Right? I want a playset of Armada Wurm but no way I'm paying that for it.
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Right? I want a playset of Armada Wurm but no way I'm paying that for it.
Yep. I managed to get 2, as I really want to do some Cackling Counterpart/Populate/Deadeye Navigator shenanigans with it. Same with Thragtusk, which I managed to get 2 more of yesterday.
Traded off 4x Gravecrawlers, 4x Geralfs Messengers, 1x Huntmaster of the Fells and my single Foil Omniscience (this hurt cus it's so beautiful, but it was worth $18 so I couldn't just hang onto it). Got the Thragtusks, Resoration Angels, lands, Trostani (now I have 1 foil and 1 regular Trostani) and other stuff.
Made out well enough, I think.
Traded off 4x Gravecrawlers, 4x Geralfs Messengers, 1x Huntmaster of the Fells and my single Foil Omniscience (this hurt cus it's so beautiful, but it was worth $18 so I couldn't just hang onto it). Got the Thragtusks, Resoration Angels, lands, Trostani (now I have 1 foil and 1 regular Trostani) and other stuff.
Made out well enough, I think.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
So, we agree that zombies are boned, finally? Heh.
I'm pretty excited about the U/W/B tools right now, personally.
I think zombies will continue to be a thing for the next month or so at the very least. I never play zombies though, so I don't know why I'm sitting on these cards.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Because you don't want to trade them to me, because reasons.
I didn't know you wanted them! Do you actually want them? I need some green/white goodness for sure if so.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
What are you looking for?
I'm sure it'll still be around as a force. But if you have zombie stuff that you will never play this is probably the time to dump em, what with them being so hot now.
You probably don't care as you are trying Conjurer's Closet, but no deck needs 4 Armada Wurms.
Well for 1, my zombie deck was far from competitive and I hardly played it. So I was basically just sitting on 8 money cards for almost no reason.
Secondly, they're at their highest now than they probably ever will be again so I figured now was the time to just hock them off. I do love those cards though, but I hate wasting value like that.
With a whole new block I think it's reasonable to assume that the current zombie archetype could be threatened by new lists and then lose value. The opposite could happen though, just the same.
Secondly, they're at their highest now than they probably ever will be again so I figured now was the time to just hock them off. I do love those cards though, but I hate wasting value like that.
With a whole new block I think it's reasonable to assume that the current zombie archetype could be threatened by new lists and then lose value. The opposite could happen though, just the same.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I saved a Jace for anybody who is looking for one. If nobody here wants one, I'll sell it this weekend, most likely.
Ah, I see.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Zombies ALWAYS sucked.
Armada Wurm, Detention Sphere, that Sphinx lifegain/draw card. I do want the Jace but I don't know if I have the volume required to get him from you.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
You are the most insecure trader ever. If you have a Lotleth troll or a Beastmistress, we can work out something with the Sphinx/Jace Zomboners.
Zaraki, you need to address the ass whuppin' that zombies bestowed upon your Delver creations. That much hate is NOT healthy.
You are the most insecure trader ever. If you have a Lotleth troll or a Beastmistress, we can work out something with the Sphinx/Jace Zomboners.
Zaraki, you need to address the ass whuppin' that zombies bestowed upon your Delver creations. That much hate is NOT healthy.
Strangely as someone who loves green and black I did not pull much g/b zombie love.
I do have 3 promo grave crawlers, a japanese grave crawler, an abrupt decay and a japanese geralfs messenger though.
Just in case...
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I cannot find promo crawlers anywhere.
Well ahem we may have to come to an accord sir.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
You are the most insecure trader ever. If you have a Lotleth troll or a Beastmistress, we can work out something with the Sphinx/Jace Zomboners.
Zaraki, you need to address the ass whuppin' that zombies bestowed upon your Delver creations. That much hate is NOT healthy.
I guess I am haha
I'll PM you hahaha
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I cannot find promo crawlers anywhere.
tcgplayer.com dude. I was going to order them a couple weeks ago when they were like $7. I get all my singles I purchase from there pretty much. And Delver sucked too, just not as bad as zombies!
