idk why but I laughed at Human Jace.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT4| Izzet Me; Izzet You? A Love Story
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idk why but I laughed at Human Jace.
ShadowSoldier89
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anyone ever mail cards?
I have a Goyf and a Jace TMS I need to sell but dont want them to get fucked up in the mail. Packaging and shipping tips?
I have a Goyf and a Jace TMS I need to sell but dont want them to get fucked up in the mail. Packaging and shipping tips?
Insert card in soft plastic. Then insert card in hard plastic so the open side of the plastic is face down. Ensure the entire thing is inside then tape the top shut.
From here your options are limitless. You can wrap it in cardboard, you can put them in a peanuts filled box.
Sequence Six
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Hard sleeves and a bubble envelope worked for me in the past. Never had anything more expensive than a Shahrazad mailed though.
ShadowSoldier89
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thanks guys, sleeving strategy makes sense, I think that + cardboard wrap + bubble mailer should be sufficient.
Depending what I get for them I could go the extra mile and toss that into a peanut filled box
Depending what I get for them I could go the extra mile and toss that into a peanut filled box
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Use an inner sleeve, sleeve it upside down to prevent top edge wear from moving around in the hard sleeve in the mail.
What if they designed a PW ability that required the PW to be at a certain loyalty, but like, in the middle?
Like so:
Then make it so the PW abilities require you to plus and minus it once each to reach or damage it using red or something.
Like so:
0: Do some silly effect. Only use this ability if Peter Planeswalker is at 4 loyalty counters.
Then make it so the PW abilities require you to plus and minus it once each to reach or damage it using red or something.
+2: Ability
-1: Ability
0: the ability that requires 4 I'm proposing
Starting Loyalty 3
-1: Ability
0: the ability that requires 4 I'm proposing
Starting Loyalty 3
Yeh I ship ebay cards out daily, that is usually the way to go. Anything else more expensive you can always get the larger case like this :
They fit in the bubble mailers this way as well. Make sure you get tracking and signature for what you think is worth having that for, I usually do signature for above $100 cards and tracking for anything above $25.
EDIT: Better representation of the case.
charlequin
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Unless you mistrust buyers with 500+ feedback I don't think this is actually an auction with an abnormally large number of fake bids.
The whole point of including Dominaria, Lorwyn, etc. in this set is to sneak in little pieces of each, as far as I understand it.
She's almost certainly real. "Kaladesh" doesn't turn up online anywhere Magic-related until that card was spoiled.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Crocodile, they unlocked your Fire of Kaladesh thread on MTGS
I still don't know where the guy on Something Awful that linked it to me got it...
I still don't know where the guy on Something Awful that linked it to me got it...
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm taking advantage of the Blood Moon price spike by building Bloom Titan. Nobody will be able to afford to hate me out!
My Commander buys a couple of years ago are paying off, too. My first Azusa cost me the entirety of £1.04
Not only can I afford to hate you out, I do it with The Dark Blood Moons.
The actual material costs in MTG are probably negligible (its cardboard), so its probably actually quite difficult for people who know better to justify spending a fuck load of money on some other aspect of building the game.
Like, I could legitimately see a conversation with some honcho in which a beleagured mid-tier manager is like "we need to spend money on getting MTGO up to date and increasing the prize payout for our big tournaments" and the honcho says "We just sold out of a print run of $10 cardboard that contained other pieces of cardboard inside."
I'm taking advantage of the Blood Moon price spike by building Bloom Titan. Nobody will be able to afford to hate me out!
My Commander buys a couple of years ago are paying off, too. My first Azusa cost me the entirety of £1.04
Chronicles Blood Moon going for 60 on tcg. Is this real life?
This has basically been the issue, according to people who know a lot more than I do - Hasbro's a toy company, not a games company, and the people in charge don't understand what they have.
Don't worry, it'll be reprinted at Mythic in a limited print run set that isn't as large as it should be and the price will go down to $40. Sounds good, right?
