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People fucking with the price on the card to play games there- the normal version is still a buck each.
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Magic: the Gathering - Shadows over Innistrad |OT| Blue's Clues
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People fucking with the price on the card to play games there- the normal version is still a buck each.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
#mtgfinace people are worse than people who eat steak with ketchup.
The diversity is only there because it isn't a competitive format.
Yup
divisionbyzorro
Member
No kidding. Competitive commander (multiplayer) is completely broken. The only reason it works is because people agree (to varying degrees) that playing only the most busted shit isn't as interesting as setting up engines and watching powerful and wacky things happen.
Really interesting perspective from Matt Sperling on the pro player pay cuts, thinking that it may have to do with the recent judge lawsuit, to try to undermine the claim that some pro players are technically wotc/hasbro employees.
That's one of the only cases where the awful timing of the announcement makes some sense.
That's one of the only cases where the awful timing of the announcement makes some sense.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
When your opponent playing bant company finds more removal than fucking playing grixis
Creature 20
4 Hedron Crawler
3 Sylvan Advocate
2 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
4 Thought-Knot Seer
3 Reality Smasher
3 World Breaker
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Spells 16
4 Oath of Nissa
3 Nissa's Pilgrimage
4 Explosive Vegetation
1 Nissa's Renewal
2 Seasons Past
2 Chandra, Flamecaller
Lands 24
12 Forest
2 Cinder Glade
2 Mountain
1 Waste
3 Sanctim of Ugin
4 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
Sideboards 15
1 Jaddi Offshoot
2 Rending Volley
4 Kozilek's Return
1 Ulamog, Ceaseless Hunger
3 Spatial Contortion
1 Clip Wings
1 Chandra, Flamecaller
2 Warping Wail
Was impressed with Seasons Past thanks to Jon Finkle. Threw it in the GR Ramp shell but made it a bit more midrange. Since I'm curving out and going more aggressive, I threw in Sylvan Advocate over Jaddi Offshoot. Thinking of removing an Oath of Nissa or Reality Smasher to make a set of Advocates or World Breakers. I find GR Ramp gassing out often in late games. Kozilek, the Great Distortion can be good at refueling, but the high cost means you often don't even get the chance to cast it. Seasons Past can keep the fuel going.
Curve of things to grab with Seasons Past looks pretty good.
CMC
0 Sanctim of Ugin
1 Oath of Nissa
2 Hedron Crawler, Sylvan Advocate
3 Nissa, Vastwood Seer, Nissa's Pilgrimage
4 Thought-Knot seer, Explosive Vegetation
5 Reality Smasher
6 Nissa's Renewal, Chandra, Flamecaller
7 World Breaker
10 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
I just threw the sideboards together. Will readjust it later. Anyways, gonna run something like this for Gameday. Thoughts?
4 Hedron Crawler
3 Sylvan Advocate
2 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
4 Thought-Knot Seer
3 Reality Smasher
3 World Breaker
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Spells 16
4 Oath of Nissa
3 Nissa's Pilgrimage
4 Explosive Vegetation
1 Nissa's Renewal
2 Seasons Past
2 Chandra, Flamecaller
Lands 24
12 Forest
2 Cinder Glade
2 Mountain
1 Waste
3 Sanctim of Ugin
4 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
Sideboards 15
1 Jaddi Offshoot
2 Rending Volley
4 Kozilek's Return
1 Ulamog, Ceaseless Hunger
3 Spatial Contortion
1 Clip Wings
1 Chandra, Flamecaller
2 Warping Wail
Was impressed with Seasons Past thanks to Jon Finkle. Threw it in the GR Ramp shell but made it a bit more midrange. Since I'm curving out and going more aggressive, I threw in Sylvan Advocate over Jaddi Offshoot. Thinking of removing an Oath of Nissa or Reality Smasher to make a set of Advocates or World Breakers. I find GR Ramp gassing out often in late games. Kozilek, the Great Distortion can be good at refueling, but the high cost means you often don't even get the chance to cast it. Seasons Past can keep the fuel going.
Curve of things to grab with Seasons Past looks pretty good.
CMC
0 Sanctim of Ugin
1 Oath of Nissa
2 Hedron Crawler, Sylvan Advocate
3 Nissa, Vastwood Seer, Nissa's Pilgrimage
4 Thought-Knot seer, Explosive Vegetation
5 Reality Smasher
6 Nissa's Renewal, Chandra, Flamecaller
7 World Breaker
10 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
I just threw the sideboards together. Will readjust it later. Anyways, gonna run something like this for Gameday. Thoughts?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
and y'all sad this was a bad idea, haven't had a 4 mana duress cast on you.
Yeah, I'd hate if they did this. The market is already screwed up as it is, we don't need optimal configurations coming in and inflating prices of normally unplayable jank even further. It's a casual format, it should stay a casual format.
A Serious Man
Member
Anything's a good idea against a control deck that only has four lands on turn nine.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Anything's a good idea against a control deck that only has four lands on turn nine.
it's not like I had a perfect draw and the game before they pretty much always spent their turn killing it specifically. The Jace isn't actually on board it's a bug that walkers getting killed while their flip trigger resolves return to the battlefield atm.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Vryn Wingmare is a total nonbo with the deck's namesake card. I don't understand the appeal, to be honest.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
the signature card is a 4 of and the incentive is to get these into play with CoCo. Would you play Thalia in CoCo if you could? Well this is a much worse version.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
ahahahaha Oh, MTGO.