I never understood selling off or trading all your money cards this early unless your only goal is to make money. I am never playing the same deck in the beginning of a release as I am at the end (or half way through...or a quarter way...). After selling all my titans because I would never play a deck using them, I found myself needing them for a deck shortly after. After getting rid of my bobs back in the original ravnica block because I don't play self hate, I found myself desperately wanting some for a legacy deck. Jittes, swords, ravagers and on and on and on. So many cards that I said "oh I don't have any use for these" and just got rid of them. And when I realized I did need them, it cost me an goddamn arm and a leg to get them back. The best (worst?) example is force of will. I opened an avalanche of them back in the day and literally gave them away because I didn't play blue at the time.
I ended up just hanging on to everything until I had a playset and then selling or trading any excess. But then again I was a hoarder when it comes to cards.
I ended up just hanging on to everything until I had a playset and then selling or trading any excess. But then again I was a hoarder when it comes to cards.
GoutPatrol
Forgotten in his cell
Well, some people (like me) really only play standard. Or, you know you're not gonna play them. It would be cool if I got a Jace, but I don't have any ideas for interesting decks for him. Or, you've opened up so much product that you now have more than 4. I've got all the Loxodon Smiters and Grove of the Guardians I need, thanks!
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I sell them because with very few exceptions, the price goes down drastically on every card. So, I can just collect the ones I want to play with if I'm missing one or two later at a fraction of what I sold them for. It's a by product of opening packs and not really wanting to hoard a ton of unplayable cards.
I guess I'm just a hoarder. For the most part once I got a playset, I'd sell the rest. But sometimes I'd have a hard time doing that even. I think I had something like 8 stromkirk nobles back when they were actually worth something decent. Just having all those nobles staring at me on that page of the binder was amusing enough that I never traded any. Same thing with massacre worm and geth, I had something like 6 or 7 of each opened through boosters and I just let them sit there.
I just hate that feeling of "damn! I had a bunch of those...shit son of a bitch!"
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Ya, if you completely get rid of it you can never move into it before it jumps. Sort of depends on your tolerance. Now is the best time for certain cards though since they can't hold value and you can get cards for much cheaper than normal.
I did it with fauna shaman and the prime titan (when they debuted). I wasn't interested in green at all at the time, and I thought they were at their peak money wise. I watched in dismay as the shaman and the primeval titan doubled in price a few weeks later.
And then felt even more stupid a few months later when I needed playsets of both for decks.
I was still a nubhead when it came to understanding trading and card value at the time though, having just gotten back into the game.
Up against Mono Blue Mill. This guy has balls.
This deck is sooooo much better than my last deck. It's not terribly bomby but it has some HUGE SYNERGY engines.
1 x Goldnight Commander
1 x Champion of Lambholdt
2 x Thatcher Revolt
2 x Vigilante Justice
2 x Commander's Authority
My one regret is that I accidentally drafted Vessel of Endless Rest by accident because I clicked the screen the moment P3P1 loaded. I don't even know what I missed out on in the rare slot, I hope it wasn't too valuable.
Uuuugh. Draw 5 Mountains, have nothing but green spells.
This deck is sooooo much better than my last deck. It's not terribly bomby but it has some HUGE SYNERGY engines.
1 x Goldnight Commander
1 x Champion of Lambholdt
2 x Thatcher Revolt
2 x Vigilante Justice
2 x Commander's Authority
My one regret is that I accidentally drafted Vessel of Endless Rest by accident because I clicked the screen the moment P3P1 loaded. I don't even know what I missed out on in the rare slot, I hope it wasn't too valuable.
Uuuugh. Draw 5 Mountains, have nothing but green spells.
Opened my half box today.
Good stuff was Blood Crypt, Overgrown Tomb, Hallowed Fountain, Detention Sphere, and Mizzium Mortars. Also got Niv Mizzet, Mercurial Chemister and Epic Experiment which will be fun for a casual Izzet deck. Also got every one of the goofy "look at all this text" rares.
