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Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Unhinged lands > your lands so you lose!
Those Unhinged lands are so good. But GAF defaults to 50 posts a page for a reason
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I only roll with foil revised, limited edition Japanese lands, son.
I call haxxxxx
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Flying Toaster
Member
And four Chaos Orbs in your sideboard.
So I broke down and bought a couple of packs of Avacyn. Landed a Entreat the Angels. Miracle is a wicked cool addition to the game.
I was luckily enough to get back in the game in time to get a nice assortment of Zendikar full art lands.
I have a couple of unhinged forests , but just do not like spending that much for lands.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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They're signed by a fat orange cat? You've just been downgraded sir.
Edit: I have 5-6 of all the zendikars but I wish I had more to use a deck just of them. I like the art on some older ones I have though, especially tempest so I don't mind.
I have a full set of the Zendikar land set, with about 2 foils for each land type(except islands) and the Unhinged lands. They are awesome. I cant believe i spent that money though.. on LAND. But once i saw them, i had to have them. The only other land i use are foil lands(Basic)
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I thought about selling them off, considering I have around 30-35 of each, but dammit...they're nice to play with.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I think they did... but if you came after it those fat packs were gone quickly and were absurds amount of money to buy one. Like $80-$90 IIRC. Do any rares still hold value from zendikar to crack packs?
divisionbyzorro
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I feel like I'm not allowed to have a favorite basic since I'm barely a year into playing, but I really like the Unglued basics:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=9677
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=9677
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I really like what they did with the INN to AVR lands. Pretty neat way to keep something so boring, interesting.
echoshifting
Banned
Ravnica lands are the most memorable to me....yes, yes, Echo likes Ravnica, we get it! Incorporating the city into all of the art was such a cool idea, though. You can even see carved statues of the leaders of some of the guilds if you look hard enough.
Really set the mood for the entire block.
Really set the mood for the entire block.
You have the Zendi lands, foil lands sell for alot and then you have the chance to pull fetch lands.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
I have some of those still but I hate the brown around the picture... Just looks ugly IMO.
Edit: Those ravnica look really nice, they look really epic sort of feel to them. I wish there was an easy way to look at the lands from each set to see if I prefer one.
Are the sac lands worth a lot yet from zendikar?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah, Ravnica had gorgeous lands. The entire set had fantastic art direction though, one reason I'm excited to see what they do in the fall.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Let me borrow some then... ;P
Here's all the ravnica lands
I like the whole like lost civilization on the green lands, definitely a really cool vibe from it.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I understand your pain.
I am getting ready to trade two Bonfire of the Damned for a foil Huntmaster, I am such a foil whore.
I hate that they are my only Bonfires though.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I will always do it and add bonuses.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I feel your pain. I'm stuck with my phyrexian obliterator foil I pulled at the release last time that I could have gotten a good amount on because it's shiny. I'm starting to finally ween off of it, at least if it's a huge gap in price like when I sold my griselbrand but that's even going up so I should have waited it seems.
But it's shiny! You make me sad with your foil hate.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Cool. I have a butt ton of them. I'll sort them out and ship them when I remember to do so....PM me your address.
But it's shiny! You make me sad with your foil hate.
Blame it on the 90s. Back in the long, long ago, when something really sucked, they foiled it in order to get people to buy it. If MTG ever does a constant hologram type card, I'm cashing out because the whole industry is about to collapse.
Foils were actually one of the reasons I got out back in the day.
First reason was chronicles and its making quite a few legends and other things worthless overnight.
It gave us the feeling that at any moment, Wizards could and would reprint anything.
(No reserve list back then, they made the reserve list because so many bailed)
The second reason was abilities were getting odder
Third reason was foils, I mean...what the hell is this, Pokemon? Foils? That is not Magic the Gathering?
All of the sudden the market went sideways due to foils.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
It's cool. One man's hated card (Vexing Devil) is another man's "WHY THE FUCK HAVE I ONLY OPENED ONE OF THESE GODDAMN IT'S NOT A MYTHIC MOTHERFUCKERS"
echoshifting
Banned
<---dropped for foils
I'll have to flip through my collection and send you a list, Hex. I don't mind going 1-1 either, I hate em too. From AVR I know I have Terminus and Mistmoon Griffin, and I know I've got some in NM from Ravnica and Kami.
I'll have to flip through my collection and send you a list, Hex. I don't mind going 1-1 either, I hate em too. From AVR I know I have Terminus and Mistmoon Griffin, and I know I've got some in NM from Ravnica and Kami.
Very cool, I will actually organize by boxes (finally) by set to make it easier to find everything myself.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Speaking of boxes, I have a hell of a project in the works...it should be done tomorrow or Saturday.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Also speaking of boxes, what do you guys use? I've been using the boxes from my fat packs but I'm still very much short storage. Do you just use shoe boxes or something?
"God's Beard!"
Member
Can you sacrifice a creature to activate multiple abilities? Like if two cards have sacrifice a creatre: blah blah, do I have to kill 2?
echoshifting
Banned
Nah, I buy long white boxes from my card shop. Those, FP boxes and two of the long boxes for the old Star Wars CCG.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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No, because it's a cost. If it was something like every time a creature enters the graveyard x happens then it's fine but you have to pay that cost to activate and you've only paid or one.
You have to sacrifice two, AFAIK. Since that's the "cost." Think of this way: Would you be able to tap two lands and play a two mana cost card (doesn't matter if they're colorless or not, just go with this) for two cards? No.
echoshifting
Banned
No you can't. Sacrifice is a "cost," much like mana.
edit: so beaten. Okay, here's something that I have never been able to square - if my opponent forces me to sacrifice, and I use an instant to sacrifice the targeted creature first...my spell goes through and he gets to choose a new target, right? Or does my spell fizzle since costs are faster?
divisionbyzorro
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Yes you do. Each ability requires that you pay its cost, and if that cost is sacrificing a creature, you must sacrifice once to activate each ability.
"God's Beard!"
Member
Ok, cool. So the graveyard entry ones and a sacrifice one would all work by killing off one creature.
Is Myr Turbine the cheapest artifact token generator that doesn't cost mana to make tokens? It seems like Dross Scorpion is a really easy way to make infinites.
Is Myr Turbine the cheapest artifact token generator that doesn't cost mana to make tokens? It seems like Dross Scorpion is a really easy way to make infinites.
echoshifting
Banned
Yeah, that's right. If card A has "Sacrifice target creature" or something like that, and card B has "whenever you sacrifice a creature" OR "whenever a creature enters your graveyard," they both work fine.
Isn't the order first-in, last-out? If they activate a sacrifice and you go "wait, I'm going to sacrifice that creature" your sacrifice resolves first. His has no target so doesn't happen.
Similar to "bouncing" creatures that get Giant Growth with a "return to hand" instant?
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Do you have an example? Usually sac cards don't target it says target player sacs a creature or whatever.
Edit: ^ It would but I don't remember any sacs that target unless it's an old card?
divisionbyzorro
Member
Yeah, I can't think of any targeted sacrifice spells. They all target a player and that player chooses a creature when the spell resolves. You can't do anything to prevent that from happening (aside from counter magic).
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