I'm legitimately not happy with this. I don't make a whole lot of money, but I saved up and bought a foil Marrow Gnawer for Christmas. And now this gets annouced and will surely tank the price of the original.
I doubt this will have much, if any, affect on the price of the original. This is a limited product so it's not going to do much.
The Secret Lair reprinting of Sliver Overlord didn’t do anything to the price of a NM foil Scourge Sliver Overlord, so you should be OK with your foil Marrow-Gnawer.
I'm legitimately not happy with this. I don't make a whole lot of money, but I saved up and bought a foil Marrow Gnawer for Christmas. And now this gets annouced and will surely tank the price of the original.
The original is from Kamigawa. IMO, you made the right call going for that version.
I'm legitimately not happy with this. I don't make a whole lot of money, but I saved up and bought a foil Marrow Gnawer for Christmas. And now this gets annouced and will surely tank the price of the original.
The Kamigawa art for Marrow-Gnawer is stunning. Really captures the look and feel of the Nezumi (from L5R). Marrow-Gnawer from the Secret Drop looks like a Hamtaro. You have nothing to worry about in regards to your foil Marrow-Gnawer. Guaranteed.
Yeah, I'm not into all the art. The Ink-Eyes is fantastic, but the Marrow Gnawer... bleh. It somehow does not look like a legendary to me, more like some goblin feast from Lorwyn, just as a cartoon. The Squeaking Pie Ratfellows.
I'm legitimately not happy with this. I don't make a whole lot of money, but I saved up and bought a foil Marrow Gnawer for Christmas. And now this gets annouced and will surely tank the price of the original.
The Kamigawa art for Marrow-Gnawer is stunning. Really captures the look and feel of the Nezumi (from L5R). Marrow-Gnawer from the Secret Drop looks like a Hamtaro. You have nothing to worry about in regards to your foil Marrow-Gnawer. Guaranteed.
That brings up another point, most people who go in for this (The Secret Lairs) may just want one (maybe, if that) to further bling their play-sets. Those people are still going to want 3-4 original foil Marrow-Gnawers.
As a lot of people have pointed out this should have been Relentless Rats instead of Rat Colony. Also this should have been split into two packages - one with 10+ copies of Relentless Rats / Rat Colony and second one with the rest (plus tokens for copies of Pack Rat, which are missing). Having only five copies of a card that you want to run 15+ is insulting to me as a customer. :/
I do like the SCG style art on products that aren't actual cards, but this stuff is just too silly for black border.
It's fine. Some people will like the style some won't. Apparently enough people wanted the cute cats one or cartoony gobbos one that they went with this kind of style. Personaly I also don't think this style fits the theme but, meh, I just don't care anymore.
Hope they do more drops and do some more generic ones for commander(and other formats staples) like doing a Nykthos+Atheros+another god(or just Nykthos + lands with Nyx landscape) bundle or a Cavern of Souls bundle. Teferi bundle (or maybe a spellbook). Gauntlet of Powerboseiju, who shelters all, Extraplanar Lens, Hall of the Bandit Lord, etc.
I do like the SCG style art on products that aren't actual cards, but this stuff is just too silly for black border.
That was the entire stated point being the art treatment with these cards- to do art styles that otherwise probably wouldn't be printed on cards. The wacky art styles is one of the legitimately good things about this product line.
I’m saving my money for a Secret Lairs: Slivers of maybe Synapse Sliver, Magma Sliver, Sliver Hive and 5 Sliver Tokens.
I'd say haste and mana slivers would be the most important.
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WotC has pretty much given up on LGS’s back in 2018. And WotC won’t start screwing this up the third iteration of successful products like they always, so next year. Then they’ll keep pushing it until it stops making money then abandon it and wonder why is started to fail while they ignored customers comments on the matter.
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LGS's are just gonna order a couple of these and mark em up $20-50 for all the latecomers.
And they are dumb if they are not doing it, Secret lair offer a great way to get some good margins on magic product, the hassle is minimal. It is even better product that booster boxes because of the margins. Some of the secret lairs were an obvious hit like kalleidoscope killers, but it seems even the cats are doing very very well second hand.
I don’t remember any markings identifying my white box as Kaleidoscope Killers until I opened it up, is there a way to tell before you open up the white box?
I don’t remember any markings identifying my white box as Kaleidoscope Killers until I opened it up, is there a way to tell before you open up the white box?
It is printed on the top or side in plain black text.
As a reminder, Secret Lair orders are open today. If you want them, you have 24 hours from 9:00 AM PST to order them.
The 9 AM PTS is a little strange IMHO. That means people on the East Coast will still be able to order them as late as noon tomorrow? No hair off my back, but if you want them, don't diddle around or you'll be this guy ->
And while I'm betting they'll have all the "packs" as a group towards the end of this year, don't take my bet if you want the cards yourself. Otherwise you'll pay through the nose for your ten rats.
