Yeah I use Ultra Pro. They work very well.
Baby boy was born 8 lbs 10 oz.
Didn't name him Jace. lol
I hope little Garruk grows to be big and strong
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I hope little Garruk grows to be big and strong
blindrocket
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His friends will call him Gary. Hah. j/kI hope little Garruk grows to be big and strong
Still in nursery, but momma is getting to nurse him. They did a chest X-ray and some lab work.
Or something will take PoF's place. Have faith.
Ronabo
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No kidding!
I once got lucky at a flea market that had a booth that sold sports cards and CCGs and stuff.
Someone there had miss-priced a display of Ultra Pro black backed sleeves. Got the entire display for less than $20.
That display served me well for almost 10 years.
blindrocket
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Little dude is off the oxygen.
They are still growing cultures though from his lab work so we're looking ata release on Monday.
They are still growing cultures though from his lab work so we're looking ata release on Monday.
@blindrocket: Congrats dude! I wish y'all the best of luck and that the baby arrives home problem free
I'm going to be pretty annoyed if WOTC expects us to play with Annihilating Fire
I'm going to be pretty annoyed if WOTC expects us to play with Annihilating Fire
divisionbyzorro
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Played a half-dozen Modern 2-man queues with Splinter Twin yesterday to practice with a different build, and easily won them all.
Now I'm playing in my second DE so far today. I scrubbed out 0-2 in the first one by getting totally mana screwed against Tron, and then run over by Affinity because my deck thought it would be funny to give me all of the Splinter Twins and none of the creatures. And I just lost the first round of the second DE to Affinity again; once again, my deck just refused to cough up both halves of the combo. 0-3 in matches, 0-6 in games.
My deck hates me today. I apparently need to mulligan more aggressively against Affinity.
Now I'm playing in my second DE so far today. I scrubbed out 0-2 in the first one by getting totally mana screwed against Tron, and then run over by Affinity because my deck thought it would be funny to give me all of the Splinter Twins and none of the creatures. And I just lost the first round of the second DE to Affinity again; once again, my deck just refused to cough up both halves of the combo. 0-3 in matches, 0-6 in games.
My deck hates me today. I apparently need to mulligan more aggressively against Affinity.
Then again, one of the current leaders in the Magic Online player of the year race has also been in each daily I've been in, and he's won as many matches as I have, so it's not like this only affects me. Just gotta vent sometimes.
divisionbyzorro
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Joined an RTR draft, just because I wanted to play some more Magic before the end of the weekend.
I shit you not: my first match, in games two and three, my 7-card, 6-card, and 5-card hands all had either one or zero lands in them. My deck had 18 lands in it. I smashed my opponent's terrible 5-color deck in game one, and then simply wasn't allowed to play Magic in games two and three.
I literally just joined whatever draft was firing because I felt like opening some packs and just having some fun playing Magic. The gods of variance have chosen to shit upon me today apparently. I know it's noobish to complain about the MODO shuffler, but today, bro, I know dem feels.
I shit you not: my first match, in games two and three, my 7-card, 6-card, and 5-card hands all had either one or zero lands in them. My deck had 18 lands in it. I smashed my opponent's terrible 5-color deck in game one, and then simply wasn't allowed to play Magic in games two and three.
I literally just joined whatever draft was firing because I felt like opening some packs and just having some fun playing Magic. The gods of variance have chosen to shit upon me today apparently. I know it's noobish to complain about the MODO shuffler, but today, bro, I know dem feels.
It's a great way to start your day, being all pissed at on a fucking computer game :b
Luckily I played swiss today and wrecked my two remaining opponents. I just needed 3 lands and it was smooth sailing from there. Play my sweet griffins and drakes and pacify, ebb, flare, counter and claustrophobia all my opponents creatures. Pretty easy.
