When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
There is no way my players prefer to play Commander than Cube (most don't even have Commander decks). Also, if someone wants to play without having to recrute someone (which isn't that hard in a whole LGS), she just have to be in the first 6, which encourage people to be reactive when registrations start.
i wish all of this was true for me. i shouldn't even complain because now i cube every week with a group i really like. but it competes with regular multiplayer there, and edh with other groups i've cubed with. and the people at the LGSs i've been to had zero interest in cubing so i just gave up going.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
We don't Cube with less than 6 people. If a 7th, 9th, or 11th come up, he could register only if she find another volunteer so we stay even.
it must be nice to be able to afford this kind of attitude. i'm so thrilled that anyone wants to cube that i take what i can get. if i said "no, you can't cube unless you bring someone else" i'd expect everyone to say "then we'll play edh or multiplayer instead of cube." and on the other side of it, i don't want to deny cubing to anyone because it's the best way to play magic. i usually offer to sit out the first round myself.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
They may increase in value, but they don't earn you money unless you sell them.
i don't understand your argument. you make decisions based entirely on whether you will make a profit from them? every item you own is making you money currently? i find that impossible to believe.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
The value of a real Magic card that i have been talking about is that it enables you to play a particular deck and is winning you money in the process.
This is simply not possible with CE cards, so their value is only based on what collectors pay for a card, similar to a painting vs a power plant.
so are you still standing by your statement that buying CE cards is a "waste of money" and "crazy," even if the entire purpose of buying them is to own a collectible item and/or use it in cube? because CE isn't legal in formats the collector may not even play in?
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
CE cards are provably worth money, but that's not even the point I was making. Many people like collecting things, CE is collectible. I don't understand how legality in format X is remotely relevant.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
Collector's Edition is a real waste of money. Spending so much money on cards that have never been legal in any format is just crazy.
yeah, totally. buying collectibles is really stupid if you can't hypothetically play with those collectibles in formats you don't have any interest in playing in.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
For serious though, I could have sworn I dropped 8 dollars at my LGS on a foil Fauna Shaman several months ago and have had one ever since, but this one isn't foil... I have no idea man.
this kind of thing happens to me too. i have vivid memories of purchasing fancy cards but they don't appear to actually exist in my collection.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
There's already a search function available which requires even less clicking, provides more information and makes this moot?
have you actually searched the thread for discussions on individual cards? it's significantly more complex than searching for a single official SCD thread. typically a card will be discussed multiple times (in some cases, an absurd number of times) and the discussion will be broken up by discussions of other cards. this means you get a ton of results when you search and you have to open like 20 tabs to investigate the more likely ones.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
Personally I don't really like having to wade through the sea of [SCD] threads. It really places a barrier to discussion when you have to go look in multiple places instead of just one to get your talk on or see what other people are saying.
i think an enormous and poorly organized thread with 1000 pages places a barrier to discussion because it's impossible to find meaningful information on a subject before you bring it up. i say this with pretty substantial experience, since i've read the entire thread (yes, the whole thing). i think there are some problems with the SCD threads, but searching them out when you want to see the prior discussion on that card is a lot easier than searching the multiple discussions about that card in a single, mammoth thread. i remember having like thirty tabs open in order to read each snippet on a card before i posted about it in the card evaluation thread and i'm glad that in the future other people won't have to do that.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
i feel like goblin guide is the red version of dark confidant, tarmogoyf, etc. sure it's not two mana, but then red is supposed to be a bit faster than everybody else.
that doesn't mean i don't want a broken red two drop, but i feel like that's the current version in red.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
Control feels too weak in my cube. Can you guys help me out here?
We almost exclusively Winston with my cube, and by far the most common deck-type is the three-color midrange. Aggro gets some facetime, and I have plans to beef it up, but I feel that slower control decks almost never come together. I have some theories as to why this happens to be the case. Perhaps I can get some further insight from the community here? What are the control "enablers" in a cube?
Theories
Not enough wraths in white
Not running Moat
Too much equipment makes creatures too essential
Not running high-end red spells
Not running Mana Drain or other "powered" cards
Winston format not conducive to control decks
Missing "control" artifacts (which are...?)
Removal being snatched up by aggro and midrange decks
My theories are somewhat specific to my cube, though the principles certainly could carry over to other cubes. Help?
i run moat, but other than that i have the same problem and the same theories. i've seen one counterburn deck that was pretty great but other than that it's all 3 color midrange for the most part.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
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just played ghitu slinger as printed. plays great now.
i wish all of this was true for me. i shouldn't even complain because now i cube every week with a group i really like. but it competes with regular multiplayer there, and edh with other groups i've cubed with. and the people at the LGSs i've been to had zero interest in cubing so i just gave up going.
it must be nice to be able to afford this kind of attitude. i'm so thrilled that anyone wants to cube that i take what i can get. if i said "no, you can't cube unless you bring someone else" i'd expect everyone to say "then we'll play edh or multiplayer instead of cube." and on the other side of it, i don't want to deny cubing to anyone because it's the best way to play magic. i usually offer to sit out the first round myself.
i don't understand your argument. you make decisions based entirely on whether you will make a profit from them? every item you own is making you money currently? i find that impossible to believe.
so are you still standing by your statement that buying CE cards is a "waste of money" and "crazy," even if the entire purpose of buying them is to own a collectible item and/or use it in cube? because CE isn't legal in formats the collector may not even play in?
yeah, totally. buying collectibles is really stupid if you can't hypothetically play with those collectibles in formats you don't have any interest in playing in.
this kind of thing happens to me too. i have vivid memories of purchasing fancy cards but they don't appear to actually exist in my collection.
have you actually searched the thread for discussions on individual cards? it's significantly more complex than searching for a single official SCD thread. typically a card will be discussed multiple times (in some cases, an absurd number of times) and the discussion will be broken up by discussions of other cards. this means you get a ton of results when you search and you have to open like 20 tabs to investigate the more likely ones.
i think an enormous and poorly organized thread with 1000 pages places a barrier to discussion because it's impossible to find meaningful information on a subject before you bring it up. i say this with pretty substantial experience, since i've read the entire thread (yes, the whole thing). i think there are some problems with the SCD threads, but searching them out when you want to see the prior discussion on that card is a lot easier than searching the multiple discussions about that card in a single, mammoth thread. i remember having like thirty tabs open in order to read each snippet on a card before i posted about it in the card evaluation thread and i'm glad that in the future other people won't have to do that.
what?
that doesn't mean i don't want a broken red two drop, but i feel like that's the current version in red.
i run moat, but other than that i have the same problem and the same theories. i've seen one counterburn deck that was pretty great but other than that it's all 3 color midrange for the most part.
how awful. they really have no clue what they're talking about.