robotzombie
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Yeah, I would just be using it to play with my friends, so there'd be no worries of cheating or anything like that. This thing seems reall cool, I'll prob download it
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Magic: the GAFering |OT2|
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Yeah, I would just be using it to play with my friends, so there'd be no worries of cheating or anything like that. This thing seems reall cool, I'll prob download it
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
My brethren, I have officially been cured of my pack buying obsession. Lo, I walked into the den of inequity that is the card shop, and purchased not of the packs of Gatecrash. Instead, brothers, I purchased singles to round out my decks. Thanks be onto Wizards for creating such a lukewarm constructed set, for their sins have led unto my redemption!
Can I get an amen!
Can I get an amen!
keeblerdrow
Member
I thought of this as I read your post.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I don't get the context!
I give it a week tops until your desperate for your fix.
There's a gaf clan?
Aww yeah. Looks like Omnidoor with a different wincon. There was something immensely satisfying about activating Door to Nothingness, though.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Yea, unbeliever, though you walk through the valley of the shadow of non-belief, I shall forgive thee thine trespasses three times three and provide you an invite to the GAF clan. Then you shall too get the pleasure of losing to Gatekeeper's omnidoor decks
Lucario and I laid the groundwork for this combo (Omniscience + ETI + Something) before Omnidoor, but thanks to Twoo's brew, I had enough confidence to drop cash on a variant of my own. Otherwise it would've remained a pipe dream.
Finished opening my GTC box last night. Ended up with some decent higher end stuff. Breeding Pool, Godless Shrine, Stomping Ground are the 3 shocks I got, and other notable rares included Blind Obedience, High Priest, Legion Loyalist and a foil Frontline Medic. Obzedat, Biomancer and Aurela's Fury were the notable mythics. Pulled a Hellkite Tyrant and Giant Adephage too, for what they're worth lol Sadly, I didn't get a Boros Reckoner for my casual burn deck. Oh well. Overall, it was a fun box to draft.
Even though the value on a lot of stuff is still up some some of the staples will undoubtedly be valuable, I'm glad I passed on picking up a box. Outside of the shocks there's really nothing with true staying power like Innistrad and Return to Ravnica.
EsotericManiac
Banned
I think buying boxes is only good/warranted if you want the set of commons and a good amount of the uncommons. Purchasing packs for specific rares, in my experiences, is a complete waste of money.
Keep in mind that I can get boxes for $85 and I still think it's a waste to open packs.
Keep in mind that I can get boxes for $85 and I still think it's a waste to open packs.
Nice haul all and all.
Reckoner is a beast , Fury is great.
I love Biomancer and need them greatly but will wait until the new set glare wears off and can grab them around $3 or $4.
I still think the Fury is going to be a staple, and an expensive one down the road. It just does too much to not be good.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I agree. Just like Elesh Norn, Fury hasn't seen play right out the gate, so the price is going down. Which is awesome, because there is literally no way it won't be picked up by a deck sooner or later. Like you said, it does too many awesome things to not be played.
People are still testing things out and adding little things. Hell, Sphinx's Revelation is still dominating play and yet few are really using Skullcrack or Frontline Medic. The meta is like a giant ass ship that takes some time to turn around. But it's going to turn on Fury.
.... and the SCG open this weekend was won by a deck with no Gatecrash Cards in its 75 http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=52964
Well, at least the Pro Tour is this weekend- if nothing from Gatecrash makes an impact, prices are going to drop even more.
Well, at least the Pro Tour is this weekend- if nothing from Gatecrash makes an impact, prices are going to drop even more.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Hmmm. To buy the last 2 Fury's I need at 18 bucks now, or hope the meta hasn't caught up at the PT and they're not played and drop even further....
Decisions, decisions.
I don't think they're going to go up- it's not a 4x card.
Keru_Shiri
Member
Anyone else trying out RG? Anyone else totally not that impressed with Domri Rade?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
We'll see. I think it's a 2 of with Boros Charm a 4x in any deck that wants either. But, I'm very fond of what R/W is doing right now and after rotation it's only going to be stronger, imo.
