Giant Panda
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Good. The old frame is as ugly as Yugioh's.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT10| Aether Revolt - That shit that make your Soul Burn slow
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Ooccoo
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Modern Masters 2017 is the nuts. At least to me. Though at $280 CAD I couldn't afford more than 2 for now.
Notable pulls:
Damnation foil (+2 non-foils)
Blood Moon
Snapcaster Mage
Each box had 3 fetches (Total: Misty x2, Verdant x2, Arid and Marsh Flats)
Spell Pierce foil
Path to Exile foil
Snapcaster Mage
Linvala
Goblin Guide
Inquisition x2
Notable misses
Tarmo and Lily. Got 2x Entreat the Angels though /puke
Very satisfied so far. Even if the boxes are costly, I managed to get more value. I wouldn't recommend buying packs though, the lottery is damn high. A box is worthwhile if you can get it cheapish (not too much higher than MSRP) but our dollar sucks so I took a chance (two in fact).
Notable pulls:
Damnation foil (+2 non-foils)
Blood Moon
Snapcaster Mage
Each box had 3 fetches (Total: Misty x2, Verdant x2, Arid and Marsh Flats)
Spell Pierce foil
Path to Exile foil
Snapcaster Mage
Linvala
Goblin Guide
Inquisition x2
Notable misses
Tarmo and Lily. Got 2x Entreat the Angels though /puke
Very satisfied so far. Even if the boxes are costly, I managed to get more value. I wouldn't recommend buying packs though, the lottery is damn high. A box is worthwhile if you can get it cheapish (not too much higher than MSRP) but our dollar sucks so I took a chance (two in fact).
charlequin
Banned
This one actually makes sense to me as a "Maro repeating something he was told without all the nuance" thing though. They mentioned how they were actually physically changing their printing setups to utilize the machine-readable bottom text once M15 came out; I can easily believe that this is an obstacle to doing a classic-frame promo again since now it would be a special type of print batch. If you're the guy who works in that production department I can never remember the name of, you definitely tell Maro it's impossible and not that it's "kind of inconvenient" or whatever.
If that's all the case, it might actually be easier to do a full inset like Masterpieces this way than to do a single promo, since then they'd have more production budget and a larger print run to figure it out in.
Nice pulls. Pretty much what I was hoping my box would be so will probably be Entreat, Past and Domri Rade with my luck (all cards I already have at least playsets of as well) along with Arid Mesa and Marsh Flats
Went to go pick up my box and apparently the truck hasn't shown up yet. Guess they are getting them very last minute. They hopefully have them in in time to draft tonight, really don't think I will stay for AAK draft.
charlequin
Banned
If that's the whole problem though you could do a pretty close variant of the old frame with just a little bump for the sticker, though.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You could still do something retro-modern or as close to it as possible.
It certainly wouldn't look exact, but I would assume they'd be foiled out with new art anyways.
This is slick. Loses a bit of its effectiveness for cards that were printed with the old border, but still cool.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Masterpiece stuff all gets new art anyways; hell, so far they all have new borders too. I think if you wanted to do it, you would probably market it as some kind of hybrid modern/legacy frame.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The biggest problem with the old frames is that the art they used in the old frames was better suited for those frames. The whole CG art aesthetic they go for these days might look a bit weird in those frames.
FreedomFrisbee
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Old font or no sale.
It still baffles me that they made that new font for anti-counterfitting purposes and then put the font up on their website for anyone to have access too.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You can't really market them as straight up "old frame" these days given the restriction on printing, so you might as well market them as a retro run rather than a full on old-frame reprint.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Opened Lili in my modern masters draft. Drafted Abzan but lost first round against a ridiculous sphinx rev deck. All removal and signets and a few threats.
Grats on the sick box!
It's hauls like this that tempt me toward buying a box when I know I'll almost certainly open 24 Stoic Angel equivalents. Now I've got to stay strong and resist the urge to buy any MM3.
Wulfric
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You don't mean the .tff file do you? I guess you can just extract the letters from the website, but IDK how you would do that.
Howard Lyon's new Avacyn has a small writeup over on Muddy Colors. It's also being included in Spectrum 24! Of course she's positioned diagonally again, but most MTG angels look kinda weird anyhow.
Infinite Stars
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Probably best after Amonkhet releases, as that's around when it will stop being highly drafted
TheBlackMarvel
Member
I really don't want to spend what Ebay wants for that Avacyn.
I will do it anyway.
If you got a Liliana the Last Hope you should definitely complain since someone sneaked an Eldritch Moon pack in there lol.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Buy a Box bonus packs are a new product WOTC provides retailers with after they run out of the foil promos that are identical to Standard Showdown packs.
Wulfric
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Not officially, but I supposes stores can give those out as incentives for buying a box. It's up to the store really.
I misread and thought that he pulled a Liliana the last hope in his MM3 box. I get what he's saying now.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It's for "buying a Box" I'm sure its fine under the WOTC rules. I'm guessing they'd rather give those away now as opposed to just keeping them around after Amonkhet when people will consider them less good since its half soon to be rotating cards.