My friend opening the other half got two Ash Zealots, an Abrupt Decay, Dreadbore, Jarad, Rakdos, and Trostani.
So that seemed like a pretty decent box overall.
Also, Winchester and other two person draft formats are a beautiful mess with this set. I went five colors then four colors.
Good stuff was Blood Crypt, Overgrown Tomb, Hallowed Fountain, Detention Sphere, and Mizzium Mortars. Also got Niv Mizzet, Mercurial Chemister and Epic Experiment which will be fun for a casual Izzet deck. Also got every one of the goofy "look at all this text" rares.
My friend opening the other half got two Ash Zealots, an Abrupt Decay, Dreadbore, Jarad, Rakdos, and Trostani.
So that seemed like a pretty decent box overall.
Also, Winchester and other two person draft formats are a beautiful mess with this set. I went five colors then four colors.
narcosis219
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Alcibiades
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Thragtusk was $10 just a week or two ago, I guess States is causing a jump in prices for a lot of staple Rares.
I think I'm gonna wait until November before I buy any staples. Thragtusk will be in yet another event deck which should help the situation.
I pronounce it "mah-na" and have always pronounced that word that way since playing Secret of Mana as a kid. Grew up in a Mexican border town and me and my friends would pronounce it that way. White people at the shops in my college town tend to "correct" me and it gets annoying so for the most part I now say "land base" and try to avoid using the term unless I have to.
I think I'm gonna wait until November before I buy any staples. Thragtusk will be in yet another event deck which should help the situation.
I pronounce it "mah-na" and have always pronounced that word that way since playing Secret of Mana as a kid. Grew up in a Mexican border town and me and my friends would pronounce it that way. White people at the shops in my college town tend to "correct" me and it gets annoying so for the most part I now say "land base" and try to avoid using the term unless I have to.
Pretty even value split between the two of you. I don't like splitting packs in a box because one guy can wind up getting ROYALLY shafted. I don't split boxes period anymore, but if I was to do it in the future I would split value with the other party, drafting rares turn by turn.
Lucky bastard. I opened a middling box worth maybe around $120, pie-in-the-sky SCG value, so about $60 real world value. No decay, no Jace, and no noteworthy foils, but I did open Rakdos Returns, Trostani, Vraska, a Sphere, a Dreadbore, and three shocks. Could have been worse! Going to try to draft Friday-Saturday-Sunday, hoping for better luck than I had during pre-release and to maybe trade off the stuff that's stupidly expensive right now.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
My friend just got his box in, he's decided to basically do free drafting with us but its $10 to redraft three rares at the end, which is awesome for me because I'm going to be a bit short on money some weeks. Still, next few months are going to rock
3rd one was pretty meh, but box 2 had 2 Niv-Mizzet, 1 Wurm, 1 E.Expiriment, 1 Dreadbore, 1 Troll, 1 Deathrite Shaman, 1 Sphere, 1 Isperia, 1 Verdict, a Desecration Demon, a normal Jace, 3 shocklands AND the foil Jace.
This sorta makes up for the 2 Jace, TMS+ a foil Jace TMS box I sold to my friends cause I had my playsets of Worldwake cards already.
divisionbyzorro
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I'm convinced that guy is way better than he's being given credit for.
He's very good in one deck - Storm, as a way to win while they sideboard out their critter removal and bring in spell removal instead.
divisionbyzorro
Member
He's also a cute answer to Hive Mind, in that they simply can't win as long he's on the table.
But I'm thinking Standard. I have this feeling that there's a deck out there somewhere that could make this guy a turn 2 beater and keep him protected.
Owlowiscious
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Speaking of weird interactions.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
WTF Olivia Voldaren did not just jump to $18.... I'm pissed I didn't get a playset now.
Really good against all the midrange decks, and no Phantasmal Image in the format any more. I think a price jump was predictable.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I know, I was still hoping...
I didn't have the money a couple weeks ago to pick it up.Edit: Wasn't expecting almost $20 too. Such a big jump.
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