Well, I ordered mine. Like the last time, the order process was flawless, no complaints there.
What irks me, however, is, as a customer in Europe, the extra money I have to pay. S&H and Fees amounted to drive the price up to $68, and if it's like the last time, I'll have to pay even more customs when it gets here.
Now, ordering seven boxes at once led to an only slightly increased shipping cost, so proportionally, per box, the extra fees were not that bad, but here it will likely double the price!
My only consolation is that seemingly everyone here has to pay up through the nose; concerning the original seven, they start at €60 on Cardmarket with OMG Kitties even demanding upwards of €85!
My Lair came today and my bonus card was a stained glass Sarkhan the Masterless. I don’t know what the spread is or if it’s guaranteed to be Sarkhan. I just wanted to get that data out there.
I got mine today and I got Arlinn. So far, it seems we have
Ral Arlinn Teyo and Sarkhan
(Ral was in the unboxing video on Twitter if I remember correctly). I don't mind Arlinn (I like her better than Teyo) but I was kind of hoping for Ral.
I doubt this will have much, if any, affect on the price of the original. This is a limited product so it's not going to do much.
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Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
The Kamigawa art for Marrow-Gnawer is stunning. Really captures the look and feel of the Nezumi (from L5R). Marrow-Gnawer from the Secret Drop looks like a Hamtaro. You have nothing to worry about in regards to your foil Marrow-Gnawer. Guaranteed.
That brings up another point, most people who go in for this (The Secret Lairs) may just want one (maybe, if that) to further bling their play-sets. Those people are still going to want 3-4 original foil Marrow-Gnawers.
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It's fine. Some people will like the style some won't. Apparently enough people wanted the cute cats one or cartoony gobbos one that they went with this kind of style. Personaly I also don't think this style fits the theme but, meh, I just don't care anymore.
Phyrexian theme but have the words in phyrexian like the promo of Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite had.
That was the entire stated point being the art treatment with these cards- to do art styles that otherwise probably wouldn't be printed on cards. The wacky art styles is one of the legitimately good things about this product line.
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I'd say haste and mana slivers would be the most important.
Currently Playing:
Standard:
Nothing, the format Bores me!
Legacy:
RBurn (Made on the Cheap!)R
RGBelcherRG
WSoldier StompyW
BReanimatorB
EDH:
BUGRWSliver OverlordWRGUB
BGeth, Lord of the VaultB
WotC has pretty much given up on LGS’s back in 2018. And WotC won’t start screwing this up the third iteration of successful products like they always, so next year. Then they’ll keep pushing it until it stops making money then abandon it and wonder why is started to fail while they ignored customers comments on the matter.
BAfter the lights go out on you, after your worthless life is through. I will remember how you scream...B
And they are dumb if they are not doing it, Secret lair offer a great way to get some good margins on magic product, the hassle is minimal. It is even better product that booster boxes because of the margins. Some of the secret lairs were an obvious hit like kalleidoscope killers, but it seems even the cats are doing very very well second hand.
It is printed on the top or side in plain black text.
The 9 AM PTS is a little strange IMHO. That means people on the East Coast will still be able to order them as late as noon tomorrow? No hair off my back, but if you want them, don't diddle around or you'll be this guy ->
And while I'm betting they'll have all the "packs" as a group towards the end of this year, don't take my bet if you want the cards yourself. Otherwise you'll pay through the nose for your ten rats.
What irks me, however, is, as a customer in Europe, the extra money I have to pay. S&H and Fees amounted to drive the price up to $68, and if it's like the last time, I'll have to pay even more customs when it gets here.
Now, ordering seven boxes at once led to an only slightly increased shipping cost, so proportionally, per box, the extra fees were not that bad, but here it will likely double the price!
My only consolation is that seemingly everyone here has to pay up through the nose; concerning the original seven, they start at €60 on Cardmarket with OMG Kitties even demanding upwards of €85!
Modern: B 8RACK B
EDH: BRU Mishra, Artificer Prodigy BRU, W Kemba, Kha Regent W, B Ghoulcaller Gisa B, BU Oona, Queen of the Fae BU, G Seton, Krosan Protector G, BW Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim BW, R Purphoros, God of the Forge R, UGW Arcades, the Strategist UGW, GW Karametra, God of Harvests GW, GU Edric, Spymaster of Trest GU, UW Grand Arbiter Augustin IV UW, BRW Kaalia of the Vast BRW, BRU Nekusar, the Mindrazer BRU, BGWU Thrasios, Triton Hero/Tymna the Weaver BGWU
Ral
Arlinn
Teyo and
Sarkhan
(Ral was in the unboxing video on Twitter if I remember correctly). I don't mind Arlinn (I like her better than Teyo) but I was kind of hoping for Ral.