CorruptShadow
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Went to GP Oakland yesterday, might go back today, it was a blast. I saw quite a few of the pros there; Reid Duke, Efro, LSV, Craig Wescoe, and Brian Kibler, I probably missed a few others. Didn't really want to bother any of them but Kibler was there pretty early and one of my friends knew him, so he introduced us. Kibler is really friendly and we chatted for a while, I ended up asking him and he signed a thundermaw hellkite for me which is pretty sweet.
I skipped the main event but played in several drafts, and even a sanctioned EDH which was a first. Oddly enough my EDH pod was all guys I know from the local game stores in the area. We joked that we could have just stayed home and played.
I pretty much emptied my trade binder and ended up picking up a Beta Bayou, Judge Crucible of Worlds, Beta Regrowth, Legends Land Tax, Legends Concordant Crossroads, Noble Hierarch, and a few Riptide Labs for trade fodder, also got a artist signed Domri Rade (not pictured, I forgot to pull it out last night when I took the pic)
I skipped the main event but played in several drafts, and even a sanctioned EDH which was a first. Oddly enough my EDH pod was all guys I know from the local game stores in the area. We joked that we could have just stayed home and played.
I pretty much emptied my trade binder and ended up picking up a Beta Bayou, Judge Crucible of Worlds, Beta Regrowth, Legends Land Tax, Legends Concordant Crossroads, Noble Hierarch, and a few Riptide Labs for trade fodder, also got a artist signed Domri Rade (not pictured, I forgot to pull it out last night when I took the pic)
blindrocket
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Cool.
I remember going to a con back in 94 or 95 and having some Magic cards autographed by the artist. I wish that I had hung on to them.
I remember going to a con back in 94 or 95 and having some Magic cards autographed by the artist. I wish that I had hung on to them.
The Technomancer
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The big store here in Minnesota used to get full Wizards treatment during pre-releases, artists signing cards and people showing up to do gunslinging and everything. Then the store moved and they stopped :/
divisionbyzorro
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So does anyone know when the PAX panel is for Theros? I'm ready for some spoilers! Let's get this M14 crap outta here.
CorruptShadow
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Went back to GP Oakland today for a few hours, meet the artists they had there and got some alters of their own work done by them.
RK Post (Burning Earth)
Chris Rahn (Cyclonic Rift)
Chris Rahn (Huntmaster of the Fells, Ravager of the Fells front/back)
I like how he did the signatures on Huntmaster/Ravager in Green and Red respectively.
RK Post (Burning Earth)
Chris Rahn (Cyclonic Rift)
Chris Rahn (Huntmaster of the Fells, Ravager of the Fells front/back)
I like how he did the signatures on Huntmaster/Ravager in Green and Red respectively.
7 pm PST August 31 for the spoiler party
1:30 pm PST September 1 for world-building panel
Maybe I'll try to get to that.
Any one else going to Prime? I'll bring a deck if so.
divisionbyzorro
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We've see that strange Legendary Enchantment Artifact already, I guess that's what these are?
Snooze. We already have Dreadbore.
Trojan Horse! How sweet would it be if it had the Sleeper Agent ability.
Not too many to choose from here. I assume they didn't make a triple Ophidian, or a creature that Time Walks on damage (because that's essentially instant-win). So that leaves Timetwister. Yawn.
Obviously Thoughtseize.
Neverender
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Gain control of target Planeswalker?
Or possibly make a copy of a planeswalker.
blindrocket
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Does anyone know if there are any Premium Decks in the works?
I think that the last one I bought was Fire and Lightning and I unfortunately missed out on Graveborn. I just like these flavorful Premium Decks for fun/casual play.
Also I missed out on Planechase products, are those ever planned to be printed again or expanded upon?
I think that the last one I bought was Fire and Lightning and I unfortunately missed out on Graveborn. I just like these flavorful Premium Decks for fun/casual play.
Also I missed out on Planechase products, are those ever planned to be printed again or expanded upon?
That was my guess too.
keeblerdrow
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I could see a flavor mechanic for this expansion being the gods coopting many of the planeswalker's abilities and using them against them. No idea what permanent it would be but "copy a planeswalker loyalty ability"? Way too powerful for just 5 words of rules, and everyone would just be firing off ults... but a man can dream, can't he?
