were all solid and well above expectations. Then they shat out two novels, having hosed up the release timing on the first one (Remember when Niv Mizzet was killed and to read about it you had to sign up for the Del Rey newsletter? Yeah I don't either), and ruined the climax and conclusion to their whole 3 year effort. Don't forget how the flavor of the cards depict this long drawn-out urban campaign with lots of refugees and people grieving, and it's literally an afternoon in the book.
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Nov 22, 2019 23:17
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How the gently caress are they doing these and not foil full art Ravnica and Ravnican guild lands.
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I keep hearing about how super popular Ravnica is. Where's my full art lands?
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