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Had a quick question, not much of a card gamer.
My fiance has become a teen librarian and has had some success hosting Yu-gi-oh programs but failed with Pathfinder. Would Magic be good for Teens/YA if sbe tried to organize it?
Any other games you could suggest?
My fiance has become a teen librarian and has had some success hosting Yu-gi-oh programs but failed with Pathfinder. Would Magic be good for Teens/YA if sbe tried to organize it?
Any other games you could suggest?
A Serious Man
Member
He's playing in the Beta, I think.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Yeah, it really would. If you talk to the right people at any game store, they might even hook you up with boxes of free cards.
I ain't tho
I don't know why I keep going back to MTGO.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Pick the Brain with delirium on opponent, 3 CoCos in hand, scoops.
Picking decks apart till there is literally no wincon left feels good.
Picking decks apart till there is literally no wincon left feels good.
SigmasonicX
Member
Realized that Enter the Battlefield (the Pro Tour documentary) is worth making a topic about, since it's streaming today and releasing tomorrow, so I'll make it in a bit.
keeblerdrow
Member
There are a couple of teachers in my area that have local store communities donate cards, deck holders, playmats, etc. all the time for their school programs. It's been pretty popular with middle school and high school crowds.
I'd also recommend Dice Masters. It uses many different IPs like Marvel, DC, TMNT, YuGiOh, and D&D to draw players in. The boosters (2 dice and 2 corresponding cards) are $1 apiece so it's not near as expensive as Magic. Check that out too.
http://wizkids.com/dicemasters/
Might be a good idea to include info about the recent Pro Tour changes? The timing was......interesting to say the least.
SigmasonicX
Member
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Finally manage to make the ramp matchup great mainboard and sideboard when they create this stupid season's past deck.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm struggling really hard to make this Platinum thing matter - I just don't really care if Owen Turtenwald can't afford to fly to every single tournament. There's no real return from WOTC's perspective in having Turtenwald as a signature player to begin with.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Can find Thopter Foundry and Sword of the Meek.
It was better when it could also find the then-relevant Vampire Hexmage, but still.
ChazAshley
CharAznable's second cousin
I think it's because you can tutor for Thopter foundry and Sword of the Meek.
edit: BEATEN
BTW MagicGaf, any comfortable chairs you guys recommend while playing? Recently moved and would like some comfortable chairs for the man cave. Trying to find a set of 4 for roughly 200$
shrapnelmagnet
Member
Speaking of which, what prompted this Pauper surge recently?
Like, this makes sense, right? $7 US Uncommon.
http://www.mtggoldfish.com/price/Planechase+2012+Edition/Brindle+Shoat#paper
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Planechase isn't a pack-based set, its a fake uncommon like Baleful Strix.
shrapnelmagnet
Member
Sure, I just mean that doesn't look like a $7 card to me (Whatever that means). Supply / demand / market, I guess
Sure, I just mean that doesn't look like a $7 card to me (Whatever that means). Supply / demand / market, I guess
What's it being used in? It's a cool card, I could see it in some kind of weird deck out of nowhere in... uh, Legacy I guess?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Vryn Wingmare really putting in some work. Should try it out in Company at least once.
The system never made sense, mtg is like poker not EEEEEEEE-sports
It's a pretty cool cube card for Morbid decks. That's primarily where I've used it. Eventually it'll find it's way into an actual set as an uncommon and the price will drop to something reasonable.
I kinda wanna build a Wrath/Recursion EDH deck that uses stuff like this (Penumbra Wurm, etc), but I don't wanna pay that much for it.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Twice now already my opponent was forced to make me discard from under the floorboards giving me free value.
A Serious Man
Member
divisionbyzorro
Member
From the Twitch chat stream of "Enter the Battlefield"
EDIT: And from Randy Buehler's twitter:
EDIT: And from Randy Buehler's twitter:
Wow. I missed the announcement when it dropped during the stream, but people who have reached platinum this season won't receive the benefits next season that were advertised until the announcement? That is super scummy. Wow.
Looks like the Vintage Super League has been affected, with the new season postponed "because of the impact caused by the recent Organized Play announcement"
https://twitter.com/rbuehler/status/724692746787655680
VSL S5 is postponed one week, and our lineup may wind up changing. I'll let you know when I know more. http://twitter.com/rbuehler/status/724692746787655680/photo/1
https://twitter.com/rbuehler/status/724692746787655680
VSL S5 is postponed one week, and our lineup may wind up changing. I'll let you know when I know more. http://twitter.com/rbuehler/status/724692746787655680/photo/1
shrapnelmagnet
Member
I'm not sure - it's a pauper card online thanks to Vintage Masters. Not sure if that affects Offline Pauper or not, though.
I assume there's been a mod clamp down on all negativity?
Joe Molotov
Member
Ban the DCI# of anyone that's ever logged into Twitch.
SigmasonicX
Member
Today's Daily Update has zero mention of the pro payout thing. I'm a bit disappointed, since they did in the past bring up previous Wizards-sourced controversies.
Incredibly.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It's a lot more eye-rolling coupled with their stance on "we have to keep this promise" bullshit with the Reserved List.
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