WanderingWind
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Oh that sounds awesome. When is the next modern GP? I need Grixis to be good
They discontinued the Premium Deck Series. There won't be any more. Ever.
FieryBalrog
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Gain a Mox token? lol.
blindrocket
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Boooo!
Thanks for the info.
Low sales? No good because they were basically only good for casual play?
I also don't like how foil cards would always get bent unless you kept them inside a toploader or something like that. At least double-faced cards got spared due to both sides bending in opposite ways and sort of cancelling out the card warping, but they were the exception AFAIK.
I don't think Wizards will print anything that only affects planeswalkers, since planeswalkers are all mythic and thus the card would be incredibly situational in limited formats. I think it's likely to be one of these:
Destroy all creatures and planeswalkers.
Destroy target enchantment or planeswalker.
EDIT: The second probably wouldn't be rare. I think it'll be the first.
Low sales I think. It's been replaced by Commander.
Yeah, I think it has to be something simple like that. He said "planeswalker" and not "planeswalkers" so that makes a sweeper less likely. Anything with tokens or copying requires too much text.
FieryBalrog
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That's the ticket.
The Commander precons are for casual play but were massively popular so they're doing more of that sort of thing. Yes one of the precons did have Scavenging Ooze but the stuff sold like hotcakes before people even realized it was good in Legacy (and it wasn't playable in Modern/Standard). So we're getting more of those this year, and I have a feeling we'll see it every two years or so. A full set of precons every year might be a little too much, so I think the off years will have supplemental product like the Commander's Arsenal (though without the excessive supply issues).
Planechase precons also seem to have been reasonably popular though I suspect a large part of that was due to Baleful Strix and Shardless Agent. They've only done two of these in 4 years though so I think that's a sustainable rate... maybe they'll release another one in 2014 or 2015.
Archenemy was a bit of a bust so I don't expect we'll see that again unless it goes through a re-work.
Beyond that, there's the new MTG Conspiracy trademark that hints at a new multiplayer variant. I would guess that it's a Bang! or Mafia style format with multiple hidden roles.
September 14th in Detroit. To be honest he'll probably test it a bit and then decide UWR is better. The premium article is good though.
blindrocket
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A friend of mine bought me a duel deck and it was total crud, IMO. Man it was bad. I hope some of the others are decent.
I do think that precons like Event Decks are a pretty good product. They are standard legal (when new) and someone walking into FNM without a deck could buy one and get in on the action.
The other precons are hit or miss and require some heavy tweaking. Perhaps fun for casual play but they aren't really all that exciting.
And I actually really liked the Duels of the Planeswalkers precons that they released.
I have Ears of the Elves The Nissa Revane Deck and Teeth of the Predator the Garruk Wildspeaker Deck. With minimal card additions they are very fun!
http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/productarticle.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/dotpdecks/themedeck
Izzet vs Golgari was pretty great.
It was actually ridiculous. Incredible alt-art Brainstorm, Isochron, Fire/Ice, GGT, Life from the Loam, Force Spike, Eternal Witness, Alt-Art Putrefy, all w/ the new border? MM did reduce some of the value, but at the time it was a steal.
This. So much value in this one.
They've mentioned in the past that they're moving commander decks to every year, because the originals were so popular. The only reason Arsenal exists is because they didn't have enough lead-time to make more decks last year.
Nah. Posting a summary of HvM's value on reddit got me downvoted to hell, with repies telling me to "be appreciative" and "stop buying products to resell" (wtf? that wasn't even profitable with Elspeth v Tezz until years after its release).
I'm pretty sure the reddit Magic community is completely delusional.
Personally, I'd rather have a Duel Deck that is fun to play over one that is good value since those are fun to play with my more casual friends. It was certainly appreciated that Izzet vs Golgari was both. From looking at the deck lists HvM doesn't seem that interesting since it seems like it'll just be "aura'ed guys vs big creature slugfest".
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