And Domri Rade actively lost a couple of the games on stream, so yeah, it's a pretty meh PW. It's too heavily dependent on what else is going on.
CommonWriter
UncommonlyGoodListener
Does anyone else frequently check prices on SCG/TCGPlayer? It's like an addiction to me...
When did Cryptic Command become $30~? I remember when it was like $15 a year ago.
When did Cryptic Command become $30~? I remember when it was like $15 a year ago.
SCG is seriously getting to the point where they blatantly manipulate the market with their pricing.
I generally try to keep track of TCG low as a metric for when I am looking to buy
EsotericManiac
Banned
It's really a supply and demand thing. I will say a lot of legacy staples went up a bunch from them, but this is because of their legacy open series.
It's Modern PTQ season and relevant decks play it
CommonWriter
UncommonlyGoodListener
Keru_Shiri
Member
This has happened to me as well. Either he's a win-more card, or doesn't do enough on his own. One match against a Simic aggro deck, I used his -2 to try and clear out an untapped Experiment One, only to have my opponent Simic Charm his dude out of range.
EsotericManiac
Banned
A lot of shops do this tbh. If you can't wait to purchase it online that is pretty much the norm.
Cryptic Command jumped up because of the Modern PTQ season. At least it's not as bad as how high shit like Bob and Clique have jumped.
I've gotten more into the habit of checking out what my cards are worth whenever I look at a legacy deck and think if I want to build it. I got most of my legacy collection years ago, before they blew up (and actively speculate on up-and-coming options like Energy Fields), so my idea of exactly how much my stuff if worth is far lower than what it actually is.
CommonWriter
UncommonlyGoodListener
But to have it listed as a price in the case, go to pay, and then be told "Oh by the way it's $10 more than what I wrote on the card so you're paying that now."? I've had that happen at only one shop.
Isn't that illegal?
EsotericManiac
Banned
Yes, that is, at least in my state (PA)
CommonWriter
UncommonlyGoodListener
Really? I didn't buy it after I was told that, and it actually caused me and a small bunch to stop returning to that store (Also live in PA).
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Bait and switch, I suppose.
Lazy bastards probably shouldn't put the stickers on at all and just look up the singles per request.
That's how one of the local shops operates and, surprise, nobody buys singles there. The other shop a few miles away, despite looking like a fight club, sells his singles at about 70% of SCG. He buys at 50% so he flips like crazy and makes some pretty good money in the process.
Agreed.
This has happened to me as well. Either he's a win-more card, or doesn't do enough on his own. One match against a Simic aggro deck, I used his -2 to try and clear out an untapped Experiment One, only to have my opponent Simic Charm his dude out of range.
You only fight when you have a reckoner or deathtouch wolf says I.
People are putting Rade in decks that he really does not belong in.
CommonWriter
UncommonlyGoodListener
This is how the shop we usually go to operates. We just were trying out a new place that's more convenient for everyone. The two times we went, we had this nonsense happen and said "No way."
My LGS is smart and does not put prices on cards except bulk commons and uncommons.
Case and binder cards are always checked against TCG Player
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Yes, but see, I am vindicated nonetheless.
But yeah, the samey gray coloring and the WE MUST SHOVE OUR MICKEY DOWN YOUR THROAT makes them not very good.
But, they're moving forward.
But yeah, the samey gray coloring and the WE MUST SHOVE OUR MICKEY DOWN YOUR THROAT makes them not very good.
But, they're moving forward.
StarCity's prices are strange. All Standard stuff is significantly higher than it is anywhere else, but casual/edh cards are cheaper. The mid price for Venser, Shaper Savant is 17 dollars on TCGplayer (with the low for HP copies being 12), while he is 10 bucks on SCG. If i'm looking for EDH cards I go SCG, if i'm looking for anything else, I go elsewhere.
Protip: If your trading for EDH cards, try to trade by SCG prices!
Protip: If your trading for EDH cards, try to trade by SCG prices!
But it is not just modern cards, though it is a large part.
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