Drafted Modern Master three times today. It was absolutely insane. It was a really small store(Familienoberhauptvogel can confirm that) doing on demand drafts starting at 2pm. People actually had to stand in line and not manage to get in a pod. I could have drafted four times but was just way too exhausted to get a reasonable deck. In total, there were 15 drafts and a 12 person Modern tournament happened as well. People opened some insane shit. For example, one dude opened a Tarn and a foil Liliana in one pack. But the thing that tops it all: a kid got a Catacombs and a FOIL Goyf in his pack during the draft. They let him buy another pack to not drop. And what does he pull? ANOTHER Tharmogoyf.
My pulls were decent but nothing crazy:
- Blood Moon
- Sclading Tarn
- Gifts Ungiven
- Foil Grafidgger's Cage
- Path to Exile
- Inquisition of Kozilek
- Misty Rainforest
- Foil Past in Flames
The three drafts cost me 105 in total.
Btw, set is crazy fun to draft as well. Enough to support multiple 4-5 color decks. Closer to cube than regular limited I'd say.
EDIT: Gonna upload pics once I get home.
My pulls were decent but nothing crazy:
- Blood Moon
- Sclading Tarn
- Gifts Ungiven
- Foil Grafidgger's Cage
- Path to Exile
- Inquisition of Kozilek
- Misty Rainforest
- Foil Past in Flames
The three drafts cost me 105 in total.
Btw, set is crazy fun to draft as well. Enough to support multiple 4-5 color decks. Closer to cube than regular limited I'd say.
EDIT: Gonna upload pics once I get home.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
It was standard and legacy actually. I went 0-3 in standard before dropping for draft. Went 2-1 in draft.
Now that I have a LoTV #UnbanBraids.
Didn't the guy open a tarn and foil misty? at least that's what I hear. Also got a couple more fetches.
Now that I have a LoTV #UnbanBraids.
Didn't the guy open a tarn and foil misty? at least that's what I hear. Also got a couple more fetches.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Oh that I can confirm. Super tiny store. Imagine a family home garage , that's about it. Pretty sad actually Magiccorner used to be 2 or 3 times the size of Spielraum.
Black supports Liliana so well. Whenever I resolved her I was able to hellbent my opponents within a few turns. So much discard. I splashed white for 2 Sin Collectors and 2 Unburial Rites.
Black supports Liliana so well. Whenever I resolved her I was able to hellbent my opponents within a few turns. So much discard. I splashed white for 2 Sin Collectors and 2 Unburial Rites.
Alright, here is the haul and also the deck from the third draft, which I went 3-0 in (splitting packs in the finals).
Can't find my Inquisition RIP.
Probably didn't need to splash for the Specter, but it was basically free as I ended up with 10 blue, 10 black, 9, white, and 5 red sources. Wish I had another card in the 5 drop range, but I still had plenty of stuff to do with my mana in the late game and sometimes I would just run over my opponents with my fliers. Lost two games, one was to a miraculous Bonfire of the Damned and the other was because I ran out of cards in my deck.
Can't find my Inquisition RIP.
Probably didn't need to splash for the Specter, but it was basically free as I ended up with 10 blue, 10 black, 9, white, and 5 red sources. Wish I had another card in the 5 drop range, but I still had plenty of stuff to do with my mana in the late game and sometimes I would just run over my opponents with my fliers. Lost two games, one was to a miraculous Bonfire of the Damned and the other was because I ran out of cards in my deck.
Well, thats weird
Apparently, its a wrath that hits creatures for 3. Not sure whats going on with the sideways half.
Edit: Ok, apparently the bottom half is a different spell that can only be cast out of your graveyard by exiling it. So it's basically a split card flashback hybrid. While I'm interested to see where this design goes, man, is that template hideous.
FreedomFrisbee
Member
Its not-flashback. You cast the bottom half from your yard and exile it, puts all 2 power or less creatures from your yard to your hand. Per reddit.
Worth noting that some are rightly skeptical, given the count present in the bottom. 269 total when Amonkhet is supposed to have 264.
Still, this is just so.... weird looking, I'd have trouble believing anyone would pitch it as a fake. FWIW, I also reverse image searched just the art and nothing popped up.
Still, this is just so.... weird looking, I'd have trouble believing anyone would pitch it as a fake. FWIW, I also reverse image searched just the art and nothing popped up.
Infinite Stars
Member
I figured we'd be getting a 4 Mana conditional wrath back, but this... Is not what I hoped for
If it was power <=3 I'd be all over it
If it was power <=3 I'd be all over it
divisionbyzorro
Member
That card is just goofy enough to be believable.
So if graveyard hate does show in this block as many have speculated, this will mark the first block in 4 or so where Wizards has actually printed hate targeting a space thematically relevant to the block itself. Hopefully, this happens and we'll finally start to see development shift back towards putting answers in things.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Flip cards are already awkward, but also loveable, this is outright hideous. They are accelerating too quickly with alternate frames, SOI just had Meld cards and now this monstrosity.
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