Fuck WOTC.
Blood Moon isn't a card they will reprint in standard because it rewards playing fair manabases, which isn't something they care about anymore
I want to know why 9E is the highest priced version though
"God's Beard!"
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The Dark clearly has the best art of the versions.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I doubt there is some kind of legitimate reason beyond that one has low supply. I don't think 50+ is a sustainable price for Blood Moon at all outside of the Dark printing.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
That new Chandra card looks underwhelming if its real.
(a sentence applicable to basically every single Chandra ever made)
(a sentence applicable to basically every single Chandra ever made)
"God's Beard!"
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Its hard to say because stupid MTG Finance people constantly fucking ruin shit by doing massive buyouts to run the prices up.
SCG was doing it before they were.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The problem is that paper Magic's economics are just kind of fucked.
SigmasonicX
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Concerning Magic Origins, I imagine that each plane affiliated with a planeswalker will only have cards of that planeswalker's color. So Zendikar and Lorwyn will only have green cards. Given that, and that this set is supposed to have fewer reprints than usual, any guesses on reprints?
Sequence Six
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Narset is pretty underwhelming. Tibalt is horrendously designed, top to bottom.
... no? People were doing very well w/ her at the season's start.
I think i missed it. She was like a 40 dollars planeswalker right at that time?
Yeah, she's good in a traditional control shell and was in the original Esper Dragons lists. She still is in there, either in the main or board, for some people.
He's just going to roleplay as Red for a response.
Sequence Six
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I still don't get why they thought Sudden Impact was a good idea for the minus ability when there's no way they could allow it to be satisfying given Tibalt's nature as a two drop. Seriously inexplicable.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Literally the entire design goal with Tibalt was making a 2CC walker.
divisionbyzorro
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And making sure it wasn't too good (i.e., deliberately underpowering it).
Sequence Six
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Warning: semantics incoming
I don't think Tibalt's problem is that he's underpowered. It's that he has underpowered versions of more powerful abilities.
I think a 2 cost planeswalker is viable if you aim for weaker abilities to replicate instead of picking strong abilities and then needing to gut them below a useful threshold. It might not be mindblowing as a card but it could be functional and playable.
Etrian Oddity
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When's the goddamn spoiler for Origins releasing
charlequin
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In particular, they keep paying out now the way they paid out when the game was in the doldrums, even though now it's the most successful hobby game in the world.
From what I've been able to gather, R&D-type gigs actually pay market rates, it's just the engineers that get shafted.
Previews start June 22, IIRC.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Kirblar is trying to test who is really worthy of being his friend by seeing who gets the Deathrite Shaman reference
I don't think a 2 CMC walker is viable. PW are already overpowered to begin with since their abilities don't actually consume any of your mana.
I don't think a 2 CMC walker is viable. PW are already overpowered to begin with since their abilities don't actually consume any of your mana.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I wouldn't be surprised to see Narset get more play post rotation. Its a potentially strong card in the right home. Tibalt is just crap.
Well why not just give it away lol
GamerKingFaiz
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So close, yet so far. I want to see the other Planeswalkers and what lands we'll have to work with next set.
Sequence Six
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You know I had a concept for a simple black PW with soft abilities all figured out and then realized how its cost would probably let it be bananas in suicide/pox so nevermind, you're probably right
"God's Beard!"
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Which is why is specified a limited run set instead of an unlimited run set. Meaning Modern Masters 2017 is the most likely culprit. Although I suppose they could do something fucked like make it a Judge promo.
Only a single NM copy on TCGplayer at $120 and three LP copies at $65. All the lower priced copies were sold or taken off the market so it's the expensive copies left artificially distorting the numbers. Stock is pretty much depleted for every version on TCGPlayer with the Modern Masters version having the most currently in stock at a whopping 10 cards. Expect the "cheap" ones there to be bought out in the next day. I'd be surprised if it didn't end up as a baseline $70 card in the very near future. Maybe even higher...
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